We are sorry to report that Diane Schellenberg died Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017.
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A 1963 alum has issued a challenge match for our class gift to the Latta Fund. S/he will match up to $5,000 in donations from our class through the end of 2017. $10,000 would put us at our ambitious 50th Reunion goal.
Our WGHS Class of 1963 has now raised more than $53,000 towards our goal of $63,000! Thanks to everyone who has contributed and those who have helped raise the funds. Please continue to give in honor or memory of a classmate or loved one or special occasion.
Hugh’s memorial party/wake was a great send-off for an unusual guy. About 60-70 friends from various times of his life--a former British girlfriend from CA, the current WGHS football coach, his brother, 20 from our class--came and told stories about him. Many of his WG buddies wore orange and black. Hugh would have loved it. Hugh’s estate paid for drinks & appetizers at C. J. Muggs, Hugh’s “refuge from everyday life” where “everybody knew his name.” His photo is now on the wall there with a little plaque that says “Gone Fishin’.”
What We Learned He loved sports and excelled at many: baseball, basketball, fishing, football, skiing. He scouted all over the state for various basketball teams and even “advised” recent WG teams. His ideal woman, for whom he was always searching, was young, beautiful & tall so his children would all be basketball players. He dated many women but never committed. His philosophy with the ladies, he said, was the same as fishing: “catch…and release.” (Although we did learn that he married once in CA and brought his wife to our 10th WG reunion. Anyone remember, was she tall?) He was totally politically incorrect and likely to say or do whatever came into his head. He dropped in at inappropriate times (ask Nancy Fares O’Donnell). Invited to visit a couple, he showed up with his clothes in paper bags and stayed for four weeks. In a national park, he was warned not to mess with the buffalo (per Paul Cornelius). He went up to one and made odd hand motions a la Crocodile Dundee, then walked away. Buffalo are not very bright and slow to react. Shortly afterward, when a ranger approached to feed this one, the buffalo chased the ranger all over in retaliation for Hugh’s shenanigans. He was goofy and had a bizarre sense of humor. When he drove past a good-looking woman walking her dog, he would yell, “Hey, dog, nice human.” His brother Roger said he repeated two constant lines learned from their father: “A two-year-old could do better than that” and “Leave things better than you found them so people will know you were there.” He worked hard, owned lots of properties and appeared to be financially successful. But his most-cherished vehicles were a ’53 Chevy, the “green booger,” and a truck, “old green.” His houses had no furniture. Upset with the path the U.S. government was taking by 2014, he took off for Mexico, that most stable (?) and economically successful (?) country. True to form, he took his mom’s vacuum cleaner and her 70’s console TV and his own unique philosophy of life. Hugh told no one he was sick. He hated doctors, lawyers, bankers, etc. so avoided them at all costs. The day after he died, his property manager in StL got a call from one of his new friends in Mexico, reporting Hugh’s death. At first, she thought it was a hoax! We are sorry to report that Hugh Taylor died January 24, 2017 in Mexico. Here is his obituary.
Happy New Year! The Class Gift Committee is happy to announce that we have reached nearly 71% of our target goal of $63,000 for the Latta Fund. Thanks for your generous contributions of $44,620.
Check out this link, http://www.theriverside-inn.com/categories/blog, to read about Sweeter Song Farm, a local certified organic fruit and vegetable farm owned and operated by Judy Reinhart and Jim Schwantes. The farm is located on eighty acres, five miles north of Cedar in Leelanau County.
Margaret McCawley Jost died February 18, 2016. See Deceased page for link to her obituary.
Our class gift project, the Latta Fund, has issued a newsletter profiling the recipients of scholarships provided by your generous donations. Thanks to all who have participated from the Class of '63.
Best wishes to Lenore Olsen who is back in WG, in her "new old" home. Check out the photo under 2014 & beyond. We are sorry to report the death of Steve Krummrich on Monday, Nov. 2nd.
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