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2009 Summer Dinner Will Be July 25
Our annual summer dinner will be held at Cousin's BBQ at 910 South Crowley Road on Saturday, July 25, from 6 to 9 p.m. You can order your own food choices. Gloria says no RSVP is necessary--just bring your own sweet self.
Rumor has it that Jerry Stewart, who now lives in Washington state, plans to attend.

William James Reunion Will Be September 26
On Saturday, September 26, 2009, the William James Junior High Reunion will be held at the school. Friends and alumni of the Poly area are invited, including boys who played baseball at Del Murray Little League Park back in the day. You can register at this new Website: Poly Neighborhood.

Cowtown Memories Live on at Old Fort Worth Website
James Bradshaw has a great Website devoted to old Fort Worth.


Summertime and the (Re)Livin' Is Easy
Three faces not often seen in our neck of the woods were in town in 2008 from way up north: Larry and Cathy Hardisty Roberts were down from Alaska, and Jerry Stewart was down from Washington state.
Jerry and his wife, Becky, live in Lynden, Washington, where Jerry owns the production company Vision Productions. He writes and presents commentaries that are broadcast on approximately 350 stations and on the Salem Radio Network satellite. In our market he can be heard on KSKY 660 AM and KKGM 1630 AM in Dallas.
Larry is associate professor of human services and justice at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He is also involved in Pathways into Health, a nationwide organization dedicated to improving the health, health care, and health care education of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Cathy works for a brokerage firm and continues to do Girl Scouts volunteer work.
Larry and Cathy live about twenty-five miles northeast of Fairbanks on Haystack Mountain.
"Haystack Mountain is actually a hill," Cathy says. "Our 'spread' is close to the top (1,500 feet), and we have about twenty acres with a limited view of the Alaska Range. Our menagerie includes one llama named Peri, four hens, two roosters, three pheasants, four chukkars, an akita male dog (Big Foot) and a big black cat (Black Foot), two indoor fish, and seasonal worms and bees."
Cathy says, "Larry is the worm- and beekeeper; I am the assistant. Gardening is my spring/summer pastime; however, this summer my harvesting was outsourced to Mrs. Moose and her offspring--local itinerant workers. On two separate work days, they cleaned out most of this year's crop, saving us the labor. Always a challenge, living the rural life!"
Larry and Cathy celebrated their sixth anniversary in December.
The consensus of classmates who visited with Larry and Cathy and Jerry last summer was: "They haven't changed a bit. But we loves 'em anyway."

Top: Mike Nichols and Marcia Melton Caple; bottom: Kerry Wages, Jerry Stewart, Jerry Martin
(Thanks to Bill Ayars for his photo.)


Class of '68 Reunion Photos
Photos of the class of 1968's forty-year reunion can be seen here.


Greet 'n' Eat Summer Dinner Held July 19, 2008
The annual summer dinner for the class of 1967 was held at Cousin’s Bar-B-Q in Crowley in 2008. It looked sorta like this (thanks to Gloria Townsend Ayars for the photos):

Anette Williams Burris and Steve Burris, Jerry Martin. At rear table, Claudia and James Hosfelt

Bill Sims

Chuck O'Toole, Sonny Tull, Brad Bates, Bill Ayars

James Hosfelt, Allen Koenig


Johnny Morrow, Mike Nash

Rosalee and Jon Jenkins

June Gipson Bates and Brad Bates, Chuck O'Toole

Lisa and Larry Barksdale, Jane Ann Smith Cassidy and Bill Cassidy


Martha Chrietzberg and guest

Mike Nichols and Marcia Melton Caple


Larry Weathersby and Patsy Cannon Weathersby

Robert Beasley, David and Missy Tarrant

Sonny and Kathy Berry Tull, Marilyn Smith Spurlock and Billy Spurlock


Terry Lipscomb

Suzanne Penneston Hardin and Judy Weeks Kirby