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'- if , ' . 1 ‘ opened its doors in 1960 its the city's first sisâ€"fid’Jâ€"f ' , " ‘ l 5 j 1 ‘ public high St’lltitil p???“ .;:‘ , i:- - _' » ' j 1‘- 5-«-~-~ -* ' ’ ' ” l And the eomtiiiitee organizing the ”a ’ "r _ v \ Top Q ‘E a ; l school’s riOth ,»\nniversary Homecoming eel- if ._ » 7 ‘J J i \ ehrzition wouldn't mind if all of them 37":- . .>’ l returned tor a special weekend they have i, l “a“ v V VA l planned for the school's alumni weekend ~ 23 7 ' ; _ -" I l lune4-6, so they‘retallingallVikings _, a '. _ ,l .. as A - l _ f ’ ' (lfeoursel the logistics of having all those fl “7 5‘ “1 ,qnf‘:1_.;'-;3-’i; ‘â€" .. people return for one weekend would be :' “mnloom _" EG'ATE |N T'T TE “ impossible and the reality is that some peo- ' is v 3" v? 5 fi‘t s u n Fire pie Will be unavailable for whatever reason i. ’ l; _ . f’, ' ' _‘ 5: But the reunion t'oiiimittee sure would like ’r1 ~; g r t L i- , “i" to get as many former teachers and student 1 ; 1. ( fl ! 1 . y . . (a? sto return as they (an, mth the oldest grads ‘ ”if?" (x "him“ . ‘ £55“ ' fromWCl stillonly iti their midliOs. “a; L. ‘ ‘.: _} it st 7 ' , gig _' "_7 Steph Hunsherger. who attended WC] t'» l" f. J‘s". a t. g i 5, ~ ' ' ' l . l' ‘ IQ" from 1960-65‘ and Brian (Zressman the _ if . ' i 2 a} g i g ’ t 1 t school's former .lt'llVlllt’S director. who a; , , M A.“ ($3.5 45,» M A,,,_ , ' , f 1 â€"- attended the si‘hool from l960M. were part Ear," 7 Awaiiiffsggizg-“h ti" ffwigu‘ M _ ‘>'§_ a“: v . fi 3: if “it of the (Ulnt‘nlllt‘t‘ that put together the sucâ€" s "W“; ‘ ’ “Ti"??? 7 x ' 3" "‘ f . ‘ a t- _ g“ is §§ ES! t‘essful 33th reunion in l985, They admitted . Q. ' ”TL”; .- i‘l ,,', _ ~ ‘ h- ' ,. f"; 51:53 ‘ it was it little bit easier back then getting , "' 41 E - I leg \: i hold of people llt‘l'dllst' most of the former "" ‘â€"-~» M _c - l , My; r ‘ students parents were still tilive‘imd provid~ ' " ' ed a living link to the st hool‘s past ' "l'm still old school 1m not totally L‘om- Members of WCl's 50th Anniversary Homecoming committee unturl the banner on the upcoming celebrations that welcomes back the more inflame with d (Ulnputcp but | am learning than 30,000 students that walked the halls of Waterloo's oldest public high school. 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