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The 50th Reunion is alive and well and headed into it’s final stretch. For the Committee that has worked for almost 2 years on planning, we are elated at the number of friends we will see in October. There are some surprises in this reunion that will make it to best Amarillo has ever seen. To do this, we are borrowing a few things from past reunions that were good and making them better and we will be having some really good times together.

Let me urge those of you who have not had time to send in their reunion information to do so as soon as you can. We really are not as interested in the money as we are the biographical information for the reunion book that Carter is preparing. If by chance your package did not make it to your house, just let any member of the committee know and we’ll get you one out by the fastest means known.

There will be another mailing in about 3 weeks to give you some updated information, especially some of you are going on the bus tour. This is going to be a Chartered bus (with facilities) and a professional tour guide to keep you entertained. Some of you who have not been here for a few weeks will find it’s not the same old town we once knew. The tour will be motoring by some places and stopping at others. You’ll get a tour of the new Fair Grounds area, with the new Dick Bivins Stadium where they put in an elevator so I could ride up to the new press box.

All Amarillo high school games are recorded and replayed on cable, and fans in the stadium now have a replay screen on the scoreboard. Texas Sports has ranked it as the #2 of the top 10 stadiums in Texas.

We’ll tour around the new Civic Center and stop at the new Performing Arts Center just opened this year. We’ll get a private tour of one of the most beautiful high tech theatres built to date. We’ll throw in some nostalgia so you’ll know some of the more famous buildings we knew are still around. And we might as well, take the historic Route 66 trip where the tourists now call home on West 6th in San Jacinto. Antiques anyone? Then we’ll be at the Medical Center that is still developing even with 6 hospitals operating… literally.

Oh, you must see the Helium Time Monument which will be opened in 200 years, the Discovery Center and the just completed Amarillo Botanical Gardens that is 4 stories tall, climatologically perfect so Amarillo can now say that we do in fact have a Palm Tree, which might be considered an endangered species here.

Let’s take a lunch break at River Breaks Ranch, complete with some great Barbecue and a wagon ride and a real Cattle drive (bring cameras and a lot of memory cards). After lunch you can nap on the bus for about 5 minutes till we reach the Cadillac Ranch where, depending on time, we will stop for photos and car painting and maybe even an autograph by the guy who will host our Friday evening party. (I know him, but I don’t want to be a name dropper). And then for all you gals who like shopping, we will drive right past Westgate Mall which has grown to the size of a relatively small Texas city.

Then we will be back at the hotel ready to hop on vans to go to Stanley’s, not the drive-in, but the famous Toad Hall for great food and drink and I understand some surprise celebrities, like maybe the Vice-President who may bring his WMD and two shells. Not.

There, you are up to date on the bus tour and half the bus has already been reserved, so there are 22 seats remaining. I already have mine reserved, because most of the things I haven’t even seen yet.

So please get your biography and family pictures, your event registration sheet and money if you have it to Carter Kelly.


Questions? Call or write me or Sondra and we’ll make up something.

Charlie B

Inside this web you will find information on all your fellow classmates including a roster page with names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail links.

As you browse through the roster, please feel free to contact us with any updates to the information we have listed here.  Your help will be greatly appreciated.  We would like to be able to notify everyone of information pertinent to our class.

Be sure to visit each of the pages on our site.  You will find a page that has information and schedules of any planned events, along with a contact page with the names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail links of those working to keep the class alive. There's a page with some pictures of your friends, some fun pages to test your memory and tickle your funny-bone, and even a page with the history of AHS. Don't forget to leave a message on the GUESTBOOK... we want to know about you and what you think about our efforts.