Labor Day Weekend - GGHS 1956

Had a little extra time on my hands on Monday (Senior Center where I swim & exercise was closed) and started remembering my 50th High School class reunion a little over a year ago. Pulled up the pictures on my computer and decided to make a slide show. It was fun including pictures from our senior year book and a recent picture if I had one. For those where the faces could be matched I tried to fade from 1956 to 2006 in a way that it looked like morphing from young to older. Added a soundtrack of some music from our high school days. Tonight I put a 'flash' on my website but also offered to put the full size show on a CD for any of my classmates that might want it.

When I rode the school bus into town for high school I thought my class of 27 was huge. The one room, country schoolhouse I attended for primary through 8th grade had a total of 17 students - 2 or 3 in my class during most of those years. Garden Grove was a thriving rural Iowa town of about 500 then. Sadly, like so many small towns in the Midwest, it has continued to decline since that time. Our 50th class reunion was held at the McClung house in Garden Grove in May 2006. Garden Grove High School has since consolidated further taking in more rural small towns and is now known as Mormon Trail High School. Garden Grove was a stop on the Mormon trail in the 1840-50 time period.

If any of my classmates stumble onto this blog ..... when are we getting together again?