August 23, 2010

Beverly Wilhite Quick

In July 2010 someone used the online Update Address form to provide the home address information for classmate Beverly Wilhite Quick. However, there was no email address shown. Attempts have been made to phone Beverly but they have not been successful.

At the present time we are not sure if an email address was omitted on purpose or accidentally. If you can provide details on this situation please use the Blog News link to contact me. Thanks.

August 08, 2010

Anthony Joseph Tuminello

This obituary is for the brother of Mary Lynn Tuminello Johnson. Please keep Mary Lynn and her family in your prayers.

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BOSSIER CITY, LA - A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:00 a.m., Monday, August 9, 2010, at Christ The King Catholic Church. Officiating will be Father Charles Glorioso. Interment will follow in Rose-Neath Cemetery, Bossier City, LA. Visitation will be 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. with a Vigil at 7:00 p.m. Sunday evening at Rose-Neath Bossier Chapel.

Anthony was born May 19, 1928 in Shreveport, LA and passed away Thursday, August 5, 2010, at Colonial Oaks. Friends will remember Anthony as the owner/operator of North Highland Hardware. A talented musician for 60 years, Anthony played for many occasions. After retiring, he entertained residents at nursing homes and retirement centers. God gave him the talent and he brightened the days of many.

Beautiful memories will be shared by his wife, Joyce Distefano Tuminello of Bossier City, LA; daughters, Sharon Gingles and husband, Sam of Blanchard, LA and Pamela Seder and husband, Tim of Bossier City, LA; sister, Mary Lynn Johnson and husband, Phillip of Houston, TX; brother, Tom Tuminello and wife, Delores of Lake Charles, LA; sister-in-law, Catherine Tuminello of Bossier City, LA; brother-in-law, Tom Askins of Houston, TX; seven grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren.

Honoring Anthony, as pallbearers will be Carl Costanza, Phillip Tuminello, Ronald Tuminello, Phillip Johnson, Thomas Askins and Anthony Maniscalco. James Rosso, V.J. Fulco, A.J. Lewis, Stephen Tuminello and Charles Tuminello will serve as honorary pallbearers.

The family extends a heartfelt thanks to Drs. Gina Miller, Patterson Ball and Director Jay Burkhart and his staff at Colonial Oaks for the professional and loving care shown to Anthony and his family.

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August 06, 2010

FPHS 1961 50th Reunion Update - 8/5/2010

Date: Friday April 1 and 2, 2011

Place: Holiday Inn Financial Plaza (Holidome) Shreveport, LA. The Hospitality Suite will be available Friday afternoon and Night and Saturday(cold hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be available Friday night). We have reserved a block of rooms at Holiday Inn-Financial Plaza (Holidome)--$89 plus tax per night (must mention FPHS61 for this discounted rate). Includes free high-speed, wireless Internet access, and free airport shuttle.

Contact: Theresa Peters
Holiday Inn Shreveport West
5555 Financial Plaza
Shreveport, LA 71129
318-688-1877 Phone

Open House at Fair Park is set for 9 am-11 am on Sat. April 2nd. (Hollis Thompson - contact). A short Memorial Ceremony will be held in the school auditorium at 9 am, Willis Dear, Gordon Ferguson, John Pierce, and Larry Fields will be officiating.

Class photographs will be taken immediately after the Memorial Ceremony. If the group is large, we may take one picture of all, and then take one of the Midway/Linwood group, and one of the remaining classmates (Lakeshore, Fair Park 9th grade, and others). There should be about an hour left for you to tour the school.

Coke Party for the ladies at Dinah Netherton's at 1:30 PM on Sat April 2nd.

Buffet Dinner/Dance at Holiday Inn Financial Plaza--Sat. April 2nd.

Additional Activities--State Exhibit Museum (Hollis Thompson); Municipal Auditorium; Norton Art Gallery and Grounds(Judy Brooks); McNeill Street Pumping Station; Golf (Dewey Powers); Step Tour of Shreveport--we will explore any of these if there is interest. LET US HEAR FROM YOU.

