5/2/2016 JoAnn (Cummings) Sinclair has passed away
JoAnn (Cummings) Sinclair
On May 1, I received a very short email from George Sinclair (Southern High Class of 1960) with the sad news that his wife, JoAnn (Cummings) Sinclair (SHS 1961)
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6/9/2015 Peggy Shepard Haise
Peggy is now in Glen Ridge Nursing Home on Calm River Way off Billtown Road doing therapy after her surgery. She is looking great, and just wants to be well enough to go home. She would love
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9/14/2014 Patricia A. (Riggs) Strohmeier passed away
Patricia A. (Riggs) Strohmeier 73 passed away Monday, September 1, 2014. She was preceded in death by her husband Sherman Lee (Augie) Shrohmeier. She is survived by her three daughters, Dina
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Southern Majorettes
The Southern High Fight Song boasted “those Southern boys are hard to beat,” but the coed athletes, above and below, were quite a treat! The nimble-fingered, leggy majorettes marched with the band, the slim, trim drill team performed at halftime, and the bouncy, bubbly cheerleaders coaxed “Fight, team, fight” throughout the ball games. Since these gals were always “out front,” as teens we knew them by all by name. But if the past 50 years has dimmed your memory, we have a crib sheet: The enlargements are complete with maiden names. Left click your mouse on photos to see enlargements.
Southern Cheerleaders
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Our Wildwood Saturday Night
Our 50th reunion was at Wildwood Country Club and class vice president Gary Steedly was our master of ceremonies.
Anne Esarey Smith accompanied on the piano as we all joined in to sing the alma mater and the Southern fight song.
Peggy Shepard Haise, Jenny Snyder Richey and Marsha Fulkerson Nelson were among former SHS choir members. The gals led us in singing about "those Southern boys."
Floyd Spencer is one of the 68 alumni who attended. In all, counting guests and spouses, we had more than 120 in attendance. Floyd's favorite SHS memory is Mrs. Lee's English class.
Southern cheerleader Dina Jones Higdon is one of our more than two dozen Louisville area classmates who planned and coordinated our reunion events.
Pat Blazanovich Shader has three children, six grandchildren and one great grandchild!
Buel and Carolyn Caudill Goodin. Carolyn and Buel, who is a flower wholesaler, donated all of the beautiful table centerpieces and fresh-cut floral arrangements.
Richard Brooks finally has a moment to rest. Once a member of the SHS track and cross country teams, for months he has been on the run as point man for Marcella's many reunion planning activities.
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I am Louisville native and attended Southern High from my freshman through senior years. After graduating, I continued to work in my father's business. I worked as receptionist and later obtained my real estate license. While working there, I also attended U of L night school taking mostly business courses.
In 1963, I married my high school sweetheart, Jerry Kunze, and we celebrated our 48th anniversary this past February. I continued to work for my father until our son was born. Then I became a stay-at-home mom. We moved to Jeffersontown prior to the birth of our daughter. I loved being at home with the kids, doing all the mom jobs until our daughter was in nursery school. I got the itch to go back to work and worked around the kids’ schedules at my father's business.
Jerry was sales promotion director for Stitzel-Weller Distillery. We purchased a home in Anchorage, which was our dream, and thought we would retire there. Stitzel-Weller was sold and then Jerry went to work for Zimmer-McClaskey-Lewis advertising agency followed by Glenmore Distillery. During this time, my dad had retired and sold the business. I decided to get my insurance license and worked for a State Farm agent.
In 1985, Glenmore downsized, and we relocated to Evansville, Indiana, and Jerry became vice president of sales promotion for Keller Crescent. By this time, our son was in his third year of college and our daughter was starting college.
We became empty nesters in Evansville. After living there for eight years, we decided to bag the big house and bought a condo and a houseboat. We really never connected to Evansville. Both kids had jobs in Louisville and if we were not traveling to Louisville to visit them and our mothers, we were at Lake Barkley fishing, swimming, jet skiing and meeting lots of friends from all over. We took several boat trips to Nashville and spent almost every weekend in the spring, summer and fall on the boat. During this time I worked as office manager for several State Farm agents in Evansville.
We moved back to Louisville when Jerry retired in 2006. I went to work for a State Farm agent in Louisville and retired in 2010.
We are members of Southeast Christian Church and volunteer at Norton Hospital.
We have four grandchildren. Our son and his wife live in Ohio with their two children. Our daughter lives with her husband and two children in Oldham County.
Our children are our greatest accomplishment, and our grandchildren are our pride and joy!
We need detective work. We have yet to find a number of folks. Maybe you can supply a lead. Let's find our missing SHS 1961 classmates
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Below are a few photos from our monthly planning meetings and our mailing session. Hint: Hover your mouse over the bottom right of the show and click on the square icon to display photos full screen!
We have distributed our class photo directory and the DVDs. The cover is shown above. Contact Barbara Ann Fultz to order your copy, and ask her about also getting the DVD slide shows with most of the photos from the reunion events and this web site!
Billy Guest has two sweethearts in the same photo:
Ellen Boyd was a 14 year old freshman when an older guy, Billy, a 15 year old
sophomore, asked her to the 1959 Sweetheart Dance in Southern’s cafeteria. "That
was our first date," recalls Bill. "However, this snapshot was at Ellen’s house in 1961." They
married in 1963 and have four sons and seven grandchildren. His other sweetie in
the picture was "my ’56 Chevy. I was showing off the new metallic green, custom
paint job. It had a Corvette cam, solid lifters and three deuces, in order to
beat that ’57 Chevy at Cedar Creek Drag Strip. Share your own snapshots with all of us!
Before Southern, many of us attended Okolona Elementary. Do you have snapshots from our high school days?
Hey, SHS Class of 1961, we need your help! Please send us your own photos for display here!
Beauty and the Beast: Marsha
Fulkerson borrows the rooftop sun deck of Jenny Snyder's family pet, Sally.
Southerners Walter and Keata (Hogan) Longacre were married in 1963. They have two children, six grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren. While they were in Indianapolis, they were really in the chips! Read about that in their biographies right here on our web site.
Reunion Planners: Ready for a repeat! Click photo to
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Been in Louisville lately? This is Waterfront Park. Click photo to
enlarge.
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