From Gus Comiskey (originally emailed 3/12/18):
Hi, Classmates of Lamar '58 graduating class!  Good news -- we are getting an excellent response for the class reunion party on April 21 at the Forest Club in Houston. 
 
Below is the list of people who have already signed up for the party.  If your name is on the list, please look for those names that aren't there, and encourage them to come.  AND, if your name isn't there, please consider joining us. 
 
No speeches, No Program!  It is just a time to renew your acquaintances from high school, and have a very nice dinner.  The invitation is attached with reply information.  We hope you will join us.  I look forward to seeing you there!
 
Gus
(Gus Comiskey, Jr.)
 
Jim Able                                                               Judy Horton Chapman
John R. Allen, Jr. & Carolyn Hoeflich Allen                Steve Jones
Newell Anderson                                                   Joe Keathley
Stephanie Bender                                                 Errol Kramer
Sally Bowen Hollar                                                Linda Leyendecker Norton
Lew Brazelton                                                       Jerry Ann McFaddin Woodfin Costa
Bonnie Bryan Mayor                                              Mary Kay McFarland Gaedcke
Aubyn Byers Howe                                                Karen McKinney Moore
Jim Carroll                                                            Charles McMurrough
Scott Charlton                                                       Rita Mills Rice
Carol Clark Gilliland                                               James Moncus 
Gus Comiskey                                                       Eva Lynn Moore Dunn
Ann Craig Gregory                                                 Betsy Pearson Griffin                              
Anna Crapitto Zander & Steve Zander                      Julie Peyton Gordon
Nan Davis Daniels                                                  Nancy Powell Moore
Jonathan Day & Barbara Thompson Day                   Eleanor Powers Beebe
Ellen Dillingham Heemer                                         David Redford
Jo Ann Dougall Levering                                          Susan Roberts Freeman
Acia Elliott Cagle                                                       
Sally Euwer Lavine                                                  Sharon Rupley Grinder
Gail Farfel Adler                                                      Kathy Sangster
Hershal Ferguson                                                    Jim Schoonover
Steve Ferguson                                                       Julie Shaw Phillips
Tricia Freel O'Donnell & Bill O'Donnell                        Betsy Smith Winn
Emily George Tinsley                                               Ford Smith
Charles Giraud                                                        Carole Stevens Mattingly
Jo Dee Graves Bowen                                              Judy Tucker Earle
Margie Greer Camp                                                 Garrett Waddell
Terrylin Gregory Neale                                             Anne Wendler Schwinger
Brooke Hamilton                                                     Edie Whitridge Stewart
Emily Hamrick Moreland                                          J.C. Whitten
Sandra Hancock Martin                                            Roberta Williams Terrell
Don Hanna                                                              Carol Wilson Van Meter
Bob Harp                                                                 Jo Ann Winfrey Dunn
Richard Harris                                                          Ron Woliver
John Heard                                                              Maxine Walker Ballard
Mike Hill                                                                  Jack Whitley
Elaine Hocott Gainey
Judy Holke Nicols
Andy Horne


 

From Gus Comiskey:
The Lamar High School Alumni Association will provide a tour of the school starting at 11 AM.
 
Please park in the west parking lot, immediately adjacent to the auditorium.
 
Join us in the auditorium for an update on the status of the school and the new construction (Approx $100 mil cost to HISD).
 
The tour will be confined to the first floor, although all floors will be open for individual touring.
 
James Coney Island, provided by Ron Woliver, will be served in the new cafeteria, following the tour.

I'm sorry to report that our overlapping-classmate John Brent (Lamar '60) died " peacefully in his sleep on Friday, March 16, 2018, following a long battle with cancer and recent complication from a stroke" (obituary and guestbook at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/houstonchronicle/obituary.aspx?n=john-brent&pid=188473927&fhid=6290).
    As a sophomore (i.e., our senior year) John was a member of the golf team.  By the time his senior year rolled around, the '60 Orenda recounts that he had been involved in National Honor Society; Student Council; Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Cabinets; "A" Team Golf, lettering all 3 years; and Irari, serving as Social Chairman his junior and senior years.  After Lamar he earned a Mathematics degree from UT-Austin and then had a long career as a real estate developer and was "an avid sportsman", combining the two in transforming an overgrown ranch into an award-winning (e.g., Texas Wildlife Society's Land Stewardship Award) "premier South Texas Hunting Property". 

     A memorial mass will be held for John at 2 PM TUESDAY, MARCH  20 at St. Anne Catholic Church, 2140 Westheimer Road in Houston, with interment (in a family-only gathering) at Glenwood Cemetery.

Seven classmates have recently been added to the In Memoriam list: Judy Estes Hall, Barbara Malin Riddle, Mary Ann McCall Van Coutren, Arlene Newman Marshall, Thomas Wade Pounds, Thomas Jeffrey Stevens, and Kenneth Wayne Thelander.  If you have memories (pre-, post- or at Lamar) of any of these '58 classmates, please send them to me (rjhabq@gmail.com) to be added to our collective memory of them.