December 15, 2009

Family Event Ideas

Now that we have our Saturday evening event location secured, it's time to figure out where we want to have our family event. We would likely have this on Saturday afternoon, although we could also do it on Sunday afternoon if that would work better for everyone. Please vote in the poll below and let us know what your preference would be. Be aware that the water park is scheduled to open on May 29, which means it will be brand new at the time of our reunion and likely pretty busy!

We haven't checked with these places to see if they are actually available yet, because we want to narrow it down to just a few before doing so. Feel free to offer other suggestions as well or to leave us comments! Thanks for your participation!

December 12, 2009

Searching for Matt Shannon

In looking back at the Where Are They Now posts on our blog, you'll notice that we've been predominantly featuring the female members of our class, so this time we've specifically picked out a guy. We don't have much information on Matt, unfortunately. Google searches have turned up tons of Matt and Matthew Shannons all over the place, but none of them appear to be the Matt from our class. The website USSearch.com indicates a least 7 addresses (either current or past) for Matt in Salina, but it won't show any of them. Unfortunately, 411.com doesn't have an address listed for him at all, so maybe he's unlisted or doesn't reside in Salina anymore. Does anyone have any information at all on Matt? Where he works or lives? Email us at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com!

December 8, 2009

Our Main Event

After researching over 25 different potential venues for our main reunion event on June 12, we've finally decided on Martinelli's Little Italy in downtown Salina. Right now we're estimating about 120 classmates and their guests will be attending, and unfortunately, many of the places we were interested in (including the Watson room at the Stiefel and the Scheme) only hold about 100 people. Martinelli's was a great option because they have space for 150, and we won't have to worry about table rental or insurance, which were issues at other locations. They also have a great catering menu with lots of variety!

We're planning a relaxed evening with lots of hors d'oeuvres, music, drinks and socializing! Because Martinelli's is handling the whole event for us and is very reasonably priced, we should be able to keep our costs down to around $25 per person. We'll post all the details here and on the Event Details page as we get everything finalized. We hope to make tickets available for purchase online sometime after the holidays!

If anyone has a great location idea for our more informal event on Friday night, let us know in the comments or at salinacentral1990(at)gmail.com!

November 29, 2009

Searching for Cello Perez

Cello is another person on our list who hasn't been contacted for our upcoming reunion. We know that Cello lived in California at some point, but a search on 411.com turned up 101 Consuelo Perezes in California alone! Does anyone know if Cello is still in CA or what area she's in? Does her family still live in Salina? Any information about Cello would be appreciated!

November 23, 2009

Searching for Tammy Boos--FOUND!!

**FOUND--We finally have an email address for Tammy!**

We've finished featuring those people who attended our last reunion who are now lost, and we've subsequently had a difficult time trying to decide who to feature next. The first person on our list that we don't have a potential address or phone number for is Tammy Boos. A search on 411.com didn't turn up an address, but a cross search on USSearch.com turned up an alias of Tammy Tompkins, so this might be her married name. It also indicated she might have lived in Wichita. There is a Tammy Tompkins in Wichita listed in 411.com, but we have no way of knowing if she's our classmate. Does anyone know anything about Tammy Boos or her current whereabouts? Email us at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com if you have any information!

November 21, 2009

In Memory

We guessed that eventually in our search for classmates we'd come across someone who had passed away entirely too young. Sadly, that news came today, when we found out that Sherri Callahan (now Collier) died a few days ago. Please keep her family in your prayers.

If we discover other classmates who have passed, we'll post them here on our memorial list.

In Memoriam
Sherri Callahan Collier

October 20, 2009

Searching for Marci Modica--FOUND!!

**We reached Marci when she recently joined Facebook!**

Marci was also at our reunion back in 2000, but this time we haven't been able to find an email address for her. We think she was living in Salina at the time of our 10th, and some classmates think maybe she was working as a stylist. A search on USsearch.com shows Marci Hogan as an alias for Marci Modica, so this might be her married name. There is a Marci Hogan listed at 411.com, but we have no idea if this is our classmate. Can anyone confirm Marci's current last name or if she's still in Salina? If you have any information about Marci, please email us at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com!

October 18, 2009

Tentative RSVPs

We're currently trying to select a venue for our main reunion event on June 12, but in order to do so, we really need to figure out approximately how many people will be there. The class of 1988 had about 75 classmates plus their guests at their 20th, but the class of 1989 only had about 35, so it's kind of hard to estimate based on those numbers! We're not asking for firm commitments at this point, but it would be super helpful to know who is tentatively planning on being there next summer so we know how big of a venue we actually need. I set up a new reunion event on Facebook to make it easy for those of us actually on Facebook to RSVP, and we already have over 40 people who have responded with a tentative yes or maybe. If you aren't on Facebook, please send us an email or leave a comment below to let us know that you're hoping to attend. If you are on Facebook, please RSVP for our event, even if you're just expressing your regrets. We want to make sure we select a venue that's big enough for everyone!

