Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Watch for this flyer and mark the date!


Judi Rolley White Reports on March 27 Meeting

- Photo by Karl Nagle

Clock-wise from center: Linda Smith Dale, Joyce
Moody Fletcher, Bonnie Henchbarger Powell, Orvis Kline,
Kirk High, Herb Maney, Judi Rolley White, Sam Lansberry,
Suzanne Sherkel Nagle, Chuck Nelson, Dennis Mollura, Joyce
Shugarts Undercofler, Tom O'Day and Joanne Shimel Magnuson

Synopsis of Class of '59 Meeting
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Shaw Library, Clearfield


Our meeting at the Shaw Library on March 27 started at 1:00 p.m. with 14 classmates in attendance. Kirk High has joined our 70th Birthday Celebration Planning Committee, and I thank him for his participation and his ideas. You can see all the participants in Karl Nagle's photo above this report.

I am pleased to tell you that the next meeting will be a Class of '59 picnic on Saturday, August 28 at 1:00 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus picnic grove in Clearfield. Please come and enjoy the fun, food and frivolity. There will be lots of good food and drinks, and everything will free!

A brief 70th Birthday Celebration planning meeting will be held immediately prior to the picnic.

Our 70th Birthday Celebration will take place little more than a year from now, on July 30, 2011, from 4:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Clearfield. AGAIN our gathering will be very informal (shorts, tee shirts, etc. OH! No bikinis). Our menu is pizza, subs, salad, cake, soda, H2O and whatever else we come up with.

On the Friday night before the celebration, we are all invited to Sam Lansberry’s home in Egypt (the directions will come later) at 5:00 p.m. for food, conversation and merriment.

At the March 27 planning meeting, all of the committee chairmen gave their reports. The decision was made to make the Birthday Celebration free to our classmates and to pay all expenses from the remaining money in our treasury. Donations certainly will be accepted and put to good use.

As always, get to a computer and log onto our blog. Denny Mollura does a great job of posting info about our class on it!

In the past, only graduates who have celebrated their 50th Class Reunion were invited to Golden Bison/Alumni functions. Now, all graduates from CAHS and anyone who attended CAHS are invited to attend the dinner on July 31, 2010 at the K of C in Clearfield. You’ll be receiving a flyer on it soon.

In recent weeks, we have lost our dear classmates David Boyce, Sally Witherow Fink, Mary Jane Hand Gillingham, and Lewis Marrara. We should plan see each other as often as we can while we are still able.

I hope that you all had a nice Easter holiday. Call me if you have any questions or just to say hello. That would be nice.

We’ll be in touch as information comes in.

- Judi Rolley White, Chair, 70th Birthday Party Celebration

Addendum to the Meeting Synopsis:

Let the minutes reflect that Dawn O'Day was unanimously "railroaded" as the new Spouses' Auxiliary President. Welcome to the party, Dawn!

Following the meeting, many of the committee (and Spouses' Auxiliary) members got together for dinner at Hedges.

- Suzi Sherkel Nagle

Classmate Lew Marrara Passes Away


Lewis A. "Lew" Marrara, 68 of Frenchville and formerly of Port Matilda and State College, died on Monday, April 26, 2010 at Clearfield Hospital.

He was born on January 8, 1942 in Clearfield, a son of the late Tony and Rose(Mollica) Marrara.

Mr. Marrara owned and operated Marrara's Cleaners of State College, Bellefonte and Philipsburg from 1963 until 2005. He was past president and current vice president of the Mosquito Creek Sportsman's Club and a member of the Monte Grappa Hunting Club, both of Frenchville, the Mt. Acres Hunting Club of Potters Mills, the Bald Eagle Sportsman's Club, the Sinnemahoning Sportsman's Club and the Old Town Sportsman's Club.

Mr. Marrara also was a member of the National Rifle Association, the National Wild Turkey Federation, the Tyrone Elks, the Clarence American Legion, the Frenchville Veteran of Foreign Wars Leigey Renaud Post #8386 and the Clearfield Son's of Italy Lodge #189.

He served in the US Navy from 1959 until 1962.

He is survived by three children, Denise 'Dee' Marrara and partner Jill Hollingsworth of Alexandria, VA, Anthony 'Tony' Marrara of Port Matilda and Lewis 'Chip' Marrara and wife Nancy of Lewisburg; three grandchildren, MaKenna Marrara of Port Matilda and John and Peter Marrara of Lewisburg; his former wife of 44 years Cynthia (LaDage) Marrara of State College; a sister-in-law, Mary Ann Marrara of Wilmington, NC; a nephew, Carl A. Marrara and wife Kelly of Mechanicsburg; and his companion, Cathy Tarner of Frenchville and her children Devon Tarner, Jack (Denise) Curley, Catrina Kubala and grandchildren Coleman and Zach Kubala and Logan and Fox Curley.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother Carl J. Marrara.

Mass of Christian Burial was said at St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, Clearfield on Friday, April 30, with Fr. John Chaplin as celebrant. Interment followed in the Calvary Cemetery, Clearfield.

Military honors will were accorded at the cemetery by the members of the Clearfield American Legion and VFW Post Honor Guard.

The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to Mosquito Creek Sportsman's Association, P.O. Box 218, Frenchville, PA 16836.