If this is your first visit, here's what you do to join:
1. Click on "Classmate Profiles" to the left.
2. Scroll down to click on your name.
3. Follow the 5 step setup wizard and fill in as much information as you wish. But you must at least fill in your first and last name (changes if necessary), your email address, and a password.
4. If you would like your senior photo added to your profile please drop us a note by clicking on "Contact Us" on the left of this page.
Afterward you'll be able to access everything on the site, and maybe get some ideas on how to enhance your own profile by visiting some of your classmates' profiles.
Have a good time!
HAPPY
To hear a beautiful barbershop rendition
of the above Irish Blessing
Click on the singers below
(Thank you Alan Bretzin!)
Welcome
To The Official Website
Falls Church High School
Class of 1970
40TH REUNION
Saturday night
October 9, 2010
Elks Lodge
Arlington Blvd, Fairfax, VA
Please register to attend: "40th Reunion"
Visit the old neighborhood on the internet
A fun website to visit. It will show you where you grew up as it looks now...just enter the correct address, City, State, Zip Code and be amazed.
When you enter an address you will see the picture .
You can double click and "walk" down the street
You can even follow your old path to Falls Church High School!
Please take just a minute and fill out our surveys
They give us important information to plan for the reunion!
Membership Survey
Reunion Survey
This will help in locating classmates and let us know what is working on our site
Take a moment to visit the
"In Memory" page
Adding personal stories honors the memory of our classmates who are not longer with us
The Semi-Annual
Once in a While
UnOfficial
UnSanctioned FCHS Reunion
When: Saturday, June 26, 2010
Where: Geoff Hunter's "Place in the Woods", Stafford, VA
Who: Any & All FCHSers (multi-class)
What: The Tom Principato Band - maybe!
Lots of fun - definitely!~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hey all of you FCHSers. I am planning an unofficial multi-class reunion at my place in Stafford on June 26, 2010. More details to come, but just wanted you ALL to know you are very welcome. We will invite the Classes of '68, '69, too, but most importantly, ALL FCHS classes are welcome. Tom Principato is scheduled to play and the place is in the middle of the woods, open and nice enough for me to invite you. The last one way back when was outstanding. This may be a chance for you to rehearse your October 9 Big One!
Make sure you check these frequently. See what everyone has been up to for the last 40 years. Some of our classmates have done an incredible job of uploading old photos. For a start check out Ricky Todd, Bruce Ruddle, Robbie Henshaw and Dana Stiff- thanks guys for really making this site fun!
LIVE CHAT Click and chat with Who's Online Now or make a date with your friends and catch up on Live Chat.
This is the place to start discussions about the 40th Reunion,
re-connect with lost classmates, etc.If you have an idea for a new Forum title,please use the Contact Us link on the left.
Looking for someone or want to know what happened to them? Throw your question out to the group and you might get the answer you've been looking for! Or just leave a greeting or suggestion to the class.
A place for announcements for all of our life events: udate us on your family's news: new home, weddings, births, or anyone you would like us to keep in our thoughts and prayers. Classmates links have also been moved to this page. Let us know if you have a link you would like to add of your work, hobby or talent.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!!
Community Photo Album!! A place to create one big album of everyone's photos, so
Dig up the old pictures and get those scanners going!
Happy Re-Connecting!
Make sure you keep scrolling down
to see all our new stuff!
NEW FEATURES
We have scanned all of the 1970 Senior Photos -
if you would like yours posted in your profile,
please send a note using "Contact Us" on the left!
The names on the list of Missing Classmates are considered to be all those Classmates with no email address and have not registered on our website. If you know where these Classmates are please share our web address with them:
If you know the "email address" for any Classmate listed on this page, you can click on the Classmate's name to quickly send an email invitation to join our site. Or if you know the "street address or phone number" for any missing Classmates, please contact us
Be prepared to toast on St. Patrick's Day!
When March 17th arrives you can raise your glass and toast your Irish friends with one of these phrases.
May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go
Health, and long life to you
Land without rent to you
The partner of your heart to you
and when you die, may your bones rest in Ireland!
May you get all your wishes but one,
So you always have something to strive for.
Here's to your coffin...
May it be built of 100 year old oaks
Which I will plant tomorrow.
May your neighbors respect you,
Troubles neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And Heaven accept you
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.
