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This is a copy of our letter to be sent out:
March 26, 2007
Dear LHS Class of 1977 Classmates:
You are invited to celebrate our 30 Year Class Reunion on the third weekend in June!
On Friday, June 15th, we will gather at the Box Bar (formerly Lakota) in downtown Lexington at 6:30 p.m. for a bar-b-q supper, drinks and socializing. Sign up for a Texas Hold'em tournament for Saturday afternoon.
Saturday, June 16th you may attend the Lexington Alumni Banquet at the High School. Social half hour begins at 5:30 p.m. with banquet to start at 6:00 sharp. Banquet tickets are $14/each. Those who choose not to attend the banquet may gather at the Box Bar again at 7 p.m. for drinks, finger foods and socializing. Cash Bar. Class photo will be taken at 9:30 p.m. and orders can be taken online.
The cost for the class reunion events for the weekend will be $15 per person, $30 per couple. And the cost for the Banquet is $14 per guest.
If the cost is keeping you from attending, we have ways to work this out for you. Please contact Scott and Corky because we have a few classmates who are willing to help defray your costs in a confidential manner.
May 15, 2007 - Additions to our plans:
Kay Hasty's sister, Becky wanted very much to have a memorial gathering during the reunion weekend. So she made arrangements with Lakeside Country Club to have a time to get together and share memories with her. It will be hors d'oeuvres and cash bar on Friday, June 15th from 3 to 5 p.m. She plans to bring some pictures and other memorabilia.
Also, we will have a coffee, tea and cake open house on Saturday, June 16, from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the First Christian Church at 13th and Erie Street. This will give us a quiet, smoke-free place to socialize. Come for part of the time or stay for it all!
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116th Annual Lexington Alumni Banquet takes place on Saturday, June 16th with social hour at 5:30 and banquet at 6:00 p.m. at the Lexington Senior High School gymnasium. This year the banquet will be catered by The BBQ Company. We will enjoy a two-meat, served buffet of roast beef and glazed ham, with Chuckwagon cheesy potatoes, green beans, dinner roll and fruit plate. Banquet tickets are $14 each, can be purchased after May 1st at Barmores or place your order through us.
Mike Peck has accepted the challenge to be our class speaker at the banquet and Roger and Cindy (Cordes) Glen have taken on the task of writing our class story for the Alumni Times.
Let's really come out for the Alumni Banquet and support Mike Peck as our speaker! This alone will prove to be a very entertaining time! Let's have the highest attendance for all honor classes! The Alumni Association has a very proud history and works hard each and every year to bring our honor classes together. Lexington's Alumni Association has been the model for other Alumni Associations through the years. We are very blessed to have this organization, now in its 116th year!
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Power Point Slide Show to be on continuous loop Friday and Saturday evenings. Please send digital photos to Scott Anderson at scott@valleyhost.net Photos can be ANYTHING (ok, within reason) you want to share. Do you have some great photos from our school days? Send them! Have great family photos of you, your kids, pets, grandkids? Send those too! We'd LOVE to see your photos!
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Memorial Plans: Many of you are aware that we have lost five classmates (that we know of) from our LHS Class of 1977. When we learned of Kay Hasty's death in late Fall 2006, we began to discuss what to do as far as a memorial acknowledgment for our classmates' deaths. This is what we came up with:
Each member of our class is responsible for his/her own memorial gift. You can decide how much you want to give. We will have all gifts given to Lexington Foundation to place in to a scholarship fund. We will ask for a Memorial/Scholarship committee to be formed from our class and their responsibility will be to work with Lexington Foundation in selecting and awarding a scholarship to a Lexington graduate. Here is an example: John Doe donates $25 dollars towards his memorial, when John Doe dies 30 years later, our Memorial/Scholarship committee will send the family a card to acknowledge the death and to let the family know that a memorial gift was given to a scholarship fund for a graduating senior from LHS. If 100 classmates give $25 dollars, a Scholarship fund of $2500 will be invested with Lexington Foundation which could be divided up into a $250 scholarship to be presented over 10 years. And of course if the gift is more than $25 the ultimate scholarship can be larger.
May 15, 2007 - Thanks for all the responses we've had so far. The memorial fund is growing! Check with the company you work with and see if it has a 'matching gift' program. This is an educational fund that we are donating to and the Lexington Foundation is a 501(c) 3 organization. Your donation can be doubled! (Thanks to Steve Blocher for looking in to this and suggesting it.)
This is really taking care of two things. We want to be able to have the memorials AND we also want to 'keep up with the Jones'. Last year the Class of 1976 did a renovation project in conjunction with celebrating their 30th. So we felt we needed to do some kind of community project also. And of course we can challenge the Class of 1978 to top what we are doing!
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MIAs: We are still looking for some 'missing in action' classmates. Do you know where these classmates are?
Krys Deibert Dillard, Shareen Sherman Jeffries, Tony Tappan.
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We want to hear from everybody, whether you can make it to the reunion or not. We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Your reunion committee
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