Minutes of CHS class of 1956 Reunion Committee Meeting, March 2004
Reunion
Committee Meeting
Minutes
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 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
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-
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
CALLING
ALL 1956 CHS GRADUATES!
We want YOU at our 50th
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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