Escambia High School Class of 1962
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News>>> >>> >>> >>>If you did not get the "Save The Date" email sent on August 16, here it is: The EHS Class of 1962 Reunion Committee asks you to please save the dates of May 4, 5, and 6, 2012 for attending the 50th Reunion of the Escambia High School Class of 1962 . We are making sure this is the biggest and best Class of ‘62 reunion ever! Your being there will make it even better! The activities are a Meet and Greet at the New World Landing on Friday, May 4, a Dinner/Dance at the New World Landing on Saturday, May 5, and a Sunday Brunch on May 6. A tour of the EHS campus can be arranged on Saturday if there is interest. (08/2011) >>>The Reunion Committee would like your help in locating classmates for whom we have no email or postal address. Rather than scrolling thru about 600 names on the CLASSMATES page (you can still do that if you wish!), here is a list of "202 Lost Classmates" in PDF format. If you personally know someone's address, please let the Webmaster know (email at bottom of page). (09/2011) >>>Gary Schappaugh passed away in October 2011. Obituary. (10/2011) >>>Faye Blanchard Alford passed away in September 2011. Obituary. (10/2011) >>>Gwen Barger Jones passed away in September 2011. (09/2011) >> >>>Candid photos of life at EHS, the basketball game and motorcade can be supersized! Others are larger than usual, my photoshop skills are waning. (07/2011) >>>Carol Dionne Hunter passed away in June 2011. Obituary (06/2011) >>>There were no applicants for the 2011 scholarship. (06/2011) >>>Just when you think it would never happen, the pictures from the 2011 Picnic are up! And more!Some are blurry but you get the picture. (06/2011) >>>It is time to register for the 2011 Picnic! Click on this link to go to the flyer in Word format or this one for a flyer in PDF format., which can be printed and sent in. ATTENDEES. (03/2011) >>>Congratulations to our own Brenda Trish who was inducted into the EHS Sports Hall of Fame in the Fall of 2006! (03/2011) >>The 2011 Class of '62 Scholarship process is starting. This means a scholarship will be awarded to a close relative of one of our Classmates, and for this year. The description and application can be found here. You have made this possible through your attendance at Reunions and the annual picnics as well as monetary donations, all of which are appreciated! (3/2011) >>>It is official! THe 50th Reunion will be the weekend of May 5th and 6th, 2012 at the New World Landing. New World Landing is at the foot of Palafox Street in downtown Pensacola and our 45th Reunion was held there. For the 50th, we have doubled the size of the room. There will be a meet and greet there on Friday night with the dinner and dance on Saturday night, followed by a picnic on Sunday. (03/2011) >>> Hank Denton, Jr. passed away in February 2011. (02/2011) >>> Adrian Farinas III passed away on February 2011. (02/2011) >>> >>>Thomas Lang passed away in June 1979. (01/2011) >>>Kenneth Williams passed away in January 2011. Obituary. (01/2011) >>>The date has been set for the 2011 Class of '62 Picnic! It is May 21st at the Naval Blue Angel Recreation Area! Hope to see you there! (1/2011) >>>FOUND! Dorothy "Dottie" Bolling Knight sent in her Address Update and is no longer "lost"! Another possible attendee for the 50th! Welcome! (12/2010) >>>Our Facebook link here and below has been fixed and will now go directly to the Facebook page. (12/2010) >>>Wniting Andrews III passed away in November 2010. Obituary. (12/2010) >>>Leo Zimmerman passed away in June 2010. (05/2010) >>>Tommy Hall passed away in May 2010. (05/2010) >>>The pictures for the 2010 Picnic are here AND THE SCREEN IS LARGER! Thanks to Dick Johnson, Nancy Newell's husband, we have more picnic photos!. (05/2010) >>>There were two scholarship winners this year, Logan Bass (grandson of Jim and Bonnie Griffis Lewis) and Michael Mason (grandson of Sharon Harmon Thoman) Congratulations to both winners! (05/2010) >>>Catherine Daniels Williams passed away in May 2008 (05/2010) >>>2010 Picnic Attendees in PDF. (04/2010) >>>Ben Osterburg passed away