Central High School classes of 1942 and 1943 hold reunion

Cape Central High School classes of 1942 and 1943 recently held a combined weekend reunion.

Friday evening, registration and a social hour was enjoyed in the Lincoln Room at Drury Lodge. Alumni received name tags, tiger-head bookmarks and roster books. At noon Saturday, a box lunch was held at Cape County Park, Shelter 21. This was followed by a tour of the new high school.

Saturday evening, a social hour and sit-down dinner was held in the Lincoln Room, followed by a night of entertainment.

Wilbur Neumeyer, class of '42, served as master of ceremonies. Helen Fox Glazer entertained everyone with timely piano melodies and accompanied the group sing-along led by Betty Besel Wright.

Wright also delivered a memorial tribute for the deceased members of the class of 1942. Ginny Wolters Jones spoke in remembrance of 1943 classmates and credited the following planning committee members:

Class of 1942 -- chair Norma Kies Blattner, Marge Blaylock Hilderbrand, Dorothy Bruening Huff, Mildred Seabaugh Migit and Doris Campbell Langston;

Class of 1943 -- chair Marjorie Miller Thompson, Ginny Jones, Martha Lou Foster McGinty, Ed and Wanda Bierscwal and Alice Regenhardt Lewis.

Shivelbine's Music Store provided a keyboard for the event and was sent a drawing of the old Central High School on Pacific Street with signatures of those present as a thank you.