Treasurer's Report

A wonderful "thank you" goes to Sharon Barker Tunnell for her very generous donation to our reunion costs. It is very much appreciated.

Love from North Chattanooga
Susie Turner Crouch

Our man in Bangkok

To all of my Dynamo Pals......

It's finally beginning to happen. It's a warm rainy morning in Bangkok, and I've decided to work at home. A friend of mine sent me the following link:


http://www.tropicalglen.com/


..so I clicked on the link, and of course went to the music selection for 1960 ... and there, once again, I was:
*a member of the "Speciality Club;"
*performing in the "Pajama Game;"
*marching in ROTC with Carolyn Clayton as my sponsor; and
*painting theatrical backdrops spread out on the floor outside of Miss Pryor's room.

I actually sat in my chair and drifted back (I guess that is what "old folks" do.)

I had just reminded myself how much times really have changed.

Looking forward to seeing all of you next year...

Paul in Bangkok...

--
"Creating Lasting Quality Partnerships in Thailand since 1991"
Visit us at: http://www.robere.com/

Generous Contributions

Thanks to

Judith and James Steinmann from Merced, CA and
Cornelius Grove from Booklyn, NY

for their very generous contributions to help plan our 50th reunion.

It is much needed and much appreciated.

Love from North Chattanooga,

Susie Turner Crouch

"Nothing Could Be Finer Than To Be A 59er"

Anne -

The ideas for themes have been great - Here's another one "Nothing Could Be Finer Than To Be A 59er" I'm sure more lyrics could be added to this since the tune has already been set.

Linda Rogers Chambers
linda_chambers@comcast.net

Take me back to the Fifties

anne-johnson@comcast.net
Subject: The 50's Movie -- A must see!
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008

Dru, I know I've seen this before but I enjoyed it again. ---Anne

Click to see the movie:Back to the '50s

Kent Shalibo: To my classmates

Dear friends are like the stars in the sky, you may not always see them, but they are always there

Dear Dru (Smith Fuller),

You have provided a wonderful way for us to stay connected right up to our reunion. I can't thank you enough for making this possible. It is so satisfying to hear from so many of our classmates.

I think Louella (Cherry Spencer 's) idea for a class theme is great! We'll just have to see what everyone else thinks. (Louella, weren't you at Northside with me?)

And John (JD) Barton, I hope you make it back. You were another one of those classmates with so much musical talent.

Butch Snyder(now Ritch Christopher), your eloquent message was heartwarming. I do want to cheer you up a bit, however. Don't let yourself fall victim to this old age mentality. As the saying goes, aging is mandatory but growing up is optional. Being in our 60's is like our parents in their 40's. We've still got so much ahead of us if you only believe!

I see you have some health issues that don't make it easy to stay optimistic. Please know that you are dearly remembered for all you gave to this class and we all want you with us next year to celebrate our life together for those three years at City and beyond.

I said last year to many of my classmates: Dear friends are like the stars in the sky, you may not always see them, but they are always there. Buddy and Pat are there as well and they still remember what you meant to them.

Kent Shalibo

It worked great!

Hi Dru:

Thanks for the info on getting into the blog, etc. It worked great!

I loved seeing all the events that are planned and want to participate in each of them.

It will be great to go back on the river again. Last time I was on it was when I was in high school and went fishing for catfish.

Gosh, I miss that great tasting catfish and doing all the fun stuff with the band and all of you.

Talk at you again soon.

Anita Balfour Collins

Looking forward to seeing you all at the 50th

I have had a wonderful life. Moved to NYC in 1968 and was a member of the long Island Sunrisers Senior Drum & Bugle Corps which won the American Legion National Champion that year. The following year I felt the Lord's call into ministry, and resigned my position at American Express Co in Wall Street. I entered Philadelphia Theological Seminary, and after seminary pastored a church in Long Island, New York, Community Bible Church. God did some wonderful things through that ministry including the sponsorship and settlement of over 400 refugees from South East Asia and Africa. It was written up in World Relief Magazine, Women's Day Magazine, and the New York Times, Long Island Addition.

I met my wife from West Tennessee at Calvary Baptist Church in NYC. We have 3 wonderful children, now grown, 2 of them are living in Atlanta, and one in Rhode Island. I pastored a church in Tulsa, OK, and in Chichester, New Hampshire and Pittsfield, New Hampshire. After retiring from the ministry, I drove a tour bus throughout New England.

