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St Marys 1971 announcements

 

Please mark your calendar. Watch for email updates.  
Dragons living away from STL; please let us know date(s) you plan to be in town
Every effort will be made to hold a gathering while you are here.
Unless specifically requested, RSVPs are not needed. 
Classmate friends and family are always encouraged to join us!

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Gary Bourgeois' band, Blended Beginnings next appearance
7-10pm Saturday February 1, 2025

 


61 Roadhouse
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 Please  join the SM Alumni Association by 
clicking the link below.  It's only $25 
Please help Class of '71 become the largest number of Alumni members
of all graduating clas
ses!

 
Click the dragon to go to the Alumni Association's website to join up for only $25
St Mary's has a goal of a minimum of 500 annual members.
We are currently at 343
Let's do our part to help make it happen.
http://www.smhsaa.com
 
 

 

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01-15-25 at Failoni's

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12-12-24 SM '71 Christmas party at Rigazzi's

A group of 25 were there to celebrate the Bob and Bill Simokaitis' birthday and Christmas season
To see the rest of the party photos click here

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12-05-2024 St Mary's Alumni Christmas party

To see more 2024 Alumni Christmas party photos click here
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11-15-2024 at Larry Brantley's St Louis Memorial

Rick LaGrotta, Rob Reinhardt, Ted Spiro, Doug Dickmann, Carl Collignon, Jim Huck, Marty Erickson

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11-13-2024 at St Raymond's

Jerry Frick, Mick Rea, Mary Thaier, Diana Slay (Denny's daughter)
Dave Tornatore, Rick LaGrotta and Larry Thaier

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November 9, 2024 Daniel Armbruster's mom's
memorial was attended by several dragons
Mick Rea, Bob Simokaitis, Sam Ribaudo, John Pearson, Rich Rutledge,
Dave Tornatore, Kevin Humphrey and Rick LaGrotta

Daniel and his two daughters


John Pearson and his grand daughter

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November 7, 2024 at DB Coopers

As dragons celebrated Rutledge's birthday,
Opal the pit bull was working the crowd
Present were birthday boy-Rich Rutledge, Daniel Armbruster, 
Mick Rea, Bob Simokaitis, Dave Tornatore and Rick LaGrotta

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October 16, 2024
Lunch at St Raymond's

Rick LaGrotta, Mike Panneri, Phil Miceli, Rich Rutledge, Larry Thaier
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Rich Rutledge hosted a fall weekend at his Innsbrook family home

Pictured are Bob Simikaitis, Mike Stenger '78 and Mick Rea

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October 8, 2024, dodging hurricane Milton, Scott Puettmann stopped in St Louis.
During his time here, he had lunch at Grassi's 

Pictured are Mick Rea, Leo Haas, Bob Mathias, Scott Puettmann, and Rick LaGrotta
Prayers are requested for Scott's safe return home to Florida
and for all affected by recent huricanes
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September 29, 2024
at SM Alumni Bill Schicker Golf Tournament
in Forest Park, SM '71 was well represented

Pictured above are Leo Haas, Rick LaGrotta, Mick Rea, Kevin Thorpe, Ed Greaving, 
Jerry Frick, Phil Miceli, and Mike Panneri. Also present but not pictured,
Bob Simokaitis, Bill Krenn and Steve Buchheit
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September 12, 2024

Gary Bourgeois' Band at Triple 3 Vinyard

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August 29, 2024 at Rigazzi's


This time Holy Family Parish ruled. Pictured above Jerry Frick, Dan Petersen, Bill Krenn with photo bomber; Barb Rea.
Also in attendance, Larry Held, Kevin Humphrey, Bob Simokaitis, John Pipitone, Sam Ribaudo,
Steve and Lynn Buchheit, Mickey and Barb Rea, Phil and Marie Miceli,
Jerry and Joanne Frick, Rick LaGrotta

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July 18, 2024 DB Cooper's Safe House

 

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June 15. 2024 Daniel's birthday

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June 13, 2024 Grizzlies' Game

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June 4, 2024 Dan Petersen at the

St Louis Honor Flight

Dan's Honor Flight reception was attended by Dragons, Larry Thaier,
Dave Tornatore, Mickey Rea, Rich Rutledge and Rick LaGrotta

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2-1-2024 at Biggie's 

Bob Simokaitis, Rick LaGrotta Rich Rutledge, Steve Buchheit, Mick Rea, Jerry Frick, Dan Armbruster,
Mark Shipley, Larry Thaier, Linda Pipitone, Lynn Buchheit, John Pipitone. 
Barb Rea wasat the party but is not in the photo.
 

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1-20-2024
St Mary's Hall of Fame Banquet

Congratulation to Ron Stockmann and all other 2024 SM HOF Inductees
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12-14-2023 SM 71 Christmas at the Mack

To see more photos of the party click here

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12-07-2023 SM Alumni Christmas Party

12 from '71 were present. Miceli, Thaier, LaGrotta, Flesch, R Simokaitis, Rea, Held, Panneri, Armbruster, Rutledge, Favre, and Pipitone

To see more photos of the 2023 Alumni Christmas party click here

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Mickey Rea sent a photo from a recent 11-20-2023 "Simo sighting"

 
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St Cecelia's classmates; Emeric Rhonshausen, Larry Held and Sam Ribaudo
 
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Feb 2, 2023 at DB Cooper's Safe House
Jerry Frick and surprise dragon; John Mernah
 
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2022 SM Alumni Christmas Party
John Pipitone, Ed Degreeff
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Above is a recent enactment of their graduation photo; 
Mick Rea, Leo Haas, Kevin Thorpe and Scott Puettmann
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May 16th at The Mack
 We had 15-Dragons including suprise dragon; 
Steve Mistretta and his daughter Catherine

 
From the left; Bob Simokaitis, Mark Durham, Kevin Humphrey, Jack Favre, Larry Held, Mike Dauphin, Phil Miceli, Joe Rekart, John Pipitione, 
Katherine Mistretta, Steve Mistretta, Dan Petersen, Rich Rutledge, Rick LaGrotta, Marty Erickson, Daniel Armbruster
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St Mary's High School
4701 South Grand
St Louis, MO 63111
 
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Our class website is always looking to add classmates. 
Currently we have 117 active and 153 inactive!
Visit the classmate profile page to see which guys have
not joined the site then 
ask our classmate to create a profile.
Guest members  (classmate friends and family members) are welcome too!
 
Creating a "Classmate profile"...it's easy and it's free! 
Go to Classmate Profiles click on your name,
confirm your contact information and enter a password. 
 For more details about this website click:  Getting Started
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Class of '71 Website Stats

Home Page Visitors:

150,482

(cumulative total visitors we've had since creating our class web site)
Percentage Of Active Classmates: 42.9%

 

A: 117 Active
B: 153  Inactive

Please encourage fellow classmates to create a profile on the website.
Go to "Classmate Profiles" click your name, insert  email address then click send.

      

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See photos of past class reunions courtesy of Mike Krull

This class website was created: 2/4/2011