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1956 Central Reunion
Newsletter
Volume 2 Number 1
March 2004
March 2004 Newsletter
Notes from the Chair…
Two and a half years! The countdown is on…In September of 2006
we will be celebrating our 50th
Reunion
. Our reunion committee has been active, we are meeting quarterly and met last
month at Jacqueline Slagle Wilson’s home for a pot-luck business meeting.
Between our committee meetings on the 2nd Friday of the month our
classmates are meeting for “Breakfast Club”. On March 12th we
will meet for lunch at the Green Onion (51st just west of Yale) at
12:00
Noon
. Come and join us if you can. Everyone is welcome! On April 9th we
will meet for breakfast at the Full Cup Café (31st and Winston) at
9:00 A.M.
Please visit our website (tulsacentral1956.com). I can’t thank
Dick Rapier enough for assuming the webmaster position. He is doing a wonderful
job. Check out the “Bios” (collected
by Fred Benford) on the “Tom Tom” page. Add your Bio!
A few words about our reunion: Date – September 28-
October 1, 2006
, Place – Doubletree South. Bob Duncan and Fred Boyd are working on the venue.
Marilyn Gilmer, Greta Callioux, Alice Laster & Jacqueline Wilson are working
on events, decorations & food budgets. Bill Bruckner, Chris Seger, Janet
Ferrill, Dotty Westby and Barry Epperson are working on fundraising (so
hopefully we can charge only $56 per person for this spectacular weekend). Dick
Rapier and Dotty Westby are working on locating classmates. Joniel Russell,
Carolyn McGee and Gretchen Ross are working on the “Daze”. Sonny Gray has
volunteered to help with the music. Sally Minshall and Ruthie Armstrong will be
putting together the “Tom Tom”. Tom Summers and Joniel are working on the
Newsletter. WE NEED HELP! Please volunteer via website!
A Letter to Ponder…
Within a period of six months we lost two valued committee members who were
treasured friends as well, and the mortality tables are not reassuring: by the
time of our reunion, the underworld will have claimed dozens more of our
classmates.
Where do we turn for solace? That’s up to you; but, I took a glance back at
what the Romans had to say about these grim matters. They mostly divided into
two opposing schools of thought. The first accepted a grim sort of fatalism. You
are expected to enthusiastically embrace your fate, since the universe is
governed by the Forces of Good. You, of course, have to do your part to
cooperate. Now every word of this might be true; still we are left hoping that
the Forces of Good have no immediate need of our constituent elements.
The other school of thought is less austere – not austere at all in fact. It
can be encapsulated in Horace’s words, Carpe Diem – seize the day; live in
the present; eat, drink and be merry. Pleasure is king in this school of
thought. And when believers dissolve into their constituent elements, these
elements spend eternity bobbing around in a cocktail glass filled with dry
martini (naturally a martini with the appropriate ratio of gin to vermouth). I
think we can all agree that this represents a step forward in the history of
thought, and the promise of quite a decent afterlife.
Alas, we are unable to promise that our reunion will achieve the levels of
depravity favored by the Romans, but we will do our best in the circumstances.
Carpe Diem! Scholarly Ned
Notes from the
committee…
Joniel Foster Russell makes
this
plea
CALLING
ALL 1956 CHS GRADUATES!
We want YOU at our 50th
Reunion
! In fact, WE NEED YOU NOW!! Your
Reunion Committee is planning a SUPER CELEBRATION! But we all know that
SUCCESSFUL parties require many "happy hands" (VOLUNTEERS) working
behind the scenes to create a quality product. You can get involved
& serve your Alma Mater right away & have fun at the same time! Renew
friendships & build memories. Your Chairman Allen Keenan has issued 3 calls
for HELP.
(1)
Where are all the people who worked on the Tulsa School Life staff & on the
Tom Tom Yearbook? Their journalistic skills are needed to help to produce our
Newsletter from time to time. Volunteer now! (2) Bill Bruckner & Chris Seger
are chairing the Development Committee. Yes, a dignified title for old
fashioned FUND-RAISING. A classy reunion will require money. We know many of you
have served in fund drives before & are good at it. Bill & Chris need
your skills now! (3) Allen personally would like someone with good
organizational skills to help him ride herd on his rambunctious committee
members! Please,
please save his sanity! It is a blast to work on & to attend our
class reunions. (In fact, some committee members have worked on all of them!)
Many classmates have attended all of them! Your assistance is sought and needed.
This is your opportunity to mold & shape a fabulous, gala weekend. Join us
& renew memories from the Golden Fifties!
Upcoming EVENTS ...
March
12, 2004 Lunch at the Green Onion (12:00)
April 9, 2004 Breakfast at the Full Cup Cafe' (9:00)
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