WINTER NEWSLETTER - 2017 The Winter Newsletter will be posted online at the BBHHS Alumni Association website. Since we are no longer mailing the Winter Newsletter, please continue to support your Alumni Association by paying your dues. By paying your dues, you will receive the Pollen Count which is mailed in the spring. Please use the Dues Form located on Page 16 of the Winter Newsletter. Thank You! 2017-2018 Alumni Association Officers President Dan Biggs ’60 330-468-2866 [email protected] 1st Vice-President Jeanne Carouse Travaglianti ‘75 440-667-9803 [email protected] 2nd Vice-President (Pollen Count) Annette Hess Mantkowski ‘74 330-730-2478 [email protected] Honorary Vice-President Steven Ast, H.S. Principal Recording Secretary Nestor Labyk ’72 440-717-1554 [email protected] Treasurer Tom Harris ’64 330-467-6735 [email protected] 50th Year Representatives Tom Hoffman [email protected] Jane Schlensker Cooper [email protected] Committee Chairmen: Alumni Computer Records Annette Hess Mantkowski ’74 330-730-2478 [email protected] Winter Newsletter Editor Barb Konya ‘78 440-570-3323 [email protected] Pancake Breakfast Dan Biggs ’60 330-468-2866 [email protected] ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WEBSITE LOCATION: www.bbhcsd.org-Click on District; Click on Related Organizations Tab; Click on Alumni Association re WE ARE ON FACEBOOK - Like us on Facebook @ BBHHS Alumni Association WE ARE ALSO ON INSTAGRAM at Beesalumni BBHHSAA [email protected] We would like to thank Jeff Watkins '86 and Barbara Nowacki Berry '78 for their efforts to bring the Alumni Association into current Social Media Technology. 2017-2018 Alumni Association Meeting Schedule December 12, 2017……….7:00P.M. - Creekside Restaurant & Bar (Christmas Party) March 13, 2018.................. 7:00 P.M. – Simon’s Restaurant & Deli June 12, 2018......................7:00 P.M. – Simon’s Restaurant & Deli Please Join us! We welcome new faces, ideas, and suggestions! 1 BRECKSVILLE HOME DAYS -June 29, 30, July 1, 2018 The BBHHS Alumni Association will once again hold its annual Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, June 30th and Sunday, July 1st, 2018. Breakfast will be served from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The cost for Adults is $5.00 and for Children (under 12) $3.00. To volunteer please contact Dan Biggs ’60 at 330- 468-2866.or [email protected]. We appreciate your support! BBHHS Alumni Association Banquet Mark Your Calendars! The annual 2018 Alumni Association Banquet will be held on Friday, June 29th, 2018 at the Crowne Plaza on Rockside Road in Independence. The th Class of 1968 will be celebrating their 50 class reunion. All alumni are invited to attend the annual banquet. If you would like to reserve a table for a group of your classmates, please contact Brenda Fraley Kolchin ’62 at [email protected]. The Alumni Banquet is from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. for cocktails with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $34.00 per person with a cash bar. More details will follow in the Spring Pollen Count. See the Banquet Reservation Form in Winter Newsletter on Page 15! Class of ’68 contacts are Tom Hoffman at [email protected] or Jan Cooper Schlensker at [email protected]. FAVORITE TEACHER OR FACULTY MEMBER The Alumni Association has an annual section in the Pollen Count dedicated to your favorite teacher, faculty, or staff member. We would like alumni to please take the time to express how a teacher, faculty or staff member made a difference in their lives. More articles are needed for the 2018 publication. Please send your article to Annette Hess Mantkowski by February 15, 2018 at [email protected]. FACULTY CORNER For the last few years, the Alumni Association has had an annual section in the Pollen Count dedicated to your favorite Teacher, faculty, or staff member. We call it the “Faculty Corner”. We would like alumni to take time to express how a teacher, faculty, or staff member has made a difference in their lives. We would like to have more articles for next year’s Pollen Count. Please send your articles to Annette Hess Mantkowski at [email protected]. Please check out a Facebook page called “Thank a Brecksville-Broadview Heights teacher”. The link is www.facebook.com/groups/2235300601091522/. On this Facebook page, alumni share special thoughts and experiences about a favorite teacher, faculty, or staff member and that mentioned teacher, faculty, or staff member may respond to the writer. This page was set up to encourage dialog between teachers, faculty, and staff members with their now-adult students, our alumni. Pollen Count Deadline Please submit items to be published in the spring issue of the Pollen Count no later than February 15, 2018. These items can either be2 sent to the BBHHS Alumni Association at 6380 Mill Road, Broadview Hts., OH 44147, or send by e-mail to Annette Hess Mantkowski at [email protected]. