Members of the Class of 1964

July 3, 2010 - There is a city-wide high school reunion planned for October 1, 2010 for all classes of Dale County High School of Ozark, D.A. Smith High School, Ozark High School and Carroll High School.  For details click on this link.

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09/23/09 - The Carroll High School class of 1964 held their 45-year reunion at the Ozark Country Club on Oct. 3, 2009 

Jaann "Amenda" Wells   

Louisa (Weezie ... Squege in '64) Barendse    

Mary-Sue "Barkett" Switzer  

Linda "Blevins" Knight    

Gerald (Butch) Bonds    

Richard Buelow  

Sara "Childree" Bowman   E-Mail Me 

Jane "Clark" Taylor   

Patricia "Coleman" Willis   E-Mail Me 

Shan Cretin   
Web Adddress: http://mysite.verizon.net/res0rbj9/NEWYEAR2004/greetings2004.html 

Cephas H. "Cy" Lisenby   

Kenneth (KD) Davenport    

Tim Emory      

Mary "Frost" Tomlin    

Doris "Hill" Johnson    E-mail Me

Sandra "Howell" Aplin     or
Web Address:  www.victorialynnchildrensclothing.com

Linda "Jones" Romani   

Janet (Jan) "Kehl" Dibos     

Frank Kingsley   E-Mail Me 

Sandra (Sandy) "Long" Wood   

Judy "Martin" Tarter   

Richard (Dick) Overall   

Katherine (Kathey) "Pennington"  Ignacio    

Mike Rhodes     

Rodney Richie   

Jenna "Rosser" Showalter   

Alan Roth   E-Mail Me 

Carolyn "Rudd" Griggs   

Jo Ann "Saunders" Robinson   E-Mail Me 

Jean "Searcy" Parker  E-mail Me

Darlene "Sheppard" Deady   

Larry Skipper    

Barbara "Wallace" Scott    

Gail "Weld" Lisenby   

Joe (Joe Dan) Wilkinson    E-mail Me

Class of 1964 at Homecoming 1979
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Click Here to read a story included in the 1964 Eaglet written by Shan Cretin.

Here's what was happening in the community, the school, and the world when this class was setting off on their future endeavors.

Local Events

A petition was started in Ozark,   calling for a wet-dry referendum by the Citizens Committee for Legal Control. Some anti-wet people were trying to publish the names on the petition, but didn't succeed in their attempts.

Carroll High School majorettes for the 63-64 school were Carolyn Rudd, drum majorette, Peggy Cook,  Janann Tilley, and Sandy Adkinson, head majorette.

Miss Ozark was crowned from the largest field of contestants in the history of the pageant. Katie Hester was crowned Miss Ozark, Judy Martin was the first alternate, and Marsha Foster placed third. Miss Hester moved to the area about 14 months before the pageant, when her father became the manager of the Hiway Host motel. She calls Atlanta her "original hometown" since she lived there for several years, and she attended Banks High School in Birmingham for the past three years.

1963-64 was a year of prosperity in Ozark.  Some of the businesses that had grand openings during this period were: Kwik Check Super Market, Sears and Roebuck catalogue store, the Shoe Mart, Super Five and Ten variety store, Firestone tire and appliance, Gunter Dunn Furniture store, Top Dollar store, and Cohen's Mill Outlet store.  Two building and construction business came to Ozark also, Deloney Lumbar Company moved it's operation to Ozark and Mastercraft Roofing company opened. New home construction totaled 66 homes valued at $696,000.

Graduation of the Class of 1964
The second largest class in the history of CHS graduated on May 22, 1964 with 157 students receiving their diplomas. The largest class prior to 1964 was the class of 1961 which had 190 students. The theme of the graduation exercise was "Blueprints for Footprints".
The Reverend Paul E. Cutchins gave the invocation, while Tina Joe Warrick presented a solo performance of "May The Good Lord Bless and Keep You".
Salutatorians for the class were Carolyn Rudd and Pete Bonasso while the Valedictorians were Charles Huey and Cheryl Cretin. Carolyn Rudd gave an address on "Planned Pathways", Pete Bonasso gave his address on "Human Investment", Charles Huey's address was "Lighted Lamps" and Cheryl Cretin gave an address on "Youth Marches On".

