Published: August 30, 2009 03:05 pm      

‘Big’ 55 Class Reunion set for Labor Day Weekend

The Jacksonville High School Class of 1954 reunion, the "Big 55," has been scheduled for Labor Day weekend. This will be the eighth class reunion since graduation in May 1954. The first of the eight reunions came twenty years following graduation in 1974 and has been scheduled every five years since.

Activities begin on Friday evening Sept. 4 with former classmates that were athletes, band members, cheerleaders, and interested class members attending the Fightin' Indian home football game with the Corsicana Tigers in the historic Tomato Bowl.

Saturday afternoon from 1-4 p.m. is scheduled for visitation and renewing old friendships at the Jacksonville High School Cafeteria. Friends of the class are invited to visit with former schoolmates during this time of cookies, coffee, and conversation. A class picture will be take at 3 p.m. The conclusion of evening activities will be a banquet scheduled at "The Legacy."

Senior class officers in 1954 were President Judy Allen, Vice-President James Craddock, Secretary Mary Jean Kimbrough, Treasurer Tracy Tidwell, and Reporter Dick Pickens. John Beall was student body president.

Senior class favorites were Melonye Lowe and Bill Childs. The senior class elected Pat Dolan as Mr. JHS and Glenda Gray as Miss JHS. The student body selected senior Sue Heidelberg as “Most Beautiful” from the various nominees submitted.