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Looking Back: Danville High holds Class of 57 reunion

July 30, 2007

Timing the 50th reunion of Danville High School's class of 1957 to coincide with the "Raintree County" Festival this weekend was no accident, according to Bob Orndorff, one of the reunion organizers.

"The movie filming in Danville was during the summer going into our senior high school year, and several class members were in the movie. Larry McGhee was in the class scenes of PeeDee Academy. Class members have several amusing stories about experiences during that summer." One of the reunion activities was attending a performance of "Jarful of Fireflies" at Pioneer Playhouse. The play is about Danville during the filming of "Raintree County."

About 47 members of the class' 63 living members attended. The class numbered 75, but 10 are deceased and two are unable to attend because of physical limitations.

Four teachers the class had in high school who are still living and in Danville were guests.

They are Ken and Jane Snowden, Marty Deim and Joyce Melson, who was a class sponsor. A couple of people - E. G. Plummer and Sue Swain Hill - who actually graduated in 1956, but were Class of '57 members until shortly before their graduation, attended.

Class members who planned to attend the 50th reunion are:

From Danville: David Bibb, Bernard "Duchy" Brant, Wilma Burgess Gibson, Bill Galbreath, Mark Lister, Bill McAnly, Larry McGhee, Bob Newby, Bob Orndorff, Lucy Owens Kirkpatrick, Jim Tanner, George Teater and Marijane Williams Yankey.

From Stanford: Donna Bolin Russell, Ann Caldwell Erwin and Wanda Daugherty Christison.

From Harrodsburg: Bob Coffman.

From Lancaster: Susan Snead Bogie.

From Nicholasville: Donald Daugherty, Norma Sheene Ransdell and John Whitley.

From Lexington: Kay Brandenburg, Pat Mullins Collins, Darlene Pomicter Hale, Jim Poynter, Tom Williams and Becky McMillian Williams.

From Cincinnati: Keith Baldwin and Betty Russell Humphreys.

Others were: Dick Brock of Versailles, Charles Buster of Homestead, Fla., Don Chambers of Chesterfield, Va., Nancy Chapman Watkins of Frankfort, Gary Chilton of Winterhaven, Fla., Pat Cosby Blalocl of Lakeland, Fla., Mary Bina Daly Richter of Signal Mountain, Tenn., Kitty DeNise Aldridge of Kitts Hill, Ohio, Linda Edwards Wishart of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., Bob Goode of Spring, Texas, Nancilynn Humphrey Gerlach of Charlotte, N.C., Eugene Johnson of Louisville, Milton Minor of Bloomington, Ind., Perry Moore of Olathe, Kan., Joyce Robinson Opsahl of Flat Rock, N.C., Elmer Sebastian of Buford, Ga., Roddy Smith of Hilton Head Island, S.C., and Pat Yocum Moore of Olathe, Kan.

A classmate who did not actually graduate with class, but who attended is Bob O'Steen of Denton, Texas.

The 10 deceased members are: John Coontz, Delores Crook, Jo Ann Garmon Curtis, Kenneth Coffman, Gertrude Griffin Furlong, Don Allen Hill, Dan Krueger, Earl Leverettte, Bill Massey and Suzanne Stigall Miller.

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