You can mark your calendar for our 75th birthday party!

🎈Plan to join your “old” classmates and make quality new friends September 16-17, 2022, at CityView in Moline. More details and registration info will follow, so check back here when it’s available.

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Generosity Abounds!

Recall that the Moline Foundation challenged us to raise $10,000 by year end. We achieved that in early June, thanks to the generosity of:

Barry Curtis, in memory of his beloved Marcia
Sarah Rosborough Bancroft, in memory of her beloved Dow
Louis Ainsworth
Norm Anderson
Jon Chapman 
Marie Flatley 
Carl and Charlene Jensen
Larry and Jane Tschappat
Danny and Cheryl Webb

With the $5,000 match from the Moline Foundation, our balance now exceeds $100,000, AND we’ve awarded 8 Scholarships! Generosity Abounds, indeed!! My sincere thanks to all who have enabled our wonderful success!

Furthermore, our experience to-date indicates that our gifting is most successful when Challenges exist. If you share my belief that our scholarship is a worthy memory for us, please consider becoming a future Challenger. Contact Jon Chapman if you’d like to visit about this possibility.

I’m heartened and impressed with our collective generosity. Let’s keep rolling!!

Jon Chapman

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Introducing our TWO scholarship winners for 2021
 

To the Class of '65,

Hi my name is Taylor Bohannon, and I'm honored to be receiving this scholarship! I am attending Drake University to study Pre-Occupational Therapy, and be a member of the Drake Dance Team. I will obtain my doctorate degree in the 3+3 program at Drake and plan to specialize in pediatrics and open my own private practice. This scholarship will help me to reach my goals and aspirations in order to make my mark on society. 

I cannot thank you enough for helping me succeed in my future endeavors. 

Hello, my name is Camryn McBride.  During high school, I was on the Girls Bowling Team, participated in Symphonic and Chamber Orchestras, and in the Quad City Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.  This fall, I will be attending the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. I am planning to work towards a bachelors in Wildlife Ecology.

I am very grateful and honoured to be granted this scholarship. Thank you Class of ‘65 for investing in my future!

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Join your classmates once again to enjoy a MHS '65 get together!

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John Sedlock, Ron VanDale, Jerry Miller, Butch Trevor, John Katherman, Randy Ruggeberg and Bob Groene; photo by Patty Sedlock

HAFNERS — A Moline institution is re-opening with a small change requiring a mask to enter but not while seated at tables with fewer than ten. But the food is excellent and the fellowship even better--especially at lunchtime when members of the MHS class of '65 will gather. 

All are welcome--join in on Wednesday, August 4th at 11:30 ish this month and every first Wednesday of the month in the future.

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ATTENTION GRANDPARENTS, GREAT AUNTS & UNCLES

When the MHS65 Scholarship set sail some seven years ago, we challenged ourselves with several goals. Most have been met or even exceeded. Way to go 65 Maroons!

While not a goal, but a thought back then: wouldn’t it be cool if a descendant of a MHS65er were to apply and be selected. That has yet to happen, thus a purpose for this message.

If you have a grandchild, great grandchild, great niece/nephew, second/third cousin who may be graduating from MHS, please encourage him or her to apply for one or our two $ 1,000 scholarships.

Additionally, over the past few years a still unmet goal is to award a scholarship to a Maroon planning to attend a career or trade school. These are the occupations we interact with on a nearly daily basis such as the staffer in medical and dental offices, car repair, welding, hairdresser/barber, construction supervision, respiratory therapy, LPN, HVAC tech, CDL driver—to name a few. Our unscientific research shows these occupations usually require a year or so of school which can cost over $10,000.   We will continue this pursuit but thought you might be able to help us spread the word. 

Here is a good place to tell them start: Available Scholarships | MFWIP (molinefoundation.org)

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Meet John Melton, Our Scholarship Winner for 2020

I’m honored to be receiving the scholarship because it means you believe in me and are willing to help further my education. I will be attending Augustana College in the fall and plan to become a mechanical engineer.

During this pandemic it’s hard to not think about what other people could be doing differently, but you can’t control others actions. It’s just best to make sure you’re doing your part and find ways to occupy yourself. If you can somehow incorporate helping others into that even better. 

I am particularly grateful for the assistance that will make the transition to college easier.

--John Melton

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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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