Jerry Cook has provided his 4th update of Reunion planning activities. If you have questions please contact him directly at FPHS61Jerry@gmail.com.
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Time is sure flying, six months from now we will be at our 50th Reunion. Over 150 classmates have already indicated they will attend, so we have added an extra meeting room for dancing and/or overflow eating. This compares favorably with a total of 160 classmates who attended the 20th reunion, which was a "big one". Based on the responses the Reunion Committee received, you want a lot of time for visiting with former classmates. Our plans are focused on that goal – giving you the time to visit. Of course there will be 50's & 60's music, a memorial corner, memorabilia, and a Writing/Memory Wall to express your feelings about Fair Park.
Date of Reunion: 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 West-Financial Plaza (Holidome)--$89 plus tax per night (you 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.
Men's Golf outing- 1:30PM on Sat April 2nd - Contact Dewey Powers dewey@powersntc.com if you are interested in playing a round.
Buffet Dinner/Dance at Holiday Inn Financial Plaza—Sat. Evening April 2nd (serving starts at 7pm).
Robin, at the James Burton Foundation, jamesburtonfest@aol.com or, 318-424-5000, can set up a tour of the Municipal Auditorium on Friday April 1, 2011, if there is enough interest. Their regular tour schedule is on Saturday from 11 am until 4 pm. The fee is $5.00 per person. They are pretty flexible on the tour length, with about 30 minutes being a "short version". There are displays of memorabilia from the Louisiana Hayride days, and the building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a National Historic Landmark. Classmate Louise Abbott and her husband, guitarist James Burton, are active Friends of the Municipal Auditorium. The Web site is www.municipalauditorium.homestead.com.
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.
Register now so that we can better plan. Send checks ($120 per couple, $65 for singles) made to " FPHS Reunion 1961" and mail to FPHS Reunion 1961, P.O. Box 761, Shreveport, LA 71162.
Here are some of the reunion-related topics and the person who has volunteered:
Web Site--Bill Scott
Ladies Coke Party--Dinah Netherton
Memorial Boards--Betty Molcany
Registration records and bank account monitor--R.D. (Mr. Betty Molcany) Barber
Mailbox monitors and check deposits--Garland Weidner and Frank Bright
Check signing--Frank Bright and Charles Canfield
Memory/Writing Board--Mary Lynn Tuminello
FPHS Open House--Hollis Thompson
Food--John Cole and Camilla Fulco
Communication--Jerry Cook and Carrol Ann Hanson Cook
Name tags--Billy Rittenhouse and Jerry Cook
Memorial Ceremony(during Open House)--Willis Dear, Larry Fields, John Pierce, and Gordon Ferguson
Teachers--John Cole
Music--Jerry Cook and Suzzanne (Mrs. Frank) Bright
Decorations/Banners--Judy Brooks, Denise Schneider, Judy Cromer, and Jay Blazin
Class Photo (during Open House)--Suzzanne (Mrs. Frank) Bright
Southern Maid Donuts for Hospitality Suite--?????????????
Volunteers in Waiting--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, Sonny Hedges, Earle Valentine, Kay Kitchens, and Shirley Baldwin. We have not forgotten that you have volunteered to help!!
We have a Hospitality Room available for Friday evening and all day Saturday. It is room 116 and it opens out onto the atrium. Adult beverages will be available on a "cash bar" basis at the Holiday Inn's Huddle Room which is located in the atrium.
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.
Give us the names and contact information for any teachers that we should invite. Teachers get to come "free". So far, we know about Mrs. Jo Allen, Clem and Martha Henderson, Joe May, and A.L. and Sarah Williams.
Charlie Ogletree has agreed (after some "arm-twisting") to be the Master of Ceremonies. We will be able to compare his performance with his prior performance at the 10th reunion, which I am sure we all remember well. Seriously, we appreciate everyone who has helped with the reunion planning.
