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]

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.

MESSAGE BOARD (add your own comments)

See the ARHS Alumni Association message board with news from class of '76 grad's by clicking here.

Click on "Comments," below right, to read messages from your classmates, and post your own comments RIGHT HERE:

Class of '76 seeks M.I.A. classmates

Many, many of your classmates are LOST.... At least, their whereabouts are unknown to ARHS and thus the October 3 mailing about Reunion weekend plans never reached them. We need to find these people! If you know any elusive Class of '76 grads who have changed names, recently moved, or fly below the radar, please help us to be sure that they don't miss the Reunion news:

Send an e-mail with their mailing, email or other contact information to PharmLee@comcast.net ...
Forward a copy of the Reunion letter, invitation and RSVP form to them ...
E-mail them a link to this blog posting (see envelope icon below) and let them decide how to reveal themselves !