"..But I had the antidote right here !!!" "Due to budget restraints CSI Redford will be discontinued" "Hey, look at what I found leaking out of that other students head" "Look at this. We've invented ..... AIR !" "When we get to high school, I hear that Keisling will actually let us put stuff IN the test tubes." "What are these things and what do you do with them?" "So THIS is where babies come from!" Thurston Class of 1965 45 Year Reunion 1965 NEWS January 4 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union Address. January 6 - Detroit Tiger, Bill Freehan, 23 year old catcher, signs contract for an estimated $20,000 salary. January 19 - The unmanned Gemini II is launched on a suborbital test of various spacecraft systems. January 20 - Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President. January 30 - State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place with the largest assembly of statesmen in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. February 1 - Peter Jennings becomes anchor of ABC nightly news at age 26. February 6 - Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" becomes #1. February 15 - A new red and white maple leaf design is inaugurated as the flag of Canada, replacing the Union Flag and the Canadian Red Ensign. February 20 - Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program. February 21 - Malcom X is assassinated in Manhattan. February 23 - Comedian Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy dies at age 74. February 25-26 - Major snow storm drops 11 inches on Detroit, the 20th heaviest snowfall on record at the time. March - Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John W. Young become the first to demonstrate ability to change their crafts orbit. March 2 - The Sound of Music premieres at the Rivoli Theater in New York City. March 8 - 3500 U.S. Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam. March 8 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. March 21 - NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. March 21 - Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3200 civil rights activists in the third march from Selma AL to Montgomery. March 22 - Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduces the 12 bit PDP-8 minicomputer, the first successful commercial minicomputer. Thurston Class of 1965 45 Year Reunion April 6 - Intelsat I, nicknamed Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. April 9 - Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover of Time Magazine. April 11 - Palm Sunday Tornado outbreak, the second largest tornado outbreak on record. 47 confirmed tornadoes, 271 deaths, 3,400 injured, in 12 hours. April 21 - The Beach Boys appear on Shindig, performing their most recent hit, "Do You Wanna Dance?" April 27 - Death of Edward R. Murrow, a news broadcasting pioneer. April 28 - My Name is Barbra, Barbra Streisands first TV special, airs on CBS. May 2 - The Rolling Stones make their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. May 22 - Beatles "Ticket to Ride" single becomes #1. June 3 - Gemini 4 Astronaut Edward Higgins White makes the first U.S. space walk. June 8 - Pepsi Cola merges with Frito Lay to become Pepsico. July 14 - U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet. Summer - Norman Stingley of the Wham-O Manufacturing Company (maker of the Hula Hoop and Frisbee) invents the Super Ball. July 28 - President Lyndon Johnson announces his order to increase the number of U.S troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 and to more than double the number of men drafted per month from 17,000 to 35,000. July 30 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. August - Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad set a record of almost 8 days in space, long enough for a manned lunar mission. August 11 - The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles. August 13 - The rock group Jefferson Airplane debuts at the Matrix in San Francisco and begins regular appearances there. August 15 - The Beatles perform the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing at Shea Stadium in New York. August 23 - DSR takes delivery of its first Flxible busses, breaking a GMC monopoly. August 28 - The first Subway restaurant opens in Bridgeprot CT. August 30 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball. Thurston Class of 1965 45 Year Reunion September - Ford Motor Company introduces factory installed and dealer installed 8 track tape players as an option on Mustang, Thunderbird, and Lincoln. September 9 - Hurricane Betsy hits New Orleans with winds of 145 mph, causing 76 deaths and $1.42 billion in damage. This is the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in damage, giving it the nickname "Billion Dollar Betsy". It is the last major hurricane to strike New Orleans until