Your opinion counts

Here is your chance to post comments. Click the link below and let us know your ideas and suggestions, or just leave word that you visited the site. If you have any photographs to upload then scan and send to the blog address. Make sure to send this link to others. We need updated addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please email them to nativity1968@gmail.com

You can be rest assured that each and every updated address will be forwarded to the Central Bank of Nigeria, which in turn will contact you to swindle you out of your life savings :)

Seriously, each bit of information will be kept for this site only and will not be sold or given to any business. There are quite a few names that we have no valid addresses for and it is important that the records be updated. Who will be the first to rise to the occasion? Who will be the first to submit a comment? Who will be the first to give an updated address for a classmate whose whereabouts are unknown?

Random Photograph #1: Twins

From time to time, random photographs will be uploaded. If you have any that you'd like placed on the site, then please e-mail a copy with sufficient information. The photograph can depict a classmate, living or deceased, or an interesting building or event that relates to the class.

1963 - Jean and Joan Rees with Blackie

While it was pre-Nativity, 1963 represents a critical year in our collective psyche. It is the year that the James Bond film Dr. No was released and most of us were getting started with eighth grade. These two young ladies attended St. John the Baptist in Pottsville before heading to Nativity. Blackie, unfortunately, did not attend either parochial or public school and remained an uneducated street dog for the rest of her life.

Essay Test #1

Twenty Points: Time allowed: 30 minutes: Please answer the following question, one page, double-spaced:

"Do home schooled children have class reunions?"

If so, is it usually held at the parents' house? Is it usually a formal dinner or home-style? Is there live music or does the attendee just listen to his or her Ipod alone? Does the attendee need a name tag to recognize who he or she is? Does the attendee win the prizes for the person travelling the shortest distance and the longest distance? What about the prizes for the first and last to send in reservations? Does that seem fair?

Updated Oldies

Juke box selections updated for the baby boomers. (courtesy of Capital High Class of '78 website)

1. Herman's Hermits --- Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker.
2. The Bee Gees --- How Can You Mend a Broken Hip?
3. Bobby Darin --- Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash.
4. Ringo Starr --- I Get By With a Little Help From Depends.
5. Roberta Flack --- The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face.
6. Johnny Nash --- I Can't See Clearly Now.
7. Paul Simon --- Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver.
8. The Commodores --- Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom.
9. Marvin Gaye --- Heard It Through the Grape Nuts.
10. Procol Harem --- A Whiter Shade of Hair.
11. Leo Sayer --- You Make Me Feel Like Napping.
12. The Temptations --- Papa's Got a Kidney Stone.
13. Abba --- Denture Queen.
14. Tony Orlando --- Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Falling
.15. Helen Reddy --- I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore.
16. Willie Nelson --- On the Commode Again.
17. Leslie Gore --- It 's My Procedure and I'll Cry If I Want To.

Father Daniel Lynch R.I.P.

The blog will also provide some news and updates of interest. Here is the obituary for Father Dan who taught religion to many of us:

Father Daniel Lynch, O. Carm.a Veterans' Hospital chaplain for 21 years, died Dec. 17, 2006. He was 77. He served as a chaplain at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Montrose from 1977 until his retirement in 1998. Before that, he served for five years as a chaplain at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. Early in his career, he was a high school teacher in Auburn and Rochester and in Pottsville, Pa. Father Lynch lived in retirement at St. Albert's Priory in Middletown, where he volunteered in the Carmelite Development Office and gave talks and retreats for Third Order Carmelites and the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm. He also served in leadership positions with the Province of St. Elias over the years, including prior of the Pottsville, Pa., Carmelite community and the Carmelite Community in Scarborough. Born in the Bronx, he entered St. Albert's Junior Seminary in Middletown as a teen. He received his habit in 1947, professed final vows in 1951 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1954. He earned a bachelor's degree at St. Bonaventure University in Olean and a master's at New York Theological Seminary. He is survived by a brother, Joseph Lynch. A Funeral Mass was offered Dec. 20 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Middletown, with burial in the Carmelite Cemetery there.

Blog? What's This Blog All About?

Hi! Welcome to the first blog created to encourage enthusiasm for a 40th class reunion. Hopefully the blog will be working fine and you can enter comments.

Back in the 1960s we did not have the luxury of internet, instant messenger, Iphones, email. No, back then we had to communicate either in person, by telephone or by written mail. So now that it is the 21st century, we will communicate by blog (for starters).

Your should now follow these steps:
1. Bookmark the blog address;
2. Forward the blog link to some former classmate and request that it be passed on.
3. Post a comment or send an email to the official Nativity B.V.M. Class of 1968 email address.

The first order of business is to decide:
1. Should there be a reunion?
2. If so, when and where?

In the past, it appeared that there was a split over picnics vs. formal dinners. Therefore, this is open for discussion.
Does a reunion necessarily have to be in Schuylkill County? No. If you have a location that may work, then let us know.
When should it be? Summer time, early fall, Columbus Day Weekend?


So again, welcome aboard!