Aiken High School Class of 1971

Amy Potts

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Reunion 2012 Pictures

Thanks to Jim Bunch who took such wonderful pictures of our 41st Reunion!

 

Jim and Mary George Bunch

Hover over any photo for caption.  Click on any photo to start slideshow.  Enjoy!

Anne Surasky Hipp, Barbara Schwartz Cheatham
Robert Hall with Terry and Jo Robinson
Mary Mobley Jordan and Vickie Speed Gaines
Barbara Schwartz Cheatham, Charlie Miller, Cricket Grant, Melissa Muckenfuss Stroup, Robert Hall.
Sandra Best (AHS ’69) who helped at check-in desk, Charlie Miller (Reunion 2012 Chairman), Mary George Bunch (Reunion 2012 Treasurer) Thanks to you all!
Eddie Barber and Linda Dominick
Dancing: Pat Pinkard and Sandra Best Pierce (both AHS ’69). Background: Oliver Dixon (standing), Libby Wright Moler and Linda Westmoreland Jolley.
Deborah Bradham Durant, Ponda Caldwell Alvanos, Mary George Bunch, Mickey Teague, and Debbie Goodson Alvanos
Maurice Wimberly
Vickie Speed Gaines, Barbara Schwartz Cheatham, and Jimmy Burch. Jimmy (Pam Hunt) Hamilton speaking with Marilyn Usry Smith in background.
Charlie Miller
Mike and Kathleen Kilpatrick looking at yearbook display
Karen Burdette making a point to Melissa Muckenfuss Stroup
Loretta Brown Green and Bessie Smith Bush
John Henry Simmons, Mattie Ramsey Bush, Moses Bush, Dorothy Walker Williams
Linda Dominick
Carol Willis Smith and her husband, Tony Smith (AHS ’70)
Carolyn Moore DeSimone and John DeSimone
Leon Lott
Loretta Brown Green, Patty Love Bentley, Steve Stapleton
Edwin and Ponda Alvanos Caldwell
Mickey Teague, Jeff Edeburn, Jimmy Burch. Gary Simmons in background.
Janet Elliott Painter
Charlie Miller and Willie Bell
Sara and Eddie Dixon, Jr.
Debbie Martin Sanders and Bill Rinehart
Jimmy (Pam Hunt) Hamilton, Farrell and Kathy Wooley
Drew Murphy and Libby Wright Moler (AHS ’70)
Karen Burdette and Rusty Findley
Doug and Siriwan Burns
Vicki Colalucci and Jacqueline Fannon, both St. Angela 1971 graduates.
David Hagin (AHS ’70), Tony Smith (AHS ’70), and Debby Lybrand Hagins
Gloria Ryans Bell and Dorothy Walker Williams
Tom and Janie Carey
It was a sweet evening!
Linda Raiford Dowdy and Robert Hall
(Dancing) I recognize Gloria Bell Ryan’s arm!, David Clerc, Earnest Walker, Jr. and his wife Sara, and Herbert Johnson, Tommy Carey and his wife Janie, Vicki Colalucci (At. Angela ’71), Bill Rinehart; (Conga Line in back) Don Courtney, Henrietta (Byron) Barber, Barbara Schwartz Cheatham (barely), Tom Burckhalter, and Terry McLain (hey what are you doing to Tom, Terry??); (Sitting or standing in background) Sandra Best (AHS ’69), Vicki Clerc, Dierdre Clerc Tice, Loretta Green.
View from the dance floor!
I recognize: Theresa Parks Courtney, Jeff Edeburn, Charlie and Diane Toole Miller, John and Mary Mobley Jordan, Linda Raiford Dowdy, Patty Hensley Lawhead, David Hagins (AHS ’70), John Henry Simmons.
Maurice and Connie Wimberley
Roger Stephens and his wife, Pam.
Jimmy Cue and Jeannette Raiford Cue (AHS ’72)
Jerry and Marilyn Usry Smith
David and Vicki Clerc
Debby Moore Duncan, Gary Simmons, Amy Payne Potts, Betsy Spencer
Line Dancing 3
Dancing 1
