LHS'61 40th Reunion 2005

LHS'61 40th Reunion was November 9th-11th, 2001

About a dozen of us were able to connect with each other Friday night at the Rockaway, then went over to the Palm Pavilion to grab a bite to eat.

The 50's Largo High picnic Saturday was another chance for some of us to connect and it was encouraging to met classmates from LHS from 1932 through the 1950's!! Hopefully we'll all still be going strong and be able to get together after 60+ years too! (Unfortunately, only a handfull showed up for the picnic on Sunday.)

The dinner cruise was fantastic!! There were over 90 of us who sailed out on to the Clearwater intercoastal on a beautiful, calm, night. We had a fabulous time reconnecting with old friends and making new ones!! There was a lot of hugging, laughter, dancing and enjoyment of good music, excellent food and great company!

• John Anderson came from Michigan
• Sara Attaway~Uranga from Oklahoma
• Katie Beardon~Morris from North Carolina
• Wathen Brown~Doggett from Georgia
• Bob Countryman from Nevada
• Barry Rauchle from California
• Bob Lockhart from Kansas
• Bob Signor from Nebraska
• Gerry Spicer~Pearson from Minnesota
• Jim Welch from Virginia
• and the rest of us from every nookand cranny in Florida!

Although it's been fun talking to a lot of classmates trying to coordinate this, the 40th reunion, it has was frustrating trying to track down missing classmates. It was also perplexing trying to understand why those that we did contact did not respond at all since they represent about 1/3 of the entire class!

If you're reading this, and really have no interest in attending any future LHS reunion, please just drop me a short note and we'll make sure not to bug you any more, plus you'll save anyone working on a reunion a lot of time and effort trying to contact you. Only two people have been honest and expressed a desire not to be contacted.

Again, I'd like to thank Dave Bassett, Emory Brown and Jim Leggett for all of their support in trying to locate and contact classmates!! Without their help the reunion wouldn't have been possible. Em was side-swiped by a semi-tractor when he started driving down to the reunion from New Jersey. Thank heavens he is okay, but his car was totaled. (We missed you Em!!)

May God bless everyone and stay well until we meet again!
Warmest regards,
Jean (Steffens) Miller

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