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THE DEERING/DELTA C-7 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
The purpose of this Association will be
To bring together the alumni that includes the graduates, former students, past teachers, administration, cooks, mechanics, bus drivers and anyone who had a connection with Deering High School from 1927 thru 1966 and Delta C-7 High School from 1967 thru 2006 to reminisce and share memories of our school days with the friends we made.
And to do this, we will plan an annual reunion on Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend.
To preserve the memories of Deering High School and Delta C-7 High School by collecting and displaying memorabilia in a place of honor.
To raise monies to grant an annual scholarship each year to a Senior of Delta Co-7 High School beginning in 2007. To do this we will accept donations and also have fundraisers to raise money for the scholarship.
To take part in the activities of Delta C-7 High School and help whenever and wherever we can.
(Approved by the fifty people present at the organizational meeting on January 7th, 2006.)
If you would like to join the Deering/Delta C-7 Alumni Association, please contact
SHIRLEY MCMAHON GARRETT
C/O DEERING/DELTA C-7 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
20350 ST. HWY EE
KENNETT, MO 63857
OR
TELEPHONE: 1-573-888-3059 OR EMAIL: scmg35@bootheel.net
FROM THE OCTOBER 2007 EDITION OF THE ALUMNI NEWSLETTER:
WOW! The Second Annual School Reunion was a Big Success!
THANKS to each and everyone that worked very hard and THANKS to all those who came from near and far to make the School Reunion a success! We had 400 people from 20 states. It was great seeing a lot of school friends we had not seen in over 50 years. The food was great! The entertainment was great!
We had prepared for 300 people and 400 people came. We thought for a while we might not have enough food but as it turned out, THANKS to Strawberry’s Catering and our hard-working Hospitality Committee, there was plenty of food for everyone. And how about the Entertainment! The Elvis Impersonator, Shelby Dee, was great!
Yes, we did have a couple of glitches but we have already revamped the check-in process for next year
to make it easier and quicker to check in everyone. We had between 75 and 100 people who had not preregistered and that slowed down the process. We were glad that they all came and we will try harder next year.
BE SURE TO MARK MAY 24TH ON YOUR 2008 CALENDAR FOR THE
DEERING/DELTA C-7 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION THIRD ANNUAL SCHOOL REUNION! DETAILS WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER.
Pictures from the 80th Anniversary
of the Deering School System
May 26, 2007
J.B. Ephlin '52, Margaret (Walls) Ephlin '57
Patty Sue (Haney) Mohn '61, unnamed, Mary (Haney) Mays '58
Lillie Grimes, Ronda (Turner) Hogan '62, unnamed, unnamed
Loretta (Battles) Tomlinson '66, David Harold Wilkerson '66, Bobby Tomlinson '66, Jim Lunyou '61
Shirley (McMahon) Garrett '53, Allen Garrett '53
Sue (Brewer) Jordan '48, John Jordan '47
Jeff Wade '48, Ella Wade, Betty Jean (Price) Smith '65, Tommie Smith '63
COME CELEBRATE THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE
DEERING, MO. PUBLIC SCHOOLS SYSTEM
DEERING PUBLIC SCHOOLS C-6 (1927-1966)
DELTA C-7 PUBLIC SCHOOLS (1967-2007)
ON
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2007
The first quarterly business meeting of the 2007 year for DEERING/DELTA C-7 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION was held on Jan. 6th. The same officers that served last year were re-elected to continue their work this year. There will be a $500.00 scholarship presented at this year’s graduation program on May 10th. The winner of this scholarship will be announced at the School Reunion on May 26th. Details of the School Reunion were discussed. We had a very successful School Reunion last year with over 300 people from 18 states. We hope that all those and more will attend this year.
The Alumni Association of Deering High School (1927-1966) & Delta C-7 High School (1967-2007) will celebrate the 80th ANNIVERSARY of the DEERING PUBLIC SCHOOLS SYSTEM on Sat., May 26th 2007. The events will be held at the Pemiscot County Vocational School located 12 miles east of Kennett and 4 miles west of Hayti at the intersection of U. S. Hwy 412 and St. Hwy Z.
FOR ANYONE ARRIVING EARLY ON FRIDAY, MAY 25th, we will be decorating in the afternoon at the Pemiscot County Vocational School Building. If you would like to help us, come on by. We hope to have the Registration Name Tags and the T-shirts there for you to pick up. (Remember, everything is subject to change.) If you need to call Shirley McMahon Garrett that day, call 1-573-344-0118.
THEN there will be an OPEN HOUSE from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m. on Friday nite at the school cafeteria on the campus of the Delta C-7 Schools. There will be lots of visiting and reminiscing. Bring finger foods and soft drinks. (ABSOLUTELY NO ALCOHOLIC DRINKS OR SMOKING ALLOWED.)
