Fantastic Facts About the Class of 1963

In August of 2007, I published a post entitled Where in the World is......The Class of '63. This question was asked totally out of my curiosity about where my former classmates were living and what had happened to all of us since we last met. For the most part Jim and I, except for a couple of past reunions, have lost contact with most of the people we had known so well in our school days. Over the last few months, Jennifer and I with the help of others have spent a lot of time trying to locate as many of us as possible, first just to re-establish communication via the blog and more recently to generate interest in attending a 45th reunion for our class. For you data driven folks and for those of you who are just curious as I was, I have some Fantastic Facts about the Class of 63’ that go a long way in answering the question of where we are today.

Fantastic Fact # 1: According to the 1963 school annual there were 86 of us who graduated that year.

Fantastic Fact # 2: According to the research that we have done, sadly, there have been 8 deaths in our class since we graduated. (that we know of) See the Post Bobcat Treasure: Jade ... Candles ... and Auld Lang Syne .... for more information.

Fantastic Fact # 3: After our research we have been unable to locate 11 of our classmates. This means we don’t have an address, an email address, or a telephone number for these people.

Fantastic Fact # 4: We have been able to locate 67 of our class members.

Fantastic Fact # 5: 51 of our classmates still live in Texas and 16 live in “foreign” states outside of Texas.

Fantastic Fact # 6: I am able to give you a breakdown of where we are living by cities, towns, or areas (just for fun)

In Texas: 11 still live in Childress, 1 in Quanah, 1 in Vernon, 1 in Lake Graham, 1 in Woodway, 3 in the Houston Area, 6 in Amarillo, 2 in Austin, 4 in the San Antonio area, 10 in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, 5 in Lubbock, 2 in Midland, 1 in Longview, 1 in Shamrock, 1 in Abilene, and 1 in Dumas Total of 51

Outside of Texas: 4 are lucky enough to live in beautiful Colorado, 2 in the great state of Washington, and 1 each in the following states: Louisiana, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, Arkansas, California, and South Carolina for a total of 16

Fantastic Fact #7: Another interesting bit of information about the Graduating Class of 1963 concerns the decline of the number in the class from 1960 to 1963. These numbers would be a major source of concern in education today! Each of the missing students would have to be tracked to see if they would be dropouts or if they graduated from another school or if they received a GED.

In 1960 as freshmen there were 120 in the class.
In 1961 as sophomores there were 107 in the class.
In 1962 as juniors there were 100 in the class
In 1963 as seniors there were 86 who graduated.

Fantastic Fact #8: The Class of 1963 will celebrate its 45th class reunion in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 17-19, 2008. Each of you has been sent a "save the date" card so you can add the dates to your calendar. If you have not received this card by the end of next week, please email Nicki or Jennifer so your address can be checked for accuracy on our part.

Fantastic Fact #9: Jennifer has been working very hard to find the best hotel deals for us in Las Vegas, as well a place for our social events and other entertainment. She has published this information in on our reunion blog. The Best Reunion Ever for the Class of 1963

Fantastic Fact #10: We are looking forward to seeing each of you in Las Vegas. We know that by now you are considering whether or not you will be able to come. We hope you will give serious thought to coming and that you will soon give us and your other classmates a postive response.

Fantastic Fact #11: We are very interested in getting to know each of you as you are today. We hope you will consider giving us an overview of your life since 1963 so we can publish this information on the blog Getting to Know You: Show and Tell along with your 1963 graduation picture. We want to make this very easy for you, so send your bio to either Jennifer or Nicki and we will publish it as a post featuring you and your family. We do love to hear those stories about how you met your spouse and we love grandchildren, too.