Amherst Elementary School P.E. Anthem

Feeling rusty and out of shape? Turn up your speakers, step back from your desk, hands on hips, and hit it! Inspired by Bob Brandts' successful "LSSE Diet"; dedicated to Don Johnson, Randy Crowley and Bud Kneeland. More (click here, and then scroll down to October 3).

Barselotti's to close (click here)

Reunion Photo's

The "ARHS76" group photo pool is now open on Flickr, where you can view photos and post your own for classmates to see. To browse or share great snapshots you or others took at the Reunion, please send me a note at porter11@aol.com so that I can have the service "invite" you -once you respond to the invitation - it's FREE - visit Flickr and search for the group "ARHS76".

[Jill Weinstein, Janki Darity]

Reunion Revelry

Thank you one and all for attending and making the 30th Reunion a fantastic event!!! Pictures (and instructions for how to upload your own pix) and The Theory all should be uploaded and available by Tuesday 11/28; Survey results and classmates Contact List will take a little longer to compile and load. Add your comments below right. See you again ... in 2036?
[Above, l-r: Seth & Delia Sherwood, Mike Fusian Lisa Tarmey; Below, l-r: Steve Schwartz, Annie O'Connor, Elly Newcomb Trousdale]

Update on ARHS Streakers

Furor, student unrest grow.... See also Nov 3 post, waaaay below

Parking CHANGE for Campus Center Hotel Guests

If you are booked to stay at the Campus Center Hotel, or if you plan to drive to campus to the Dinner on Saturday, see this notice from UMass about closure of the Campus Center Parking Lot and availability of alternate parking facilities, with map. Call the Campus Center at (413) 549-6000, ext. 0, if you have questions.

What is This ?

... Rumor has it that this confection was invented in, by and for the Amherst school system:

How many Calories From Fat?

Be True To Your School!

Alumni & Alumnae: stop by the Alumni Association table during the Amherst-N'hampton football game on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday November 23 to introduce yourselves and to purchase fine ARHS wearables. Show your school spirit!

Amherst Cinema Reopens on Reunion weekend (click)

The beautifully re-designed Amherst Cinema will re-open on November 22 in time for the class of 1976 to enjoy fine NEW films - "For Your Consideration" and "The Queen" - and stylish renovations. Make a point to visit the Cinema to support the rebirth of this important institution and to re-live memories of the movies of you watched there in high school. Class of '76 grad Dave Mazor is a member of the board for the Amherst Cinema Arts Center.


The Cinema will feature movies on three screens and will also regularly present children's, artists' and community activities. Not presently on the docket: Rock Concerts ... however, do any Classmates - aside from Tom Vinskey - recall a freak occurrence in 1974(?) when "The Raspberries" played a live show on the stage of the Cinema?

Surveying All Classmates

Take the Class of 1976 survey! Responses tallied and reported at the Reunion Dinner. If you've not already done so, click here to participate.

Read a harrowing account of a one man's trip back down memory lane at another H.S. reunion...

Honorary Alumni/ae

Where are these people, and others who went to school with you but don't appear in the yearbook:

Steve Bischoff ... Dan Cetto ... Annette Creekmore ... Tom Freisem ... Ron Fuller ... Alan George ... Greg Giannetti ... Richard Guinness ... Luke Hunsberger ... Toby Lieberman ... Amy Longsworth ... Mark Montgomery ... Anne Morrison ... Bob Mudge ... Adele Richards ... Matt Ripa ... Ellen Roy ... Adine Sagalyn ... Rob Siegel ... Aaron Trehub ... Fred Tutman ... Lizzie Weston ... Alex Will ... Nat Zartman ... Jimmy Zuptnik

Moved away from Amherst before graduating? transferred to private school? entered the services? graduated early? finished their HS credits at U.Mass, Hampshire College, or the alternative high school? hit it big in Hollywood? ran off with the circus?

ALL are welcome at this Reunion... Who else is missing? and who's the guy with the hair, above?

Memorial to Deceased Classmates

At 11:30 on Saturday morning, November 25, 2006, Amherst Regional High School class of 1976 alumni will gather on the grounds of the high school to plant a tree in memory of classmates who have passed away during the past 30 years. The Reunion Committee confirms that the following friends from the class of 1976 have died:

• Sue Blanchard
• Leeann Kielbowicz
• Libby Grant Kroon
• Tom Maisner
• Michele Walas

If you have information about these or any other classmates as relates to a memorial, please contact the Committee at porter11@aol.com right away. Thank you.

School Seeks to Rebuild Archive of the "Graphic"

Under the guidance of English teacher Chris Herland, students at ARHS continue the tradition of journalism at ARHS, covering campus news, sports nad opinion as well as national and world issues of interest to the student body. Mr. Herland and the Graphic team hope to put the newspaper online soon. In addition to making new issues avialable via the internet, the school is actively working to create an archive of past issues. Sadly, no copies of the Graphic, from our day, are currently in the school's possession.



*** If you have saved copies of any old Graphics from the 1972-1976 period, or know friends, brothers or sisters who may have copies of The Graphic that could be donated or scanned and copied for posterity, please contact HerlandC@arps.org

ARHS on "As Schools Match Wits"

Airing on Saturday evenings from 1961 to 2006, "As Schools Match Wits" was hosted by Phil Shepardson until 1991. While ARHS has a long history of superlative performance on ASMW, the trophy-winning 1975-1976 team was undoubtedly among the best ever to represent the school. Under the bold leadership of John Warthen, the mid-70's Amherst Regional ASMW team devastated its western MA peers, winning way more than its share of points and matches in this televised brainpower tournament. ...Anyone remember Peter "The Vindicator" Chametzky?

WWLP-22 in Springfield recently canceled "As Schools Match Wits," the longest running high-school quiz show in TV history. Sign the petition here.

"Streaking"? but I thought that stopped in 1976...

Not since our day: Naked flesh on ARHS grounds horrifies the community

But some applaud the affront to authority....