Not sure, but I think that is Betsy Spencer talking to Keith Morris in foreground. Behind them, Ed Hudak (AHS ’70) seating his wife Kathy Hutto Hudak, Mary Duryea Hansen, Lisa Chesser Hosang standing behind her seated husband Mike Hosang (AHS ’64), seated at right are Debbie Moore Duncan and Teresa Jennings Davis. Far right table in back are Sandi Snow Fonville, Melissa Muckenfuss Stroup and Barbara Schwartz Cheatham.
Larry Randolph and Karen Burdette
Pam Proctor Oates, Libby Wright Moler, Linda Westmoreland Jolley, Mary George Bunch, and Nancy Harvey Holmes
Mary Duryea Hansen and Dick Verenes
Steve Stapleton
Charlie Miller and Willie Bell making announcements.
Annie Langford Glover and Maurice Wimberley
At table: Byron Barber, Vicki Colalucci (St. Angela ’71), Fran (Ted) Tewkesbury, and Henrietta Barber. Background: Kathy (Farrell Wooley, Willie Bell, Sharon Heath (Ricky) Bell (AHS ’72).
Don Courtney, Art Lee, Gary Simmons
Vickie Colalucci (St. Angela ’71) and Bill Rinehart
Eddie and Debbie Barber, Toni and Leonard Kelley, and Leon Lott.
Harry Poston, Janet Elliott Painter, Jeff Edeburn
(l-r) Nancy Harvey Holmes, Pam Proctor Oates, Denise Siegmund Orr, Sandra Best (behind) Sandi Snow Fonville, Miriam Moler Rhoades, Teresa Jennings Davis, Melissa Muckenfuss Stroup, Pat Scott (AHS ’72), Amy Payne Potts, Steve Stapleton, Barbara Scwartz Cheatham
Mary Duryea Hansen and Debby Lybrand Hagins
Richard (AHS ’70) and Debbie Goodson Alvanos
Herbert Johnson and Mattie Ramsey Bush: (background) Henrietta (Byron) Barber, Theresa and Don Courtney, and Lyanne Franklin Haislip.
Lee Sullivan and Dierdre Clerc Tice (AHS ’72)
Yearbook pictures on display.
Debra Bradham Durand, Ponda Alvanos Caldwell, Mary George Bunch, Mickey Teague, Debbie Goodson Alvanos
Mary Mobley Jordan cuts the cake!
Charlie Miller, Anne Surasky Hipp, Karen Burdette, and Tom Burckhalter
Line Dancing 6
Joey and Laura Barsh, Rocky Williams, Mary Mobley Jordan and John Jordan at the table. Standing in back Rusty Findley, Herbert Johnson, and Patty Love Bentley.
Bridgette and Leon Lott
Kenny (Keith Morris) Crosswhite and Buddy (Louise Horton) Brunson, both AHS ’70.
Cathy Cushman Farrow, David Farrow, and Fran Asbill Fellers.
Cliff Collie and Roger Stephens. Jo (Terry) Robinson seated behind.
Vickie Speed Gaines ans Barbara Schwartz Cheatham
Audrey Cato Thomas and her husband Edwin, and Doris Cannon
Kathleen Kilpatrick, Mike Kilpatrick and Mary George Bunch
Bridgette Lott, Toretha Corley Wright, Leon Lott, and Robert Hall
Debbie Martin Sanders and Bill Rinehart
Terry McLane, Anne Surasky Hipp, Karen Burdette
Chris and Tommy Butler
Roger Stephens, Kenny Crosswhite, Keith Cato
Libby Wright Moler (Class of 1970) and Linda Westmoreland Jolley
Loretta Brown Green, Patty Love Bentley and Lee Sullivan
Doug and Siriwan Burns
Paulette (Doug) Flowers and Barbara Yon Ingram
Jim and Mary George Bunch
Jimmy (AHS ’69) and Pam Hunt Hamilton
Don and Theresa Parks Courtney
Kathleen and Mile Kilpatrick, Carolyn Moore DiSimone.
Don and Theresa Parks Courtney
Gary and Glenda Williams Young
David (AHS ’70) and Debby Lybrand Hagins
I recognize: Buddy Brunson (AHS ’69), Louise Horton Brunson, Rusty and Donna Findley, Debby Lybrand Hagins and her husband David Hagins (AHS ’70), Pat Pinkard (AHS ’69), Tom and Teresa Burckhalter, Larry Randolph and Vickie Hutto (AHS ’73), Charlie Miller, Karen Burdette, Anne Surasky Hipp, Gloria Ryans Bell, Lyanne Franklin Haislip, Don Courtney, Moses Bush, David and Vicki Clerc. Who have I left out?
