Yes, There Will Be a 65th Reunion!

By popular demand, at least in our opinion, there will be a 65th Reunion in the fall of 2027.  The Reunion Committee got together for lunch in September just to reconnect.  The question was asked, however, should we have a 65th, and the unanimous response was to do so.  Obviously, a long way off, but gives us plenty of time to plan and get input from the class.  We will hold another lunch meeting in May 2025 and will keep you informed.  

The group is pictured below following lunch,  I am sure your first reaction is that must be the group before the 25th Reunion!  There will be a very appropriate and valued gift awarded to the first classmate who can identify all your octogenarian classmates in this photo!  Send your response to me, Bill King, at wnking@ptd.net.  Also, anyone who would like to join the group and attend the May meeting, let me know.

HHS Band Director John Trainer

Many of you had the good fortune of playing in the Haverford High School Band and benefiting greatly from the instruction and leadership of Mr. John Trainer.  It is with sadness that we inform you of his recent passing on October 29, 2024. There will be a memorial service for him at 1 PM on November 14, 2024 at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Chuch.  A very interesting obituary can be found on the Chadwick and McKinney Funeral Home website.  A remarkable man and outstanding teacher that nurtured and developed Haverford students for thirty-five years.

Thanks to Robert Schaumann, HHS63, for bringing this to our attention.

Stephen Juenger Fund

I have the honor and pleasure of serving on the Stephen M. Juenger Memorial Fund Committee. The Fund was established over 20 years ago in recognition of Mr. Juenger's service, dedication and devotion to the students of Haverford High School for 55 years!. Over these 20 years the Fund has awarded over $240,000 in scholarships to many remarkable Haverford High School graduating seniors.

You can help and give back to the High School that helped to make you the success you are today by contributing to:

The Philadelphia Foundation

Attn:  Maggi Kirk

PO Box 826728

Philadelphia, PA 19182-6728

(Very important: on the check memo line write: "For Non-Endowed Juenger Fund)

Thank you on behalf of the committee and the students of Haverford High School!  A newsletter is published each year containing a list of all contributors.

Photo above of Committee Members in front of display case recognizing Coach Juenger and the 1958 State Championship team.  To get your bearings, this is located in the lobby outside the auditorium and the Stephen Juenger Gymnasium.. Also located in the lobby is the HHS Hall of Fame.  It is worth a trip to the High School just to see the Hall of Fame!  L to R in photo::  Bernie Schaffer '62, Al Kaemmerlen '58 and Captain of 1958 State Championship Team, Tom Juenger '62, Joann Patterson, retired HHS Athletic Director and a founding member of the Fund, Luke Dougherty, current Head Football Coach, Greg Ducina,current Athletic Director, and yours truly,Bill King '62.

HHS Grad on Best Seller List

James McCloskey, HHS 60, is the co-author with John Grisham of a book entitled Framed, that is currently #4 on the New York Times best seller list.  It has been as high as #1, but has dropped a couple of spots this week.  Jim is the brother of Richard McCloskey, HHS 61.

From the book jacket:  "Jim Mcloskey founded Centurion Ministries, the first organization in the world devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. Since its establishment forty years ago, Centurion has freed seventy individuals, all of whom spent decades in prison serving life or death sentences for the crimes of others."  A previous fiction book by John Grisham entitled The Guardians was about such a case of an individual wrongly accused and convicted for murder.  Grisham dedicated that book to Jim McCloskey and referred to him as "The Exonerator" due to his great work over many years in obtaining justice for wrongly convicted individuals.  As a result, Grisham and McCloskey collaborated on this non-fiction work.  It is a facinating book to read.

I had the good fortune of meeting Jim a few years back after golfing in Princeton with Al Kaemerlen, Bill Martindale, and Bernie Schaffer.  They all knew Jim well and he invited us over to his house in Princeton.  It was a fascinating evening, meeting Jim and tagging along with these three HHS basketball greats!  We all serve on the Juenger Scholarship Fund Committee.