April - September 2008
Guestbook Comments
From: Nick Fisher
Date: September 12, 2008
Comment: I would be interested in hearing from anyone who was grade 9/10 during this time. Live in the UK now, married, two kids! Seems an age since I left. (1981-1983)
From: Laura Howard
Date: September 4, 2008
Comment: I spent one year( 1981-82) at Hillcrest and have many, many fond memories! If anyone was in 11th grade at that time I would love to hear from you!
From: Nancy Hutchins Libbey
Date: August 31, 2008
Comment: We have moved to Suzhou, China for a couple of years! My husband is head of Quality at his company's plant located here. It is exciting to be living overseas again! Our youngest son is with us and will attend an International School here. Unfortunately, it means missing the Chicago 2009 Reunion. I missed the last Chicago Reunion as we were moving to California that summer...
From: Don Dia
Date August 2, 2008
Comment: It's nice to see some people in our generation has used the internet to get us together one more time. It's like talent nite or movie night where we get to hangout with kids from different dorms !!
From: Glenda Shore
Date: August 1, 2008
Comment: Hi, Great to see this site up & active once again. I've kept an eye on it every now & then. My brother graduated in 1978, when we returned to NZ, and my oldest sister stayed on 'til she graduated the next year. Anyone from the class of '83 around?
From: Mais Tunkuda
Date: July 24, 2008
Comment: As I get older, I think more and more of the years I had in elementary. They were
the funnest years of my life. I wish I could remember more people, more faces, I
wish I had kept in touch. Those memories were priceless. I would pay a handsome
reward for my final year school book, or any for that matter! My brother Rodbe,
Nenpan my sister Delma and Ripmakat also went to Hillcrest! e-mail Mais29@aol.com
From: Amasel (Tittle) Abader
Date: July 23, 2008
Comment: Greetings from Hillcrest School in Jos, Nigeria!! I was not only a student and
graduated from Hillcrest, but I have been and still am working as the Admissions
Secretary here at Hillcrest School and all my three kids attended and graduated from
Hillcrest!! We are blessed.
I am trying to get a hold of Barbara Jo Gilliland's news. I think her surname now is
Keister. If anyone knows her news, please email me.
Thanks so much.
In His Service,
Tittle Abader
From: Obadiah Magaji
Date:July 23, 2008
Comment: hey I will love to really get in contact with Mr and Mrs. Dennis and May Clermont.
They really change my life in so many ways...I am in San Jose California...you can
get to me through this block if you have any information about Dennis and May
Clermont. we lost contact since 2006. Please I need to show my appreciation to them
having tought me in the way of the Lord.
From: Steve Ackley
Date: July 19, 2008
Comment: Our family lives in Dallas Texas, I sell industrial control systems, my wife is a middle school principal, we have four teenagers. I was at Hillcrest 1975 & 1976 then returned to Liberia for my senior year and home to the U.S. I help plan Hillcrest Reunions which is a great way to re-connect. Please locate a link to the reunion website and you will be blessed by reconnecting with "old" friends. (Reunion Details)
From: Mar Cunningham
Date: July 9, 2008
(No comment)
From: Holly (Strauss) Plank
Date: July 8, 2008
Comment: Wow, people I have thought of so often but thought I would never hear about. Brad Driggers...you may have been my first date at Hillcrest. I think it was the school play and you asked if you could hold my hand. :) Murray Brown from Nassarawa... you probably don't remember me, I was the little 6th grader in the dorm who could crawl between the burglar bars to help the high schoolers sneak out to TP yards and then let you back in. How how can we get more of the Assembly of God alumni to the reunions? Murray and Brad do you have their contact info? The Cobbs, Verla, Metzes, Hargroves, Ciminos, Amona Sue, Marcia Hill...Hey, Ellen Bulthuis, my sister Amy will be so excited to see your name below.
From: Francesca Valle
Date: July 1, 2008
Comment:
My name is Francesca Valle from Italy. I was a high school student during years
1982-1986. I was staying at Boulder Hill Hostel and would like to get in touch with
former class mates.