October 13, 2009

Searching for Adrianne Griffin--FOUND!!

**We reached Adrianne after finding her on Facebook!**

Adrianne is another person who came to our 10 year reunion who hasn't been reached this time around. I believe she was living in Salina at that time, but we really don't have any other good information about her. I found a listing for her on Reunion.com (which is now apparently mylife.com) and emailed her through that website, but I haven't received a response. A search on 411.com doesn't indicate that there are any Adrianne Griffins still in Salina, but ussearch.com shows that Adrianne M. Griffin from Salina now lives in Ocala, FL. Does anyone have any other information that would be helpful in trying to contact Adrianne?

September 29, 2009

Committee Volunteers Needed

Classmates:

It recently came to our attention that we could use a few more people on the reunion planning committee. Several people who had hoped to be involved have now discovered that they won't be able to participate as much as originally planned. If you have any interest in party planning or any great ideas for our upcoming event, we could really use your help! The more people we have on the committee, the less work everyone will have to do! It would be especially helpful if at least one person on the committee actually lived in Salina, so that we have someone who is familiar with the local restaurants, hotels and other locations.

If you are at all interested in helping, please send us an email at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com!

September 22, 2009

Searching for Don Gebhardt--FOUND!!

**UPDATE--Thanks to Lesli, who provided us with a mailing address for Don. When he recently joined Facebook, we got his email address too!**

It seems like Don's email should be an easy one to come by because we actually know quite a bit about him. He works for the post office in Salina, and he even has a MySpace page that was pretty easy to find through a Google search. However, since he only accepts messages from his MySpace friends, and since he only accepts friend requests from people who already have his email address, we don't have any way to send him the info about the reunion! Surely someone out there has an email address for Don? If anyone in Salina runs into him can you have him email us at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com???

September 21, 2009

Searching for Billi Jo Beck--FOUND!!

***Thank you to Jennifer Crum Cleveland, who provided us with an email address for Billi Jo!***

The next attendee of our 10th that we haven't located yet for our 20th is Billi Jo Beck. Billi Jo is definitely in the pictures of our last reunion, but I don't recall having talked to her to find out what she's doing. A Google search for her came up with several hits on a Billi Jo Beck in Minnesota, but since there were no good pictures, I couldn't tell if it was the Billi Jo from our class. Does anyone know where Billi Jo is or what her name might be now? Email us at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com! Thanks, everyone!

September 20, 2009

Searching for Andrea Balthazor--FOUND!! :)

**UPDATE--thanks to Georgie and Mindy who both provided good info on Andrea!**

For the next installments in our "Where Are They Now?" series, we'll focus on people who attended our 10th reunion. My hope is that we'll be able to find them fairly easily because they weren't lost 9 years ago, and because they hopefully have an interest in our upcoming reunion as well!

Our first post in this installment will focus on Andrea Balthazor, who I don't think is pictured in the shots of our 10th reunion. I definitely remember talking to her at our picnic at Central that afternoon though! When I Googled Andrea's name, I did get one promising hit that might be her from an alumni website of a college in Oklahoma, but when I emailed the provided address I didn't get a reply.

Does anyone have any contact information for Andrea or know anything about her current whereabouts? If so, please email us at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com!!

September 14, 2009

Half the Class

Despite the long delay in between postings, we've been busy scouring the Internet for our classmates, and we've managed to track down another 15 people since our update in June. This means we've contacted a total of half of our classmates about next year's reunion, which is great, but we still have lots of people to locate! We've updated the list of people who are on one of the social networking sites who we haven't reached yet, and we've taken lots of people off our lost list, so please take a look at these lists and see if there's anyone on there with whom you're in contact. We keep finding out that many people we've contacted are still in touch with these people and just haven't let us know! Please email us at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com if you know anything about any of our long lost friends!

August 25, 2009

We Know You're Out There (Updated!!)

The first installment of the "Where are they now?" series is dedicated to those people who I've tried to contact without receiving any response. Specifically, these people are on one or more social networking sites, and I've sent them a message through that medium without getting any reply. These people include:

Aaron Anderson (Facebook)
Tammy Boos (Facebook)
Tom Highsmith (Facebook)
Tiffany Thomann (Facebook)

Would anyone else be interested in trying to contact these people since I haven't been successful? Is there anyone else out there on Facebook or MySpace that I've missed? If you can track down an email address for anyone above (or anyone else on the "lost" list), please send it to me at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com! Thanks everyone!

