An email dated February 2, 2010 was sent to everyone listed in our Class Email Directory at that time. The text of that email letter is posted below as a source of information for classmates who may not have received that email. If you are not listed in the Class Email Directory, or need to update your email address, you can do that in about 2 minutes or less using the Update Address link on the Navigation Bar of the class web site.
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The 50th Reunion is "up and running". We have narrowed the date to one of the first three weekends in April 2011. We will avoid hot weather, graduations, Easter, and the "seasons" of football, hunting, and hurricanes. We are working on venues, and hope to set the exact date soon so that you can put that weekend on your calendar.
We have heard from over 100 of you "in writing" (and many more by telephone). It is clear that you want only a short program on Saturday night, with most of the evening available for "visiting", with some of "our music" (for dancing and listening) in the background, of course.
We are setting the price at $120/couple and $65/single for both Friday and Saturday night. This is what the 1959 class charged recently and we felt that they would have been as cost conscious as we are. And since prices go up every year we may have to provide "less" than they did in order to hold our costs in 2011 to the level they experienced in 2009.
Professional "Reunion Planners" are expensive, so we are doing it "ourselves". We have had a great response to our request for volunteers. Please thank them every chance you get.
In order to keep the folks who have "stepped up" from having to "front" costs for things that will, or may possibly, be needed, such as postage, deposits, decorations, printing, banking costs, post office box, and all of those things that you never think of (have you "been there"?) that all cost money, we are asking those of you who can to SEND YOUR REGISTRATION FEE NOW. One thing that we might be able to do with some of the money is to guarantee a block of rooms in exchange for a reduction in the room rate. This would help our classmates who will have large travel expense. It will be such a help to have some "operating capital" in the bank. We do have about $400 left from our share of the money left over from the "sixties decade" reunion a few years ago. Our 45th reunion was "tight", money wise, with some "sweating and loss of sleep". So far this time, our initial mail out to 450 of you cost about $650 and we will need to mail at least once more to those who do not use, or furnish, e-mail to us. Please encourage all you know to give us their e-mail. Bill Scott and Jerry Cook are knowledgeable and vigilant in the area of protecting our lists. We no longer get a lot of emails since Bill Scott has the blog (where you can read the messages Bill posts) set up on the Web site at: http://www.fairpark1961.net. You can get reunion information there.
SEND YOUR CHECKS NOW MADE PAYABLE TO:
FPHS Reunion 1961
P.O. Box 761
Shreveport, LA 71162
If you are unable to come, you may have made a non-tax-deductible donation, but it will be greatly appreciated. Of course, we would hope to be able to refund to those who want a refund.
Here are the names of everyone who has sent a response in writing indicating a reasonable level of interest...
Judy Coulson Gisiner
Martha Louise Daugherty Winford
Joseph Augustus Durusau
Linda Mason Gentry
Charlie McBride
Sharon McClain Carter
Barbara Lee Addison Freed
Judy Swanner Enloe
Phillip Carney
Robert Gary DeClerk
Mary Sue Doiron Maxwell
Don Curtis Jones
Janis Nallin Vascoe
Mike Robinson
Patricia (Pat) Sanders Rouch
Denice Schneider Creech
Sherrelene Lynette Adkins Smith
Wilma G. Beaird Adams
Kay Doris Bevill Tucci
Claire Burks Leeftink
Don Chandler
Larry W. Fields
Johnny Grubbs
Sue Judd Ross
Chris Roach
Billy W. Scott
Henry R. Templin
Lloyd Wallace
Billy K. Sneed
Kenneth Richard Allen
Lester C. (Nickname – L.C.) Anderson
Jamie Armstrong Ballard
Shirley Baldwin Chandler
Eugene Earl Blake
Betty Crystal Bogue Jones
Janet Box Wolfe
Sheila Joyce Bradford Jones
Frank Bright
Kay (Katherine) Ann Burford Murphy
Donnie Brown Carroll
Thomas James Casteel
Jerry Dean Cook
Willis William Dear
Bruce Deville
Camilla Marie Fulco Doughty
Joyce Graves Gadd
Alice Faye Hammons Bailey
Carrol Ann Hanson Cook
Carol Ann Hawkins Deshotels
Sylvester Sonny Hedges, Jr
Johnny R. Howe
Phillip Johnson
Billy M. Jones
Marvin D Jones
Barbara Jean Kennedy Blaylock
David Bruce Kruger
James(Jim) McNamara Langford
Helen Fern Lindsay Rigg
Sam J. Lucero
Charles L. Maranto
Virginia Marshall Fulmer
Linda McDaniel Russell
Dinah Netherton Grisham
Judy Pace Smith
Jacqueline Bea Reynolds Robertson
Johnnie Beatrice Ross McKinney
Betty Sims Rose
Joan Lee Stockard
Gayle Teresa Goodyear
Chester Terral
Anneice Thomas Butler
Hollis Richard Thompson
Peggy Tilton Williamson
Earle Kent Valentine
Garland Weidner
David Wells
James Clinton Windham
William (Bill) Joseph Rittenhouse
Mary Lynn Tuminello Johnson
Patricia Ann Pendleton Reed
Linda Kay Kitchens Smith
Betty Molcany Barber
Clark E. Smith
William (Bill) Arthur Roberts
Janice Litton Mowry
Carolyn Sue Scott Gough
Patricia Ann Osborne Booton
Lamar Oliver
John Pierce
Richard Lindsey
Also, we have talked to a number of you who are coming, but have yet to send your response.
We will update you as we make progress with the reunion planning. This is going to be the biggest and best one yet. Those of you who come will have a great time and we ask for the support "from afar" from those of you who for reasons of health or family situations will not be able to come. We will be thinking of you and hope that those of you who can will contact us so that we will know that "you are there".
There are a lot more of you who have volunteered to help and would have been willing to "sign" this, but we just included those we were absolutely sure had consented. Wish us luck!
Frank Bright, Betty Molcany Barber, Judy Brooks Bartz, Charles Canfield, Willis Dear, Camilla Fulco Doughty, Faye Hammons Bailey, Carrol Ann Hanson Cook, Jerry Cook, Garland Weidner, Dinah Netherton Grisham, Hollis Thompson, Bill Scott, Linda Terry, Bonnie Cole.
