The 45th Reunion of the Class of 1966 is scheduled for October 21-22, 2011, at an as yet to be determined venue. Bob McComas is leading the planning team for the reunion. Several meetings have already been conducted, but we are in the early stages, so your help will be welcome and invited. We need suggestions for a theme, activities and other matters necessary to make this the best reunion yet. Among ideas being discussed are a series of periodic mixers to begin firing up interest and generating excitement about the 2011 events. Some of these may be at private homes while others may be in public venues, depending upon the nature of the planned activities. Suggestions for events will be welcomed. A reunion kick-off party will be held on Saturday, Novemebr 13, 2010, at Gleneagles Country Club in Plano. The event will be from 7:00 PM until midnight, or when the last person falls asleep, whichever comes first, and will feature an open bar, light hors d'oeuvres and a lot of fun. The event is priced at $50.00, which will be a contribution to cover event expenses and put money into our reunion fund, and will be limited to 100 tickets on a first come basis. Your contribution includes one drink and hors d'oeuvres. Please contact Paul Bigham at pbigham@bighamagency.com for details and ticket purchases. Other periodic events are being discussed and planned, with details to be published here when available. The Class of 1966 now has a travel club offering special rates on various air, land and ocean cruise trips. The Kimball Travel Club allows classmates to travel together to some exciting destinations as part of a class event. For details on available trips visit Kimball Travel Club, or else click the link on the lower navigation bar (the link is now active on all the main header pages on the navigation bars, but it will be awhile before it is active on the more than 1,400 other pages of our website.) |
Robert Earl Williams passed away July 2, 2010 at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 9th, at Clement-Keel Chapel in Gainesville, Texas. Gregory Alan Griswood passed away from unknown causes on May 31, 2010. A memorial service will be held on July 19th in the Hospitality House of Mt. Pleasant where Greg lived since 1996. James Samuel Shimek passed away on December 5, 2008. No other details are currently available. We have just learned that Charles Edgar Burr passed away on December 4, 2003 from unknown causes. Dexter Lane Burris passed away on December 2, 1996 from unknown causes, and we just learned about his death recently. We have just learned of the passing of Sharon Elaine Kiphen on or about April 15, 2008, from an unknown cause. No other information is currently available. James Everett Goolsby passed away on October 18, 2009 from unknown causes. We learned about his death just recently. Michael Darby Harris passed away September 23, 2001 from unknown causes. We have just learned that Linda Rene Mahurin Williams passed away May 5, 1979 from undisclosed causes. A new section has been added to our Classmates Personal Webpages section seeking to locate nearly 100 classmates who are still unaccounted for as of June, 2010. Links to the two pages, one for classmates whose last names (maiden names for women) begin with the letters "A" through "L", and a second page for "M" through "Z". We would like to make a special effort to locate any and all missing classmates in time for the 2011 45th Reunion of our class, so if you can help, then please send information to Gary Spurlock or Danny Hammontree, whose e-mail addresses are linked on the two new pages. |
Dear Friends,
Everyone our age has been exposed to old time gospel music during their lifetime. From Rock of Ages, Amazing Grace, The Old Rugged Cross, to How Great Thou Art, Old Friends, When We Ring Those Golden Bells, I'd Rather Have Jesus, Than Silver or Gold, etc. I have been blessed with the opportunity to help promote the gospel thru country music by way of the Internet (www.kbec.com) or in the southern part of Dallas, Ellis, Navarro, Johnson and Hill counties thru KBEC 1390 am. My show is produced and broadcast on Sunday nights from 6:00 - 10:00 pm (CST) from Waxahachie, Texas. The format brings together three distinct, yet similar types of country gospel music. In the first hour I try to highlight country gospel music from around the USA., with stars like Porter Waggoner, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Randy Travis, and the Statler Brothers, just to name a few. In the second and third hour, I play two solid hours of just Gaither music with Bill, Gloria, and all their homecoming friends. In the last hour of my show, I highlight local artist from Texas, like Fletcher Jowers, Willie Nelson, Lee Ann Rimes, and His Harmony. Not having any training in radio, KBEC and I have combined to put forth a worthwhile show and garner a vast listening audience. Never in all my wildest dreams in high school, did I ever see myself as a radio personality, producing a radio show that goes out to the public. I couldn’t even carry a tune in a bucket and now I put tunes together for broadcast. To sum it all up, get your dose of good old country gospel music, every Sunday evening, for this is "just what the doctor ordered". Ol' Doc (Phil Veltman) |
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