PORTAGE NORTHERN HIGH SCHOOL Class of 1979

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!     Sunday, December 26, 2010 79er Holiday Huddle Burdick's @ the Radisson, 8 p.m.     Sunday, July 31 to Sunday, August 7, 2011 (dates tentative) 79ers Celebrate the big 5-0 Carnival Cruise Join the 79ers for 7 days as they cruise aboard a Carnival "Fun Ship" from Florida to Grand Cayman, Belize, Roatan (Honduras) and Cozumel.  More details available soon!     August 1 - 3, 2014 (dates tentative)     PNHS Class of 1979 35-year Reunion The Radisson @ the Kalamazoo Center

30-YEAR REUNION RECAP         Our attempts to take one, big group photo failed miserably! Click here to see photos from the 30-year Reunion weekend.   PNHS 30-YEAR REUNION WEEKEND BY THE NUMBERS There are 463 classmate names on the master list. Invitations were sent via e-mail/snail mail to 343 classmates. Addresses could not be found for 104 classmates. There are 16 classmates that will forever be in our memories. 26 people (classmates & guests) played golf on Friday morning. 3 classmates were golf spectators and 3 more joined in the 19th hole. 36 pints of blood were collected at the PNHS 79er Memorial Blood Drive. A large group of classmates, guests and their kids toured the school and got the highlights of the PNHS major school construction projects. 20 people gathered at Prairie View Park early Friday evening. An even larger group (90-100?) gathered at Wayside West later Friday night. Tom & Grayson Janke and Carol Christianson helped Rick DeKam with a community service project at Camp Rota Kiwan on Saturday morning. The Janke family went to the Lake Michigan beach at Van Buren State Park. 96 classmates and 52 guests attended the Reunion Dinner at the Air Zoo. Many classmates lasted until at least 4 a.m. at the Radisson after-parties. 8 classmates and 2 guests dragged themselves out of bed for brunch on Sunday morning.

RECENT GATHERINGS Several of our classmates gathered at Fat Tony's on Saturday evening, October 10, 2009.  Here are a few of the photos ... FACEBOOK Have you been avoiding Facebook, even though several of your friends have invited you to create your profile? Here's just one more reason you should finally give in — there are more than 125 people from the PNHS Class of 1979  keeping in touch there! CLASS NOTES DO YOU HAVE NEWS YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE? Graduations, weddings, grandbabies, etc.? Keep your classmates posted on the news in your life. Send your news and photos to the webmaster ...