June 11, 2009

Milestones: One Year, One Hundred People

As of today, we've reached a couple of really big reunion related milestones, so I thought it was the perfect time for a new post! First, as you can see from looking at the calendar, we are now exactly one year away from our 20th high school reunion. Let the countdown begin!

Our second milestone pertains to our classmate search. This week we found the contact information for the 100th member of the class of 1990! While it's true that Facebook has made this task remarkably easy, it's still an exciting accomplishment. This means we're closing in on the half-way mark, with almost 42% of our classmates located!

Thanks for checking in, everyone! Check back soon for our new "Where Are They Now?" series! :)

March 22, 2009

Our 10th Reunion


For those of you who didn't get to come to our last reunion, here are a few pictures from the evening event almost 9 years ago. It's hard to believe it's been that long! Nine years ago I didn't have a digital camera, so I have to apologize for the poor quality pictures! If anyone has additional pictures you want to share from the event, please feel free to send them to me.

As you can see, our 10th reunion wasn't especially well attended. I think the group shots were taken fairly late in the evening when several people had already gone home, but we were clearly missing a lot of our classmates! Hopefully next year our attendance will be much better!

February 19, 2009

Salina Central Reunion

Today as I was doing some online searching for some of our classmates, it dawned on me that one of the reasons we created this blog was to make it easy for our classmates to search for info about the reunion. Then I realized that the words "Salina Central Class of 1990" weren't actually anywhere in the text of the website, which sort of defeats the purpose! So the function of this post will hopefully just be to help our classmates find the page when they search for any of the following phrases:

Salina Central class of 1990
Salina Central class of '90
Salina Central reunion

Hopefully this will help the blog get picked up by search engines! If there are any other words you think people might be searching for, leave a comment and we can add them to the list!

February 9, 2009

Thirty-one Percent and Counting

If you haven't checked out our lost and found lists lately, I thought I'd pass along an update. We have now located email addresses for 71 of our classmates and have another 3 people we can reach via snail mail if necessary. That means we've found over 31% of our classmates in just a few months! Thanks everyone!

January 25, 2009

Thanks!!

Thanks to all of you have forwarded me additional information on our "lost" classmates this week--especially to Danielle N., Jo and Ja-Nita, who sent along several email addresses and other leads. Thanks to your efforts we contacted about 7 additional classmates in the last week. We now have 64 working email addresses and a few other mailing addresses and phone numbers. We've contacted almost 28% of our classmates so far. Keep that great information coming! :)

January 20, 2009

People We've Found

Here is the list of people for whom we currently have a working email address. Everyone on this list will soon receive a link to this blog so they can subscribe or check back for updates about the reunion.

Laura Adkins
Theodore Ahrenholtz
Regina Allen
Kimberly Almquist Luce
Aaron Anderson
Amy Ankrum
Shanon Arnold
David Baes (Bradley)
Gilbert Baeza
Lori Baier-Richardson
Deena Baker
Tracy Ball
Andrea Balthazor Stringer
Lisa Barnes Brown
Tim Barr
Elizabeth Bartlett
Brenda Beasley
Billi Jo Beck Riese
Robert Bennett
Kimber Berger
Gina Beverly Addison
Kimberly Bolby
Tammy Boos
Jennifer Brown
Kristin Brungardt Suttle
Casey Burket
Bo Butters
Melonie Cassetty Stuart
Vickie Choitz
Richard Cole
Chad Conner
Laurie Constable Orosco
Claudio Corradetti
Charla Counts Tatom
Christina Covert Post
Dawn Cross
Mauri Cruce Keck
Jennifer Crum Cleveland
Leslie Davis Seabrooks
Chris Day
Danielle Denton
Michelle DeWitt Day
Jonathan Doddridge
Carol D'Souza Karer
JoEllen Dungan Nordström
Jacub Eikleberry
Jason Eikleberry
Jennifer Ellison
Steven Elstrom
Mika Ehrnrooth
Kyle Farr
Jason Fellers
Dart Forst
Keri Fouard Bell
Lesli Garrison Novony
Don Gebhardt
Amie Gibson Goins
Rex Gibson
Mark Giles
Chad Girard
Laura Glazier
Toni Graf Thompson
Georgeann Greene Goodlett
Mitch Gregoire
Adrianne Griffin
Kimberly Grover Garrett
Crystal Haggard
Jason Haney
Denise Harp Bader
Audrea Harvey
Flynn Harvey
Tim Hebert
Tom Highsmith
Julie Hill Davis
Monica Holtz Daniel
Rebecca Horst McKnight
Jaymon Hotz
Alex Johnson
Bryan Klostermeyer
Denet Klug Smith
Bari Knox Deardorff
Jon Koop
Kimberly Lacy Hill
Reba Lancaster Allison
Matt Langley
Erin Lilly Rollins
Jennifer Logan Armstrong
Joe Lopez
Troy Lubbers
Chad Luce
Pam Mack
David McCullick
Dante McGrew
Daniel Mersch
Holly Miller
Shawn Miller
James Milleson
Evette Mitchell Beckman
Michelle Mobley Davis
Marci Modica Hogan
Michael Montgomery
Jeff Montre
Mindy Morrison Gueldner
Billy Morrow
Edward Nail
Cindy Neuschafer Jones
Danielle Norwood
Christopher Olson
Ben O'Shea
Rachelle Parker
Rachel Pearson
Chris Pence Taddiken
Bryan Perry
Crystal Porter
Valerie Putman Paulson
Crystal Raw Fore
Traci Reinsch McDonald
Dustin Rhodes
Everett Richardson
Karen Roark Swanson
Stephanie Robb Johnson
Kent Roberts
Frances Rodriguez
Darin Rohrer
Martin Ropp
Stephen Rufus
Karl Schmidt
Jeff Schmitt
Ja-Nita Shull Bonilla
Jamey Simms
Lenny Skieff
Alice Small Shakespear
Layla Simmons Hassler
Jeff Smith
Erick Speilman
Erich Starrett
Katy Stevenson England
Jamie Stinger
Shanele Stires
Kena Tague Wolf
Tiffany Thomann (West)
Kari Tinkler Hachiya
Jason Torrey
Michael Torrey
Katrina Truitt
Kevin Unruh
Darci Vader Kinnett
Shane Valcoure
Cary Wagner
Kevin Wallace
Ernie Whitaker
John Williams
Cathy Winslow Lott
Mari Woody Elmer
Susan Worley Riggs

