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If anyone sees a mistake, please let me know about it. Jackie Front Row Second Row Third Row Total - 42 - Not shown is Bill Plumb, our class photographer |
 Irv Heard - Philip Kircus We are all so glad we found these two lost lambs |
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James and Beverly Garrard
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Jacqueline Josey Helfrich & Rosalyn Lofley Kennedy
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This set of photos courtesy of Bill Plumb
Annie Marie Rinchuso Knight and who?
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Irv and Bev Heard
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This set is courtesy of Bill Plumb
Mary Ann Teddlie and Claude Veatch
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Chuck and Jacqueline Josey Helfrich
 Clarice and Glenn Pickett |
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Irv and Beverly Heard
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| FAIR PARK DECEASED CLASSMATES Sammy Armenio 10-02-97 Jackie Attaway 03-17-99 Tommy Backer 01-09-72 Jerry Best Jane Biagioli Stringer Sam Bordelon, Jr. 12-23-98 John A. Brocato 11-30-01 Cleveland Brown 05-05-74 Mary Frances Burton DeMoss 10-30-05 Dalton Clark 02-17-89 Joan Cook Cowan 04-??-05 Janice Carey Kent 02-12-89 Euell Carter Kathryn Cascio Clay 02-04-85 Alice Clanton 03-06-83 Alice Dean Coon 12-05-01 Taris Cooper 09-13-04 Tommy Davis 04-20-87 James (Jim) Duncan 11-08-00 Jerry Lynn Fleming Minnie Jean Ford Wren 04-15-92 Kenneth P. Fountain 07-20-90 Jack Garrison 03-02-83 Patrick Green 11-11-98 Gene Gibson Ernest Gullion 02-10-05 Peggy Givens Roberts 12-12-68 Pat Godfrey Robbins Charles R. Gray 10-28-85 Max Hall 10-09-05 Mary Lou Henson Hutto 01-14-01 James Harris Durel Hicks 07-03-01 Patricia Hill Bobbit ’04 or ’05? Gloria Hillier Lain Hindman 09-23-05 Fred Hodge 11-16-86 Edward Hollingsworth 08-26-96 Emma Jean Humphrey Tokach 03-14-96 Nancy Janes Patsy Nell Jeffcoat Jerry Jean 08-??-01 Bruce Jones 10-27-90 Russell Jorgansen 12-23-67 Jimmy Jordan 10-27-96 Eddie Ray Knight 11-20-02 Sharon Kopecky Backer 07-03-03 Ray Kretzinger 01-05-96 Charles LaLena 11-27-91 Lewis Lovett Jimmie Jean Martin Weileder 09-04-92 Jimmy Maxcy ??-??-03 Elsie Octavia Maxwell Dodez 08-03-81 Ann McCravy Vetta Lee Meyers Blake 05-22-02 John M. Murphy, Jr. 08-13-90 Gloria Myrick Sam Neal 06-14-99 Dickie Patrick 01-05-01 Sue Patterson Robert Price 08-23-90 Barbara Rambin Davidson Reeves Earl Sandefur 03-30-89 Percy Sharp (7-3-03) Juanita Shaw Dan Sims 03-04-64 Clifford W. Stacks 06-26-05 Tommy Stevens 05-26-86 William Teal 05-13-94 Bobby Tucker 02-08-02) Michael Uli Beverly Walton Barnes 10-10-91 E. A. Wilson Royce Wilson 08-01-84 Don Williams 03-21-91 Bobby Wischan 11-03-97 Benny Woods Wayne Woodard Bill Wren 01-13-02 Sam Yard 01-09-78 Faron Young 12-10-96
LIST OF OUR MISSING FPHS INDIANS
 ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THEM? Billy Anderson/Ouida Elizabeth Grace Bailey Bernice Best Emogene Blair Barbara Crunk (Copeland) Rhetta Cryer Charles L. Castor(n) - Judson, TX Milton Fitzgerald Payton Foster Bob Fuson - Oklahoma City Richard Gee Janice Gentry James Green - Wills Point, TX Mary Jo Moore Robert Nicholson Joyce Ogburn Pat Patterson Dorothy Porter Philip Rawls Shirley Ray Lorraine Rhodes William Wayne Rivers Gloria Robertson Smith/Steve Smith Charles Sava (Lois) (died?) Jacqueline Simpson Jerry Trigg |
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Irv read
the following at the 53 rd reunion and Jackie...here is a rough remembrance of my intro to the poem.
