We'd Like to Hear from you

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

March Eblast

Eisenhower HS Class of 1976:

Our committee met last week to continue planning our upcoming 50th class reunion.

URGENT! WE NEED YOUR FULL COMMITMENT TO ATTEND ASAP!

Our class reunion committee is getting to the point of having to make some important class reunion decisions that are dependent on the number of classmates and guests that will be attending our main class reunion event on Saturday, September 26th at the Swan Valley Banquet Center. These tickets are $100 per attendee.

To make your formal commitment to attend our 50th class reunion main event, you must make your full payment soon. If you already know, either way, whether you’ll be attending our main class reunion event, we’re requesting that you make your payment asap, or decline by contacting a committee member.

One of the important decisions the committee has to make soon is committing to the size of the banquet room we’ll be using on Saturday night. It is our sincere hope that our number of class reunion attendees will be enough to support the larger of the two banquet rooms Swan Valley has to offer. The larger banquet room allows us more room to celebrate in comfort. It includes more than twice the space of the smaller banquet room, including a higher ceiling, more room for the band, more room for dining, displays, dance floor and open space for mingling. Listed below are the options for making your full payment. Other decisions that are pending due to our attendance number include dinner menu selections, decorations, name badges, reunion favors and possibly a photographer and/or videographer.

SAVE THE DATES

Saturday, September 26 – Eisenhower HS Class of 76 - 50th Class Reunion

@ Swan Valley Banquet Center from 5-11pm – Cost $100 per person

Includes- buffet dinner, hors d'oeuvres, formal program, band 8-11pm and a

Cash Bar all night.

Make Full Payments using Venmo or personal check – Payment Deadline July 15

Venmo – Toni Whelton, Account: @Toni Whelton

In the description section, include: EHS 50th Class Reunion, your full name, maiden & married and the full name of your guest.

Personal Check – Make check payable to Cindy Morley and mail to Cindy Morley, P.O. Box 43, Mayville, MI 48744. Include in a note: EHS 50th Class Reunion, your full name, maiden & married, and the full name of your guest.

A late fee of $25 per person will be charged after the July 15th payment deadline.

Your name will be added to our guest list upon receipt of your payment. Your cancelled check or Venmo entry will be your receipt.

Friday, September 25 – Eisenhower HS Class of 76 Reunion Social – No charge!

@ Sawmill Golf Club 5-11pm, Cash Bar, Order food from the Sawmill menu

Open mic, 70’s music, trivia and lots of time to mingle and catch up

Eisenhower Class of 76 Website

The link to our new 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 your participation. This is OUR website. Let's build it with that in mind.

Eisenhower 50th Class Reunion Facebook page

Many of you have visited and joined our Eisenhower High School 50th Class Reunion Facebook page. Here is the link https://www.facebook.com/groups/843827685092195

If you do NOT have a Facebook account, you’ll need to create one to be able to interact with our Facebook group. Without a Facebook account, you won't be able to join or engage.

Eisenhower HS Class of 76 - 50th Class Reunion Committee Members

Cindy Ponchitera-Morley - Chair

Steve Laundra - Communications/ Classmate Search

Rick Moore – Technology / Class Website

Toni LeBlanc-Whelton - Treasurer

Marie Kushmaul-Grenell – Venues & Entertainment

Ellen DeShone-Myers – Venues & Entertainment

Leanne Meschke-Kasper – Venues & Entertainment

Mike Berent - Golf Outing

Cindy Neuendorf - Classmate Search

Kathy MacKenzie – Reunion Facebook Page / Deceased Video / Classmate Search

Karin Colling-Hobbs – Classmate Search

Jane Kneller-Krysinski (Class of 75) - Classmate Search Specialist

We’ve currently scheduled 4 class reunion events for Friday/Saturday, Sept. 25 & 26.

Current Class Reunion Schedule

Friday September 25 12-5 pm Golf Scramble @ Sawmill Golf Club

Friday 25 TBA Other Classmate Events (TBD)

Friday 25 5-11 pm Class Reunion Social @ Sawmill G.C.

Saturday 26 11am Tour of Eisenhower/Heritage HS

Saturday 26 TBA Other Classmate Events (TBD)

Saturday 26 5-11 pm 50th Class Reunion Banquet

Classmate Search Update

We’ve currently accounted for 316 classmates (259 w/contact info & 57 deceased).

We’re still missing contact information for 91 classmates out of 407.

While we continue to make steady progress on locating our classmates, WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP on tracking down missing classmate contact info. Open the attachment below to see the names of the 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 email it. We know every classmate won’t attend our 50th class reunion, but we want to invite all 407 so that EVERY CLASSMATE can decide if they’ll attend for themselves. Our contact information needs in priority order are 1) email addresses, 2) married last names, and 3) cell phone numbers. While mailing addresses are the next best contact info, we do NOT plan on doing regular mass communications via US Mail due to the cost.

Other Class Reunion details

1) Committee member Rick Moore has 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.” Please send Rick your photos, stories and memories.

2) Committee member Kathy MacKenzie has restored her Class Reunion Facebook page to provide a second platform for accessing class reunion information and connecting with classmates.

