An email dated April 20, 2010 was sent to everyone listed in our Class Email Directory at that date. 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 bandwagon is "up and running". We have set the date and place!
Date--Friday April 1 and 2, 2011.
Venue--Holiday Inn Financial Plaza (Holidome)--on South side of Interstate-20 west of town between Hwy 3132 (Inner Loop Expressway) and Pines Road. Hospitality Suite-Friday afternoon and night and Saturday (cold hors d'oeuvres and beverages Friday night).
Motel Rooms at Holiday Inn-Financial Plaza (Holidome)--$89 plus tax per night (must mention FPHS for this discounted rate). Includes free high-speed, wireless Internet access, and free airport shuttle.
List of probable attendees:
1. Barbara Lee Addison Freed
2. Sherrelene Lynette Adkins Smith
3. Kenneth Richard (Bucky) Allen
4. Lester Crowell Anderson
5. Spate R. Anthony
6. Jamie Ruth Armstrong Ballard
7. Susan Ann Ashby Kramer-Digilormo
8. Shirley Ann Baldwin Chandler
9. Wilma G. Beaird Adams
10. Kay Doris Bevill Tucci
11. Eugene Earl Blake
12. Jay Wade Blazin
13. Bettye Crystal Bogue Jones
14. Roger Lee Boston
15. Janet Box Wolfe
16. Sheila Joyce Bradford Jones
17. Donald Frank Bright
18. Judith Anne Brooks Bartz
19. Kay (Katherine) Ann Burford Murphy
20. Dorothy Claire Burks Leeftink
21. Phillip Carney
22. Connie Carroll
23. Donald (Donnie) Brown Carroll
24. Elizabeth (Betty) Carter Stokeld
25. William Mark Carter
26. Thomas James Casteel
27. Don Michael Chandler
28. Theresa Clemens Ferguson
29. John Cole
30. Jerry Dean Cook
31. Judy Coulson Gisiner
32. Judy Darlene Cromer Walker
33. Martha Louise Daugherty Winford
34. Willis William Dear
35. Robert Gary DeClerk
36. Gloria Jean DeSoto Eubanks
37. Bruce Deville
38. Mary Sue Doiron Maxwell
39. Mary Frances Doss Wilson
40. Joseph (Gus) Augustus Durusau
41. Gordon Byrle Ferguson
42. Larry W. Fields
43. Mary Ann Frizzell McCrary
44. Camilla Marie Fulco Doughty
45. Joyce Graves Gadd
46. Johnny A. Grubbs
47. Alice Faye Hammons Bailey
48. Carrol Ann Hanson Cook
49. Carol Ann Hawkins Deshotels
50. Patricia Ann Hayes Smay
51. Sylvester "Sonny" Hedges, Jr
52. Carolyn Marie Holliday Eichner
53. Johnny R. Howe
54. Phillip Lamar Johnson
55. Billy M. Jones
56. Don Curtis Jones
57. Marvin D. Jones
58. Sue Judd Ross
59. Barbara Jean Kennedy Blaylock
60. Larry King
61. Linda Kay Kitchens Smith
62. David Bruce Kruger
63. James(Jim) McNamara Langford
64. Helen Fern Lindsay Rigg
65. Richard Keith Lindsey
66. Janice Litton Mowry
67. Sam J. Lucero
68. Charles L Maranto
69. Virginia Marshall Fulmer
70. Linda Mason Gentry
71. Charles McBride
72. Sharon McClain Carter
73. Linda McDaniel Russell
74. Betty Molcany Barber
75. Beverly June Mullins Shay
76. Janis Nallin Vascoe
77. Dinah Netherton Grisham
78. D. Lamar Oliver
79. Patricia Ann Osborne Booton
80. Judy Pace Smith
81. Patricia Ann Pendleton Reed
82. John Bell Pierce
83. Wanda Lou Pool Graziadei
84. Jacqueline Bea Reynolds Robertson
85. William (Bill) Joseph Rittenhouse
86. Chris Roach
87. William (Bill) Arthur Roberts
88. Mike Robinson
89. Johnnie Beatrice Ross McKinney
90. Patricia Pat Sanders Rouch
91. Carmolette Denice Schneider Creech
92. Billy Wayne Scott
93. Carolyn Sue Scott Gough
94. Judith Ann Scott Jeans
95. Betty Ann Sims Rose
96. Clark E. Smith
97. Joylyn Smith Smith
98. Billy K Sneed
99. Nancy Stacks Jennings
100. Joan Lee Stockard
101. Judy Swanner Enloe
102. Henry Rudolph Templin
103. Gayle Teresa Goodyear
104. Chester Terral
105. Annice Thomas Butler
106. Hollis Richard Thompson
107. Peggy Tilton Williamson
108. Ila Ann Tonglet Green
109. Kenneth Tubbs
110. Mary Lynn Tuminello Johnson
111. Earle Kent Valentine
112. Lloyd Wallace
113. Garland Ware Moellenkamp
114. Garland Weidner
115. David Wells
116. James Clinton Windham
117. Anne Elizabeth Winterrowd Widiger
118. Neal Womack
If you are not included in this list, please e-mail Jerry Cook (jdcook01@bellsouth.net) to update your information.
