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08/17/10:     We No Longer Have an Email Address for the Following 9 People:

Charles Elliott 109
Elizabeth (Mood) Divito 243
Judith (Stanton) Caron 343
Michael F. Flanagan 121
Nancy (Cohen) Newman 060
Raymond Chase 052
Sandra (Walker) D'Entremont 378
Sylvia (Renzie) Nelson 303
Tommy Predka 294


If you know how to contact anyone on this list, or you yourself are on this list, please send an email to the Webmaster, so we will have your new address. Thanks! If your system does not support automatic email, please contact the webmaster another way. The newest information on how to contact the webmaster is found here, on this very page. [Opens in a new window - no need to hit back arrow]

Note: Additions and subtractions on this list will be made in place, to avoid posting additional announcements. If the date has changed, then the list has changed.

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02/04/10:     Newly Lost Classmates:

More classmates were recently posted on our "Missing" list, as a result of sending out the recent 50th Reunion "Head-Up" to everyone by regular (USPS) mail. See the Newly Lost Classmates List.

See the address information that we need for everyone, and why.

Note: Additions and subtractions will not be noted individually, to avoid posting additional announcements. If the date here has changed, then the Newly Lost Classmates list has changed. Those listed there may not all be officially missing yet.

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Beware of All "Reunion" Pay Sites

All self-described "reunion" and "find your long lost classmates" type websites are suspect, at the very least, and if you have to pay to join, or to get access to advanced features, positively so. The only way you might find anyone is if that person also happens to join the same website you did. These sites publish false entries with actual names of some of your classmates. Think of a fisherman baiting a hook, or putting out a chum line (chump line, in this case). Some of us joined one of these years ago, and proved this. Because I knew the actual location of 300+ member of BHS '60 at that time, I could spot the bogus entries immediately.

If you have to pay, don't stay

You can positively trust beverlyhighalumni.com - Beverly High Alumni [Will open in a new window - no need to hit back arrow]. That one is for all BHS classes. It was developed, and is still maintained, by Karen Christensen, Tucson AZ, BHS Class of '86. It is a totally free service and is sponsored by Beverly High School. Understand, it is a totally separate entity from our official website (bhs60.com), where you are now, reading this. I encourage you to add a short biography out there. Right now there are over 90 of our classmates who have done that. There were some out there before this website was created, so I thought it would work better if that continued.

[This notice is in response to several queries from our classmates]
 

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You can send traditional USPS mail to the address you see here.
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Please Tell Me When Your Address(es) Change:
We have a few email addresses become invalid from time to time. Please let us know if any of your information changes, including email address or United States Postal Service [USPS] regular mailing address. Please contact Webmaster. See how to do this in the below "How To Contact the Webmaster" notice. See a list of USPS addresses that have very recently "gone bad" on this list. That list usually gets longer right after a mass mailing to everyone.

We are at the age when many are retiring, downsizing, seasonally living in two places, moving in with the kids (just kidding, anyway it is not funny), etc. If we do not keep in touch, it may be far more difficult to locate everyone in 2010 then it was for the reunion is 2005, and that was tough enough. See the address information that we need for everyone:

Thanks in advance!!

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A Note About Facebook

There are quite a few of our BHS '60 classmates that now have a Facebook page. Facebook is the number one social networking website worldwide. It allows you to easily keep in touch with many friends at the same time. It is a bit superficial, but fun. There are others from classes that were at BHS with us, those in BHS '58, '59, '61, '62. People you know are joining all the time.

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07/27/07:    Sad News

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08/20/06:    Sad News - Chester A. Battis Passed Away

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Posted by Your Classmates

08/28/08 - from Bill Nisbet, regarding Nancy (Pedrick)(Smith) Mairs, BHS '60

Click on book cover to read article Nancy Mairs: How I Became a Treasure

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04/04/06 - from Charles (Chuck) Deering, '63

Bill: I am the brother of Ann Deering. She suffered brain damage as a result of an accident on New Year's Eve 1963/1964 as well as a lot of [other] physical problems. It was a hit and run accident by a car as she was walking home from the train. However, she persevered for many years and finally got married to Gary Lucas and lived in Clearwater, FL before she passed away from an apparent heart attack in 1994 or 1995. I do not have a copy of the obituary.

