5/2/2016 JoAnn (Cummings) Sinclair has passed away
JoAnn (Cummings) Sinclair
On May 1, I received a very short email from George Sinclair (Southern High Class of 1960) with the sad news that his wife, JoAnn (Cummings) Sinclair (SHS 1961)
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6/9/2015 Peggy Shepard Haise
Peggy is now in Glen Ridge Nursing Home on Calm River Way off Billtown Road doing therapy after her surgery. She is looking great, and just wants to be well enough to go home. She would love
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9/14/2014 Patricia A. (Riggs) Strohmeier passed away
Patricia A. (Riggs) Strohmeier 73 passed away Monday, September 1, 2014. She was preceded in death by her husband Sherman Lee (Augie) Shrohmeier. She is survived by her three daughters, Dina
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The Southern High Fight Song boasted “those Southern boys are hard to beat,” but the coed athletes, above and below, were quite a treat! The nimble-fingered, leggy majorettes marched with the band, the slim, trim drill team performed at halftime, and the bouncy, bubbly cheerleaders coaxed “Fight, team, fight” throughout the ball games. Since these gals were always “out front,” as teens we knew them by all by name. But if the past 50 years has dimmed your memory, we have a crib sheet: The enlargements are complete with maiden names. Left click your mouse on photos to see enlargements.
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Our Wildwood Saturday Night
Our 50th reunion was at Wildwood Country Club and class vice president Gary Steedly was our master of ceremonies.
Anne Esarey Smith accompanied on the piano as we all joined in to sing the alma mater and the Southern fight song.
Peggy Shepard Haise, Jenny Snyder Richey and Marsha Fulkerson Nelson were among former SHS choir members. The gals led us in singing about "those Southern boys."
Floyd Spencer is one of the 68 alumni who attended. In all, counting guests and spouses, we had more than 120 in attendance. Floyd's favorite SHS memory is Mrs. Lee's English class.
Southern cheerleader Dina Jones Higdon is one of our more than two dozen Louisville area classmates who planned and coordinated our reunion events.
Pat Blazanovich Shader has three children, six grandchildren and one great grandchild!
Buel and Carolyn Caudill Goodin. Carolyn and Buel, who is a flower wholesaler, donated all of the beautiful table centerpieces and fresh-cut floral arrangements.
Richard Brooks finally has a moment to rest. Once a member of the SHS track and cross country teams, for months he has been on the run as point man for Marcella's many reunion planning activities.
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In the fall after graduation, I entered nurses training at St. Joseph Infirmary on Eastern Parkway. Only 40 students were accepted out of the 300 who applied, so I felt very thrilled to be selected.
Upon graduating from nurses training, I went to work in the Heyburn Building at 4th and Broadway for Dr. Laman A. Gray, a gynecologist.
It was during this time that I met my husband, Joseph Boone. He was in the Navy at that time. We were married on July 17, 1965.
Shortly after that, we moved to Worchester, Massachusetts. Worchester is 40 miles west of Boston, where my husband was stationed.
We lived in an attic apartment, and that is where I got pregnant with our son, Christopher.
It was time for my husband to either re-enlist in the Navy or leave it. He chose not to re-enlist. Joe was discharged from the Navy in March of 1968. We later found out that his fellow seamen were all killed while on mission serving on a PT boat in Vietnam!
We moved back to Louisville when I was 7½ months pregnant. We lived in Shively at that time. Christopher was born July 28, 1968, at Norton’s Hospital, downtown.
When our son was 6 months old, we moved to Elmira, New York, because of a good job offer. We bought a house there, and I gave birth to a daughter, Beth Ann, on April 17, 1970. We lived in Elmira until our daughter was 5 and our son was 8.
My husband got another job offer in 1976, so we relocated to Durham, Connecticut.
Joe worked as a service technician for a company that no longer exists. He then formed his own business, NEMTEC, with four other men. The business has been in operation for 25 years now. He is now in semi-retirement — mostly because of the economy.
We had made the decision years ago for my husband to be the breadwinner and for me to handle raising our children and caring for the house. However, after we moved to Connecticut, I decided to work part time. I took a job in sales, not nursing, because I would have had to take refresher courses, etc., to continue in nursing.
I now work three days a week, designing media ads for the Town Times in Durham. I am in charge of the designing and layout of all ads. The Town Times is a weekly community newspaper, and I have worked there for more than 30 years now.
Durham is a small, wonderful town where people get to know each other.
We have been blessed with four grandchildren. Our son and his wife presented us with twin granddaughters, and our daughter and her husband presented us with two grandsons. The oldest grandchild is 10 and the youngest was 5 in March of this year. Our children and grandchildren all live within 20 minutes of our house.
My mother, who is 85, also lives within five minutes of us. We spend a lot of time with our children, grandchildren, and my mother. It is great to have them so close. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
When I am not working, I like to spend time with family, tinkering in my flower garden, and I am also extensively involved in our Fair. I am the chairman of the Quilt Contest sponsored by the Association of Connecticut Fairs. Entrants must qualify their quilts in the small fairs in order to exhibit them in this contest. Over a quarter of a million people visit our fair each year. They come from all over. It is always held the last full weekend in September, and this year (2011) that is September 22nd through the 25th.
I am also very active in our church, Notre Dame Catholic Church.
I am very sorry to have missed the reunion, but things happened over which we had no control. I do hope to visit Louisville sometime soon. Hopefully, I will get to see some of my fellow classmates while there.
We need detective work. We have yet to find a number of folks. Maybe you can supply a lead. Let's find our missing SHS 1961 classmates
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Below are a few photos from our monthly planning meetings and our mailing session. Hint: Hover your mouse over the bottom right of the show and click on the square icon to display photos full screen!
We have distributed our class photo directory and the DVDs. The cover is shown above. Contact Barbara Ann Fultz to order your copy, and ask her about also getting the DVD slide shows with most of the photos from the reunion events and this web site!
Billy Guest has two sweethearts in the same photo:
Ellen Boyd was a 14 year old freshman when an older guy, Billy, a 15 year old
sophomore, asked her to the 1959 Sweetheart Dance in Southern’s cafeteria. "That
was our first date," recalls Bill. "However, this snapshot was at Ellen’s house in 1961." They
married in 1963 and have four sons and seven grandchildren. His other sweetie in
the picture was "my ’56 Chevy. I was showing off the new metallic green, custom
paint job. It had a Corvette cam, solid lifters and three deuces, in order to
beat that ’57 Chevy at Cedar Creek Drag Strip. Share your own snapshots with all of us!
Before Southern, many of us attended Okolona Elementary. Do you have snapshots from our high school days?
Hey, SHS Class of 1961, we need your help! Please send us your own photos for display here!
Beauty and the Beast: Marsha
Fulkerson borrows the rooftop sun deck of Jenny Snyder's family pet, Sally.
Southerners Walter and Keata (Hogan) Longacre were married in 1963. They have two children, six grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren. While they were in Indianapolis, they were really in the chips! Read about that in their biographies right here on our web site.
Reunion Planners: Ready for a repeat! Click photo to
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Been in Louisville lately? This is Waterfront Park. Click photo to
enlarge.
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