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Guthrie High School     Class of 1961    Guthrie, Oklahoma
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NEW STUFF ON THE SITE

  • Two New Reunion-Homecoming 2011 Pages (click link on
    the links in the navigation bar on the left) & new pics below.
  • Gayle's Kynewisbok with bios downloadable. See Reunion-
    Homecoming Page 1
  • Newly discovered Cotteral 2nd & 6th grade pics
  • Homecoming video played at the Homecoming assembly
  • Videos of our Homecoming Assembly to view or download
    (on the new Reunion pages)
  • Waiting for you to email us photos, events, etc. to:
    danny@ghs1961.org
Welcome to the Class of 1961 Website--now in year 6 !


Last Updated:

Wednesday,
January 18, 2012

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If you would like to help pay the hosting cost of $14 per month, send
a check (for any amount)  to:
Judith Balsiger, 423 E Washington, Guthrie, OK 73044, make it
out to "Class of 1961, and put in the notation: "Website."
To find any word or name in this site, type it in
the white space below, then click the Search
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Our Website began November 10,
2006 as a better way to share class
photos instead of emailing them among
class members. Your ideas and
suggestions are welcomed to help
improve it.

SUGGESTION  FROM  
JD  METCALF
Got a
suggestion..Now that
we are all eligible for
Medicare, maybe
could all compare
notes or get some
feedback from other
classmates on what
is the best Medicare
supplement plans
etc...Whatdaya think?
J. D. Metcalf
(To answer his
suggestion, email JD at
jdmetcalf@cox.net

WE NEED MORE photos (in jpeg format), yearbook
scans, anything you can send. Either scan them or
have Sherry scan them, and email them to
danny@ghs1961.org. Your class will thank you for it.

DOWNLOAD ANYTHING FROM THIS SITE
Feel free to download any photos, videos, information,
links, just right-click on it and select either  "Save Target
As" or "Save Picture As" then download it into your
computer.
Other GHS Alum
Classes
: We want to
connect your class
website to our Links
page, and we also want
you to post a link to this
website on your site.  
Let's get as many GHS
alum websites as we can
linked together. No need
to ask us first.

The GHS Alumni Page
has information about
upcoming class
reunions.
To see the GHS
Alumni Page, click
this link:
Alumni Page
Keep checking our website frequently. Content
changes as To make this your internet home page, in
your Internet Explorer browswer, go to
Tools/Option/Home Page, and insert this address:  
www.ghs1961.org
OLD TIME RADIO SHOWS
At this website you can
listen and download old
time radio shows FREE.  
They are all in public
domain so they are free.  
Here's the link:  
www.freeotrshows.com




Check out Chris
Evans' website for
the latest in Guthrie
sports:
Guthrie Sports Page
Anyone Have ROTC
Films?  P
lease ask on
the GHS 1961 website if
anyone has any home
movies of the 89er Drill
Platoon performing
during half-time or in
competition at Arlington
or Huntsville.  I am
trying to locate footage
of the drill team to
transfer to a dvd.  I  will  
pay any shipping
expenses and will return
the original film to the
owner along with a new
dvd.  Your assistance is
most greatly
appreciated.  Thank
you.                     Joe  
Hurley                   
cruzer55@sbcglobal.net
NEW GUTHRIE NEWS PAGE
The Guthrie Sports Page has
launched a new online source for
Guthrie news.  Click this link:
Guthrie News Page link
Song Facts
Here's a website where you can find background
information on just about any song you can think of.  
Either enter the title or click on the first letter of the title to
find it, plus thousands more:
www.songfacts.com
1st Row (L to R) Loren Busbee, Cloy Don Kyle, Lloyd Hawk, Vance Brown, Jimmy
Holden, Idrving Hambrook, Billy Barnhart
2nd Row (L to R) Joyce Woodard, Sarah Jean Willson, Linda Sue Wright, Carolyn
Preston, Donna Hunt, Nola Beth Tippitt, Beatrice Trumble, Lettie Smith
3rd Row (L to R) Johnny Tribble, Ramona Rowe, Judy Lowery, Ada (?), Marie
Huffer, Shirley Martin, Verna Bell Martin, Larry Fordyce
4th Row (L to R) Frank Mock, Buck Coonfield, Kenny Burdick, Butch Parker, Jimmy
Gene Casey, Pat Casey, Wilbur Anderson, Bill Merrill
1st Row (L to R) Jimmy Craddock, Frank Mock, George Green, Irving
Hambrook, Joe Ashby, Lloyd Hawk, Nolan Scheihing
2nd Row (L to R) Billy Barnhart, Joyce Woodard, Toby Sharp, Sue Carol
Husted, George Brawner, Donna Eubanks, Konnie Blehm, Sarah Jean
Willson, Beatrice Trumble, Robert Friend
3rd Row (L to R) Ramona Rowe, Charlotte Pugh, Johnny Tribble, Cloy
Don Kyle, Jon Harrison, Bill Merrill, Pat Casey, Ralph Fruendt, Mrs. Gravett
4th Row (L to R) Donna Hunt, Marilyn Wright, Lynda White, Charles
Parker, Judy Lowery, John Covington, John D. Cooper, Larry Fordyce,
Wilbur (Jackie) Anderson
Sixth Grade
Lost Cotteral Class Photos
Thanks to Ramona Rowe, here are two recently discovered class
photos from Cotteral School. Feel free to download these and all other
photos on this website.
Second Grade
Monthly Class Dinner Meetings Resumed

