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"A Little Piece of Home"
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Labor Day Reunion
Friday
-Doors open at 5:00 p.m.
Saturday
-Registration at 9:00 a.m.
-Business Session
-Lunch
-Individual Class Reunions
-Dance
Sunday
-Highsplint, Ridgeway, Shields, Ages, and Louellen Reunion
-Black Mountain Reunion- 1:00 p.m. at the park beside Elva's store. Please Bring you own refreshments.
EHS Alumni Reunion
EVARTS HIGH SCHOOL REUNION
August 30 - September 1, 2002
Plan To Attend and Visit With Your
Former Classmates!
2002 REUNION CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Agenda for Homecoming Weekend
Friday, August 29
Leadership and Career ………………………………..August 29
Food and Mingling…………………………6:00-12:00 midnight
Reunion Bowl, Evarts vs. Harlan (at Harlan)……………...8 p.m.
Saturday, August 30
Registration……………………………………………..9:00 a.m.
Business Session in Gym and Halls of Honor…………11:00 a.m.
Lunch……………………………………………..12:00-2:00 p.m.
Individual Class Reunions………………………….1:00-7:00p.m.
Dance (Disco’ Bill Peterson)………………...7:00-12:00 midnight
Sunday, September 1 ( Please see 'Class Notes' below for exact times and locations)
Highsplint, Ridgeway, Shields and Louellen Reunion
Ages-Brookside Reunion
All former residents welcome. Food and drinks will be available.
Black Mountain Reunion 1:00 p.m. at the park beside Elva’s store.
Please bring your own seating and refreshments.
Greetings From Your Evarts High School Alumni Association
Our Annual Labor Day Reunion is quickly approaching. If current indications prove true, this could be our biggest and best gathering yet. Internet traffic (www.harlan.k12.ky.us/ehs) is showing a lot of interest this year from several classes anxious for reunions, and is helping spread the word to lots of alumni who were previously unaware of the reunion.
Also, and unfortunately, there is little “good” news to pass along confirming that our beloved EHS will survive as a continuing school, according to local news accounts of the plans and workings of the Harlan County Board of Education. However, there does appear to be at least some optimism for hope since the Board does seemingly change positions on important issues from one meeting to the next. Some encouragement for hope can also be taken from the fact that following Cumberland High School’s loud cry of outrage to Board actions regarding their school, recent board action is returning the 7th and 8th grades to Cumberland High School after those students were earlier assigned to other places. You may recall our own 7th and 8th grades here were moved from EHS with the loss of those students (and teachers!) resulting in the overall loss to EHS of several classes which had previously been possible with the larger student group. Hopefully there may be some good news to relate at our reunion. Anyone “putting off” coming to the reunion “til next year” is cautioned to come on now….before it’s too late to meet in the old school building.
Otherwise, things are going well with EHSAA. A great class just graduated in May, adding the 2001 group to our alumni rolls. Your association again helped a lot of students with college scholarship money. This year saw another alum add to the scholarship program. Major Roy L. Robbins (USAF retired) Class of ’45, provided funds for a Veterans Memorial Scholarship in honor of all EHS veterans. The scholarship committee has named the award veterans by adding to the scholarship is invited to do so.
“You all come!” See you Labor Day.
CLASS NOTES
Our Treasurer now is Evelyn Philpot, she can be reached at 203 Philpot Lane, Evarts, Kentucky 40828. E-Mail: evelynphilpot@hillbillymail.com
The Annual Highsplint, Shields and Ridgeway Reunion will be held Sunday, September 1 at the Cloverfork Museum at Highsplint. Dinner will be held at 1:00 p.m. and everyone is welcome. For more information call Evelyn Philpot at 606-837-3220.
The Ages-Brookside Reunion will be held Sunday, September 1 at 1:00 p.m. at the Ages School House. All current and former residents are invited.
The Louellen Reunion will be Sunday, September 1 at 1:00 p.m. at the Louellen Lake.
Disco’ Bill Returns!
By popular demand of our alums Disco’ Bill Peterson, (58) will be handling the “Music & Dance” for the Saturday night festivities. We hope to have a big turnout to welcome him back. As you know Bill puts on a great show.
The Class of ’58 held its annual reunion at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, the last weekend of June 2001. Once again, the class funded the “Earl Rogers” honor scholarship. Any class member wishing to add further funds to the award are encouraged to do so.
