January 22, 2011
Hello Classmates,
This will be our last mail-out. Based on the responses so far, it looks like we will have a large turnout on the weekend of April 1-2, 2011, for our 50th reunion celebration. A list of classmates who have told us that they are coming is listed below.
Registration is $120 per couple and $65 for singles until March 1st. After March 1st the cost will be $140 per couple and $75 for singles. Register now and SAVE! It really helps our planning if you register early. Make your check payable to FPHS Reunion 1961, and mail to FPHS Reunion 1961, P. O. Box 761, Shreveport, LA 71162. A registration form is at the very bottom of this letter. For those of you have already sent in your check, please email the form to Jerry Cook.
If you need room reservations, the Holiday Inn Financial Plaza (Holidome) has a limited block of rooms for us at $89 plus tax per night. Call 318-688-1877, and mention FPHS 1961.
The feedback was clear that people wanted plenty of time to visit with classmates. Dinner (heavy hors d‟oeuvres) will start at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, at the Holiday Inn Financial Plaza. We will have a short program with Charlie Ogletree as master of ceremonies. The class photograph will be taken by a professional photographer at about 8:30 p.m., after dinner. The price for an 8”x10” print is $20, payable when the photo is taken. There will be “50s-60s” music and dancing, memorial boards (Betty Molcany), and a memory/writing wall (Mary Lynn Tuminello) for your thoughts from your days in high school.
We will have a hospitality suite Friday afternoon and night (cold hors d’oeuvres and beverages) and on Saturday. It is Room 116, and it opens onto the atrium.
Open House (Hollis Thompson and Earle Valentine) is set at Fair Park from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday. We will have a short ceremony remembering our deceased classmates in the auditorium at 9 a.m. with ministers Willis Dear, Gordon Ferguson, John Pierce, and Larry Fields officiating.
There will be a "Coke Party" for the women at Dinah Netherton‟s home at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. Her address is 3390 Jolly Napier Road. From downtown take Pines Road exit off of I-20 and right (North) on Pines to Jefferson Paige Road (about 3 miles) and go left for about 3 miles on Jefferson Paige to Jolly Napier. Go right on Jolly Napier and take second driveway on left. Her cell is 318-518-5478.
If you have memorabilia that you are willing to share with us at the reunion, the contact person is Judy Brooks. She is working on decorations with Denise Schneider and Judy Cromer. Judy Brooks Bartz can be reached at work at 318-840-1662 or home at 318-686-0371 or by e-mail at judy.bartz@rndc-usa.com
A list of missing classmates is listed below. If you have any leads or information, send the information to FPHS61jerry@gmail.com Please help us locate these classmates.
A men's golf outing is at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. Contact Dewey Powers if you are interested in playing a round. You can phone him at 817-249-1418 or 214-384-8315.
Joanie Stockard advises that the Good Sam Park on West 70th Street is convenient and is recommended by her if you are bringing an RV.
Adult beverages will be available Saturday night on a "cash bar" basis at the Holiday Inn‟s Huddle Room which is located in the atrium.
If you have contact information for a teacher that you would like to invite, please provide that to us and we will make the contact. Teachers get to come "free". So far, we know about Mrs. Jo Allen, Martha and Clem Henderson, Joe May, Sarah and A.L. Williams, and Anita Harkness.
Robin, at the James Burton Foundation, jamesburtonfest@aol.com or 318-424-5000, can set up a special tour of the Municipal Auditorium on Friday, if there is enough interest. Their regular tour schedule is on Saturday from 11a.m. until 4 p.m. 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
Keep in mind the State Exhibit Museum, Norton Art Gallery and grounds (azaleas) and the McNeill Street Pumping Station for other sites to see.
You can check our Web site (or have a family member or friend do so if you are a little challenged) for more reunion details www.fairpark1961.net. If you have not used the Address Update feature please try to do that so that we will have your correct contact information. Please include your e-mail address if you have one. It will not be shared with anyone but our classmates and you won't be getting a bunch of e-mails from us. Bill Scott has done a fantastic job creating and maintaining the class Web site.
Communication central is Jerry or Carrol Ann Hanson Cook 318-925-0780 or fphs61jerry@gmail.com or the P.O. Box 761, Shreveport, LA 71162.
Volunteers in waiting are Sam Lucero, Betty Carter, Faye Hammons, Phillip Carney, Bettye Bogue, Kay Burford, Mark Carter, Barbara Kennedy, Patricia Osborne, Sue Scott, Chet Terrel, Carol Ann Hawkins, Charles Maranto, Johnnie Ross, Sonny Hedges, Kay Kitchens, and Shirley Baldwin. We have not forgotten that you have volunteered to help!
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. Let us know that and send us a note and photo. We will be thinking of you.