Linda Sue Parker, the 14 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Parker, was selected as the top winner in the WSFA-TV Search for Talent.

There was a record enrollment at the begining of the 63-64 school year, with 3180 students enrolled at 5 different schools.

Pack 20 Executive Committee/Den Mothers were: Bill Carroll, Jack Hyde, Troy Simpson, Howard Parrish, Jack Stokes, Jimmy Sollie, Lonnie McKeel, David Hidle, Sidney Walker, Ralph Nash, Edward Ward, Mrs. Merton Fine, Mrs. Mary Adams, Mrs. John Thornberry, Mrs. A.L. Benefield, Mrs. Wayne Steltenpohl, Mrs. Ollie Richie, Mrs. Jerry Ann Prater, Mrs. Laurel Sand, Mrs. Don Snellgrove, Mrs. Abraham Saliba, and Mrs. Barbara Morris.

Firestone opened it's doors and was managed by William Hardwick, with William Whitehead acting as Credit Manager.

State Events

Governor George Wallace vowed to make sure that Highway 231 would be four-laned, all of the way to the Florida state line.

Governor George Wallace was sworn in as Alabama Governor with a pledge of "segregation forever".

National Events

President Kennedy met Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, the first meeting between a Roman Catholic U.S. chief executive and the head of the Catholic Church.

200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington D.C., where the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front
of the Lincoln Memorial.

The "hot line" communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation. 

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.  His body was laid to rest on Nov. 25 in the Arlington National Cemetery.

The first members of the professional football's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio.

The Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts with each state had to be roughly equal in population.

A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, the previous November.

Actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second.

In a notorious case, 38 residents of a Queens, N.Y.  neighborhood failed to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death.

President Lyndon Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

President Kennedy proposed a joint U.S./Soviet expedition to the moon.

James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, 0hio.

Four children were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at a black Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala.

Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss. 

President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).

World Events

Pope John XXIII died at the age of 81. He was succeeded by Pope Paul VI, who was crowned the 262nd head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Buddhist monk Quang Duc set himself on fire on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. 

South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.

Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the African state of Tanzania.

Twin disasters struck Spain as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people died in a train crash.

The world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6.

Guest Book Entries

Rene' (Rennie) Johnson
Class_of: 64
E-Mail Me  
Date: 01 Oct 2009

Comments:

I wasn't in the Carrol High class of '64, but I wish my father hadn't been transferred so that I could be one of you! Congratulations to all of you on your reunion this weekend!! 

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Patricia Coleman Willis
Class_of: 1964
Date: 07 Oct 2009
Comments:

Th 45th reunion was the greatest!! We had a wonderful class of talented people and everyone attending looked great! Hard to believe 45 years have passed!! Carroll High School had a group of educators that went above and beyond to give us the necessary information to succeed in life. I just wish I had payed more attention!!!!
Everyone needs to attend at least one class reunion. 
A big thank you to all involved in preparation for the event. It was well organized in every area and everyone attending looked as if they were having fun! Again Thank you all!
Pat Coleman Willis

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Jo Ann "Saunders" Robinson 
Class_of: 1964
Date: 26 Sep 2009

Comments:

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE AT THE 
REUNION. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE SHERRY LORANGER IS??

