Renee Sherer (Schleicher)

Happy birthday, Robert.  Here's to many more years for us all!  Keep the poetry coming!

Sherrie Igoe (Dembrowski)

Happy Birthday Robert !  I loved your story and optimism...that is something I find myself running short on now and then in this climate!  Very well done.  I wish you many more years of good health, good writing and much happiness! 

I myself love being 79, it's not a bad age at all.  I have to admit though, that I yearn to be 37 or 45 or even 60 again, once in a while.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Susan Chausow (Southam)

Happy Birthday Robert! 

Paula Massey

Happy Birthday Robert. And thanks for your poems and sharing about your journey to the US

Ruth Gross

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Robert!  

Barbara Leavitt (Hecht)

Happy Birthday, Robert.

Susan Spiegel (Pastin)

Goid poem Robert - important to keep on trucking and resisting in these trying times!  Happy Birthday!

Jack Rakove

Belated happy birthday, Robert. Helen and I were just in Salzburg five weeks ago, spending a weekend across the river from your birthplace in a hotel next to the Mozart University. If I had known I would have taken a photograph and sent it to you, though given the way in which the Altstadt has been preserved, it would probably have looked pretty familiar.

Fred Brostoff

We have previously explained the following:

• The MESSAGE Forum is intended to be a residence for information that does NOT precipitate debate and is NOT to be used for any political or social commentary. 
• The purpose of the DISCUSSION Forums is to provide a venue for comment or debate on specific issues.  

Accordingly, I have deleted the recent Message Forum posts about (a) ICE and (b) sources for obtaining political commentary...and I have copied those posts into the Discussion Forums in the "Political / Social Commentary" forum.

Thanks for understanding why such action is necessary...and for complying with the procedure in the future.

Jack Rakove

Fred has done a terrific job maintaining this site ever since our 50th reunion and all of us who view it regularly or just occasionally really appreciate his effoirts. And since I am a political commentator of sorts, I do get the distinction between ordinary news about class members and other public issues. But in this case what stirred me was the fact that we were talking about our homertown, where quite dramatic developments are taking place which have even been nationally publicized. Rachel Maddow did her concluding segment on Evanston the other night. Community news like this is, in a sense, also about us, whether we're still living in Chicagoland or still feel engaged in its affairs.

So when I posted that message, after a lengthy conversation with my sister Roberta, who witnessed most of the Asbury & Oakton incident, that was what was on my mind.

Ruth Roberts

I had the same feeling about this as Jack, that it is more news about our hometown than political opinion, similar to learning that Mrs. Morton had been elected Mayor, which could be viewed as political news.  

Vernon Neece (Neece)

Sorry I missed the Asbury & Oakton incident since I lived 1 block away from there.

Jane Henry (Andersen)

I was able to visit the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, MN just prior to getting a total knee replacement.  A friend and I visited on October 21, 2025, and got a personal tour from Preston Cook.  It was wonderful.  Preston gave us more information about the museum and we also got a small tour of Wabasha before it started to rain.  I would recomment visiting the Eagle Center.  

Then, on October 30 I got a new knee.  I'm still recovering but so far, so good.

Preston Cook

Hello Jane,  Good to hear your new knee is bahaving. Enjoyed seeing you and happy to hear you enjoyed your visit to the eagle center.  Other are welcome for a "Cooks" behind the scene tour of the National Eagle Center.  Not there all the time so if any of you plan to visit, please give me notice.

Fred Brostoff

The Fall, 2025 issue of "The Kit" ETHS alumni newsletter included the following excellent story about the creation and evolution of Evanston Township High School...written by our own Kathy Dalgety (Miehls):

Judith Myerson (Laitman)

Kath, this was great to read.  I really had no idea about the history of the school! 

Susan Spiegel (Pastin)

I second the motion!  Good to read the school's history, Kathy!

Nancy Schroeder

Kathy, thanks for all the history you dug up. It was a delight to read, By any chance did you find any info on the original Highschool and where it was located. I was just curious. Have a great Holiday this month.  nancy

Sherwin "Jay" Siegall

Founded in 1883, Evanston Township High School is the first and only public high school in Evanston, Illinois. The school opened with four teachers and 107 students at its original location on Dempster and Elmwood, serving a growing population and quickly becoming one of the most distinguished public high schools in the country.
 

hope this helped. Jay Siegall
 

Janet Bos (Lefevre)

Jane Henry (Andersen)

Kathy that was such an interesting article.  Thank you.

Leo Schlosberg

In December I had a week between between visiting one kid (San Diego area) and another son (Australia) and instead of returning to Illinois I went up and down the Califronia coast, seeing all sorts of folks I know. That included two people from ETHS 64, George Reskin and Karl Morthole. Took a photo with Karl, but not with George. He may have taken one. 

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Karl Morthole

It was great to see Leo when he passed through the Bay Area.  We spent a few hours catching up on the years, he got to meet my wife, Gail, and it was altogether a good time.  Any and all visitors from '64 are welcome!

-- Sincerely, Karl

Ruth Roberts

I also was happy to learn more about the history of ETHS when The Kit came to me in the mail.  My mother (Louise Nordahl) had told me she was in the first ETHS class to go through high school in the new building on Dodge.  She and her twin sister Lucille would have been freshmen in 1924. It's fun to imagine our school in those early days, surrounded by "marshy farmland."  

Lesley Mentgen (Delmenico)

Kath, thanks so much for this and for your many years of documenting ETHS!  Always interesting and fun to read!!