A school campus tour will be held at the Delta C-7 Public School Campus in Deering.(Times to be announced later) At 10:00 a.m. a parade will travel from the school campus East along St. Hwy J to Braggadocio and turn north on St. Hwy Z up to St. Hwy 412 to the campus of the Pemiscot County Vocational School. After the parade at approximately 11:00 a.m. a short program with announcements, etc. will be presented and afterwards a chopped barbecue lunch buffet will be served till 1:00 p.m. with visiting and remembrances that will continue till 3 p.m. The lunch will cost $7.50 per person. Children under ten will eat free.
The parade will consist of Mike Tomlinson (Class of 1983), Police Chief of Steele, MO. leading the parade. Next will be the Delta C-7 High School Band. Then individual classes can enter a car or truck from the year they graduated and decorate the vehicle. Then we are not sure just yet after that. If a class wants to enter a vehicle, please let us know and we will forward the information to our Parade Committee, Steve Atwill, Class of 1962, Tommie Smith, Class of 1963, and Harold Blocker, Former Teacher. As the time for the parade gets closer, they will be adding other people to the committee to help them. Remember, all these plans are subject to change.
We are updating the mailing list for the graduates of Deering High School and Delta C-7 High School. We have been searching for addresses for those that we were unable to find last year. If you know of a classmate or family member who has not received any newsletters or telephone calls or seen the newspaper articles, please call us so that we can put them on our mailing list. Please call, write or email me at the following:
DEERING/DELTA C-7 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
SHIRLEY (McMAHON) GARRETT (CLASS OF 1953)
20350 St. Hwy EE, Kennett, MO 63857
Tel: 1-573-888-3059
Email: scmg35@bootheel.net
There are a few rooms available for individual classes to meet. These rooms will be reserved-first come, first serve. Also, each individual class that reserves a room will be responsible for decorating their room with signs and displaying their memorabilia and will be responsible for cleaning the room afterwards. If a class reserves a room but decides later they do not need the room, you should notify us as soon as possible. We will keep a waiting list and will notify you should a room become available. We already have reservations for the classes of 1956, 1958, 1961 & 1962, 1971, 1972, & 1973 and 1980.
We will have T-shirts to sell. The T-Shirts will be royal blue with white lettering and will have on the front a small lion on the right side just below the shoulder and a charger on the left side with the years printed just below each image. Then in the middle on the front will be “DEERING/DELTA C-7” and below those words “ALUMNI ASSOCIATION”. On the back will be “80th ANNIVERSARY” and below that “MAY 26, 2007”. Sizes available are S, M, L, XL(1X), 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X. The T-shirts will sell for $12.00 each and you may order them when you send in your pre-registration for the reunion. You will be able to pick them up on May 26th at the reunion. There is a pre-registration printed at the end of the newsletter to complete and mail to the address shown above. If you do not order a T-shirt with the pre-registration, you will be able to place an order at the school reunion and they will be mailed to you later.
PRE-REGISTRATION will be accepted until May 15th in order for us to make nametags and goody bags. We will continue to accept Registration until the day of the School Reunion. We will try to get nametags made for the late registrations time permitting. Those not registering until the day of the school reunion will receive a handwritten nametag.
Membership dues in the Alumni Association are $10.00 and cover Jan. 1st thru Dec. 31st. We are also accepting donations to help pay for the expenses of the reunion and to provide monies for a scholarship. We hope to be able to present two $500.00 scholarships at graduation in 2008. Members only will receive three newsletters during the year. A mass mailing of a newsletter (over 1100 copies) will be mailed out in February-March to all graduates, former students, teachers, etc. for whom we have addresses to notify everyone of the Annual School Reunion held on the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend. If anyone changes their name, address, telephone or email, you should notify us. We will try to send newsletters by email to as many as we can to save on postage. Be sure to include year of graduation and/or years of employment on all correspondence. If you would like to serve on a Committee or help us at the School Reunion, please let us know. We are going to need lots of help to make this event successful.
