Cabool Alumni Association

Cabool Alumni
Cabool Alumni
Association
Newsletter
January 2012
Alumni Officers
President
Bob & Bonnie Nichols
[email protected]
Vice President
Kirby Holmes
Secretary
Edith (Wood) Wayland
Treasurer
Missy (Rader) Dotson
Assistant Treasurer
Bernice (Nevill) Dotson
Ex Officio
Vivian (Knight) Alsup
Please pay your annual dues
to the Alumni Association.
Payments can now be made
on the website by using the
"Donate" button.
Treasurer's Report
Checking Balance
1-1-2011 ------- $8574.07
Includes the balance of
donated funds designated for
renovations to the football
stadium in progress in the
amount of $2500.00. The
balance of these funds were
given to the school I
september 2011, to be
applied to the cost of the new
scoreboard.
12-31-2011 ---- $6372.19
19 Scholarships have been
given since 2009
Brad Brill Memorial
Russelle Simonsen
Mildred Davis
Cabool Alumni
Nora Ann Barr Glover
President's Letter
The Alumni Association has continued the same activities as in the past. We serve refreshments
at the Awards Assembly where the alumni scholarships are presented. We provide concessions
at the alumni football games and, this past year, participated in the July 4 celebration by serving
cotton candy and sno cones, which were a big hit for the younger crowd. Fund raising is
primarily through the annual dues and an occasional donation.
The Alumni Association presented the school with a $2500 check at half-time of the 2011
homecoming football game. This money was left from fund raising efforts for stadium
improvements. It was used to make payment on the new scoreboard.
Don Tottingham continues to make improvements to our website (www.caboolalumni.com) and
has now set up a PayPal account to allow you to pay your dues electronically. We urge you to
use this easy payment method. Don also continues to sell advertisement on our web site. This
money is put into our scholarship fund.
To save money the newsletter is being sent via email and it will be available on the website. It is
important to keeep your email updated. Look at the website for further updates regarding events
for the 2012 All School Reunion.
Looking forward to seeing you in May.
Bob & Bonnie Nichols
2012 All School Reunion
Plans are being made for the All School Reunion on Memorial Day weekend, May 25 and 26,
2012. Classes are invited to gather at the gazebo on Main Street on Friday evening at 5:00 PM.
Hopefully, there will be some entertainment, but definitely a time to visit with old friends. Food
will be available. Saturday's events include registration at the high school at 8:00 AM, with juice
and doughnuts provided. Prior to the parade lineup there will be a general meeting at the
football stadium including a confirmation of nominees for officers of the Alumni Association.
The classes of 1960, 1961, and 1962 will be recognized for fifty year reunions. The parade will
lineup at 10 o'clock by the gymnasium and will end at the same place. Lunch will be available at
the Alumni Park immediately following the parade.
Possible meeting places for class reunions include the following:
Drury University
First Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church
Senior Center
Church of the Brethren
(417) 962-5314
(417) 962-3106
(417) 962-3608
(417) 962-3860
(417) 962-1064
Cabool Alumni Memorial Park
Work on the park continues. The shelter, mentioned in the 2008 newsletter, has been
finished and was used at the 2009 All School Reunion. It is a very nice addition to the park.
More bricks have been laid since that time, but we continue to solicit additional orders for
bricks. We hope from those attending the All School Reunion in May and all the individual
class reunions and reading articles in the Cabool Enterprise and online it will jog your memory
and you will take time to order yours. These orders would be laid in the fall, 2012 if we have
enough orders.
In the fall 2011, we had a work day at the park and with the help of alumni members and boys from the Gentry Residential Center,
we were able to reseed some of the park, redo a retaining wall by one sidewalk, and landscape bricks by the other. The Alumni
Association contributed $430.00 to the Alumni Park for construction of a new set of steps for access to the park from a new
parking area on the east side of the gym. We still would like more tables and benches for the park, but funds are needed to do this.