“COOKING WITH THE WILDCATS” Cookbook and “TAP ROOTS” will be on sale Saturday
PRE REGISTRATION FORM
Name______________________________________________
Address____________________________________________
Year Graduated______________________________________
Registration fee: Dues $10.00 per person; Lifetime $100.00. If completed and returned with dues, long lines will be eliminated.
2002 EHS ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS
| Clark Woolum | $10,000 | Brandon White |
| Roy Robbins | $2,500 | Heather Ramsey |
| Earl Rogers Class | $500 | Evan Davis |
| Tri State Mine Cable | $350 | LeAnn Roy, Jonathan Saylor |
| Bill Jack Wilson | $500 | Stephanie Deaton, Joni Bowman |
| EHSAA | $1000 | Barbara Roberts |
| EHSAA Awards | $1000 | Rebecca Stewart |
|
In Memory of Katie Carter |
$100 bond | Barbara Roberts |
| Class of ’58 | $100 bond | Andrew Grills |
| Alumni to SECC | $2,084 | Rachel Wynn, Jonathan Saylor, Miranda Middleton, Kellie Middleton |
| Alumni to SECC | Matching | LeAnn Roy |
| Harlan Co. Community Scholarship | $1,000 | Rachel Wynn |
| Harlan Co. Soil Conservation | $500 | Jonathan Saylor |
| Morehead State University | JROTC ($8,000) | Jessica Middleton |
| Harlan Co. Community | $500 | Brandon White, Rebecca Wallace |
| Pikeville College | Presidential - $4,000 per semester | Brandon White |
| Pikeville College | Walker's Scholarship ($5,000) | Jonathan Saylor |
| Pikeville College | Honors Scholarship | LeAnn Roy |
| Cumberland College | Cheerleading - $1,500 per semester | Rachel Hall |
| Bert T. Combs Scholarship | Full Tuition & Books | Rachel Hall |
| Eastern Kentucky University | Presidential Scholarship | Rebecca Wallace |
| University of Virginia at Wise | $8,000 | Chris Brewer |
ALUMNI: NEWS LETTER
A MEMBER OF THE EVARTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN AN ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATION CLASS OF 2001 AND OTHERS PRESENT STATED: “WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO MANY MORE FUTURE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION EVENTS---------IN A NEW EDUCATION FACILITY AT EVARTS KENTUCKY.”
HELP WANTED
We desperately need people to help us work in areas of registration, babysitting, etc. If enough people would volunteer, each could work for 1-2 hours and then go back to enjoying the reunion. As it is now, a few people work the entire time and never get to enjoy any of the reunion. If you are interested in volunteering an hour of your time, please contact Arlene Brown: P.O. Box 166, Evarts, Kentucky 40828, Phone (606) 837-3517. Please let her know as soon as possible so work can be completed.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Reserve rooms early because four other Harlan County Schools are having reunions this same weekend.
| Benham Inn (Benham, KY) | 606-848-2257 |
| Best Western (U.S. 421, Harlan) | 1-800-528-1234 |
| Coachman Motel (Middlesboro) | 606-248-2830 |
| Koal Town Motel (U.S. 119, Cumberland) | 606-589-2123 |
| Cumberland Motel (East Main, Cumberland) | 606-589-2181 |
| Country Boy Motel (Big Stone Gap, VA) | 703-523-0374 |
| Holiday Inn (Harrogate, TN) | 615-869-3631 |
| Holiday Inn (Hazard, KY) | 606-436-4428 |
| Pine Mountain Lodge (Pineville, KY) | 606-337-3066 |
| Ramada Inn (Duffield, VA) | 703-431-4300 |
| Quality Inn (Corbin, KY) | 606-528-4802 |
| Best Western (Middlesboro, KY) | 606-248-5630 |
| Boone Trail (Middlesboro, KY) | 606-248-1340 |
| River Edge Country Inn (Coldiron, KY) | 606-664-2612 |
