60th Reunion Dinner - Thursday, April 10, 2025
Holiday Inn IHG on Hwy 77 Sign Up Now !!!
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Reunion Sign up
wascott42@gmail.com or call Alan Scott at (850) 896-8071.
43 RHS65 classmates and 68 total attendees to date
Rita Benoit
Wallace Berry
Gayle Blair
Barbara Braley
Hillman Brannon
Cheryl Buchanan
Gay Bush
Roy Camblin
Randy Carnley
Janis Cook
Wanda Corbin
Susie Crowder
Cindy Curry
Roger Dabbs
Robert Davis
Norma Davis
Donna Emanuel
Jack Finch
Ronnie Freeman
Peggy Gaskin
Clarence Gay
Ann Grainger
Irene Hagen
Bobby Hill
Terry Hodges
Terry Hutchison
Marcia Johnston
Vivian Jones
Eddie Kelley
Doug Kitts
Dickie Knowles
George Lassiter
Paul Lindsey
Barbara Morris
Connie Plough
Shirley Powell
Sally Ray
Alan Scott
Dave Swigler
Jan Townsend
Delores Watson
Linda Watson
Tom Watts
Suzanne Wheeler
Jimmy Yates
RHS 65 classmates: You and yours are cordially invited to the RHS 65 60th Reunion Celebration Day on Thursday, April 10, 2025 culminating with a 60th Reunion Dinner in the Holiday Inn IHG ballroom starting at 4:30pm and ending at 10:00pm that evening. The Holiday Inn IHG is at the intersection of Hwy 231 and Hwy 77/MLK Blvd next to the old Mall. Dress is casual.
I will be finalizing dinner details, administrative costs and dinner pricing soon.
Ram-Golf is available on Thursday morning (Apr 10) for those who desire to thrash around in the grass. Foursomes/tee times will be arranged by our resident Golf Pro, Fred Worley. Contact Fred directly in March to sign up to play. He can be contacted at fred.worley@gmail.com or (401) 827-0777. Golf and the Reunion Dinner are the only two activities currently planned.
Help Us Find
Our Missing Classmates
Curtis Batson,
Judith Lynn Bonebrake,
Jim Bradshaw,
Jane Brock,
Delores Bulger,
Dianne Bush,
Martha Nell Corley,
Rosalind Dean
Rosanne Eujeanne Florance,
Janice Foster,
Janet Lautrell Gibbs,
Mary Elizabeth Gibson,
Willie Gilbert,
Doug Hall,
Sue Helen Hendrix,
Denzel Wray Hopkins Jr,
Dorothy Anne Hora,
Charlene Horne,
Margie Ann Isler,
Martin U. Jackson,
Gayle Elaine Johnson,
Margaret Ann Johnson,
Marvin Lee Johnson,
Sheila Lee Kersey,
Deborah Ellen Knight,
Peggy Jo Martin,
Arthur B. Mason
Betty Jo Masters,
Willie Joe Melvin
Alma Jean Messer,
Neva Dale Milstead,
Shirley Money
Denise Marie Moran,
Linda Dianne Nelson
Phil Nolan,
Betty Ann Pitts
Linda Joyce Porter,
Richard Wayne Roberts,
Betsy Russell
Nancy Christine Scarpine,
Eddie V. Senterfiet,
Sherry Ann Sheffield,
Linda Joyce Sims
Irma Kay Slater,
Stanley Dale Smith,
Dony Stevens,
Brenda Loraine Strickland,
Richard Thayer,
Juanita Tipton,
Glenda Charlene Turner,
Donna Lee Vance,
Barbara Ann Wiper,
Cheryl C. Wright,
Jo Etta Wynne
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Never Forget Your Classmates
A young man was talking to his father about growing up, marriage, and responsibilities. The Father said "Never forget your friends," he advised, "they will become more important as you get older. regardless of how much you love your family and your children. Stay in touch with them somehow. "What strange advice!" thought the young man. "I just got married, I am becoming an adult and surely my wife and children will be everything I need to make sense of my life.“ Over the years, he began to understand what his Father was talking about. Although time and nature carry out their designs, friends and classmates are life’s bulwarks.
After over 78 years of life, and approaching 60 years after graduation here is what we learned:
• Time passes.
• Life goes on.
• Distance separates us.
• Children grow up and are eventually are separated from their parents.
• Jobs come and jobs go.
• Our illusions, desires, attractions, sex ... weakens.
• People do not do what they should.
• Our hearts break.
• Our parents die.
• Our colleagues forget the favors.
• Life’s races end.
... but a school friend is a treasure who stays in your heart forever ... no matter how many years or miles you are apart.
When we started this adventure called life in 1965, we did not know of the joys or sorrows that lay ahead. We did not know how much we would need from each other. We loved our parents, we took care of our children, but most of all we have kept a group of good friends.
Over 60 years may have separated me from from some of my classmates … but they are still … each and every one … my friend.
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We are in the
Final Lap of our Life Race
It's Time to Make Amends
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Rambunctious'
10 Commandments
for RHS 65 as we
navigate our 70s
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Face and accept the reality of getting old, it's not just you - it's all of us. Acknowledge and accept the consequences of age. Act and behave your age. You can't look like you did when you were 18 and we still had "many miles to go before we sleep ...".
Focus on enjoying life and people, especially your loved ones, friends and classmates. The days of indulging in or accumulating material things should be ending. You can't take it with you ... and you shouldn't try.
Don't hesitate to spend whatever you have worked so hard to save on yourself and for the positive benefit of others. You worked hard to earn it ... you deserve to enjoy it or bless others with it in the years you have left. Travel if you can afford it. You are not obligated to leave anything for your children or loved ones to potentially quarrel over.
Live in the moment ... live for today ... live for the here and now. Don't pine over the yesterdays and worry about the tomorrows. Today is what you have. Yesterday is already gone. Tomorrow may not even happen ... but we still beat Bay High in 1964 ... that's OK to remember ...
Enjoy your grandchildren (if you are so blessed) but you don't have an obligation to care for them if they are in a safe and loving family environment. Your primary parental obligation was to your children. After you raised your children into responsible adults, your duties of child-rearing and babysitting should be finished. Let your children raise their own offspring ... and back them up where necessary ... it's what Rams do.
Stay as healthy as you can. Accept God's Plan and the unavoidable physical weakness, sickness, and other physical pains as they come. It is part of the normal aging process. Enjoy whatever your health allows.
Appreciate who and what you are. Be grateful for what you have. Be proud of being a 1965 Ram. Stop working so hard for things you do not have. Life's races are done. If you do not have those things, it's probably too late.
Enjoy life with your spouse, children, grandchildren, fellow Rams and other friends.., people, who appreciate and love you for yourself.
Forgive others and accept forgiveness from others. Most of all, forgive yourself. Make amends if you can find it within you. Reconcile with those from whom you are estranged if possible. Seek peace of mind and peace of soul. Seek the Peace of the Almighty.
Come to terms with death. Ram Heaven is coming for all of us and it is a natural part of the life cycle. Don't be afraid. Death is the beginning of a new and better adventure.
Arrive there with Ram Pride ... 🐏