This is sad news, indeed, and a tragic story. Thanks for the information. Isn't it amazing how a pedestrian accident near a train station became a railroad accident? And also how serious injuries became a fatal accident? This is why I always check things out as carefully as I can. I was never able to locate Ann, so she probably never learned of this website, and what her classmates were up to. It is really sad. [Bill Nisbet]

On April 13, 2006, good 'ole Bill Shay, '59, our detective, provided me with a copy of Ann's Florida Death Index record that shows the DOD is May 6, 1994, in Largo, Florida. Thanks, Bill! [Bill Nisbet]

09/18/08:  Further sad news. I saw in the September 1, 2008 "Salem News" that Charles (Chuck) Deering, '63 himself, passed away in The Villages, Florida, on June 9, 2008, after a lengthy battle with cancer. [Bill Nisbet]

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01/18/06 - from Beverly (Knowlton) Fournier

Hoping you can post a message on the BHS site...[I'm trying]...to find Nancy Chabot [maiden name] of either the class of 1959 or 1960. I forget if she was in the other 4th grade at Washington School, or was a grade ahead of me, but we were good friends until her family moved to California, and we gradually lost touch. She had cousins living in Beverly though.

Best regards,
Bev

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Walter Winchell

09/01/05 - Roberta (Sigman) Jones asked me if the daily, 2nd floor, 15 minute promenade prior to homeroom was invented by our class, the BHS Class of 1960? I have no idea, so I thought this would be a great question to toss out to the class. Roberta asks because her older brother does not remember such a thing when he was at Beverly High School. So...did we invent that?

Bill Nisbet (Webmaster)

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08/18/05 - From Joe Burke (brother), on Kathleen Burke

To the Class of 1960:

I want to provide additional information on my dear sister, Kathleen (Kathy) Burke. I note that she is included among the "Do Not Contact" list and that she appears on that list because of serious illness. It would be wonderful if there could be contact with Kathy, but unfortunately it would be to no avail. A number of years ago, Kathy was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which we initially thought to be a form of mid-life depression. The disease progressed to the point where Kathy no longer speaks or has recall, and she must be confined to a nursing home. She resides in a home in Connecticut near her children and grandchildren, and rests comfortably.

I know that Kathy would love to be among her classmates. She spoke so often of her great fondness of Beverly and of her many wonderful friends with whom she grew up and attended BHS. Even as her lucidity diminished, the mention of Beverly and "old Beverly friends" would bring wide smiles to her face, a gleam in her eyes and happy laughter.

I did see the picture of Andy and Joyce and Kathy and Bobby. It brings back many great memories of those wonderful years. They were a "foursome" throughout high school. In fact, I talked at length with Bobby about two years ago. He was very saddened by Kathy's illness, but spoke of all the good times and good days that he and Kathy had when they were an item.

On behalf of Kathy Burke, her family wishes much happiness to the Members of the Class of 1960. We wish you well and congratulations on your 45th reunion.

Very best regards,
Joe Burke

11/04/09:  Further sad news. I saw in the November 1, 2009 "Salem News", in Kathy Burke's obituary, that she was predeceased by her brother Joe. I have no further information. [Bill Nisbet]

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10/01/05 - From Rhoda Briggs '62

1964 Photo Courtesy of Rhoda Briggs

This picture of Mary Jane is her college grad [1964] picture. I know M.J. would be happy to know that she won't be forgotten by the Class of '60.

