Reunion organizers discover forgotten money

There is almost $56,000 in the account.
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- Organizers of a high school class reunion made a surprising discovery while looking for classmates' names and addresses -- a forgotten bank account containing more than $50,000.
The Wausau East High School class of 1986 started the bank account 20 years ago with $210 raised during a bake sale. About 10 years ago, someone anonymously made a $50,000 donation to the account.
Discovery
The account largely went unnoticed by class members until alumna Wendy Moore, 37, of Minneapolis called the school district's foundation looking for names and addresses of former classmates.
Foundation members, who had received interest notices from the bank but didn't know who to contact about the money, told her about it, and she then called Michael Welles, the former class president.
"My first reaction was, 'This has got to be a mistake,'" said Welles, 38, of Chicago.
The account is now worth almost $56,000 after interest. The class reunion committee decided to use the money to set up a scholarship fund for future Wausau East graduates.
"I don't know if it was a former classmate or parent who donated this money, but whoever it was obviously chose our class because they thought we'd do the right thing with it," Moore said.
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