We now know who the actors are in the play!!!

The picture on Walker's blog was taken during our senior play. The
play was "The Mouse That Roared"...and left to right in the picture was
Glenn Lindsey who played Count Mountjoy, Debbie Beaver who played Helen,
John Eldridge who played Tully Bascom, Diana Dunn who played Gloriana the
Twelfth, Vicky Perry who played Ann, Connie Bradshaw who played Norma,
Loretta Cantley who played Mrs. Bascom, and Andy Morton who played DavidBenter.


I played Secretary of State Beston in the play, but my puss was not in the picture...wow, talk about carrying one back to high school
days! I hope this helped you. Chip Sutton

If you can name the thespians in the above picture then I bet you can help out ROBERT!





Some of you may remember me - Robert McClanahan from our class of MHS '66. I
am writing to you to seek some help about our missing classmates.

Several of us have been working on a class reunion and that's going to come
off next weekend. I hope everyone was notified and intends to come to the
three events planned for next Friday and Saturday (June 30-July 1). If not,
please notify me by replying to this email or to catteacher48@aol.com (Jan
Van Meter Cooper, our reunion leader)

I am writing this afternoon seeking information and possibly phone, street
addresses, emails or just some info about the members listed below that we
have not had any success in tracking down to notify about the reunion.

Please be assured that we are not looking to get email or phone numbers to
release to the sales operations or reveal anyone's personal information to
the internet wierdos out there. I am preparing a booklet of names and
addresses for reunion attendees and hopefully we can have as many correct
addresses as possible. Every person attending will be getting a printed copy
and I will email a word.doc version to anyone who will email me at my
address above.

That all said, I need some help with the following folks who have
disappeared' off the radar over the last forty years (can it really be that
long?) and they don't turn up in the usual places like telephone
directories, etc. I realize some may be deceased and I need to add those to
our obituary page for the booklet, so if you know of any of these who have
passed away, let me know.

Some may have disappeared into witness protection, gone overseas or simply
gone off the grid, as they say. Whatever, let me know so I can add what
information I need to into our class listing document. Then, at least we
won't be sending out mail to people who aren't getting it.

Please read the following list and email me info about these or others that
you may have access to.

Thanks,

Bob McClanahan :-)


MHS Class of 1966 Missing or Lost Members

Lynn Ailor Pierce
Teresa Anderson
Ronald Coffin
Paul Cragan
Bill Gamble
Ron Gutridge
Jim Harris
Leon Hatcher
Peggy Heller
Julie Hitson Barrett
Robin Hood
Mary Hopkins
Henrietta Howard Reece
Mike Huffman
Ronald Hughes
Anne Hunt
Larry Kirby
Eddie Lane
Kathy Lovingood
Linda McNeal
Mary Newby Ide
Walter Pflanze
Sylvia Porter
Holly Reed
Gail Stacy
Locksley Stubblefield
David Teffeteller
Rick Temkin
Donald L Yates

Ruthie Williams had a birthday party and I was NOT invited, no joke!! I have put on three different sets of glasses and I can't fine ME in this group of ragtag rascals!

Any of you guys in there?

PS
I know Ruthie is long married as are so many of you gals, but there is NO WAY I can remember who 2 or their last names, SO when I post you will excuse me if I forego the marrie d name for the maiden name.

Ruthie Williams sent some GREAT pictures of the past reunions. Starting with the 10th and continuing into the 30th. There is another picture on the blog of a reunion where we included other classes and I think it was the 25? THANKS RUTHIE!

Linda Jones sent some great pictures from the early 1950s! You may have to work a bit to get the captions matched to the right pictures (your blog editor is old and is still trying to figure out the mad cap world of posting) but it will be worth the try, especially if you were a Ft. Craig graduate!!!

The end of her note asked if we wanted to try and guess the names of those in the pictures? Heck yes! She also was kind enough to send the names and I will try to get them into the comment section, that way you can guess and then check your answers.
THANKS LINDA for the great pictures!!!!!!




The teacher pictures are at Fort Craig Elementary: The one with trees has my aunt, Cecelia Jones, who taught second grade; the other has Polly Gibbs, who taught first grade. Both have Nina Cunningham (1st), Una V Payne (2nd) and Myrtle Kidd (1st).

New Providence Presbyterian Kindergarten Sunday School Graduation 1953. I know where I am (Linda Jones) and Ernie Lowe and Jody Miser and maybe Jane Alexander and Steve MacArthur. Also there - not sure which ones - should be John Murphy, Ann Prewett, maybe Diana Dunn & Margie Weaver, and probably Tom Callaway, who died when we were in sixth grade. This is the old church building which was “downtown.”

