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2022

Our Current method for Fun and Community are the Pop Up Lunches.....Watch for mails announcing where and when!!!

 

Our GREAT 50th is all over.  Please check out the personal pictures that classmates will be posting.  Thank you all for coming home to the Burg.  You made it our BEST reunion ever.

 

 

 

55TH "Mini" Reunion

September 17th, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Our Mount Lebanon High School classmate, Dr. Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough, has been awarded the 2022 Mount Lebanon High School Great Alumni Award. Gayla's nomination was supported by recommendation letters from several '67 classmates, as well as numerous academic and professional colleagues who have worked alongside Gayla over the years.

The Mount Lebanon High School Alumni web site describes the Great Alumni Award as follows: "The Great Alumni Award is a project of the Mt. Lebanon High School Student Council. Administrators, faculty, students, and alumni serve on the selection committee. This is the 16th year of the award program. The recipients of the Great Alumni Award are selected based on exceptional work in at least one of the following areas: improvement in the lives of others, involvement in community service or achievement in a professional field."

Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough has been President of KH Consulting Group (KH) since she founded the firm in 1986. KH specializes in strategic planning, organizational design, human resources, and process improvements. Much of her work involves local, state, and federal government agencies; high education and K-12 educational systems; nonprofits; transportation systems; utilities; and health care providers. In addition, Gayla is an Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Gayla received awards for being a successful businesswoman entrepreneur, as well as a proclamation of appreciation from the City of Los Angeles and County of Los Angeles. Added to this is her career as a screenwriter and producer of several award-winning screenplays.

Over the years, Gayla applied energy, creativity, and dedication to the common good in all her endeavors. All of us can be proud of Gayla and glad to have known her in high school and beyond. She represents the talent and accomplishments of all of us. Yes, the Lebo Class of 1967 is special. It was said then and it remains true now.

 

 

 

 

 

I am sorry to report that Ted Swisher died on July 8. For those who haven't followed his life, below is part of the application which I submitted to the HS in 2019 to have Ted recognized as a Great Alumni. Due to COVID, the selection process was delayed and he wasn't selected until shortly below his death. He and the others who were selected will be noted at the football game on October. I wrote:

"Ted basically has been a volunteer his entire life. As one of his college roommates wrote: “You have
taken, whatever you have done for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for
me (Mat. 25:40), to a whole new level.” Another college roommate wrote: “On the first day of our
freshman year, we heard the phrase, “Princeton in the Nation’s Service”.  Your career is what they
meant.” 
I think it is helpful to understand Ted’s path following his graduation from Princeton in June of 1971.
Needless to say, this path was not necessarily what one would have expected for a Mt. Lebanon graduate
who was president of the student body, a PA state champion wrestler and co-captain of its WPIAL
championship football team.
A sociology major, Ted spent the second semester of his junior year at Princeton (a time when college
campuses were buzzing with dissension over the Vietnam war and the bombings in Cambodia) studying
(and assisting ) a relatively new organization named Koinonia Partners, a Christian community and farm
serving an under-privileged population in Americus, Georgia. (Yes, former President Jimmy Carter’s
country and, yes, Ted has spent a number of occasions with the former President and his wife Rosalyn.)
Ted wrote his senior thesis on the organization.
Ted was so moved by the experience that he went back to Americus after graduation and became
Koinonia’s Executive Director. Ted was instrumental in expanding Koinonia’s services into housing,
childcare and income generating businesses for the local population. (Please refer to his attached
resume for further information on its growth under his leadership).
Millard Fuller, one of the founders of Koinonia and a resident there with his family, founded Habitat
and its Fund for Humanity in 1976 with the goal of eliminating “poverty housing” in Sumter County,
GA.    Ted eventually joined Habitat and assumed leadership roles in it, becoming the first Director of
Affiliates for Habitat for Humanity International in 1983. Over the next 5 years he helped it grow from
22 to 360 affiliates. From 1989 to 1991, he was responsible for creating Habitat’s affiliate program in
Australia. His subsequent work in Habitat’s then home county of Sumter County Georgia and then as
Habitat’s Vice President for the United States and Canada also is described in the attached resume."

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PROFILE UPDATES


•   Steven Hirsch  3/17
•   Arthur Raguso  3/16
•   Frank Walters  3/5
•   Marilyn Kodish (Sutherland)  3/1
•   Cathy Tuttle  2/29
•   Andrew MacPherson  2/22
•   Bruce Clagg  1/29
•   Marjie Harris  1/26
•   Fred Cramer  1/21
•   Jim Wicker  1/16
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW


WHERE WE LIVE


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3 live in Alabama
9 live in Arizona
36 live in California
12 live in Colorado
8 live in Connecticut
2 live in Delaware
36 live in Florida
14 live in Georgia
4 live in Hawaii
1 lives in Idaho
9 live in Illinois
5 live in Indiana
3 live in Kansas
4 live in Kentucky
1 lives in Louisiana
1 lives in Maine
16 live in Maryland
8 live in Massachusetts
10 live in Michigan
2 live in Minnesota
1 lives in Mississippi
3 live in Missouri
1 lives in Montana
1 lives in Nevada
3 live in New Hampshire
4 live in New Jersey
3 live in New Mexico
9 live in New York
11 live in North Carolina
18 live in Ohio
3 live in Oregon
185 live in Pennsylvania
2 live in Rhode Island
5 live in South Carolina
4 live in Tennessee
11 live in Texas
3 live in Utah
1 lives in Vermont
12 live in Virginia
3 live in Washington
7 live in West Virginia
2 live in Wisconsin
1 lives in British Columbia
1 lives in Egypt
1 lives in Switzerland
1 lives in United Kingdom
57 location unknown
100 are deceased