Join Your Classmates and Friends

Hafners--A Moline institution where the food is excellent and the fellowship even better--especially at lunchtime when members of the MHS class of 65 gather. Come exchange greetings with your classmates as you share memories, song lyrics, as well as news, tips, a joke or two, talk about local sports today, and more.

All are welcome – join in on Wednesday, September 2nd, at 11:30-ish and every first Wednesday of the month in the future. Mark your calendar today and ask Alexa, Siri, or Grok to remind you, too. 
 

On August 5th, 2026, these classmates and friends met for a bit of good cheer. Jerry Miller, Phyllis Miller, Joyce McMinn Strach, Curt Anderson, Bob Groene, Ron Van Daele, Sally Robbins Weckel, Christine DeCastecker, Sharron Shaffer, Betty Bloeser Morgan, Les Morgan, and Mitch Strach.

Photo courtesy of Sally Robbins Weckel

Photoshop AI courtesy of Tim Wilder

What, When, and Where

We have a date and place for lunch for our 80th birthday celebration. So mark your calendars now for September 25, 2027, at Cityview view.

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September brings A Fall of Many Colors

You can make it a celebration of the change of seasons with longtime friends by pulling up a chair for an enjoyable lunch with your MHS 65 classmates on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026, at Hafners about 11:30 am. Join for laughs, stories, and maybe some football talk. This month might also bring some review of Dolly Parton's music, too. Come alone or bring a friend. It's a good time to get to know each other a bit better.

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Re-dedication of 1965 Flood Fighting Plaque

Moline is honoring the hundreds of young people who tried to save the Quad Cities from the historic flood of 1965.

https://www.wvik.org/wvik-top-stories/2022-10-28/re-dedication-of-1965-flood-fighting-plaque 

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Good memories 

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Our Foreign Exchange Student -- Nazek Fahmy Habib

It's been far too long (50+ years) since we've heard much from our class exchange student, Nazek Fahmy, but Mary Parsons Caisley, her Moline host, recently met up with her in Alexandria, Egypt. It looks like a joyous reunion.  And we've been given the okay to post these pictures of them now.  Hopefully we can get a little more information later. 
 

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More photos. . . 

If you'd like to post photos, just let us know or just add to the albums already available under the section called Photos: Then and Now.  Two more albums were added recently for the 30th and 35th reunions.  Please feel free to include your photos in them.  You never know when they might put a smile on someone's face. 

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Mike Shipley’s novel is published!

“Well, I uploaded and hit publish! The bird has flown!

In the Shadow of Baru - La Niña is a 350-page action adventure novel that is the first in a trilogy of novels involving a single American attorney who retires and moves from the shadow of Mt. Rainer in Washington  to the shadow of Baru in the beautiful Chiriqui province of Panama, seeking his final refuge - his final adventure.  TC Cambell did not know how much of an adventure would ensue after texting with two young  Latina women at the same time, one Panameña, la niña, who lives locally and for whom he has an extreme attraction and the other a bisexual Mexicana working in the business side of a high-end Mexican escort service who stirs his desires with sexual fantasies. An adventure that pitted him against a Mexican drug cartel that decides to make it its mission to travel to Panamá to kill him and kidnap la niña.  

Available as an e-book on iBooks, Barnes and Noble and soon on Amazon.

Thanks for your support.”

— Mike Shipley

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