We couldn't agree with you more Rick.  This makes all the work "the committee" has done so worth while ... to bring back together so many great friends and memories on the 29th & 30th. Can't wait to see everyone.  Thank you Kathryn.

I immediately watched my DVD too - awesome!!  Thank you SO much for doing this!

I just ordered my CD from Katheryn today.  Can’t wait to get it!  Thanks to all the committee members, I did attend the reunion from afar!  I have had the best time checking out the website.  If I am missing from our family room, my husband knows where to find me…in front of the computer walking down memory lane!  We are tentatively planning a trip back to Atlanta for Christmas, and a certain trip for next June.  Jane, please keep me up to date with any future plans for another get together.  Being 58 is even better when you are among friends!

I love seeing all these memories!  (And I'm pleasantly surprised that I remember most of them - maybe I didn't kill off all my brain cells in the 60's after all!). Hey Ben - I pulled out my Senior yearbook too and was immediately transported back to high school - the best part was all the comments by my friends.  Boy, we really thought we all were something (and we were, of course!).  Can't wait to see everyone at the reunion!

Alright...I can top anyone in this class who went to anyone's first, second, or third birthday party and has pictures to prove it.  Pat Fox and I were born on the same day in the same hospital (Crawford Long) and our bassinets were side by side in the nursery!  Ok, I made up the bassinet part, but we really were born on the same day.  And at that time, my parents lived in the Virginia/Highlands area and I don't know where Pat lived.  I think our fathers casually knew each other and got into a fight over who had the cutest first born child in the nursery.  My dad won.  So if anyone can claim to know another classmate inutero, then I'll relinquish the "Known Each Other the Longest" trophy.

OK, Lynn.  You and Pat may have shared bordering bassinets, but he never ran over a mail box and three trash cans while triple dating with David Dyer and Randy Campbell in my dad's station wagon with a rear-facing third seat.  Two flat tires.  Your dad picked you up in his bathrobe, had a flat tire on the way home, and, at his insistence (and implied threat) we never dated again.  Alas, but we all ended up OK.  And, by the way Mary Shultz, I just read your message. Get your self to this reunion.  You were the glue of our class.  The one who kept us all together and whom we were all glad to see every day.

"good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget."  We needed a lodge and a week to sit with each other.  The lights flashed Saturday Night, and I had not talked to so many!!  Trish said we have this site for 3 years??? so we have no excuse. 

You are so right, Marsha.  By the way, folks, the last thing Marsha said to me 40 years ago after school was over, was that she hoped I knew she was taller than me.  The first thing she said last Friday, after 40 long years was, " Hey, Ben, I'm still taller than you."  What a memory!  Drove me to drink!  At least she was kind enough not to mention the bald pate. 

I betcha if we dropped a hint that there was going to be a little picnic get together within the next couple of weeks there might be a few locals interested. Ya think?

Ricky,     I love the bar-b-que idea. And who knew, that 40 years later, Ricky Corless would be the heart of our class! What an outstanding job you did on Sat. night with the entire presentation. I'm with Marsha, I'm not through talking- but my family says I'll never be through! Let's get together again while we can still read nametags.

Actually Susan, I can't read without my reading glasses, and Ben Jones....you ought to be a novalist!!!   I did say, "I'm still taller than you" Friday, but the rest...???.  Trish Gaston and I were the center of the drill team line (when Kippy Simmons and Ellen Lyle graduated.)    As my niece says, "embrace it".  And Rick/Ricky--you have been so positive, and an encourager and these are admirable things.  I saw the picture of your son and saw you.  November and December get so busy, but a gathering is always good.

Thank you Susan and Marsha, but I'm still the Court Jester.  If we put together a Bar-B-Que it will be the girls that organize it, just like they did the reunion.

What a great reunion!  Everyone looks SO GOOD.  We couldn't possibly be the age we are!  Thanks to all the committee who worked so hard.   

It was so much fun to see everyone on Friday night. I'm sorry I could not be there Saturday night as well.  Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to put this reunion together!Lynne, write me back a long note!!Love, Shelly

What fun to find this site! I remember many of your names and wonder if anyone remembers me?  I came to Briarcliff my junior year from San Diego, California...along with my sister, Charline ('70) and brother, Charlie ('72).  It would be so much fun to walk the halls again with you!  After returning to CA, I married and we had 4 children.  I spent the last 20 years homeschooling and just graduated the youngest.   We live in Normal, Illinois. 