| Cumberland Gap Inn (Cumberland Gap, TN) | 423-869-9172 |
DECEASED ALUMNI MEMBERS
2001-2002
| Name | Graduation | Date of Death |
| Bernard Trent | 1940 | July 26, 2001 |
Gaynell (Susie Napier) Blevins |
1975 | January 8, 2002 |
| Darnell Ball | 1941 | January 2, 2002 |
| Paul Fleenor | 1972 | February 11, 2002 |
| Erika (Ruthie Clark) Davis | 1986 | February 2, 2002 |
| Farmer Morgan | Teacher | February 7, 2002 |
| Jerry Massingale | 1960 | March 12, 2002 |
| Thelma Mae Trosper | 1942 | March 30, 2002 |
| Harvey Ford Sr. | April 8, 2002 | |
| Willard Pack | 1938 | July 2001 |
| Royce Hayes | 1947 | Dec. 22, 2000 |
| Wanda (Gilbert) Mills | August 14, 2001 | |
| Jack Petrey | 1952 | May 13, 2001 |
| Paul Sweet | 1954 | |
| Chris Pennington | 1976 | 1982 |
| Russ Dozier | 1943 | September 17, 2001 |
| Jewels Bradford | 1963 | December 21, 2001 |
| David (Speedy) Caudill | October 12, 2001 | |
| Ruth (Bailey) Faulk | November 26, 2001 | |
| Jackie Grubbs | 1978 | December 23, 2001 |
| Herbert Kidd | 1968 | November 9, 2001 |
Shirley (Mefford) Pryor |
1966 | October 8, 2001 |
| Kimberly (Eldridge) Perkins | 1987 | September 25, 2001 |
| Vivian (Allen) Monahan | November 10, 2001 | |
| Roy Elam | 1969 | November 30, 2001 |
| Alice Fields | Teacher | September 23, 2001 |
| James (Jr) Crabtree | September 8, 2001 | |
| Jr. McPeek |
1943 | December 2000 |
| Tom Barton | March 11, 2002 | |
| Eddy Penley | 1956 | June 17, 2002 |
| Geraldine Witt | May 27, 2002 | |
| Paul (Shorty) Short | May 30, 2002 | |
| Mefford Short | May 17, 2002 | |
| Louise (Green) Trivett | 1942 | April 16, 2002 |
| Ray Dixon | Teacher | May 8, 2002 |
| Karen (McGill) Bentley | June 24, 2002 | |
| Dillard Aslinger |
April 27, 2002 | |
| Phillip Trebelo | 1961 | July 30, 2001 |
| Paulette (Burkhart) Kelly | August 23, 2001 | |
| Don McDonald | September 17, 2001 | |
| Henry Estes | October 15, 2001 | |
| Ella Howard | October 15, 2001 | |
| Don McDonald | September 17, 2001 | |
| Henry Estes | October 15, 2001 | |
| Ella Howard | October 15, 2001 | |
| Lois Lavada Hensley | 1957 | |
| Celia (King) Hubers | 1940 | |
| Mike Ball | 1973 | December 23, 2001 |
| Mattilene Peace | 1964 | November 19, 2001 |
| James Browning | 1949 | January 20, 2002 |
| Marvin Jack Doan | June 29, 2002 | |
| Betty Turner | July 3, 2002 | |
| Shirley (Kelly) Poteet | July 3, 2002 | |
| Kathy (Powell) Lewis | 1970 | July 12, 2001 |
2002 DONATIONS
| Gayle Huff | $10,000 | |
| Roy Robbins | Veterans' Scholarship | $5,600 |
| Minnie B. Petrey | In Memory of Jack Petrey | $100 |
| Walter Sester | $50 | |
| Bill Branim | Class of 1947 | $100 |
| Evelyn Philpot | Class of 1947 | $100 |
| Ronald & Karen Mills | In Memory of Allison Lewis Hill | $25 |
| Ralph & Hazel Green | In Memory of Thelma Mae Trosper | $50 |
| Gayle Huff | Earl Rogers & Katie Carter | $300 |
HALL OF FAME
| Paige Howard | Gordon Pruitt | Paul Hicks |
| Bobby Middleton | James Roberts | Danny Ball |
HALL OF HONOR
Roy Robbins
CLOVERFORK MEMORY BOOK - $30
Over 500 pictures of people on Cloverfork
On sale in the Library or Highsplint Reunion
EHSAA & CYBERSPACE
Scott Pace ‘92 has developed the high school web site (www.harlan.k12.ky.us/ehs) and is working on the EHSAA section. Information, site corrections and other data for EHS or EHSAA can be forwarded to Scott at PACE20@hotmail.com (or P.O. Box 749, Evarts, KY 40828). So let him hear from you. The school address is P.O. Box 9, Evarts, KY 40828.
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