DENTON LUNCH BUNCH

MEETING NOTES FOR APRIL 16, 2008

DHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

When Roy Thomas, David Maddux, Marvin Vincent, and Britt Swain agree to help get the word out for one of our meetings, you can bet we will have a great crowd. Today was no exception. Yes, we had 76 participants and we all had a great time reliving some good ole Denison High School days.

The classes of 1948 and 1958 were honored on their 60^th and 50^th anniversaries of high school graduation.

We visited and ate for almost an hour then had a short program highlighting the senior year of each class. It was amazing how great the memory of the folks was when an administrator, teacher or student was mentioned—without hesitation, the person was identified by the group. In fact, Britt Swain recalled that he was thrown out of a basketball game because of Clifton Weaver. It seems someone was picking on Clifton and Britt came to his defense—as a result Britt was kicked out of the game. Clifton told him his sister Rose Marie (Class of 1948) defended him at Central Ward so he just assumed the Class of 1948 were all his protectors. It was also mentioned that Dorothy (Bryant) Wyskup was one of the composers of our DHS school song—yeah, right there in our group-the Composer! When I say we had royalty with us, you now know we are telling the truth.

We had so many first timers present it was truly a reunion of former friends and acquaintances.

Some of those who wanted to be present were out for various reasons: Bob Rutledge had a medical appointment. Glenn Land had a previous commitment but said to say Hello to everyone and he will see you in September. Margaret Posey had other plans. Mary Kolmer had knee replacement surgery but is doing well. Corky and Jean Bowling wanted to come but Jean had a medical problem. Corky said Hello to everyone and hopes to see all at the Reunion . Monna Buckley was planning to attend but her plans changed at the last minute. Jo Ellen Harmon is ill—she never misses. Hang in there Jo Ellen; we will see you in July. It was so nice to see Judy Maddux able to be present. Our prayers are with you and David, Judy.

Marvin Vincent gave a very good summary of how the Denton Lunch Bunch started and that this is the 102^nd consecutive meeting of the group. Evidently, the guys and ladies enjoy being together (at least once per month).

One of our members, Jackie Walton, passed away last month and the group contributed to a memorial fund to be sent to the DHS Alumni Association for student scholarships. If you were absent and want to contribute, please send your donation to Jay Bates, 3909 Acacia, Ft. Worth , TX 76109 . We will mail the money within a week or so.

Are you ready for the list of attendees? Well, here goes: Edwina Bates, Doris Bilderback, June Boyett, Joyce Bozart, Mavis Burton, Sheryl Clapp, Jo Cole, Joann Cravens, Jackie Duggan, Nancy Duggan, Judy Gohlke, Blanche Hollingsworth, Wanda Lane, Inez Lewis, Judy Maddux, Jan McClure, Nilene Rogers, Barbara Neighbors, Rosemary Pirkle, Ginger Rawlins, Elayne Vick, Marianne Vincent, Joyce Weaver, Shirley Sammons, Kay Cresswell, Jacqueline White, Nelda Perdue, Martha Cottrell, Genevieve Hoover, Patsy Swain, Dorothy Wyskup, Barbara Cunningham, Mary Carr, Mary Ann Taylor, Jane Williams, Donna Hunt, and Janet Stewart.

The guys included: Jay Bates, Carl Bilderback, Ralph Burton, Bill Carr, Joe Clapp, Ovid Cole, Kenneth Cordell, Joe Cravens, Jerry Duggan, Gene Gohlke, Melvin Gouge, Joe Hollingsworth, Fred Lane, David Maddux, Bill McClure, Roy Neighbors, George Odom, Fred Pipkin, Rodney Pirkle, Jack Rawlins, Bobby Rogers, Curt Stogsdill, Rex Taylor, Roy Thomas, Dossie Vick, Marvin Vincent, Clifton Weaver, Otis Williams, Martin Wineinger, James Carroll, Freddy Lessley, Jim Sammons, Aubrey Stewart, Don Newby, Jim Brown, Britt Swain and Jack Cockburn.