If you have not seen the park, please stop while you are in town and check it out. It has been used for class reunions, All School
reunions, and by teachers and students. Order blanks for bricks
may be obtained on the website by selecting the Alumni Park
button then download the brick order form. Also you can get
them from Missy Dotson at the Cabool State Bank or call at 417
962-3686 to get them by mail. Order blanks and donations may
be mailed to June Taff, 14083 Orchard Road, Cabool, MO
65689.
Please invite your classmates to attend the All School Reunion. They will be glad you did!
~ In Memory ~
1923 Zelma Stice Northcutt
1943 Robert McLaughlin
1951 Zelda McGehee Franklin
1962 Gary Caldwell
1925 Huey Nicholson
1943 George Strain
1951 Donald Ice
1963 Donnie Eaton
1927 Edna Hasty
1943 Vernon Hardy
1952 Harold Tiedeman
1963 Merle Bittick
1935 Bruce Shaw
1944 Treva Crawford West
1952 Peggy Rogers Raney
1964 Jerry Lambdin
1935 Carla Shaw Odom
1944 Mary Burchett Gentry
1952 Margaret Grogan Atkisson
1965 Debbie Carroll Brown
1935 Dorothy Gallup Horton
1944 Kenneth Smith
1953 Edna Taff Lee
1965 Jon Clifton
1935 Edith McCarter Delaney
1945 Billy Roberts
1953 Billie Jean Ady
1966 Barbara Haney Johnson
1936 Myrtle Johnson Buckdoll
1945 John T Young
1953 Jordan Day Lindsey
1966 Terry Parker
1937 Eugene Adkins
1945 Pauline Bridges White
1954 Wilma Coble Coones
1966 Martha Hudson
1937 Bea Mitchell Williams
1947 Norene Reaves Elmore
1954 Maxine McCall Hamilton
1966 Freda Grogan Westman
1938 Roberta Roberts Jones
1947 Dorothy Grogan Thompson
1955 Joyce Welch Falstad
1966 Barbara Carmichael Coble
1939 Pearl Wood West
1947 Charles Miller
1955 Alta Unger Tonis
1967 Russell Lee Jr
1939 Richard Roberts
1947 Annalee Strickland Brown
1955 Richard Bennett
1969 Freddie Brown
1939 Dixie Grisham Haney
1948 Berniece Baney Duke
1956 Paul Erich Binder
1970 Larry Thompson
1939 Marvin Whittaker
1948 Jeane Lamar Puham
1956 Wendall McCall
1971 George Darter
1940 Anna Miller Allen
1948 Thomas Protiva Jr
1957 John Hern
1976 Michael Maupin
1940 Zilma Vollmar Garrison
1949 Kathlyn Larson Coffman
1957 Claude Kitchen
1977 Franklin Miller
1940 Emmett Davis
1949 Bobby Rust
1957 Ronald Killion
1978 James D Sigman
1941 Dorothy Unger Adkins
1949 Robert Nevill
1958 Clarence Baney
1980 Marilyn Coen
1941 Marjorie Potter Helterbrand
1949 Norman Pace
1958 Wesley Lowther
1982 Jeffrey Sigman
1941 Dorothy Tapp Barr
1949 Betty Hood Hardy
1958 Joyce McClenanan Tinsley
1982 Rachel Hicks Wagner
1941 Bill Turner
1949 Andy Turner
1958 Jerry Burris
1982 Grace Sponsler
1941 Jewell Dunaway Davis
1949 Geraldine Akin
1958 Linda Murphy Archer
1982 Carol Cornett Brown
1941 Barbara Zimmerman Leascher
1949 Joetta Pool Strickland
1959 Dixie Fair Massey
1983 Priscilla Skyles
1941 Lloyd Grogan
1950 Kenneth Hamilton
1959 Leonard Sanders
1985 Scott Hardy
1942 Ada Altis Helderbond
1950 Theda Hines McCall
1959 Louie Adams
1986 Roger Sears
1942 Paul Bridges
1950 Buddy Carmack
1960 Kenneth Williams
1998 Stacey Fines
1942 Betty Rimel Carroll
1950 Matthew W Mayberry
1960 Wayneth Rust Bay
2010 Allen Johnson
1942 Galen Pennington
1951 Louis Hardy
1960 Alice Sweet Williams
???? Sophus Hicks III
1942 Charles Hardy
1951 Judy Honeycutt Skeen
1960 Derald Rust
???? Lynnette Sochor Eaton
1943 Marilyn Garland Tiedemon
1951 Donnie Turner
1961 Allen Short
???? Fred Durnell
1943 Lloyd Vonallmen
1951 Faye Garland Becker
1961 Doyne Penner
1960 Jerry Lewis
Academic Awards 2011
Alumni donates for scoreboards Last
June Taff, Bonnie Nichols, and
Friday night Cabool Alumni Association
Berniece Dotson serve refreshments at
president Bob Nichols, left, presented Dr.
