Memphis Central High School

Second Quarterly Luncheon
Held on Nov. 28

In August, we had 36 classmates and spouses attend a CHS54 luncheon at Coletta's Italian restaurant and followed this with another gathering at Jim's Place East on Saturday evening November 28th.

Harry Murchison tells us that if enough people are still interested in getting together, more quarterly luncheons will be scheduled during 2010. There will usually be no organized programs, just meeting, greeting and reminiscing.

Since it is impractical to mail or email everyone on the '54 list, if you are interested in attending future events, please send Harry an email so that he can include you on the notices.

CHS '54 first quarterly luncheon a success

Harry Murchison planned, announced and hosted the CHS '54 first quarterly luncheon recently on Tuesday August 18th, at Colettas with 30 attendees.

As a starter, Harry asked everyone to introduce themselves....Well, we have changed some and there were those who weren't able to make the Reunion '55 in May.

He also explained that the notice for the luncheon was sent to those who live in the Memphis area who have an email address. For classmates who do not have email, hopefully, others should invite them next time.

In planning for the luncheon, when Harry learned that former co-chair of our 50th Reunion, Emily Jacobsen Bernhardt would back visiting in Memphis from her new home in Oregon, it was a good time to have the affair.

All seemed to agree, thought that the food was great and it was wondereful to see everyone again.

A Note from Emily,

"We went around the room and introduced ourselves - there were
a few people there I hadn’t seen
in quite a while. Everyone just mingled. I spoke about the upcoming cruise (to Alaska) and asked everyone to consider going"

The Class of 1954 held its
Reunion55 on May 29 & 30

Thanks to help from Dot Adams Watts in identifying the class photo, here is a update on the May reunion:

Friday Night

On Friday evening, an informal gathering was held at the Hampton Inn and Suites on Shady Grove with folks getting together for a casual gathering visiting, reacquainting and bringing each other up-to-date about themselves.

According to what's been reported, Friday was a great night. Dot outdid herself cooking for the whole crowd and everyone had a nice time. There was plenty of time to mill around & talk to EVERYONE. It was not overly crowded with plenty of places to sit.

To view pictures of Friday's gathering, click on PHOTO ALBUM here.

Class Tour of CHS

One highlight of the reunion weekend for about 20 attendees was the visit & tour of Central High School:

As Dawn Butler Vincent put it, "I was surprised and favorably impressed. The prinicipal (Greg McCullough) said that, although Central takes kids in their district, they are also an academic magnet school for college prep students. The graduation rate is the highest in the city public schools (I think he said 85%."

Here are some photos taken of the Class Tour

Saturday Night

Saturday night got underway with attending classmates grouped for a 2009 Class Photo.

Here is a small version of the class photo – To more clearly
view the attendees, Click Here!.

The social hour was followed by dinner, and afterwards, a juke box played Fifties music. It worked fine during dinner & for several songs afterward – then when everyone was on the dance floor (believe it or not) the juke box died!!!

Alice Greenberg Drake's husband brought her out to Saturday night's party for about 45 minutes before dinner.

Still trying to piece together more of the events of both days. Hope to hear from you soon.