Sorry I missed the festivities,looks like a good time was had by all, I know Bill Peak and Micky Pitts and Turk had fun because they are old.  I wish I could have been there, but work is necessary, Missed the lottery.  Mike Settle

What a hoot!  I had such a great time, but still didn't have enough time with everyone I wanted to reconnect with.  Come to think, I think we're getting to the age that we ought to have reunions every 5 years.  Or as Becky Birdsong suggested, we could get together for a smaller affair when we all turn 60.  Are you listening, Committee members?  I would be glad to help since I'm in the general area.I hope we'll have another opportunity to order the DVD.  Also, did anyone pick up my cheerleading uniform after the party Saturday?

Now that was fun.  Thanks again committee for all your hard work.  Great to see that no has really changed at all.  There are a few exceptions but only for the good.

What an incredible weekend!  It was so good to re-connect with the good people of 1968.  I know I won't be a stranger to my old school-mates anymore.  Special thanks to Ricky, Bonnie, Kathryn, Jane, George and ALL of the reunion committee for putting together a weekend that exceeded all expectations.God Bless Us, Everyone!Bobby

Jan, I'm with you - just not enough time to spend with everyone!  Maybe we should form Women's and Men's Clubs and get together informally more often - then have another party when we're 60.  What amazed me so much was that within seconds of talking to each of you, I felt myself right back in the close friendships we had in high school - there was no unfamiliarity at all!  Please let us know how to order the new DVD as I left Sat. night without ordering one.  

I'm sorry we missed Saturday night- looks like ya'll had almost as much fun as we had Friday nignt.  It was wonderful seeing everyone.  I thought we had some greadt folks back then... we have just gotten better !  Hopefully we can go for the 60th birthday party.Shults you made my night.

There must be some biochemical link that brands our minds with a chemical recall of relationships long past and lets us revisit those warm feelings that never left but just got masked by other, newer, encounters.  You people are branded in my recall and are that unique set of friends that will never leave me.  Some of you date back 52 years, not just 40.  All the way back to Miss Wilder' first grade at old Thomson School.  I was amazed at how absolutely familiar it was to be with you again.  Like a favorite old shoe.  Such chemistry.  Even with a lifetime of experiences between our last encounters I felt so comfortable Friday and Saturday with all of you.  It was like coming home.......Ann Lombardi, no guarantees on finding Mr. Right but I'll keep my eyes open.  Better send me the specs and let me know whether to send a picture or a balance sheet.  Surely someone our age that loves to travel has some money somewhere!  You and Jan Kubicki were the best lab partners ever.  With your brains and my dissecting skills we had to earn that A.  Dissecting Squalus Epiphelias was, after all,  just cleaning another fish!!Thanks Rick and Bonnie and everyone else on the committee for stepping out to make this happen.  And Lynn, thanks for the phone call.  I love you guys!  Bill

I returned to SC today .  The Saturday night part of the reunion was just wonderful.  I had a great time--just wish I could have had more time to visit with everyone.  Thank you to all of the committee members who took care of all the details so the rest of us could enjoy a wonderful evening.  I am so glad that you found me and kept calling me--I would have regretted not being there with all of you.  I can not believe that I had so little trouble recognizing my students!  I knew you the minute I saw you standing in that room talking with someone.Rachel

Hey there!      Sorry I didn't realize until now that the "Barons & Baronettes" link was the place I was supposed to put my news. If the webmasters would like to zap my lengthy post under "News of All Sorts," no problem as I added my news to the right heading on the website.     Great to have seen many of y'all at the Friday pool party. Sincerely hope you enjoyed yourselves Saturday night too. Alice Holley Duncan, please give your neighbor a call one day to fill me in on everything I missed, ok?     Take care & keep in touch. And Bill Bell, I'm counting on you heavily to steer some eligible guys my way. I have just six years to accomplish my goal by my self-imposed deadline. ;-)Ciao,Ann   

It was so WONDERFUL to see everyone at the reunion!!  We hope you all had as much fun as we did and  we can't wait to see all the photos that get posted to the website.Does anyone have post reunion let-down?Maybe we can get Mary Shults to do online counseling with us at a group rate!!

I told my sister Martha that being with ya'll exceeded all my expectations. Ricky's words  spoke to my heart. we were very fortunate to have grown up when and where and with whom we did. It was joyful joyful being with ya'll again. I'd find myself looking at ya'll so engaged w/ one another and "took mental pictures" of your energy and the fondness I was feeling towards you. Thank you all for being in this most recent moment and for the absolute celebration of our lives we SHARED. We must post send pictures. I cherish you.

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Just a quick shout out to all my fellow Barons...the ones I haven\'t harassed out on Facebook.  Wishing I could have made the recent BBQ event.  I think of you guys often. My daughter is a Freshman at Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH...their mascot....  Baron!  Very cool.  Keep the faith y\'all!Bobby