It has been such a joy to know my grown children whom I dearly love. I have great memories of CHS, certainly of Marty Brown, Butch, J. D. Barton, of course the band, and so many others. I think God really blessed all of us at CHS. It was a special time in my life.

I thank God for each and everyone of you, and look forward to reading the blog from time to time, and would love to hear from you all personally. I will be 66 at the reunion :), so like JD I will condecend to your older folks.

Bud Woodward
Pastor Bud@Hotmail.com

I am enjoying reading the blogs

Hi Dru:

Just a note to say HI and a big Thanks for all you're doing to make the planned reunion a success. I am enjoying reading the blogs you're sending and also seeing all the pictures from the planning meetings and the other get togethers.

The "ole" pictures from our days at school are great! Gosh the Blog from Ritch(Butch) was wonderful and right on the money as the saying goes.

A note about this particular email I just received from you --- when I tried to use the hyperlinks that were included they did not work. I am not very computer savvy
so maybe it is a protection of some type.

Thanks again to all of you on the committee. I am so looking forward to reconnecting with all our classmates and taking the tour of "Our City".

Fondly,

Anita Balfour Collins


To Anita Balfour Collins

Lawyers from our class suggested closing the blog to the uninvited to keep down unwanted spammers. If you have trouble viewing the CHS '59ers blog, here are some tips.

Go to www.chs59ers.blogspot.com (a blog is where the posts change frequently)

You will get a screen asking your password and username.
Username: chs59rs@yahoo.com and password: dynamo59
Note the Username is chs59rs (no e after 9) while the address is chs59ers.blogspot. There is a discrepancy because chs59ers/yahoo/com was not available.

The website with permanent posts (a billboard site, not a blog) is www.chs59ers.com This is always open to all without a username or password.

Dru

Buddy Woodward here in Atlanta

Hi all. It is great to see that we have our own blog. Sure am looking forward to catching up with everyone. I recently moved from New Hampshire to Decature, GA to be closer to my kids. If someone would change my contact information, I would sure appreciate it. As soon as I get caught up on everything, I will sign up for the 50th reunion.

Oden L (Bud) Woodward II
1603 North Crossing Way
Decatur, GA 30033
404-783-1655
PastorBud@Hotmail.com

We are looking forward for the 50th

Hi Cactus,

Tell Joan (Varner Gay) that I'm looking forward to being with her. We go back to grammar school days!

Thanks,

Anne Johnson



Dear Ann,

I am writing this for Joan... Since she can not see to type, please change her email address to my address.... k4ymb@HiWaay.net We have mailed a check for the big event in 09... Can't wait.... You are doing a great job on the web page... "Cactus" Gay

The address is : k4ymb@HiWaay.net This should work.. If not... just keep the address you have for Joan... This just makes it a little easier for me to receive her mail... Yes... We are looking forward for the 50th and I hope we all are still here... I hope you and all will have a great day and week.. "Cactus" Gay

'59 Still Shines

Sun, 17 Feb 2008

The year 1959 was a fine year. It was a shining year. It was a year when we were young. We were full of dreams and questions. Who would we marry? Where would we live? How many children would we have? Where would we work or where would our spouse work? It was a year before most of us would leave home to live for the first time. Some of us were in social clubs. Some of us went to all the parties and dances. Some of us felt left out and only on the fringe of all the activities. All of us probably had a few close classmates we could call dear friends.

Here we are 48 years later. We know the answers to our questions about our lives -- so far. Why is it when we hear from the class of 1959 we feel joy? Probably because it's a connection to our youth. We all walked the same hallways. We shared the same teachers and classmates. We watched each other up close and from a far.

Yes, the year 1959 was a fine year. It was a shining year, and it still shines -- in our hearts.

---Louella Cherry Spencer

TO: Anne Johnson

For some strange reason, when I awoke this morning I thought, "59 Still Shines"; so, I felt compelled to come and write a note to you. It is my suggestion for a theme. I'm sure we will get many good ones. I was thinking we could decorate with gold stars to represent the golden years. We could add a few silver ones to match the strands in our hair. We could have gold stars for name tags. We could have gold stars at the tables with a copy of our senior picture on them. Whatever is chosen, I'm sure it will be a good theme.

I was on the fringe in high school but had a few very dear friends. Now, when I see or hear from any of our classmates, I just want to give them a hug - a hug for sharing my youth with me and for still being here. We have lost some shining stars along the way but they are still remembered in our hearts.

Sincerely,

Louella Cherry Spencer

Our Blog

Thanks, Nathan. It is really OUR blog. I hope you will e-mail your comments to me and I will post them. ---Dru Smith Fuller

******


Dru, I am really enjoying your blog. Thank you for all you do; it makes me feel great.