Please let me know if you see any mistakes!

*Indicates we have a mailing address but not an email address.

People We've Lost

Okay, so maybe these people aren't completely lost, but as of right now we don't have their email address added to our master list. If you have any information about any of the following people, such as their married name, their current city, their place of employment, their husband/wife's name, or their email address, please email me and let me know.

Starla Acheson
Scott Allen
Willie Baeza
Jeannie Ballou
Michelle Brady
Kristina Brannen
Lonnie Brown
Jeffrey Burnham
Michael Carlin
Ron Constable
Tony Conway
Richard Courter
Crystal Cox
William Cox
Todd DeWitt
Jamey Diehl
Perry Disney
Terry Disney
Aran Douglass
Gary Elliot
Brandi Ensign
Jason Fauci
Greg Fears
Tammy Fillerman
Timothy Fisher
Ryan Geist
George Goracke
Debbie Graybeal
Harlan Gulzow
Tracy Hawk
Marc Henry
Candy Hildebrandt
Tuija Ihalainen
Timothy Kelley
Dae Kim
Tracy LaOrange
Rick Larson
Alex Leidig
Daniel Lobdell
Timothy Mann
Preston McNeal
Emily Mesa
Ed Miles
Anissa Miller
Tryrone Morgan
Bang Nguyen
Kevin North
Cello Perez
Chad Perry
John Poister
Eric Pope
Paul Powell
Charles Rice
Anthony Riedel
Clay Riley
Joshua Rogers
Tanya Sanchez
Jeremy Schneider
Lori Searle
Matt Shannon
Andre Smith
Casey Sparks
Dorian Stanton
Danny Sutton
Jon Tuttle
John Vargas
Scott Velasquez
Jennie Wagner
Richard Wakefield
Peter Wallingford
Forest Wentworth
Anne White
Troy Wiegand
Gabe Wilson
Sherry Wilson

If there's anyone else from our class who you think is missing from this list, please let me know. I appreciate any help you all can provide!

January 11, 2009

Get Connected!

If you'd like for your contact information to be added to the master list for our class, please send your name and email address to the reunion committee at salinacentral1990 (at) gmail.com. We may collect snail mail addresses at a later date...or maybe we'll just send all the reunion information via email!

We'd also love to have you join our alumni group on Facebook--it's a great way to reconnect with classmates!

January 10, 2009

Event Details

June 11-13, 2010
The weekend of the Smoky Hill River Festival

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Friday:

Social Evening
The Paramount Bar (on the patio if the weather is good!)
219 N Santa Fe Avenue
8:00 p.m.

Saturday:

Tour of Salina Central
Enter the front doors on Front Street
10:00 a.m.

Family Gathering at the River Festival
Northwest of the Botanical Gardens Fountain
12:00-5:00 p.m.
(Check here for rain location)

Class Reunion
Martinelli's Little Italy
158 S. Santa Fe
Hors D'oeuvres, Drinks, and Dancing
7:00-11:00 p.m.
Payment required in advance!!

Sunday:

No events scheduled