Submitted by John Reque
BALDWIN, WI – Members of the Spring Valley High School Class of 1949 will gather for their 75th Annual Reunion on Friday, August 2 at the Phoenix Restaurant in Baldwin.
“We believe we are the first SVHS class to hold a 75th reunion,” said John Reque, who with Carol Karnes Bevill is serving on the reunion committee.
Of the 57 class members who graduated in 1949, nine are still living, three men and six women. The committee expects an attendance of between four and seven classmates.
“It’s just lunch,” said Reque, explaining that the event coincides with annual SVHS reunions at the Phoenix on the first Friday of August. “We’ve had 13 reunion gatherings – every five years since our tenth reunion in 1959 – and we’d like to keep them going.”
The largest SVHS class of ’49 reunion was the 50th, in 1999 when 32 grads met for a weekend that included a banquet at the Coachman Supper Club, tours of the old and new high school, and a St. Croix River brunch cruise.
