Contributed photo.
The Clarke Community High School Class of 1962 held their 55th reunion Saturday, July 8, at The Meeting Place in Osceola.
The graduating class of 1962 was the first class to graduate from the new high school and the first class to graduate with the new school name of Clarke Community High School, the first class to host an AFS Foreign Exchange Student Gunilla Risberg of Sweden.
A group of classmates meet on the third Thursday of each month for lunch at Playa Margareta’s in Osceola. Up to 15 classmates and a few spouses attend. This was started after the 50th class reunion. Anyone from other classes is very welcome to join the group for lunch.
Pictured, front row left to right, Tim LaPlaunt, St. Charles, Missouri; Marie (Freeman) Glafka, Vancouver, Washington; Royanna (Hukill) Spencer, Osceola; Deloris (Morris) Reasoner, Osceola; Jack Ellis, Osceola. Second row, left to right, Mary (Poil) Burdess, Osceola; Diane (Estes) Olsen, Cedar Rapids; Sondra (Dillener) Astfalk, West Burlington; Rose (Edgington) Harper, Muscatine; Glenda McKnight, Osceola; Alice (Kearney) Davis, Murray; Rosemary (Hunt) Cooley, Osceola. Third row, left to right, Glenn Davenport, Osceola; Doris (Hotovec) Stubbs, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Laura (Mitchell) Ritzenthaler, North Bend, Washington; Sue (Spencer) Keeler, Weldon; Evelyn (Kerns) Pritchard, Osceola; Karen (Ford) Smith, Fredrick, Colorado; Marie (Gardner) White, Osceola; Betty (McCloney) Dickey, Indianola. Fourth row, left to right, Jack Cooley, Osceola; Jim Kilkenny, Earlham; Ralph Childers, Des Moines; Ron Black, Brownwood, Texas; Wendell Dickey, Urbandale; Roy Franks, Cedar Park, Texas; Loretta (Maki) Cowman-Alborn, Des Moines; Avonelle (Lamb) Sorensen, Mason City.