Best wishes, Francesca
From: Robin Lamond
Date: June 30, 2008
Comments: I have vivid and some of the best memories of life at Hillcrest.
I'd love to see some of you again.
From: Murray N Brown Jr
Date: June 24, 2008
Comment: From '57 to '60
7th grade in '62-'63 - my rebellious year / God bless Miss Fyke!
11th grade in '67-'68
A ton of memories...
Miss Rose (from Scotland?)
Miss Crist (from Canada?)
Uncle Wip & Aunt Evie Martin (the Persian rug on their living room wall, his oil
paintings of Fall in the mountains of Pennsylvania?, his bed time stories about
horses...
chickenpox in 3rd grade? - 2 weeks & 6 days? I had it bad.
Studebaker Hall
Easter Sunrise service on Mother Flat-top
Billy Najem from Lebanon
Essen Tahier, who could run like the wind
playing cars, playing airplanes, playing marbles - Richard Petcher had enough
marbles for all of us.
The old Moody Science movies - remember the guy standing on a steel ball and
lightning from his fingertips?
Roller Skating parties
The hikes
Carving on clay
#220 In the Brethren Hymnal: "Breath on me, Breath of God!"
Sports: soccer, volleyball, basketball & track
Chemistry lab
Nassarawa Hostel ( "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away...")
Uncle Bob Carlson and the chess problems
Vops Mountain - remember that, Larry Vanderaa?
Amona Sue McCorkle wanted Uncle Bob to carry her down the mountain. Smile.
From: Ellen (Bulthuis) Burton
Date: June 20, 2008
Comment: I am glad to see that there is an alumni spot!
From: Dane Bergman
Date: June 13, 2008
Comment: Good to find this site.
From: Janet Berezowecki
Date: June 11, 2008
Comments: I'm looking for others who were at Hillcrest the same time as I was.[1976? grade 7]
From: Kathy (Swaim) Penix
Date: June 11, 2008
Comments: My brother, Kevin found this site today and I had to check it out. Of course I had to get out the long buried year books and pictures. What a trip down memory lane! Has it really been 37 years? Every Easter I remember climbing the plateau for sunrise services. How exciting it was to spend our allowance on candy on Saturdays. But best of all was getting a letter from home when the mail came. Those were the early years. Later we moved into the hostels. I was in Nassarawa. Oh the fun we had with ping pong tournaments, water balloon fights, sneaking out at night and toilet papering other hostels. I'm sure kids are better behaved now. I am thankful for those years and all the unique experiences.
From: Kevin Swaim
Date: June 10, 2008
Comment: Just found this website and lo and behold, I recognize a familiar name from Kumasi. I would very much like to converse with others who have experienced life in the '60s @ Jos. My sister Kathy and I have a lot of memories of the old boarding school days.
From: Stephen Jones
Date: June 6, 2008
Comment: Would love to hear from those of you who were there in the late 70's, especially from the class of '82.
From: Brad Driggers
Date: June 6, 2008
Comment: I have thoroughly enjoyed conversing w/ people that share the same memories of a school so far away in space and in time. "Unique" doesn't begin to describe it and it's just wonderful to talk w/ people again that can relate.
From: Joy VanderSteen
Date: April 24, 2008
Comment: I was at Hillcrest from 1970-76 in grades 1-6. So I remember things from grade school. But I didn't graduate with my class. My cousin, however, came to Hillcrest after I left and she was in the same grade. She graduated with the class of 1984 so I've kept some connection with her.Her name is Karen Vander Steen Van Wyk.
Thanks for trying to get it up and running.
When I went on the Hillcrest School website, they had a link for Alumni, but it seemed to be down. Maybe a link to their website would be helpful?
Joy
From: Ashraf Faruqi
Date: April 23, 2008
Class of '85
Comment: Hi:) This is Ashraf (class of '85). Will love to know about other people from Hillcrest. Thanks.
From: Joy VanderSteen
Date: April 23, 2008
Comment: Would love to find old friends! Thanks for rebuilding.
From: Nancy Libbey
Date: April 20, 2008
Hillcrest Student 1972-74
Comment: Let all your fellow alumni know we are back!