Nametags--(Bill Rittenhouse, Jerry Cook) If you did not have an individual picture in the senior class section of the yearbook, please send us a picture of you from 1961 with your check or e-mail it to FPHS61Jerry@gmail.com.

Please send us the name you were commonly called in high school, and the name of your spouse/guest.

Registration--Please send your check now ($120 couple, $65 single) made out to FPHS Reunion 1961. It should be mailed to:
FPHS Reunion 1961, P.O. Box 761, Shreveport, LA 71162.

Decorations/Banners--Judy Brooks, Denise Schneider, Judy Cromer, Jay Blazin.

Memorial Board--Betty Molcany.

Writing/Memory Wall--Mary Lynn Tuminello.

RV Park--Joanie Stockard advises that the Good Sam Park on West 70th Street is convenient and recommended by her if you are bringing an RV.

Memorabilia--need a volunteer to organize.

Teachers--we will comp our teachers. Give us names and contact information.

Southern Maid Donuts Fun Run--need a volunteer!

Volunteers: Latest list of classmates who have volunteered to help, but for whatever reason have not yet been given a job by your honorable committee--Sam Lucero, Betty Carter, Faye Hammonds, Phillip Carney, Bettye Bogue, Kay Burford, Mark Carter, Barbara Kennedy, Patricia Osborne, Sue Scott, Chet Terrell, Carol Ann Hawkins, Charles Maranto, Johnnie Ross, Dewey Powers, Sonny Hedges, Earle Valentine,Kay Kitchens, Shirley Baldwin........if we need to, or have forgotten to include your name, 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. If you have not used the "Address Update" link yet, do ASAP, to make certain we have your full and correct information. Please include your e-mail address, your address is not shared with anyone but the rest of the class via the Class Directory (not shown on the web site). The more we can do to get classmates using the web site and reading the blog, the greater role it can play in keeping classmates informed. Bill Scott has done a fantastic job creating and maintaining the class web site. Visit the site to keep up to date on the latest information.

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 Jerry Cook FPHS61Jerry@gmail.com so that we will know that "you are planning to be there". Looking forward to seeing you April 1st, 2011.

