SHS Sweethearts
The next 3rd Thursday will be July 17, 2008, ladies! Mark your calendar and make your way to the Southland at 11:30 a.m. Get out your reunion directory, and call a classmate to invite her to attend.
Who are these lovely ladies, and what are they doing?
1st Row (L-R): Margie Gargis, Barbara Laughlin South, Joyce Horton Johnson, Patsy Bell Congleton, Peggy Forsythe Hammack, Louise Yarbrough Holland.
2nd Row (L-R): Linda Methvin Smith, Zecora Willcut Sanders, Sandra Foreman Morris, Glenda Craft Lindsay, Betty Ladner Douthit, Joann Marsh Gargis, Shirley Kimbrough White, Jean Gardner Estes.
I'll give you a hint. The girls of The SHS Class of '56 are not to be outdone by the River Rats who meet monthly at the Tourway Restaurant in Florence for Jim Holland's Bulldog Breakfast attended by guys from the SHS Class of 1956.
In September 2006, a group of our feminine classmates got together for lunch and fellowship. It was so enjoyable and stimulating that they decided to make it a regular date on their calendar. Thus was born the distaff version of the guys' get-together described elsewhere on this website. This group meets for lunch on each 3rd Thursday (used to be on the 3rd Monday) of the month at the Southland Restaurant in Sheffield (Hear that, you River Rats? They meet in Sheffield!). It's open to gals only from the SHS Class of 1956.
Linda Smith attended the October luncheon and has become the Official Photographer for the class website. Some of the girls plan their visits back home around the "third Thursday" of the month in order to attend.
Now it's 2008, and Linda has sent us (you) so many pictures that I have put big-sized on the page that it takes forever to download (almost 10 minutes at 56 Kbps--the fastest dial-up modem). So your page is going to change. This will be the homepage and each meeting (or maybe 3) will be on a new page. The current month will be featured here. To take a look at the months before, please click on the links provided.
Sweetheart's present today: Joanne Marsh Gargis, Barbara Laughlin South, Mary Ann Blair Freeman, Joyce Horton Johnson, Rosie McDonald Jackson (new member who attended grammar school through the 10th Grade with us), Joyce Ford Foster, Patsy Bell Congleton, Louise Yarbrough Holland, Linda Methvin Smith, Sandra Foreman Morris, Janet Jackson Johnson (who attended grammar school through the 8th Grade with us), Shirley Kimbrough White, and Mary Lynn Blair Freeman.
Today's SHS Sweetheart's luncheon was truly viewed through a very large pair of rose-colored glasses, property of Sweetheart Joyce Ford Foster....the glasses circulated and the ladies liked their 'view of the world'.
Peggy King Bishop, chair of the SHS reunion committee, announced that reservation letters for the 52nd mini-reunion were being prepared to mail and classmates should reply with their check by July 26. 'Eat, Meet, Greet' will occur on Saturday, August 9 at 6 p.m. at the SHS cafeteria. Dress is casual. Parking is adequate. Steak dinner is $11.00 per person; chicken dinner is $7.00 per person. Dessert is included in these prices.
Patsy
Bell Congleton who's in charge of decorations, asks for help beginning at
10 a.m. on that date at the cafeteria. Any class memorabilia will be
appreciated.
Sweetheart Mary Ann Byars Lenz makes her annual mission trek to Honduras mid-July. She tells us she will make new photos of Miriam and of a new baby belonging to a young couple who live there and help with the mission work who have named the baby girl "Mary Ann."
We Sweethearts collectively thank Webmaster Louis for his May Sweetheart's entry on the Website of our photos and accompanying music and lyrics to 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart'. . . . . sure makes each of us blossom! Patsy Congleton tells us Tuscumbia HS grads (our vintage) are watching our SHS Website and are trying to work up interest to form their own group similar to our SHS Sweethearts.
Thank you,
Linda
Links to past luncheons of the SHS Sweethearts
Just click on the date and you will be transported to the report of that luncheon.