Central City High School Class of 1953
50 Year Reunion
May 10, 2003
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Alma Mater
Hail to the Black and Gold
Hail to You
Hail Alma Mater
Ever So True
We Love No Other
So Let Our Motto Be
Victory Central High
Varsity
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My class reunion's here
I don't know what to do.
My weight and chins have doubled
Since the year of '53.
I look in the mirror and
Good Grief!
How can this be?
Gray hair, false teeth, thick glasses -
No sense moping, I decide.
I'll just have to grin and bear it.
But I'm dying, deep inside.
Then I walk into the banquet hall
And STOP!
There's some mistake.
Not a single classmate do I find.
Did I confuse the date?
Still the faces seem familiar,
As at each one I keenly stare…
Then I realize I'm looking at…
Good Grief!
My classmates' parents!
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Program
Social Hour - 4 - 6 p.m.
Master of Ceremonies - Jim LaMastus
Welcome and Introduction of Guests
Memorial Presentation - Norman Gamblin
Quartet - “Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie”
Bill, Carlton, Larry, Shelton
Invocation - Larry Whitmer
Dinner
Speech - “From Here to There” - S. Bowen
Awards - Norman Gamblin
“Who Did It” - Class Members
Class Business - Jim LaMastus
Benediction - Carlton Williams
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We Pause to Remember…
Anna Jean Holman
Jane Hayes
Peggy Graves
Dick Wolfe
Henry Jackson
Patty Lile
Lowell Ward
Mary Jo Whitehouse
Barbara Davenport
Credits
Reunion Committee:
Jim LaMastus - Chairman
Shelton Bowen - Treasurer
Norman Gamblin - Member
Local Arrangements - Jim LaMastus
Name Tags - Bob Young
Memorial - Norman Gamblin
Program - Shelton Bowen
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A Synopsis of First Renion
On Saturday, August 6, 1988 twenty-two members of the Central City High School Class of 1953 and their spouses gathered in the school cafeteria to celebrate their 35th and only reunion. This was the brainchild of Patty Lile Travis.
Attending were Mary Jones Bryant and husband, Clifford, Greenville, KY - Mary Whitehouse Burns and husband, Tommy, Central City, KY - Ann Shelton Federle and husband, Marvin, Louisville, KY - Barbara Davenport Ferguson, Central City, KY - Nancy Bodine Grise and husband, Howard, Owensboro, KY - Carolyn Nofsinger Haack and husband, Donnelly, Spring Lake, MI - Margaret Greenwood Long and husband, James, Edmond, OK - Anna Locke Luxemburg and husband, Lester, Tell City, IN - Barbara Rowans Millay and husband, Bill, Central City, KY - Barbara Vincent Roberts, Central City, KY - Patty Lile Travis and son, Marc, Arlington Heights, IL - Shelton Bowen and wife, Martha, Cadiz, KY - Bill Brown and wife, Brenda, Danville, IL - E.P. Doom, Romona, CA - Norman Gamblin and wife, Sue, Flossmoor, IL - Owen Gray and wife, Rosemary, Hixon, TN - Jim LaMastus and wife, Tina, Nashville, TN - John Howerton and wife, Ilene, Philpot, KY - Lowell Ward, Cleveland, OH - Larry Whitmer and wife, Shirley, Haines City, FL - Carlton Williams and wife, Margaret, Corpus Christi, TX - Bobby Young and wife, June, Phoenix, AZ.
Teachers present were Elizabeth Fuller, Jennie Foster McDonald, Lou Stewart, Alexander Cather, Delmus Gish, Benton Reeves, and Conley Taylor. P.A. Shaver represented the Board of Education.
The reunion featured a re-creation of the 1952 Junior-Senior Hawaiian-style Banquet with decorated tables of flowers, leis and an old country buffet catered by Mom's Best Café. Great music of the fifties was played by Tom Arndell, courtesy of Ed Thomas.
Following the buffet, Patty Lile recognized teachers, guests and various members of the 1953 Senior Class. Awards were given to Carolyn Nofsinger Haack for most children; Margaret Greenwood Long for the most grandchildren; E.P. Doom for traveling the farthest; Barbara Vincent Roberts for most dedication to the reunion; Norman Gamblin for most enthusiasm; and Lowell Ward for most determination in attending [the] reunion. Each of the award winners received an eleven by fourteen color photograph of Central City High School from Studio III.
Memorial certificates were presented to recognize deceased members of the class: Anna Jean Holman, Jane Hays, Peggy Graves, Dick Wolfe, Ronnie Nunley, and Eddie Bozarth.
Special presentations to class members included copies of “The Tide&rdquo, a fifty-three page book about the class and their teachers written by Patty Lile and copies of “Hi-Times”, school newspapers from 1948-53 by Norman Gamblin. A gold charm bracelet was presented to Patty Lile by Class President Carlton Williams.
After an extended period of visitation, picture taking and dancing the jitterbug, the class voted to meet again in August of 1993 at Lake Malone Lodge.
Submitted by Bill Brown.
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[The last page consists of addresses of select members of the Class of 1953 at the time of the 2003 reunion. The street address has been removed to protect privacy. - JP]
Shelton Brown
Lafayette, LA 70508
Bill Brown
Pensacola, FL 32504
E.P. Doom
Greenville, KY 42345
Norman Gamblin
Flossmoor, IL 60422
Charles Owen Gray
Hixon, TN 37343
Nancy Bodine Grise
Owensboro, KY 42303
Carolyn Nofsinger Haack
Spring Lake, MI 49456
John Howerton Jr.
Owensboro, KY 42303
Jim LaMastus
Owensboro, KY 42303
Barbara Vincent Roberts
Central City, KY 42330
Larry Whitmer
Haines City, FL 33844
Carlton Williams
North Platte, NE 69101
Bob Young
Phoenix, AZ 85053