Faribault Class of 1965 Reunion Friday at Shattuck Tour and Elks Club Social

 Heather Hyslop from the Shattuck Staff, here is on the left, where our class of 1965 members met, for brief meet and greet at the Inn of SSM new Lobby.

 Here we are ready to walk to the Shattuck buildings with Heather.  18 of us joined the walk and 12 signed up for a bag lunch.

with Whipple Hall dorm in the background, Heather points to the chapel where a wedding is happening this weekend, both on Saturday and Sunday.

 
Dining room in the older part of the buildings.  Have a summer school with many Chinese from near Beijing.  And an enrollment from 400-500 for the coming school year.  Now well known as a hockey and athletic school. 
 
Auditorium with classic old woodwork.  Here is where Marlon Brando was an actor for 2 years in the early 1940's

 

Indication of Marlon Brando's being in the acting club from 1941-43, where actors who qualified could be represented in the back area, around the "green room" 

From the older part of the building, we were led to the more open and brighter parts of the school. Here is a view from the newer addition. 

 

More light and space in the hallway looking east.   

 

Perry Mead, Shattuck 1966 and partner of class mate, Mary White, pointed out this lab that honors the Kieffers who were teachers at Shattuck. 

This upside down map of planet earth, caught my eye, that was by an office in the new area.  

 

Here is Mr Boone, who is a hands on engineering teacher at Shattuck who uses 3 D printers (he has 3 of them) and demonstrates a project of animating a panda bear as done by students. 

Paul Dragsten, Albert Esterline on the left both PhD, physics and engineering, engage with Mr Boone in his lab - classroom.

 

Evening gathering at the Elks Club, Eliane Stafne from the Twin Cities area chatting with Tom Henry from Faribault with the bar in the background  

 

Tom Henry, Daphne Siegert and Lars Olsson chatting at the Elks.  

Faribault High School Reunion - Class of 1965 Thursday and Early Friday Morning

 I began working on our class reunion since last fall.  As part of that I connected with Jeff Jarvis, who is a part of the Parks And Recreation and helped to get a grant for the arts.  Here is an artist with a dog, when I arrived at the concert last night.

 

Artist with with the bandshell behind. 

 

Mural of the Pet Parade by the Bandshell 

  
Some kids were playing around in front of some Chinese students, who later did and interview me and the band.  Note the Cathedral in the background 

 
Inn at Shattuck St Mary's early in the morning 
  
My 2005 Dodge with my bike on the back.  In front of the Inn of Shattuck St Mary's

 
I had breakfast and chatted with Dr Albert C Esterline at the Inn, who was back in town connecting with Dean Koutavis and his relatives in the area.  He signed his emails PHD 2 (squared) Has a PhD in Philosophy (St Andrews Scotland) as well as in Computer Science (U of Minnesota ).  Now teaching in North Carolina.   Left Shattuck at 8:50 to drive the 2 miles to the Faribault Woolen Mills, where some of the class was lined up. Here in the parking lot, is a taste of Faribault History, Nutting Truck cart made into a sales table.

 
Jana Woodside, the manager of the store, here with some 18 classmates, and one class of 1950 guest, Dean Purdie. We divided into 2 groups with a man leading one, and Jana the other.

 
Once in the basement I first noticed a hum of the machines and that ear protection might be a good idea!  The wool is brought in from out west in big bales and then goes through a carding process. Very complicated and a large number of carding machines, then spinning and finally the weaving and finishing.  Worth digesting more of the process !

 
Jana explaining the spinning onto spindles process to have wool fibers that can be woven after being carded.  (was loud here, and I could not hear all the details.

 
Here is a more senior employee, Mary Boudreau, doing some quality control, with the looms working around her. 

 
One of the younger employees working on a larger loom that has a plaid design .  This is a noisy place to work and hard for me to listen to all of what goes on here.  Amazing place and grateful it has been given a new life here on the Cannon River.  

Teaching Kids how to garden and respect the foods found in Nature - Brian Wheat at Richfield Alternative School

I met Brian Wheat at Dist 287 schools through my friend Blaine MacCutchen about 5 years ago.
In the Spring of several years, ? 2012 or 13, he is a friend of Brian's on the left, and Brian who has been passionate about teaching about sustainable gardening and supporting schools that have the vision to support it.  I hope another steps up to continue the teaching here in Richfield

Brian with two other staff members during spring planting season with my van in the background


 
Spring planting in the multiple raised beds east of the buildings back before the field was taken over with a walking-jogging oval, that was built over the past year. 

 

2013 summer class with 5 students, Brian in front with my sister Jane Newell and me in the straw hat in front of some cabbage family plants, 

  

2013 Brian on the left with another staff in front, with veggies from the garden making fresh juice!

 
South garden bed with flowers Aug 7, 2015 looking east to the field where the old raised garden beds were, and now is a walking-jogging oval! 



