20TH CALHOUN ALUMNI EVENT EXPECTING 350 GUESTS

(07/06/2007)

Calhoun County High School

Calhoun Middle-High School

Calhoun High's alumni returns this Saturday for the 20th annual alumni get-together at Calhoun Middle-High School.

About 350 are expected to attend the event, with registration starting at 9 a.m. and a special program slated at 11:30 a.m.

Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m.

Master of ceremonies this year is Roger Propst, class of 1965. Welcoming the alumni will be Ron Blankenship, class of 65, recently retired Calhoun superintendent of schools.

The alumni scholarship will be presented to Tara Thomas, class of 2007.

Alumni officers: Loyd Wright (1955) president; Anne Smith (1960) vice-president; Emily Gainer (1964) treasurer; and Jean Simers (1966) secretary.

Anniversary classes include 1947, 1950 represented by Beverly Starcher Prince, 1962 represented by Larry Cottrell.

REGISTERED

1936: Eileen Hamilton Whitman, Carl F. Sturm, Nila Kight Osborne

1937: Ola Jarvis Stalfort, Dora Shafer Starcher

1938: Bill Reading, Freddie Kight

1939: Bill L. Craddock, Edith Stump Smith

1940: James A. Law, Launa Dawson Law, Lillian Dye Manninen, Wheeler Wayne, Ruth Holbert Bartlett, Charles Duskey, Jr., James M. Garretson. Florence Kight Knight

1941: Rector S. Brown, Ivy Von Yoak, Janette Marshall Stump, Jack Dale Stump, Eva Jarvis Parsons, Ralph Looney, Eloise Gibson Hoffman, Glen V. Fowler, Orma Ayers Connard, Francis Cain

1942: Oleta Keith Tomey, Jean Kelley Miller, Eugene W. Reynolds, Bernice Riddle Stump, Eugene Stump

1943: David B. Hathaway, Oras McWilliams, Donzel B. Wease, Denver Roberts, Betty Hardman Ross, Jean Wright Shock, Mary Wholaver Smith

1944: Paul G. Bailey, Helen Carr Brown, Leo E. Craddock, Oleta Wease Doty, Gordon McKee, Mary Moore McKee, James N. Moss, Eleanor Barnes Stump, Berdine Knotts Wayne, James C. Wease, Freda Radabaugh Yoak

1945: Joe T. Cain, Helen Chenoweth Hathaway, Dorothy White Howard, Charles H. Knotts, Daniel C. McDonald, Betty Gulley Reading, Grace Yoak Richards

1946: James A. Bell, Eula L. Elliott, Helen Kight Hamilton, Henry A. Hatfield

1947: Clyde Boggs, Marie Sturm Cheesebrew, David R. Chenoweth, Mary Roberts Craddock, Eugene Deel, Doyle Fowler, Murdayne Lynch Harrison, Evadeen Yoak Kesler, Ernest Smith, Dortha Knight Starling, W. Darrell Stump, Clarice Davis Whytsell, Betty Wayne Wilson, Rolly J. Wilson

1948: Iva Davisson Brannon, Irene Kendall Conrad, Frank Hathaway, William L. Ice, Cecil Johnson, Madaline Fowler Moore, Mary Mosser Slaton, Forest Tingler, Leota Cain Wease

1949: George N. Bell, Ollie Offutt, Jr., Jackie Gainer Robinson, Nila Francis Smith, Violet Cain Williams

1950: Adrian K. Ball, Cleon Boyce, Emma Stalnaker Chenoweth, Eleanor Heiney Ciarcia, Glenn Ellison, Phyllis Knight Munday, Barbara Hale Reed, Gwendolyn White Ritchie, Paula McCoy Roberts, Wilford B. Williams

1951: Betty Barr Blosser, James D. Blosser, Virginia Weaver Buck, Robert Earl Bush, Annalene Smith Duskey, Donald J. Godfrey, Ronald Godfrey, Loretta Poling Godfrey, George E. Hale, Channon Dean Hupp, Donald Leach, Freida Tuttle, Lowell O. Weekley

1952: Vere H. Brannon, Donald Duskey, Marjorie Stump Gherke, Phyllis Jett Hathaway, Faye Deweese Humberston, Norma Cain Long, Ruby Leach Offutt, Joshua S. Owens Jr., Duane Radabaugh, Edna Yoak Robinson, Dortha Cramer Turley, Sarah Rhodes Yeager, Leona Jones Yoak

1953: Norita Wright Ballato, H. Paul Brannon, Gary Campbell, Perry Carl Deweese, Gayford M. Williams

