The following article appeared in the October 6, 2006 edition of the 'Suburban and Mail Line Times' newspaper.

The newly formed alumni association of Tredyffrin-Easttown High School held its first all-alumni gathering over the past weekend. Around 300 graduates of the Berwyn school that graduated its last class in 1955 joined with one another in a friendly and nostalgic celebration.

Frances Cox Nodland, class of 1953, one of the 30 founders who began to organize what she referred to as "a diminishing group [of TEHS graduates]" about a year ago, said that the organization now has a database of around 2,800 and a mailing list of 1,700 active names. The weekend included a tailgate party at the Malvern VFW Post and a reserved section of seats for the re-dedication of the T-E district's renovated Teamer Field during Conestoga High School's homecoming football game against Ridley High School on Friday night. A Saturday-afternoon get-together at Conestoga was filled with food, memorabilia, tours, pictures taken with a Bulldog mascot and an auction. Hors d'oeuvres were served by Conestoga's National Honor Society members. The present Conestoga High School replaced T-E High School; the building became a junior high and is now a middle school.

Members of the class of 1955 also held their 50th reunion during the weekend. Classes of 1950, 1945, 1940, 1935 and 1930 also held reunions. But the weekend belonged to all of the other graduates as well.

Kay (Penlington) Pritchard, class of 1930, of Devon, said that from her class there were "five of us left" and that she expected to see two of the five. But, she said, "I've met several people from other classes I haven't seen for years. I've enjoyed [the day] very much."
Around 50 of the returnees were at the Friday-night football game, according to 1953 grad and former Conestoga High School athletic director Gerry Gasser. The alumni were recognized by the Conestoga band, which played the old alma mater, "Fair T and E," in their honor.

Chet Thomas, class of 1937, of Paoli, said that he doesn't miss a game and added, "It's a beautiful field," referring to the new artificial turf playing surface. Thomas' wife, Dot, accompanied him on Saturday, even though, as she said, she is a Radnor High School graduate.

A video presentation, titled, "The Way We Were," was shown during the afternoon. It featured a montage of yearbook stills with two filmed sequences of antique cars belonging to alumni Dorrando and Helen Faggioli with representative T-E grads recounting their fondest memories. The alumni association plans to add video shot during the gathering and then offer copies for sale.

An auction offered two original oil paintings, by Barbara Gibb Webster and Grace Hoskins Richter, both of the class of 1953, of the T-E High School building, a Carpenters Hall replica built in 1908 at the corner of Conestoga and Howellville roads. It was torn down during a renovation project of the by-then junior high school in the early 1970s. A horse-drawn carriage ride through Chester County donated by Don Rosato, class of 1952, was also auctioned, as was a one-week condo vacation donated by Jack Cox, class of 1949, and Phil Cox, class of 1957, and also an antique memorabilia ring dish donated by Art Gable, class of 1954.

The alumni traveled from as far away as California and Florida or from Houston and New Orleans. One Floridian, Lloyd Conner, class of 1950, from Port Charlotte, claimed to have the last TEHS diploma ever awarded. Having "flunked chemistry by one point as a junior," Conner said he joined the Navy and later passed a state certification exam for his high-school diploma when he got out. When he approached then-Conestoga-assistant principal Robert Keehn about a legitimate diploma, according to Conner, Keehn asked him whether he wanted a Conestoga or a T-E diploma, and so Conner got his diploma, from Tredyffrin-Easttown High School, in 1957, two years after the last class had graduated.

According to a playbill among the memorabilia, the senior-class play of the Class of 1955 was the George Kauffman-Moss Hart 1938 play, "You Can't Take It With You." True, but 300 T-E High School alumni have just spent a weekend at least remembering it the way it was.