Members of the Jefferson High School Class of 1961 came from all over the nation on the weekend of July 8 and 9 to celebrate their graduation for the 11th time at their 55th class reunion.
This photo was taken at the home of Keith and Joan Conroy where the class met on Saturday evening. The girls reformed the JHS Glee Club and offered a rendition of “Playmate, Come Out and Play with Me.” And an auction of a sculpture, “Bell of Plenty,” designed and welded by Keith Conroy for the 2016 Bell Tower sculpture contest (it didn’t make the cut for that competition, but was admired and praised by his classmates) garnered $600 for the class fun and flower fund.
Pictured (from left) are Ellie Stougard Brown, Janet Smith, Kay Snow, Donna Kafer Lawson, Carol Wilson Zwicky, Jolene Dozier Oyer, Rozetta Renner Fiscus, Denise O’Brien Van, Jim Willmore, Bonnie Beebe Tucker, Eugene N. Taylor, Pat Limburg Rusnak, Anna Oakes Diekmann, Mike Brady, Carolyn Hurdel Lynch, Michaele Patterson Bonnenburger, Charlene Newcom King, Keith Conroy, Barry Martin (barely visible), Mike Vincent (barely visible), Darrell Millard, Mickey Sanders Starr, Donnie Egan (barely visible) Toni Averill Roberts, Barb Brock Brooker, Bill Figenshaw, Johnny Hamilton, Jim Hanson, and Jayne Owen. (Photo by Dwight Tomes.)
1961 graduates in attendance for supper at Johnny and Alice Hamiltons’ on Friday evening who couldn’t make it to Keith’s on Saturday were Steve Melson, Dee Lindsey, Dan Scheffers, Roger Stoline, Mardel Thomsen Stream and Gerald Wright.
