The 96th annual Windham High School Alumni banquet went off with nary a hitch last Saturday. Great crowd (around 250), great food and lots of good conversations.

After all was said and done, the Alumni Association again made a profit to be used for scholarships. During the cleanup, we found a chair cushion and a small dragonfly pin or part of a pendant. Please e-mail me at kso48@aol.com or contact me at 892-5381 (after 9 a.m. and before 9 p.m.) and we’ll get your property back to you.

The oldest graduate attending this year’s banquet was Frank Atherton and the oldest graduate, 106-year-old Ethel Cobb Verrill received a corsage from the Alumni Association. Mrs. Verrill resides at Ledgewood Manor.

Former high school students from all over the country attended this unique event. It’s probable that Bill Bowen who came from Tennessee traveled the farthest.

The banquet is always held on the Saturday after Mother’s Day, so for you who missed it this year, mark your calendars for next year, if you ever attended Windham High and would like to be a part of the 2008 event. It will be the 50th reunion of the class of 1958 – and I’ll bet someone from that class is already making a list!

Now that Alumni banquet is over for another year, we can turn our attention to the Historical Society where we’ll be “hanging out” on Saturdays throughout the summer. We have many new acquisitions to catalog and displays to complete in anticipation of summer visitors. The museum, located in the old brick town house on Windham Center Road, is open to the public on Thursday and Saturday throughout the summer months. Don’t forget to visit the Old Grocery museum, across from Corsetti’s in Windham Center, open on Thursday mornings.

Windham school children are winding up their history tours for the year. This past week, the Society’s educational liaison, Walter Lunt, had a tour set up for Monday morning. This is such a popular event for school children, that one class even made a quilt commemorating their trip! Their writings about the historic sites in Windham have been turned into a calendar, which will be sold, and the profits used toward the acquisition of the Parson Smith House, one of the favorite destinations of the third graders. These calendars will be on sale at the Historical Society booth at Summerfest on June 23 here in Windham, or you may contact me to reserve your copy. Calendars are wall-hanging type and cost $15 each. The Society is a nonprofit educational organization, and purchases or donations are tax deductible.

Given this interesting menu of things to do, I think spring-cleaning will have to be delayed this year!

See you next week.