Our third Tuesday Class Dinner Meetings will resume, beginning
Tuesday, February 21, at Stables Restaurant, Noble & North Division, at
6:00 pm.  Everyone is welcome to attend!  
BYOMP
(Bring your own method of payment)
Lost Class Photos Recently Found and
Sent In:
Teacher Photos from Central School, taken and
sent in by Nancy-Lorenzen-Ferriman:


Please sign the
Guesbook so we
can see who visits!

Thank you!
Mrs. Francis Leeper, Central
Principal 1953
Miss Herschi 5th Grade 1953
Miss Hershey's 5th Grade 1953
Ms Kroehler 3rd Grade Central
Teacher 1953
Ms Kroehler Third Grade Central Teacher 1953
New Reunion-Homecoming Pages!
Two new pages, devoted exclusively to our recent Homecoming-Reunion have
been created.  Click on the links on the navigation bar at left.
GUTHRIE
SPORTS
American Bandstand Lives On
and we're invited!





           
    






“Bandstand’s Best” is a website devoted exclusively to the memories we all have of our
favorite after-school dance TV show, American Bandstand.  In it you will find photos from the
shows, fan magazine articles, information about the program and the regulars, the dancers we
learned the dances from. Remember Arlene Sullivan and Kenny Rossi, Eddie Kelly and Bunny
Gibson?  When I contacted the “Bandstand’s Best” website asking permission to put their link
on our class site, Charles W. Amann III responded with not only a “yes” but with an invitation to
our class to come to the original Bandstand studio when we are in Philadelphia for a vip tour
conducted by one of the show’s regular dancers.  He is helping to preserve the studio as a
Bandstand museum of sorts, and soon will publish a book about the show.  Here, in part, is his
response to my request:
Should you or any members of the class ever be in Philadelphia, allow me to arrange a personal tour of
the studio and perhaps have one of the American Bandstand Regulars accompany the tour.  The book
cover appears on the homepage of the website. Further, if you go up to the tabs and read "About the
Author" and "About Us" you will see more about me and my mission plan. The book -- to be released
next year -- hopefully in the late spring is titled The Princes and Princesses of Dance/The Follies of
Fame. When it comes time for release, I will let you know how you may go about purchasing it, but it will
be available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. There are excerpts from the book in "The Book"
tab on the website.
The studio of which I am speaking is the original American Bandstand Studio. I am one of the supporters
and contributors of the maintenance of the studio and its preservation and was the concept adviser to the
mural which was unveiled at the 2007 reunion in the studio (Studio B).  Well, a big shoutout from all the
American Bandstand Regulars to their fans. Let's hear from your class as to who their favorites were.
Please give us your input on the blogs, because the public show of interest is so important in keeping
the memory alive.  BTW I was on your website today. It's just wonderful.  Charles W Amann III

Here is the link to the “Bandstand’s Best” website:
"Bandstand's Best" website

Here is the link to their new page with our class mentioned, photos from our yearbook and a
link to our class website:
The Page that Features our Class
This is the book soon to be published, The Princes and Princesses of Dance/The Follies of
Fame:
FACEBOOK  GROUPS  TO  JOIN

If you have a FaceBook account, there are some
groups you may want to join. Copy and paste
these group names in the Search on FaceBook.  
Draggin' Main has video of the first Draggin' Main
event.

1.Guthrie High (account name attached to the
class group)
2.GHS Class of 1961 (our class group you
can join)
3.Guthrie, Oklahoma, My Home Town.
4.Draggin' Main in Guthrie
5.Guthrie High School Alumni
Photos with permission of Charles W
Amann III The Princes and Princesses
of Dance.
New Reunion Pics
Sherry emailed these pics, most of which were taken at the Oklahoma
Territorial Museum, where we visited after the Homecoming Parade.