October 2009 Update
Where has the committee been since 2007 you might be asking? Swamped would be the answer. None the less we have news to cover.
Pictures of the 2007 picnic will soon be available (after some web site programming). The pictures were taken by my daughter Tracy and Cheryl Crow. Punch up the "Photo Album" tab above and take a look. I hope they bring back fond memories.
The committee decided to wait 5 years between picnics so that makes the next one due the summer of 2012. It will probably be late in the summer so as to not infringe on family vacation and festival time. If you have ideas where we could have the next picnic please send them in. So far we've had two at Oxbow Park and one at the plant. I'm toying with the idea of having it at Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend. Then after the picnic and visiting time families could go do the zoo. But we're open to about anything reasonable, and low cost. Check back here as time nears for the latest updates.
I need your help. In 2008 I caught a computer virus and it wiped out my address book. I lost most of your e-mail addresses. It would be great if you could so I can rebuild it. Without it, this web page becomes the only way I have of getting the word out. I would suggest that you save a back up of your address book, just like you do with your important docs or pictures. Or just back-up your hard drive. When time draws near I need all of you to forward invitations to alums in your address book and have them do likewise, it's the old water bucket drill.
This past August we lost another of our alumni. Bill Goheen was called home. He suffered from some form of cancer. It must have come on quickly as I bumped into him at Lowe's earlier in the summer and he was his normal self, smiling and shaking hands. We know God has him in His hands as we speak.
More recently we've lost Edmundo Zarria and Howard King.
Please take a while to browse through the memorials page and enjoy remembering the good times we had during our all to short time together.
In closing I would like to say to all the "new" alumni that joined the ranks 8 months ago that we miss you all. Even with the recession Crown still has lots of work to be done. Without your talented help the load is just that much bigger for those of us still plugging away. We look forward to seeing you at the next picnic. Please consider coming.