Fair Park Open House (tentatively 2-4 PM on Sat.) -- Hollis Thompson - contact.
Class Photo(s) -- tentatively 3 PM at Open House FPHS.
Working Capital -- send in your registration now if you can -- Make checks to "FPHS Reunion 1961" and send to P.O. Box 761, Shreveport, LA 71162 ($65 for single, $120 for couple).
Volunteers are needed to:
- call classmates in your local area code and obtain e-mail addresses so that we can save postage costs - contact Jerry Cook).
- organize memorabilia.
- handle publicity (Times, TV stations, Forum Magazine, Comcast. TV, Margaret "Maggie" Martin).
- decorations (Denise Schneider and Judy Cromer have already volunteered to help) They will need help.
- organize and staff registration both Friday and Saturday.
- Nametags - Bill Rittenhouse just confirmed that he will handle the nametags. He may need some help.
-create and print programs for Sat. night.
-create and organize "spouse's/guest corner" as a place for them to enjoy with others who don't know many people.
-Southern Maid Donut run.
Additional activities considered -- State Exhibit Museum, Municipal Auditorium, McNeill Street Pumping Station and Norton Art Gallery and grounds.
Coke Party (ladies) -- Sat. morning (Dinah Netherton will host. Sue Doiron is helping, and Dinah probably has others that she can successfully "draft" to help).
Memory/Writing Wall -- Mary Lynn Tuminello is going to provide this to the class so that we can put some memories "on paper" (teachers, events, friends) during the reunion for all to see
Memorial/prayer ceremony and Memorial Board (with pictures and dates of death) -- Betty Molcany has provided the board to the class in the past and will do so again. It is up to date due to her work. Willis Dear is organizing a short ceremony to remember our deceased classmates. Other minister-classmates will participate (we know of John Pierce, Gordon Ferguson, and Larry Fields at this time).
Our Former Teachers will be the guests of our class--John Cole is organizing locating and inviting our former teachers.
Volunteers who we have not even given a job yet are--Sam Lucero, Betty Carter, Faye Hammonds, Phillip Carney, Bettye Bogue, Kay Burford, Mark Carter, Earle Valentine, Barbara Kennedy, Kay Kitchens, Patricia Osborne, Sue Scott, Chet Terrell, Carol Ann Hawkins, Charles Maranto (if we need to, or forgot to, list your name here, let us know).
Check our Web site for all class related information at http://www.fairpark1961.net/
The new feature on the class web site that is most important is the online Address Update process. Bill has done 3 postings to the blog during March and 1 posting so far in April about the Address Update process. Check the Blog Table of Contents for March and April 2010 to get further information on this topic. The more classmates that use the web site and read the blog, the greater role it can play in keeping everyone informed.
Digital Yearbooks currently available from Mickey Phillips.
For your enjoyment , the 1961 Sequoyah is online in the Photos section of the class web site. Bill Scott has done a wonderful job on this site, for all of us. If you don't have the web address, try (http://www.fairpark1961.net) and click on Photos link.
If you would like your very own copy on disc, to view or download to your PC, contact Mickey, at mickeyp43@gmail.com. I will send you a disk for $15.00, postage included.
I have a few other high school goodies you may enjoy, if you visit my Picasa Web Albums site at ( picasaweb.google.com/mickeyp43 ). I will be scanning a few other FP yearbooks as time permits.
Enjoy
See You at the 50th,
Mickey ( Mike) Phillips.
Reunion DVD from Jerry Cook--
A DVD will be made up from pictures and videos of the reunion that classmates want to share with us. Plan to bring your digital camcorders and cameras (along with computer transfer cables) to capture those special moments. Specific details will be announced at a later time.
We will update you as we make more 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 planning to be there".
Looking forward to seeing you April 1st, 2011.
Your Reunion Committee:
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