May you live to be a hundred years, with one extra year to repent.
May your fire be as warm as the weather is cold.
As you slide down the banisters of life may the splinters never point the wrong way.
May you be in heaven one half hour before the devil knows you're dead.
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
Or remember what is best forgotten.
May you have the hindsight to know where you've been,
The insight to know where you are,
and the foresight to know when you've gone too far.
May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.
May God bring good health to your enemies’ enemies
May all the days of the rest of your life
Be the very best of your life
St. Patrick's Day Facts
Beyond the Blarney
Did you know that St. Patrick's Day is the Roman Catholic feast honoring Ireland's patron saint, St. Patrick? The holiday is also an international celebration of Irish history and heritage.
Patrick was neither Irish nor particularly religious, at least not initially. Patrick was born Maewyn Succat in 385 CE in the Welsh town of Banwen, and for the first sixteen years of his life he was an avowed pagan.
Maewyn, was captured by Gaelic slave traders at the age of sixteen and sold to an Irish sheep farmer. He was enslaved for six years, during which he turned to Christianity for comfort. He escaped at the age of 22, and spent the next 12 years living in a British monastery. It was there that he adopted the name Patrick.
Patrick returned to Ireland after his time in a monastery, along with 20-some followers, serving as a Christian missionary
St. Patrick is believed to have died in Ireland on March 17, 461 C.E. The anniversary of his death is now the day on which St. Patrick's Day feast is celebrated
The myth that Saint Patrick drove all snakes from Ireland into the Irish Sea is just that -- a myth. Many locals still insist that the serpents were drowned in by Saint Patrick, causing their sea to be so rough. The truth, however, is that serpents where never native to Ireland. The story is most likely a metaphor for the druidic religions, which disappeared from the Emerald Isle after St. Patrick spread the seeds of Christianity
While it is customary to wear green on St. Patrick's Day in the United States, the color green is actually considered unlucky in Ireland. Green is the color of faeries, which are believed to steal children who wear too much green.
The Shamrock, considered the official plant of Ireland, was viewed as a sacred plant in acient Ireland and symbolized rebirth.
The phrase "the wearing of the green", means to wear a shamrock on one's clothing
On St. Patrick's Day, some revelers will raise a pint of stout and wish their companions "Slainté!"—the Irish word, pronounced SLAN-cha, for "health."
The toast may brim with scientific truth. At a meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida, in 2003, researchers reported that Guinness may be as effective as daily aspirin in reducing the blood clots that cause heart attacks. (The benefit derives from antioxidants, which the researchers said reduce cholesterol deposits on arterial walls. The compounds are found in dark Irish stouts but not their paler cousins.)
By law, pubs in Ireland were closed on St. Patrick's Day, a national religious holiday, as recently as the 1970s
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 34 million United States residents claim Irish ancestry, or nearly ten times the entire population of Ireland today, which stands at 3.9 million. Among U.S. ethnic groups, the number of Irish-Americans in the U.S. is second only to the number of German-Americans.
Listen to a really nice piece by
Celtic Woman
For optimum viewing hit full screen
IF YOU BUILD IT ,
THEY WILL COME....
This site was created to help promote, celebrate and reconnect with all the classmates of Falls Church High School Class of 1970. Your participation is ESSENTIAL for it to succeed!
We need your photos, updates, and memories to enhance this site as well as to make certain it represents ALL of the members from the CHS Class of 70. Even if you haven't attended a reunion, nor kept in touch at all since graduation, we ask that you please take the time to update your profile and maybe even submit a photo or two. We're certain your fellow classmates would love hearing about you! And, you may even reconnect with an old friend! Your submissions will make this site fun, interesting and complete. So, add your own personal touch and see what happens!
Surveys are important way to keep us in touch with what is working (and what is not). It only takes a minute to fill them out and will make a big difference to how well our website expands.
So, have a look around this site, update your contact information, check out your classmates' profiles and pictures, drop a line in the Forum, and peruse the fun facts & music from “Remember When” check the bulletin board frequently and let us know what we can add to it.
Amazing! We began building this website Sept. 28th, 2009 and 30% of our classmates have registered already. Let's shoot for 50% now!
We have had over 4,000 hits on our site. With your help to keep spreading the word, we will continue to see new classmates checking in everyday!
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