  click to read EARLY SNAPSHOTS 50th REUNION BOOK  (pdf) The historic 2005 reunion book -- photos, memorabilia, and class updates -- was edited by Eugene Consolo with photographic design by Bob Grimes. The cover is based on the actual 1955 yearbook. NOTE: By clicking on the image above one can read the reunion book on the web as a pdf file, thanks to Bob Grimes. contact any AHS 55 grad with email here  click on image to open [pdf file] "In case of [nuclear] attack all students are to remain in school and remain sheltered because of the lethal rays until the proper persons give the 'all clear' signal. The best protection from flying glass and other debris is lying face down with the head to a wall, although for the present students will not assume the prone position." [handbook] Sophomoric -- but hilarious Thanks to Carolyn McQuaid Thomas Bob Grimes shows how Aspinwall has changed over 50 years A photo montage by Bob Grimes clipping from the Sharpsburg Herald pop stuff from the 1950s Shirley Ann Brusco, Sally Bollinger Greulich, Margie Morcom Hartsock, Salli Hamre Lodge, Barb McLaughlin Monahan 
Don Swaim 
Close beside the Allegheny chorus All ye sons and all ye daughters, There she stands in all her glory,
 PC Magazine's BEST OF THE INTERNET cites Don Swaim's Wired for Books. Nov. 20, 2007 issue click to open Wired for Books Book Beat: The Podcast Ambrose Bierce Site Fighting the Hun in WWI Growing Up in WW2 Aspinwall Class of 55 WCBS Appreciation Site Radio Days John Steinbeck in Bucks Co. Bucks County Sunsets Bucks County Writers Workshop Texas Wine List |
2006 ALL-CLASS PICNIC
& MINI-REUNION  '55 Alums at Holiday Inn dinner Sep. 1, 2006, night before the picnic at Squaw Valley Park. For more snapshots click here.
They returned for the Friday reunion on August 26, 2005, not only from Pennsylvania, but from Florida, California, Virginia, Maine, Michigan, Idaho, Texas, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, Nevada, New Hampshire -- Guatamala! Even a drizzle didn't deter the hearty grads of AHS from a picnic the next day. That Saturday night the ole alma mater was lustily sung along the Allegheny River -- and a belt-busting Sunday brunch rounded out the festivities. An occasion that for the grads will never happen again. Click on the headline above to go to the reunion pictures gallery page   WHO WAS THERE IN '05? PAGE FROM THE OLD SCRAPBOOK OLD HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING   photo by Bob Grimes Part of a consolidated school district in Fox Chapel. Read a history and join a pictorial tour of the "new" high school on the Index side of this page.
WHAT HAPPENED TO SAVOR'S BARBECUE? From Salli Hamre Lodge: "...places gone in A-wall: Bards, Erwin Drug Store, Humes Garage, Embassy Theatre, Womens Club, (Zuccaro's Store still there under new management), Savor's. Dinty Moore's, Lutheran Church. Presbyterian Church destroyed by fire, rebuilt, bell tower saved. Homes selling for $250,000 and up. Football field still there, used for Little League baseball, football, A-wall recreations. Memorial Day Parade still held each year." Popular spot for breakfast after the prom. You could enter the HoJo parking lot from the rear and not have to pay a turnpike toll. Weekly sock hop on Friday nights. Early do-wop music via 45 rpm records (the ones with the big hole in the center).   |