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. Patricia Basco Self-Chism

10. Jerry Bass

11. Wilma G Beard Adams

12. Kay Doris Bevill Tucci

13. Eugene Earl Blake

14. Jay Wade Blazin

15. Melba Jeans Boggs Arinder

16. Bettye Crystal Bogue Jones

17. Roger Lee Boston

18. Janet Box Wolfe

19. Sheila Joyce Bradford Jones

20. Charles Luther Branton

21. William Kenneth Brickell

22. Donald Frank Bright

23. Judith Anne Brooks Bartz

24. Carolyn Brown Roy

25. Kay (Katherine) Ann Burford Murphy

26. Dorothy Claire Burks Leeftink

27. Phillip Carney

28. Donald (Donnie) Brown Carroll

29. Sarah (Connie) Constance Carroll Neal

30. Elizabeth (Betty) Carter Stokeld

31. William Mark Carter

32. Thomas James Casteel

33. Don Michael Chandler

34. Theresa Clemens Ferguson

35. John Cole

36. Jerry Dean Cook

37. Judy Coulson Gisiner

38. Robert Crittenden

39. Judy Darlene Cromer Walker

40. Martha Louise Daugherty Winford

41. Willis William Dear

42. Robert Gary DeClerk

43. Michael Kent DeMann

44. Gloria Jean DeSoto Eubanks

45. Bruce Deville

46. Mary Sue Doiron Maxwell

47. Mary Frances Doss Wilson

48. Elva Loraine Durr Reazin

49. Joseph (Gus) Augustus Durusau

50. Gordon Byrle Ferguson

51. Larry W. Fields

52. Janet Freeman Brickell

53. Mary Ann Frizzell McCrary

54. Camilla Marie Fulco Doughty

55. Joyce Graves Gadd

56. Johnny A. Grubbs

57. Alice Faye Hammons Bailey

58. Carrol Ann Hanson Cook

59. Carol Ann Hawkins Deshotels

60. Patricia Ann Hayes Smay

61. Sylvester Sonny Hedges, Jr

62. Louis Hoffman

63. Carolyn Marie Holliday Eichner

64. Johnny R. Howe

65. Janis Jefferson Bass

66. John Carvin Johnson

67. Phillip Lamar Johnson

68. Billy M. Jones

69. Don Curtis Jones

70. Marvin D. Jones

71. Sue Judd Ross

72. Barbara Jean Kennedy Blaylock

73. Larry King

74. Linda Kay Kitchens Smith

75. David Bruce Kruger

76. James(Jim) McNamara Langford

77. Helen Fern Lindsay Rigg

78. Richard Keith Lindsey

79. Sam J. Lucero

80. Charles L Maranto

81. Virginia Marshall Fulmer

82. Linda Mason Gentry

83. Charles McBride

84. Sharon McClain Carter

85. Brenda McClure Johnson

86. Linda McDaniel Russell

87. LouEllen McFadden Hoffman

88. Sue McLeary Friday

89. Rosita Medellin Babb

90. Betty Molcany Barber

91. Beverly June Mullins Shay

92. Janis Nallin Vascoe

93. Dinah Netherton Grisham

94. John E. Newberry

95. Dewitt O'Donley

96. Charles Ogletree

97. D. Lamar Oliver

98. Patricia Ann Osborne Booton

99. Judy Pace Smith

100. Bobby Patrick

101. Patricia Ann Pendleton Reed

102. John Bell Pierce

103. Wanda Lou Pool Graziadei

104. Robert Dewey Powers

105. Bobby Ray Pugh

106. Judith Ann Ramsey Graham

107. Innis Reaves

108. Jacqueline Bea Reynolds Robertson

109. William (Bill) Joseph Rittenhouse

110. Chris Roach

111. William (Bill) Arthur Roberts

112. Margaret Linda Robertson Grissom

113. Mike Robinson

114. Johnnie Beatrice Ross McKinney

115. Linn Christine Roycroft Ward

116. Patricia Pat Sanders Rouch

117. Carmolette Denice Schneider Creech

118. Billy Wayne Scott

119. Carolyn Sue Scott Gough

120. Judith Ann Scott Jeans

121. Janis Sharp Ritter

122. Betty Ann Sims Rose

123. James F. Slagle

124. Clark E. Smith

125. Joylyn Smith Smith

126. Billy K. Sneed

127. Nancy Stacks Jennings

128. Joan Lee Stockard

129. Judy Swanner Enloe

130. Henry Rudolph Templin

131. Gayle Teresa Goodyear

132. Chester Terral

133. Linda Thames Pickett

134. Annice Thomas Butler

135. Hollis Richard Thompson

136. Peggy Tilton Williamson

137. Ila Ann Tonglet Green

138. Kenneth Tubbs

139. Larry Tulley

140. Mary Lynn Tuminello Johnson

141. Earle Kent Valentine

142. Lloyd Wallace

143. Garland Ware Moellenkamp

144. Garland Weidner

145. David Wells

146. Susan Whipple Rogers

147. Peggy Williamson Tilton

148. James Clinton Windham

149. Anne Elizabeth Winterrowd Widiger

150. Neal Womack

151. Stan Woodard

If you are not included in this list, please e-mail Jerry Cook (FPHS61Jerry@gmail.com) to update your information.

We hope to see all of you who are able to come, and we wish for all of you good health and happiness!

Your Reunion Committee for the 50th reunion:

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.

August 01, 2010

Accessing The Email Directory

Over the past several weeks I have been working with a classmate who is unable to gain access to the Email Directory file. Web site statistics that I receive don't show a problem in this area, but I wanted to ask anyway if other classmates may have the same problem. If so, please let me know. When you write please include a complete description of the steps you take to try to gain access to the Directory. Thanks.