Deadline

 I have put myself under a deadline.  I won't be renewing my website hosting in March 2021, so the content of abbotpennings.com will be moving here.  Whatever doesn't make it before the cutover will go dark until I catch up again.

The first page I worked on is the Van Remortel Slide Collection.  This is a box of slides that Mary Jane Van Remortel, one of our school secretaries, saved from the dumpster as the school was closing.  It's a nice glimpse of life at Pennings in the 70s and 80s.  I scanned and shared these in 2012, so you may have seen them before.

https://abbotpennings.blogspot.com/p/photos-van-remortel-slides.html

Welcome to a new Abbot Pennings page.

In 2009, I began to collect photos and artifacts from our old school, Abbot Penning High School in DePere, Wisconsin.  It closed (merged) in 1990.  I started to organize them on my godaddy hosted web page, and purchased the abbotpennings.com domain to steer people there.

Enough people found the page, it resonated with a lot of Squires, and many were kind enough to send me other pictures, video and artifacts that I could digitize and share.  As of today, July 24, 2019, that page is still there, but it looks like it was made by a 1990s webmaster with outdated html code that doesn't display well on mobile devices. 

There is also a facebook group with more interactive discussions.  Abbot Pennings has his own google account because it's a lot easier to put photo galleries here, and now he has a blog.  Over time, I'm going to move the content from the HTML site here, and once it has some critical mass, I will point the domain there as well.

Once a Squire, Always a Squire!

Eric Elfner
July 2019