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04/25/08 01:50 PM #1     Ron Mendler Welcome to the Hughesville High School Class Of 1988 message forum. Jump in.

04/29/08 05:49 PM #2     Chad Moore OK, I'll break the ice here, although I'm just winging it at this point because I have already shot down my own original premise. I had a nice little music-related idea that would involve a lighthearted discussion of the Grammy winning song of the year for 1988. Unfortunately, that obviously necessitated that I look up what song it was (I really hope no one actually remembers this without looking it up.) Here's what I learned: I really hate the "song of the year" for 1988. Look it up for yourself if you care that much, you might have fun. So, anyway, sorry about that. Also, keep in mind that if no one responds to this it will just sit there, completely unresponded to.

05/15/08 12:01 PM #3     Eric Hoffman Looks like the turn-out for this reunion is shaping up to be pretty good. I was really sorry to hear about Mike Houseknecht's untimely demise shortly after graduation. Although I never knew him, or Ashley Temple, very well (just names on a roster and faces in a crowd) I know they were both well-liked. I hope that over the last 2 decades their families have been able to find the closure needed to both remember their lost loved one while continuing their own lives from a new perspective. On a lighter note, does anyone happen to know how many of our classmates are currently occupying state (or federal) correctional facilities? The law of averages says there has to be at least 2 or 3.

05/16/08 11:24 AM #4     Ron Mendler Eric - Kelley (McCoy) DeWald works for the federal correctional system. Perhaps she can get us a list of present guests at those institutions. I'm wondering if this is the reason I can't locate many of our classmates!

05/21/08 04:13 PM #5     Kelley McCoy (DeWald) Chad--I actually just got the time to try to look up the Grammy winning song from 1988....and the winner was Don't worry be happy....at least I think. As for the number of classmates that are Federal inmates? I currently do no know of any of our classmates that are housed here (thank god--that requires me to have to write a special memorandum to the Warden), but I do know that a few of our unfortunate classmates have had to do a little time behind bars...how many and how long? I don't know and I really am not going to research that number Eric, sorry. I will try to look up more mind-numbing information like Don't worry be happy?

05/23/08 12:25 AM #6     Michael Turi Kudos to the planning committee for a great job, even though I will not be in attendance. I'll be thinking about you guys that night though. I will take some credit for hastily dismissing Ron's "family reunion" pic-nic idea, which seems to have set him on the path towards planning what is shaping up to be a fine weekend. Of course, now it sounds like it will be a great time, and I won't be there! Maybe after this, we need to have reunions every two years, so we can enjoy them while we're still young enough to appreciate a good night out.

05/23/08 03:22 PM #7     Chad Moore Hey Kelly, good to hear from you - I think that may have been '89, but, ironically, I'm not a big fan of "Don't Worry, Be Happy" either. I guess this is pretty mind-numbing, now that you mention it.

05/26/08 10:53 PM #8     Mike Bower Ok, I couldn't stand the suspense and looked it up. The 1988 Grammy award-winning "Song of the Year" was the treacly "Somewhere Out There" by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram. From the animated movie "An American Tail". Why oh why couldn't it have been La Bamba, also nominated that year? :) "Rain Man" won the best picture Oscar for 1988, but for my money the best moment in film that year was the 2-3 seconds of Uma Thurman's breasts in "Dangerous Liasons", also nominated.

05/30/08 04:18 PM #9     Chad Moore http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treacly You give the moment very high praise, Mike, considering that's only 1.5 seconds each, at most.

05/31/08 01:47 AM #10     Ron Mendler 3.6 seconds. Simultaneous. And I had to look that word up too Dr. Bower!

06/02/08 01:09 AM #11     Michael Turi I just wanted to put into perspective exactly how old we are. Imagine, if you will, that all of us were born on the exact day of our high school graduation. We would now be two years OLDER than we were the day we graduated high school. YIKES!!!

06/02/08 10:22 PM #12     Rich Barlett Turi - based on the profile I just viewed, you still look like you're twelve years old. I can't imagine you act any different either. What are you complaining about?!

