Help..my attempt to post on our Holcomb Forum ended up on the RHS Forum.  Someone smarter than me maybe could get my post back to the Holcomb Thread.  And by the way I don't think I was the one who put water on Mrs. Flanders chair!!

Mike Dean

Hi Mike,

Do you remember my jungle hammock?????

Bette Jo

BETTE!   MIKE!   YOU TWO WERE SOOOOO YOUNG AND INNOCENT!!! (mike, i  (we) can't wait to hear your response to bette's inquiry!)

Betty,

You promised you would not tell anyone....ever!!!!!  That was my first time................in a jungle hammock!!!!

Mike Dean

You guys are incorrigible!  Mike, what street did you grow up on??  Do you have an older brother?

bj

BJWD:  which 'mike' are you addressing,  corvette mike (dean) or nissan mike?   mike reissing has an older brother, ted (73), and grew up (sorta) on patton near 6 mile road.  mike dean has more corvettes than one man should be allowed to own.       patton mike

I was asking the questions to Mike Dean.  Hope you are having a nice summer Mike R.  We are currently in Hilton Head but heading home tomorrow. 

bj

Bette Jo,

I did reply earlier today, but I am not sure it made it to you.  I have no brothers, but did have a cousin named Thane (Dennis Dean's brother).  I lived in a "G.I" bungalow from the age of 12 located on Greydale near Curtis.

Mike D

Hi Mike,

I'll tell you the rest of the story at the reunion.  See you there!

bj

Michael G. Reissing wrote:

Hi Mike and everyone else!

As of August 21, the following have responded that they are coming to our Holcomb "'gathering" on Sept. 25, 4-6 PM in the Diplomat Room.

(I'm using maiden names to keep things simpler).

Tom Watson, Gary Wilson, Garry Thornley, Mike Reissing, Norman Nettie, Karen Dietz, Janice Leonard, Mack Carpenter, Cindy Palk, Sandy Hart, Bob Angevine, Sandy Girk, Grant Cleverly, Jane Pooley, Michael Den, Billy Mueller, Judy Bowen, Dick Walker, Sharon Gulick, Diane Goodman, Carl Geistler, Carolyn King, Barbara Beatty, Joan Aldridge, David Whitehouse, myself, and probably Bob McNally. 

If there are others coming,  please let Cindy Palk Cohen or myself know. 

bj

kathy cameron told me today that's she's coming friday 4-6.    10-4.  roger.  over 'n out.  cindybj, pls email her to confirm.   she's cute too!

p.s.  kathy dietz had her name legally changed to karen dietz in her kindergarten year.

I did receive an RSVP from Cathy Cameron yesterday, also Tom Watson is coming.  Hope we hear from some more Holcomb Academy Grads!

Hi Cindy (and everyone else!)

As I get more names, I'm editing the previous list and including them.  Watch for updates!

bj

Bette Jo Waddington Dedic wrote:

Mike did not put the water on Mrs. Flander's chair. But I know who did. Garry

whomever (whoever?) knows carolyn king well....make sure that she comes to our holcomb thing friday afternoon.  icons like her MUST attend!!!!!!!!

Mike,

I will send Carolyn another invite for our Holcomb gathering.

Cindy

Hi, I've already talked to Carolyn and she doesn't think she wants to make the trip twice.  Of course, you could try to convince her more that she should!

bj

Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 at 8:51 AM

twice??????  rochester hills is less than 45 minutes from the embassy suites....zip down telegraph road.    i know folks, (and have done so myself) that drive that distance to work every day.  the holcomb get-together is 4-6 pm...... not a late midnight event!  if she is not that interested in this special event....seeing good friends after 54+ years, i'm no one to cajole or goad her.  maybe holcomb years are not that memorable to her.  freedom of choice.   i'm sure that the work that you and cindy and others have put into bringing this thing off will be rewarded by the great feelings those in attendance will get.  thank you from here.      mike

Hi, I've already talked to Carolyn and she doesn't think she wants to make the trip twice.  Of course, you could try to convince her more that she should!

bj

Carolyn here:

All right, all right, we will try to be there on Friday night.  Mike, boy, are you going to be disappointed.  No icon here.  You are cute to think that, though.  Bette, you look great!

Cindy,

Anything I can do to help with the Holcomb reunion please let me know.

Dick Walker

rcwalker2000@yahoo.com

Dick,

Thanks for the offer, I can't think of anything at this time.  Looking forward to seeing you in September.

Cindy

Just write the check! Ha-Ha. Best to you.....and thanks Dick. You have always been a great guy. Old, very old friend....Garry

Judy Peck, we have lost track of you.  Your e-mails are bouncing back and phone calls are not going through.  Please let me know how to reach you.  Does anyone else know where Judy is?

Bette Jo

Mike,

I am confused by your statement...my name has always been Karen Dietz never Kathy Dietz.  I had several cousins who went to Holcomb at the same time.  Mike Dean, Toni Dean, Kathy Groves, Jennifer Groves, Andrea Paldan.  Were you just checking to see if I was awake Mike? Now today I would understand if there was confusion about my name because it has change a few times...aka:  Karen Dietz, Karen Waltman, Karen Brown...

Karen

KAREN:  my kathy/karen comment was supposed to be a humorous 'barb' directed at a post that was made a little earlier than mine.  that earlier post, made by someone else, referred to you as kathy...and  it has since been edited to correct your pretty name.  i apologize for offending you.  please forgive me.    mike reissing

Hey Mike,

My response to you was supposed to be humorous as well....no offense taken.  I think I owe you a drink!

