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AHS, Marquette combine schoolmate party at Block PartyThe free “All 60s Glass Party” coincides with the last Alton Block Party of the season. The party starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at Mac’s Time-Out Lounge.By JILL MOONThe TelegraphALTON — Through a series of Faeebook pages, the Alton High School and Marquette Catholic High School’s classes of the 1960s arranged a casual party for everyone.“We want everybody,” said 1967 AHS class member Cathy Scoggins Weirich, whose class is hosting the party and who is an administrator of the “AHS Class of ’67 - ‘Those Happy Days’” page, along with Jill Stiritz Rexford. “This is just a party, a Faeebook party.”The free “All 60s Class Party” coincides with the last Alton Block Party of the season. The party starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at Mac’s Time Out Lounge, in the large back room. Weirich and others from the Faeebook group will be there at 6 p.m. and for awhile longer as people arrive.The organizers made clear that this party is in no way the AHS 1967 class reunion.“It’s a party that was suggested by those in our Faeebook group,” Scoggins said. “It sounded fun—so we ran with the idea; the first of what we hopewill be many.”As the group posted and chatted on Faeebook, they came to the realization that they needn’t wait until once-a-year reunions to catch up, especially as some class members become ill as they age.“A class member made a ‘deceased’ video of our classes and it just hit us, ‘Why are we waiting?’” Scoggins recalled. “It’s just a party, it’s not meant to replace the reunion.”Attendees can come in and out of Mac’s reserve room toSee STREETS, Page B5
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Alton Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Fri, Sep 16, 2011
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