 Cucumber vines with no fruits on the east side of in Richfield District 287 looking south
 
Looking west from east side with marigolds and herbs in front, with the two carrots patches behind.

 

Tomatoes (Dahota unzi'nzinthka)  with some beginning to ripen in western beds

Harvest on Aug 7, with harvest include edible flowers

 

Tomatoes Onions, tomatoes. peppers, and some greens harvested 

Some washed carrots....

Cousins Charles A Eicher, and Family, Minnie Stupp, Elizabeth "Betty" William H in Miamisburg OH in the 20th Century

I first met my cousin Billy Eicher, William A Eicher nine years back at his father's memorial service in Dayton Ohio. He has his father's, William Henry Eicher's, Grandfathers, CA Eicher's and his aunts, Ethyl Elizabeth Eicher's archives that he gave me to scan and put in the context of our shared genealogy.  He is visiting Minnesota this week for a job interview, Thanks Billy for sharing these.

 
June 1910 Wedding photo of Charles A Eicher and Minnie Mae Stupp, Montgomery Co Ohio - Charles was the brother of my grandmother, Edna H Eicher, who married Noah Elwood Weaver in 1909



 Portrait of William H Stupp born 26 Jan 1881 in Miamisburg on back of portrait "Classic Art Studio 505 Elm St" Either in Miamiburg or Dayton OH CA1888  age7 


Minnie Mae Stupp was born 

--> 13 Aug 1883 in  Miamisburg Ohio.  I sense she was a teenager here, likely a portrait from around 1900.  
Minnie Mae Stupp Eicher, likely around 1910, holding what looks to be a Bible .  

 

Portrait of Malinda "Linda" Stupp, sister of Minnie Mae, born 1877 around Miamisburg, this photo embossed with raised letters "Grossman&Owings Corn, Main& Second St Dayton OHIO "She looks to be in her late teens or early 20's CA 1897?

 
Photo from Billy Eicher archives only had "Fay Swartz. Linda's daughter, died July 4, 1913, was 13 years old" on the back.   Searching on line in Ancestry.com I got other information including that she was born in October 1899. Post Card Made by EW Curtis 23 W 5th Dayton Ohio 

 CA 1923, Betty Eicher, age 10 smiling in front of the family home on Central in Miamisburg.
Betty Graduated from Miamisburg High School in 1931, and then attend Ohio State University where she earned a BA and MA.   She then taught in Franklin OH at the High School and began a long term relationship with fellow Franklin teacher, Mariam, Mary Parker Brown. Bill Eicher Sr told me about her relationship with Mary Parker Brown when we first met in 1984 in Kettering OH .

 
1931 Ethyl Elizabeth "Betty" Eicher, Graduation from Miamisburg High School.  Likely in the back yard on Central? Note Houses in the background - Back of photo from Wm A Eicher and Betty Eicher archives  " May 24, '31 High School Graduation The day our grandmother was buried"


Sept 1932, Minnie Mae Stupp Eicher with "Billy" Wm H Eicher Miamisburg OH
 
CA 1932 Billy Eicher  (Wm H Eicher) around age 5 on a trike at the family home on Central in Miamisburg  

 Letter from Pvt William H Eicher, born 1927 to his older sister, then living at 403 Park Ave, Franklin OH, the home of Mary Parker Brown. 

 Note Bills letter is addressed to Betty and Mary Parker here in 1945.

 Autumn 1961, Billy A Eicher, Marjorie Root Eicher, Betty Eicher, Virginia Magee Weaver and Noah Elwood Weaver takin at Wm and Marjorie home in  Kettering OH

1961 Eichers likely at Emma Esther Eicher's home, east of West Carrollton.  Bill, William H Eicher, Emma Esther Eicher (seated), Margie Root Eicher, Ethyl Elizabeth "Betty" Eicher.....

 Charles A Eicher Summary of family genealogy when he worked in West Carrollton and Lived in Miamisburg

 1902 Franklin OH HS diploma for Mary Parker Brown

 1939 Spring Betty Eicher, graduated from Ohio State with a BA in literature.

 Dec 1939 "(Miss) Elizabeth Eicher, 403 Park Avenue, Franklin Ohio.

 Letter from her dad, CA Eicher addressed to 403 Park Ave in Franklin in 1944.

Betty Eicher's diploma BA from OSU, 1939

 
MA 1940 graduate school in writing and literature by Ethel Elizabeth Eicher.  According to Billy her nephew she hated the name Ethyl and always went with Betty with friends and family

Mariam AKA Mary Parker Brown and Betty lived together in Franklin in the 1940's. Here is her BA from 

-->Vassar  June 8, 1905.  Mary was born in Illinois, and she had one brother Berry Jr.  Berry Brown Sr was from Kentucky.

 

Clipping from Lakeland FL newspaper much later in Betty's life when she was living in Lakeland Florida