Posted by Sharon Sprague

Hello, Friends, from a Golden Lion at heart who moved before I could graduate with all of you! You have been in my heart for the past 40 years. I've wondered who you've become and if your lives have been all that you had dreamt they would be back when PiHi ruled the gridiron and the girls won state basketball.

And, if any OLA alums remember all the Krispy Kreme's we sold, how Dick Whire used to shoot peas down the straw into his milk (back when the cafeteria first began before his Mom took it over and made a restaurant out of it!), or the Sunday Monsignor left the consecration out of the Mass! And, how 'bout those May processions?!

Hope we can get to know each other all over again! Bless me with a "Hello!" at Sharon.L.Sprague@gmail.com for it would truly be a blessing to hear from you.

Thanks Kate. Your efforts demonstrate once again how talented our classs is. I was reminded of that at reunion when Mike Mulvihill pointed that we won two state championships our senior year: football and debate! Good to see Richard Farnsworth there representing the Debate team, but where were Peter Fisher, Michael Carlin and Charles Day?

Great seeing erverybody,
Jerry de Golian

Posted by Bob Fannon:

Greetings to everyone in the best class ever, 1969! Many of us are still buzzing about the great reunion we had; thank you reunion team. Thanks to Kate for setting up this site for all of us. Coincidentally, my two younger sons (out of 3) are in Belgium right now on a 72 day tour of Europe. As a family, we have traveled quite a bit. Sometimes we traveled 230 miles for a football game (Billings-Butte). That is life in Montana. Wide open spaces. So we are used to it. It was great to come back 2000 miles to see all of you! Maybe next time (45th?), all who are physically able will return. The only downside to the visit was that most of the girls in our class had obviously discovered the fountain of youth and didn't share with most of us guys!! I would just like to let everyone know that our hospitality mat in Billings, Montana is always out. If anyone ever heads this way, maybe to see Yellowstone National Park (110 miles from our door) or whatever, and is need of a bed/breakfast, our home is open to you. Charlotte and I would be happy to show you around. Contact me at bigskybob74@yahoo.com. May God bless you all. Bob Fannon P.S. Pic is from Assisi, Itlay

Posted by Kate McNally:

Here we are! Forty years on, and not one of us has aged a day. Well...almost none of us! Here's a photo of me with my husband Dan Flynn. So you can see that I haven't changed. Not one bit.

I was very sorry to miss the reunion, for all the normal reasons, but also because I have a story to tell you all. It's a story that almost nobody who didn't go to PiHi when we did will appreciate. Do you remember the statue of Pius X in front of the school, right hand raised giving the Papal blessing? And do you remember Marist coming to break one of the fingers before a football game? Specifically, breaking the right index finger, which left Himself flipping everyone off. I remember this well.

Fast forward about 35 years. Dan and I were in Munich, trying to improve our German. We visited the Cathedral, which is splendid, and full of all sorts of Cathedral-appropriate things. Like relics. LOTS of relics. But there was one which made me break out in hysterical laughter, and I wished you all were there, because nobody else could understand. There, in a gilded case, treasured for many years, revered by pilgrims, was a relic of our own Pius X. Not just ANY relic, mind you, but his finger. His index finger. The right one. So now I have this image of him buried somewhere, without his finger...

I've sent you all by email the password for this blog, and I hope that you will all post some photos and some stories. I'd love to catch up with all of you!

I invite you to visit my website: www.katemcnally.com and my blog: http://serendipity-kate.blogspot.com