1954: Bob Bailess, Mike Ferrell, Helen McCumbers Hale, Ruth Underwood Heft, Walter Kerby, David Kirby, Nina Godfrey McCartney, Donzil Burl Nichols, Thurman Radabaugh, Lyla J. Stump Sharps, Marvin D. Stemple, Emma Starcher Thorn, William B. Woody

1955: Philip W. Cooper, Janet Miller Davis, Glen Davisson, Donna Rowh Hickman, Dawn Johnson, Ernestine Brannon Keaton, Buhl Moore, Gladys Jarvis Moore, Pat Kight Radabaugh, Ted Schartiger, William Shock, Burl Smith, Jr., Marvin L. Starcher, Frances McCollum Starkey, Loyd T. Wright

1956: Ronald Barr, Karen Snider Boles, Jerry Clayton, Bertha Jean Shock Cromley, Sherra Nell Poling Ferrell, Phyllis Saunders Hadfield, Virginia Ferguson Ice, Peggy Kight, Sandra Stevens Marshall, Betty Kendall Newman, Robert L. Nichols, Alta Mae Nicholas Richards, Delores Richards Sears, W. R. "Bill" Stevens Jr., Dean R. Stump, Doris A. Francis Williams, Cecil D. Wolverton

1957: Forrest R. Arnold, Jacqulyn Everson Bach, Richard Barnes, Walter Board, Willard R. Burrows, Carol McCallister Campbell, Carlene Nicholas Frederick, Robert M. Hays, James E. Hensley, Ira Leroy Jarvis, Janet McHenry Jenkins, Norma McCoy Kemp, Martha Jean Lynch, Deo Mace, Arlis Miller, June Schartiger Miller, Luella Godfrey Moore, Lewis Parsons, Beverly Starcher Prince, Sandra Stump Rowell, Peggy Whytsell Stemple, John Underwood, Sr., Katheryn Bell VanGilder, Billy B. Wilson

1958: Verl D. Gibson, Betty McCoy Kerby, Dalton Siers, Joann Propst Stevens, Annalee Siers Walker, Bob Weaver, Roberta Offutt Wilson

1959: William L. Godfrey, Judy Chenoweth Meadows, Ronald Leon Newell, Robert Parsons, Marlyn Lynch Settle, Joy Shaffer Starcher, French A. Stump

1960: Mike Bell, Dixie Duskey Brown, Betty Estep Kirby, Paul Mollohan, Willard Sampson, Anne Barnes Smith, W. O. "Bill" Umstead III, Sidney W. Underwood

1961: Doris Osborne Campbell, Theda Roberts Deuley, Ron Fleming, Roger H. Huffman, Barbara Jarvis Parsons, Ronald L. Rose, Linda Shaffer Sampson, Carol Deweese Siers, Herbert C. Smith Jr., Gordon Eugene Siers, Charles R. Swisher, Mike Vaughan, Roberta Bush Wunderlich

1962: James Chenoweth, Ellen Sampson Coen, Randall R. Coen, Larry Cottrell, Donald D. Duskey, Helen Suttle Edman, Judy McDonald Jarvis, Janet Riddle Johnson, Sue Fleming Johnson, Burl Dean McCune, Carolyn Owens Preston, Anne Jennings Richards, Lewis Burl Simers, James Yoak

1963: Roger A. Deel, John Kelley, Judith Smith Swisher

1964: Rosie Godfrey Croft, Phyllis Houchin Evans, Emily Stump Gainer, Carol Yoak Taylor, Ron Vannoy, Barbara Elliott Wilson

1965: Ronald Blankenship, Lee Evans, Joyce Ball Fitzwater, Mikel Fowler, Sherry Evans Fowler, Teresa Snider Harris, Sharon Hartshorn Lynch, Joanne Kelley Molessa, Roger Propst, Nancy Bailess Taylor, Ronald Tucker, Carroll Dean Weekley

1966: Mary Sue Siers Calvert, Genieva Tingler Glover, Nell Jean Smith Halsey, Andrew Molessa, Louise Cox Rose, Jean Muncey Simers, Nancy Roberts Yoak, Robert E. Yoak

1967: Linda Ward Sampson, George Whitman, Karen Collins Yoak

1968: Denzil K. Richards, Sr.

1969: Susan Vaughan Myers

1977: Richard E. Walker, Jr.

1979: Curtis Wayne Walker

1986: Phillip Neal Walker

2007: Tara Thomas

Teacher: Dorcas Cain