You will count only 73 names—sorry I have missed 2 people. If you were present and don’t find your name, please email or call me (817)282-5464 and I will add your name to the list.

Marvin announced that the Traditions magazine of the Alumni Association is almost ready to mail. If you want a copy, please mail your Alumni dues to Marvin and he will place your name on the distribution list. Many of you know the magazine is an outstanding publication for all of us former DHS students.

Britt Swain, announced the 60^th Reunion of the Class of 1948 will be held September 20 at the Episcopal Church Parish Hall, Denison . Details will be available soon. You can register at the new Holiday Inn Express, Denison by calling 1-800-465-4329 for reservations. Britt and Patsy can be contacted by phone (903-465-7041) or email (bpswain@sbcglobal.net). Britt told us it will be similar to the 55^th Reunion . Also, all classes are invited but you should contact the Swains for information.

All the stuff we did in the program today is attached—just in case you missed some part of the activity.

I don’t know how many expressed the great time they had today, but, as you know, we can’t return to our high school days with very many people without a great deal of “What’s wrong with that guy” judgment. I suppose that is why our Lunch Bunch group enjoys being together every month where we can enjoy some of our youth without evaluation.

Again, we thank all of you for attending today and hope you will come again.

Clifton Weaver

RECOGNITION PROGRAM FOR 1948 AND 1958 CLASSES

Denison High School Alumni Association-Denton Lunch Bunch

April 16, 2008

INTRODUCTION:

We are honored to have the classes of 1948 and 1958 at our luncheon today. We thank you for allowing us to take this opportunity to transport everyone back to our high school days and recall some of the happy times we had together.

For the next few minutes please return to those great days—our last days before we left all that baby stuff behind and joined the race to go out and show the world what we could really do when we didn’t have all those silly rules to follow.

So, class of 1948, I will start this by asking you to supply some names associated with your high school days.

First—we will look at the adults in charge of our lives.

Who was the Superintendent of Denison Schools? (B. McDaniel)

Who was high school Principal? (J. L. Dickson)

Vice Principal? (J. S. Kimble)

Girl’s Basketball coach? (Anita Doyle)

Head Football coach? (Les Cranfil)

Band Director? (Rex Shelton)

Next, we will call some teachers by their first name and you supply their last name

Miss Johny (Beck)

Mr. O. W. (Cline)

Mr. Jock (Malone)

Miss Elizabeth (Bledsoe)

Miss Maggie (Summerville)

Coach Dixie (White)

Mr. M. M. ( Marshall )

Mrs. Fred (Parker)

Coach Durwood (Green)

Mrs. B. A. (Willis)

I have listed some businesses that sponsored the 1948 Annual. If the business is still open, please raise your hand when the name is called:

ECONOMY CLEANERS

DAVIS MOTOR CO. (DODGE/PLYMOUTH)

DENISON FUNERAL HOME

CRANE’S BAKERY

DENISON FROZEN FOOD LOCKER

ASHBURN ICE CREAM

SNYDER MOTOR CO. (STUDEBAKER)

ODENEAL JEWELRY

THE WHITE PIG STAND

NATHANS JEWELRY

NEWBERRY’S

STAR AND RIO THEATRES

SNOW WHITE LAUNDRY

43 TAXI

ESLER PAINT AND PAPER CO.

BARKER’S DAIRY

KOPPEN BALDWIN

Next, we go to our classmates-

Valedictorian? (Dorothy Brown)

Salutatorian? (Charles Epperson)

Senior Class President? (Carl Wilson)

Vice President? (Corky Bowling)

Secretary-Treasurer? (Norma Jean Essary)

King of the Neewollah? (Lindell Hicks)

Queen of Neewollah? (Janet English)

Who was Senior Class Girl Favorite? (Kathleen Gary)

Senior Class Boy Favorite? (J. L. Bates)

Next—I will call the first name of a 1948 Senior and you give me the last name. I will start with the As.