Katrina 40 years later. September 11 - Beatles "Help!" album becomes #1 for 9 weeks. September 13 - Today show begins color broadcast. September 15-25 - New TV shows: ABC debuts The Big Valley; CBS debuts Lost in Space, Green Acres, The Wild Wild West, Hogans Heroes, The Tom & Jerry cartoon series, The FBI; NBC debuts I Spy, The Dean Martin Show, I Dream of Jeannie, Get Smart. October 4 - Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the U.S., visits New York and receives saturation coverage on all 3 major networks. October 9 - Beatles single, "Yesterday" reaches #1 for 4 weeks. October 28 - The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is completed but would not open to the public until 1967. November 8 - The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC. November 9 - Several states (VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY, & NJ) and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting over 13 hours. November 15 - The Huntley-Brinkley Report begins color broadcast. November 27 - Detroit Red Wing Gordie Howe scores his 600th goal in a game against the Montreal Canadiens. November 28 - Julie Andrews first TV special airs on NBC. December 4 - TV guide launches Montana edition and now covers all the contiguous 48 states. December 7 - Chevrolet produces its 3 millionth car for the year, reaching this total for the first time. December 9 - A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS, becoming an annual tradition. December 15 - Astronauts Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford aboard Gemini 6 and Frank Borman and James A. Lovell aboard Gemini 7 perform the first controlled rendezvous in Earth orbit. Gemini 7 also sets a manned space endurance record of 14 days for astronauts. December 20 - ABC debuts Supermarket Sweep and The Dating Game. December 22 - Movie, Dr. Zhivago released. December 25 - Patent filed for Astroturf by co-inventors James Faria and Robert Wright of Monsanto Industries. Thurston Class of 1965 45 Year Reunion DIRECTORY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ JALLAL A "JERRY" AJLOUNY 7365 SEDGEFIELD AVE 925-829-0509 SAN RAMON CA 94583–3563 925-858-9952 cell [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NELSON GARY ALANDT 24802 NE 14TH ST 360-326-3949 CAMAS WA 98607–9716 [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LA JEAN ALCAZAR NAGRANT 37482 E MEADOWHILL DR 248-477-2592 NORTHVILLE MI 48167–9018 [email protected] Sorry I couldn't be with all of you for our "45th" Reunion. I had a family wedding that whole weekend. I will truly miss seeing everyone but will definitely see you at the "50th". I have been married for 34 years and we have one child, a son (28). Our son married his college (MSU) sweetheart in October 2008. My husband and I are both retired and loving every minute of it. I wish all of my THS 1965 classmates happiness and good health in the coming years. See you in 2015. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RONALD ALESSANDRI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ROBERT L ALLARD 11682 US HIGHWAY 31 231-275-7818 INTERLOCHEN MI 49643–9357 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUSAN LEE ANDERSON HOLYCROSS 87 RUMBOLD AVE 716-694-1406 NORTH TONAWANDA NY 14120–4621 716-316-6960 cell [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thurston Class of 1965 45 Year Reunion Directory Page 1 DONNA J ANGLEBRANDT CHICKENSKY 586-294-5208 32100 FRUEHAUF FRASER MI 48026–2367 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ JAMES H ANGLIN 689 SWEETBRIAR 248-685-2553 MILFORD MI 48381–1570 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BRIAN J ARMSTRONG 3956 HIGH PINE RD 904-998-9839 JACKSONVILLE FL 32225–3638 [email protected] I've been in Jacksonville, Florida for 30 years. My oldest daughter graduated from high school this spring. Her sister still has 2 more years left. No retirement for a while. I am still landscaping and doing property maintenance. My wife, Candance, works for Hilton hotels. We are enjoying these teen years. We look at things a little bit calmer. Still love Detroit and all the sports teams. Looking forward to seeing all you cool cats!! