Welcome to the WHS Alumni Association
by Nik Outchcunis - July 22nd, 2009We are pleased that you are visiting the website for the Wareham High School Alumni Association!
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July 23rd, 2009 at 11:35 am #
Welcome to the WHS Alumni comment page. We hope that you will visit this site often. We’d love to hear from you.
Claire
July 25th, 2009 at 7:28 pm #
Glad to see the comment area back up and running. Looks like we lost some of the earlier message traffic. Had my sister (Lorelei White Cannon WHS ‘59)and her husband Carl Cannon visiting us this week. We all went to Georgetown to see some plantations and later Myrtle Beach for dinner at The Dead Dog Saloon. Our Charlottesville VA grands came with their parents to visit with them. It’s been a nice week. :-)
August 18th, 2009 at 8:03 pm #
Hello John
Long time no talk too!!! Very glad to hear you and Colleen are doing well in retirement. We spent all summer (such as it was) camping. We now have a 34ft RV and we go whenever we can. We did get to PA this summer and just last week to NH and then down to Kingston, RI. We need to get the class of ‘65 up and running for a reunion next summer. I had heard a rumor that Mike Stonefield had stated he would run it!!! He is now living in SC.. Maybe he is on so we will see something from him..
Ginny
August 24th, 2009 at 4:18 am #
Hi Ginny,
Great hearing from you. Since Mike is now living here in South Carolina, it would be nice to see him. Do you know where he is or how to reach him?
Glad to hear that you are enjoying the RV life. On your next trip to the south, be sure to put Fork, SC in your GPS(Myrtle Beach area)and stop by for a visit.
Actually, I’m still working 3 days a week. I can’t seem to completely cut that cord from the working world. Coleen and I do enjoy those 4 days weekends every week. We are off to Charlottesville VA this weekend to see our VA grands. In October, we will vsiit our NY grandson in Rochester.
We recently bought a Mustang GT and have enjoyed getting out on the highway in this sporty car. It’s been a lot of fun.
Once again, GREAT hearing from you. Let me know what you find out about where Mike is living in South Carolina. Keep in touch.
s/ John :-)
August 24th, 2009 at 7:28 pm #
John
I got this address off the Member directory.
5805 Longleaf Drive
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
I do hope that this helps…I will send more info later. Home late tonight…
August 25th, 2009 at 7:18 pm #
Gosh Ginny, I thought I was susposed to be the detective! GREAT job! Many thanks. We’re headed to Charlottesville VA this weekend, but I will get with Mike afterwards. Coleen and I are about an hour from the beach.
s/ John :-)
September 12th, 2009 at 8:36 pm #
If anyone has Mike Stonefield’s email or phone number in Myrtle Beach, please email it to me at johnandcoleen@hughes.net. Apparently, it’s not listed. I’ll try dropping him a note at the address Ginny gave above.
s/ John (Porter) Harlow WHS 1965 :-)
Fork SC
September 28th, 2009 at 8:29 pm #
Mike Stonefield and I have played phone tag today, but looks like we have found each other here in South Carolina. Mike had been in MA for awhile and I’m headed to NY next week, but we hope to get together soon.
I was also pleased to locate my cousin Valerie Darling (WHS 1967) a couple of days ago. I had found Leslie Darling (WHS 1964) recently, too. It’s been nice catching up.
s/ John Porter Harlow WHS 1965
Fork SC
January 10th, 2010 at 7:12 pm #
NOLAN, John Edward
Boston -John Edward Nolan 62 of Wareham passed away Saturday Jan.2, 2010 at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. Born in Wareham the son of the late William E. and Enis (Bardini) Nolan. He attended Wareham Public Schools and is a late member of the Wareham High School Class Of 1965. A two tour Vietnam Navy veteran John served aboard the USS Intrepid CVS11 as a Boatswains Mate aviation refueler. A self employed tile setter, John was a volunteer at the Saint Patrick’s SVDP food pantry and also enjoyed reading and cooking. He is survived by many loving relatives and friends. His Funeral Mass will be Friday January 8, 2010 at 10 o’clock in Saint Patrick’s Church 82 High Street. Relatives and friends are invited to gather directly at church. There will be no visiting hours. Memorial gifts may made to the Saint Vincent DePaul Conference C/O Saint Patrick’s Church 82 High Street Wareham, MA 02571. Burial will follow in Saint Patrick’s Cemetery Tihonet Road
July 20th, 2010 at 11:39 am #
Marion Fujikawa
Marion Gates Fujikawa, aka Marion Gates Breckle, aka Skeeter, passed away on July 6, 2010 from Alzheimer’s disease. She was the daughter of retired vaudeville actors Charles Gates Breckle and Marian Finlay Gates Breckle who owned and operated the Theater Package Store in Buzzards Bay from 1944 until the early 1960s. Known to the local community only as Skeeter, she was the the youngest sister of Sheila (Gates Breckle) Shaffer and Raymond Gates Breckle. Skeeter was born in Onset on Pleasant Ave on March 6, 1931 at the home of her grandmother, Lottie Burke Finlay, who for many years had run a boarding house for vaudeville actors. She graduated from Wareham High School in 1949, after which she studied drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in NYC, and made her Broadway debut in Mae Wests DIAMOND LIL in 1951. She later married actor Jerry Fujikawa, and relocated to Los Angeles where she was a resident of Los Angeles for nearly 50 years. She is survived by three children (Charles, Peter, and Cynthia), and four grandchildren, Emily Matthew, Sam and Nell. In lieu of flowers, donations are encouraged to the Alzheimer’s Association . (search for tribute under Marion Fujikawa).
Published in Wareham Courier from July 20 to July 27, 2010