Your Reunion Committee
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Probable Attendees
Barbara Lee Addison Freed
Sherrelene Lynette Adkins Smith
Kenneth Richard (Bucky) Allen
Lester Crowell Anderson
Spate R. (Reggie) 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
Seldon (Butch) Allen Bryant
Kay (Katherine) Ann Burford Murphy
Dorothy Claire Burks Leeftink
John Busher
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
Judy Coulson Gisiner
Robert Crittenden
Judy Darlene Cromer Walker
Martha Louise Daugherty Winford
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
Joseph (Gus) Augustus Durusau
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
John Stephen Holloway
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
Linda Mason Gentry
Charles McBride
Sharon McClain Carter
Brenda McClure Johnson
Linda McDaniel Russell
Lou Ellen 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 Wayne Scott
Carolyn Sue Scott Gough
Judith Ann Scott Jeans
Janis Sharp Ritter
Chester Simmons
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
Alan Andress Stone
Judy Swanner Enloe
Virginia Taglialavore Young
Henry Rudolph Templin
Gayle Teresa Goodyear
Chester Terral
Linda Joy Terry
Linda Thames Pickett
Anneice Thomas Butler
Hollis Richard Thompson
Kenneth Tubbs
Larry Tulley
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
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Missing List - Please help us find these classmates
Janice Abel
Suzanne Allen Taylor
Judy Faye Andrews
Linda Arnold Lynn
Millard Atkins
Michael Bain
Kathleen Baker Boatner
Toi Sharon Beard
Robert Bell
Janelle Lynn Bonnette Dougherty
Kenneth Boyd
Sarah Brasfield Wilhite
Sue Brinson Kendrick
Wanda Sue Brown Bynog
Billy Buckner
William Burks
Sylvia Burrow Waggoner
Francine Camp McCormack
Rieta Cory Ebling
Richard Crosby
Guy Curry
Carolyn Davidson Rathburn
Linda Dickerson
Hayden (Ricky) Dixon
Ralph Duncan
Barbara Dupont Jilg
Charlotte Flanagan Marlowe
Mary Free Nelson
Charlotte Fuller Petty
Vera Garner Upchurch
Marsha Gentry Middleton
Betty Jean George Ray
Jerry Gerhardt
Shirley Giddings Lowe
Carrie M. Green Bacle
Judy Greene Williams
Sally Ann Hall Chils
Cynthia Jane Hampton Murdock
Robert Harlan
Ronald Eric Harrelson
Lynda Sue Haynes Kile
Jimmy Calhoun Hinton
Carolyn Jane Howell Jones
James Howse
Charles Hudson
Hazel Joiner McKnight
Gerald Jones
Melva Kaye Jones
Richard Jones
Jean Jordan Rawls
Betty Josey Parbs
Eddie Judah
Hollis Marie Kent Watson
Sally Lasyone
Sammy Lasyone
Beverly Latham Edberg
Linda Lockard Teague
Kenneth Longino
Sammie Lowe Beasley
Carolyne Lutrick Ricord
Charles Matthews
Bobby McClendon
James McLaughlin
Reta McLaughlin Sharp
Bill Miller
Carolyn Mills Tate
Walter Monkhouse
Roy Morris
Johnnye Nelson Vinson
Glenn Nesom
Gloria Newman Hennigan
Susan Nordstrom Jenkins
James Parish
Louise Parker Terry
James Parrish
Joy Pearce Strother
Elaine Plants Lyons
Ira David Portis
William Powell
Danny Preston
Ginger Rainey Smith
Margie Rees Fowler
Sue Reynolds Sherrill
Patsy Rhodes
Carol Richey Ginnity
Pam Roberts
John Robertson
Fredna Robieau
James H. Robinson
Lynda Robinson Matlock
Ernie Don Rogers
Jo Earnestine Rowe Williams
Sandra Jo Scott
Sandra Scott Hebert
Marbie Sexton Lee
Jan Simpson Libal
Walter Sirman
Becky Smith Hebert
Patricia Smith Hall
Bobby Stephens
Ronnie Stewart
Nelwyn Stone Farrar
David Strother
Betty Suggs Brown
Joyce Thomas Gilbert
Marshall Thomas
Bennie Thompson
Sue Vanlandingham Conte
Pamela Wallace
Don Watson
Bessie Marylin Watts
Bert Whaley
Diane Whittington
Jimmy Wilkinson
Curtis Bryan Williams
Debbie Williams Hamby
Betty Windham Blunt
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FPHS 1961 50TH REUNION
REGISTRATION FORM - Please print out, fill out and send with your check
Enclosed is my check payable to FPHS Reunion 1961 in the amount of $________ for
Classmate: ____________________________________________
Spouse/guest/date: ______________________________________ (Classmate? Y/N)
City/state: _____________________________________________.
Names and city/state will be used on name tags.
The cost is $120 for a couple and $65 for a single UNTIL March 1st. AFTER March 1st the cost is $140 for a couple and $75 for a single. Register now and SAVE. It really helps us with planning and last minute headaches!
Send to FPHS Reunion 1961, P.O. Box 761, Shreveport, LA 71162.
Name and contact info for teachers you would like to be guests of the class:
______________________________________________________
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_____I will not be able to attend the Coke Party (women only).
_____I (or my spouse/guest/date) will sit at registration tables on Saturday from
5-6 p.m. or 6-7 p.m. or 7-8 p.m. (Circle one)
_____I will help set up Friday night.
_____I will help take down Sunday morning.
_____I will help Judy Brooks inventory and organize memorabilia that is brought to the reunion.
_____I cannot come, but I have enclosed a photograph and/or a note to the class. We will be thinking of you.
My e-mail address is ___________________________________________________
We will not give it out to the public, abuse it, or bombard you with e-mails. Bill Scott keeps the class aware through the blog page on the class Web site: www.fairpark1961.net ==============================================
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