Northland High School Alumni Foundation

January 2024 Valhalla Newsletter

Website: www.northlandhigh.com

Hello Northland Alumni and Friends,

NHSAF welcomes this New Year and is excited to have a full variety of 2024 events for our alumni, family and friends to enjoy! LIFE GOES BY FAST ~ DON'T MISS OUT!

We wish you all a wonderful and prosperous New Year

VIKING BASKETBALL

ALUMNI GATHERING GAMES

Let's Go Vikings!!! Cheer on our basketball teams - Girls basketball team on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 7:00pm and the boys basketball team Friday, February 9, 2024 at 7:00pm ~ Both nights the Vikings will play that team from up north ( of 161) at home in the the NHS gymnasium.

SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 7:00pm - NHS Girls Basketball game vs. Beechcroft at Northland (NHSAF Girl's BB Alumni Game)

Friday, February 9, 2024 7:00pm - NHS Boys Basketball game vs. Beechcroft at Northland (NHSAF Boy's BB Alumni game)

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 6:30pm - NHSAF Monthly Meeting at NHS (Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month)

Sunday, February 25, 2024 2:00pm - NHSAF Viking Bowling at Columbus Bowling Palace.

Saturday, June 22, 2024 Shotgun start time 9:00am - NHSAF Viking Golf Outing at Village View Golf Course in Croton, Ohio

Saturday, August 3, 2024 7:00pm - NHSAF Annual All-Class Reunion at Flannagan's in Dublin, Ohio

NHSAF 2024 Monthly Winter meetings will be at NHS on Tuesdays at 6:30pm: February 13, and March 12. We hope you'll come to share your ideas.

*We will have additional detailed information on 2024 events in future newsletters.

Also see the Recurring Events tab on the NHSAF Website for yearly events, or check out our Facebook Page for additional information.

VIKING BOWL-A-MANIA

Calling everyone who wants to have some fun! The weather will likely be gloomy in the winter so join us for our 5th annual Viking Bowl-A-Mania on Sunday, February 25th from 2pm to 4pm at The Columbus Square Bowling Palace to brighten your day. Not a bowler? Feel free to come out anyway and take the opportunity to mingle with your fellow alums.

5707 Forest Hills Blvd., Columbus, OH 43231  614-895-1122

Tickets this year are $20.00. This includes 2 hours of open bowling, ball and shoes. For more details and to purchase tickets, click the link below. 

2024 Bowl-A-Mania ‎

Not able to attend but would still like to support this fundraiser for Northland? A donation in any amount will be put to good use and can be made to the NHSAF gift fund by clicking this link.

Donate Today

NHS FLASHBACK... 1974 SCHOOL YEAR

Were you at Northland in the 1974 school year? Fifty years ago, the US population was 213,853,928 people and the average life expectancy was 72.0 years. The median household income was 11,197 and the average new home cost $38,900. At the local grocery store it would cost you a little over two dollars for a gallon of milk ($1.57) and a dozen eggs ($0.78). A gallon of gasoline was $0.53 and a postage stamp was $0.10. At the Academy Awards, The "Oscar" winner for Best Actor was Art Carney ("Harry and Tonto"), and Ellen Burstyn ("Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore") was Best Actress. What movie won Best Director (Francis Coppola), Best Picture (Coppola/Frederickson/Roos) and Best Supporting Actor (Robert DeNiro) ~ Do you remember the movie? The two top money making movies were "Blazing Saddles" and "The Towering Inferno."

The top-rated television show was  "All in the Family", with "Sanford and Son" second. The Emmy Award for best drama went to "Masterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs", and the best comedy award went to "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."  Album of the year was "Fulfillingness' First Finale" by Stevie Wonder. Olivia Newton-John won Record of the Year with "I Honestly Love You", while the Billboard Top Song was "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John.

In the world of sports, the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl IX, the Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup, The Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship, and the Oakland A's won the World Series. Archie Griffin won the first of his two Heisman Trophies. To see what else was going on in the world during 1974 click the link below.

1970's Flashback.com

What was happening at Northland during the 1974 school year? Well, Shauna Towler was voted Homecoming Queen, the basketball Vikings were City League Champs, and Mrs. White and her Latin program won the Award for the Best Latin School Program in the State of Ohio. To see some more memories in pictures from the 1974 Vikings, click the link below.

NHS Flashback... 1974

YOU ARE INVITED

Interested in getting involved, or just learning more about what our organization does? Our next NHSAF monthly organization meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 at Northland High School, 1919 Northcliff Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43229. Meetings start at 6:30pm

Alma Mater:

Northland we will all be true. Hearts unite in song for you. Wave we high the green and gold. Mem'ries last 'tho years will roll. Lives are molded by your frame. Loyalty is not in vain. Echo back the proud reply, we are for you old Northland High.

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