3) We’ve hired a band for our main class reunion event on Saturday night at Swan Valley. Slick Jimmy will play from 8-11pm.

4) We plan to sponsor an “Open Mic” event at Friday night's class social event at Sawmill Golf Club (near McCarty & Hospital). If you’re a musician/singer, comedian, karaoke fan, etc., we plan to play our oldies as well as open up the mic to have some fun. You won’t want to miss this free event.

5) The cost to attend our main class reunion event on Saturday night at Swan Valley is $100 per person. There's been a lot of committee discussion on this topic. Based on our survey results, the reunion committee is in agreement that we’re all deserving of a memorable Saturday evening that includes a quality venue, a quality dinner, a fun program and a decent rock & roll band. Many of you have paid $100 or more to attend ball games, concerts, weddings, etc. With that in mind, the committee believes that our 50th Class Reunion should be that kind of a special event.

6) The golf scramble at Sawmill Golf Club on Friday afternoon will costs $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 that want to play, we may open this event up to other Eisenhower graduating classes (74, 75, 77 & 78). We are hopeful to get golf professional and classmate Steve Brady on the course with us for this event.

7) Cash bars will be in place for Friday & Saturday night, as well as on the golf

course Friday afternoon. The committee is not getting involved in purchasing and/or serving alcohol. You’re on your own all weekend for cocktails.

8) The reunion committee is open to scheduling additional Friday and/or Saturday afternoon events. If there are classmate groups that want to get together, please let the committee know. Examples – Special gatherings for HS athletic teams, cheer/dance teams, band, choir, drama, forensics, debate, a fishing experience, elementary school classmates, private K-8 school classmates, a luncheon at a favorite Saginaw area restaurant, etc. What’s your pleasure here? Let us know!

9) We will be putting together a class reunion program for Saturday night to take

place before dinner and the 8pm entertainment. Our program will likely include honoring our deceased classmates before recognizing military classmates and educators and getting on with a few other fun things.

10) The committee wants classmates to begin posting their biography information and pictures on our class website. We’re also still very interested in the possibility of running a continuous video of the biographies during our main event. We're currently looking for someone to take the lead on this project. Please contact a committee member if you are interested in working on a class video.

11) We are also pursuing inviting our school administrators and classroom teachers. Doug Doane, Al Larson and Chappy are still around, and through Mr. Larson, we hope to get the word out to more staff.

12) Our class reunion attendance goal remains 250 guests

(approximately 150 classmates & 100 guests).

13) Based on survey results, we will not be getting involved in hotel reservations.

Attached below is a copy of our current list of MIA classmates that we’re still trying to locate. If you have contact information for anyone on this list, please email it to steve.laundra@gmail.com or have the classmate email it.

Respectfully, Steve Laundra

Class Reunion Communications Chair

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

1) Peggy Allen Denver, CO

2) Donijean Besey

3) Doug Best

4) Barb Bettesworth

5) Anjally Bhansali

6) Terry Boyer

7) Carol Brunner

8) Brian Carney

9) Steve Case

10) Jack Cholcher

11) Steve Cole

12) Ann Cross

13) Jeff Cuthbertson

14) Chris DeGraff

15) Ezhat Doher

16) Kathy Donnenworth

17) Jacki Doyle

18) Denise Duranseau

19) Susan Frazier

20) Debie Fuentes

21) Laura Gomez

22) Kristy Haenlein

23) Michael Johnson

24) Tom Kelly

25) Joyce Krawczak

26) Beth Krueger

27) Kurt Krueger

28) Carolyn Krupka

29) Evon Kruscke

30) Donald Lawson

31) Laurie Lazarus

32) Tammy Leach

33) George Lewis

34) Mike MacConnel

35) Chris Madigan

36) Denitta McKinley

37) Brenda McNish

38) Gennette Mikulich

39) Scott Miller

40) Tony Moliterno

41) Sandra Narlock

42) Susan Neer

43) Teri Neumann-Bell

44) Dale Odell

45) Randy Oehring

46) James O’Keefe

47) Miriam Pena

48) Laurie Peterson

49) Sandra Pharis

50) Katie Phelan

51) Blanca Rodrequez

52) Jim Rosa

53) Christie Schalm

54) Sue Schobert

55) Sheila Schrader

56) David Schutte

57) Joel Schultz

58) Toni Schultz

59) Wayne Shrock

60) Charles Shuler

61) Craig Simon

62) Mark Simpson

63) Don Sloboda

64) Nancy Smith

65) Tim Smith

66) David Snyder

67) William Soltis

68) Holly Sonda

69) Patricia Steuerwald

70) Teddy Strohschein

71) Ken Sullivan

72) Young Sun

73) Harold Sweet

74) Karen Sylvester

75) Attila Szabo

76) Bonnie Teed

77) Pam Timmons

78) Paul Trepkowski

79) Jeff Turbett

80) Joe Vandenriessche

81) George Wartenberg

82) Bill Watson

83) Dave Westman

84) Hugh Whiteherse

85) Cheri Willmar

86) Mary Ann Wilson

87) Vicki Winchester

88) Charles Witbrodt

89) Patricia Wolf

90) Steve Zinz

91) Janet Zumer

Updated 3-12-26