The class picture is one of the two third grades at Fort Craig. The teacher is Miss Johnny Post. I know the names of almost all the students. Because of the location of Fort Craig, some of these went on to Eagleton and Everett. The other class had Mrs. Dorothy Clift.

A couple of cool things came to the MHSCO66 blog this week! Ruthie Williams sent a copy (scanned) of the Red and Black 1966 featuring the wills of the class of 66! Soon as I can get it in a format I can work with I will post them. Also Robert McClanahan sent a new and improved list of e mail addresses, that will be incorporated into this mailing. If this is your first visit to the blog welcome! The door is wide open to you and we hope you send us things to share with your classmates, the only restriction is your imagination!

If you are in the area but can't make the full reunion weekend, drop by the Airport Hilton (center lobby bar) on June 30 to say hello! I think the telling of lies gets underway around dark, but to be sure check out the reunion schedule somewhere in the blog. Again, send and we will post..just that SIMPLE!

THANKS
Walker

THE REUNION IS LIKE NOW!!!

New attractions so close to Maryville you can smell Pistol Creek!

The wide picture is the road up to the mountains, just past the turn off to Laurel Lake, taken from the parking lot of the Back Porch Restaurant.

Close picture is a view of a few select tall plants growing in the ditch just up from the creek. Not a clue what they are, but an old Hippy was playing way too many Grateful Dead (http://www.dead.net/) tunes just inside the door to the Restaurant.

The other picture is 18 at Laurel Valley, if you are a golfer and remember this place as a lake with a baseball field, guess what, it has changed! Locals can play for less than $30, if you come from out of state (especially north) the price is higher.

The last picture is the Back Porch, not all that bad grub, but kind of tourist priced. Have a clue what sweet tea is and say thank you and they will give you an extra roll.

THE REUNION IS ONLY DAYS AWAY!

It is about time for the gathering of the tribe in celebration of our forty years of freedom from MHS. IF you have not been back to Maryville in the last few decades brace yourself!

The town now has a rush hour, no joke and one is even DOWNTOWN.

The town now has places where you can buy an adult beverage while seated next to the other Baptists at the bar.

The town now has places to eat with more than a cheeseburger deluxe and crinkle fries on the menu.

The town has more than two golf courses.

The town has northerners living both in the city limits and near if not on NEBO Mountain.

The town has a spa, only one thank god but it is here.

The town has a new Catholic church (same folks as before but bigger building).

The town has a Festival (trust me it can't hold a candle to Hillbilly Home Coming).

The town has only one drive in (the old Parkway) and now kids go to watch the movies?

Key is if you were on the "edge" about coming to the Reunion or not, come on over to the dark side and have a drink (diet coke or Pop Skul, your call)with your classmates at the Hilton on the 30th and then be sure to send in your dimes and quarters for the next days breakfast! Also the following evening another gathering (free) at Smiths, but they still need your name and the number of those in your posse.

CORRECTION..I said Jim Campbell moved to MHS with us and I was wrong, here is the real skinny on his move.

OK, we won't bet. But, I did get my Mom to call up coach Campbell himself, and he told her he didn't come to MHS until 1970. She told him you and I had a bet on it, and he thought it was pretty funny.


Oh, the above picture is of the WKGN staff about the time Coach made the move to MHS. Sorry, but it was about all I could find that fit that time line.

Can you name these folks? Hit the comment doober at the end of the story and send us your thoughts!






Former MHS Band Director Ed Bilbrey died of a heart attack Thursday (June 8, 2006) at Blount Memorial in Maryville. He had been fighting leukemia for a long time and started in the Maryville school system in 1957. When Jack Connell left the high school to move to the Knoxville City School system Bilbrey moved into his job.

When the class of 1966 moved from Jr. High to MHS riding with us were Ted Wilson, Jim Campbell,and Mr. Bilbrey.

Full funeral details can be found at www.smithmortuary.com

Walker,

Here is a picture of me and my wife Hanneke taken last December. I am so sorry I can't make it to the reunion, because of work commitments. I will retire by the end of the year, and will make every possible effort to make it to the Reunion five years time. I am sending this message from my shell e-mail (my employer), but also have an aol account which I noted you already have. Give my best regards to everyone please. I am doing well, and fortunately had the chance to meet with the Graves family last weekend as I had to be for business in Houston and dropped by a couple of days in Birmingham, ALA where my second sister Sally lives.

Yours always,

Renger

It is reunion time! I understand you can send your money to this address and it will flow into the hands of the gate keepers.
522 Smoky View Estates Dr, Maryville, TN 37801

Scroll down for the full details on when and where, be there or be Mrs Barth.