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OUR 50th CLASS REUNION SURVEY IS OPEN...AND WE NEED YOUR INPUT NOW!
Whether or not (or are undecided at this time) you plan on attending the 50th Class Reunion for Class of 76 from Eisenhower, please take a few minutes to weigh in on our class reunion plans by taking the 13-question survey. To access the survey,click here:
Your input matters! Your class reunion committee is very anxious to hear from you as soon as possible. Your response will assist us in putting the final touches on our big September weekend. The Deadline for submitting this survey is February 28th. Thank you in advance for taking the time to weigh in. It is appreciated.
The Committee
Reunion Update #1
January 13, 2026
Our 50th class reunion event is scheduled for September 24-27, 2026 in Saginaw. We’ve currently scheduled four class reunion events for Friday & Saturday, Sept. 25th & 26th. We’re still not sure if anything “official” will be scheduled for Thursday and/or Sunday. Our main 50th Class Reunion event is scheduled for Saturday, September 26th at the Swan Valley Banquet Center in Shields, MI.
Tentative Class Reunion Schedule
Friday September 25 12-5 pm Golf Scramble @ Sawmill Golf Club
Friday 25 p.m. Other Classmate Events (TBA)
Friday 25 5-11 pm Class Social @ Sawmill G.C. – Open Mic
Saturday 26 TBA Tour of Eisenhower/Heritage HS
26 TBA Other Classmate Events (TBA)
Saturday 26 5-11 pm 50th Class Reunion Banquet
@ Swan Valley Banquet Center
Classmate Search Updates
198 of our classmates are currently accounted for (147 w/contact info & 51 deceased)
We currently have 122 classmate email addresses, 70 phone #’s, and 44 mailing addresses.
We’re currently missing contact information for 207 classmates.
While we’re making steady progress on locating meaningful contact information for all of our classmates, we still have a ways to go. WE NEED YOUR HELP on tracking down classmate contact info. Please open the attached list below to see the names of classmates we’re still trying to locate. If you keep in touch with anyone on this list, please email their contact info to steve.laundra@gmail.com or have them or use the contact form on this website. We know that every classmate isn’t going to attend our 50th class reunion, but we want to invite all 405 of us so that EVERYONE can decide for themselves if they’re going to attend. Our contact information priorities are 1) email addresses, 2) married last names if different, and 3) cell phone numbers. Mailing addresses are next best, but they are our last resort. We do NOT plan on communicating via U.S. Mail.
Other Class Reunion details being discussed by the committee
1) Committee member Rick Moore recently put up our very own Eisenhower Class of 76 website. Although the website is in its infancy stage, Rick is very anxious to begin building “our story.” The link to our class website is eisenhower1976.org Once you’re there, click on the “contact” tab to register yourself.Please consider posting pictures, memories, news, etc. Our website will only be as good as our participation. This is OUR website. Let's build it with that in mind.
2) We’re currently in the process of finalizing a classmate survey. Stay tuned for an email that will direct you to a link that allows you to take the survey.
3) Once we’ve surveyed our classmate contacts list, we plan to reserve rooms at a couple Saginaw Twp. hotels. More details to follow on how you’ll be able to book a room when the time comes.
4) We’ve hired a band for our main class reunion event on Saturday night at the Swan Valley Banquet Center in Shields, MI. Slick Jimmy will be playing from 8-11pm.
5) We plan to sponsor some an “Open Mic” event at our Friday night social at Sawmill Golf Club (McCarty & Hospital area). If you’re a musician/singer, comedian, karaoke slut, etc., we plan to open up the mic to have some good ole fashion fun on Friday night. You won’t want to miss this event.
6) The cost to attend our main class reunion event at Swan Valley on Saturday night is $100 per person. We’ve had a lot of discussion on this topic. In the end the committee has agreed that we’re all deserving of a memorable evening that includes a nice venue, a quality dinner, a fun program and a decent rock & roll band. We’ve all paid $100 or more to attend ball games, concerts, weddings, etc. With that in mind, the committee agreed that our 50th Class Reunion should be that kind of an event. With that in mind, the committee has pledged to make our 50th class reunion worth every dollar spent!
