ALUMNI NEWPORTIAN NEWS
A PUBLICATION OF
NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI & ASSOCIATES
AT
NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY
NOVEMBER 16, 2006
6:30 PM
Dear Members and Friends,
We are half way through our term as President and we continue to strive to enhance our theme of ŇGetting to Know You.Ó We are featuring the biographies of some of our active members who generously give their time and talent to support our students and our organization. Last issue we featured our Past President, George Gore. While seeking to move forward and grow, it is essential to reflect on our founders as well.
We have dared to be creative and welcome new faces and ideas; such as a Summer Luau Board Meeting in July, a Fall BengalŐs Bash, and to restructure our Annual Installation Dinner Dance. We are attempting to retain our worthy and proven traditions while being progressive and diverse enough to attract and welcome our more youthful alumni.
Through the dedication of Jorine Peaslack Combs, PatronŐs Chair and through your very generous donations, we have been able to grow our scholarship endeavors. Mary Lou Schmidt and Betty Bowen Oaks have excelled with enthusiastic membership efforts. Public Relations have continued to flourish under Stella Bowen, as has the Newsletter. Wally Gurren has been undauntedly committed to Circulation. We are blessed with a conscientious Board of Directors.
We welcome your comments and input and urge all to participate with us at your level of interest.
A special note of appreciation to all for the kind remembrances during our recent surgery and to so many who carried on with the work at hand.
We close this message with a heavy heart as each year we say farewell to some many dear alumni. Your President offers a salute to her beloved cousin, her mentor, her advisor, and an advocate for fairness and self-introspection. He was always available to serve and a warrior to the end. NHS Wildcat: Robert Lee Hesch, past President.
Sincerely,
Marlene Wilmot Gerding, 56
President
The all class reunion-installation dinner was held on Sunday, September 10, 2006, at the Southgate Community Center. It was a great evening! The food was excellent and our servers were delightful. In case you missed the dinner our servers were the Newport High School Cheerleaders. Following dinner we had a short program with remarks from Tete Turner, then the installation of officers: Wanda Robinson Quinn, Secretary; Lois Gutekunst Gore, Treasurer, and Melissa Stewart Hayden, Public Relations. A life membership award by was presented to Bill Brinkmann. The evening concluded with entertainment by Pam Thompson, vocalist, tour and cruise ship entertainer. Pam was marvelous and everyone had a great time.
MEMBERSHIP
You can see by the newsletter, that there are a number of years that we do not have a class representative. If your class is listed as not having a representative, please consider becoming one and call Mary Lou Schmidt at 859-441-1530.
We need to update our e-mail addresses. If you have an e-mail address, please send it to MLAS@fuse.net.
Many thanks to all who contributed to the PatronŐs Fund this year. Once again, as in past years, through the generosity of our members and friends of the Newport schools, we were successful in raising funds to continue providing scholarships and incentives to our students. Keeping our students in school and helping them to obtain the best education possible is the goal of which we can all be proud.
Thank you,
Jorine Combs.
CINCINNATI BENGALS TO THE RESCUE
Deven Boxx, a linebacker for Newport High School football team wears a size seventeen shoe. These have to be ordered from California. At the beginning of the season, Deven needed new cleats. Too late to order them from California, Newport superintendent, Mike Brandt, called the BengalŐs to see if they could help. In no time, Deven was on his way to Paul Brown Stadium. There the equipment manager, Rob Recker gave him two pairs of linebacker gloves and two pairs of cleats. WAY TO GO BENGAL'S!
CLASS REPRESENTATIVES
We are in need of class representatives for the following years: 1931, 1973, 1975, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Please think about becoming a volunteer for your class. Keeping in touch with your former classmates can be quite rewarding. To become a class rep., please contact Mary Lou Schmidt at 859-441-1530.
All names and addresses on file are for Alumni Association use only, except Class Reunion Chairpersons and/or Designated Class Representative may have a copy of their respective classes. The Association does not authorize anyone to solicit class membership lists from other persons. If you choose to register your e-mail address with Jerry King, this is encouraged and Jerry is doing a fine job maintaining the directory. No web site is authorized to use the name "Newport High School Alumni & Associates, Inc." except our own web site. This is the name incorporated in the state of Kentucky and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a non-profit, charitable organization with a 501(c)(3) classification.
Irene M. Hunt Pfaff
Irene M. Hunt Pfaff class of 1928 passed away at the age of ninety-six on September 3, 2006, at Highlands of Fort Thomas. She was a teacher for McNicholas High School, Mount Washington and a member of St. Joseph Church, Cold Spring. Her husband, Henry and son, Robert, preceded her in death. Survivors include a son, John, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
COLLEGE QUALIFIERS INCREASE
Newport High School released data showing an increase in the accepted post secondary education. Data showed that sixty-nine percent of the 2006 graduating class was accepted. This is a significant increase over last year. Of the six-nine percent, fifty-two percent got accepted to four-year colleges or universities. The remaining eighteen percent got into two-year associate degree programs or other technical/vocational programs. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
ROBERT L. HESCH – CLASS OF 1943
The Newport High School Alumni & Associates, Inc. has lost a great friend, Bob Hesch, past President and editor of the Alumni Newportian News. Bob was instrumental in our organization.
