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From: Dick Huddleston
Date: 15 Oct 2001
Time: 22:53:19
Remote Name: 168.191.154.154
As Yogi Berra said "it's Deja Vu all over again"
Bill has updated '50 members with an e-mail on the '50 attendees at the Friday Reception. Same room at the Elks club we had last year at the same time, same milling-around crowded people, with too-few chairs.
On Sat night, same room for banquet we used. Must say it was excellent food, especially for a big crowd. Estimated 125 bodies, about 69 or so '51 grads and some spouses and straphangers. Wilma (Mayfield) Kidd '51 and others did a great job on organizing, and spouse Clyde Kidd '50 whipped up a neat roster with scanned photos from the '51 annual. They all got in the east end of the room for the picture, which may make it easier to see than our long-range one.
Paul Landrith was supposed to be the honored speaker, but due to bypass surgery, he couldn't be there so some attendees recollected experiences with him.
Business included (deja vu) approval of a scholarship fund. Mention was made of the '50 class taking 5 yrs to get to $10K needed for endowment, so they put out slips of paper for pledges and raised over $12K to kick it off. Said they didn't know how many would last 5 years. They know of 22 deceased in the class. And one of the star athletes (in my personal opinion) came in with a cane and 5 joint replacements. They declined to give it to the 51st ranking Senior - said something about SATs etc. Oh, well. So much for Deja Vu.
It was a very convivial time; everyone was on their best behavior.
Mention was made of a new gym to be built for the AHS campus (never has had one) and a letter-writing campaign to name it the "Paul Landrith" gym. If interested, send a note to the school board.
Lots more, but space is tight here - hope this helps with some of the doings.