7) Cash bars will be in place for Friday & Saturday night, as well as on the golf course Friday afternoon. The committee is not interested in purchasing and/or serving alcohol.
8) Friday’s golf scramble at Sawmill Golf Club will cost $45 per player. Additional fees for a skins game, special contests, 50/50, etc. will also be available to those that want to participate. We will keep you posted on a golf outing registration deadline as this event draws closer. Depending on how many classmates/spouses want to play, we may open this up to other Eisenhower graduating classes (74, 75, 77 & 78). We hope to get professional golfer/classmate Steve Brady on the course for this event.
9) The reunion committee is totally open to scheduling other Friday and/or Saturday afternoon reunion events. If there are classmate groups that want to get together, let the committee know about it when you take the classmate survey. Examples – Special gatherings for HS athletic teams, cheer/dance teams, band, choir, drama, forensics, debate, a fishing experience, elementary school classmates, private school (K-8) classmates, a luncheon at a favorite Saginaw area restaurant, etc. What’s your pleasure here?
10) We will be putting together a class reunion program for Saturday night to take place between dinner and the 8pm entertainment. If you want to provide feedback on what to include, or not include, in this program, let us know on the classmate survey. Our program will likely begin with honoring our deceased classmates before getting on with the fun and stupid stuff.
11) The committee has discussed the possibility of having classmates post their biography information and pictures on our class website. We are also very interested in the possibility of running a continuous video of the biographies during our main event. We're currently looking for someone to head this project up. Please contact a committee member if you are interested in working on a class video project.
12) We are also very interested in inviting our school administrators and classroom teachers to any class reunion event they’re interested in attending. We know that Doug Doane and Al Larson are still around, and we hope to get the word out to more school staff through them.
13) Our class reunion attendance goal is 250 guests (That’s approximately 150 classmates + 100 spouses).
As of this communication, we have contact information for 147 classmates. Factoring in our 51 deceased classmates, that leaves us still searching for 207 classmates.
Attached is the current list of the 1976 classmates we’re still trying to locate. If you have contact information for anyone on the list, please email it to steve.laundra@gmail.com or have the classmate email it. Our contact information needs are 1) email address, 2) phone number, 3) married last name. We’re really trying to minimize using US mail as a communication source for the reunion.
Rock on, Steve Laundra, Class Reunion Communications Director
Planning Committee Members
Cindy Ponchitera-Morley - Chair
Steve Laundra - Communications/ Classmate Search
Toni LeBlanc-Whelton - Treasurer
Rick Moore - Technology / Class Website
Marie Kushmaul-Grenell – Venues & Entertainment
Ellen DeShone-Myers – Venues & Entertainment
Leanne Meschke-Kasper – Venues & Entertainment
Mike Berent - Golf Outing
Cindy Neuendorf - Classmate Search
Karen Laatsch-Blazaitis
Kathy MacKenzie – Reunion Facebook Page / Deceased Video / Classmate Search
Jane Kneller-Krysinski (Class of 75) - Classmate Search Specialist
EISENHOWER HS CLASS OF 1976
MISSING CLASSMATE CONTACT INFO
This is the list of classmates we currently do NOT have email addresses and/or phone #’s for.