Nathan

Sorry Ritch, we will ALL not be 68

I just read the recent posts on this, and am new to it (I had a heck of a time figuring out how to get in, but Dru helped me out.....I need a good idiot lesson now and then. Thanks Dru).

I will not get real wordy here, but I do have to make a correction to Ritch Christopher's posting of 12 February. I guess I am one of "the kids" in the group, since my birthday is in LATE December. I will not turn 68 until well AFTER the 50th reunion. But if I attend, it will be nice to be among so many "old folks".

Since I went into the military right after graduation, I have not been in the area too often for the reunions. I was just returning from Germany when the 5th was held, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. My next reunion was #30, and I got such a kick out of immediately recognizing one of the "girls" with whom I had been in the same homeroom since first grade (Linda Beavers).......I was hiding the nametag/picture we wore that day but she had NO CLUE as to who I was. She kept saying "I'm sorry sir, I have no idea who you are.....No sir, I've never met you in my life....You must be mistaken, sir, I do NOT know you".Then when I finally told her who I was, and dropped my hand from hiding the nametag, she almost fainted on the spot. It was fun. I have always made such lasting impressions on women. (uhhhh, who are you again?.....uhhhh your HUSBAND of almost 46 years!!!!)

I live in a suburb of Ft Worth Texas, and am thinking of attending the reunion. I must say, I do recognize a few of the faces in the pictures here, but without some names attached to them, I would probably be very lost.

OK....I said I wouldn't get real wordy, so that's it from me. Thanks again, Dru.

Jay Barton (aka JD, among other things that probably shouldn't be listed here)

Plans move ahead

"how sweet it is"

Fri, 15 Feb 2008

Dear Ritch (Christopher),


As you know, your piece,"time be my friend" touched me. You write beautifully and I loved the memories of high school it brought.

However, there is one point that I will take issue--but then it may be denial!
I'm planning on living another 30 years or so.

Don't think I don't have my problems because, I do. I have a severe case of arthritis. I take my medicine, walk 5 days a week, eat healthy and have fun!

I've reached a state of life where I hope I am "not sweating the small stuff". I still haven't figured out many things, but I have become more accepting of others and their life styles. I'm working on accepting my own peculiarities. With this said, I'd like to try another reunion theme with you and see what you can make of it. This theme reflects my present attitude. It's:

"How sweet it is!"

How about giving this theme a spin in your creativity, and write me some of your thoughts.

I'm enclosing some lyrics that Julie Andrews wrote that pokes fun at the aging process. I wonder if you might include something like this in our reunion program.


With much fondness,

Anne Johnson

To commemorate her birthday, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan 's Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of AARP.



One of the musical numbers she performed was 'My Favorite Things' from the legendary movie 'Sound Of Music'.

Here are the lyrics she used:(Sing It!) - If you sing it, its especially hysterical!!!

Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Cadillacs and cataracts,and hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the pipes leak,
When the bones creak,& nbsp;
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad.

Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Back pain, confused brains and no need for sinnin',
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin',
And we won't mention our short shrunken frames,
When we remember our favorite things.

When the joints ache,
When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I've had,
And then I don't feel so bad.

Thanks for sharing your time, thoughts and MONEY!

Subject: Treasurer's report
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008

Hey folks,

We had some very generous donations at our meeting Saturday evening. We received $870.00!!! Wow! We now have in our bank account $1342.79 which makes it a little easier to breathe.

A special thanks goes to Kent Shalibo, Carolyn Thomas, John Hayes, Lloyd Stanley, first timer Carolyn Tuley Darr and first timer couple Ann Tyer and Lew Waddey, first timer Jerry Ingram, thanks to Nathan Pearlman for coming in from Florida and Sharon Barker Tunnell from Texas, David Parker from Nashville.

We were so glad to have Danny and Carolyn Anderson as well as the Millers and Youngs and the Potters. Nancy Poole Klein was there along with the "regulars" Sandra Belk King, Vicki Daniel White, and of course, Anne Johnson who did a wonderful job chairing the meeting. Thanks again for sharing your time, thoughts and MONEY!

Love from North Chattanooga

Susie Turner Crouch

Nancy's appreciation ...

