| |
Memphis
Central High School
Class of 1956
News
|
|
|
| |
CLASS
LOSSES |
|
| |
During 2009,
we have
been saddened to learn
about the loss of several classmates – Carolyn
Blackwell Blackburn,
George Monroe
Moreland, II,
Robert “Buddy” Green
and Jay
Horne.
Details
here.
|
|
| |

We
just found out that we
lost Carolyn Blackwell
Blackburn over
20 years ago

On
August 12, we learned that we lost
George Monroe Moreland, II

We
also learned that Robert
“Buddy” Green, 71, of Collierville,
passed away suddenly on July 20, 2009.

Earlier
in the year
we hear that
our classmate,
Jay Horne is deceased |
|
All
of our deceased classmates
are listed in the
In Memoriam section
of this website and a
new section has been
added about the more
recent losses
in our class. |
|
|
2009
Happenings
October
Newsletter
Central
High Class of 1956
53rd Reunion Review
Forty
three of us acted out our graduation day fantasies last Saturday
night at Joy (Allenberg) and Larry Wilk's. If you were anywhere
within Germantown Zip Code 38120 you probably heard us!
Charlotte
(Carrell) and Finis drove down from Charlottesville, Virginia
just for this event. Betty Fay (McAlister) Griggs came in from
Georgia and left Don playing golf elsewhere. Ruth (Burrow) Peters
was alone (Jerry was under the weather) and she hung around
long enough to lead us in "Come on
you Warriors, up on your toes…" Natalie (Lewis)
Rosenberg was responsible for enough tasty treats to have fed
the entire class. [Best $20 meal you'll ever have!] Sophie Theodore
gave up her next-to-last evening before another hip surgery.
Basketball team captain, Jerry Reed, embarrassingly struggled
with a quiz question from Sandy about the BB team's won/loss
record in 1956. And, well, let's put it this way, there were
plenty of smiles to go around. Sorry you had to cancel at the
last minute Jack (Hoelscher), but we wish Barbara some speedy
healing on that broken arm!
Sandy
(Peiser) Lipman graciously accepted the chairpersonship. She
pulled together a committee of planners, decorators, pastry
chefs, telephoners, and fun-lovers, all of whom stretched their
skills to make the night entertaining for all of us 70 (or so)
year-old hobgoblins.
Hosts,
Joy and Larry outdid themselves, too. The house was scarily
decorated with booos and a wealth of Halloween attire, and there
was a dinner seat for everyone. Larry, did you have any idea
what was store for you when Joy said, "I do"? Could
you have guessed that what she was really answering was, "You
do"? And that she was talking about entertaining her high
school classmates?! You're a real sport, Larry.
Attendance
List: (Classmates in CAPS)
| |
RAPLH
and Mary Davis
SANDRA (Loskovitz)
& Ben Beatus
BILLY &
Margaret Schaefer
NANCY (Shannon)
& Charles McPherson
MARCIA (Davidson)
Moskovitz
CHARLOTTE
(Peterson) & Finis Carroll
SANDY (Peiser)
& Clifton Lipman
JOY (Allenberg)
& Larry Wilk
MARLENE
(Belz) Libby
NATALIE (Lewis)
Rosenberg
JUDY (Schwartz)
Boshwit & friend Raymond Shainberg
MARSHA (Evensky)
& Allan Hayden
ED Simmons
|
|
RICHARD
& Laura Vollmer
BETTY FAY
(McAlister) Griggs
RUTH (Burrow)
Peters
CAROLYN (Welch)
Hale
FLORA (Shine)
& Harry Samuels
PHIL &
Sandy Sherman
PETE &
Katerina Ruby
MARTHA (Hellums)
and Sonny Belt
BETTY (Farris)
Russell
JERRY &
Priscilla Read
SOPHIE Theodore
LARRY Fury
BARBARA (Rauscher)
Walters
RICHARD and
Brenda Harwood |
|
To
sum it up, if you missed it …you missed it! There will
likely be a replay in 2010 - tentatively at Frank Adams' pad
overlooking the mighty Mississippi River - chairperson applications
being accepted. See you next year!
Billy
Schaefer
Note:
Sorry there are no pics of this event. It may have had something
to do with a medical impairment
Check
out earlier newsletters here
A
Change in Reporting Classmate Deaths
The
growing number of losses among classmates has often lent a sad
note to these newsletters.That's why we changed the newsletter
(home page) to concentrate more on the living side of our class.We'll
still report the sadder side to you in other pages where the
bad news is shown. It was our thinking that while we all want
to know what is going on with our classmates, we don't want
to dwell on the morbid news either. It's much more enjoyable
to hear good news about everyone.
On the left
side of this page, you'll note a sidebar announcing recent classmate
deaths with links to the In
Memoriam page
with links to a new
page which reports the details for the calendar
year. We hope that you concur.
That's it for now. Cheers!!
P.
S. Remember to keep checking our website:
www.memphiscentralhigh56.com
from time to time
| If
you have a contribution to share with the class,
please direct it to Billy
Schaefer |
Class
of 1956 Reunion Committee
Joy
Allenberg Wilk, Charles Askew, Kathie Bailey Cavette, Joann
Baker Parker, Ann Ball Frost, Marlene Belz Libby, Jerry "Moose"
Bruce, Ruth Burrow Peters, Don Cavette, John Crews, Marcia Davidson
Moskovitz, Ralph Davis, Betty Farris Russell, Larry Fury, Myrna
Gold Drake, Tom Gerdes, Ralph Gray, Jack Hoelscher, Mary Ann
Kimbrough Vollmer, Natalie Lewis Rosenberg, Sandra Loskovitz
Beatus, Bill Maxwell, Janie McCune Deupree, Pat Parker Maxwell,
Sandy Peiser Lipman, Marcia Pinstein Weiss, Barbara Rauscher
Walters, Billy Schaefer, Phil Sherman, Ed Simmons, Sophie Theodore,
Ramsay Wall, Carolyn Welch Hale |
|