Class of '61 Reunion

Friends are a gift, and old friends are a treasure.  Last weekend I was blessed to spend the day with a couple of dozen treasures…members of my Hamilton High School class and their spouses, friends and family members.  My eleven classmates who attended and I lined up for yet another group photo, the first in several years. 

(L-R, Front to Back) LaRuth Hurley Morrow, Michal Jones Bagley, Jane Evetts Cartwright, Robert Reich, Patty Sparks Howarth, Jimmy Don Thompson, Delton Eary, Ivan Gregory (in hat), Jimmy Joe Jacks (in hat), C.W. Strickland, Ronny McDaniel (center rear; he and wife, Reeve Love, came the farthest...from Albuquerque), Dennis Taylor

I believe our graduating class consisted of some 57 members, but we also count as classmates a few very special individuals who shared many of our growing-up years, but who may have graduated elsewhere.  We all form a cohesive group of co-conspirators who proudly call ourselves the “Class of ’61.”  

LaRuth Hurley Morrow and husband Richard hosted us at their lovely “Home Place” outside Pottsville (just a rock’s throw from Hamilton). 

 

It was a day filled with laughter, catching up on each other's news, reminiscing, and missing our classmates who have passed or who could not attend.  Here are more photos from the get-together.  We may have more lines in our faces, but we came together as if the intervening years since graduation did not exist.  

God Willing, there will be another gathering next year and that we'll all be there.