From: NKLEIN0918@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:44 AM

What a great way to open my computer this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Butch has captured so much of what we are because deep down we are all still the same individuals who laughed, played, and shared three wonderful years together. It is those memories that have stayed with us through the years and have given us so many happy and pleasant smiles. Also, remembering those wonderful teachers who were right there with us and gave so much of themselves to us. They were really an extension of our family and in time we have come to realize that they and we really were family. I am so thankful for this family and the times we can continue to share with each other.

Thanks, Butch, for putting it into such wonderful words. Also, thanks Dru for all you are doing to keep us going and updated. This is the first time that I have actually been able to get onto the site, and it was so much fun to begin the morning this way.

Nancy Poole Klein

"Time, be my friend..."---Ritch Christopher

TIME BE MY FRIEND, LET ME SEE MY CLASSMATES AGAIN!

Often, when I wake up and find my fibromyalgia so painfully unbearable or when my blood pressure or blood sugar gets too high, I think of how old I am...how old we ALL are....how many classmates have died...and I realize how those of us who remain are looking forward to a reunion which is still a year and a half away. How many more of us will be gone by then? How many of us will be able to attend...a year from now.

Actually, the line, "Time, be my friend" is from the musical, "The Wiz"...It's Dorothy's final song when she's singing about going back home and she sings, "Time be my friend. Let me start again..." Diana Ross sang it in the movie. The complete text of the song is:



When I think of home
I think of a place where there's love overflowing
I wish I was home
I wish I was back there with the things I been knowing

Wind that makes the tall trees bend into leaning
Suddenly the snowflakes that fall have a meaning
Sprinklin' the scene, makes it all clean

Maybe there's a chance for me to go back there
Now that I have some direction
It would sure be nice to be back home
Where there's love and affection
And just maybe I can convince time to slow up
Giving me enough time in my life to grow up
TIME BE MY FRIEND, let me start again

Suddenly my world has changed it's face
But I still know where I'm going
I have had my mind spun around in space
And yet I've watched it growing

If you're list'ning God
Please don't make it hard to know
If we should believe in the things that we see
Tell us, should we run away
Should we try and stay
Or would it be better just to let things be?

Living here, in this brand new world
Might be a fantasy
But it taught me to love
So it's real, real to me

And I've learned
That we must look inside our hearts
To find a world full of love
Like yours
Like me

Like home...





Going back to City High after fifty years is like 'going home'...where life really began for a lot of us.

I haven't even seen Chattanooga for over thirty years. From pictures which have been sent to me, I don't even recognize Market Street . The house where I lived as a child is now a parking lot. My friends that I laughed, loved, cried, and shared with are all but unrecognizable to me. Even people who were my best friends...I can't see any resemblance. I had to write to ask you who someone was in one of the pictures you sent...and it was Marty Brown...who was as my real sister to me. Even when I look at it now, I don't see Marty...I don't think she'd know me. J.D. Barton said that he went to a reunion a few years back and was so grateful for name tags or he wouldn't have known half the people there. So, in many, many ways...time is our enemy...but as we prepare to assemble for perhaps&nbs p;the last time...time, be our friend...for just a little while longer. Gee, how I wish I had gotten to see my best friend, Buddy Cox or my longtime friend, Pat Norris, before they died. I never saw either after we graduated...and I deeply regret it.

Sure, after City, I dined with a President, had famous stars as good friends and working companions, but I recall my three "Stunt Nights"..."Prevues"..."Porgy and Bess" and "The Pajama Game" more than any of those events which followed in New York or in California. Often, I think of going to dances given by the Stardusters, the Lamplighters, the Shipmates, the Penguins, the Hi-De-Ho's at the Read House or Patten Hotels. I remember Drucilla Smith in homeroom every morning. She was the first person I ever knew who wore contact lens and how everyone would groan as we watched her insert them next to her eyeballs.

I think about a passage from a novel by Lawrence Sanders, "The Pleasures of Helen" where he describes each of us traveling along a life-clock. He talks about each hour as being an important stage of our lives. It ends as we approach twelve from the other side. When we reach eleven, we can suddenly remember things we had forgotten long ago...your third grade teacher's name or what she gave you on a spelling test. You remember that neighbor's dog's name that you played with as a child. You recall that queasy feeling when you experienced holding hands or kissing for the first time. Everything that you'd forgotten, suddenly comes back to you as you get near twelve for the final time.

Yes, we ALL had graduations after City, but that's the one we ALL remember and have we ever stopped to think why? What was there about those teachers, those classmates, those wonderful, wonderful events that we had scheduled for nearly EVERY weekend for three years??? I'm sure we've had many more important things to happen during the past fifty years...but when we're sad, depressed, or feeling sentimental...someone, some thing, that came into our lives from 1956 to 1959 always seems to make us feel better.

