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Greetings Fairview Class of 66! I am the current Principal at Fairview Elementary and we are in the process of updating our website. Your class page is a treasure of Fairview's history and I simply had to take a moment to thank you all for the way you have documented the history of Fairview. Looking through the photos and reading about the school's history has been extremely helpful as I prepare to share the history of a place that we all hold dear to our hearts! Wishing you well Bulldogs!!! Angela Shelton

Navigating the google maps, I tried to show my 8 year old son the school I spent the best six months of my life as an exchange student for over 30 years. I felt a strange pain of knowing that FHS was not there. Its like losing part of my story. Hope the change is for the better. Let's keep the good memories!   Alfredo Franco, from São Paulo-Brazil FHS, 1981

I just received a link to FHS\'s website from my brother who still lives in Dayton.What a wonderful trip down memory lane!I I attended Colonel White (\'66), but many of my friends went to Fairview. I live in Chicago.  Would love to hear from any of my old buddies.Adrienne Kaplan Rainey

Learned of the FHS demolition from Bill Wheeler.  Sad day but lots of great memories, many brought back by this site.  Regards to all.

I like your website. Thanks for all the info about the Stain Glass Windows. I was wondering what they desided. I set up a page on Facebook for the class of 1972. Hoping to get pictures old and new and get old friends together.

This page has brought back so many memories and given me ideas for the class of '80 - these photos made me fall in love with my hometown again.  Thanks and hope to see you in September at the all class reunion

Just recieved this site and was glad and sad to see the demise of the beautiful old building. I left Dayton in 1961 and on visits back, my heart ached to see the city I loved change so drastically. Too bad for our history. Nice seeing names I remember. Please Ohioans, keep some of the good historical sites.

I didn't go to FHS but grew up in Dayton until we moved to Texas in 1973 when I was 13.  My mother sent me the link to your site to look at the Dayton Memories but I have to admit I've been looking through all your sections for over an hour so far. What a great website with tons of history... very interesting and so well done.  Great job!

This site brings back many memories. I left Dayton in 1971 to join the Air Force after college. I find it hard to believe that the school will soon be gone. No matter where life may take me, I will always remember those I went to school with at Fairview High. As I look back, i realize that we were all family. There was no freshman to seniors. I communicated with everyone and I count you all as family.

I am so impressed every time I visit your website!! The site is just so full of memories and information about Fairview.  All the contributors should be tremendously proud of what you have done.  I can only wish that the class of “70” could develop a site even close to the class of “66”!!!

class of 69--- 65 -69. hello to you all. say hi- id be glad to hear from you. i have yearbooks from67,68,69.--- who has the front gates to the football field?

Class of 1980. I truly hate not being there to see old classmates, friends and the school.

I attended Cornell Heights Elementary from 1963 to 1971 and would have been in the Fairview Class of 1976, although I graduated from Northmont. My father was Fairview Class of 1927 when the school was still housed in "The Tower."  In the late 1980s, I was working at the Englewood Independent newspaper, where I often crossed paths with Bulldogs, including Harold Haas, whom I believe was class of 1920. Mr. Haas was a young boy during the 1913 flood and went with a neighbor who had a canoe to help rescue people. This was much to the chagrin of his parents as he did not tell them what he was going to do. They worried all day! He also had a great Don Longenecker story. The other thing is that Fairview may have been home to Baseball Hall of Famer Jesse Haines, although I haven't been able to find the information needed to confirm this. I interviewed his daughter who said that her father, who lived in Phillpsburg, may have gone to high school at Fairview due to no high schools open in his vicinity in about 1907-1911. He did not graduate from high school. However, that would make both Montgomery County Hall of Famers (he and Mike Schmitt) Fairview attendees. 

As I will be out of the country the week of July 23-30, I am deeply disappointed that I won\'t be able to "crash" the Fairview \'66 reunion.  I really looked forward to reuniting with some of my former classmates, fellow Boy Scouts and neighbors, especially since I was one of the few of you who went to Colonel White after we left Cornell Heights in 1962. I want to extend my best wishes to all, and please don\'t hesitate to contact me in the future. Charles(Chuck) Whistler  313-909-2906

What a wonderful time we had at the 50th class reunion this past September. The organization of the events were fantastic. Thank you to all involved with that. A lot of photos were taken and I know that Jeri Jones Bland is working very hard adding them to our website. I really enjoyed my time visiting with you all. I'm looking forward to our next get together. All best to my class of 1966 school mates.

groovy ,fab-gear, hippy a-go-go,posters, incense,black lightsHELLO EARTHLINGS! see you all at the reunion...be there or be square....or be square but just be there!!

Was cruising through the web at random and somehow wound up here. Huge surprise! I went to Fairview Elementary, graduated in 1961, and recognize some of the little nippers in those old class photos, although I don't show up in any of them (but I still have all my own class pics). I recognize some of the names I saw -- Dan Wolfe and I were in the same Cub Scout den. Unfortunately, I never went to Fairview High as I lived on the wrong side of Catalpa Drive and wound up at Colonel White (boo, hiss).   At any rate I'm just shouting out a huge hello to anyone who dates from this time and have as fond a memory of Fairview as I do.   Geoff, "that giant squid kid"

Wow- what a wonderful project! Even though I wasn\'t a freshman until 1969, your website has brought back so many memories- I\'ve loved going through each catagory, remembering and learning new things about Fairviev. Thanks so much for maintaining this wonderful site!

Class of \'69.  Fun reading what different ones have been up to and that a few have moved to California where I moved to in 1987.  Wishing everyone a great 2012.