Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Missing Classmates


We need your help!! 



Currently, these are our classmates that we don't have an email, phone number or address for... If you have this info please replay to this message or email me directly.. mcintoshr@yahoo.com.

We have also set up a class facebook page... Gladstone High School - Class of 1990

And... we have a date for the reunion of Saturday July 3rd at the Bluff... Thank you to everyone that responded to Kerri's survey!! It was very helpful...

We all realize, no matter the date that some classmates will not be able to attend..

Our hope is that providing a date almost a year in advance... people that want to attend can make plans to do so.. also, it's the typical weekend that prior class have chosen.. Most (not all) agree the the 4th of July weekend: 1.) Nets the most attendees 2.) Fits most attendees plans.. 3.) It's actually nice in the UP at that time of year...


Alan Dementer, I think Escanaba?
Amanda Ogren
Brent Blickham
Brian Segar, Im offering a free drink for any info!!! Maybe 2 drinks..
Cory Corwin
Craig Robbins
Dan VanBrocklin, Wyman?
Dennis Moberg, I think Menomonee?
Gerald Brunette
Jackie Sweeny
Jeff Segar
Jennifer Ostlund, Stephanie can you help?
Jim Chenier, I think Detroit?
Kevin Konyn
Kevin Sexton
Kim Nelson
Margie Plouff
Matt Bellgowan
Michelle Plouff
Mike Ayers
Nate Troutt, The UP? Saw his personal add on Yahoo personals...
Rob McKenzie
Rob Stade
Robert Demmon
Scott Smith
Shane Coleman
Stacy Christiensen
Terri Roman
Todd Kutzera, I think Cleveland OHIO?
Tom Meyer
Troy Pottier
Vicki Lee

Thanks for you help... We are hoping to see as many of you as possible!!!!

Rich McIntosh
mcintoshr@yahoo.com
www.richmcintosh.com

Monday, September 21, 2009

Group Photo From The 10 Year


Thank you to all that made it to the Class of 1990 ten year reunion!!! Hopefully everyone in this pic and more can make it to the twentieth on JULY 3, 2010 at The Bluff Country Club...

The Bluff Country Club

Alan Dementer Awarded The Bronze Star



Amazing the things you find out about your classmates.. Congratulations Alan!!! Hope to see you in July and shake your hand..




The day started out badly for Petty Officer 2nd Class Alan Dementer while he served with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment near Nasiriyah, Iraq. And it never got any better.
By the end of that day, March 26, 2003, Dementer would end up with shrapnel in his shoulder and leg, but his actions taking care of wounded Marines would earn him the Bronze Star with “V.”
Dementer’s morning began with a call to evacuate some wounded Marines. As he was preparing to leave, the Navy corpsman found that his rifle wasn’t working properly so he had to scramble to borrow another.
After a couple more trips to treat more wounded through the day, Dementer and a few fellow corpsmen, who were based in Camp Lejeune, N.C., settled in for a quiet evening in their tent.
The unit’s armorer sat working on Dementer’s rifle when mortar rounds started to hit their position.
“All of a sudden, one hit next to the tent and shrapnel hit near the chief,” he said, “and we hit the deck.”
The sailors left the unprotected tent and found themselves in the thick of an enemy attack. “Two trucks were on fire,” he said. “Tracers were flying everywhere.”
Mortars, bullets and rocket-propelled grenades were hitting in the camp.
“Marines were yelling ‘corpsman up’ in a 360-degree radius,” said Dementer, a 13-year Navy veteran. “They were hit all over the place.”
Dementer and the other corpsmen responded to the calls.
“There were so few of us (corpsmen) … [we decided] to bring them to us,” he said about the wounded.
Almost immediately, a nearby machine gun position was hit with what Dementer believes was an rocket-propelled grenade.
One corpsman went to pull the wounded to safety. Dementer went to get his medical supply bag, which was kept in a nearby ambulance.
“I overshot the ambulance,” he said. “Then a mortar landed in the middle of the courtyard not 25 yards away. Shrapnel broke the concrete … and knocked me square over on my back.”
Small pieces of shrapnel had embedded in his shoulder and leg.
“I didn’t realize I was hit,” said the Gladstone, Mich., native. “I rolled over and scooted back.” Grabbing his bag, he made his way back to the other corpsmen.
A wounded gunnery sergeant then came over to their position and said his Marines were pinned down next to the south wall.
“I said ‘Roger that,’ and grabbed my medic bag with extra bandages and took off to the south wall,” he said.
Dementer stopped to patch up one or two wounded Marines, he said, before making it to the wall. There, a lieutenant waited to hoist him to the other side, which was under direct enemy fire.
“There was a couple second lull in the fire,” Dementer said, “and I jumped over the wall.”
He treated six wounded Marines on that side of the wall, eventually evacuating them to the battalion aid station, and was credited with helping 31 wounded Marines that night.

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