Cheerleader, Best Smile Award-Joanie (Abrahamson)

Raymond (Beine)

James (Bodkin)

Cheerleader, Most Pleasing Personality (Girl)-Dorothy (Bryant)

Cheerleader-Word (Burtis)

Jackie (Cockburn)

Most Pleasing Personality (Boys)-Delbert ( Dawson )

Dub (Fisher)

Jo Ellen (Fitzgerald)

Cheerleader, Leadership Award-Orbie (Fudge)

Robert (Hendrick)

All District Full Back-Cotton (Hill)

Dorothy ( Hopkins )

Jack (Ingram)

Outstanding Quarterback-Roy ( Jackson )

Jack (Kelly)

Margaret (Linsteadt)

Bill (McClure)

Nilene (Munn)

George (Odom)

Nils [Sandy] ( Rutherford )

Patsy ( Shelton )

All District Tackle-Brit (Swain)

(The best friend anyone can have)- Roy (Thomas)

Rose Marie (Weaver)

Leadership Award-Carl ( Wilson )

Albert (Wineinger)

Dick (Wood)

Alton (Slim) (Wolverton)

Two trivia questions:

Three Yellow Jacket Quarterbacks who played in succession have birthdays on consecutive days. Two of them were in the class of 1948 and the third in the class of 1949.

Who are they? Bobby Noe (April 4), Marvin Vincent (April 5), Roy Jackson (April 6).

Who wore #13 on the Girl’s Basketball team? (Edwina Leuty)

Now! See how much very important information you gain at one of these meetings.

Next-Let’s see if you remember a couple of important dates

When was Senior Day held? (May 6, 1948)

What day did you receive your diploma? (May 28, 1948)

Now, leave your thoughts and move to the years since you graduated.

Name one of your five 1948 classmates that is now on the list of the

DHS Distinguished Graduates

EDWINA LEUTY BATES

ROY JACKSON

GLEN LAND

JACK LILLEY

DR. BOBBY NOE

David Maddux will now present the program honoring our 1958 graduates.

RECOGNITION PROGRAM FOR CLASS OF 1958

Denison High School Alumni Association – Denton Lunch Bunch

April 16, 2008

I’m going to follow Clif’s blueprint plus add a few wrinkles. How many class of ’58 members do we have present? I really need you to help me out here. These questions pertain to our senior year. I will give you the first name to move things along.

Who was the Superintendent of Denison Schools?H. W. (Goodgion)

Who was our high school Principal that we all loved so dearly? Jack (Ballard) More later on Mr. Ballard.

Principal’s secretary? Marie (Trout)….and we did truly love her.

Girl’s Basketball Coach? Lois (Blount)

Head Football Coach? Guy ( Gardner )

Band Director? Larry (Thomas)

School Nurse? Olga (McDaniel)

Next, I will call some teachers by first name and you supply their last name.

Ms. Ruth (West) English

Mr. Jake (Blankenship) Chemistry, Physics

Miss Mildred ( Walker ) Spanish, Latin

Miss Lois (Jenkins) English

Mr. Edward (Wilds) English

Mr. M. C. (Woodward) Driver Ed, Algebra

Mr. Harold (Gentry) Biology

Coach Charlie ( Jackson ) Loved this guy!

Mrs. Stella (Byers) Algebra

Mrs. Edwardine (McCoy) English, Speech… She was my 7^th grade teacher at Central Ward.

Now let’s talk about some of our classmates.

Who were our Senior Class Officers?

President – David ( Markham )

Vice President – Richard ( Harvey )

Treasurer – Nelda (Phillips)

Secretary – Elayne (Tignor)

Mr. DHS – Don (Ashburn) Of ice cream fame. Lemon custard and H. Pineapple!