07/26/05 - From Rhoda Briggs '62, sister of Mary Jane (Briggs) Bampos

Mary Jane Briggs died of a rare form of cancer (liver) on Oct. 27, 1983 in W, Springfield, MA where she lived with her husband, Paul Bampos. They were married for six years. Paul is now deceased. She was age 41 when she passed away. Mary Jane was a graduate of UMASS in Amherst with a degree in elementary education and a minor in art. She was a charter member of Sigma Sigma Sigma at UMASS. For 19 years she taught fifth grade class in the W. Springfield school system, some years with the gifted children. Later she became the elementary art teacher. Her hobbies included traveling, oil and water color painting, ceramics, stain glass and gourmet cooking. She was on the school committee. The most remarkable thing about Mary Jane was the number of friends she had. She was never wealthy, but she had a wealth of friends. She is currently survived by her son, Neal Maillet of Calif, her sister, Rhoda Briggs of Danvers BHS '62, and her mother, Eleanor Briggs, age 90.

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12/19/03 - From Fred Gabriel:

Salem News Photo Does anyone remember the big old train coming up out of the tunnel in the middle of salem square, and the snow falling while you were standing in front of the old sears and roebuck while the choo choo puffed its way up the ramp? and the almys, and the planters peanut man across the street giving out samples. the hustle of a little town at christmas time, eating up by the progress of shopping malls. god. i would give anything if someone had some pictures of salem in its hay day, during christmas . as far as that goes, beverly, and all the little towns, i don/t think i like change after you think of the wonderful , warmness, of the little towns cheer. and decorations. can you think back of how much fun it was to sit at woolworths, or grants soda fountain, having a root beer float, or a vanilla milk shake. and a hamburger, and fries back then was just like mamma was out back in the kitchen. and to this day i have never seen or met a better santa claus than charlie bucci, in the christmas parade.!! God, we grew up in great era, and community.!! bill, do you think i am feeling a little homesick, and melancholy? i do every christmas season. may God bless our beverly high school alumni, and each and everyone who has been fortunate enough to grow up in that era. and a merry christmas to all.

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12/07/03 - From Primilla (Bailey) Young:

Jack Delaria's notice caught my attention. So, I decided to check it out using the internet and this is what I found.

It is true that Beverly Hills California was started by someone from Beverly. To quote from official history of Beverly Hills: "After land failed to produce oil, it was purchased by Rodeo Land and Water Company, formed under the guidance of Burton E. Green, for the development of property as a subdivision. .....It was named Beverly Hills by Green and associates, after Beverly Farms Massachusetts where Green lived."

Found this other info as well to support above: Green opened the subdivision of Beverly Hills in 1907, named in honor of Pres. Taft's Massachusetts vacation hideaway. (Taft's house [was] down by Lynch Park). The post office was originally named Beverly after Beverly MA. The name was changed to Beverly Hills in 1911.

Thought you might want to pass this info onto Jack. Small world-isn't it!

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12/02/03 - From Jack DeLaria:

I remain well and working full time. My big news is that I'm about to be a grandfather for the first time. San Diego continues to be a great place to live and fortunately for us the recent fires did not seriously threaten our home. Last month, Bernard Menkes { proud graduate of the class of 48 } became my patient and it was great to share our mutual recollections of Beverly. Last week, I first learned that Beverly Hills, California was started by someone from Beverly. Does anyone know if this story is either true or apocryphal? Best Regards to everybody.

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06/02/02 - From Linda Michetti's sister Patricia (Michetti) Orlando [BHS '62]:
Hi Bill. Yes, I am Linda's sister. I'm so glad you contacted me and happy to know she will be remembered on the BHS website. Linda's married name was Nicosia, not Lima. She passed away on September 30, 1991. At the time of her death, she was 49 years old and resided in Salem, New Hampshire. She was the wife of Riccardo Nicosia, the mother of Ricky, Diana, and Debra Nicosia, and the grandmother of twin girls. I am attaching some pictures that you may be able to use for the memoriam. Thanks so much.

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