The Harmony High School Class of 1956 held their 60th class reunion on July 5 aat the K-town Tap in Kendallville, Iowa. Out of a class of 40 graduates, 14 class members and their guests were in attendance – bringing the total number of celebrants to 21. The class member attending from the farthest away was Kay Armstrong Crafton form Huntington Beach, Calif., who was the 1956 class valedictorian. The event was held at noon to allow all attendees, as elder drivers, to get home safely before dark.
David Jones shared a documentary on the life of Dave Madden, who contracted polio and spent 16 of his 37-year-2long life in an iron lung. David, a survivor of polio himself, spent many of his first years in the medical field as Dave Madden’s personal attendant. It was a story in the lives of these 1956 graduates that was very meaningful to all of those in attendance.
The owners of K-town Tap were extremely hospitable and served delicious, reasonably priced food and assisted with a smile when asked to help.
The class of 1956 attending are shown above. In the back row, left to right: Gerald Johnson, Dick Burt, Robert Miller, Gladys Elaine Fishbaugher Jones, Kay Armstrong Crafton, June Scheevel Jansen, and Barbara Johnson Bergan. In the front row, left to right: Jerry Scrabeck, Gary Grebin, David Jones, Larita Trouten Baaken, Patricia Jones Wendt, Emily Todd Burt, and Allen Haugen.
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