CARLISLE HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1965
Updated: March 6, 2025
Class of 1965, 60th Reunion, First Notice
The Reunion Committee is planning our 60th reunion celebration in the Carlisle area for Summer or early Fall 2025. We don't have any details pinned down yet, but we'll have them in the Second Notice on this page soon, and in separate correspondence. The current focus is to have an indoor reception and dinner gathering at a Carlisle area location where everything is taken care of by the facility for the ease of classmates. Points of contact on the Committee are as follows:
Patty Shank, [email protected], cell & text 717-385-9866
Darlene Smith, [email protected]
Bob McCanna, [email protected], cell & text 571-340-0540
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UPDATE October 12, 2021
Dear Classmates,
Our 56th reunion held at the Cumberland County Historical Society in downtown Carlisle on September 18, 2021, went off smoothly on a beautiful late summer evening with lots of fun, food, music and shared memories. With close to 80 attendees and considering all the setbacks we faced over the last many months with Covid-19 and the Delta variant, feedback adjudged it a big success. We purposely produced a DVD video for the event compiled from prior year reunion pictures and other classmate memorabilia that we played on an overhead projector throughout the night and updated afterwards with pictures from that night that the Reunion Committee is now offering for sale at the nominal cost of $5. If you'd like an updated DVD that runs for about 43 minutes, please contact Bob McCanna at email: [email protected].
As we begin to consider planning for the 60th reunion in 2025, we seek your help tracking down classmates listed below that we've lost contact with, and will appreciate any starting point you might have whether phone number, email or postal address. Send any leads to Patty Shank at: [email protected].
All the very best,
Class of 1965 Reunion Committee
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UPDATE JUNE 15, 2021
Dear Classmates,
For those of you that didn't receive either an email or mailed invite to the September 18, 2021, reunion or for whatever reason need another one to fill out and send in, attached below is an invite for your use.
We on the reunion committee look forward to seeing you in September or at least hearing from you if you can't make it. The Point of Contact info. to send us correspondence and pictures is in the invite below. We plan to show your correspondence and picture(s) on a digital display during the reunion so please caption them to be easily identified. The Point of Contact info. for mailing your check, if you plan to attend, is also in the invite below. In case you're wondering, we intend having a 60th reunion in 2025, so stay healthy, it's only four years away!
CHS Class of 1965 Reunion Committee
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UPDATE APRIL 30, 2021
Dear Classmates,
The Reunion Committee has met several times in the last couple of weeks to discuss having our belated 55th reunion this year and concluded that we'll go for it on SEP. 18th. SAVE THIS DATE. We plan to have it in downtown Carlisle at the Cumberland County Historical Society's Todd Hall and its adjacent garden park, 21 N. Pitt St., from 4 to 8 P.M. A catered dinner will be served at around 6 P.M. with drink setups and beer included, but importantly, BYOB. The price for the Reunion is still uncertain due in large part to not knowing how many folks will attend, but we're trying to keep it at $30 or under per head, update to follow. Music will be provided by renowned DJs in a casual setting. Parking is free downtown on Saturdays, and we are looking in the immediate vicinity for additional parking lots which we'll update in a future announcement. Covid-19 protocols at the time of the reunion will be in effect.
Points of Contact in below correspondence remain the same, although you can also reach Bob McCanna at another email: [email protected]
We hope to see all of you in September!
All the best and hope you are well,
Class of 1965 Reunion Committee
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*****ATTENTION, ATTENTION*****
Dear Classmates,
The 55th Reunion Committee (current members Patty Shank, Darlene Smith, Bob McCanna; and others soon to be signed-up: Skip Hockley, Bud Knouse, Shermaine Hodge Rideout, and Milt Beebe) plan to reassemble (virtually or otherwise) early next Spring to assess the status of safely gathering in the Fall of 2021, and at that time we will issue another email message notifying you of our early 2021 planning efforts. In the meantime, we will be contacting the High School Alumni Page Point Of Contact to post notice of this year’s reunion postponement on our class page (hereby done) and later on add other useful information to that page with regard to reunion news when we have it.
For your additional information, we will also be sending out postcards to each of our classmates that don't have email addresses (or that we don't know about), alerting them to the postponement. Chances are, we'll also be sending out another email message like this one to catch the few classmates on email we missed with this message.
Between now and next Spring, feel free to contact Reunion Committee Members below for updates to email addresses, USPS addresses, or other items that would be useful for the Reunion Committee or our Classmates to know about or consider:
Patty Shank ([email protected])
Darlene Smith ([email protected])
Bob McCanna ([email protected])
If you'd be interested in joining the Committee for next year’s planning efforts, we'd also be interested in hearing from you.
All the very best to each of you,
CHS Class of 1965 55th Reunion Committee