Gloria Ryans Bell, Pam (Roger) Stephens, Amy Payne Potts
Vicki Colalucci (St. Angela ’71) and Robert Hall.
Jimmy Hamilton (Class of ’70), Farrell and Kathy Wooley
Dorothy Walker Williams and John Henry Simmons
Libby Wright Moler (sister-in-law of Miriam Moler) and Linda Westmoreland Jolley
Pat Scott (AHS ’72) and Carolyn Moore DeSimone
Rocky Williams
Robert Hall and Mattie Ramsey Bush
Line Dancing 2
Gloria Ryans Bell and Willie Bell
Edwin Caldwell, Ponda Alvanos Caldwell, Debbie Goodwin Alvanos, and Richard Alvanos
Henrietta Barber, Vicki Colalucci (St. Angela ’71) and Byron Barber.
So many familiar faces. It was a great attendance!
Bill and Patty Love Bentley
Tom and Janie Carey
Gloria and Willie Bell on either side of Fran Asbill
George Russell Walker, Sylvester Odom, Usey Odom, John Henry Simmons.
Carolyn Moore DeSimone and Mary George Bunch.
Line Dancing 5
Amy Payne Potts talking with Warren Hall, Moses Bush and Sylvester Odom
Keith and Gloria Cato
Kathy and Farrell Wooley
Doug and Paulette Flowers
David Hagins (AHS ’70), Joey Barsh, and Conrad Cooke
Dancing: Faye Alexander (I think!) and Hank Drawdy, Tommy and Janie Carey, Doug and Paulette Flowers, Eda and Kathy Hutto Hudak, Det and Lyanne (Franklin) Haislip. Background: Teresa (Tom) Burckhalter, Larry Randolph and Donna Autrey Hutto, Lee Sullivan.
Denise Siegmund Orr and Sandi Snow Fonville
Denise Siegmund Orr, Miriam Moler Rhoades, Sandi Snow Fonville, Theresa Jennings Davis
Carolyn Moore DeSimone and John DeSimone
Tom Burckhalter and Warren Hall
Line Dancing 4
Paul “Cricket” Grant
Vicki Colalucci (St. Angela ’71) and Byron Barber
Henrietta Barber and Vickie Colalucci and a little bit of Byron
Pam and Roger Stephens with Bill Rinehart
Warren Hall, Moses Bush and Sylvester Odom
Peggy Smith and Bryan Hallman
Fran Tewkesbury, Henrietta Barber, Donna Findley
Usey Odom, Moses and Mattie Walker Bush. Keith Cato in background.
Pat Pinkard (AHS ’69) Thanks for helping at check-in!
Doug and Paulette Flowers
Keith Morris Crosswhite and her husband, Kenny (AHS ’70)
Melissa Muckenfuss Stroup and Debby Lybrand Hagins
Getting reacquainted…
Remembering past days…
Line Dancing 1
Loretta Brown Green
Fran (Ted) Tewkesbury, Henrietta (Byron) Barber, Donna ( Rusty) Findley.
Sara and Eddie Dixon, Jr.
Mary George Bunch, Diedre Clerc Tice (AHS ’72), Vicki Clerc (AHS ’73).
Marilyn Usry Smith
Larry Randolph and Donna Autry Hutto (AHS ’73)
(l-r) Janet Elliott Porter, Carol Willis Smith, Fran Tewkesbury, Henrietta Barber, Ted Tewkesbury, Byron Barber
Kenny Crosswhite and Fran Asbill Fellers.
Dear Friends, Cathy Cushman Farrow and Fran Asbill Fellers.
Bridgette Lott, Toretha Corley Wright, Leon Lott, Robert Hall
Conrad Cooke and Mickey Teague
Anne Surasky Hipp, Karen Burdette, Melissa Muckenfuss Stroup.
Loretta Green and Daniel Aaron stroll down memory lane…
Debbie (AHS ’72) and Eddie Barber
(clockwise) Jeannette Raiford Cue, Connie and Maurice Wimberley, Jimmy Cue, Annie Langford Glover and Earnest Glover, Edwin Thomas, Linda Raiford Dowdy, Audrey Cato (Edwin) Thomas.
Chris and Tommy Butler, Ricky and Sharon Heath (AHS ’72) Bell
Listening to announcements
Linda Raiford Dowdy and Robert Hall
Mattie Ramsey Bush
