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07/04/23 09:00 AM #116    

Bill Brady

My email is webrady47@gmail.com. (Bill Brady)

07/05/23 12:36 PM #117    

Nan McDonald (Turner)

My email address is missnant@yahoo.com


07/18/23 05:26 PM #118    

Larry Morgan

                    58th-Year Reunion Update

Good Afternoon, Classmates:

Our Reunion is shaping up fantastically!  We currently have 41 Classmates and 22 spouses/others confirmed, and at least 4 more that have verbally confirmed!!

The Planning Committee respectfully asks those classmates that intend to go to the Reunion but haven't confirmed to PLEASE do so by July 31st.  As we begin finalizing the details, it is critical that we have a reasonably accurate number of attendees, thus allowing us to budget accordingly.

Does this mean we will not accept reservations after July 31st?  Of course we will!!  The more Classmates, the merrier!! yesyes  We're just asking for your confirmation by July 31st to help us plan more effectively.

As always, you are welcome to contact me or any classmate on the Planning Committee if you have questions.

Thanks...and have a pleasant evening!!

Larry

larry.morgan1947@gmail.com

(843)384-7985


08/22/23 05:57 PM #119    

Larry Morgan

Reunion Update:

Good Evening, Classmates:

 

We are approaching the date of our Reunion, which is September 23, 2023!!

 

The Planning Committee is excited to announce that we have 43 Classmates confirmed so far.

This being said, we are in the final planning stages, and need a final answer from any classmates that are still considering attendance. 

Regretfully,this will be our last "hello" and "good-bye" for many of our Classmates!! So why wouldn't you attend?

As before in all correspondence, you are really, really welcome to contact me with questions!!!!

LARRY MORGAN

(843) 384-7985

larry.morgan1947@gmail.com  

 

 


08/24/23 08:46 AM #120    

Dianne Dunn (Kolb)

Sorry I will not be able to attend.  I just got out of the hospital a few weeks ago.  Home health is coming in to help. There is some problems still to be taken care.  
Will miss see everyone. Have a great time, take plenty of pictures.


08/24/23 04:18 PM #121    

Larry Morgan

Dianne, prayers for your speedy and full recovery!  You will be missed.


09/13/23 06:39 AM #122    

Larry Morgan

58-year Reunion

Good morning, Classmates:

Sorry, I was late updating Darrel before his posting last night, but we are now up to 45 classmates/68 total, and for Friday night 20 classmates/30 total.

Have a great day!!

Larry


09/23/23 01:01 PM #123    

Gail James (Patton)

Here's to the class of 65.  Enjoy making memories.   keep in touch. With each other. Safe travels to all.  


09/24/23 12:43 PM #124    

Mitchell Simmons

Sara and I thoroughly enjoyed the 58-year Class of 65 reunion and wanted to add a public "THANK YOU" to  Larry, Ronnie, Lynn, Mike and all the organizers who made it a most enjoyable and memorable evening.  Although I had every intention of spending a few minutes with each of  the classmates who were in attendance, I regret that there simply was not enough time for sharing the many memories and recollections.  It was great to see everyone and I look forward to doing it again soon!  


09/24/23 05:34 PM #125    

Louise White (Jackson)

Thank you, Larry and all for last night! I enjoyed seeing so many faces that really seemed the same to me even after all the years. I never did know the words to the school song, but it's just as well, I wouldn't want y'all to remember me for my singing voice! Bill Brady, you shocked me but thank you! God bless each and everyone whether you made it to the reunion or not! Louise 

 

 


09/24/23 06:35 PM #126    

Don Harvell

Fellow Classmates,

I really hate I was unable to be there for our 58th reunion, but as I told Larry from the beginning there just wasn't enough time to travel from California and also take care of prior commitments we had previously made.

I am so looking forward to seeing pictures of everyone. Take care and I hope we are able to plan another reunion soon.

Don

 

 


09/25/23 01:49 PM #127    

Betty Hoyle (Teachey)

Thanks to everyone who made this past weekend so special. A special thank you to all who did the hard work beforehand. It was so good to be with all of you. Hope everyone had safe travels back home. Blessings upon all of you❤️


09/25/23 06:42 PM #128    

Ellen Gaw (Dean)

What a fun 58th reunion!! 'Hats off to Larry and the Committee for getting it all together. We greatly appreciate all their efforts. Dan and I loved seeing so many classmates and having this special time with everyone. The Class of '65 is the best!! Ellen and Dan

09/29/23 12:51 PM #129    

Billy Lee

I would like to compliment everyone.that worked so hard to make the 58th class reunion perfect!  It was great to see all of you!  Take care and hope we can meet again soon.  Wishing everyone good health.  Bill Lee

 

 

 


09/29/23 05:45 PM #130    

Mary Stearns (Tuley)

Is there any way for me to paste to our forum a piece that I'm not smart enough to paste?   Can someone please help poor techno-allergic me?  I wrote something for all of us after our wonderful reunion and just cannot seem to get it from me to you.  SOS and thanks -- Mary


09/29/23 06:49 PM #131    

Louise White (Jackson)

Mary, I saw it on Facebook to Jane Marie. You just need to copy it and paste to this forum. PS I enjoyed it thoroughly!

