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1992 Reunion Committee

Panel of the "1992 Reunion Committee" with photos of people and objects. Top left photo two women has handwriting: "Co-Chairmen" Middle photos has handwriting of "Work-Work-Work." Photos of people has handwriting: "Plan-Plan-Plan." Photos in the middle at the bottom has handwriting: "Fun-Fun-Fun." Newspaper articles are on the panel. The Daily Tribune, Sunday, June 7, 1992 Community section. Article title: "Classes' agenda full." Has photo of two women holding up a shirt. Typing under the photo: "Corliss Allen Collins (left) and Dolores Oneth White discuss a sample of a reunion T-shirt design. The pair are reunion planning chairmen for EHS classes of 1956, 1957 and 1958." Article that is readable: "A weekend of activities including visits with about 20 former teachers is planned by the reunion committee of the El Reno High school classes of 1956, 1957 and 1958. The event is planned Aug. 7 -9 in El Reno beginning with registration and 'Teen Town' on Friday evening at the Eagles Lodge Building. Traditionally, reservation come in at the last minute, but this year minute, but this year the reunion committee is requesting reservations by June. 15, say committee chairmen Corliss Allen Collins and Dolores Oneth White. That deadline is set so that T-shirts can be ordered. The commemorative T -shirts are being furnished by Wet Willie's in El Reno. Orders must be placed a month in advance. Other plans for the weekend include assembly at 10:20 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, with lunch at Johnnie's for coneys and hamburgers. During the afternoon alumni will visit, view a video, hobby display and exchange memorabilia. Dinner and dancing to Jim Boyer's Band at Ernie's Polka Palace will be at 6:80 p.m. Aug. 8. On a continental breakfast memorial service is 10 a.m. at the Eagles. For further info call Collins at 721- White at 354-2254." Article of The Daily Tribune of Sunday of August, 1992. Article title: "Map of '58 will jog some memories." Article picture has two women holding up a shirt with a guy point at a section of it. Photo typing: "El Reno High School Class of 1958 reunion committee members Jack Parker, Carolyn Marquardt Barker and Joan Kincaid Kessler look over a map of downtown El Reno circa 1958." Article body: "When the El Reno High School Class of '58 gathers next weekend to recall their school days, two maps of El Reno, circa 1958, should help stir stories of 'Do you remember when ... ?' Nineteen-fifty-eight graduate and local historian Carolyn Marquardt Barker compiled and drew the two maps for the reunion. On the maps, she has filled in all the names and locations off businesses which were downtown and on Sunset Drive the year her class graduated. The downtown map measures 30 x 50 inches. The south end of the map begins at the high school and goes north through Choctaw, Bickford and Rock Island streets to the old courthouse and post office. It encompasses four blocks east and west and six blocks north and south. 'Only a few businesses are still in the same loca­tion with the same names,' said Barker. These are The El Reno Daily Tribune, Evans Cleaners, and Citi­zens National Bank. The Centre Theater is in the same place, but is now known as the Cinema. Some of the names and faces that have changed downtown include the bowl­ing alley which was once located at 108 S. Choctaw. Th old City Hall and fire department were on West Russell (Sunset Drive) and the police station was around the corner on S. Choctaw. Because (then) U.S. 66 and U.S. 81 were busy roads which passed through downtown, there were many hotels, filling stations and cafes located downtown in 1958. 'The reason I did a map of Sunset Drive was because it was such a part of our high school years,' said Barker. 'Country Club Road was not the same road it is today. We did not have all of those businesses and fast food places.' The Sunset map shows Sunset Drive-In and Jobe's Drive-In, built in 1957, where the students bought sodas and visited. She said there were a lot of used car lots in town back then. 'We did not buy new cars back then and not everyone had a car. We'd pile into someone's car and cruise around and around downtown,' Barker recalls. Barker also remembers Barnes Garage on Sunset. It had a large clock hanging on the outside of the build­ing and teenagers would drive by to see if they were past their curfew. The coliseum (Jenks Simmons) was being built during Barker's high school years and she remembers when high school basketball games were played in the gym in the high school basement. Hensley's Cafe was then located on the curve on Sunset near the football stadium and was a popular spot for eating and visiting, she said. The last place shown on the Sunset map is the Squaw Drive-In Theater. 'They showed two different movies each weekend night,' she recalls." Article without published of which newspaper and date. Article title: "Reunion plans special assembly." Article body: "The EHS Classes of 1956, 1957 and 1958 Reunion may have an evet that is of interest to 'these not in that select group, reunion organizers say. An ''assembly'' on Aug. 8 is open to the public, said reunion co-chairman Dolores Oneth White. The event at the El Reno High School auditorium begins at 10:20 a.m. ''Why 10:20? That was the time we had our morning assemblies,' White said. On hand to serve as masters of ceremonies will be former student council presidents Kenneth Johnson ('56) of Las Vegas, John Shaw ('57) of Colorado and Jim Murphy ('58) of El Reno. About 20 former teachers and coaches will be recognized including Ray Porter of El Reno, longtime teacher; Bob Bodenhamer, a former football coach; Bob Beck, a math teacher; and Marie Moore, a former choir director, now of Ponca City. White said a highlight of the morning will be a re-enactment of the ''Sausage Grinder,' a favorite pep rally yell led by alumnus, John Henry Marsh. Marsh is the son of the late Walter P. Marsh, who served as principal in the '50s. Alumni and others will also be treated to a tour of the high school. White said a Saturday afternoon baseball card ex-change will take place during the latecomer registration at the Eagles Lodge. This was a specific request of alumni Chuck Janssen of Hendersonville, Tenn., and Pat McCabe of Florida, White said. Luncheon at the lodge begins at noon with afternoon events to include video show, hobby and memorabilia displays and socializing. The Reunion program for the weekend begins at 6 p.m. Aug 7 with registration at the Eagles Lodge." Article without who published and date. Article title: "El Reno Returning." Article body readable: "El RENO - Teen Town! Tose two words bring back a flood of memories to almost anyone who attended high school in the 1950s. Teen town, a parent -approved and chaperoned weekly dance, was attended by groups of shy boys and girls, and occasionally by couples 'going steady.' Music was provided by a 45 rpm record player and broadcast over loudspeaker system. Former students who graduated from El Reno High School in the classes of 1956, 1957 and 1958 are invited back to town this weekend for a reunion and a return to Teen Town, said reunion chairman Corliss Collins. She said 300 people have said they plan to attend the reunion. Several events are planned to begin with registration starting at 6 p.m. on Friday, followed by Teen Town at 8 p.m., both at the Eagles Lodge, 1511 S Rock Island. On Saturday former students will tour the high school, attend a pep assembly with cheerleaders. talk former teachers and in attend a dinner Ernie's Polka Palace. Former teachers will be: Vona Boucher, Hurst Albers, Ray Porter lie Roblyer, Josephine Fances Harrison Nixon, Ardyth Guth, Barton, George Kizer, Moore, James LeRoy, Bob Beck and Kenneth Collins said. For information on union, call Collins at."