I have just spoken to Cathy and the following are arrangements for her mother's funeral.
Visitation will be Monday, June 1 at Young Funeral Home 1600 Nashville Road Russellville, KY from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The funeral will be held at First Baptist Church in Russellville on Tuesday, June 2 at 2 p.m.
There will be visitation at the church from 12 noon until 2 p.m. before the funeral.

If you wish to make a donation in Mrs. Carver's memory the family has requested you make those to: First Baptist Church of Russellville or
The deGraffenreid Chorale-P.O. Box 733 Russellville, KY 42276

Again please keep them in your prayers.

Hello everyone-I wanted to let you all know that Hazel Carver, Cathy's mother, passed away yesterday, May 28. Cathy and her sister, Jean, are in the process of making arrangements now. As soon as I know what the arrangements are I will let everyone know.
Hazel was 91 years young! Please remember them in your prayers.

Any walkers out there?

I'm thinking it might be fun to have an informal early morning walk while we're in Russellville. I'm not sure at this point what dates I'll be in town, but I'm proposing that anyone who would like to walk (maybe about 2+ miles, moderately paced) could meet at the stadium, say around 7 a.m. I'd be up for doing this all the days I'm there. We could vary the route each day.

Give us a chance to see what's new in town - maybe some of you locals could explain to us out-of-towners what we're looking at.

Any takers?

Who are you?

Okay, everyone. Sign in. Click on your own name under the Contributors List (on the left-side of the blog). Then click on "Edit Profile." Add a current picture. (Don't know how? Don't be shy, ask your kids or grandkids, they'll talk you through it!) Tell us something about yourself. I'm betting some things have changed since high school.

- How do you like to spend your spare time? What do you do (or what did you do if you're retired) for a living? How many children do you have? Grandchildren? No children? How about pets?
- Done any kind of interesting travel? (No, the trip to the dump doesn't count, unless you saw Big Foot on the way....)
- Anything funny happen to you along life's road?
- Anything that changed the way you think?
- What do you read? What do you watch? What do you listen to?

Tell us as much as you like - but you know we're all clicking on each other's profiles, wondering what we've been doing all this time. Come on, you've done it yourself, you know you have.
And think of the conversation starters these profiles will provide once we finally get to see one another in October.

Cough it up, guys.

All but three!

We were able to find Joan Anderson yesterday (with the help of June Poor O'Leary - thanks, June!), so that only leaves three people we have no information on at all - Carolyn Armstrong, Peter Cox, and Jo Ann Williams. If you know of anyone who might know where to find them, please let us know.

By the way, Joan is still in Florida - and is hoping to make it to the reunion. Yay!

Riddle Answer

Time to end the suspense...

These were the words Mrs. Linton required us to know before we were allowed to have our very first reader - which I believe was the first book of the Alice and Jerry Reading Program. (Click here for more about those books.) As I recall, she had them displayed on an easel and we were required to identify the words quickly as she used a pointer to jump around between them. I remember being very happy when I finally "passed." And I vaguely recall that one of those words consistently hung me up, but couldn't tell you which one it was now.

So. I remember that. But I spent an hour trying to find my glasses yesterday. Isn't the human brain a strange and wonderful thing?

Riddle

(Above is another hint...)

Thanks to Frances Pate Snavely, I have this long forgotten list. Do any of you know its significance?

come look and see the here go ride my down up one two three can

Senior Class Photo Washington, DC

One of the pictures I found while in Russellville. My, we were a sharp looking bunch!

Kindergarten Graduation

I spent some time at Carolyn Wilson Mallory's home this past week and had the opportunity to scan some old pictures. This is the Kindergarten graduation picture from May 1957. As you can see, there are quite a few of us who attended school together from kindergarten through high school graduation. (Many, many, many extra points if you can name everyone in this photo. Or even half!)

I've posted the other pictures as new slide shows on the Reunion site (http://sites.google.com/site/rhs69reunionoct09) so please check them out!

If you've been digging around in those old boxes and have found some pictures of your own that you'd be willing to share, please post them or email them to me and I'll be happy to add them to the slide shows.