Plans finalized

for the first 100 Years of AHS Grads.  Friday, Sept 21, 5-7pm.  Tailgate $5, Tailgate and game ticket $10.  Tee shirts and Alumni tumblers for sale $10 each. Discount on Friday.....pay your yearly dues for only $5.  One day only for this discount.  Any alum paying dues on Friday will be elgible for door prizes. If you paid your dues during the Summer Banquet event, you qualify, but you must be present at the tailgate event. Come on out, volunteers needed, it will be a fun event.  Lots of support from the AHS Rec Office........cash checks credit cards accepted........OOH RAH  OOH RAH.GO HAWKS

Another Reunion

I sent an e mail already to those classmates that have registered their e mail address with me. This is for the rest and also for yáll in case you erased that e mail........ Celebrating the 100th graduating class from Ankeny High School has begun. The first event is Homecoming, Friday, September 21, 2012. There will be a pregame tailgate with a Hy Vee catered meal, from 5 to 7 pm at Ankeny High School. I was advised of a new location, on the street between the stadium and the school, not at the softball field. There will AHS souvenirs for sale, including a tee shirt and the alumni plastic glass with screw top and straw. Next, mark your calendar, it is official. Saturday, July 13, 2013......this will be the FOUR Class Reunion at the Big Red Shed where this past summer's reunion was held. Since the 4 classes, 64-65-66-67 were the last four year high school, from Neveln High School......it is a great time for a BIG party. The committee has had one meeting so far. We would like to have some volunteers to help out over the winter and next summer. I don't know how many meetings will be held over the winter, but since I will not be in Iowa, I need someone to step up and be our class representative. The next meeting is Wednesday, October 10, 7 pm at the Clipper. Come on up to the meeting and bring some ideas.......ooh rah ooh rah........ Follow the blog this winter for more information: http://Ankeny4classreunion.blogspot.com

The Party is Over

This used to be our mascot picture. Does it really look like an Iowa Hawkeye? Well, they thought so, back in the 50's and made us stop using it. Carol had the bakery put it on our cake......really neat...... Melinda, Mary Beth, Becky and Carol Ferguson Reed

Liz and Lonnie Shipley, Denny and Diane Evans, Cyndy Audriana and Grandma Mary Beth Justice Overton

Gary Roberts, Becky and Phil Bryant, Carol and Chuck Warner

Sue and Jim Davidson, Teri Hess Berglund, Darilyn Hoffman Betsinger.

Diane Thimmesch,Mick and Sandy Albaugh Deb and Bobby Terrell

Debbie Davis, Sharon and Mitch Arney and Gary Warner.

Mark and Ronda drove up from Stockport, Larry and Kim are in Maxwell, and the group.

It is Sunday, July 8, 2012,

on Thursday the class reunion events begin. 7PM, gather at the Beer Tent on Summerfest grounds, NW ASH Drive. Go north from First street. Friday evening banquet, 5 pm at Lake Side Center, on NW Ash Drive. We can walk to the beer tent after the banquet if anyone is interested. Saturday is a big day. 9 am Parade. 1230pm meet at the Legion Hall for the Historical Society BBQ. After lunch, you are free to visit the Museums, drive around town, relax.......6pm our class party begins. 6-7pm Happy Hour. 7 pm dinner. 8pm short program, then group photo and relax and visit time with the old farts......clean up starts at 11pm, unless you are too tired to stay that long, we will begin earlier.....NO Sunday events, unless you want to join the class of 72 on a bus tour of Ankeny. Meet at the Historical House museum at 1 pm. Carnival ongoing and beer tent at the leisure garden open, 10 pm fireworks. If anyone needs a tour of Ankeny, let me know, via private car.......I hope we have some surprise classmates show up at the last minute. OOH RAH OOH RAH

REMINDER

about the reunion. First deadline is June 20, for $15 per person. After that date it will cost you $20 per person, including at the door at 8 pm when you are late. BYOB. Meal served. Pop and ice available. Come on home to the party, so you can go back home and tell your friends that ask about the weekend........ Wasn't that a party? Wahoo...........

Reunion Schedule

has been finalized, maybe......for our Class Party. Our party is at the Big Red Shed, east of Ankeny on Enterprise Road/First Street, FOUR miles. You can't miss it, it is a BIG RED SHED on the south side of the road. 6-7 pm Happy Hour 7 PM Meal 8 PM Program and group photo 11 PM the party is over, time for clean up unless you old farts have to leave earlier. The committee requests everyone help with clean up. Thank you.... See y'all in July........OOH RAH OOH RAH

The Schedule

of events, monetary donations, and all pertinent information is in the mail. There is also a list of classmates that refuse to keep in touch with me or try to find out anything about alumni activities....Hope to here from yáll real soon, see you in July.....ooh rah.........C

Update on the Summer

reunion. The Big Red Shed has been reserved for our party. The menu and caterer has been chosen. All the information is ready to be mailed, I am just waiting for the e mail form to be posted, so I can include the new dues guidelines. If it isn't ready by this week end, I will do the mailing anyway. I assume it is a long term/short term donation for dues. Maybe a lifetime donation? It is TAX DEDUCTIBLE, so keep that in mind.
Our Party will be Saturday, July 14, 2012, at the Big Red Shed, 4 miles east of town, on Enterprise Road. (Also known as First Street). Nothing formal, casual dress. The Big REd Shed is a facility large enough to hold 200, full kitchen, lots of stalls in the bathrooms ;D, big smile.......sofas, TV. Outdoors picnic tables, gazebo, fire pit if we choose to rent it (in case of mosquitos), large brick maze floor design. The business is famous for its Sept through October corn maze, hayrack rides and space for family BBQ's. The last 2 AHS 45th year reunions have been held at this facility and we are planning the 100th year reunion here also, for the last 4 year high school, years 1964-67.
I hope you classmates have marked your calendars already and will return for our reunion. Ankeny has changed, not only in population, but businesses all down Delaware Road, used to be corn fields and a dirt road, a new high school and a 2nd new high school to open in the fall of 2014, it is a beautiful CITY now.....we hope to arrange a bus for city and school tours during the reunion.
See y'all this summer......carry on........ooh rah ooh rah........