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OPHS Class Of 1969 Gathers
ore than 300 of the 500 mem-
bers of Oak Park High School's
Class of 1969 attended out a
40th reunion held July 4 at the Somerset
Inn in Troy. Classmates came from all
over the U.S. and the world, including Lisa
Goodman Pomeroy, who traveled from
Australia, and the class's exchange student
Astrid Lindbergh from Sweden.
Ken Korotkin of Birmingham and
Lenie Shapiro Bershad of West Bloomfield
headed the reunion committee. Korotkin
made the event even more meaningful
by announcing that a scholarship had
been awarded to a deserving OPHS 2009
graduate on behalf of the class of 1969. He
encouraged everyone to consider donating
to the Oak Park Business and Education
Alliance because OPHS now is considered
a high school at risk.
"Although the class has its share of
celebrities — renowned attorney Geoffrey
Feiger, world-famous psychic Char
Margolis and respected Judge Gerald
Rosen — attendees felt so special with
all respect and heartfelt emotion shared
between classmates at this extraordinary
reunion," said classmate Nancy Magnus
Kwaselow of West Bloomfield.
"The only sorrow was for the 29 class-
mates who didn't live long enough to join
them." 171
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