Lamar High School - Houston
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Lamar HS 1959 Class: Reunion MeditationsLamar HS classmates of 1959:
On the final weekend of March, 2019, a reunion was held to commemorate the 60th year of graduation for the Lamar HS Class of 1959. I deliberately avoid calling it the 60th reunion because we were unable to contact hundreds of classmates who may still be alive and in good health. Roughly 75 Lamar grads attended at least one of the four events that weekend. Spouses and accompanying persons brings the total to over 100. All reports indicate that attendees were very pleased.
Nothing would have happened without Bette Azadian Leonard persistently asking the monthly Houston lunch group in 2018, “Are we going to have a reunion?” The first discussion point was whether enough interest existed to justify organizing something. After we decided to do something similar to the 50th reunion, Arlen Ferguson and Rick McDowell took charge of finding venues that were not too large and expensive or too small in case of an unexpected response. Mike Blackledge kept information up to date on the class website
[BTW, Bette has a pair of women’s half-lens glasses left at the Forest Club Saturday night.]
The Punchline: As the husband of one of our classmates was leaving the Saturday night event, he shook my hand and said, “Let’s do this every year!” While you roll your eyes, I will make some observations.
1) People at the events were very enthusiastic about the experience.
2) In another decade at age 88, those of us still alive will probably not be lively.
3) We only made a dent in the list of classmates, and others might enjoy reacquainting their old classmates as did our attendees.
I am not trying to solicit comments, nor do I want to start a franchise of Reunions R’Us. However, I encourage everyone to consider whether you know how to contact other classmates particularly if you know they were not at the gathering in March. The best way to contact us is through the website and I urge you to spread the word about its existence. I can be reached at Wendell@Lamar59.org
Perhaps in a year, after the glow has subsided, we can have a discussion about getting together more often as time is not on our side.
- Wendell Mendell
P.S. Where are your Reunion photos? Please upload to your favorite Cloud storage (e.g., SmugMug) and send the link to mike@blackledge.com - haven't got shareable Cloud storage? Start an archive.org account (free and forever).
Lamar '59 Lunch Bunch in Houston - April 4, 2019
Clockwise from lower left: Arthur Faris, Wendell Mendell, Arlen Ferguson, Lou Parks Gorski, Sharon Anderson Rose, Gail LaRue Layne, Lawrence Thompson, Tom Henderson, Bette Azadian Leonard, Rick Lilliott, Pam Mendell, Bob Sternenberg, Bill Higdon.
