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)

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.

P. S. Remember to keep checking our website: www.memphiscentralhigh56.com from time to time

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