Lamar High School - Houston
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60th Reunion! Lamar Class of 1959 - Save the Date!
What happened to the fifties? Can you believe it has been 60 years since we left the safe, warm (no air conditioning),
all-encompassing arms of Mirabeau B. Lamar? Remember back when our mascot was Big Red? Remember the great friends and teachers we had? Remember when we actually had social clubs? Yes, please save the last weekend in March 2019 for our Big Reunion - you only get one 60th Reunion, and this is it!
Several activities are being planned - but for right now, please mark these dates on your calendar: March 29-31, 2019. We'll list some specifics here in mid-December 2018.
We are soliticing volunteers to help with the planning, and your ideas. Please contact Wendell Mendell [Wendell@Lamar59.org] or Bette Azadian Leonard [Bette@Lamar59.org]. We want your participation!
Barbara Hoffman:
On the evening of 8 Nov 2018, from Larry Hitt: "I'm
passing on some sad news about Barbara Hoffman Johnson, one of our
best-loved
classmates. She has fought cancer like a warrior and seemed to have won
until it returned with a
vengeance. Now she is almost at the end of the fight. Our classmates
Sidney Barry [Johnston] and Sukey have been faithful friends
and great communicators for many months now."As of Friday 9 Nov, Barbara has left palliative care [M.D. Anderson] decided to return home rather than go into a hospice care facility. Sukey will be there to welcome her, as will her family. She will have 24 hour care. Her statement to the family: "Get the piano tuned."
Pershing Chatter: Almost half of the Lamar Class of 1959 came through the pipeline of Pershing Junior High School. Our classmate Wayne Shull has captured scans of the newsletter Pershing Chatter from those years of 1954-1956 and placed them on Archive.org here for our viewing pleasure. Frank Jones, Frank Kelly, John Jamison, Eldon Jones, Jere Wicker, be sure to check the Last Will and Testament on Page 4, May 1954! Many old friends and memories!
 | Monthly Luncheon in Houston: 6 Sept 2018 Bill Higdon, Rick McDowell, Cynthia Lindsey Salvato, Asa Weldon, Tish Compton Hale, Lawrence Thompson, Sharon Anderson Rose, Travis Broesche, Bette Azadian Leonard, Rick Lilliot, and Tom Stults. Photo taken by phone of Wendell Mendell |
Invitation to Houston's Monthly Luncheon for 59ers:
Your classmates gather high atop the Acme Building in the City that
Never Sleeps: 1 August 2018 , cw: Bette Azadian Leonard;
Art Faris; Wendell Mendell; Lynn Hughes; Barbara Pickard; Bill
Higdon. Always tough to get a turnout when the First Thursday
falls
on the 1st of the month!
