The brick high school building on the hill above Salmon Brook Street opened in 1948 as Granby’s first consolidated grade school. The second and third graders who moved from the town’s two-room neighborhood schools were also the first two classes to graduate from Granby Memorial High School in 1958 and 1959. The class of 1960 began its education as the first first-graders in the new school and would be part of its transition to a middle-high school and then to the high school campus. The class of 1961 completed the group that over 50 years later celebrated those years at the First Four Reunion on Columbus Day weekend. With class sizes of about 65, including tuition students from Hartland and East Granby, they were—and still are—a close-knit group. This was the group’s fifth combined reunion. It included a get-together at @thebarn on Friday evening, a banquet at the Skyline Restaurant in Windsor Locks on Saturday evening and brunch at the Skyline on Sunday. Teachers and mentors, Ken King, Marjorie Davis and Perry DeAngelis, attended the banquet and shared their memories of those early years. Photos by Mary and Michael Keating and Chris Levandowski.
Len Murray
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Two members of the class of 1959, Ray Evonsion, Richard Hart, and teacher Perry DeAngeles.
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Class of 1959: Carolyn Parrick Bell, Kathlyn Parrick who is still partying at the age of 101, and Norma Adams Gallant at the Sunday brunch at the Skyline Restaurant.
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Class of 1961: Karen Kellogg, Cordelia Burgess Lewis, Jackie Ludorf and, standing Carol Bradley Huffer at the Sunday brunch at the Skyline Restaurant.
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The First Four organizing committee, from l.: Roberta Dunne Bordonaro, Shirley Cooper, Marge Goslee, Mary Ogle Keating, Ray Evonsion, Judy Gilbert Burhans, Peter Burhans and Theresa Bergeron Salls at the Saturday evening banquet.
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Shirley Cooper, ’59 and Barbara MacDonald, ’61.
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Class of 1960: Louise and Richard Lang, Bonnie Webber Gauthier and Earl Soules at the Saturday evening banquet.
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Class of 1960: Chris Deming Levandowski, Joanne Toby Donn, Joyce Stoltz Steimer, Marg Goslee, Barbara MacDonald and Ray Miller at the Saturday evening banquet.
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