WELCOME to the CLASS of 1956's 50th Reunion home page. Homecoming and Reunion Weekend is November 3-5, 2006.


 CLASS OF 1956 PLANS

 Reunion Planning Committee

 Party Details

 Reunion-Related Information

 Look Who's Coming

 Class of 1956 Postcard (pdf)

 Treasure Book Letter (pdf)
 Biography Form (pdf)
 Class of 1956 Letter (pdf)

 Fun Facts from 1956

 Register for Homecoming
 and Reunion Weekend

 Class Notes

 In Memoriam

 Lost Alumni


 HOMECOMING 2006

 Homecoming Home Page

 Homecoming Schedule 

 SING!


 HELPFUL LINKS

 Alumni Home Page

 Campus Map

 Local Accommodations

 Support Southwestern

 SU Home Page

 

 CONTACT ALUMNI OFFICE

 1-800-960-6363


 REUNION PLANNING COMMITTEE

Chair: Bill Glaze

Committee: Lou Birdwell Parris, Dudley Bell Pate, Shirley Oliver Sanders, Ed Silliman, Mary Ann Springer Whitfield, Sally Starnes Willis

 

 PARTY DETAILS

Date: Friday, November 3, 2006

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: Mood-Bridwell Hall (in the Atrium), Southwestern University

View Map:  Campus Map

Price: $15 per person

Attire: Business Casual

 

 REUNION-RELATED INFORMATION

Event #1: Golden Anniversary & 50+ Society Reception 
Date: Friday, November 3, 2006
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Bishops Memorial Lounge, Red and Charline McCombs Campus Center, Southwestern University (view campus map)


Event #2:
Golden Anniversary Luncheon & 50+ Society Induction
Date: Friday, November 3, 2006
Time: Noon
Location: McCombs Ballroom, Red and Charline McCombs Campus Center, Southwestern University (view campus map)


Event #3: Mark Twain on Man and His World
Date: Friday, November 3, 2006
Time:  8 p.m.
Location:  Jones Theatre, The Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center (view campus map)


Event #4: Alumni University
Title: "John Wesley's Legacy"
Guest Speaker: Jim Foster '72, Senior Pastor at the John Wesley United Methodist Church; 2005 Distinguished Alumnus
Date: Saturday, November 4, 2006
Time: 2 - 2:50 p.m.
Location: F.W. Olin Building, Southwestern University (view campus map)

Class of 1956 Treasure Book - Submission
We need a brief autobiographical summary and a current picture that will be bound into a 1956 Class Treasure Book.  Please fill out the bio form (pdf) and send it along with a photograph of yourself or your family (color or black and white).  Send the bio form and photos to the Office of Alumni Relations, Southwestern University, P.O. Box 770, Georgetown, TX 78627.

Hotel Accommodations:
A block of rooms has been secured for our reunion at La Quinta Inn & Suites (800-531-5900) .  To reserve your room, please be sure to tell the reservation staff that you are with the "Southwestern University Class of 1956 50th Reunion" group to receive a special rate.  Rooms will be released on a first come, first serve basis.  All remaining rooms will be released to the public on October 3, 2006. 

Homecoming Hospitality House:
The Alumni Council is sponsoring an Alumni Hospitality House throughout Homecoming, November 3-5.  Located directly across the street from the Roy and Lillie Cullen (Ad) Building, in the San Gabriel House Bed and Breakfast, the Hospitality House will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday so that you have a place to meet your old friends and make new ones.


 LOOK WHO'S COMING

We want to see you at Homecoming! Look who IS coming! Click here to view a list of alumni who have already indicated that they plan to attend the Class of 1956 Reunion.


 FUN FACTS FROM 1956

What happened in 1956?

1956 History

Top Songs of 1956

Sports Year 1956

Feeling nostalgic for 1956?

 

 REGISTRATION

Online registration for Homecoming and Reunion Weekend 2006 is now closed.  Please visit the Check-In/Information Desk during Homecoming and Reunion Weekend and pick up your weekend schedule , complimentary book and tickets.  The Check-In/Information Desk is located on the concourse of the Red & Charline McCombs Campus Center and is open from 8am-4pm on Saturday.  If you are attending a reunion party on Friday night, simply go straight to your party location.  View a campus map

 

 CLASS NOTES

View what some of our classmates have submitted to Southwestern.

Gene Baker

Submit a Class Note.
 

 IN MEMORIAM

A tribute to those who have left us.

Jo Ann Westmoreland Adkins (4/24/2004)
Elizabeth Wilder Baker (5/22/1993)
Thomas Beaver (9/24/1991)
James "Jim" Cardwell (2/21/1999)
Geri Morgan Edge (4/16/2003)
Jose-Pablo "Jose" Garcia (11/5/2005)
Richard Hawkins (3/6/1991)
Dora "Nell" Shepherd Kauffman (9/4/2005)
Mada McAngus Killen (5/18/2005)
Julian Lyles (1/1/2000)
Ronald Moore (7/10/2001)
Victor Platt (7/23/2003)
Rodney Roberts (1/16/2003)
Barbara Clark Starkweather (1/1/2000)
Donald Webb (3/7/2004)

 LOST ALUMNI

Can you help us find these people?

Bennie Appleby
Mary Lane Arnold
Abedel Babaa
Gene Brack
Wanda Cowan Brandt
Albert Briggs
Leslie Crook Carrigan
Ann Woody Hermanson Chennault
Roberta Rodriguez Coronado
Jamie Edmonson
Forrest Eisenrich
John Fiesler
Linda Wood Gann
Charles Goss
Bertal Hjerpe
Juanita White Hughes
James Jenkins
Jane Striegler Jolly
Irma Cantu Jones
Janie Bingham Lech
Billy Massengale
Mary Fritts Maurer
Betty Davis Nickel
James Schwarz
Richard Steede
Ray Stephens
Ann Hardin Strauss
Carolyn Hervey Stubee
L. Traveland
Billie Eason Voyles
Billy Joe White
Erlyta Wilson
Lois Saunders Woliver
Frank Womack

If you know the whereabouts of any of these classmates, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations.

 SUPPORT SOUTHWESTERN

Our Class Agents are:

Mary Ann Springer Whitfield
Sally Starnes Willis

If you would like to learn more about supporting Southwestern,click here

 


......................................................................................................................

Southwestern University | 1001 E. University | Georgetown, TX 78626 | 800-960-6363
| Updated: 11/1/2006

© 2006 Southwestern University