Welcome to the home page of the class of 1956, Central High School, Pueblo, Colorado. 
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55th Class reunion that was.. July 29-30, 2011 at Pueblo Community College campus. See photos taken by Bill Jackson or more specifically: Friday night and Saturday night. Please send email if you spot any errors in the names. Here are Char Barnett Hunt’s photos.

NEWS(send your news to mrpratto@acm.org) Central needs us. Read a letter from Principal Taravalla and if you are so moved, consider a contribution. John Armstrong will be honored by the Central High School Foundation on March 10, 2012 at the annual Gala in Blue. He will be one of two recipients of the Sollie Raso Lifetime Achievement Award. Send email to Donna (dpearlwt@comcast.net) with your information about yourself. Penny Zavichas was inducted into the Central Hall of Honor in August 2011. Congratulations to Penny Joe Hurd and Robert Hawkins are in the first group of inductees into the Central Hall of Honor. The ceremony took place on April 30, 2010. Congratulations to Joe and to Bob's widow. RIP Jeri Lou Chick Minerich, January 2012 Dave Wennerlund, September 2011 The class of 1956 has its own blog site. If I have your email address you will be invited to join the blog as soon as I can get to it. I have to invite three people at a time so be patient.. Meanwhile you can read what others are saying at http://wildcats56.blogspot.com Keep your address uptodate. Please send changes via email (just click on email) or send changes to Marlene Massaro Pratto mrpratto@acm.org or Donna Reynods Pearl dpearlwt@comcast.net. Please include your name as the Subject.

Francis (Frank) Cebulsk published another book of his poetry June 2010.  You may order it from the publisher or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble. It is also available as an Ebook. Frank's website is cebulski.net Joanne Icabone Murray  published a cookbook: Creative Cuisine Collection by Giovannina Murray    aka Joan N. Murray ISBN 978-1-4343-0788-0-90000 It is available through Authorhouse.com.  The Chieftain carried an article by Mary Jean Porter about Joan and the book. "I'm first generation American," Murray, says, "When I was growing up, I learned to cook on a coal stove." Murray says her cookbook which she compiled in the later 1980s but only recently self-published, includes family recipes, recipes from the different cultures and ethnic groups of Bessemer; recipes "from a generation that may not be around anymore".   How to make lard, how to make spaghetti and pizza by hand, how to make potica".

Contents Classmates who are no longer with us Our home town Pueblo County Historical Society Why you know our home town Our school district The local newspaper Tell us about yourself (list of questions) Read about our class Photo Albums Homepages of other Central classes Fun website about old cars, submitted by Bill Jackson. PHOTOS The 50th class reunion has come and gone, but the photos linger on. Photos from Doris (Bill) Sabo are available on Kodak Gallery. You will need an account, but accounts are free and then you may order prints. http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=9fb1019z.9dleklxz&x=1&y=jduyr4 Bill Jackson uploaded his photos and those of Charline Barnett Hunt and Sandra Kellogg Harper: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=9s0vx9v.ct6o9wj&x=0&y=-8fizbc (three albums) These photos are by Marlene Massaro Pratto: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=15kbl6j.bt5enn5n&x=0&y=-i3m4tz (six albums) These photos are from  Barbara Shrewsbury MvGinnis: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=15kbl6j.2wgwf1m3&x=0&y=-icoa2j These photos are by Keith Barber: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=15kbl6j.596uw9jn&x=0&y=-5zw1po Just click and view slideshow. We posted the photos on Kodak Gallery because it works and you don't need to download anything else. Pay attention to the area underneath the first picture to see that you may view all albums. Our blogs Newer blog. central1956.blogspot.com. This blog can be  used for planning and discussing informal events. (Note these do not have to be in Pueblo. Lots of us live in California, for example. Some of us live on the east coast.) Older blog.  wildcats56.blogspot.com. (Anyone may comment at this blog, but only some can initiate a conversation. It is a long story, but the ADMIN privileges were lost when Google made the transition to the new style.) INSTRUCTIONS (ask questions or tell me where these need to be clarified). To make using the blogs as easy as possible, just click on the blog address to read or use the email addresses (right click will copy the address) to send a new post to either blog. 1)  Blog for planning or discussing events. To read the blog type central1956.blogspot.com in your browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla FIrefox, or whatever you use.) or just click on the underlined portion and go. Click on comments to add to a discussion or start a new post. Follow the directions. You may submit anonymously, but since this is our class if you do that, please put your name in the comment itself. I will be deleting postings that appear to come from outside our class. A really easy way to start a new post on the blog is to simply send an email to mrpratto.central1956@blogspot.com (my name only appears because I set up the blog). If you attach a picture to your email message, it will appear on the blog. I tested that with the old blog.  2) For those more interested in blogs, there are other options. 3) Our old blog still exists, but during Google's changeover of blogs I lost the ADMIN rights so I can't invite anyone else etc. The pictures are still there. To read the blog enter wildcats56.blogspot.com in your browser or click.. You may send email to mrpratto.wildcats56@blogspot.com to add information to the blog.

Cover page and background were designed by Chuck Delpapa

for the 1956 annual (year book). Thanks, Chuck.

Page is maintained by Marlene Massaro Pratto. Send email with news to be posted.

Attach photos to email for posting. Photos will be reduced in size as needed.
Updated February 1, 2012