Awards Night.
Wes Davis of Cabool Schools with a check
for $2,500 to go toward the new
scoreboards at Cabool High School.
Kirby Holmes presents awards at
Senior Breakfast 2011.
We would like to thank the past and
present Alumni Association officers
and members who have worked
hard to make this an active part of
Bob Nichols took a turn at the cotton candy the school and the community. The
machine at Cabool Alumni Association's
association is always looking for
booth during the Freedom celebration on
willing alumni to join in their
Main Street July 4.
efforts. Please join and become
active!
Berneice Dotson, June Taff, and
Vivian Alsup at Senior Breakfast 2011.
Seniors attending the 2011 Senior
Breakfast sponsored by the Alumni
Association.
Shown at the 55-year reunion of the Class of 1953 are,
seated from left, Lucile Freeman Stanley, Ethel Altis
Cole, Darlene McCall Lawrence, Jim Clark,
LeannFoster Campbell, Maxine Whetstine Foster,
Maryann Turner Hutcheson and Shirlee M. Kittrell;
standing, William McDonald, Don Kittrell, teacher Iva
Rust, Freda Goforth Kell, Clinton Hockett, Edna Taff
Lee, Robert Adkison, Eunice Gregor Hines, Andrew
Estep, Glen McKean, Galen Archer, Betty Ice Perry,
Delmar Peck, Vera Hanson Gladden and Walter Brake
Shown at the 55th class reunion of the Class of 1955
held in 2010 are, front row from left, Rick Hood, Jim
Doty, vic Waits, Jim Montgomery; second row, Don
Jones, Ruby (McDonald) German, Barbara
(Hutcheson) Fish, Maxine (Bell) Bay, Laura (Geisler)
Melton, Jackie (Reaves) Hessee and Betty (Cooper)
Burton; third row, Nina (Ice) Waits, Ted Morris, Marie
(Wilson) Griffin, Janice (Bay) Dishman, Mona
(Kirkman) Sponsler, Modene (Briggs) Smith, Wilma
(Hockett) Morton, Eloise (Greuter) Yoakum, Irma Jean
(Hamilton) Gabbert and Ron Lewis; forth row, Eugene
Roberts, Rex Gilmore, Bill Wade, Ben Miller, Donna
(Van Der Kamp) Witt and Ed Hardy.
At the class of 1958's reunion were, front row from
left, Wanda (Bennefiel) Schneider, Bernice (Nevill)
Dotson, Carol Ankrum, Carol (Kauble) Skaggs,
Virginia (Sigman)Stogsdill, Frankie (Ussery) Elwood,
and Joyce (McClenahan) Tinsley; second row, Basil
Hildebrand, Jim Killion, Larry Hobbs, Edith (Wood)
Wayland, Linda (Murphy) Archer, Peggy (Bennett)
Wimberly, Bertha (Reese) Tilley, Coach Ralph Scott
and David Puckett; back row, Tommy Archer, Franke
Lutz, Ron Walls, Ronnie Stark and Gary Spurgeon.