in June 2008 (04/2010) >>>Jackie Hess Miller passed away in March 2010 (04/2010) >>We now have our own Facebook page! Feel free to drop by! Go to Facebook and sign up. (1/2010) >>Classmate Frank Filek passed away in December 2009. >>>It is OFFICIAL! The 2010 Class of '62 Picnic will be on May 15, 2009 at the Blue Angel Recreational Area (old Bronson Field on Perdido Bay). The picnic will be catered by Smokey's Barbeque again and the price remains at $20.00 dollars. If the turnout is like last year, we will be able to help fund another scholarship for a relative of an alunmi. Take a look at the 2009 photos. (12/2009) >>OMG! Tom Moody is at it again! He'll be playing in the Roy Hobbs World Series in Ft. Meyers the week of the 12th! (11/2009) >>Bill Van Every passed away in August 2009. Obiturary. >>David Ivey, Harold Key, and Dennis Holley (Class of '61) attended a meeting of the Brownsville Boy's Social Club, a group of men who grew up in Brownsville. We actually brought the average age of the Club down even at our advanced age! A good way to enjoy lunch and rehash old times. And they know about old times! If interested in attending future meetings, email the webmaster. >>Wouldn't you know it? There is a song and video about the Vagabond Drive In Restaurant! See it on the Links page! >>We were contacted by the EHS Class of '60 Reunion organizers and asked to post an announcement of their 50th Reunion Friday, Oct. 15 & Sat., Oct. 16, 2010, and to let them know if any of us have kept in contact or know of any "60 alumni. If you know how to contact someone in the Class of '60, please let the organizers know at their Facebook page. You must get a Facebook account and join their group to contact them. Hey, I don't make the rules! While you're at it, let the Class of '62 know if you have kept in contact with any Class of '62 alumni who have an orange background on the Classmates page! Our own 50th is nearing! >>Marilyn Hall Scott passed away in July 2009. >>Thanks to Mike Jones, we now have a larger photo of the graduating class. After clicking on {Larger class photo}, move pointer off photo and back on. wait for small orange square in the lower left corner to appear, click on it! Find your friends! >>Classmate Tom Moody still plays baseball at 65! Check out the Candids page. >>Ernest "Jack" Taylor, Jr. passed away in May 2009. >>Thanks to Cheryl Henderson Love, we now have football schedules from 1958-1962 and a 1961 EHS-PHS ticket stub. If you have any items you would like to share on the Web site, please send them! >> UPDATE The 2009 Class of '62 Picnic. Wow!!! The Picnic was a roaring success and all 71 of us had a great time eating, talking , boatriding, remeeting old friends (as in reminescing, not what you are thinking!), Nice breeze off Perdido Bay to keep us cool and enough room to mingle and relax at will. No one did the shuffleboard or horseshoes. Maybe next year. As it was Mother's Day weekend, gifts were given to the Mother who came the furtherest (Pat Morris Dirkson, Colorado), most children (Opal Bryant Edgar, 5), and married the longest (Louise McGowan Foster, 48 years to Pat Foster). If you missed the Picnic, you missed a good time. That is O.K., be there next year! Photos are coming in and will be posted soon! If you have any to share, email them to me. Here are the photos. >> The 2009 EHS Class of '62 Scholarship was awarded to Gretchen Boughner, granddaughter of Classmate Juanita Waldrop. >> Carol Kendrick Lemieux has joined the Forum and has posted in the Then and Now page!. >> Sharon Johns Fryman has joined the Reunion Committee. We are glad to have her input as the 50th Reunion approaches. >>Oh My! Planning for the 50th Reunion is underway and first up are the dates for the Reunion. The Reunion Committee is looking at the May-June period for a start. We are doing this early so everyone will have an opportunity to attend. Three years should be ample lead time. So, if you have dates that are better or more convienent, PLEASE LET US KNOW! Possible locations are the New World Landing or the rebuilt Scenic Hills Country Club (only seats up to 160). Let us know if you have other location