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.