Shown at the 50th reunion of the Class of 1959 are,
front row from left, Eva Wilson Brown, Diane Buzan
Lewis, Rose Marie Rimel Buck, Ilene Coble Woods,
Louie Adams, Catherine Emery Grogan, and Harold
Lee Ice; second row, Kaye Linhart Mills, Margie
Carmen Knotts, Beverly Hamilton Andrus, Carol
Nimms Cameron, Beth Pierson Hamilton, Lloyd Taff,
Dave Napier, Eva Grogan Booker, and Kay Rader
Skyles; third row, Don Coble, Ronnie Sigman, Ike
Williams, Barbara Briggs Tate, Dorothy Oxley Stark,
Jerry Jones, Dennis Hunter, Ronnie Coffey, Billie
Parmenter, and Jerry Elliott.
The class of 1959 collected enough money from
classmates to donate a $1000.00 scholarship.
Front row (seated on floor): Nick Matherly, Tim
Whetstine, Sharon Sigman Epperson, Bob Sargent.
Second row (seated in chairs): Vida Reese Wisner,
Mary Emack Elliott, Joyce Jarrett Adams, Muriel
Adkins Mahen, Ola May Leach Erwin, LaDonna
Supancic, Bonnie McCall Nichols, Earlene Sponsler
Coday. Third row: Jim Neher, Joe Bennett, Judy
Delaney Atkins, Darlene Wood Stark, Gwendolyn
Parker Foster, Shirley Darter Abrahamson, Naomi
Ireland Ice. Back row: Clifford Smith, Dean Stogsdill,
Jim Atkins, Roger Mortenson, Bob Nichols, June
Knight Taff, Opal van der Kamp Eshelman.
Shown at the 50th reunion of the Class of 1961 are,
first row from left, Karen (Murphy) Wilson, Carolyn
(Walls) Brandt, Doris (Odom) Edington, Reva
(Bowen) McLain, Carol (Altis) Boykin, Dorothy
(Darter) Gaylor, Wanda (Canterbury) Thompson,
Evelyn (Neher) Whetstine, Shirley (Tate) Reed and
Nancy (Wilson) Akers; back row, Rex Gibson, Danny
Grogan, Bruce Dawson, Warren Ott, Richard Taylor,
John Benefiel, Ron Lee Brown, Jerry Rader and
Dennis Walls. Not pictured but attending Friday
evening was J.E. Rich.
Shown at the 45th reunion of the Class of 1964 are,
front row from left, Randy Rader, Ron Ayers, Anna
Gale (Alexander) Webb, Bonnie (Brown) Lutz, Carol
(Ice) Brown, Pat (Cox) Coatney, and Joyce (McLain)
Gross; back row, Don Tottingham, Benny Reed,
Vincent Davis, Larry Boyce, Kathy (Adkins)
Norfalise, C.L. Durham, Gary Gross, Ken Ayers, and
LeRoy Gillett.
Shown at the 40th reunion of the Class of 1968 are,
seated from left, Donna (Aldridge) Dodd, Barbara
(Phillips) Knoblett, and Avril (Haney) Darter;
standing front row, Retha (Ayers) Simmons, Jeanne
(Carroll) Wake, Peggy (Gentry) Lindsey, LaRee
(Remington) Lamar, Donna (Frisbee) Haddock, and
Glenda(Faler) Miller; second row, Charles Heathman,
Bobby Brill, Bill Powell, Brenda (Wiyrick) Wingerter,
Bevery (Bloomer) Hoyle, Joanna (Pierson) Wheeler,
and Tammy (Hanna) Hemsath; back row, Don Wells,
Lloyd Morris, Jerry Miller, Larry Shelley, Eugene
Griffin, and Ann (Carroll) Maxville.
