{"id":92899,"date":"2017-09-12T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=92899"},"modified":"2017-09-12T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:31:31","slug":"vwhs-class-of-1962-holds-55th-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/12\/vwhs-class-of-1962-holds-55th-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"VWHS Class of 1962 holds 55th reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert High School Class of 1962 held its 55th class reunion the weekend of September 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p>Activities started on Friday evening, where some of the classmates attended the Van Wert High School home football game at Eggerss Stadium.\u00a0Later in the evening, classmates gathered at the Van Wert Elks Lodge for socializing and snacks.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday activities started\u00a0as classmates went to Richard Miller\u2019s farm for a delicious lunch and more time to get reacquainted.\u00a0On Saturday evening, the 55th reunion banquet was held at Van Wert Elks Lodge 1197.\u00a0The evening started with a social time, followed by having a class reunion picture taken.\u00a0Class member Judy (Gribler) Fox led the group with an opening prayer before dinner, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.<\/p>\n<p>Special guests Gerald Manken, metal shop teacher, and Larry Schaufelberger, choir director, were then introduced, and both later spoke to those in attendance.\u00a0Following a delicious dinner served by the Elks Lodge, Mike Stanley, class reunion committee member, welcomed class members.<\/p>\n<p>A special tribute was held to honor the 27 deceased members of the class. Phil Giessler, class vice president, also spoke.\u00a0Those present decided to meet again in five years for a 60th reunion.\u00a0Class members spent the remainder of the evening visiting and sharing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92900\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/VWHS-Class-of-1962-reunion-9-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"185\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Members of the Van Wert High School Class of 1962 and special guests include (front row, from the left) Larry Schaufelberger, Barbara (Blake) Ingledue, Lana (Proffitt) Drewyore, Rebecca (Smitley) Mumma, Judy (Gribler) Fox, Connie (Bagley) Cobb, Gerald Manken, and Michael Stanley; (back row) Phil Giessler, John Purmort, Charles Busch, Steve White, Bob Leonard, Roy Matthews, Stephen Cobb, Stephen Smith, Richard Miller, and David Lianez.<\/strong> <em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information The Van Wert High School Class of 1962 held its 55th class reunion the weekend of September 1 and 2. Activities started on Friday evening, where some of the classmates attended the Van Wert High School home football game at Eggerss Stadium.\u00a0Later in the evening, classmates gathered at the Van Wert Elks Lodge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyles"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 11:36:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}