Reunion Information: The Nitty Gritty (Updated)

Friday, Oct. 9, 2009

3:00 p.m. Homecoming Parade down Broadway (meet at 2:15 on Dorsey Street)
5:00 p.m. Mixer at Shiloh, 402 East Broadway
7:00 p.m. Homecoming Game vs. Gateway Tech at Hickman (meet at 6:30 at HHS Commons area)
10:00 p.m. Afterglow at Shiloh, 402 East Broadway

Saturday, Oct 10, 2009

10AM Hickman High School Tour or Golf Scramble at A.L. Gustin Golf Course, Stadium Blvd.
1PM walking Katy Trail (from Scott Blvd to Forum and back, meet at Scott Boulevard parking lot)
2:30 PM coffee and dessert at Rag Tag Cinema.
6PM - 10PM Peachtree Banquet Center, 120 E. Nifong Blvd.

6PM Social Hour
6:30 - 7:30 PM Dinner [Reserve by October 1]
8PM - 10PM Dance (Music provided by The Comic Book Society; $5 for those not at dinner)

Sunday, Oct 11, 2009

12:30 PM, pizza at Shakespeare's West

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Reunion Event No. 10: Pizza on Sunday

Meet at 12:30 PM for pizza at Shakespeare's West at 3304 Broadway Business Park:


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Reunion Event No. 9: DInner and Dance

The Dinner and Dance on Saturday night takes place at Peachtree Catering & Banquet Center 120 East Nifong.

We can start gathering at 6 p.m., dinner will be served from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Those wishing to come just for the dance may come at 8 p.m. (remember $5 a person for those not at the dinner).


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Reunion Event No. 8: Rag Tag Cinema

Coffee and dessert at 2:30 at the Rag Tag Cinema. 10 Hitt Street:


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Reunion Event No. 7: Katy Trail Walk

Don Dalton at the walk start:


For those walking Katy Trail (from Scott Blvd to Forum and back, meet at Scott Boulevard parking lot) at 1 p.m.


Parking lot is at 3662 Scott Boulevard:


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Reunion Event No. 6: Golf

A.L. Gustin Golf Course 18 Stadium Boulevard

Meet at 10 a.m.

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Reunion Events No. 3 and 5: Homecoming Game, Tour

OK folks a picture from the tour in front of the new West entrance:


We will be attending the Hickman homecoming game. They are play vs. Gateway Tech at Hickman.

Game time is 7 p.m., but we should meet at 6:30 at the new Commons area of Hickman High School so we can go in together. Enter the west entrance of the Hickman and that is the commons area. It is the new addition on the west side.

We will be back at Hickman at 10 a.m. Saturday for a guided tour.

Do you need to know where Hickman is? It hasn't moved from N. Providence Rd:


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Reunion Events No. 2 and 4: Shiloh's

We will have a mixer at Shiloh's at 5 p.m. on Friday and an "afterflow" after the football game at around 10 p.m.

Shiloh's is at 402 East Broadway:


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Reunion Event No. 1: Homecoming Parade

The parade is Friday, October 9, from 3:15 to 4:00. However, the Class of 1969 is also riding/walking in the parade. Instructions for participation are:

Line the cars up on Dorsey Street (one street east of Willis) --Willis is where the RBHS parade participants will be lining up. We should have the cars/trucks there at 2:15 p.m.--the latest would be 2:30.

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Small history note: apparently parade didn't happen for a couple years, but resumed in 2006

So, any memories of our parades? If so, add them to the comments. Here are a couple pictures I have from our senior year parade and Stan Day's memories.

I'm pretty sure it was Brainwash the Bulldogs (I've always been overly fond of alliteration). I naturally remember all this because the float theme (such as it was) was my idea. This was of course in 1968, a presidential election year. George Romney, running for the Republican nomination, had reversed his stance (from pro to anti) on the Vietnam War, claiming he had been "brainwashed" by U.S. officials during an earlier visit to South Vietnam. Public reaction to this was negative; voters didn't want a president who could be so easily brainwashed, and he ended up dropping out of the race. A figure with the face of George Romney was part of our homeroom's float. I'm reasonably sure this float didn't win any prizes in the parade, but we had fun building it -- in the driveway of Bill Barnett's house.