Arelene Sheridan Jones wishes to share with the class that her husband, David (Dave) Jones, is newly diagnosed with right upper lope lung Cancer. He also suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Because of the COPD, he is not a candidate for surgery. He will be treated with radiation. The cancer is very early stage, and the prognosis is good. Most certainly, Dave will beat his cancer, and we will see Arlene and him at our reunion.

Dave is a member of the LHS Class of 1957, although a technical error put him in the 1958 Highlander.

Arlene also reports that when Dave is again well, they will sell their home in Cleveland, SC, and they will move back home (Lakeland) to be near kids, family, and friends. Do you know any one who wants to buy in Cleveland, SC?

The following links are to two different formats of a survey concerning who might have an interest in attending the Lakeland Dreadnaught-Lake Gibson Braves football game after having some finger food and chatting with classmates at Hugh Turbeville's facility.

Excel Version

Portable Document (PDF) Version

Let Allan Davis know if you would like your name on this list.

Ronnie Hot Dog Lewis has shared some of his very old photographs, which feature Ronnie, Bobby Harper, Dan Minerd, Shirley Scarborough, Dot Waring, Don Carter, and Ralph Gonzalez, as well as several non-classmates. Bill Johnson has been kind enough to enhance them for us. Please visit the link below.



These photos will be put on the scrapbook tab of the class website as well.

Harvey Flatt was a teacher at LHS and a three-year sponsor of the class of 1959. We were accustomed to seeing Mr. Flatt at our reunions, and we were going to invite him again. We will miss him this year.

Link To Obituary Of Harvey Flatt

The reunion planning committees are organizing an "off the agenda" brunch on Sunday, October 25, 2009. The location will be Cleveland Height Golf and Country. The cost of this brunch is not included in the published prices for the reunion. Attendees will pay the Cleveland Height Golf and Country Club that Sunday morning.

If you wish to attend, please send your intentions to Allan Davis at adavis@verizon.net or Beatty Elliott at ebraymond810@verizon.net. Snail-mail will also get the job done. We are using this list just to estimate the projected size of the crowd for planning purposes. This is not an official signup list. You may attend on that morning, whether or not you have your name on this list.

Link To Sunday Bruch Attendeed - Excel Format

Link To Sunday Bruch Attendeed - Portable Document (PDF) Format

This blog article contains a link to the reunion letter and questionnaire snail-mailed on May 12, 2009. You invited to print the questionnaire from the blog article and submit it. This may come in handy, especially if you misplace the letter and questionnaire.

Link To Reunion Letter & Questionnaire

Each of you can help minimize the workload on Roger Sherman by emailing to him the answers to the questions on the lower half of the questionnaire. It will much easier for him to cut and paste your text than to type your handwritten responses. Windows users may use Notepad, which is a part of the Windows Operating System, to prepare their answers in a text format. I am not a MAC user, but I believe TextEdit is used with a MAC, just as Notepad is used with Windows. When finished, attach the text document to an email and fire it off to Roger at castlemore@aol.com. I am sure that Roger would love it, if you email your answers in today or even yesterday. He has a great deal of work to do. NOTE: You will still need to snail-mail the upper half of the questionnaire back to us with your reservations and money.

Roger asks that, in an effort to identify and fight SPAM, you put LHS in the subject of any email that you send to him.  By doing so, you will make it easy for him to determine that you are not a sinister force.

The letter does not contain information about a Sunday brunch at Cleveland Heights Golf and Country Club because we are trying to keep Sunday informal and off of the agenda. However, for planning purposes, we'd like to know how many of you would plan to attend this brunch. Please email me, Allan Davis, at adavis@verizon.net or Beatty Raymond at ebraymond810@verizon.net with your intentions.

The letter does contain one error. It indicates that October 24 is a Friday. Actually, October 23 is a Friday.

Sadly, we announce the passing of Al DeFoor, husband of classmate Shirley Scarborough DeFoor. For information on funeral arrangements, please use the link below to visit Al's obituary in The Ledger. The obituary does fail to mention that the visitation will be at 10:30, one hour before the funeral service.

Obituary, James Allison " Al" DeFoor

Tommy Chancey has died. Below are links to the LHS Class of 1959 In Memoriam web page and to his obituary in The Ledger.

LHS Class of 1959 In Memoriam Web Page

Tommy Chancey's Obituary In The Ledger