TLC Logo   A Gueguen Family Reunion!

Quite a few of our readers knew at least one Gueguen while attending LHS. There were five: Jack graduated in 1951 and Loretta in 1960. That's five Gueguen kids over a pretty good span of years. Recently, they held a family reunion in suburban St. Louis and Jack Gueguen kindly provided us with a couple of the pictures that were taken. We had a little problem trying to count all the people at this reunion so we asked Mary Pat Gueguen Miller '58 about it:

 

"I didn't count them either but I think we had about 77. There were some missing, can you believe!!!! Anyway, we had a wonderful time...

"It would have been easier to identify families by colors if we had gathered that way, but all my family is in white, Loretta's in blue, Sharon's purple, and Joyce's had the 'rainbow colors.' I think you can pick out 'The 4 Queens and a Jack', as Daddy used to call us, right in the middle of the picture. The really OLD people!"


Photos courtesy Jack Gueguen '51

And here are the aforementioned "Four Queens and a Jack"!  With crowns!

Mary Pat continues: " 'Four Queens & a Jack' was sort of a spoof on the title our Daddy gave us years ago. He would always call us that when introducing us to someone and then say, "Beats a full house", (poker language, I guess). We thought "Well, we have a FULL HOUSE, too, most of the time.

"Anyway, my siblings did not want a picture taken with those white T shirts with stars on them much less the silly crowns. Only me. Anyway, when Sharon's daughter put the crown on her head, it broke and you can see the side of the crown sort of just laying on the side of Sharon's head. We were all hysterical, (at poor Sharon's expense), as you can tell. And Jack just looks like Jack, used to our hysteria.

"The back row of that picture, standing, is Joyce on the left and Loretta on the right.

"The hippy ones in front are [Mary Pat and] Sharon..."