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BOWEN57 A Website for the Bowen High School Class of 1957 |
Hello Bowen High School Class of 1957 Alumni! |
This website is a place to communicate with your fellow classmates, and to view photos, stories, and memories of your high school days. Your submissions are always welcome. To view the mail list "click" on the link below. Please help us to keep our mail list up-to-date. Send any changes or additions to : hdvorin@sbcglobal.net. |
Check out our updated 2007 Reunion Page for more photos, including the two group pictures. If we have mis-identified anyone, please let us know so that we can make corrections. Do you have a Caldwell group picture? We would like to add one to the website. |
James H. Bowen High School 2710 E. 89th Street Chicago, IL 60617 Principal: Dr. Hildegard Romberg Asst. Principal: Eli Goldberg School Colors: Purple & Gold Nickname: Bowen Boilermakers School Newspaper: Bowen Arrow Chicago Public Schools Website for Bowen High School "Up in the morning and off to school the teacher is teaching the golden rule. American history and pracitcal math you study them hard, hoping to pass..." Chuck Berry /Schooldays |
CLASS NEWS AND NOTES |
Hal Barnett passes along information about two class members who are well known artists: Steven Horan & Karl Wirsum. Their work can be seen at these three websites: Art By Steven Horan, Jean Albano Art Gallery, and Chicago Archtecture. |
Beer, Beer for Old Bowen High You bring the whiskey & I'll bring the rye Send a freshman out for gin Don't let a sober sophomore in We never stagger, we never fall We sober up on pure alcohol While our loyal faculty lies drunk on the barroom floor... |
Sung to the tune of Notre Dame's fight song. |
"The Bowen High School Fight Song" |
We now have a list of deceased classmates. You can find it on our "Gone, But Not Forgotten" page. If you know of anyone who's name should be on this list, please let me know at hdvorin@sbcglobal.net. |
Ken Levinson recently retired from Amtrak where he worked as a Dining Car Steward for many years. This was Ken's second career and was prompted by his love of trains. Ken and Jan will be moving from Laguna Hills, CA to Ft. Collins, CO this Fall and while cleaning their attic found a photo of the Luella School January 1953 graduating class. Several of those pictured are a part of our Bowen57 group. See our Memories Page for a 1955 article about his appearance on the Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour. |
We recently heard from Hal Barnett and Larry Smith, both of whom live in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D. C. Check out Hal's article on our Memories page and Larry's on Our Classmates' Stories page. |
Alan Simon sent an email note saying he is hoping to make it to the Reunion. See his submission to our Classmates' Stories section. |
Merle Berkovsky Lask writes that her grandchildren have had a lot of fun looking at our website. Two girls ages 15 & 9 live a block away from her, and a boy age 6 and a girl age 3 live only 10 minutes away. How lucky! See the Memories Page for her thoughts about Mrs. Goode. |
Caroline Saric Magsaysay checks in with a reminiscence of her Bowen days. See it on our Memories Page. |
Also on our Memories Page is an obituary for Coach Lou Wasserman, who passed away in May 2000. Hey, all you former football players out there! What are your memories of Coach Wasserman? Let's hear from you. You know who you are! |
Dee Mrkacek Husselbee hosted a "mini" 40-year reunion for some of her June classmates in 1997. See the photo and find out more on Our Classmates' Stories page. |
Our Memories page has obituaries of former Bowen teachers: Edythe M. Lynch, Loretta Fitzgerald, Isabelle O. Smith, and Carl Gustafson. We recently added two new obituaries: Eli J. Goldberg and Doris Karpen. |
We received a message from Marilyn McCleary Rolff that they were not going to be able to attend this year's reunion. She included was a note with some thoughts on friendship that she and Christine Johnson Morgan wanted to share. It is on Our Classmates' Stories page. |
June class members we need your help! Does any one have a group photo from your 1982 Reunion? It would be great to add it to our website. The photo taken on May 12, 1967 at the 10th year reunion of the June class has a lot of unidentified people in it. Were you in that picture? Do you know any of the names we missed? Check out that page and let us know. |