Karen

Karen, Mike is Mike and his humor is like mine. Dry, and hard to understand at times. Haven't found his Kathy reference as yet, maybe he spent too much time in the water that day. Love his latest pics. He looks great and will be fun to see. It is always great to know we classmates really haven't changed over the years. Tom Watson's post said it best and should be read by everyone. Mike Dean also has some wonderful input.

By the way, I think Mr. R should buy you the drink. Very best....Garry

To Garry and to my fellow Holcomb classmates,

Tom and Mike both put it well.  Those days offered a wonderful simplicity of growing up with a group that were pretty much on the same page.   I remember the fun and the laughter of those times, it didn't take much to get us started. I had no idea how sheltered and safe we were and how lucky we were to grow up in "those years". I remember the schools plays and the Xmas concerts. For us girls it was nylon blouses and taffeta skirts with our first pair of heels...wow.  It was an age of innocence that really did exist. This reunion has brought back many things I had packed away in my memories. It's been great to recall Bentler Ave. & Santa Clara and Curtis streets and Gozzlins (?)..penny candy and so much more . 

My thanks to the committee who has worked so hard to pull this together and to Ken for this wonderful site which has taken on a life of it's own.

Karen

For those available on Thursday, the 24th (see Holcomb Gathering thread), let Norm know the best time for you. 2 or 3pm are only proposed times. Whatever time, I think we will be there for awhile. So stop in at whatever time best fits your schedule. Looking forward...Garry

Who are these cuties?  Thanks to Bette Bergman for supplying these photos.  Bette is on the far left.  Joan Aldridge is next to her and behind the next two girls.  The middle girl in back row is Pat Cope and Margaret Snow is next to her.  Fill in the blanks.  We'll complete at the reunion.

Another photo supplied by Bette Bergman.  Her dad took both of these pictures.  Grant Cleverly is in front.  Bette Bergman is at far left in second row.  Harold Staley is third in same row.  Margaret Snow is 2nd from left in second row. Pat cope is at far right in same row.  Carl Geistler is at right in last row.  Enjoy!

We now have 52 attending the Holcomb Gathering!  I'd say that is terrific.  Looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday!

Cindy

fifty two cards....  an entire deck. (at least six jokers and five aces....  a stacked deck.)   i'd say that cindy and bette jo are terrific!    i talked to mrs. goslin and her  petite sidekick last night and they said hi and have a wonderful time.  they retired to the french riviera with the $ they made selling to us sweet tooths their penny candy, popsicles, and those wonderful pies.  ( i swiped a pretzel once.)  that newspaper article about our graduation melted my memory.....  beautifully eerie.   (eeriely beautiful).   see y'all soon soon soon!    mike  reissing

Hi Mike,

I just posted that article.  I received it 2 days ago from Janet Buckholtz.  Wish I had had it earlier.  I'm leaving in the morning and will see you soon.  Have a great trip.

bj

YIKES!!!  Pansy Kilander just jumped out of that picture and told me to sit in that chair by her office door until she was done talking to my Mother.   SHE CALLED MY MOTHER????

I am in BIG,BIG trouble now.

My sister, Doris, is attending the 1960 50th reunion for Redford High this Sept and they have this same website for their class.  Tom Scheffer (not sure of spelling) who I remember at Holcomb in our class at least in the lower grades graduated with the class of 1960 (not sure about Holcomb).  He posted a message that he went to visit Holcomb last week as it is to be torn down this summer.  He did take photos.  He said he phoned first and had to be buzzed into the school.  He park out front and the car was still there when he came out.  He said the school was MUCH SMALLER than he remembered.  I hope we can see copies of the photos he took.  I'll post them if I can.   Joan Aldridge Gordon

tom schafer(sp?), a big strong handsome guy, was a buddy of mine, norm, jewet, thornley, etc. and graduated with us from holcomb.  but he attended high school in mississippi and revisited detroit in the summers.  (may be a different tom schafer).  i visited holcomb a few years back and found a big cupboard in  the science room (used to be home ec) that had several old scrapbooks/albums/archival stuff that someone had saved......  news clippings and mimeographed programs for assemblies etc.  one news clipping photo was of my mom playing the piano at a pta meeting.  the school was about 93.5% black kids.....  the building, inside and out was nostalgically and eeriely identical to 1954.  holcomb elementary.....R.I.P.

geeze, i wish i could make it up to this wake....  seriously.....  even more
than the rhs59 reunon i think.  we spent 9 years at holcomb....  and the
wonderful memories of redford are actually contingent on our holcomb friends,
right? based on my visit to holcomb circa 2004, at least the board of education
kept the building in very good shape (in contrast to the surrounding
neighborhood.  didn't sylvia rutkowski live right across the street....  and
another girl classmate....  bette jo?) the final walkthrough etc. is such a
great idea....  who thought of it?      mike    (p.s.  i hope that there is a
mrs. goslins in heaven so i can once again shoplift one of those 5 cent cherry
pies (10 cents?....  i don't know....  i stole it)

Hi Mike,

Yes, Sylvia lived right across the street,2nd house from Thatcher towards Gosslins.  I lived in the 2nd house from Thatcher in the other direction, across from the playground.  I can remember going home at lunchtime and sometimes taking water pistols home to refill.  I don't remember for whom!

bj