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE POLLEN COUNT!! Advertising is open to BBHHS graduates only. Send us your business card with your year of graduation and maiden name written on the back of the card only. Please send your donation of $20.00 per business card to the BBHHS Alumni Association, 6380 Mill Road, Broadview Hts., OH 44147. These must be received no later than February 15, 2018 If you have any question regarding advertising, you can contact Denise Turk Bowler ’71 at [email protected]. 47th Annual Brecksville Round-UP 2018 Save the date! The 47th annual Brecksville Round-Up in Florida will be held Saturday, March 3, 2018. There will be cocktails and coffee starting at 10:30a.m., and an unbelievable buffet lunch at 12:30p.m. For anyone who doesn’t know about the Round-Up, it is a reunion for all former and current Brecksville/Broadview Heights High School alumni and residents now residing or visiting Florida and want to catch up with friends and hear news of the goings on back home. The Round-Up is held at Circles Waterfront Restaurant located in beautiful Apollo Beach, Florida. Circles Waterfront Restaurant is owned by Don Granowicz ’62. Anyone who attended last year knows what a wonderful party Don, Donna, and their family throw for us! The price of the Round-Up is $30 per person. If you would like to receive information about the 2018 Round- Up (to be sent in late January 2018) or to update your e-mail address, please send your name and e-mail address to Wendy Bell Rossiter ’83 at [email protected] or by phone: 941-350-0759. Hope to See You There! PLEASE use our new email address [email protected] to send us any change to your contact information. Feel free to send in any questions you may have about alumni dues, reunions, the alumni banquet, the pancake breakfast, volunteer opportunities and suggestions you may have. 3 BEES GEAR We are frequently asked where alumni can purchase Bees gear, especially items with the old happy bee. Gear can be purchased online or via phone. Interested in wearing Bees caps, jackets, sweatshirts, tees and more? Want to purchase an item as a gift for a special occasion? Click, call, or visit Star Sports for all the latest Bees apparel. They have many designs in stock. If you want the traditional happy bee embroidered on an item, just ask. They can put the happy bee on almost anything they carry. See their online store at: www.starsportsoh.com or call 440- 838-3313 and speak to alumni and owner, John Starinsky '83. You can also visit their store located at 7032 Mill Road, Brecksville. GO BEES! ALUMNI FAMILY HISTORIES We all have enjoyed reading histories about the Wallace family, the Wood family, the Dillow family, the Lockert family, the Reed family, the Carter family, and the Bratton family. We would like to publish at least one family history every year about a Brecksville or Broadview Heights family/and or business. If you would like to have your family history published, please contact Annette Hess Mantkowski at [email protected]. ARTICLES YOU MISSED BY NOT SUBSCRIBING TO THE POLLEN COUNT Brecksville Round-Up 2017 Alumni Annual Golf Outing 2016 The Wallace, Wood, Dillow, Lockert and Reed Family by Midge Wood Cassidy ‘48 Childhood Games and Songs Happily, Ever After In Memoriam Articles for Alumni & Staff Who Have Passed Gallery of Achievement 2016 Inductees Favorite Teacher Corner Class Reunions & Class News And Much, Much More!! 4 BBHHS Alumni Association Pancake Breakfast - PLEASE VOLUNTEER We are looking for an individual, individuals or class members to take over the organizing and running of the annual Alumni Association Pancake Breakfast at Brecksville Home Days 2018. In the past, the Class of 1956, Hank ’56 and Janet Burgers James’56, Elaine Zimlich Tupa ’56, Jerry ’57 and Sally Gunner, Dan Biggs ’60, and Gary '74 & Annette Hess Mantkowski '74 have all stepped forward to keep this event a part of Brecksville Home Days. We need your help to keep it going. It is the only annual fundraiser the Alumni Association holds, and it would be unfortunate for it to become thing of the past. So please step forward and volunteer! If you are interested, please contact Dan Biggs at 330-468-2866 or e-mail him at [email protected]. Childhood Games and Songs By Annette Hess Mantkowski ‘74 Over the last few years we have reminisced with Don Faulhaber playing Crack the Whip and with other alumni remembering how to play SPUD and sing jump rope songs. Why these songs stayed with us over the years is a mystery.