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First
all-class reunion draws Walsenburg grads 50 years distant
Grads
from Walsenburg High and St. Mary’s renew old friendships
Joe
Feiccabrino and his wife Emma graduated in 1935 from Huerfano
County High School and are the senior of all the graduates
represented at the reunion on Saturday, Sept. 5 at the Community
Center.
Joe
spoke briefly of the changes that have occured in Walsenburg
since his graduation. —World photo by Bill Knowles
By
Bill Knowles
World Staff Writer
WALSENBURG—Former
Walsenburg High School, Huerfano High School, and St. Mary’s
High School graduates from 18 states and 27 cities in Colorado
celebrated friendships and mourned losses on Saturday, Sept. 5,
at the Huerfano County Community Center during the first annual
All Walsenburg Class Reunion.
More than 300 area graduates filled most of the lodging in the
county and found that, despite many changes, friendships remain a changeless
thing.
“The biggest change in Walsenburg has been the loss of a lot of
businesses,” Joe Feiccabrino, a 1935 graduate from Huerfano County
High School, said. “There used to be a lot more grocery stores
and dry goods stores then. We even had a JCPenny store.”
Feiccabrino and his wife Emma, the most senior of the graduates,
have been married for 65 years and have lived in Walsenburg all their
lives. They have three children, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
The reunion was the brainchild of Paulette Stuart.
“I was working on putting together our 45th class reunion when one of the
other
ladies mentioned we might put on an all-class reunion,” she said. “That
was a year ago and now we have the first one.”
The reunion’s organizing committee was able to get a website built at myevent.com
The URL is www.allwalsenburgreunion.myevent.
At first nothing happened but after a short while the website began receiving
hundreds of hits from former students from Walsenburg schools.
They began registering in mass until registration was stopped with 334 names
on the list.
According to Stuart, it was a lot of work putting the reunion together, but she
hopes it is the first of many All-Walsenburg Class Reunions to be held in a city
that keeps drawing its sons and daughters back.
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