With love from Russ & Sandy Gonnering & Lily Mazurek

2010 Reunion, Boston

1969-70 Vienna

Memories

Do You Remember....

The Summer of ’69

The Summer of

Love

Our own Mike Mullane and Lily Mazurek were there…

September 4, 1969Arrive Gatwick Airport

Transfer to Pembroke and Queens Colleges,

Oxford

Oxford…

Trip to Stratford...

Karen Schmuckli

?&...Joan Lucas…&?

Stonehenge…when we could actually touch the stones…

The Quad at Oxford

Salisbury Cathedral

Ann Hathaway’s cottage

Warwick Castle…

Lily & Lynn Seerman

hitched there

Stratford-upon-Avon

Picadilly Circus

Ate Lunch at “Ye Harte and Garter” hotel in Windsor

Laurie, Mike & Lily in Trafalgar Square

EMI Studios,

London – Abbey Road

Garrick Theatre

George

Apple Studios

St. John’s Wood, where several Beatles lived… Lily took the Tube to get there…

Beatlemania

Tower Bridge

Stayed at a budget hotel near the British Museum--This sounds sort of familiar??

Blew a bunch of money on clothes in London--thought I would get a job in Vienna

and make up for it.

Here’s the coat (my birthday party in Grinzing in November):

Sandy and Russ

Then, on to the Continent. I picked the German study tour. Overnight ferry to the Hook of Holland, then

meeting up with Fraulein Schaettle and our bus driver, and a wonderful trip to Vienna.

Think we had breakfast here:

The trip schedule mentioned the Hotel Estherea, but this

seems a bit higher class than I remembered..

We were in Amsterdam in the early morning.

Boyd McCleary had just made a killing on the Reichsmark/Dollar exchange rate, and

I felt very, very outclassed!

Great 3 week introduction to Europe. Things that stand out:Having a bit too much “Rauchtbier” in Nuremberg and dancing in the fountain, losing someone (can’t remember who) on the subway in East Berlin, seeing the Ishtar Gate at the Pergamum Museum, standing in the huge Sportzpalast in Nuremberg and

shuddering, remembering the torchlight Nazi parades of newsreels, breaking into a spontaneous rendition of “We shall

Overcome” at the Berlin Wall with Steve Catron, Kate Manke and Boyd McCleary (I think), a wonderful day on the Mondsee.

Peggy Erwin

McCleary, Manke, Thomas, Freedman

Berlin

Checkpoint Charlie

Almost to Wien--Mondsee 9/21/1969

Gonnering, Trembath, Catron, BeckOrr, Erichsen

The French study tour went to Paris, Chartres, Ronchamp…

Sherri and Nora

Sherri at right

Nora at Versailles

Notre Dame du Ronchamp

Maison Les Piques Assiettes – a man built this mosaic house for his wife

Then we discovered a great new home...

Sept 23-October 10 Preliminary German Program

Mine was on the Karl LuegerPlatz. I always had problems with my “ie’s” and

“ei’s”. Read out loud a story about someone who thought he saw a gloved hand at the foot of his bed, and he said, “Halt, oder ich schiesse!”, but I read it , “Halt, oder ich scheisse!”. The teacher

refused to believe I didn’t do it on purpose........ Anybody remember that? I

think Rich Vest was in the class.

Vienna had English Week--there were English Flags everywhere...

Quite a few disappeared...

We had a reception at the Rathaus. A flag disappeared

there, too!

The Fall was absolutely beautiful....

Wienerwald…

Looks like this group got lost and found the yellow brick road instead and are off

to see the Wizard…

I met this girl named Sandy...

Wien, wien, nur du allein…

Sollst stets die Stadt meiner

Traume sein!

Remember this place?

and the Art?

or this?

Mit schlag obers, bitte!

Climbed Schneeberg in the Fall

Note the purse!

Michelle?, Russ, Rory, Jim Cross

Then there was Grinzing and Heuriger…

Some of us went to the Ball…

Clarence & Alberta

Giese

Christmas- Cafe Haag

(closed in 1997)

And let’s not forget Christmas in Vienna…

Linda Meadors

And magical Christkindlmarkt (where Russ proposed to Sandy…)

For one group, Christmas was at the Alte Post-Fieberbrunn

For another it was Christmas and New Year’s in the little village of Rauris where the snowflakes

were as big as quarters….

Rauris church dates to 1200sMark, Lily, Rory, Laurie

We had a “talent” show that winter

Sandy Schultz holdingthe mic for Russ

Some of us spent Easter in Greece…

While some of us went to Greece & Turkey on our own later…

Greece

Windmills &countryside of

Malia,Crete

Church in Heraklion, Crete

Lily en route to Crete

Turkey…where an infamous poker game took place…and also where the Turks offered our guys a handful of camels, horses, and donkeys in exchange for us women…No takers on our end, thank goodness.

Topkapi and environs

Another tour went to Italy during the spring break…Venice, Rome, Assisi..

But most of all, I remember YOU

Yes, this IS how the West was won…

Madelyn & Kitty share a moment…

Linda & Cheryl Planert…

…and Joan Benevelli

Nora

Lily Mazurek Sherri Locke

Paul DeStefano

Larry and Harold

Doug

Lynn and Harold

Tubingen, on theNeckar River

Berlin Wall

Parthenon

Agora

Siena: Kate, Michael John, Mark,?, Ildiko (Lily’s sister), Lily

Kate, George Lechner

Tim Blood

Marcy Murninghan

Snowshoes made by Don K.

May 7 1970 Marcy, Tim, Lily & Don K hitching to Munich & it SNOWED!

The famous Peugot, with Harold, Tony, &?

Lily, Sue H., Marcy, Tim

Jane Aldridge

Rory, &?, & Jane? & ?, Maureen Manley, &?

Other things were also happening that Spring....

April 1970

Kent StateJackson State

May 1970

Tim Blood

I woke up one morning and realized I only had a few weeks left in Vienna. There was a mad scramble to see all

the things “I’d get around to”, but never had...

Finally, the day came to fly home...

How do you sum up a year?

Especially THAT year!

Sandy and I were married in 1971

We went back in 1975

Sandy was pregnant with Julie

and in 1985

and in 1995 with our kids...

We saw Clarence and Alberta in Albuquerque in 2004

We’ve kept up contact with a few good Vienna friends

And today the Palais Kinsky has been restored to its previous glory…

and is now an Art Auction House…

In the courtyard there are restaurants…

Our daughter, Julie, and son, Steve, bothstudied with IES in Durham for a year. Our youngest, Scott, spent a year at the

London School of Economics...

But you can’t step into the same river twice...

Once upon a time there was this magic place.......

It will stay with us forever.......

Because it has become a part of us.......

And we have become a part of it.......

Sandy, Lily, and I thank you for the wonderful privilege of sharing that

special time with you!

In MemoriamBernadine Baker Debbie Fitz-Gerald Melissa Lee Baynes Brenda Kay Fulkerson Bruce Beck Joan GrayWilliam R. Brennan Elizabeth HadathBob Campbell Don HallSteve Catron Arthur DiPacePete Dellegrazio Doris Lechleitner Frau Willman Dr. ErberPete

There may be others. We remember all of you.....and…

Thank you for coming to the 2010 Reunion for Vienna 1969-70.

We hope you are creating new memories!