Bob passed away on September 16, 2006, at St. Luke Hospital in Fort Thomas. Survivors include his wife, Bettie Rice Root Hesch; a daughter, Joyce Faust; sons, Robert L. Hesch, Jr. and Bill Hesch; stepdaughter, Rebecca Rice Orman; and six grandchildren. Memorials are suggested to Newport High School Alumni & Associates Robert L. Hesch Scholarship Fund, PO Box 75129, Fort Thomas, Kentucky, 41075.
Our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN
We need your help! The following lists are persons we have listed as unknown. We have no address for them or they may have deceased. Review the list, and if you know the address of these persons or if they have deceased, let Mary Lou know.
CLASS NAME
1935 Georgia Martin Page
Paul F. Konen
Robert W. Austin
1936 Clyde Lewis
Dorothy Lawson Demler
1937 Stephanie Whitney Clark
Virginia Thornberry Tarvin
1939 Sylvia Lemel Fogel
Virginia Erb Atkins
1941 Audel Harrison Hicks
Ruth Whalen Leviner
1942 George B. Smith
1946 Jim F. Cannon
Estella Earl OŐHara Neaves
1949 Patricia Manter Harden
Ruby Toll Green
1949 Paul W. Huber
1950 Carolyn Binkley
Farrell Abney
Jerry D. Myers
1951 Albert (Buddy) Greco
Floyd T. (Tom) Williams, Jr.
Joan Moore Staggs
1957 Joyce R. Teal Davis
1960 Jay R. Boyd
1961 Ivan D. Cooper
Shirley Ann Adams Potter
1962 Billie Grischy Walters
1963 Sharon Lee Kuntz Schwab
1964 Shelia Mae Stowers Miller
1965 Bernice Kammerer Flynt
1967 Carol A. Reis
1968 David Maxwell
Ida Ann Turner Hall
Linda Strassel Gardner
1969 Ronald Lee Snyder
1970 David Merrill
Deborah Deirowekamp Morse
Jesse D. Hensley
Judy Wright Freudenberg
1971 Marilyn Tester Kreidenweis
1973 Kitty Spicer Carpenter
1975 Bob D. Eads
Donna M. Pratt Miller
1976 Kim Hehman Hall
Pamela C. Gronauer Walsh
1982 Sandra L. Zmurk Kopczynski
1983 Debbie Terry Coffman
1985 Chrissie M. Rodgers
Kimberly Lynn Rankin
1986 Tanya Pence
1989 Kevin S. Seibel
Lisa Marie Middleton
1989 James Keith Hall
Kellie R. Hansel Seibel
Ronald C. Snyder
1992 Christina Thacker
Dawn Renee Reed
1995 Jennifer L. Herald
A. Wayne Kreidenweis
Anna Murphy
Ben Faller
Charles Carpenter
Doris Pratt Combs
Edward S. Jordan
Harry A. Thompson, Jr.
Joanne S. Cook
Josephine Kohn Camins
Joyce Robinson Boyd
Mary Kay Knoerle Prendergrast
Nina A. Stricker
Norma L. Turner
Raymond A. Daniel
Roy Lucas
Ruth Crotty Tuttle
Shelia Arthur
Susan A. Cooper
Vivian Martin
Walter H. Koch
Stanley B. Schleyer
2001 Kirstal Krull
COME AND WATCH THE GAME WITH US
AT THE
BENGAL BASH
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2006
AT
WOODLAND HILL CLUB HOUSE
MOOCK ROAD, SOUTHGATE, KENTUCKY
12:30 PM TO ?
THIS IS OUR SECOND ANNUAL BENGAL BASH. LAST YEAR WAS A LOT OF FUN, SO WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER GREAT TIME.
WE WILL BE SERVING SANDWICHES, PRETZELS, POTATO CHIPS, BEER, WINE, AND SOFT DRINKS. IF YOU WISH, YOU MAY BRING A SNACK OR A COVERED DISH TO SHARE WITH FELLOW ALUMNI.
THE COST OF THE AFTERNOON WILL BE $10.00.
MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW BY COMPLETING THE FORM BELOW AND MAILING IT ALONG WITH YOUR CHECK TO NHSA&A, PO BOX 75129, FORT THOMAS, KENTUCKY, 41075.
DEAD LINE FOR RESERVATIONS IS NOVEMBER 16, 2006.
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