When I left Fair Park, I went into the Navy and ended up in California.
During that time, my parents passed away and I had no home base left in
Louisiana; so I decided to make a new life in California. I entered the
University of California which later led to a successful business
career. I married and raised a family. Before the blink of an eye, fifty
years had gone by; but there were many times I thought about my school
days and the friends I had at Fair Park.
One evening while at my computer, I found the Classmates web site and, subsequently, found Fair Park, then the Class of 1952. Great longings and memories came forth as I looked at the names of my classmates. One name in particular stood out and that was a little red haired girl named Jackie. I was hesitant to start any sort of communication as to go back fifty years for any reason may have it's peril...you never know what you're getting into. But my longing to make contact after all these years was stronger than my fear of the unknown and I sent her a brief message, then turned off the computer. The next evening I got a phone call and a voice asked "Is this Irving Heard from Fair Park High School," and I said yes...The voice on the other end was Jackie Josey and she screamed: "We have found you!". Nothing in my life will surpass the feeling of good will from that statement and it gave me the courage to eventually come home to my friends at Fair Park. Jackie eventually put me in contact with Glenn Pickett, my oldest childhood friend, who sent me the tickets to attend our Golden Reunion celebration.
Following the reunion while on my return to California I asked the
flight attendant for a sheet of paper and on that I composed a poem
about my gratifying experience at the reunion. It was simply heart
warming to be so well received by my classmates after so many years.
The poem expresses my love for the people in the class of 1952.
The Fair
Park High School Golden Reunion
A Poetic
Tribute By Irving Heard, Class of '52
Our
graduation class of Nineteen Fifty Two
Invited all
members to assemble anew
They sent
invitations both far and wide
"All
seniors come forth with spouse by side!"
So I said
to the wife "Do you think we should go,
It's not
your reunion, there's no one you'd know"
"Don't be
silly she said, it'll be a riot"
Then she
hid all my beer and put me on a diet
Then the
big day arrived amid much anticipation
Time to
greet the Tribe of the Fair Park Nation
But after
fifty years I wondered what was ahead
Would
anyone care, if I were alive, or dead?
Well I
drove my rental into the parking lot
While
another gentleman took the next spot
But the guy
that jumped out must 'a been a wit
Cause he
told my wife she hadn't changed a bit
Then the
gala began and I did little but stare
Who were
all these people with all the silver hair
Then one by
one my old memories took hold
And like a
miracle not a single person looked old
Then I
recognized Glen and Jackie and Mary Ann
Then Gay,
May, and Fern, then both Bob and Sam
I
remembered Harley, Betty Jane, Danny and Joy
And Larry
and Phillip, and Sara, Medy and Roy
And so many
friends who served the committees
Like Martha
and Rosalyn and dear, dear Louise
So many
people wanting to shake my hand
Like Gloria
and Harold and Bill, Dot and Dan
The love in
the eyes and the feelings of trust
Brought
back all the good things in all of us
We have
mastered vocations from A to Z
And some
gave their lives that we might be free
Our angels
were remembered like Davis and Young
And so many
others whose names were sung
Our beloved
teachers could shout out loud
For this is
a class that would make any school proud
And then it
all ended as friends hugged goodbye
Why I
stayed away so long I'll never know why
And I
proclaim right now as I sign off my letter
I can
hardly wait for our next get together
God bless
the students of Fair Park High School
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FPHS - 53rd Class Reunion - Saturday Night
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