Because Easter is on the first weekend of April this year, the next quarterly business meeting originally scheduled for the first Saturday in April has been postponed till Saturday, April 14th, and will be held at the Pemiscot County Vocational School.***************************************************************************************** IN MEMORIAM
Peggy McDonald (School Secretary & Deering Postmistress) D. Nov. 6, 2006
Regina Freeman (Class of 1993) D. Feb. 2, 2007
Rodney Bryant (Class of 1969) D. Feb. 4, 2007
Earnest Hulsey (Supporter & Friend) D. Feb. 12, 2007
Talmadge Graham (Former Custodian) D. Feb. 14, 2007
Lakeesha Morris (Class of 1999)D. Feb. 17, 2007
Floyd Wilson (Former Superintendent) D. Feb. 17, 2007
***************************************************************************************** If you know of a graduate, former student, teacher, or anyone that worked for the School System who passed away recently that we have not mentioned, please let us know and we will show their name in the next newsletter. A Memorial Service will be held for Peggy McDonald on Sun., May 27th at the Deering Methodist Church, Deering, MO. The time will be announced at the School Reunion on Saturday, May 26th.
DEERING HIGH SCHOOL 1927-1966
DELTA C-7 HIGH SCHOOL 1967-2006
WOW! ALUMNI SCHOOL REUNION A BIG SUCCESS
The Alumni Reunion on May 27th 2006 was a ‘BIG’ success. Over 300 people from 18 states were present. Yes, it was hot and humid but everyone survived and had a great time visiting with classmates, schoolmates and teachers. Some had not seen one another in over 50 years. There was a former classmate of mine there that I had not seen in approximately 58 years. What a wonderful surprise!
The food was ‘GREAT’! The Delta Ruritan Club members did a great job of cooking the meat. And the Hospitality Committee led by Joann Blankenship Atwill (Class of 1962) and her workers did a fantastic job of preparing the rest of the food and serving everyone. And how about those fabulous peanut butter cookies that Joyce Patterson prepared with the help of several ladies.
‘THANK YOU’ to all of those people who worked hard to make the School Reunion a success. But we do want to say a special ‘THANK YOU’ to Bob and Loretta (Battles) Tomlinson (Class of 1966) who worked very hard on this project but were already committed to a family reunion and were unable to attend but they said they would be there next year.
The picture is great that The Steele Enterprise newspaper reporter made from the second story of the old grade school building. If you would like to get a copy, you will need to contact the newspaper in Steele, Mo. We have received several pictures from different alumni who were there. If you have pictures and have not sent them to us, we would appreciate your sharing them with us. Before next year’s school reunion, we plan on putting together a scrapbook that will contain all the pictures we can obtain.
We are already planning next year’s ‘80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEERING SCHOOL SYSTEM’. The first high school graduation of Deering High School was in 1927 with four young women graduating. (Lillie Copple, Bertha Golden Jackson, Mamie Stover Ledbetter, Naomi King Ward). All are now deceased.
Our third quarterly meeting was held Saturday, October 7th, at the Pemiscot County Vocational School that is located west of Hayti on U. S. 412 at the intersection with St. Hwy Z. It is located on the south side of the highway. Turn south on St. Hwy Z and immediately turn back (East) on the two-lane road to the entrance to the building. The building is bigger and really nice and it is AIR-CONDITIONED. It was voted unanimously to hold next year’s school reunion there. We are working on being able to tour the school campus at Deering on Saturday morning before it gets hot. We are also working on lots of other ideas.
After the first quarterly meeting of 2007 on Saturday, January 6th, we will send out a newsletter with all the details of the school reunion. We wanted to let you know the date now so you can start making plans to attend. We will be sending out a mass mailing to all graduates and former students and all of the school staff that worked in the school system through the years that we have an address for.
If you are a class representative, we really need your help with addresses for your class. We do not have class representatives for several classes from Delta C-7 High School. If you would like to be a class rep and help us find addresses for your classmates, please contact Shirley McMahon Garrett at address shown below. We want to find as many people as we can. It was also voted at the meeting that any dues that are paid by new members after October 1st would be counted as 2007 DUES ARE DUE IN JANUARY 2007. Officers for 2007 will be elected at the meeting on January 6th. A nominating committee was appointed and they will bring a slate of officers for 2007 to that meeting. Members of the nominating committee are Joann Atwill, Mickey Wilkerson and Elmer Richardson.
We are looking for a newsletter editor and also someone to set up a web site for the alumni association. If you are interested in helping us, please contact Shirley McMahon Garrett (Class of 1953).
We love hearing from everyone so call me (573-888-3059) or email me (scmg35@bootheel.net) or write me at address below. Since there were no yearbooks prior to 1961, we are looking for school pictures to put in our Memorabilia Books. We are also looking for pictures and news articles about the accomplishments of our graduates. For our deceased alumni we have several obituaries but we are looking for others. If you can help us with this matter, please let us know.
SHIRLEY MCMAHON GARRETT, PRES.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOR DEERING
HIGH SCHOOL & DELTA C-7 HIGH SCHOOL
The 80th Anniversary Celebration of the Deering School System
is coming up on Memorial Day 2007. Make your plans now to attend!
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