For the 1964 LaSalle Peru Township high school graduating class, it was an eventful year.

The Beatles topped the music charts, while the country still mourned the death of JFK. Congress approved and President Johnson signed the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act, while it also approved the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, dragging the US into the ill-fated Vietnam War. The US Surgeon General announced that cigarette smoking was bad for one’s health, but then didn’t we already know that? Didn’t we call cigarettes coffin nails? My Fair Lady won best movie Oscar, and Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa.

Somehow, though, we were oblivious to all these events at the time and went on our way enjoying our senior year in high school, and making promises about how we would stay in touch after graduation. This website is dedicated to the L-P Class of 1964. Maybe in some small way, all these many years later, it will help us keep those promises.

 

 
What's New
Lou Wayker RIP
Lucile Wayker 84 year old Lucile Wayker of La Salle died Sunday in Illinois Valley Community Hospital. Services will be Wednesday at 11:00 in St. Patrick's Church in La Salle. Burial will be in St. Vincent's Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday from five until eight in the Hurst Funeral Home in La Salle and Wednesday from 10:00 until 10:45 in the funeral home. She's survived by her daughter Ruthetta "Tetta" Davis and son Michael of Spring Valley, one sister, and one brother. Lucile Wayker owned and operated Wayker's Store in La Salle for 27 years.


Ray Brolley
Ray Brolley, one of our English and Homeroom teachers, died February 2, 2010 at home in Oglesby. He was 85. May he rest in peace.


In Remembrance
We miss these classmates. May they rest in peace.


45TH OUR BEST REUNION EVER
That is the consensus of classmates who attended our L-P Class of 1964 45th reunion September 18-19. The two venues, Jim & Linda's Riverview in Peru Friday and Deer Park Country Club Saturday were excellent, and the weather was perfect all weekend. Jim & Linda's has a patio so we were all able to enjoy a lovely evening outside with the cool and dry weather. Deer Park remodeled in the last year and it really is in great shape, inside and out. Al Lesyinski (who lives in Arizona) was the MC Saturday night and did a bang up job, with the perfect mixture of laughter and nostalgia.

About 110 people attended Friday night's event and more than 100 were there Saturday night. Together, about 130 people attended both nights, including a good number who previously had never attended a reunion. It was great to see everyone. Both nights, the visiting and conversation went well past midnight, and there was even dancing at Deer Park into the early morning! About 40 classmates enjoyed a nice tour of the school Saturday morning. Matthiessen Auditorium is still beautiful, and the woodwork and stained glass windows throughout the building are fabulous. The old gym has a different coat of paint, a new floor, and the bleachers are gone, but otherwise it brought back many memories, as did the swimming pool. Also Saturday, a number of classmates enjoyed a round of golf at Deer Park. The weather was perfect, if the golf wasn't.

It was great fun, and thanks goes to the reunion committee of Jane (Pomatto) Riva, Judy (Franken) Raccuglia, and Janet (Gapinski) LeRette for a job well done.

Reunion photos will be up on the class website (www.1964LP.com) in the next few weeks. We welcome current photos for the class website. Mail them to Class of 1964, 2416 Terrace Way, Columbia, SC 29205 or email lpclass1964@aol.com. Also, reunion booklets are available for $7.50. Please use the same mailing and email addresses. Look forward to seeing you at our 50th reunion in 2014!


Music from the 50's and 60's
If you love late 50's & 60's music this is for you. The jukebox has lots of great oldie songs that you're sure to remember. Just go to Links and click the 50's and 60's music link and you will see the years, then click and the songs will play right away ... http://www.tropicalglen.com/index.html