Shown at the 40th reunion of the Class of 1969 are,
front row from left, Jane Stark Baker, Anita Redmon
Hood, Quinetta Frisbee Howell, Phyllis Middleton
Jones, Steve Forsythe, Raymond Steely, and Basil
Quesenberry; second row, Fayetta Hamilton
Pendergrass, Diana Ellis Peabody, Teresa Ayers,
Carolyn Peachee White, Connie Tottingham Bay,
Deborah Graven Osborn, Carolyn Lyons Walker,
Bobby White, and Randy Reese; back row, Steve
Mitchem, Jim Meiser, Gary Ayers, Bill Lacy, Bill
Burns, Vickie Matlock Miller, Randy Suspancic, Jim
Beller, and David Melton.
Shown at the 40th reunion of the Class of 1971 are,
front row from left, Beverly Freeman Hutcheson,
Linda Cook Cantrell, and Ann Roberts Zimmerman;
second row, Debra Taylor Howell, Mike Cox, Wanda
Darter Barker, Brenda Coble Stillwell, Diana Evertt
Smallwood, Val Homes, and Helen Grant Bonderer;
back row, Gail Martin, Danny Maness, Tom
Whittaker, Roger McDoanld, David Carroll, Paul
Wade, Susie Colvin Berry, Danny Flageolle, Bill Perry,
Leon Boyce, Max Reese, and Berry Linville. Not show
is Don Beller.
~ In Memory ~ continued
1940 Chester W Sponsler
1949 Warren E Sweet
1957 Edna Oxley Yarnall
1982 Mark Miller
1941 Virgina Holmes Parmenter
1951 Paul Charles Jackson Jr
1971 Gary Cooper
1989 Bobby J Hendricks
1941 Imon Frank Fox
1952 Harry D Fletchall
197? Cozetta Tuttle
1998 Chrystal Preston Orr
1942 Lawrence Johnson
1953 Lucille V Freeman Stanley
197? Luther F Rhodes
1943 Freda White Sears
1954 Dale Lloyd Sponsler
1977 Roger D Grogan
1947 Harriett Hubbard Glazier
1955 Walter W McClenahan
1981 Brad Pierson
Shown at the 30th reunion of the Class
of 1978 are, front row from left,
LaDonna Reese Kennedy, Janet
Mitchem Roberts, Connie Sullivan
Shaw, and Darlene Engle; second row,
Karla Hanna Clark, Tennie Holloway
Phinney, and Teresa Sartor Wrinkles;
third row, Ronald Miller, Charlie
Taylor, Shelley Wood Adams, Wanda
Lee Freeman, and Ted Stapp; back row,
Stephen Denis and Mike Malberg. Also
attending the weekend activities but not
pictured were Melinda Mowry, Patsy
Moorhead Coen and Alfred Coen.
Shown above at the 25th reunion of the Class of 1986
are, front row from left, Rhonda Farmer, Amy Falls
Rhodes, Teresa Taylor Lyness, Linda Rogers Kirk,
Sherry Matherly Miller, Tabby Holmes, Edwina
Swisher Carnal, Shaun Hines and Amy O'Dell; second
row, Colleen Parker Dorsey, Sheila Durham Hunter,
Sandy Pierson-Cremer, Diana Adkison Young,
Timmie Rose, Angie Sigman, Misti Carroll Liska,
Harvey Green Jr., and Shari Scott; back row, Jess
Ross, Mike Short, Shane Nelson, Mike Rader, Jeff
Woods, Clay Hanna, Samuel Butts, and Ron Scheets.
Pictured at Roberts Park during the Class of 1983's
reunion are, front row from left, Julie Bay Driskell,
Sheila Beltz Long, Jill Vandivort Fisher, Cristi
Cartwright Eichoff, Lisa Macomber Sullivan, and
Kelly Macomber Garlik; second row, Mark Sigman,
Vonda Stuart Fulton, Melissa Dixon Elliott, Wendy
Burke Inman, Beth Alpers, Debbie Christeson
Anderson, Penny Russell Speake, and T.C. Carroll
Wall; third row, Tony Thompson, Curt Matherly, John
Thompson, Keven Smith, James Montgomery, Jesse
Brown, Rob Schultz, and Kenneth Wood; fourth row,
Randal Scheets, Mike Purvis, Tim Taylor, and Jay
Taff.