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 email address is not shared with anyone but the rest of the class via the Class Email Directory which is password protected 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 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:
Barbara Lee Addison Freed
Sherrelene Lynette Adkins Smith
Kenneth Richard (Bucky) Allen
Lester Crowell Anderson
Spate R. Anthony
Jamie Ruth Armstrong Ballard
Susan Ann Ashby Kramer-Digilormo
Shirley Ann Baldwin Chandler
Patricia Basco Self-Chism
Jerry Bass
Wilma G. Beaird Adams
Kay Doris Bevill Tucci
Eugene Earl Blake
Jay Wade Blazin
Melba Jeans Boggs Arinder
Bettye Crystal Bogue Jones
Roger Lee Boston
Janet Box Wolfe
Sheila Joyce Bradford Jones
Linda Brangato Jeane
Charles Luther Branton
William Kenneth Brickell
Donald Frank Bright
Judith Anne Brooks Bartz
Carolyn Brown Roy
Kay (Katherine) Ann Burford Murphy
Dorothy Claire Burks Leeftink
Phillip Carney
Donald (Donnie) Brown Carroll
Sarah (Connie) Constance Carroll Neal
Elizabeth (Betty) Carter Stokeld
William Mark Carter
Thomas James Casteel
Don Michael Chandler
Theresa Clemens Ferguson
John Cole
Jerry Dean Cook
Robert Crittenden
Judy Darlene Cromer Walker
Willis William Dear
Robert Gary DeClerk
Michael Kent DeMann
Gloria Jean DeSoto Eubanks
Bruce Deville
Mary Sue Doiron Maxwell
Mary Frances Doss Wilson
Elva Loraine Durr Reazin
Gordon Byrle Ferguson
Larry W. Fields
Janet Freeman Brickell
Mary Ann Frizzell McCrary
Camilla Marie Fulco Doughty
Joyce Graves Gadd
Johnny A. Grubbs
Alice Faye Hammons Bailey
Carrol Ann Hanson Cook
Elbert D. Hauser
Carol Ann Hawkins Deshotels
Patricia Ann Hayes Smay
Sylvester (Sonny) Hedges, Jr
Louis Hoffman
Carolyn Marie Holliday Eichner
Johnny R. Howe
Janis Jefferson Bass
John Carvin Johnson
Phillip Lamar Johnson
Billy M. Jones
Don Curtis Jones
Marvin D. Jones
Sue Judd Ross
Barbara Jean Kennedy Blaylock
Larry King
Linda Kay Kitchens Smith
David Bruce Kruger
Nadine Lacobee Bounds
Crestman Lammey
James(Jim) McNamara Langford
Douglas Lee
Helen Fern Lindsay Rigg
Richard Keith Lindsey
Sam J. Lucero
Charles L Maranto
Virginia Marshall Fulmer
Brenda McClure Johnson
Linda McDaniel Russell
LouEllen McFadden Hoffman
Sue McLeary Friday
Rosita Medellin Babb
Betty Molcany Barber
Beverly June Mullins Shay
Janis Nallin Vascoe
Dinah Netherton Grisham
John E. Newberry
Dewitt O'Donley
Charles Ogletree
D. Lamar Oliver
Patricia Ann Osborne Booton
Judy Pace Smith
Bobby Patrick
Patricia Ann Pendleton Reed
John Bell Pierce
Wanda Lou Pool Graziadei
Robert Dewey Powers
Bobby Ray Pugh
Judith Ann Ramsey Graham
Innis Reaves
Jacqueline Bea Reynolds Robertson
Chris Roach
William (Bill) Arthur Roberts
Margaret Linda Robertson Grissom
Mike Robinson
Johnnie Beatrice Ross McKinney
Linn Christine Roycroft Ward
Patricia Pat Sanders Rouch
Carmolette Denice Schneider Creech
Billy W. Scott
Carolyn Sue Scott Gough
Judith Ann Scott Jeans
Janis Sharp Ritter
Betty Ann Sims Rose
David Deleslie Sistrunk
James F. Slagle
Clark E. Smith
Joylyn Smith Smith
Billy K. Sneed
Nancy Stacks Jennings
Joan Lee Stockard
Henry Rudolph Templin
Gayle Teresa Goodyear
Chester Terral
Linda Thames Pickett
Anneice Thomas Butler
Hollis Richard Thompson
Kenneth Tubbs
Mary Lynn Tuminello Johnson
Earle Kent Valentine
Lloyd Wallace
Garland Ware Moellenkamp
Garland Weidner
David Wells
Susan Whipple Rogers
Peggy Williamson Tilton
James Clinton Windham
Anne Elizabeth Winterrowd Widiger
Neal Womack
Stan Woodard
If you are not included in this list, please e-mail Jerry Cook (FPHS61Jerry@gmail.com) to update your information.
Frank Bright reports that these folks may need a little "prodding". If you knew any of them well, and will contact them and encourage them to come to the reunion, let us know:
Maxine Lunt, Judy Bob Coulson, Marie Prichard, Sidney Cox, David Bass, Jeanie White, Frank and Carolyn Spano, Louise Abbott, Dean Bounds, Gus Durasau, Ama Garland, Charlie Johnson, John Norrid, Pete Serbanic, Ronnie Suggs, Larry Tulley, Peggy Williamson, and Don Zmek.
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.
Our mailing address is:
FPHS Reunion 1961
P.O. Box 761
Shreveport, Louisiana 71162