suggestions. Send an email to the Webmaster or any of the Committee members listed in CONTACTS. >>Another classmate has passed away. Charlotte Fisher Scaff died July 11, 2008 in Louisiana. >> More Picnic 2008 pictures are now up! >> We all remember local TV personality Lynn Toney and some may have been on the Lynn Toney Show. Sadly, he passed away July 25, 2008 at age 83, another Pensacola icon gone. >>After intense pressure, the baseball team has joined the track and basketball teams on the site! >> A Woolsworth menu from the 1950s has been posted. The good ol' days? >> Alright, the "THEN" and "NOW" page of alumni photos is up! All we need is more pictures. Six brave souls have already volunteered and sent then and now photos. If you have no "THEN" photos, we can use our already scanned Senior yearbook photos. All you need to send is a recent digital photo or a COPY of a developed photo and we will do the rest. Just send your photos to Harold Key >> The 2008 Class of '62 Picnic was a success and everyone enjoyed a day of friendship and reacquaintance for some. If any of the attendees have comments to make or suggestions for next year, please post them in the FORUM or send them to the Webmaster. We do this for you, so give us some input! List of Attendees. Here are some photos. (Please send me some photos and help supply some names as I wasn't there). >> Have some news to pass on? Send it to the Webmaster and we'll post it for all to see. >> There are TWIRP Week scans and billfold size football schedules on the Memory Lane page. >> Then and Now photo of track team now posted on the PHOTOS page. >> Our own Richard Peek was inducted into the EHS Athletic Hall of Fame at the October 5, 2007 Football game against the Niceville Eagles! Game wasn't that great, lost 42-7. Anyway, it was great seeing Richard and Carole again. Tommy Welch, Jack and Candy Culberson, Harold and Joyce Key, and Linda Godwin Lewis were there. Coach Eddie Bass was also inducted. >> Patricia Morris Dirkson is now in Colorado. Let's wish her well. She will be returning from time to time. Her email address is the same. >> Recently, thanks to our Web site, Robert "Bob" Stephens was reacquainted with a friend from his childhood. So, it may happen to you or me! >> There is a 50th Anniversary Yearbook being produced by the EHS Yearbook staff for the upcoming 50th Anniversary celebration next year. Five have been purchased and will be raffled at our 50th Reunion. >> To find other Class of '62 alumni or start up a post on our bulletin board, look in the Forum. This works like the Classmates.com bulletin board but with no fees or weekly notices. You just register and follow the posting directions. Or email the webmaster and he will walk you through the process. Trust me, it is easy!. > Classmates.com seems to have shut down the ability to reply to messages without being a Gold Member. This is another reason to join the Forum on our site! >> Please visit the sponsors page! If you need any of the sponsors' services, please contact them! >> Pics of the 30th, 35th, 40th and 45th Reunions are up. Thanks to Jerry Dyar and Joyce Walden Key. There is also a picture of the basketball team. >> A page for candid photos has been started. Send digital photos or scans of snapshots to the Webmaster for posting. There hasn't been a flood of candids! Come on, help us out here! >> Some Rebelog Last Will and Testaments are posted on the Memory Lane page. >> There are more postings on the Memory Lane page. A look at graduation and reunion mementos thanks to Jackie Gierisch Melville and David Ivey. Also a photo of the "Blue Notes", if you remember them. Our own Jerry Dyar played trumpet. >> A group of alumni made it down to Seville Square June 28 to reminisce with the "Reunion Band". |
Thanks to your generosity,
the Reunion Committee will be awarding another scolarship in 2012.
A major change has been made in the Selection Criteria and now eligible
applicants can be high school seniors, students currently enrolled
in a college or trade school, or a student accepted to a college
or trade school. The winner will be announced at the 50th Reunion.
Check out the forms here: