12-26-09 - Bob Nicholson and his wife Libba celebrated their 30th anniversary by spending a week in Ireland.
12-24-09 - Check out Karen Lanier's myspace page where you can listen to some the songs she has written: http://www.myspace.com/kalanier58
12-10-09 - Here's a great interview with Barbara Griffin published in Jezebel, an Atlanta area magazine. Check it out, it includes a photo of Barb also.
12-8-09 - Jennie Floyd: The CSI:NY on Wednesday is the episode that I appear in, at the end where they are bringing the girl out on a stretcher, in a khaki coat.
11-25-09 - On Oct 5 I posted an item from Gary Barr concerning his plans to ride in the Baja 1000. Well, he did it. Here's the follow-up: "I finished in 27hr45min, 4th in class and 4th oa solo bike rider."
11-23-09 - Pam Hall's son, Billy Napier, is the offensive coordinator at Clemson. Clemson is playing in the ACC championship game next week.
11-20-09 - I have just moved back to Huntsville, living in Blossomwood. My new address and phone number are on my page in The Class. Looking forward to seeing you Huntsville folks more often.
10-30-09 - Jennie Floyd is ina music video by the Wonderlicks. Can you spot her? Check it out.
10-29-09 - The HHS girls' volleyball team won the 6A sate championship today. This was the 7th time in the last 8 years. I'd call it a dynasty.
10-27-09 - Christie Causey became a grandma for the 4th time today.
10-19-09 - From Dawn Cox:
Kristi Eveland, the daughter of Dawn Cox Eveland, is up for the Lowes Senior Class Award om Women's soccer. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School™, the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – classroom, character, community and competition.
Kristi is a top ten finalist, after the nominees were chosen from the orignal 200 applicants, down to 30 athletes, then top 10. She needs your votes, daily, by text and online.
Test W3 to 74567 every day.
Vote online at http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/womens_soccer_2009/
You can both text AND vote online every day until November 13th. If you read Kristi's bio you will see she is deserving of our vote and we need votes EVERY DAY! Send this out to your email contacts and let's get her in the top 3!
10-9-09 - Bill Elliot is on the US Glider Team and will be competing in the world championships in Hungary. Bill has promised to provide us with more details about this.
10-5-09 - Some news from Gary Barr:
You guys got a bucket list? Me too. One of the things on the top of my
list is to race the Baja 1000 on my motorcycle. At 51 their is allot of
time left but I decided that if racing the Baja was going to happen I
needed to get it done soon. Not getting any younger and all. So, this
November 20th I will leave Ensenada Mexico at 6am on my motorcycle and
hopefully finish 800 miles and 18 or so hours later back in Ensenada. You
my all remember me from the casts I drug around the halls of Huntsvile
High thanks to my motorcycles and trees that seemed to get in the way. I
am afraid to say many years later some of us don't seem to have grown
up...or maybe thats just me.
My wife keeps asking me why and the only answer I have for her is that I
still can so why not. I just can't wait!!
9-22-09 - Cathy Chambers became a grandma last night. Matthew Harris Lee was born to Cathy's daughter Mary Catherine and her husband Ashley. They live in Madison. Congratulations Cathy!
9-17-09 - Juwanna Watson and her husband are now living i King City, MO. Previously they were in Iowa. Her permanent home is still Huntsville, but her husband's work has them taking up temporary residences.
9-12-09 - Some of you may remember Gary Wells, who was in our class at HJH and then for just our freshman year at HHS, I think. Mike Mahoney reports that Gary was found dead in his apartment in Gadsden on August 1 of an apparent heart attack.
9-5-09 - HHS was favored to beat Grissom last night for the 4th straight year, but, alas, the Tigers broke the streak 17-7.
8-25-09 - Jeff Parker has recently moved from Huntsville to Mobile where he is working for Lexicon, Inc.
8-25-09 - John Martignoni has recently moved his family into a new home in McCalla, AL.
8-23-09 - Pam Jones' stepson was married yesterday. Pam has been married to Keith for 6 years and between them they have 6 kids and 2 grandchildren.
8-21-09 - Paul Borelli: "My painting "Stew Jon Art" was selected for the Austin Visual Artists Association 32nd Annual Exhibit, which will run from September 4 through the 28th at the Daugherty Arts Center. This is the first juried show I've gotten into." Here is a picture of Paul's painting.
8-10-09 - Sandra Adams shattered her hip playing basketball and had surgery today. Apparently the recovery period will be several months. That's all I know right now but I will post more if I learn more.
Update from Lisa Grumbles: Sandra came thru surgery fine... but there is lots of pain. She has much rehab to go thru. Shattered the femur, and had to have a rod and pins put in.
Update as of Sept 5: Sandra is getting around on crutches but it will be a while before she can put full weight on her leg. Full recovery will take at least 6 months and could be up to a year. She broke both her hip and leg in a hard fall playing basketball with her daughter. She is going back to work on September 16.
8-6-09 - Mrs. Linda Ruth, who taught history at HHS during out time, has retired after 37 years of teaching. I think she was at HHS through the early 80's, then was at Huntsville Middle School for a few years and then spent the rest of her career at Grissom.
7-19-09 - Yesterday Lisa Johnson became a grandmother for the third time. Chloe Evelyn is the second daughter of Amber and Patrick Henry of Huntsville. Here is a picture.
7-12-09 - Joanne Keller has moved back to Huntsville and is living with her father.
7-9-09 -Alisa Wirts reports the following news:
My oldest son, Jason, deployed on May 13. We have not heard from him, and don't know his location or mission. He is in the U.S. Navy. My middle son, Jesse, starts back to college this Fall at UNA, pursuing a degree in Film. My daughter, Shelby, will graduate from GHS soon, and will start college at UNA, pursuing a degree in Early Childhood Education. I have been unemployed since December 18, 2008, and am desperately seeking full time employment. I have a part time starting sometime this month, but really need a full time job to pay my bills.
6-25-09 - Janiece Collins' oldest daughter, Sarah, was married to Kyle Dudek from Iowa in Nashville last Saturday. Janiece said it was the most fun she's had in years!
5-6-09 - Mary McLain, girls' PE teacher at HHS during our time there, passed away April 29. Here is her obituary.
5-5-09 - I have just learned that one of our classmates, Schuyler Garrison, passed away on March 15. Although you won't see Schuyler's picture in our senior annual, he "walked" with us at graduation. To see pictures of Schuyler and read his obituary, click here.
5-1-09 - John Martignoni has been hired as the Director of the Office of Evangelization for the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama.
4-29-09 - From Jennie Floyd
I meant to send this earlier. I finally have something that everybody can see me in, although it is adults-only (not porn, just raunchy humor). The premiere of "Whorified! The Search for America's Next Top Whore," an Internet series spoofing "The Search for America's Top Model" is tonight, and the website will have the first episode up tomorrow. I play "Jean," a ditzy, Midwestern housewife who "wants to get out of the house more" and "learn new things." It's very funny but very risque - we improvised a lot but a lot of the scripted stuff is really filthy. There will be ten episodes, running every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at our website,http://www.whorifie
4-28-09 - From Kathy McDonough:
Vickie (Worley) and I decided to go somewhere for a road trip this spring that we had never been. We ended up in the very small town of Monroeville to see the live performance of To Kill A Mockingbird. It was so cool to sit in the courthouse and be a part of the trial scene of the movie. We felt like we had gone back in time and were actually in the deep south in 1935. We highly recommend it for anyone who loves the movie and has the imagination to believe you are either Jem or Scout and your daddy is Atticus Finch.
4-6-09 - Susan Zook's daughter Claire, 21, is a dancer and is going on tour with Taylor Swift. Claire was in Swift's Love Story music video last fall. Susan says this is the first time a country artist has used dancers on tour. There will be 6 dancers. The tour begins April 24.
4-2-09 - Barry Ragsdale was recently selected by Birmingham Magazine as one of the top attorneys in Birmingham according to a survey of other lawyers and businesspeople here. He also changed firms a couple of months ago and has returned to Sirote & Permutt, a large law firm with offices in Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville.
4-1-09 - Juwanna Watson has temporarily moved to Iowa where her husband is working on a windmill farm being built there. You can see her Iowa address on her page.
3-31-09 - Kim Krueger's 19 year-old son Michael has just graduated from Marine Corps boot camp. He has ben assigned to the intelligence division as a private first class. Kim is a very proud mom!
3-28-09 - Larry Jess is making a career change. He is leaving ASI after 10 years and is joining Sigmatech where he will be the Chief Information Officer.
3-15-09 - Saturday night I was in Huntsville for the Gothic Cotillion. This is an event, I think started in the 80's, for 10th grade girls. I had a niece being presented. Mark Harbarger, Karl Roth and Amy Slayden had daughters that were presented. Lisa Grumbles and Linda Drummond were also there. Lisa is the current president of the Gothic Guild. The event was at the VBCC.
2-25-09 - From Pat Hughes:
This year marks my fourth year as a cast member in productions at the Stockholm Royal Opera. I'm appearing in two of the four music dramas of Wagner's opera cycle, "The Ring of the Nibelung". The operas are "The Rhinegold" and "Siegfried". The other two dramas are "The Valkyrie" and "Twilight of the Gods". In "The Rhinegold", I play one of the slaves in the goldmine. It's a bigger part than the rest but doesn't involve any singing. Thank the Lord! We perform this opera twice a year and it is very popular and received rave reviews. Last November, the opera cycle was televised on Swedish TV.
Pat has had an interesting acting career in commercials, videos and movies. You can see photos from some of his roles and also see photos of the opera house here.
2-9-09 - Scott Ramminger lives in the DC area and plays in a band called Scott Ramminger and Friends. Here is a link to their website: http://www.scottramminger.com/
You can read all about the band and listen to some of their songs.
2-4-09 - On October 14 Michelle Gazaway became a grandma for the third time. Alice is the third child of Michelle's son Zach and his wife Kelly. Congratulations!