Most of us will be 68 years old when we get together. Damn, we were supposed to be allotted only seventy...nearly half of us didn't reach sixty. I'm glad I still have my long-term memory to think back on those three years. Yes, I played the piano with the likes of Barbra Streisand, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Richard Rodgers, and Irving Berlin...but I also played while the CHS choir sang "All The Things You Are" when Trudy Walker was crowned Miss CHS....when Marty Brown sang, "I'll Take Romance", or Pat Norris to sing, "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" just as well...

"Time, be my friend..."

Ritch Christopher (Butch) Snyder

Reunion Planning Meeting, Feb. 9

From: Carolyn Presswood
To: CHS 59rs
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:28 PM
Subject: Minutes from Sat's reunion planning meeting

We had a fun-filled and productive reunion planning meeting Sat, Feb 9th at Vicki's Art Studio. Thanks again to Vicki for the generous use of her studio for our meetings.

The following classmates and spouses were present; Anne Johnson, Vicki Daniel White, Jim Miller and wife, Lloyd Stanley, Susie Turner Crouch, Dan and Carolyn Anderson, Carolyn Tuley Darr, Lew and Ann Waddey, Nancy Poole Klein, Jerry and Barbara Potter, Nathan Pearlman, John Hayes, Sharon Barker Tunnell, Pat Young and wife, David Parker, Jerry Ingram, Sandra Belk King, Kent Shalibo, Jon Locke and Carolyn Thomas Presswood.

Anne Johnson called the meeting to order and we were given handouts from Sharon regarding the snail mail; she has tracked the responses to the reunion inquiry and out of 255 mailouts, she has heard from 78. She also circulated a "not found" list and, sadly, a list of 39 deceased classmates.

Susie gave the treasurer's report and told us that we had $472; by the end of the evening, we had $850 more, making a total of $1,343, yea!!! Thanks to all those who contributed. Speaking of $, Lloyd is in charge of donations and will send out a letter accordingly.

Also, while discussing finances, we had various ideas on what to charge for the reunion itself. We came to the conclusion that we want to make it a special occasion, but not a financial drain on anyone. So, we will charge $59 which will cover both Fri and Sat night events. The other activities will be optional and added to the expense of the individual. Hopefully, contributions will make up the deficit.

We went over the agenda for the reunion weekend and this is how it stands:
Fri evening will be a casual, come and go affair, with something like beer and barbeque. Place to be announced.

Sat. a.m. we will gather at the old CHS, now CSAS, at 9:30, tour the building and have a memorial service for the deceased. David Parker and Alvin Fox are in charge of the memorial service.

Sat 11:30-1:30, there will be a riverboat lunch cruise option. In the afternoon, an aquarium tour or "do your own thing" will be a choice.

Sat night, there will be a banquet/dinner/dance at the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club. We will probably have a DJ and will also be entertained by a group of our talented classmates.

Sun, there will be a brunch at the Fairyland Club on Lookout Mtn for those who choose it.

At registration, we will be given a directory of classmates and there will be a photo op for those who wish to purchase pics for a "memory" book.

Anne asked that we set up contact sources for publicity in our surrounding cities. The chaiman of publicity is Dru Smith Fuller. Contacts in the cities are: Nashville, David Parker; Atlanta, Kent Shalibo; Huntsville, Pat Young; Chattanooga, Nancy Poole Klein. Knoxville, TBA. a volunteer for Knox?

Several persons volunteered for reunion responsibilities. These include:
Ann and Lew Waddey, '59 picture name tags; Carolyn Tuley Darr, Carolyn Thomas Presswood and Gaynelle Hixson Smith, chair the Fri night event; Sandra Belk King, contact Olan Mills for pictures; Nancy Poole Kelin, chair of UTC Scholarship fund in memory of Katherine Pryor.

As you can see, we had a lot to talk about! The next meeting will be early summer and we will give you plenty of notice for that.

Carolyn Thomas Presswood

Hey creative 59ers's:

We are looking for a theme for our 50th reunion. I am contacting you because you are creative and may be able to suggest a reunion theme or themes from favorite songs of our high school years. We need the theme for mail outs and for decorations.

There may even be a paragraph containing song themes.--Example; Using "Rock around the clock:" We still rocking, (pic of a rocking chair ) but will "Be blue if we don't see you." (I don't know if there is a song that says that--but I bet you do!