DEDICATED DOGS
In January 2011, a group of dedicated and talented Cabool High School graduates and faculty began an orginazation who wanted to
help ensure the successful future of our school and community. We call these individuals “DEDICATED DOGS.”
The idea was to harness the talent, experience, resources, and connections of people willing to help, for use by Cabool school and
town leadership. Would you consider becoming a DD? You don’t need to do anything more than what you’ve already been doing
in your life. Are you a lawyer, an accountant, a financier, a marketer, or a business executive? Are you a grant writer, an educator,
a web developer, an architect? Are you a leader? Or are you just fired up to add a little “world-class athlete” ability and elbow
grease to the team?
Please contact Kirby or Aaron ([email protected], 618/ 910-1851 or [email protected], 704/ 582-9557) if you want to
sign up. For further information go to www.cabool.org , an under-development site dedicated to promoting the town specifically,
or www.caboolalumni.com.
Schedule and Committees for the 2012 All School Reunion
5:30 pm, Friday, May 25
Opening Activities at the Gazebo on Main Street
Graduation years of 1980, 1981 and 1982 are responsible for planning this.
1980 contact people Steve Matherly and LaDora Melton Pounds
1981 contact people Valerie McCall Hensley and Cindy Flanagan
1982 contact people Kevin Denis and Edwin Rogers
8:00 am, Saturday, May 26
Registration begins at the High School
Graduation years of 1990, 1991 and 1992 are responsible for this.
1990 contact people Kristy Stillwell and Stephanie Lutz Sheets
1991 contact people Terry Jones and Sandy Smith Boykin
1992 contact people Wes Davis and Nickie Bennett
9:30 am, Saturday, May 26
Program at the football stadium
Graduation years of 1970, 1971 and 1972 are responsible for this.
1970 contact people Pam McClenahan and Kim Hale
1971 contact people Susie Berry and David Carroll
1972 contact people Jerry Hood and Dixie Beller
10:30 am, Saturday, May 26
Parade leaving from new gym and Alumni Park
Graduation years of 1965, 1966 and 1967 are responsible for this.
1965 contact people Vickie Davis Woods and Judy Wood Baker
1966 contact people Roger Lindsey and Patty Stark Parker
1967 contact people are Liz Durham and Norma Jean West
11:30 am, Saturday, May 26
Lunch served at the Alumni Park
Graduation years of 1975, 1976 and 1977 are responsible
1975 contact people Kennetha Stringer and Nancy Gentry
1976 contact people Debbie Lemon and Lulu Wayland Dixon
1977 contact people Lynn Glover and Patsy Wood
Golden Anniversary Honorees
Graduation years of 1960, 1961 and 1962
1960 contact people June Knight Taff and Bonnie McCall Nichols
1961 contact people Reva Bowen McClain and Carol Boykin
1962 contact people Faye Meiser Matherly
Greater than 50 year Honorees
Golf Tournament Being Planned
We are planning to have a golf tournament on Friday, May 25 in conjunction with the All School Reunion if there is enough
interest. All proceeds will go to the Alumni Assn. If you are interested in participating please send an email to
[email protected]. More information will be available on the alumni web site when it is available.
Classmates of the Class of 1981 met for their 30 year reunion on July 2, 2011 at Roberts Park. To get out of the heat for the
evening we met at the First Baptist Church fellowship hall for dinner and more visiting. The meal was catered by Mike Whittenberg
and enjoyed by all.
We had 29 classmates who attended overall, which was good considering the late start for planning and not getting letters out to
everyone in time. We opologize for not reaching all classmates. It was good to visit and catch up with those able to attend. We had
a good time watching a DVD slide show of pictures from yearbooks over our years at Cabool. It was interesting trying to match
faces from Kindergarten and on up. If you did not receive your letter, please send an update to us with an address. You may
contact:
[email protected] or [email protected]
If anyone would like to help plan and be involved in the All School Reunion, to be held during Memorial Day Weekend 2012,
please contact one of us. No picture was available.