If you have contact info for these classmates, please forward to steve.laundra@gmail.com
Karen Abell
Peggy Allen Denver, CO
Anita Antecki (have mailing address only)
Mike Archambeau
Bruce Archibald Tampa, FL
Beth Baldwin
Vicky Bartell
Donijean Besey
Doug Best
Barb Bettesworth
Anjally Bhansali
Susan Billow
Robert Blake (have mailing address only)
Terry Boyer
Karen Breitkreitz
John Brown
Carol Brunner
Maureen Bryan
Jamie Bunker (have mailing address only)
Brian Carney
Steve Case
Katherine Challenger
Jack Cholcher
Dave Cloud
Steve Cole
Randy Conaway
Mary Countegan
Joe Coucher
Ann Cross
Jeff Cuthbertson
Doug Danhoff
Chris DeGraff
Cynthia DeGroat
Greg DeMaet (have mailing address only)
Tim Deneen
Ann Dexter
Dan Dinger
Ezhat Doher
Kathy Donnenworth
Jacki Doyle
Denise Duranseau
Brian Eaton
Robin Elder
Jim Enzer
Susan Frazier
Jim Freeman
Debie Fuentes
Rose Fulmer
John Gebhart
Linda Gendron
Gene Glick
Laura Gomez
David Goodrow
Linda Gorte
Sandy Graebner
Holly Gulliver
Angie Gutierrez
Fred Haenlein
Kristy Haenlein
Frank Hall
Melanie Harlan
Betty Jo Harshman
Randy Hatfield (have mailing address only)
Leigh Hauser
Jody Hausman (have mailing address only)
Etta Hawkins
Steve Hoernlein
Julie Hogan
Shaune Horrigan
Suzanne Ingleright
Bruce Jacobson
Michael Johnson
Martha Kapp
Tom Kelly
Ray Kerkau
Roy Kerkau
Mike Kierdorf (Not able to attend says his brother, Marty)
Theresa Kinsman
Willie Koenemann
Joyce Krawczak
Ron Krebs
Paul Kretchman
Beth Krueger
Kurt Krueger
Carolyn Krupka
Evon Kruscke
Susan Lacker
Jim Lake
Jolaine Lancaster
Robert Lara
Sue Laundra
Patricia Lawrence
Don Lawson
Laurie Lazarus
Tammy Leach
Pat Leidlein
George Lewis
Dave Losee
Michael Lowe
Phillip Lowe
Mike MacConnel
Jack Madelstamm (have mailing address only)
Pat Markey
Steve McCallum
Chris Madigan
Janet Martin
Michael Masica
Margaret McGoldrick
Denitta McKinley
Brian McNally
Tom McNally
Brenda McNish
Ron Metz
Sally Meyer
Gennette Mikulich
Scott Miller
Mike Minard (Phone Number Only)
Diane Molesky
Tony Moliterno
Cindy Morse
Sandra Narlock
Susan Neer
Teri Neumann-Bell
Kim Noehles
John (Troy) Nyeste
Kurt Ockerman
Dale Odell
Randy Oehring
James O’Keefe
Mark Olivarez
Ron Olivarez
Dave Pappas
Michael Pardee
Sue Patrzik
Miriam Pena
Donna Pepera
Mike Perry
Laurie Peterson
Sandra Pharis
Katie Phelan
Jeff Plank
Bill Prentice
Joann Provenzano
Dan Prueter (have mailing address only)
John Puffpaff
Mitch Ray
Ron Reagan
Tom Rinness
Connie Robishaw
Blanca Rodrequez
Kay Roenicke
Karen Rogoszewski
Debbie Rohwer
Beth Romanow
Gary Rooker
Jim Rosa
Kathy Rupp
Tom Salbenblatt (not interested)
Christie Schalm
Tom Schneider
Sue Schobert
Sheila Schrader
Randy Schram
David Schuette
Don Schultz (have mailing address only)
Joel Schultz
Toni Schultz
Lori Scott
Dan Sebald
Dennis Sepulveda
Sally Serr
Cynthia Shaler
Linda Sharrer
Joe Shemanski
Wayne Shrock
Charles Shuler
Craig Simon
Mark Simpson
Gerald Sims (have mailing address only)
Paul Singer
Dave Sliwinski
Don Sloboda
Nancy Smith
Tim Smith
David Snyder
William Soltis
Holly Sonda
Patricia Steuerwald
Teddy Strohschein
Ken Sullivan
Young Sun
Harold Sweet
Karen Sylvester
Attila Szabo
Mike Taylor
Paula Taylor
Bonnie Teed
Pam Timmons
Paul Trepkowski
Jeff Turbett
Shelley Vacik (have mailing address only)
Joe Vandenriessche
David Vonberg
Lynnea Walter-McCarger
Mark Warba
George Wartenberg
Bill Watson
Mark Wenzel
Dave Westman
Hugh Whiteherse
Lonnie Wilbur (have mailing address only)
Cheri Willmar
Mary Ann Wilson
Vicki Winchester
Charles Witbrodt
Patricia Wolf
Guy Zimmerman
Steve Zinz
Janet Zumer