We had a saying that there's "nothing finer than a '59er' and we could use something with golden or gold in it since it's our 50th. We used "Cruising back to the 50's" when we made our picture in the convertible for our summer party.

There might be someone among you creative persons that can figure out how to paste pictures of heads on a drawing. I suspect someone in this group could draw some bodies. These pictures could be from the year book, from the web, or requested from folks. I see that Classmates has an ad called "senior pictures," & seniors.

Is there one among you that would head up the theme/visualization committee? At any rate, please think about a theme that would motivate us to participate in the reunion.

We had a good meeting last Sat.The plans are starting to firm up. What a gifted class we have.Please share your ideas with us.

Thanks,
Anne Johnson

Carolyn: Another vote for Sat. Riverboat lunch

Kent Shalibo

I also vote for having the riverboat ride Sat lunch; love the idea of come and go Fri night. Some people may be coming in from out of town the last min.

Carolyn (Presswood)

Sat 2/9: Planning Session

We had originally planned our next planning session for Jan 19th and b/c of several conflicts, we are postponing it to Sat 2/9, at Vicki's Art Studio.(directions on the website(www.CHS59ers.com)

Come at 5:00 for snacks and drinks (please bring something to share) and business meeting at 6:00p.

Please let us know if you can come via e-mail or tel. 423 614 4640.

Carolyn (Thomas) Presswood
cpresswood@bellsouth.net

Also, I am attaching a class list. As always, keep us informed of additions/corrections. Thanks. Hope to see you on Sat, Feb 9th!

Carolyn

Kent Shalibo: Go 'Dores

Anne (Johnson),

This is an excellent start at getting a handle on expenses. I think the donations are on the conservative side, especially if we start asking for donations now. I'm bringing a check to the meeting but I was wondering what address we are using for donations mailed in. Also, whom should we make checks out to, CHS Class of ' 59?

You mentioned Saturday lunch on the riverboat instead of Friday night. I think that is exactly what we should do. I started thinking it would be easier for the first meeting of our classmates to have a place that people could come to and leave when they wanted to. It would also be just our group, whereas on the riverboat, there could be up to 175 strangers on the deck below us. Because some people from out of town might want to do other things on Saturday, the riverboat lunch could be just one option, along with the aquarium, bus tour, school tour or anything else we come up with.

I've got a sample of the gift given out at my sister's fiftieth reunion. I'll bring it to see what everyone thinks.

You've probably sent me a proposed agenda. Whatever you've come up with is fine with me. Right now I'm having to concentrate on getting everything together for my Saturday morning conference in Nashville to plan my 45th reunion this fall.

Kent (Shalibo)

John Hayes clears his calendar

Hi Carolyn (Presswood),

I have just now been able to clear my calendar of some previous business meetings, and thus will be able to attend the planning session this Saturday.

When you say please bring something to share...does this mean snacks or drinks? Please let me know and I will be happy to bring what ever you may need.

I look forward to seeing you and all the gang.

For your info, I am sitting here as I type this to you listening to my XM radio. And naturally it is on station 5...The 50s. I listen to it all the time when I am trading the forex currencies as it brings back such great memories I have from our 3 years at City High.

Thank you so much for all the information you send out to keep us updated. I know I sure appreciate it and am sure every one else does as well.

See you on Sat.

John Hayes

Subject: Reunion planning meeting

A reminder about our reunion planning meeting and social at Vicki's Art Studio, Sat, Feb 9th, at 5:00 p.m.Details on the website, www.chs59ers.com

Carolyn Presswood


From: Jim and Anita Collins
To: Carolyn Presswood
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:57 PM
Subject:Reunion planning meeting


Hey Carolyn:

This would be so fun to attend but a little far to travel for me on a week end. I love going to the website and seeing all the pictures and catching up! Keep up the great work YA'LL~Hello to everyone from me.

Anita Balfour Collins

Lloyd Stanley checks in

To:Anne Johnson -

Sorry I've been out of touch recently. Marty and I were out of town for several days last week after her mother died, so I've had to play catch-up on all the Class of '59 emails (and additions to the blog)during the past 10 days.

Looks like your troops have been busy. I'll bring the full price list from the CGCC to the meeting on 2/9. Also a draft of a letter to solicit contributions.

Thanks especially to you, Sharon Tunnell & Carolyn Presswood for all the hard work that you're putting into this project. And Dru Fuller's really on top on that blog. A year ago I didn't even know what a blog was. Now my class has one of its own! I really think our class will have a great reunion.

The communications links created by the emails and the blog should stir a lot of interest.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday.

Lloyd Stanley