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MARY K ARMSTRONG 26686 ELK RUN E 734-878-1391 NEW HUDSON MI 48165–8108 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CAROL J ARNOLD RUSSELL 25330 NE 138TH PL 352-685-2698 SALT SPRINGS FL 32134–9515 [email protected] I am married to Jim Russell. We both are from Redford Township. We were married in February, 1967. We have five children; three sons (Jim, Jason and Loren) and two daughters (Theresa and Julie). My oldest daughter lives in Sterling, Colorado. She is a Substance Abuse Counselor. My oldest son lives in Knoxville, TN. he is a manager at a WalMart store there. My other three children live in Florida. My youngest son lives in Starke, Florida (about an hour from us) and he is employed with the State of Florida. My middle son lives in Palatka (about 25 miles north of us). He is a self-employed painter. My youngest daughter lives in Jacksonville and she is a stay at home mom. We have 11 grandchildren (seven granddaughters: Kelsey, Rebecca, Kristin, Lilli, Charlotte, Elizabeth and Jadyn, and four grandsons: Joey, Riley, Matthew and Timothy), the oldest being 13 and the youngest being seven months. Jim and I are retired now. Jim worked on the Chessie System railroad for 32 years. We were transferred to Baltimore in 1985 and then to Jacksonville in 1989. I was a secretary/bookkeeper for our church for nine years in Jacksonville. We lived in Jacksonville until 2002 when we retired and moved to Central Florida. We now live in Salt Springs, Florida. Salt Springs is located in the middle of the Ocala National Forest. We are about 25 miles from Ocala, 60 miles from Daytona Beach and about 75 miles from Thurston Class of 1965 45 Year Reunion Directory Page 2 Jacksonville. We never dreamed that we would live in Florida. It is nice in the winter but the summers are very, very hot and humid. However, we are not overrun with bugs and reptiles as a lot of people think. Jim and I like to travel. I love to bowl (I bowl on a league with my mother who is 85 years old and still carries a 130 average). I like to sew and play the piano (I don't play well, just for myself because I am self taught). I also sing in a small ensemble and a choir at my church. When I lived in Jacksonville I also sang with the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANDY BAGHDOIAN 5616 ELLISON RD 989-654-3246 STERLING MI 48659–9634 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHARLES R BALD 47277 8 MILE RD 248-374-0699 NORTHVILLE MI 48167–9205 business address and phone ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ JOSÉ CARLOS LEÃO BARRETTO FAZENDA INDIANA 55 71 9989 1995 mobile KM 178 RODOVIA BA 052 ESTRADA do FEIJÃO 55 74 9980 9948 mobile MUNDO NOVO BAHIA 44.800–000 [email protected] BRAZIL Known as Jose C L Barretto de Araujo while in the US BORN - 07/MARCH/1947 MARRIED to SONEIDE 2 daughters – TICIANA, 37, next October 14th and MARIANA, 33 last May 20th. 1 son – MARCUS, 35 next November 1st. PEDRO, son of Marcus will be 8 this year and Lucas will be 1, another Grandson, Nicolas, now 5, and Juliano, now 2, sons of Ticiana. Graduated in Law School in 1970, by the Federal University of Bahia. 1967/1973: While in school, got involved in politics and worked with the State Secretary for Education and Culture between 1967 and 1970, and with the Mayor of Salvador, capital State of Bahia, between 1970 and 1973. 1973/1989: Member of the Board of Directors of a company involved in processing and exporting cocoa products, orange juice, paper and castor oil. 1989/1991: member of the Board of Directors of the State of Bahia Port Authority. Thurston Class of 1965 45 Year Reunion Directory Page 3 1991/1994: Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce for Brazil, in Salvador, Bahia and of the American Brazilian By-National Center for Education and Culture. 1994: Founded my own company in the city of São Paulo, called CINALP LTDA. The company produces, today, 800 tons/month of chocolate powder drink, a blend of cocoa powder, sugar, vanillin, and vitamins to be added to drinking milk or to make cakes, ice cream, etc. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DYANE L BARTELL KOSKELA 3 GYPSOPHILA CT 352-382-2077 HOMOSASSA FL 34446–6321 [email protected] Retired from teaching computer classes in Redford MI, my husband and I retired in 1994 to a townhouse by Clearwater Beach. After 7 years in Clearwater, we moved 50 miles north to a house in a golfing community where we spend most of our time golfing, tennis, swimming, kayaking, biking and one day a week baby-sitting our beautiful new Grand Daughter, Victoria Rose. We have two Grandsons living in Brighton Michigan, Cody 9, and Cooper 4. Our 5 children range in age from 35-43 with 2 children still in Michigan and 3 in Florida. We enjoy retirement and plan to stay in Florida. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GAIL L BARTON ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ALBERT J BASS 11621 E FOUR PEAKS RD 480-391-9549 SCOTTSDALE AZ 85262–8017 480-797-2257 cell ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ROBERT J BEAUDRIE 3206 PINE WOODS LN 847-428-6528 CARPENTERSVILLE IL 60110–3217 [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DEBBIE J BEECHER ABNER 20208 LONGWOOD CT 248-380-6933 NORTHVILLE MI 48167–1929 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ROBERT J BEES 42256 MCBRIDE AVE 734-699-4814 BELLEVILLE MI 48111–1460 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thurston Class of 1965 45 Year Reunion Directory Page 4