April 2023 Newsletter

REGISTER TODAY for these upcoming events!

Foursomes are filling up fast!

2023 Inaugural Girl Outing

Join us as we transform a traditional fundraising golf outing to a unique experience for women. Save WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 for everything you love about a golf outing, without the golf.

Women will enjoy the following at the beautiful Elbel Golf Course: light breakfast with putting instructions, sampling of food and drinks from local establishments, shopping with women-owned businesses, yoga and painting, putting for prizes, silent auction, and lunch with a blanket for a picnic!

To sign up, please visit: 2023 Girl Outing

30th TCU Superintendent’s Golf Tournament

Save THURSDAY, MAY 11th for a day at Elbel Park Golf Course. We are proud to partner again with TCU and other community sponsors to make this annual tournament possible. The tournament will include extra hole contests for prizes, big hole-in-one contests, a raffle, and a ball drop!

Sign up a foursome or as a sponsor by following this link:

TCU Superintendent’s Golf Tournament


CO-EX GRANT SPOTLIGHT

Madison STEAM Academy Circuits Lab

The fourth grade students at Madison STEAM Academy (approximately 100 students) participated in an activity with Ethos Innovation Center, in which they learned and explored designing circuits! The Co-Ex Grant funded a creative circuits kit for each child, so that they all had a chance to put their STEAM skills and their creativity to the test!

Coordinator Jessica Luczynski said of the program: “Our students were able to complete an activity they never would have been able to complete without the help from the Co-Ex grant and its donors. Our students were able to “get their hands dirty” and actually make the circuits work through their own trial and error. We do not have the materials to do this on our own but with your help we were able to. Thank you!”


2023 REUNIONS!

RILEY AFTER 50th
August 12, 2023
Contact: Darnall Bailey

RILEY 50th
Class of 1973
September 30, 2023
Contact: Kevin Williams

RILEY 40th
Class of 1983
July 15, 2023
Contact: Lorraine Badowski

LASALLE ALL YEAR
June 25, 2023
Contact: Craig Clark

LASALLE 50th
Class of 1973
June 24, 2023
Contact: Carla Csiszar Huegel

LASALLE 40th
Class of 1983
August 26, 2023
Contact: Kim (Hauguel) Shreve

LASALLE 41st
Class of 1983
Summer TBA
Contact: Lori Wisner Jamieson

JACKSON 50th
Class of 1973
September 9, 2023
Contact: Jon Shaffer

JACKSON 70th BASH
Class of 1971
October 7, 2023
Contact: Bill Thompson

CLAY ALL YEAR
July 29, 2023
Contact: Pattie Gates

CLAY 55th
Class of 1968
August 19, 2023
Contact: Patti McDonald Nemeth

CLAY 50th
Class of 1973
August 11, 2023
Contact: Judi Van Es

CLAY 45th
Class of 1978
July 22, 2023
Contact: Cheryl Romaine

CENTRAL 39th ALL YEAR
June 30, 2023
Contact: Greg Humnicky

ADAMS ALL YEAR 
August 11, 2023
Contact: Jim Champaigne

ADAMS 60th
Class of 1963
July 22, 2023
Contact: Denny Rose

ADAMS 57th
Class of 1966
July 15, 2023
Contact: Linda (Biggs) Lange

ADAMS 50th
Class of 1973
August 12, 2023
Contact: Judy Miller

ADAMS 46th
Class of 1977
July 14, 2023
Contact: Pam Podenski

ADAMS 20th/21st
Class of 2002
June 23, 2023
Contact: Wally McWade and Erin Fairchild

ADAMS 13th
Class of 2010
June 10, 2023
Contact: Haley Patterson3

Stay up-to-date on your high school classmates and reunion activities by creating an account on your school’s site. Its FREE!

“The South Bend Alumni Association high school websites will be eight years old in July 2023. The seven public schools have over 101,800 classmate names and senior photos posted, with more being added each day.

The goal is to provide means for all classmates to connect individually with private or public postings as well as collectively by announcing reunions and related activities including posting upcoming classmate birthdays as well as obituaries.

An important aspect of classmate profiles is the recording of high school memories and later life in college, travels, military service, employment, marriage and children etc. These stories are very important to your fellow classmates, your family and future generations. Give some thought to review your story and update it. Your grandchildren will be very happy to read them.

You can leave comments in the “In Memory” section for a classmate, however, they will not be reading it. You may want to send the message now while you are both “above ground”. It’s like sending a smile electronically. They may be waiting for a hug or your good news.

We depend on yearbooks donated to scan and store in our reference libraries. All South Bend Schools for all years. Also, hundreds of our school newspapers have been scanned and searchable. Please donate any that you may find.”

— Jim Champaigne

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IS YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS HAVING A REUNION THIS SUMMER?

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