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NHS alumni celebrate
The class of 1965 poses for their yearbook photo on the sunny lawn of the old Newcastle High School. Many of the grads are
planning to reconnect at the 2015 All-School Reunion in Newcastle next month. (Photo from inside cover of 1965 Yearbook)
Denice Pisciotti
NLJ Reporter
The Newcastle High School
All-School Reunion is quickly
approaching. Class representa-
tives have been working hard
to get everything lined up for
the festivities beginning Friday,
July 3, and continuing through
the weekend.
After spending the past year
making a lot of phone calls
tracking classmates down, the
class of 1965 is excited to get
reacquainted with old friends
and celebrate its 50th class
reunion. The class has over
30 individuals -- the largest
number of NHS graduates from
one class -- signed up to attend
the festivities.
Veronica Danielson said the
class representatives decided
that the best way to reach
everyone was by telephone.
The group also contacted
classmates who didn't graduate
with the class but had attended
school in Newcastle with them
at some point. They ultimately
reached 125 people to invite
them to the reunion.
"There were four in my
class working on contacting
everybody. We just spent a
tremendous amount of time
on the telephone," Danielson
said. "We called everybody we
could, and if we couldn't get
a hold of that person, then we
tried to find somebody who
knew them or that was related
to them or however we could
do it."
The group also mailed out
postcards to confirm addresses.
The group also searched for
classmates on the internet or
in a phone book. They called
people with the same last name
until they tracked down who
they were looking for. Because
of their efforts, several are
coming to the reunion that have
not attended one since the first
All-School Reunion in 1980.
"We actually found a class-
mate that moved in fourth grade
and one that moved in sixth
grade, and they are both coming
to the reunion!" Danielson said.
"It was awesome! We are really
excited to see both of them."
The group working together
to find classmates from the
class of 1965 were not close
friends in high school, but
since combining resources for
the reunion, they have become
close friends. Both Danielson
and classmate Jan Capps have
had fun getting everything
ready for the reunion.
"It's been a really fun expe-
rience. It has been awesome
and exciting to find people
like Pat and Susie that moved
away," Capps admitted. "It has
been a real adventure to say
the least."
One thing she feels is
defining about the class of
1965 is how close they are --
it's the essence of the group,
she said. Many of them had
made a special effort since
graduation not to lose touch
with one another.
The year that Capps and
four of her classmates turned
60, they began taking an annual
trip together. Eight years ago,
the first trip was to Cancun,
Mexico, and since then they
have visited Nevada a couple
of times and Orlando, Florida,
to visit another classmate.
On a sad note, she said, the
classmates that have already
passed away will be missed,
especially Kirt Koski, who
lived in Casper near Capps. He
was the glue that helped keep
the class together.
Both Danielson and Capps
are looking forward to getting
together and reminiscing with
old classmates.
"We had fun, we really did.
It's great to get together to talk
about those times. Newcastle
was a great place to grow up.
We got to live the movie the
'American Graffiti,'" Capps
said.
Driving on Main Street
from the Hi-16 to the Howdy
Drive In was the thing to do
she recalled. The cars drove
past each other and honked.
When gas money was needed,
the space under car seats was
searched or the money was
borrowed from friends, even
when gas cost just 28 cents a
gallon.
They even had their own
version of the Chinese fire drill
in those days. Capps said they
pulled up to the stop light, and
instead of changing seats, they
changed cars. To make it even
more interesting, sometimes
they changed drivers.
The Sioux Caf6 was a major
stopping point for french fries
and a coke. Capps recalled that
the caf6 was where she heard
the Beatles hit "I Want to Hold
Your Hand" for the first time.
"We had hay rides in the fall
and would walk up Cambria
Canyon in the summer. I
remember the girls would walk
up there and the boys would
hide in the rocks and scare
us! A lot of us took profes-
sional dance lessons, and we
did foxtrot and samba and the
jitterbug -- we learned all that
stuffl." she continued.
KASL had a radio show on
a regular basis in high school
that allowed people to call up
and request songs, which from
time to time got the teenagers
in trouble.
