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___________________________Your Reunion Team - Nell Gilmer and Janice Hudson
Back in 1985 we held the first Curtis School reunion in the back of the Farmers Coop building, among the bags of fertilizer and other farm equipment, and had to fan the flies off the food. It was very HOT inside the building. But that didn’t matter. It was a great time and nobody wanted to eat anyway. They were so busy greeting one another and visiting. Janice and I worked on the reunion via mail and telephone messages since she lived near Opp and we were living in North Carolina.
We arrived at the Farm Coop building around 10 a.m. to check things out and there were people there already! I remember some people came from Birmingham and Pensacola. Thus the Curtis School reunion was born!! And now 24 years later we are still carrying on the tradition. We have had lots of help, especially Janice’s sisters and brothers and our good friend Ralph Crocker, our classmate.
For several years our classmates would meet on Saturday night after the reunion lunch earlier in the day, and visit some more. The past few years we have had fewer attending and last year we met at 4 p.m. so everybody could get home before dark.
This year our classmates all turned 75 - 3/4th of a century, and we’ll probably eat a big lunch, visit a little more, and go home and take a nap! That’s what happens when you get old (so I’m told!).
Neither Janice nor I would get upset if someone tells us that they want our job. Step right up folks. We’ll be happy to teach you “How to Have a Reunion”.
