Memorial Day 2018....CLASS OF '51

MONDAY, MAY 28, 2018

MEMORIAL DAY 2018...CLASS OF '51

"THOSE MATCHLESS DAYS"

  CHS CLASS of 1951

"EVERY ONE OF THEM WAS DEAR TO 

    MY HEART!".....JIMMY BLAIR

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"SO MANY FRAGMENTS OF THE SPIRIT 

   HAVE I SCATTERED IN THESE STREETS..."

      .......K.G.

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"BREAK, BREAK, BREAK,

    ON THY COLD GREY STONES, O SEA!

AND I WOULD THAT MY TONGUE COULD  UTTER

   THE THOUGHTS THAT ARISE IN ME.

BREAK,  BREAK, BREAK,

    AT THE FOOT OF THY CRAGS, O SEA!

BUT THE TENDER GRACE OF A DAY THAT IS DEAD

   WILL NEVER COME BACK TO ME."

-----ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, 1835

       (Elegy written in memory of a dear friend,

             A.H.)

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We little Clovis kids began our journey in life

together in 1939 at two grade-schools---Eugene Field

and La Casita.

In 1951, we ended our days together and set  out

to tackle life...but we never forgot our earliest friends

on the journey...reunions were held in 1961, 1976, 

1981, 1986, 1991, 1996; the Fiftieth was in 2001,

then three more---2003 at Kerrville, Texas, and 2006

and 2008 in Albuquerque.

The CNJ recently carried some short remarks 

regarding our class: We graduated "126  on May 17,

1951,"

Once a year it is fitting to remember our friends from

"THOSE MATCHLESS DAYS," as our friend Donald

Todd has so aptly characterized them.

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IN MEMORY OF:

Jimmy Abernethy

Jimmy Blair

Don Campbell

Zeno Crosswhite

Bruce Davis

Geraldine Edwards

Billy Harwell

Billy Hasty

Thomasina Ingram Murrell

Charlotte Kelly

Marlene Lancaster

Donald Mardis

Robert Roberts

Jerry Robert

R.G. Snipes

Pat Thompson

James Timmons

Jimmy Whatley

Bobby Wilhite

Jo Ann Williams

Sherman Williams

Noel Douherty

Vera Lou Priddy

Engle Southard

Dorothy Trigg

Dixie Sanderson

Jerry Crook

Wanda King Snipes

John Thorn Marshall

Rita Gayle Delaney

Charles Mason

Marcia Stebbins
Earl Riley
Jackie Pearce
Gene Walker
Albin Covington
Dave Collins

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SOME TEACHERS, from '39...

Ms. Tennyson, Ms. Bledsoe, Ms. Ballou,  Dr. Gaddis

     Ms. Holloway, Ms. Broiles, Mr. McDougal, 

Ms. Jenkins, Mr. Elms, Ms. Macfarland, Mrs.. Martin

Ms. Buchanan, Ms. Atchley, Mr. Stockton, 

    Mr. Norman, Ms. Barton, Ms. Clarke, Mr. Norman

Mrs. Putnam, Dewey Miller, Coach Brock, Mr. Moser

Mr. Barton, Beloved Senorite Dora Russell, 

    Dave St. Clair, Ms. Bayless, Coach Harmon...

Mr. Hudson....

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"I returned and saw under the sun, that

the race is not to the swift, nor the battle

to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise,

nor yet riches to men of understanding,

nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and 

chance happeneth to them all.

ECCLESIASTES 9:11

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BY MIL

MEMORIAL DAY, 2018