Posted: 6/29/06
Friday start of all-class reunion
By Joel Stottrup
Approximately 600 people are registered for the Princeton High School all-class reunion this weekend. That includes alumni and guests.
Banquets are scheduled for the reunion Friday afternoon into evening at the hockey arena. The first banquet is for those in the classes from 1924 to 1954 and will run from 3 to 6 p.m.
The second banquet is for classes from 1955 through 2004 and will last from 6 p.m. until midnight.
The start times for serving food are 4 p.m. for the first banquet and 7 p.m. for the second.
The banquets are only for those who have registered. But all are welcome to attend the dance which will start at 7 p.m. and run for about four hours Saturday evening, featuring the deejay, Music in Motion. Admission for those not registered is $5.
'We want to encourage people to come to that dance,' said Shirley Wilken, one of the organizers of the all-class reunion.
A committee is decorating the arena this week for the events.
There will be three other Princeton school reunions during the weekend, all on Saturday.
One is the gathering for those who attended the Greenbush East 4 country school. They will meet from 9 a.m. until noon at the old schoolhouse, which is now the Greenbush Town Hall.
Another reunion will be for the Class of 1946 at K-Bob Cafe.
The third reunion is for the Class of 1951 and will be at the John and Lorraine Pike home.
Book authors Grace Terry and Leslie Anderson will be at the hockey arena from 3 to 6 p.m. Friday for book sales.
Terry authored 'Once Upon A River,' which is a century of Princeton history until the 1950s.
Anderson wrote 'Memories of a Country Boy/Newspaper Man.'
Ramona Moore will be at the historical society museum at 7 p.m. Friday offering a book that she put together of writings by her father Warren Vincent. It is about his work on the railroad and is called 'Tales From the Sandhouse.' Authors Anderson and Terry are also scheduled to show up there at that time.
Moore lives in Princeton, Anderson in Elk River and Terry in Oklahoma. Terry grew up in Princeton and is a graduate of Princeton High School.
Mille Lacs County Historical Society president Penny Quast said that Terry will speak Friday evening at about 7 at the museum regarding Princeton history.
Next, Barry Schreiber, with the historical society, will give a talk with illustrations about the historical society's Last Train to Princeton project.
Finally, local pastor Bob Hasinfelt is scheduled to give a slide show that evening on photos of buildings and people in Princeton, and photos taken during the city's centennial celebration.
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