d Can you believe it has been 50 years --- 50 YEARS !! --- since we walked the halls of our high school? In some ways it seems like only a dream, like something that must have been in a different universe. In other ways it seems like just yesterday. Our memories begin before high school. Most of us began in kindergartens at Lincoln, McKinley, Central or St. Joe's, came together for the first time at the Junior High, and only moved to high school for 10th grade. Our memories also extend beyond just schools. Most of us had great experiences at the YMCA, over at the Dravo Pool, and in Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops sponsored by the Presbyterian Churches. We played Little League Baseball down at Ewing Field and took part in Summer Camps under Frank Letteri at Coraopolis Park. We played in the woods all around town and fished, canoed and even swam in the Ohio River. Girl Scouts had a small lodge below Wildcat Rock. We did not realize it, but we were growing up in a Norman Rockwell town, our own special kind of Disney World. Kids elsewhere didn't have our advantages, and, now, kids in Coraopolis no longer have them, either. Coraopolis Schools exist today only in memory. A decade after we graduated, the schools merged with Neville Island to form the Cornell School District. The high school and junior high are now apartment complexes. Lincoln, Central and McKinley were bulldozed. The hilltop stadium was dismantled. The YMCA is now apartments. Dravo Pool closed. When our Scout leaders retired, there was no one to take over. The Girl Scout Lodge decayed and was removed. Coraopolis Park is gone. Our woods are subdivisions except for Omlor's Hollow. But the trees are silent, the kids home playing video games and watching tv. The only vestige of our era to remain is the Little League Program. Ronnie Bliwas helped keep it alive, even though he lives in Chicago. The field is now named for him, but participation is way down as baseball has lost popularity. Even The Coraopolis Record and Pittsburgh Press, which recorded our successes great and small, are out of business. So as we gather for our 50th Reunion, we represent more than a long ago bunch of kids back to share memories. We represent the Golden Era of a town at the peak of its prosperity. Those footbal and basketball championships, FHA national presidency, science fair and spelling bee state titles, and other successes, were more than milestones in our own lives. They were the high water marks of a town and a school system that have not matched them since and are not likely to ever again. A committee has planned this website but it is not theirs. It is yours. It belongs to the Coraopolis Class of 1960. We need your memories on our message board, your photos in the photo section, your old news clippings in the clipping section. We did not intend this website as a spectator sport. It is a hands on participant site. So enjoy browsing through our pages, looking at the photos, chuckling or wiping away a tear over the memories, and reading the clippings. Then get busy and post your own thoughts, and upload or send us your photos and clippings so we can add them to our growing collection. These pages were created with Dreamweaver software on a MacBook Pro. The site is hosted by Three Rivers Web Hosting Service, a full service web agency owned by Paul Pollastro located in Coraopolis. The website committee includes Tony Majetic, Margie Agostinelli Rychel, Bill Curry and Carolyn Milner Maratta.

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Photographs, questions or comments should be directed to Cory at Coraopolis60@aol.com.

Please email your photographs to Cory at Coraopolis60@aol.com. We especially need photos of the Friday Night Club; high school baseball; various scenes at the YMCA such as pool, pingpong, swimming, weight lifting and the gym; junior high football or basketball; classroom scenes in elementary or junior high; various students' cars; school holiday decorations such as Christmas trees; students in their homes with their Christmas trees or model train layouts; and field trips. We need photos with recognizable faces. Do not send original photos by mail; they are too valuable and it is too risky.