10 Year Reunion for YHS Class of 1987

September 6, 1997
The Unofficial SIL/ILV Peru Page


The YHS class of 1987 reunion was a huge success! Held August 22-24th in Waxhaw, substantial representation was made from classes over the past fifteen years (although not all of these people graduated from YHS):

'82Doug Swauger
'87Greg and Crissy Barkman
Denny and Juli Cope with Hannah
Jim Ellison
Dan and Diana Romero with Nicholas
Shawn Sagert (without Natalie)
'88Paul Gibson
Jason Howlett
Kate (Howlett) Odell with Caleb and Isaac (without Adam)
'89Rachel Romero
Priscilla (Scott) Rutherford (without Philip, Jonathan & Rachel)
Tammy (Sagert) and Justin Hettinga
'90Jeff and Charlotte Barkman
Mark Hocking
Jeff Ramsdale
Steve Salisbury
'91Dan Ellison
Andrew Koens
'92Becky Archibald
'93Steve Young
'94Peter Koens
Michelle Ramsdale
Sam Romero
Reinhard Schmidt
'95Eric Rutter
'97Dan Archibald
My apologies if I missed some people, or put them in the wrong class. Other people who showed up at one time or another:

Dixie did a lot of the planning, and she did a good job! Most of the people arrived Friday; Jim and Dan drove from Minnesota and arrived Thursday evening, and Shawn flew in Saturday morning. Dixie planned a light supper for us at the Olive Branch, then we sat around and talked for awhile.

Dixie told us that something special was happening for breakfast Saturday. Al and Janny Townsend showed up with two big platters of home-made donuts! After breakfast we split up and did different things. Some people stayed at the Olive Branch and talked or went swimming. Several people went to the Alphabet Museum and I went see horse-back riding (Cherry's have several horses).

For lunch we had grilled hamburgers, along with chips and Inca Kola (I took 60 cans and 7 two-liter bottles with me). A bunch of people played volley-ball while other talked and I went for a motorcycle ride (Andrew drove from Tennessee on his motorcycle).

Everyone gathered at at Barkman's at 6:30 Saturday night for a dinner of Peruvian food. Steve Salibury made Anticuchos (with beef, cow heart, chicken and venison). Dixie made Ceviche and lasagna (for the spouses who weren't quite sure about the Peruvian food). Of course, there was Inca Kola left over from lunch. After eating and talking for quite awhile, we went down to Barkman's basement to watch some videos that had been made at Yarina. Most people drifted away by midnight, although Kate and Pris stayed up talking up until 5:00am!

Sunday morning we got together at the Olive Branch for breakfast, again. After breakfast, we did some singing and Butch Phaneuf spoke from Psalms 90, which was the text he used when he spoke at the 1987 graduation. The title was "Home isn't a place, it's a person", and he talked about how we've changed in the past 10 years, but we still have a common bond of living in Peru and in Christ. We then went to Ci-Ci's Pizza in Pineville for lunch and stayed for several hours talking. Unfortunately I had to leave before most of the other people, but some of them watched "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Sunday night.

Lewi was the only 1987 graduate who wasn't at the reunion. Denny (and other people) tried to contact him but were unable to. Other than missing him, the week-end was great for everyone. Denny and Dixie were the ones who did most of the planning, although a lot of people did work to make it a success: Janny Townsend made donuts; Phaneufs helped with feeding us and Barkmans loaned us their house for the evening. I'm not sure how Dixie arranged it, but the weather was great the entire week-end. Thanks, everyone! Hopefully it won't be 10 years before we get together again.

The Yarinacocha High School Graduates of 1987

Lewi Agersten
Greg Barkman
Denny Cope
Jim Ellison
Danny Romero
Shawn Sagert



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Updated January 14, 2002 A.D.