06/02/08 11:36 PM #13     Michael Turi Rich---It's all the steroids and plastic surgery. That's how we do it out here in the PHX!

06/04/08 04:50 PM #14     Margie Koch Kelly, I'm with you...my computer shows "Don't worry,be Happy" as the 1988 record of the year at the Grammys. But now I have "Somewhere out there" stuck in my head... Any of you Ashkar folks, I just posted some class pics from back in the day...

06/05/08 09:40 AM #15     Reagan Bitler Thanks Margie for the Ashkar pics....wow how we have changed....put some of my students at school to test to see if they could pick me out....they did better at the Where's Waldo books.

06/05/08 02:51 PM #16     Bryon May Hi Everyone! I just wanted to chime in on the music of 88! I went back through the billboard charts and wow, the memories started flooding back. If you look at the timeframe of our senior year Sept 87 - May 88 George Michael's "Faith", INXS "Need You Tonight", Whitney Houston's "So Emotional" were the number one songs and received the most radio airplay. Other biggies included Billy Ocean's "Get Out Of My Car", Pretty Poison, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, and who can forget Lita Ford's "Kiss Me Deadly"....well anyway hopefully I've jogged your musical memory. Loved the Ashkar Pictures!

06/05/08 09:00 PM #17     Karen Gotschal (Baker) Speaking of Def Leppard...does anyone remember our Senior Prom when "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was played and many of our male classmates took off their shirts, pretended they were Chippendales and actually poured packets of sugar on themselves? Oh what a night!

06/06/08 12:43 AM #18     Ron Mendler Karen - Got any pictures of that? I'd love to add them to this site... especially since I had enough sanity to keep my shirt on that evening so I won't be embarrassed.

06/06/08 09:30 PM #19     Karen Gotschal (Baker) Hey Ron, Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures. That's probably a good thing. I can't actually remember who the guys were...is anyone willing to confess to being shirtless and sugared?

06/10/08 02:20 AM #20     Shelly States (Scott) I thought I had a copy of the "Prom Chippendales." I have a two photos that may have occured right before that. I downloaded 30+ photos, and tried to leave out any really embarrasing ones for anyone!

06/10/08 03:05 AM #21     Theresa Sellinger (Mitchell) Shelly - What a nice trip down memory lane! It was nice to show my co-workers what I looked like in Kindergarten, not so nice to show them what I looked like in second grade. OMG what was up with my hair? Thanks for sharing!

06/10/08 05:38 AM #22     Theresa Sellinger (Mitchell) For those who have left home: What do you miss the most? I miss Country Store bologne sticks, teaberry ice cream from Eders, pickled eggs & red beets, subs from Hall's Sub Station (A-frame), scrapple, Middlesworth Potato Chips, Dincher's Fruit Stand, apples from the orchard, the Autumn, High Knob Look Out, the rolling hills, covered bridges, swimming in the creek and finally having the same address and phone number. I have had so many different addresses and phone numbers that most of the time I couldn't tell you what my phone number is, pathetic I know. Having been away from home for the last 17 years and only really being close for about a year those are the things I miss the most and ofcourse my Dad. I love PA and it will always be home to me.

06/11/08 06:35 AM #23     Margie Koch I lived in MD for several years, and had to do that to find out I was a country bumpkin. Apparently not everyone sits around and husks corn and snaps beans on a Sat. night. Also not all proms are held at the fire hall, not everyone goes spotlighting for deer on dates, and some people actually lock their house/cars at night... Apparently we have a bit of an accent and say some things in a gramatically incorrect manner... Also driving into Baltimore is not "goin' over town", I'm told Chad- by the way I have heard your radio ads for your practice. I didn't know it was you, but now I can brag...

06/11/08 06:38 AM #24     Margie Koch Karen- How do I not remember several male classmates stripping at the prom and "sugaring" themselves... I'm guessing Rob Stutzman was involved?

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