Richard C. Anderson

Posted on: Apr 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Welcome aboard, Meg.
We hope you will enjoy our website. Hopefully it will remind you of good memories of your year as an American teenager!
Thanks for joining us so long ago at MHS and for joining us on this website now.

So many memories over so many years. Too many to recall here. Just want to say that Jesse always had a smile and a welcoming manner. He and Tilli were fun, but more importantly, they were/are good friends. They have many. Our condolences to the family.
Rick & Sylvia Anderson

Here are a couple of pictures Celia (Smithers) Venable sent of a Canadian canoe trip she took with Carol and Jill Morgan in 1960.  The smiles are a wonderful indicator of how much life was enjoyed in our youth.

For some reason I have this picture of "High School" Carol, on the right, having some fun with two friends from MHS Class of 1962.  She was a fun person to be around and a very good friend of Sylvia's and mine.  I'm happy she has such a fine family, but will miss not being able to see her again here on earth.

According to our senior yearbook, Tony (who was listed by his given name of Wilton) was active in the followiing things during his time at MHS.  Hopefully, Phil Nissen, you'll be able to say, "Oh, that's where I remember him from!"  I agree that Tony was a well-mannered and well-liked guy.
"WILTON PARSONS, Swingout Committee 12;  Key Club 12;  Hi-Y 10, 11, 12;  Pep Club 11, 12;  French Club 11, 12; JCL 10;  Fine Arts Club 10, 11, 12;  Basketball 10, 11;  Swimming 12 (manager);  Boys Tennis 10, 11;  Intramural Football 12."

It’s good that life provides us more time to enjoy than to grieve. You and Kathy had a long time together and that time was obviously joyous. You did a wonderful job of honoring her life. Wishing you well.

Happy birthday Rick!! We’ve had many great times at MHS and after. Have a great day and thanks for this web site.

Happy Birthday Rick. Thanks so very much for the wonderful web site for our ‘62’ class.
I read it every morning. I too liked Miss Hulse. I’m glad she was there to help merge you with Sylvia. I all ways felt you were a “good guy”. Clark

Thanks to Clark Miner for providing some information about Larry A. Duncan.
We've updated Larry's file to show that he passed away in 2002 at the age of 58.
The picture of him is from our 1960 yearbook when he was a sophomore at MHS.
The picture of his grave and additional information is from "Find a Grave"

HI, Jim. Rick Court says Danny Jefferies is trying to get a hold of you.
I'm going to wish you an early birthday, too. Hard to believe we're going to be ... as old as we are! (Also, I got a kick out of your comment about having a good seat at the Moline basketball games!) Take care.

https://www.wheelanpressly.com/obituary/Judy-Adams

Your comments on Mary Walleart’s page were right on, Ken. She and George were tops. Gonna miss them.

Mary was one of Sylvia's "Moline" friends since their school days to their last days together having spent many "club" times together along with all the others who enjoyed their mutual friendships.  Mary and George threw the best gatherings and had the best real life stories.  Two more really good friends you couldn't have.  Mary's most enduring quality may have been that she took people as they were.  She really liked others.

Posted on: Aug 13, 2023 at 1:12 PM

Rick,      

Just a Thought,                     

MHS Class of “62” web site comments by classmate Ken Storm stimulated an idea. After Ron Bernat’s passing, Ken wrote how interesting it was to find out how multi-faceted Ron’s life had been and that it would be nice to have information about classmates prior to their passing.

Ken, Jennifer, and I sat together at the Saturday night dinner dance at the 60th. I mentioned to Ken that his personal MHS Class of “62” page was great and gave insight to how a classmate had lived his life after MHS graduation.

It seems that it might be time to try to reinvigorate a Classmate Outreach Program. It would be outreach not be intrusive and would have the approval of the classmate or heir(s). The purpose is to hopefully know our Classmates better.
Present active web site members would reach out to Class members, who are not active members, to see if the non-member will either submit a life brief themselves to the MHS Class of “62” web site or give their approved information to the contacting classmate for submittal.

The thought is an attempt to get profiles on every MHS Class of 1962 graduate or classmate, a worthy goal for an “Outstanding” class.

The above idea is just a draft, but I wondered if you could pass it by the Reunion Organizers and local QCA Class group that meet periodically for their thoughts.

Go Maroons,
Jerry,
Jerry Soukup
52 Hansen’s Rd., Jelm, WY 82063
jgs_ims@hotmail.com
(307) 745-8075 / (307) 399-3455

P.S. Will be pulling a better Jerry & Geri Soukup life profile together.

Happy Birthday, Sylvia.
Hope it’s a good one.
Lobster dinner out with friends sounds good.

When I was at Coolidge Mr. Stevens was my gym teacher.  One time he found I had too many towels in my locker and punished me by making me do pushups all gym class instead of being able to dance with the girls that day!  Funny looking back on it.  Sylvia was a teacher at MHS when he was the principal.  Like Rich Baldwin said, he was tough but fair.  He was friendly with my folks when my brother and his son went on to play football at Northwestern about the same time.  He was an asset to the Moline school system for a long time.

Sandra (she was "Sandy" to me ... not sure why.  I can't remember.  Maybe that is what we called her in grade school)  Anyway, Sandra and I went all through school from Kindergarten through 12th grade in the same schools.  Such a nice girl, friendly and talented.  I remember her dancing on stage in a talent show when we were in first grade at Roosevelt.  Every boy in our grade school class had a crush on her at one time or another.  In junior high and high school she was always willing to dance with me, too.  Nice memories of her.