 


09/29/23 06:52 PM #132    

Louise White (Jackson)

I'll do it for you, Mary.    
 

Wrote this piece today.  Wish so much that you could've been there last night!

Valedictory Address
Laurinburg High School
Class of 1965

Hello, dear everybody.  I’m Mary Stearns, and if you think of me as Mary K., we’ve no doubt known each other since kindergarten.

I’m here before you this evening to deliver our valedictory address even though – let’s face it! – my name was obviously drawn out of a hat.  Still, an honor’s an honor!

So I’m not remarkable, though the circumstances are: I’m the only valedictorian in the long and almost mythological history of Laurinburg High School not to be invited to speak to the class at graduation.  The valedictorian and salutatorian aren’t even footnoted on the program.  Well, golly.  But I already know what I was going to say, so why not? 

Of course, I can’t very well knock down Mr. Gibson, Mr. Davis, our cutie-pie mascots, and possibly my own mother to get to the podium, so I’m resorting to Plan B.  This address, if I ever finish typing it, and I admit that I should’ve taken Typing I and even Typing II, will be sealed in a time capsule to be opened, say, fifty-eight years from now, say on Sandra’s and Ricky’s shared birthday, in a Masonic Lodge far from the Honey Cone, the shag, and all things teenagerish.

Ahem.

Mr. Superintendent, Mr. Davis, teachers, coaches, classmates, and friends just about since my birth, thank you for this remarkable opportunity to look into the distant future and predict how we’ll be when at least some of the dust settles.  Our lives thus far have been largely devoid of angst, though we left childhood mostly behind on November 22, two years ago.  And even though we’ll be traveling the same hills and valleys that all humans have endured for hundreds of thousands of years, there will be some gorgeous plateaus that will help us forget, at least temporarily, the unimaginable miseries that will surely sniff us out regardless of where or how cleverly we attempt to hide.

On the magical September night when you open this message, you’ll all be surprised and delighted to realize that the good things have stayed with us, according to my Ouija board.  There are no lifetime curmudgeons among us!  Each of us is still as cute as a button! Being ancient has not made us decrepit!  We can still fit into our kilts!  And we finally know stuff!

At eighteen I already don’t remember our class motto – “Today we follow; tomorrow we lead,” maybe? – or who created it, but by 2023 we’ll be far more interested in sharing what we’ve lived than in hoping someone will follow our game plan to the letter.  Our jocks will have become lawyers, doctors, real estate tycoons, published authors, and even a famous golfer.  (Trust me!). Our cheerleaders and club secretaries will have become university professors, administrators, and club presidents.  I will no longer have to stand in the middle of the back row of our class pictures because I will no longer be tall.  Who can believe it?  

Even the teachers who forced us to memorize just about everything, including, for me, the Manhattan telephone directory, will have evolved, in our new-found wisdom, into icons of all that was right about our childhoods, our youth, and our character.  We rowdy little kids will have become good guys.  Can’t beat that! (Oh, but the tall-tale-tellers will still be telling tall tales.  Not everything changes!)

For about five minutes a couple of days ago, I was ranting, and probably raving as well, about why I should be singled out as the only LHS valedictorian ever not to be awarded a speaking role.  But then the light dawned: a speech is good for going into one ear and out the other, but a time capsule is good for fifty-eight years!

Let us all now rise together and hum “Pomp and Circumstance.”  Not a catchy tune, exactly, but we have earned it


09/29/23 07:39 PM #133    

Mary Stearns (Tuley)

Thanks so much to Louise for rescuing me! I was about to send the article by carrier pigeon!'


09/30/23 07:40 AM #134    

Archie Paul

Thanks Mary K, that was quite the speech. You did great. Good to see you Saturday last.


09/30/23 01:23 PM #135    

Mary Stearns (Tuley)

Thanks for your kindness, Archie!


10/01/23 12:32 PM #136    

 

Mary Lou McCormick (Hughes)

Excellent speech Mary K.  In my opinion it was probably better received now.  It was with me anyway.  You proved once again why you are our Valedictorian.  Thank you.


10/02/23 10:46 AM #137    

Mary Stearns (Tuley)

Thanks so much, Mary Lou! It was fun to write, especially after such a lovely and meaningful evening together.


10/02/23 06:38 PM #138    

Louise White (Jackson)

How do you pull up the pictures from the reunion?


10/03/23 09:52 PM #139    

John Neal

Mary, I enjoyed the release of your  " time capsule speech". Very entertaining!                                                        

John Neal

 


10/04/23 10:45 AM #140    

Mary Stearns (Tuley)

Aren't you nice, John! Thanks so much. My funny bone started telling me that really, really late was better than never. 😊

 


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