Connecting generosity and joy since 2011
The Joel Barlow High School Alumni Association is a group of volunteer alumni who work together to build community and raise money for scholarships and other initiatives for Barlow students. We organize events, fundraisers, and launched an online alumni community in early 2018. Our quarterly meetings take place in the JBHS Career Office and volunteers are welcome to join remotely. Please read the section on how to register for the online community as soon as possible.
In 2019 we decided it was time for a more professional look and joined 360alumni.com. We encourage everyone to go to barlow.360alumni.com and register since that is where the bulk of our news is in addition to our Facebook page. These are the two places where we put most of our information. If you have been contacted by another Joel Barlow High School Alumni Association link, it is bogus and is in no way part of the actual JBHSAA that we formed in 2011; the first and only alumni organization ever at Joel Barlow High School.
We are currently in the middle of our very first Capital Campaign to build Phase One of the JBHSAA Reading Room. In less than eight months we are almost halfway to our goal thanks to the support of many alumni. It is our hope that by this time next year we will have reached our goal so that we can begin construction.
Please stay connected and let us hear from you so we can share your news. Contact infojbhsaa@gmail.com.
We are grateful to all who have supported us and continue to do so.
Mary Mahony and the JBHSAA Board
In 2019 we decided it was time for a more professional look and joined 360alumni.com. We encourage everyone to go to barlow.360alumni.com and register since that is where the bulk of our news is in addition to our Facebook page. These are the two places where we put most of our information. If you have been contacted by another Joel Barlow High School Alumni Association link, it is bogus and is in no way part of the actual JBHSAA that we formed in 2011; the first and only alumni organization ever at Joel Barlow High School.
We are currently in the middle of our very first Capital Campaign to build Phase One of the JBHSAA Reading Room. In less than eight months we are almost halfway to our goal thanks to the support of many alumni. It is our hope that by this time next year we will have reached our goal so that we can begin construction.
Please stay connected and let us hear from you so we can share your news. Contact infojbhsaa@gmail.com.
We are grateful to all who have supported us and continue to do so.
Mary Mahony and the JBHSAA Board
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CLASS REUNION NEWS
CLASS OF 1980 BIG 40 IS COMING UP! CLASS OF 1980: October 3rd, 2020, Spinning Wheel Inn. Happy 40th! More to follow. BUY A BRICK AND ADD TO OUR GROWING JBHSAA WALKWAY
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FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER REMEMBERING A FANTASTIC ENGLISH TEACHER MEMORIAL DETAILS THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE/CAMPAIGN UPDATE REMEMBERING MR. MORSE May 27, 1933 ~ January 20, 2020 (age 86) GREAT MAN, AMAZING TEACHER, GREAT FRIEND TO ALL MEMORIAL SERVICE AT JOEL BARLOW HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2020 11:30 am On January 20, 2020, the Joel Barlow High School Community lost a great man and a great teacher, Herbert Odgen Morse Jr., known to those of us who had him all those years ago as Mr. Morse. Mr. Morse graduated from Dartmouth College, did his graduate work in education at Yale University and fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming an English teacher. He was hired in 1959 to become the chair of the English Department at Joel Barlow High School, a brand new regional high school serving Redding and Easton. For those of us who attended Joel Barlow at the opening or shortly after, like myself, Mr. Morse was a much-loved and very competent educator. His thirty-five year career at Barlow touched the lives of many students, leaving all of us with amazing memories. He had a quick wit and a twinkle in his eye and his contagious passion for teaching English affected all who passed through his doors. In the mid to late 1970's, I was working on my Master's degree at Northeastern University in Boston. One evening at dusk, a man was coming toward me with a big smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye calling out, "Mary Sunderland, is that you?" It had been almost ten years since I had graduated from Joel Barlow and I felt as if I was once again in his classroom. I invited him to our home for dinner a few weeks later and we had a wonderful visit, catching up on his wife and four wonderful children, and his amazing career at Barlow. He shared how much he loved his job and how fulfilling he found it in ways that he never imagined. He encouraged me to go on for my C.A.G.S. in Education. Twelve years later, thanks to his encouragement, I went on to Boston College and received my C.A.G.S. degree. I am sure many of you also have memories of this amazing man and educator. I invite you to share them at his Memorial Service this coming Saturday, February 29th, 11:30am, Joel Barlow High School Auditorium. Below is the link to his full obituary. The world has lost a great man, great teacher, great husband, great father, great grandfather, great-great-grandfather, and great friend. https://usobit.com/obituaries-2020/01/herbert-ogden-morse-jr-may-27-1933-january-20-2020-age-86/ |
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CAPITAL CAMPAIGN UPDATE THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Thank you for showing the love for our wonderful Joel Barlow High School. We are thrilled to share that we are almost halfway to our goal of $15,000. This is an amazing accomplishment thanks to all of you. You have all been incredibly generous and we are so excited about the Alumni Reading Room. PLEASE, PLEASE GET INVOLVED AND MAKE A DONATION SO WE CAN REACH OUR GOAL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Thank you! Thank you! To date, the CLASS OF '66 still has bragging rights for getting the most class members to donate. Maybe it will be your class that challenges those bragging rights. OPTIONS FOR GIVING: 1. Please sign up on barlow.360alumni.com and you can get right into the campaign. 2. A very quick option is to send a check: If sending a check, please make it out to: JBHSAA Capital Campaign and then send to: JBHS Alumni Assoc. c/o Jackie Garvey 100 Black Rock Turnpike Redding CT 06896 NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL! Class Contact Volunteers Needed We're looking for leaders to find fellow classmates and help bring the community together online. Don't miss this great opportunity to network and reconnect! PLEASE READ THIS!! barlow.360alumni.com IMPORTANT SIGN UP INFORMATION FOR ALL ALUMNI Please sign up on barlow.360alumni.com so that you can access all the exciting things that are going on with your fellow Barlow alumni. When you do sign up, you can make our job far easier if you give us the following info: GRADUATION YEAR YOUR ADDRESS YOUR OCCUPATION It helps us to know where you are on the map and it also allows classmates to connect with you. Already activated your account? Then log in and update your profile. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. We have 10,000 graduates and still counting to catch up with. FIND US ON FACEBOOK Catch up with us on Facebook. If you want to place a post on Facebook, contact Debra Cole ('70). Facebook posts are also streamed on the JBHSAA community website. 
Sadly we lost our much-loved Henry Bud McQuade this year. He was an amazing teacher and we were fortunate to have him attend both of our reunion picnics. He will be dearly missed.
It's all about reconnecting and sharing wonderful memories.
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