Gladys Earline Meadows Humphries

Mrs. Humphries is the Mother of classmate Linda Humphries Trichel. Please keep Linda and her family in your prayers.

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Gladys Earline Meadows Humphries
SHREVEPORT, LA - Graveside services will be held at Centuries Memorial Cemetery on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 2 p.m. for Gladys Earline Meadows Humphries. She was born January 21, 1914 in Friendship Community near Gladewater in Smith County, Texas, and died on April 13, 2010 in Shreveport, Louisiana, at age 96.

Earline was a homemaker, and wife of over 50 years to James T. Humphries prior to his death in 1994. Both were members of Kingston Road Baptist Church.

She was also predeceased by her parents, Hallie Frances Gilliam and Charles Vernon Meadows of Smith County, Texas; two brothers; a nephew and grand nephew.

She is survived by a daughter; Linda Humphries Trichel, grandson; Neil Martin Trichel II, and wife, Sarah; nieces, nephews, and their children.

At last she returns to the side of her beloved husband J.T.

Centuries Memorial Funeral Home (318) 686-4334

Reunion Update 4/20/2010

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

Then and Now

It was July 2002 when I uploaded the first few web pages that formed the core of our 1961 Fair Park Web Site. At that time, we had Internet contact with about 40 or so classmates who had provided their email address as part of a directory prepared for the 40th reunion. At the current time, we have email addresses for more than 230 of our classmates. I hope that even more of our classmates will be joining with us as we push toward the 50th year reunion in 2011.

Many different factors have come together recently that make it imperative better ways be used to obtain and maintain up-to-date alumni address information. The Update Address link now on the class web site's Navigation Bar is the best solution we have found to ensure that valid address information is available. That link enables each classmate with Internet access to keep his or her own information up to date. The process also ensures greater accuracy of the information by eliminating nearly all retyping of the address information.

The most pressing need now is to get every classmate with Internet access to use the Update Address link. So far, only about 30 percent of the classmates listed in the Email Directory have used the Update link. If your information in the Email Directory does not show that it has been confirmed in 2010 please use the Update Link. If there is a change in your data later on, use the Update Link again. Using the Update Link is simple and usually takes less than two minutes.

To get to the Update Link just click on the Update Address link shown in the Navigation Bar of the class web site.

Hubert D. Humphreys

I ran across a nice article today about Fair Park history teacher Mr. Hubert Humphreys. As you may recall he passed away on 8/28/2009. If you'd like to read more about this accomplished teacher just click on his name to go to the article on him.

Byrd 1961

Thanks to Mickey Phillips for a scan of the 1961 Byrd yearbook. If you would like to see that yearbook just click on the link shown on the Photos page of our web site.