Miss DHS – Judy ( Hoover )

Student Body President – Jim (Brown)

Senior Favorite Male – David ( Markham )

Senior Favorite Female – Charlotte (Sanders)

Who was our Football queen? Diana (Laughlin)

Who was our Neewollah Queen? Audrey (Foster)

Who was our Neewollah King? Lewis ( Campbell )

Who was voted most humorous boy and girl? Kenneth (Arthur), Janet (Burks)

Who was our class Salutatorian? Patrick (Shaw)

Who was our Valedictorian? Hazel ( Campbell )

What was the name of the small drive in located across the street from the HS? The Stinger!

Let’s move to athletics our senior year.

Who was the Athletic Director? Ed (Wilds)

Who was voted “best athlete” our senior year? Carl (Linsteadt)

What was the score of the DHS/Sherman game? (20-13 Sherman )

Who was our center on the basketball team? Martin (Wineinger) A quick story. New coach, Bill Skipping, saw Martin walking down the hall, all 6’3” of him and talked him into coming out for basketball. Glad he did because Martin was imposing driving the lane for a layup. Teriffic rebounder!

Who were some of the other roundball players that are usually here? Bill (Carr), Doug (Bilderback), David (Maddux)

Some might know this but this guy left Denison after our freshman year. It has been said that he was one tough football player as a freshman. Any guesses? He’s here today. Rex ( Taylor )

Who were the two basketball team managers our senior year? Jim (Brown), Horace (Groff) I knew Horace had leadership abilities when he would say “Maddux, you can wear those socks another week.

See if you can guess a few of the girls basketball players…seniors of course. I’ll call the first names.

Phyllis (Wright)

Sarah ( Lawrence )

Marilyn (Gilliam)

Do you remember our senior cheerleaders?

Charlotte (Sanders)

Brett (Bayne)

Sorry Judy H., we all know how badly you wanted to be a cheerleader!

Who worked on our senior annual?

Who was our sponsor? Maggie (Sommerville)

Editor? Mary Lois (Akers)

Photographer? Lyn (Massey)

Art Editor? Carol (Burchette)

Adv. Mgr.? Bob (Bratcher)

Business Mgr.? Anne (Hagans)

We were good kids but something did happen our senior year. Do you remember?

We staged a “protest walk out”. Yep, we did. Anyone here who participated? We didn’t like our principal, Jack Ballard very much.

On another note, we have three Golden Rule guys, Curt Stogsdill, Bill Carr and Rex Taylor. The Layne guys were Bob Rutledge and Martin Wineinger. When they moved us 8^th graders up to the old HS, they didn’t move due to the fact that those schools were not part of the Denison Independent School district . We met up with them in 9^th grade.

Before graduation, we went on a Senior Trip. Where did we go? Lake Murray Oklahoma

We finally made graduation? Does anyone remember the date? Monday, May 26, 1958. Where was it held? Old HS auditorium

Where did we have our all night party after graduation? Rod & Gun Club.

Members of our class who are “Distinguished Alumni”?

Dr. C. J. Ransom

Dr. Phyllis Wright Shaw

Now here we are almost 50 years later! It has been fun!

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Just before singing our DHS School Song, I have 3 reminders:

1. If you want to leave a tip, leave it on the table

2. If you want to contribute to the Jackie Walton memorial, place your contribution in the box at the Name Tags.

3. Pay the cashier $6 when you leave.

“HAIL TO THEE OLE DENISON HIGH SCHOOL

SCHOOL WE LOVE SO DEAR

WITH OUR FRIENDS AND FELLOW COMRADES

WE SPEND A HAPPY YEAR.

THO WE LEAVE WE’LL ALWAYS CHERISH

MEMORIES OLD AND NEW.

HAIL TO THEE OLE DENISON HIGH SCHOOL

WE ARE ALL FOR YOU”

Thank you for coming today—Remember! We meet every third Wednesday, except November (we meet on the 2^nd Wednesday). Please join us as often as possible. Our attendance for today is 76, a new record for our group.