Joyce Horton Johnson sent us a bunch of things, ranging from photos to newspaper clippings to personal stories. Like a number of our biggest contributors (all female, by the way), Joyce got many of the things you see her from her "Dating Scrapbook." Scrapbooks have provided us with many of the wonderful, nostalgic glimpses we have here on this website into our past lives.
Seated at table, l-r: Joyce and Billy Wix
Joyce and Billy Wix celebrate their second birthdays at Joyce's home surrounded by playmates
June Holmes and Joyce Horton
June and Joyce lived in the same neighborhood at one time, and their Dads both worked at EmCo--a Union Carbide company.
Joyce, at work
Joyce tells us that she knew what her goals were (see next three panels) and took Diversified Occupations ("D.O.") in preparation for office work. She was in Superintendent Brewster's office with the Sheffield City Schools for her entire career.
Joyce and Cpl. Duane Johnson
Here's a youthful Joyce and her handsome warrior from the 82nd Airborne Infantry (paratrooper). They were engaged at Christmas during our Senior year and married at the end of the month we graduated.
Joyce & Duane--inseparable!
Joyce tells us that, at sixteen, she met Duane through Norman Hargett on a blind date arranged by him. They dated for a year and a half, although from January to Christmas, 1955, he was in the Army, no doubt getting his rigorous paratrooper training at Fort Campbell, Georgia--well away from the Tri-Cities.
Joyce and Duane saying their vows
Our class graduated on the 5th of June, 1956, and this happy couple married on the 24th. It looks like it was an outdoor wedding on a sunny June day. That's Norman Hargett, Best Man on the left and Joyce Ford, Maid of Honor on the right. (. . . and vice versa below)
Seated, l-r: Billie Hurst, Sandra Foreman, Patricia Leath.
Standing, l-r: Peggy King, Dot Smithson, Sara Tidwell, Joyce Ford, Rosie McDonald, Nancy Stewart, and Joyce Horton.
The summer before the 35th Reunion, July 6, 1990, there was a "Girls' Luncheon" attended by the ones you see above. What guy knows what girls do at "girl things," but I'd bet they at least touched briefly on plans for the upcoming 35th reunion.
The "Memory Book" of the Junior-Senior Banquet
An article about SHS published in a newsletter by this subsidiary of the Union Carbide company..