Class of '54 - 40th Reunion

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For this reunion the committee did not have the traditional chairman and committee.  We all did a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and some a large bit of that.  Following is a list of the committee and a brief breakdown of all the bits, both little and large.

Duane and Helen Niekrenz - treasurer, music, decorations, photographer; carried a large box full of 1954 class information to every meeting.

Norma (Bundy) Turner - reservations, decorations, booklet, any mistakes in the booklet made by the computer.

David and Arleen Cross - decorations, worked with printer on booklet; any mistakes in booklet made by computer.

Jane (Fehrmann) Edmonson - decorations, kept check on what Helen and Duane did with all the checks; never offered to carry large box.

A. T. McCrary - head joke teller, decorations, said "no problem" on an average twelve times per meeting.

Gerry (Eller) VanZandt - wrote letter #1, decorations, menu, "balloon lady", whoops, sorry, "balloon person".

Suzie (Shreve) Sprehe - decorations, menu, laughed most at Fred Bauer's stories.

Pat (Stonecipher) Kuhn - wrote letter #2, dedication page, decorations, bought all the lovely gifts with our lovely money.

Barbara (Long) Linder - our May Queen of 1954 and the perfect choice to give out our door prizes at the picnic, plus she laughed at everyone's jokes.

Fred Bauer - an "out-of-towner" who, when in town, came to our monthly Thursday night meeting at The Green Grill.  The experience changed the color of his hair.

Millicent Webster - "in-town" instigator, publicity, coordinator at large, used telephone a whle bunch.  Favorite phrase, "Do we have to pay tax?"

Other members of the "Centralia Gang" who started with us but could not always attend the meetings were:

Dorothy Coleman
Dale Cook
Shirley (Davis) Yuhasz
George Marcum
Mary Anna (Minton) Nollman
Roger Sutherland
Doris (Johnson) Dearing

Pat and Dick Jones - "out-of-town" instigators, decorations, "tracer of lost persons".

Marilyn (Sprehe) Howell - "out-of-town" instigator, decorations, "tracer of lost persons".

Glenda (Sanders) Meizer - memorial, memorial page, decorations.

Other "tracers of lost person" - Carolyn (Carlson) Young, Phyllis (Philipp) Tolliver, and all the anonymous classmates who helped with names and addresses.