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Chattanooga High School
55th Reunion, Class of 1946
September 14-15, 2001

(Playing ~ "String of Pearls")

The general feeling was ~ "They just keep getting better." Also ~ "We want to keep having reunions of
our class .... and five years is just too long to wait." Well, this puts a lot of work and responsibility on
president Bill, so many may need to volunteer to help in some way.

Indeed, it was another banner weekend, this 55th reunion of the City High Class of 1946.
The reunion committee was composed of our lifetime president, Bill Clift (with tremendous help, work
and support from wife Melba), Bob Templeton, Charlotte Chamberlain Crevasse,
Arch Trimble and Tilda Caldwell Wall.

Ninety reservations were made ........ with six people not able to attend ........ some because of
the inability to get a flight after the tragic events of September 11. Here we were ......
the Class of 1946, the first class to graduate after the end of The War, and another horrible attack
had just been launched on U. S. soil ..... the second such tragic attack to be called
"a day that will live in infamy."

Our first gathering was on Friday evening aboard the Southern Belle Party Barge on the Tennessee River.
It was a perfect place to renew friendships ~ for most of us, it was the first time in five years.
The hors d'oeurves supper was great.

The weather was just perfect and remained so all weekend for all our events !

Saturday's catered picnic lunch at the Pot Point House was a real delight .... and perhaps made even more so because
the weather was so wonderful and the scenery so beautiful as we drove along the Tennessee River at the
foot of Signal Mountain to reach our destination. We shared a special afternoon together just talking,
eating, looking at some old annuals and taking advantage of the scenery for lots of photo opportunities.
(The lunch was delicious ...... everyone got a wishbone/pulley bone !)

Saturday night, our final evening together, was a night to remember .....
at the elegant Walden Club atop The Republic Centre Building in downtown Chattanooga.
We continued eating our way right through the weekend at the lavish cocktail buffet set before us.
Throughout the evening, a trio treated us with music to our ears ....... selections from "our day"
....... and some took advantage of the opportunity to dance to the familiar music.
We had no formal program, but president Bill did ask for impromptu comments from several classmates.

A few photos I took are shown below as a remembrance of our 55th reunion.
(also look for a nice surprise!)

Part of the Class of 1946 in attendance ........ sans spouses ........ taken Saturday
at Pot Point House, the scene of our catered picnic.
This is a panorama pic made by Tom Cuthbert's wife Ernie. Tom explained that it is a composite of two scenes,
and in the middle there is some multiple imaging where the two scenes were joined in his software program.

Friday night on the party barge, docked on the Tennessee River ... sampling the wonderful hors d'oeurves supper ...
Betty Jo Simmons Alderman and President Bill Clift

Celeste Martin Rast and Don Moore ...... showing the great array of treats on the barge

Gathering Friday night on the party barge

More socializing on the party barge

On the barge ... Jo Ann Effron Richelson, Bill Clift, Charlotte Chamberlain Crevasse

Sharing a laugh on the barge .... Bud Crevasse, Melba Clift, Frances Dickie, Jim Slaughter

Saturday at Pot Point House .... gathering for the picnic

Catered picnic Saturday, Pot Point House ... Betty Conner Seepe, Celeste

Fellowshipping around one of the picnic tables out on the patio

At the picnic ....... The Bulldogs, sans Al Kinsey ....... Jim Forrester, Bill Clift, Jim Slaughter, George Owens

Charlotte, Charline Barnes Hammel, Emily Reid Williams, Betty Hudson Hogan,
Evelyn Bryant Campbell, Phyllis Coulter Goodman

Lorraine Abernathy Aiken, Bill Trotter and wife Sue, Bob Templeton and wife Lena Dot

Betty Jo , Betty Alford White, Elsie Taylor Dodson, Harriett O'Kelley Jones, Pearl Cooper Gentry

Betty, Ann Huffaker Rose, Celeste, Elsie

The lavish cocktail buffet Saturday night at the Walden Club
Virginia Olgiati Russell and Bruce

Friends, all dating back to the ninth grade at Dickinson Junior High School
.... one picture in 1944 .... the other at the 55th reunion, which was also taken in front of our school building
in an attempt to reconstruct the 1944 picture. Sadly, Marion had planned to attend,
and the pic would have been complete, but she was unable to fly down from Pennsylvania
because of the Terrorist Attack on our Country on September 11th.

2001 picture ~
top row: Florence Burgner Lynch
front row: Billie Ann McDonald Deakins Goldwire, Bettye Jo Simmons Alderman, Charline Barnes Hammel

1944 picture ~
top row: Marion Bibb, Florence Burgner
front row: Billie Ann McDonald, Bettye Jo Simmons, Charline Barnes

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