CLASS OF 1945 REUNION COMING UP

About 50 former Cape Central Tigers will be in Cape Girardeau next weekend to celebrate the class of 1945's 55-year reunion.

The reunion will begin Friday with a mixer at 6:30 p.m. in the Sierra Room at the Holiday Inn and will continue at 11:30 a.m. Saturday with a barbecue picnic at the South County Park, shelter No. 20.

Festivities will conclude Saturday night with a buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Sierra Room.

Planned activities include dinner entertainment by class members, a "picture place" in an ice cream parlor setting, a display of old sports items Friday night and a boys' singing group that will sing songs from the class's high school days.

Also, guests will honor deceased class members and charter members of the committees that planned the first reunion.

Because of a paper shortage caused by World War II, the class of 1945 did not have a yearbook. However, the class wrote its own yearbook in 1995, had it printed and distributed it at the 50-year reunion.

About 80 people have made reservations. Class members from California, Michigan, Kansas, Texas, Illinois, South Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri will converge on Cape Girardeau for the reunion.

For more information or to make reservations, call 335-9037, 335-1503 or 334-9420.