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When Patti Stark, a member of the Neosho High School class of 1951, walked through the Civic’s doors on Saturday morning, she remembered the school and other events during the class’s 60th reunion.
“When you go back and you think of all of the fun that we had and the things that we did, it doesn’t really seem like it has been 60 years,” she said. “And some of us, we haven’t seen each other. We live in the same town, but we haven’t seen each other for a while. But it was just like yesterday, we just took right up where we left off. Some of them you really don’t recognize, people change over the years. I thought that we were a close class.”
Adding to her comments was Eldon Morgan.
“Our class really was,” he said.
Neosho High’s Class of 1951 had more than 125 graduates. On Saturday, those in attendance met for coffee and doughnuts in the morning, then had the opportunity to see the mural in the Newton County Courthouse, then back to the Civic for lunch and that evening, a catered dinner. With photo albums, yearbooks and other memorabilia on tables, the classmates fellowshipped.
Asked who Stark’s best friend in high school was, she quickly answered Mavis Geraldine “Deanie” Morgan.
“We were just inseparable from grade school on up,” she said. “We were at each other’s house all of the time.”
The last time class had a reunion was during their 50th reunion.
“We started out at 20, that was our first one. We had not planned on doing anything for the 60th, then a classmate from Oregon said, why aren’t we having a class reunion, so that is when I got in touch with all of you people,” Morgan said.
A group of classmates got together and started the ball rolling.
Carol “Tootie” Barnes also has fond memories and even a fond class at NHS.
“Drama. I was in drama, speech, in the plays, it was fun, it was my love,” she said. “I was in every one they had, they had a junior play, senior play. One year, we won with our one act play they were called, we won the district and we could have gone to state, if we had chosen to.”
Later on after graduation, she did play in a city or community production of “You Can’t Take It With You.”
After attending Joplin Junior College for one year, she then worked for Neosho High School as a secretary for 27 years.
Even though this was their 60th school reunion, a group of classmates are going to start to get together every two months for lunch. Their first one will be held at Chinese Chef on the Neosho Boulevard at 11:30 a.m. Nov. 2. Barnes noted that former classmates and other classes can attend the lunch.
Stark was pleased to be at the reunion.
“We had a lot of fun,” she said. “I have really enjoyed planning this. We are sorry that a lot of people couldn’t come, we have had some recent deaths, which is always sad.”
When Patti Stark, a member of the Neosho High School class of 1951, walked through the Civic’s doors on Saturday morning, she remembered the school and other events during the class’s 60th reunion.
“When you go back and you think of all of the fun that we had and the things that we did, it doesn’t really seem like it has been 60 years,” she said. “And some of us, we haven’t seen each other. We live in the same town, but we haven’t seen each other for a while. But it was just like yesterday, we just took right up where we left off. Some of them you really don’t recognize, people change over the years. I thought that we were a close class.”
Adding to her comments was Eldon Morgan.
“Our class really was,” he said.
Neosho High’s Class of 1951 had more than 125 graduates. On Saturday, those in attendance met for coffee and doughnuts in the morning, then had the opportunity to see the mural in the Newton County Courthouse, then back to the Civic for lunch and that evening, a catered dinner. With photo albums, yearbooks and other memorabilia on tables, the classmates fellowshipped.
Asked who Stark’s best friend in high school was, she quickly answered Mavis Geraldine “Deanie” Morgan.
“We were just inseparable from grade school on up,” she said. “We were at each other’s house all of the time.”
The last time class had a reunion was during their 50th reunion.
“We started out at 20, that was our first one. We had not planned on doing anything for the 60th, then a classmate from Oregon said, why aren’t we having a class reunion, so that is when I got in touch with all of you people,” Morgan said.
A group of classmates got together and started the ball rolling.
Carol “Tootie” Barnes also has fond memories and even a fond class at NHS.
“Drama. I was in drama, speech, in the plays, it was fun, it was my love,” she said. “I was in every one they had, they had a junior play, senior play. One year, we won with our one act play they were called, we won the district and we could have gone to state, if we had chosen to.”
Later on after graduation, she did play in a city or community production of “You Can’t Take It With You.”
After attending Joplin Junior College for one year, she then worked for Neosho High School as a secretary for 27 years.
Even though this was their 60th school reunion, a group of classmates are going to start to get together every two months for lunch. Their first one will be held at Chinese Chef on the Neosho Boulevard at 11:30 a.m. Nov. 2. Barnes noted that former classmates and other classes can attend the lunch.
Stark was pleased to be at the reunion.
“We had a lot of fun,” she said. “I have really enjoyed planning this. We are sorry that a lot of people couldn’t come, we have had some recent deaths, which is always sad.”
