THIS IS TRUDY FROLANDER! MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL'S FIRST FOREIGNEXCHANGE STUDENT! SHE WAS A 1960 MCHS GRAD AND HAS BEEN IN MAQUOKETA THIS WEEK FOR THE 50TH CLASS RE-UNION HELD FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT
IN MAQUOKETA. SHE IS FROM SWEDEN! YES, SWEDEN. I HAD THE WRONG
COUNTRY IN AN EARLIER REPORT. SHE IS A RETIRED DENTIST AFTER 36 YEARS.
IN 1959, FOR A CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO HER MOTHER BACK IN SWEDEN, KMAQ
PRODUCED A 33 1/3 LP WITH MANY VOICES ON IT. SHE BROUGHT IT WITH
HER AND I USED IT ON KMAQ FRIDAY, AFTER DUBBING IT TO A CD. ON IT
WERE HER HOST FAMILY, MARV, HELEN, DARLENE AND KAY BRADY.....DR. J.A.
BROMAN, PASTOR HAROLD KUMPF, SUPT. MELVIN SIKKINK, PRINCIPAL MARVIN
MAIRE, AND JANICE FARNUM. WAS FUN AIRING THOSE VOICES OF 50 YEARS
AGO. I WAS AT THE REUNION LAST NIGHT AT THE DECKER AND TRUDY PRESENTED ME WITH A BOX OF CANDY FROM SWEDEN. TALKED TO A LOT OF HER CLASSMATES, INCLUDING MARY JANE MOORHEAD....DELBERT BANOWETZ....MARGIE ERICKSON.....GEORGE WRAY.....LINDA POWLISTA.....MARY UPPENA.....MARGARET McCARTHY AND JIM DUTTON. THERE WERE 89 IN THE CLASS, 14 ARE DECEASED AND AROUND 40 OR SO ATTENDED THE RE-UNION. NICE TIME HAD BY ALL.
DENNIS VOY
