Valley Central Class of
1976
25 Year Class Reunion
Reunion Committee
Kim Baty Kosteczko Ruth Pettine Hall
Betsy Smith Sullivan Kathy Privitera Sherman
Paula Bellarosa Quist Ron Decker
Bruce Helstrom Richard Kirnan
Reunion Chairpersons
Kim Baty Kosteczko
Ruth Pettine Hall
1562 Albany Post Road
88 Beaver
Dam Road
Gardiner, NY 12525
Montgomery, NY 12549
kimkosteczko@yahoo.com
ruthjeffhall@earthlink.net
Our 30th Reunion is just around the corner!
If you move within the next five years please e-mail
one of us or call with your new address. Make it
easier for us to find you! After the 30th Reunion, our
reunion's will be held every 10 yrs., 40th, 50th, 60th....
Reunion Committee News
Special thanks to Kim, Ruth, Betsy , Kathy, Paula,
Rich, Ron, and Bruce for dedicating hours and hours on
the phone, internet searches, newspaper articles,
www.classmates.com, Cable 8 tv, flyers, trying
to
keep track of 344 Class Members,
this year we only had to find 128 missing classmates.
The committee was able to find 315 Classmates,
11 Classmates have passed away,
18 Classmates are still missing.
A special thanks to all of the Classmates who called
and helped us in our phone and on line search for our
missing classmates. There are to many of you to name,
but it is important that you know that your time, help
and class spirit was greatly appreciated, we couldn't
have done it without you! Thank you.
A special thanks go out to the Reunion Committee,
Kim, Ruth, Betsy, Kathy, Paula, Ron, Bruce and Rich
for coming together once again to help plan our 25th
Class Reunion. Each committee member has played an
important role to make this reunion a huge success.
Planning a reunion is a very time consuming project
that requires hours of dedication and commitment. The
Reunion Committee started planning for this one year ago.
As you know Betsy Smith Sullivan retired as our
reunion chairman after our 20th reunion and Kim Baty
Kosteczko and Ruth Pettine Hall took over to CO-chair
our 25th Reunion. The committee was lucky enough to
talk Betsy into staying on the reunion committee once
again. We would like to take this opportunity to say
thank you to her for her dedication
to the Class of '76.
A Special Thanks
Darlene (Dorner) and Mike Caridullo were kind enough
this year to donate their time to print our reunion
information on postcards, our main letters, and the
Reunion Book . Letting you, our classmates know when
our 25th Reunion was being held. It also gave us time
to find over 100 classmates whose postcards had been
returned as they had moved within the last five years.
Rich Kirnan thought it would be a great way to help
our classmates plan vacation time, so you could
attend, and it definitely turned out to be a great idea!
Barbara FitzPatrick Webb and her husband Gene of K&B
Sanitary Welding of Georgia were kind enough to cover
the cost for the paper that was used to send out our main letters.
We greatly appreciate your donation and Class Spirit!
We would like to take this opportunity to say thank
you to Ron Decker and Coca-Cola for their donation of
soda for our reunion picnic.
Ron, it is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
A special thank you to Mr. Brett Gehrke from the
Wallkill Middle School Technology Department,
Wallkill, New York who designed our 25th Class
Reunion T-shirt as a favor to Kim Baty Kosteczko. The
hours he spent drawing it and then creating it on the
computer was greatly appreciated.
We would like to say thank you to Ruth Pettine Hall
for keeping track of our reunion finances,
and Charlie Davis for his donation of flowers.
To our classmates who were unable to join us this
time, there is always the 30th.... Thank you for
responding and letting us know you were unable to attend.
To our classmates who have made the journey to
attend our 25th Reunion, whether living close or far
away, we thank you for coming.
May this reunion unite
you with an old friend, make new ones, and may you
leave with great memories.
See you again for our 30th Reunion in 2006.
Things that happened in 1976
The Bicentennial Year
It was our Country's 200th Birthday 1776 -1976
They made Bicentennial Quarters 1776 -1976
They printed the $2.00 Bill 1976 Series
1976 Olympics were held in Montreal, Canada
Montgomery hosted the Bicentennial County Fireman's
Parade, some of us were late getting to Graduation
For more pages from the 25th reunion book
see the Time Capsules pages !
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