Betsy Spencer and Barbara Schwartz Cheatham
The food!
Taking a break for announcements.
Jeff Edeburn, Diane Toole Miller (AHS ’72) and Charlie Miller.
Pam Hensley Verenes, Mickey Teague, Pam Hunt Hamilton
Anne Surasky Hipp, Karen Burdette, Tom Burckhalter
I see: Paul Grant, John Jordan, Sylvester Odom speaking to Sara and Eddie Dixon, Jr., Standing in back are Terry McLane (from behind) Jimmy Burch talking with someone I can’ figure out. Do you know?
Doug and Siriwan Burns
John and Mary Mobley Jordan
Miriam Moler Rhoades and Sandi Snow Fonville
More Dancing
Bryan Hallman and his guest Peggy Smith
Sandra Best Pierce (AHS ’69). Sandra is the sister of our classmate Debra Best. Debra could not attend, but, as in past years, Sandra helped with check-in at the door along with her cohort, Pat Pinkard (also AHS ’69) THANKS!!
Glenda Williams Young and her husband, Gary.
Audrey Cato Thomas and Husband Edwin
Tommy Carey, Terry Robinson and Joey Barsh
Jimmy Burch, Debby Lybrand and Don Courtney
Dancing 2
Herbert Johnson and Robert Hall
Mike and Lisa Chesser Hosang
Mickey Teague and Debra Bradham Durant
Anne Surasky Hipp, Don and Theresa Parks Courtney
At table: Bill (Patty Love) Bentley, Bryan Hallman and Peggy Smith, Kathy McLean, Gloria (Keith) Cato. Standing: Drew Murphy.
Theresa and Tom Burckhalter
Annie Langford Glover and Earnest Glover
Dick and Mary Flynt
Pam Hensley Verenes and Linda Dominick
Loretta Green, Connie and Maurice Wimberly, Jimmy Cue and Jeannette Raiford Cue (AHS ’72), Annie Langford Glover, Earnest Glover, Linda Raiford Dowdy, Dorothy Walker Williams
Diane Toole Miller (AHS ’72 and Charlie Miller’s wife) and Keith Morris Crosswhite
Fran Asbill Fellers and Debby Lybrand
Debbie Moore Duncan, Amy Payne Potts, Gary Simmons, and Betsy Spencer
Debra Bradham and Mickey Teague
Laura and Joey Barsh
Pam Proctor Oates and Debbie Moore Duncan.
Before the dancing…
Det and Lyanne Franklin Haislip
Debra Bradham Durand and Mickey Teague
Denise Siegmund Orr
Karen Burdette and Rusty Findley
I recognize (roughly left to right) Eddie and Sara Walker, Marilyn Usry, Karen Burdette, Lyanne Franklin Haislip, Daniel Aaron (I think!), Lyanne Franklin, Willie Bell, Pat Pinkard, Vicki Clerc, John Henry Simmons, Doris Cannon, Donna Autry Hutto, Lee Sullivan, and Sylvester Odom.
Theresa Parks Courtney
Carol, Louise, Teresa, Don and Vickie sharing pictures
Line Dancing 7
Tom Burckhalter, Barabara Schwartz Cheatham, Terry McLane, Theresa Parks Courtney, Louise Horton Brunson, Henrietta (Byron) Barber, Don Courtney and Vicki Colalucci (St. Angela ’71)
Big Thanks to Pat and Sandra!

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Class of 1971 – 50th Reunion

Date: Saturday Oct. 16, 2021

Time: 7pm to 11pm

Location: Newberry Hall, 117 Newberry St, Aiken, SC. 29801

Dress: Casual (fancy dresses and suit are not discouraged!)

Cash Bar

Menu: Heavy Hors d’oeuvres

Music by DJ Photography: Jim Bunch Admission:

$60 per person,in advance

$70 at the door.

(All fees are non-refundable. Any cash left over would be used for future reunions).

Checks can be made out to Aiken HS Class of 1971

Mail checks to:

Aiken HS Class of 1971
PO Box 6071
Aiken, SC 29804

Accepting payments now (Girls paying, please include your maiden name) Come on Out and Have Some Fun Second to None in ‘71