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Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Chris here.    So I haven't heard from anyone all of 2022 on the message forum. Has everyone just lost interest?  Do you want the website to continue???

Costs:

Ad free costs us $165 yearly.      If we go to a website that has ads that cost is gone.

To keep the domain name the cost is $49 yearly.   If we want to continue we have to at least keep that.   

Not sure how much longer I'm going to want to service the website. I'm all out of ideas and perhaps if we want to continue someone fresh will have more enthusiasm.

The domain is good until December.......I'll wait till then for your decision.     Chris

Joleen George (Smith)

Hi Chris:

I feel if you don't get any feedback from classmates, then that's the answer -- let it go, especially since it is a thankless administrative task and if nobody is using the site, shut it down. I sure appreciate your dedicated effort in the task of keeping the website up and running and probably funding it as well.  

I hope you and your family are well and loving the fall and winter seasons now upon you in AZ. Thank you for all your work on behalf of the Class of '71!! 

P.S. I will contact you around mid May, end of June -- National Reined Cowhorse Western Derby in Scottsdale at West World. I'll be there with my new pony. Hopefully we can connect. It would be great to see you. 

Joleen George Smith

Marcie Petersen

Chris

I don't see where we have had much action on the site, so why waste money and since you have all of our e-mails and if you hear of anything you can let us know.

I hope that everyone is well and if retired enjoying that.

Marcie

Pat Grady

I responded earlier today to an old email from Chris, not realizing there was the opportunity to respond to all in this message thread.....

I would really like to get together with everyone again, whenever we canget organized. The oppportunity we had for a 51st has expired and maybe we should concentrate on a 55th? I would be happy to help organize our next get together but really need someone else to take the lead. 

I think we should keep the domain name (and the website) if possible. I will donate $100 towards that cause if that is what the majority wants to do.

At this time I have re-organized my rock & roll band and we have performed at a couple of office parties recently. I don't know what the future 4 years from now will look like, but if we put together a reunion in the next year or so, our rock band would be available to perform for a set or two (or not....).

Miss you all and hope to see any or all of you soon!

Pat 

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Hey Joleen,

     Dang, I would have loved to see you and your new pony (which looks like an Arab to me :-) Great picture by the way) BUT, we recently bought a small ranch in Wyoming and will be up there as soon as the snow stops. Arizona was toooooooo hot for us this last summer!      Hope all is well with you both as well...............Chris

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Thanks to Marcie, Joleen & Pat for responding.   Come on the rest of you old farts....I see some of you have been on the site, let's hear from you.

Joleen George (Smith)

Please advise the link to donate to the website. Right on Pat -- still playing music and entertaining folks. That would be awesome if you played for us at a reunion.  I hope someone will step up to take over for Chris in administering the site and assist Pat.  I am sorry but I am not able to volunteer at this time due to family responsibilities. My father, Paul George, recently passed away on October 9 at the age of 91. My mother, Verleen George, age 86, passed away in May 2019. They are together now at the Novelty Cemetery resting peacefully with many old friends and neighbors -- still home.

Have a great fall and winter everyone. 

Joleen (George) Smith

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Ok everyone.....Joleen wanted a way to donate to the website.  I've set up 2 ways:  On the left vertical bar you'll see "Website Donation"....just click on there to donate any amount you'd like. If you are more photo oriented there is also a box on the right vertical bar that you can click on. Both go to the same link.

I've got it set up to accept credit cards payment only. There is some way to add paypal but I haven't figured it out yet, sorry.    I can't accept checks since we've moved, there is no Banner Bank near me. It has our tolt checking account. Pat has the checkbook....I don't know if there is a Banner Bank near him or if he's willing to accept checks.......we can wait for his response.

The credit card payment does cost us 5.9%   which on $20 is $1.18.

I can also set up a donation page for a 55th class reunion, but let's see what people want to do first.

Cheers,  Chris

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Thank you Joleen and Pat for each donating $100 to keep the website alive.  So the question now is, do we spend nearly all of it to have the website without ads? Or do we go back to ads and reduce our yearly fee significantly?

