By Lexi MooreMembers of the class of 1945 gathered for a reunion lunch Saturday at the Beaver Creek Golf Course.The lunch celebrated the passing of 60 years since the class of 13 graduated from the Hills Consolidated School. Graduates in attendance included Geneva De Young Van Hill, Margaret Van Maanen Bakker, Cornelius Bosch, Lou Hellie Loge, Margaret Bakk Thornton, Glenn Rye and Kenneth Berghorst. Eilert Pederson, Gwendolyn Sanderson Harsh and Kenneth Paulson was unable to attend but sent his regards.Members from the graduating classes of 1934, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1946 and 1947 also came to share stories and photos from their days in Hills. Students from this era at the Hills Consoldiated School have taken turns hosting reunions every summer for the past five years."It is important for us to get together and see one another as often as possible," said reunion organizer Margaret Bakk Thornton.This was the first reunion for the class since their fellow classmate Berdell (Bud) Bush died in December of 2004 in Hills.His daughter, Colleen Martins, stopped by the reunion lunch to deliver a cookie bouquet on behalf of all of the Bush children."This is from the Bushes, in Mom and Dad’s memory. Dad loved his class reunions," Martins said to Thornton at the luncheon.The lunch ended with old friends chanting several Hills cheers and singing the Hills Consoldiated School fight song led by Irene Knien (Viste) and Dorothy Greenlee.
