June 13th - Monday
Saturday night Lou and I along with our friends, Lew and Joanne Niles attended the 91st Charleston High School Class Reunion. The above picture shows the class of 1954. This is the class that Lew Niles was a member, along with Tom Reese, Neil Bowen, Robert Metarko, Robert Bartlett and the rest in the picture I can not identify and along at the end, I'm not sure they all were in the same grade, everyone was just having a good time.
Lou met several of his friends that were in his class that he had not seen in years one being Lawrence Gray and that made his night. There was only one person from my class in attendance and that was Jack Worden. He has a delightful voice and sings in the local Men's Chorus, he led us in The Star Spangled Banner. I was able to speak with several people that I had not seen since I was in junior high school, one was Hazel Lewis and her brother Dean Lewis. These kids were older than me, but we all attended the Catlin Hollow Church together and grew up in the same community. Hazel knew me which really surprised me, she recognized Lou and had been told by her sister that we had recently married. It was nice to find out the kids still keep track of one another. She now lives in Arizona.
We were served a wonderful meal that was prepared and served by the "ED-U-CATERERS". We had a variety of two meats, "real" mashed potatoes, noodles, gravy, corn, green bean casserole, cabbage salad and homemade rolls with a huge relish tray. For desserts they had peach cobbler, cheesecake with blueberry or cherry toppings, chocolate cake. Everything was served hot and delectably seasoned. We all agreed to have them serve us next year.
Robert Metarko is the president and acted at the Master of Ceremony, Jack Worden the treasure, Betty Bauman Rhone is secretary and Jackie Patt and Jeanne Bowen were all active in helping with the program.
The class of 1950 had the most members present. Mrs. Orpha Lundgren was from the class of 1932 and she was the oldest member present. Most of us know Orpha personally, as professionally she was one of the best RN's that ever worked in Soldiers and Sailors Hospital and of course, was the well know hostess at The Antler's Restaurant. It was indeed a pleasure to see her again and to see her getting around by herself and living in her own apartment. Wouldn't we all wish the same for ourselves.
It was a notable evening one that I hope to repeat next year and throughout the year wish to promote it to more of the students that attended the Old Charleston School.
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