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The 1957 class of Baton Rouge High School was a mixed bunch who came from Grammar Schools all over the city south of the railroad tracks alongside Choctaw Drive. Those dastardly Istrouma Indians were literally on the wrong side of the tracks, at least that is how we saw it. Most of us passed through Baton Rouge Junior High before arriving at those hallowed halls on the corner of Government and South Eugene St.
While many graduating classes have scattered across the country and lost contact with each other, our class has done admirably well in keeping in touch. The class has now had four reunions. The first was held at the Bocage Racquet club on Dec. 27, 1972 for the 15th Anniversary of our graduation. Terry Karns and Joyce Simmons Bourgeois Co-Chaired the event. The Second reunion was held at Ashley Manor on June 26th 1982 for the 25th Anniversary. Joyce Simmons Bourgeois and Randolph Ogden led that effort.
And then there was the big 50 Anniversary Reunion, headed up by Shirley Bankston Newsham and her husband Tommy. This was a three day event which began on Friday, Apr. 27, 2007 with a Fish Fry Dinner at Blue Bayou Water Park. On Saturday, we sat down to the big Reunion Dinner Party at the Lake House Reception Center complete with 50s music. If that wasn’t enough, on Sunday morning, we got together for Brunch at Holiday Inn South. A great time was had by all. I for one felt that there just wasn't enough time.
And now we have had the 70th Birthday Reunion (52nd Anniversary) to celebrate the rumor that some of our classmates have turned 70 (actually none of us are old enough to be 70). Joyce Simmons Bourgeois returned to the helm as Chair of the Planning Committee along with Joyce Wesmoreland Schoonmaker as chief sidekick. Donna Maddox Saurage did an awesome job of getting the message out via e-mails, wrote some and decorated all of our letters or e-mails. This three day reunion started off on Friday, April 17, 2009 with a rousing get-together in the Hospitality Room at the Holiday Inn South. Saturday was the day for another good old Louisiana Fish Fry at the UCT Club. You are right, it is the same one we went to as teenagers. Sunday morning found some of us hardy folks who just had to have one more time with our classmates and their spouses at Breakfast in the Holiday Inn South. It was a great time to renew acquaintances, cement new relationship and in some cases to make new friends. (See a listing of the Committee Members for the Reunions)
This website is our attempt to provide a venue for all of our classmates to relive these Reunions and as way to keep abreast of upcoming events for the future. The links above will take you to a photo section on each of the functions held at the 50th Reunion and the 70in09 Birthday reunion. Our thanks go to the many photographers who provided photos used herein, namely: Mary Jo Miller Arnold, Joyce Simmons Bourgeois, Sue Frank Ferrara, Sylvia Wiese Iskander, Gail Lagarde Willson, Patricia O’Brien Michael, Donna Maddox Saurage, Stella Stone Cooper, Joyce Westmoreland Schoonmaker and Joe Ann Womack Stahel.
Several of the classmates from the various grammar schools got together before and during the 50th Reunion and the 70in09 Birthday reunion. Bernard Terrace, Dufrocq, Fairfields, Goodwood, Highland, Nicholson, Sacred Heart, Southdowns and Wyndotte Elementary schools are among them.
For several years, a number of ladies in the class have been getting together for what they call “The Lunch Bunch.” This blatantly feminist organization (no men are allowed, no sour grapes on my part) meets regularly and are eager to have more classmates to join them, ladies only need apply.
Our sincere apologies if we failed to get your picture in the above. If you were not able to join us for any of the reunions, or if your picture does not appear in any of the reunions, please send me a recent photo of yourself and the Webmaster will post them on the website. In addition, if you have a photo of you and your family, Please send them to the Webmaster for a special section called "The Family of ..." Any comments, criticisms, suggestions, complaints should be directed at me, your friendly webmaster, Joe McD. Campbell.
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