Domain Name:  $20 yearly

Website:  w/ads    free

                w/o ads   $165 yearly

Joleen George (Smith)

Fred Zimmerman

Joleen:

I'm saddened to hear of the loss of your father.  He and your mother meant so much to me as a child.  They were like a second set of parents.  They were loved and will be missed!

Fred A/ Zimmerman

Joleen George (Smith)

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Hey Everyone......we are good for another year on the website and a couple of years on the domain. I've also added a couple of security measures.  They should be free but alas everything costs more these days.   Thanks to Joleen, Pat & Lexie for donating this last year. 

Let's shoot for 2026 at our 55 reunion.    Chris

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Hey Everyone,    I just got this note from John Groshell  :-) 

John Groshell (Teacher)

Good morning to all of you who I set back educationally for at least 10 years. Those reading this must have survived my teachings. If any of you are interested I actually wrote my autobiography. Of course my two years at Tolt are in it -- they actually got a lot of the ink and I had NOTHING bad to say about those years--only wish there could have been more of them-- the Satterlee firing did me in. My book is available on the Amazon and Barnes and Noble web sites and is also available in e-book and kindle. The title is "Confessions of a Wee Poison P.G.A. Golf Pro" --  just go to either site and type in John Groshell and the book should appear. On the cover is a picture of me from my Tolt years. 

If you saw this somewhere else it is because I already tried to message-- and being totally inept with computers I don't know if that worked or not. I wish you all a wonderful Christmas season and wish you all well!!

I will always cherish my years at Tolt!!

John (Cupcake)

Joleen George (Smith)

John Groshell (Teacher)

I just got back from walking my four legged daughter (Dani) - and see that my first message went to Chris - thanks Chris for passing it on (along with book cover) --  so you all got to experience my ignorance with computers. It is said that the first step in recovery is to recognize and admit your problem -- in my case I did that years ago but still wander down the path of ignorance and ineptitude - oh well -- Cupcake

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Hi to all.   I'm just starting off the conversation here. Is there any interest in a reunion this summer/fall?

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Hi Again.  I just went through all of your photos on your profiles.  That was so fun!  Loved seeing things you've shared, kids/grandkids/places.   Please update them with new events etc.  it was time for me to do them as well.  Getting back into horses (big surprise there) here in Wyoming.  Been talking to Joleen who's really into it.  It's been fun. What are the rest of you up to?

Susan DeBoer (Griffith)

Have always enjoyed our get togethers, big and small. My summer calendar is already getting full. Spending a lot of time with elderly parents and cyclng. Bought an e-bike last summer so I can keep up with Bob. I'd be in favor of a get together but maybe something more casual and wait until our 55 or 2026 for the next big reunion. Maybe consider putting something on the calendar for a get together every year or two, like lunch or dinner at a restaurant, knowing that not everyone will make it but just a chance to visit and reconnect. Was just talking with a friend last night who gets together with highschool friends in Tennessee every year. 

Marcie Petersen

For this year I have already made plan.  I need to see my Mom as much as possible she is in an assisted living place and she will be 98 in May.  I will also be doing a cousin get together in Eastern Washington.  I have yet to retire and I need to arrange my vacation schedule with my other co-workers.  When I told my fellow co-worker's about a class reunion, they were like what you guys do that.  I think doing a reunion down the road is a good idea. Hope everyone has a good rest of the year.  

Joleen George (Smith)

Joleen George (Smith)

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Hey Joleen and all.   It probably is just because I updated the Home Page with either the correct season or song of the week.   Both are under "announcements" internally because I couldn't figure out how to do it another way 🤪.    The website updates only go to the administrators...Pat, Les and myself.  

Chris Dalla Pozza (Bangsund)

Thinking about Don Manning today. I remember at our 40th he talked about all the medical issues he had because of Agent Orange in Vietnam.  I remember Don as a geat guy...kinda quiet but caring. I'm so sad he passed prematurely and I miss him.   So many of our classmates I miss....Valerie: so quiet and so sweet; Sandy: so funny, I got to know her more after high school and enjoyed her so much; Jeff: such a talented sweet guy..... what would my life be like now if he had lived. Feeling a little nostalgic tonight.

Hope the rest of you are well. Incredible to think we are in our 70's now.