McLean High School

1958-1960

I TOOK HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS (yearbook staff guy).
The good news is that 400 are lost somewhere between here and Australia. The bad news is that I'll never get through the 600 other black and white negs. Meanwhile here are some color slides I never knew I had until Dad died and Mom cleaned out the house.
PHOTOS ARE GROUPED INTO "PAGES".
THE PAGES WITH MORE PHOTOS are listed at the bottom.
This list of pages helps Nancy Ames find her favorite photos. It'll help you, too, figure out fast that you have something better to do today than try to look at all this.

ENLARGE ANY PHOTO by clicking on it.

click on any photo to enlarge

YOU CAN PRINT THE PHOTOS after doing a click-to-enlarge.
After the bigger image shows up, use your browser to print it.   Write me if you have any problems or if you want a better quality print than it is practical to deliver over the Internet.

CONTACT INFO -- I NEED YOUR HELP WITH NAMING.
If you know a missing name, tell me and I'll fix the caption. You can write it on a printout and mail the printout to me (Jerry Nelson, 6926 Espey Ln, McLean VA 22101) or just fax the page to 703/847-5311. (If your fax machine has a "photo" or "super resolution" button, push it.) My fax machine will be thrilled to get something besides bogus stock and mortgage offers. Remember to scribble your name & email address on the printout.

Thanks for help to Eddie Youngs, Carolyn Snead, Craig Colby, Reid Thrasher, Nancy Ames, Ellen Krueger, Richard Knoblauch, Pam Johnstone and all who have written.

WHEN SENDING YOUR OWN PHOTOS TO CONTRIBUTE, use something like Priority Mail or FedEx that can be traced. I'll return the favor. (Thank you, Hunter Lindsay.) If you don't have a photo to send, just say hello by email -- we are missing email addresses for two-thirds of my class (McLean 1960).

REUNIONS
Hope you'll come. Find someone who never has and convert them. I've found everyone I've had a chance to meet at reunions easy to talk to. No two lives are the same.

LINKs
McLean HS Alumni info on the Web
Website for the Class of '59 (run by John Dowd and crew)
How2 Use People Finders -- a tutorial by Pam Hitt '59 and Jerry Nelson '60 on finding missing classmates
McLean 50th Anniversary celebrations Website 2005, with guestbook
home (of this Website)

E-MAIL ADDRESS QUEST
126 valid e-mail addresses as of April 2006 for a class of 385. :-(
Write me for a list of 10 McLean '60 classmates you can call.
Even if you only get 2 or 3 more emails, your effort adds up.
I never intended to do anything but share some photos.
Something changed when I met a new (for me) classmate only to be told 5 months later that she was dead.
The lack of email addresses suppresses the natural instinct any decent person has to comfort another.
--jerry

Jerry Nelson '60
fax 703/847-5311
jerry-VA at speakeasy net
Yearbook Photographer last century at
McLean High School
1633 Davidson Road
McLean, Virginia 22101

MORE PHOTOS, more coming
             Showboat! 1958
             Skin of our Teeth 1959 (+ some shots of Nancy Ames, Craig Colby, Danny Hall)
             The Merry Widow 1960, and all the girls at Maxim's
              Brad Gale's page (sorry, Brad)
              Parties at Maggie & Amanda's house (Theo Veenkamp, John Budlong)
              Reunion2005

Rev 4/06