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Doris Hill
Class of: 64
Date: 20 May 2008

Comments:

Can anyone tell me what happened to Scott Mc Garvey and Russell Turner? They were friends of mine. Thanks

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Doris Hill Johnson
Class_of: 64
Date: 08 Apr 2008

Comments:

Butch Bonds, ( 64) your email addy is broken...doesn't work...please update

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Name: Rusty Wesson
Class_of: 1962-65
Date: March 27, 2007

Comments

I desperately looking for a long lost friend Grace White, lived in Daleville her father was in the military. After graduation she came to Birmingham and attended shool here. Lost contact with her back in the 60's. If you know where she is or how to contact her please email me @ mlittle@goarmstrong.com  or call me on my cell number 205-531-2982, or 1-800-876-4745 ask for Rusty. If you have a year book for the years 1962-65 to see if she is in there. Thanks,

Rusty Wesson

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Name: sue barkett switzer
Class_of: 1964
Date: January 19, 2007

Comments

Hi, I am living in Ozark again. If you come to town we are the only Switzer's in the phone book. I just retired from 33 years at Ft. Rucker Elementary School. There I was Mary Switzer( who is that?) at home i was sue barkett ( no one remembered Switzer for a few years) So now I am Mary-Sue Barkett Switzer and getting back into Portrait painting (after an auto acicent had to give it up) If you know Katy Hesters married name and address please let me know. I lost her wedding invitation and have been looking for her ever since.

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Name: Jenna Rosser Showalter
Class_of: 1964
Date: June 05, 2005

Comments

Hi fellow classmates from the great class of '64. I am living in Dothan, so if anyone of you is in this area, let me know.

It's hard to believe that we have been out of school so long - it seems like just yesterday that we graduated.

I FINALLY had my first child at the ripe old age of 42 - he is now 16 and my pride and joy!

Hope to hear from all of you!

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Name: Sandra Long
Class_of: 1964
Date: May 22, 2005

Comments

Hello Fellow Classmates, My email has changed and the current one is skw46@cox.net . Although I am not good at corresponding, I just want you to know that many of you have crossed my mind through the past 40+ (incredible, isn't it) years. Perhaps our paths will cross again... it would be fun to visit and reminisce. Sandy

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Name: Jane Clark Taylor
Class_of: 1964
Date: April 21, 2005

Comments

Hello Class of '64, My email has changed to jtaylorld@aol.com . Would love to hear from my you! J-

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Name:

Marsha Christian Crabtree

Class_of:

1964

Email_Address:

ronlc@bellsouth.net 

Date:

27 Feb 2005

Comments

In July 2004, I posted a message asking for help in finding George Doggette'64. He attended Carroll HS before moving to Germany in 1962. Sadly, I recently learned that George died in 1996 in a motorcycle accident in South Africa. After touring Europe & Greece with the German rock band "Gipsy Love" (& others) during the 1970s, he married & raised a family in South Africa. I am still trying to find out more information about his life after I knew him in Germany. The fact that he had a musical career comes as a HUGE surprise to all of us, since he never showed any musical talents or ambitions when we knew him! Because I have been in touch with several Carroll HS grads about finding George, I thought you would want to know what I was able to find out, even as sad as it is. Best wishes ~ Marsha Christian'65

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Name:

kay dee

Class_of:

1964

Email_Address:

 

Date:

19 Aug 2002

Comments

one of the best teachers i;ve ever know is catherine ( austin ) teal , i surely hope she is well and very happy if you know this lady , tell her about this message please thanks

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Name:

Jean (Searcy) Parker

Class_of:

1964

Email_Address:

 

Date:

16 Nov 2001

Comments

This is a great web site. Would love to hear from anyone who graduated Class of '64.

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Name:

Cy & Gail (Weld) Lisenby

Class_of:

1964

Email_Address:

 

Date:

27 Jun 2000

Comments

This Web Site is GREAT!!! We are in Germany for the second time....coming home soon. There's no place like Zark-A-Go-Go!!!! Cy and I have two beautiful daughters, Kenna (age 24 - P.E. Teacher) and Kami (age 21 - "Our Flower Child....Great Artist". Sure would love to hear from everyone! We can't wait to get back to the good 'ol USA....and help keep that P.C. Road HOT. The first thing We're doing is heading to "Scooners" for a little P.C. Bopping!!!

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Name: 

Tim Emory

Class_of:

"64"

Email_Address:

 

Date:

17 Dec 1999

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