Carmel High School Alumni came "home" from all over the U.S. and even Canada to join in the All-Classes Reunion for Homecoming Weekend (Nov. 7-9).

Who said "you can't go home again?" They were not disappointed. Even the weather cooperated with sun streaming through scattered rain clouds beginning with the Homecoming parade through downtown Carmel Friday afternoon.

The Carmel High School Alumni Association banner-holding parade team of Jon Stufloten '58, John Schiffeler '58, Lacy Williams Buck '58, Roger Fremier '58, Ruth Rogers Daskaloff '58, Mike Gahagan '58 and Connie O'Connor '59 "held the Alumni Association banner high" leading the current classes of 2004-2007 floats along the parade route Friday afternoon.

Saturday, the Padre's varsity football team set the tone with a dominating win (39-8) over the Robert Lewis Stevenson Pirates giving close to 250 alums cause to "party hearty" at a post-game celebration gathering at the Carmel Youth Center which included a barbecue dinner for 200 produced by Mitch Kastros '69 (aka Joe Beef Gourmet Foods).

Sunday, alums were treated to a tour by Carmel Mayor Sue McCloud ( CHS Class '52) of the newly rennovated Sunset Center where many of those present attended the facility when it was an elementary school.

After revisiting Sunset School memories, the Class of 1960 arranged for a brunch for a number of reunion weekend participants at the American Legion Hall to finish off the weekend events.

Alumni from Florida, Virginia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, South Carolina, Alaska, Arizona and Canada added a diverse range of geographical representation at the annual event.

Thanks You's to the Board of Directors of the Carmel High School Alumni Association (Kim Spindler Wright '72, President; Jean Borgman Westcott '62, Treasurer; Clyde Klaumann, 57, Historian; Ward Gillette '71, Robert Haller '87, Pam Baldwin Klaumann '66, Dick Lawitzke (former CHS faculty), Glenn McKee '67, Carol Stewart '62, Pete Thatcher'42 and George (Bud) Westcott '59; Connie O'Connor '59, Membership Chair and Michael Gahagan '58, Executive Director and the Board of Directors of the Carmel Youth Center and Kelley Lapai, CYC Director.

Event photos (taken by Steve Gann '59, Mike Gahagan '58 and Wendy Wiegman '60) have been posted on this site (click on: All-School Reunion 2003 - upper left column under "topics") and some will be posted on the CHSAA web site: http://www.CarmelHighAlumni.org along with the web site's expanded 63-years of class lists and alumni web site directory.

Additional postings on the CHSAA main web site include "Memory Lane," "Padre Gear," PDF files of pages of past newsletters, links to former alumni with web sites, e.mail links to classmates, class representative listings and class reunion contacts for the classes scheduled for 2004 reunions (1944-60th, 1949-55th, 1954-50th, 1959-45th, 1964-40th, 1969-35th, 1974-30th, 1979-25th, 1984-20th, 1989-15th, 1994-10th and 1999-5th).

A "Membership" link on the Official CHSAA web site (see link on Alumni Web Logs to left) can now be accessed to register and pay for the five categories of dues, donate to memorials and contributions for specified alumni association programs — all on a secure on.line payment processing service.