Vietnam was an impactful
event that changed many lives,
as the class of 1965 gradu-
ated and went off to college,
according to Capps. In fact,
the class is hoping Vietnam
or other military veterans will
ride in the class car during
the parade on Main Street on
Saturday morning, July 4.
To check up on one of her
classmates, Danielson called
an NHS graduate who had
been reported as deceased
in the past couple of reunion
books. However, he recently
contacted his class representa-
tive to correct the mistake, so
she thought it would be fun to
contact him.
"I did have a really good
Conversation the other day
with one of our deceased class-
mates," Danielson said with a
smile. "That was great! He is a
brother to a classmate of mine,
so just for grins I called him to
check up on the classmate. I
told him you sound really good
for a dead guy! We had the
nicest visit."
Danielson not only helped
with getting her class together
but also assisted with the All-
School Reunion books. The
point behind books is to help
keep everyone in touch, even if
a graduate is not able to attend
the reunion, Danielson said.
Reunion books can be ordered
and will be mailed. The book
begins with the year 1901 until
the current year and is updated
each year.
Danielson noted that the
committee is trying to make
the reunion book as complete
as possible and is inserting a
sheet with names and phone
numbers on it to make it' as
current as possible. To update
your information or to attend
reunion, contact Danielson at
veronica@rtconnect.net or call
307-949-0915.
"Most of us who have
those books carry them around
everywhere and go to them for
everything. If you have a ques-
tion about somebody, it can be
found in the book," Danielson
noted.
Microscope
product price, so we can still
keep the cost down."
Schmidt contends that his
invention is both an innovative
and necessary one, with most
of his potential competitors
producing microscopes that
are neither as technologically
nimble nor as optically sound
as he intends his to be.
"I did quite a bit of research
on what microscopes are being
deployed," he said. "One of the
biggest endeavors is to reduce
malaria. There's a lot of com-
panies and developers trying to
make a cheap microscope that
can be used in Africa and other
areas that have malaria issues,
where they just don't have
the money to buy equipment.
Most of the other ones that are
experimental; if they're low
cost, they don't have the image
quality. They might get there.
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They have some interesting
ways to build these, but I just
haven't seen anything that
works right now."
Schmidt, whose microscope
is designed to run off the Ara
phone's power supply, said he
intends to create a lineup of
similarly useful devices and
that the powerful nature of
the processors in today's cell-
phones, which are now nearly
as advanced as those of the
desktops of a few years ago,
make them an ideal platform
for a variety of functional
instruments.
"The first product that we
envisioned was a microscope
because of the need for micro-
scopes in developing areas,"
Schmidt elaborated, "but we
als0 have the vision to make
EKG machines for monitoring
patients with heart issues, sci-
entific instruments, multimeter
modules, so the phone isn't
just dedicated. A multimeter
isn't a big deal. You can go buy
one for $10, but ... if you do a
lot of work with a multimeter,
you have it right there in your
hand as well."
In an effort to raise finan-
cial capital for the project,
Schmidt maintains a crowd-
funding page at Indiegogo.
com where, as of Saturday,
he had raised just $4,195 of
his $50,000 goal. He said the
money will be refunded to
donors should he fail to raise
enough to move forward with
the Peri-scope 1.
"I've put a lot of money
into this on my own, but ... I
don't want to deceive donors
by saying I'm going to do this
project, then fall short and end
up using the money for some-
thing else."
Schmidt acknowledged
that he's well behind where he r
wants to be with the project at:
this point, but said he has been
gaining some positive atten-'
tion as of late across social'
media, in particular Twitter.
"I think the problem is a',
lot of people don't understand'.
what Project Ara is. Almost',
everybody I've talked to has'
never heard of it. Even though
it's been in development for.
several years, it's just being
publicized now," he said.
Extensive information
about Project Ara is now avail-
able across the internet, and
the official site can be found
at projectara.com. Schmidt's
crowdfunding page is located
at www. indiegogo.com/proj-
ects/ super-compact-portable-
imaging-microscope#/story.
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