Wednesday evening we attended the first Fish Fry of the season at the Fishers United Methodist Church. Good fish and good fellowship with out friends. Thursday and Friday, things had not been very busy until Saturday. We went to a local cafeteria and met with the Castleton Alumni association. This was a gathering of all of those that attended the Castleton school, which was at one time a 1-12 grades and later 1-8. There were about 10 that graduated from high school up until about 1941. After that it was only a grade school. At that time the gym, in the basement, was converted into a dining room. I do not know where they ate before that. There were probably 40 in attendance, many of them are quite old and not getting around very well. I did learn that one of out teachers was still living in a local assisted care facility and was 101 on her last birthday. I saw people I had not seen since 1948. It was a real treat to see and talk with them and what they had been doing over the past 60 years or so. Some are shirt tail cousins that I had not seen for many years as well. Their children and ours went to school together in the Fishers, IN area.
I attended Castleton from 1942 until l948 when I contracted Polio. I then went to Indianapolis to the James E. Roberts school, which was the only accessible school in the area. I graduated from Shortridge High School in 1955. Evelyn, my sister attended Castleton from 1942 until she went to the new Lawrence Central High School in l947 and graduated in 1951.
We had acquired an old photo of a class and we learned that one of those in attendance recognized them as the class of 1919. She had been in contact with one of the students in the photo and she had a record of all of the names in the photo. How remarkable for someone to have obtained all of the names and were able to get them together with the photo. We will see that it gets into the proper hands for safe keeping.
Sunday, the day of rest, found us in Church and Sunday school with another good sermon and class session. We relaxed and watch golf most of the afternoon.
Today, we really did not have anything planned, other than making a call to have the van front end checked out and see what it needed. When I called they said, bring it on in and we will look at it. Well by noon, it was finished and several $$$ poorer, I was on my way back to the coach. When I arrived, Dennis was here changing the oil on the motor home and servicing it. We later changed the idler pulley and tensioner on the van. Later we went to the post office, bank, grocery and the phone store to get a new charger for my cel phone. All in all, it was a very productive day. Not sure what is planned for tomorrow, but it seems that there is always something that will need to be done.