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[[Image:CranbrookReunionPic2008.jpg|center|800px|45th Reunion 2008]]

Reunion 2008 picture courtesy of Dave Benham, who says: 
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Thought you might want to add this pic to your website.  Sorry -- I didn't think about sending you a copy until Bill Bailey and his wife visited here yesterday for the Woodward Dream Cruise and we were reminiscing.
All left to right and I am defining "row" as what step I think they are standing on.
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Row 4:  L.B. McKelvey, Carl Youngstrom, John Theobald, Roger Core
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Row 3:  Rick Rattner, Elliott Andrews, Steve Jaffe, Fred Huebner
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Row 2:  Monty Loud, Dave Schultz, Ken Haller, Dave Benham, Pete Cummins
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Row 1:  Bob Berry, Joe Kimble, Bill Gelbach, Roger Marsh
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Attended but missing in photo: Bill Ingle, Bill Powell, maybe others that I've forgotten about since then.
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[[Image:Brewer_Jess.jpg|left|100px|Jess Brewer]] Thank you, Dave! &nbsp; 
[[User:Jess|Jick]] 19:17, 28 August 2008 (PDT)
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C'mon, guys!  With all the 45<SUP>th</SUP> Reunion Email stacked up in my mailbox, I would think '''''some''''' information would have gotten into this ''wiki'' too.  But no, nothing since Fred's posting from months ago.  What, is everyone scared to click on the '''edit''' button and make some changes?  Just do it, dammit!  And if you want to clear away this clutter and create something more organized, be my guest!  F'rinstance, you might want to add some content to the following page:

===[[Who's Coming to Dinner?]]===

BTW, ''apropos'' of nothing, here's a link to pictures of the 130-lb tarpon I caught in Boca Grande Pass (just N of Ft. Meyers, FL) on May 21:  '''[http://jick.net/~jess/pix/Camera/2008-05-21/ tarpon fishing]''' 

Unfortunately, as much as I'd love to be there for the 45<SUP>th</SUP>, I just can't fit it in this week, since I have to be in Laval to give an as-yet unfinished talk on Sunday.  (And I just spent all my money in Florida!)  Besides, the 50<SUP>th</SUP> is the ''big'' one, neh?  

Cheers - Jess

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OK, Jess - and anyone else wandering in

First, let me say that I did not consider your last website for us a failure.  However, your point about non-use is somewhat compelling.  That aside, on good faith, I opted to sign up herein (Wonnberger would love that sentence structure).  And what did I find?  Well, first (or is it now second?) I discovered some old classmates I had forgotten.  You know - Donna & Bob, Mary & Willard, Keith Hoyle and a family by the name of Kajaks.  I think one of them had a TV series in the 70's.  Just when I was about to look up old Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice, I figured that we (C'63) had been teleported and possibly appended onto your life.  After briefly crashing around the neighborhood, I found my way here (more on that to follow).  And I like the apparent thought process: something for the boys of '63 without falling on your sword.  My compliments.

So, the reason I post here is that recent emails bouncing around make persistent references to a 45th reunion.  Bill Ingle and I bent Bob Berry's ear about such a concept about 6+/- months ago.  One, or some, of us passed the thought on to Ken Haller, who dutifully gave it air time in the official gazette.  The response seemed to be a yawn at the time.  I still think it is a good idea.  But now, the patient lives?!  So it seems, that we (CK '63 etc) could use this particular location to demonstrate interest.  And then, do some advance planning to enhance success.  Or, we could just wait until the last minute and "wing it."  

BTW, I used to work with the guy that invented Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales.  He made an obscene little fortune trading Fed Funds Futures while I was getting a cheek torn off by the Orange County debacle.  Some would say that is not a singular event.

Gentlemen.  Start your engines.  Best regards to all.

Fred Huebner
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Hmmm... no way you ever even ''saw'' the other "pages" on this ''wiki'' unless you went hunting for them.  (Well, perhaps clicking on "'''Main Page'''" over in the '''navigation''' panel on the left doesn't constitute "hunting", but still....)  

If anyone has a scheme for organizing this particular page, please don't hesitate to hit '''edit''', wipe out everything you see and substitute something less chatty and more informative, like "List of Who Plans to Come" or "When and Where".  Stuff like that.  Remember, '''a ''wiki'' is not a ''blog''!''' It should get more concise and to the point as different people edit it; it should ''not'' just "sprawl" like a blog.  

That said, I must conclude (for now) with '''''Thank you, Fred!'''''  At last someone else actually put something on here! 

Cheers - Jess

PS: Is Jimmy in the "inclusive" or "exclusive" camp now that ''WikipediA'' has become a battleground?  (Evidently the "bazaar" only works smoothly until people start to perceive the territory as worth taking over.)  

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