Lamar 1959 Alumni

Sned your photos, drawings, newspaper clippings, etc. to roverton@nyfinancial.com. You can take your precious photos, newspaper clippings, etc. to a FEDEX Kinko store, a Staples or even some Walgreen stores and they will scan them in for you so that you can send them digitally. Some will even send the digital images for you. Your classmates want to know what is going on with you.

And yes, we are still rocking and rolling!

The Top 50 Songs of 1959

1.
Mack The Knife Bobby Darin

2.
The Battle Of New Orleans Johnny Horton

3.
Venus Frankie Avalon

4.
Stagger Lee Lloyd Price

5.
The Three Bells Browns

6.
Come Softly To Me Fleetwoods

7.
Lonely Boy Paul Anka

8.
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Platters

9.
Heartaches By the Number Guy Mitchell

10.
Sleep Walk Santo & Johnny

11.
Kansas City Wilbert Harrison

12.
A Big Hunk Of Love Elvis Presley

13.
Mr. Blue Fleetwoods

14.
The Happy Organ Dave Baby Cortez

15
Personality Lloyd Price

16.
Put Your Head On My Shoulder Paul Anka

17.
Charlie Brown Coasters

18.
Donna Ritchie Valens

19.
Sixteen Candles Crests

20.
Sea Of Love Phil Phillips

21.
Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) Impalas

22.
My Happiness Connie Francis

23.
There Goes My Baby Drifters

24.
Don't You Know Della Reese

25.
Dream Lover Bobby Darin

26.
All American Boy Bill Parsons (Bobby Bare)

27.
(Now & Then There's) A Fool Such As I Elvis Presley

28.
My Heart Is An Open Book Carl Dobkins Jr.

29.
Pink Shoe Laces Dodie Stevens

30.
Lavender Blue Sammy Turner

31.
It's Just A Matter Of Time Brook Benton

32.
I'm Gonna Get Married Lloyd Price

33.
Tiger Fabian

34.
Alvin's Harmonica David Seville & Chipmunks

35.
Gotta Travel On Billy Grammer

36.
In The Mood Ernie Fields

37.
Til I Kissed You Everly Brothers

38.
Teen Beat Sandy Nelson

39.
Quiet Village Martin Denny

40.
Waterloo Stonewall jackson

41.
Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb Ed Byrnes & Connie Stevens

42.
I Need Your Love Tonight Elvis Presley

43.
Tragedy Thomas Wayne

44.
Red River Rock Johnny & Hurricanes

45.
Lipstick On Your Collar Connie Francis

46.
Lonely Street Andy Williams

47.
Guitar Boogie Shuffle Virtues

48.
A Teenager In Love Dion & Belmonts

49.
Petite Fleur Chris Barber

50.
A Lover's Question Clyde McPhatter

The reunion dates are October 9 and October 10 at the Fort Bend Country Club. There is a committee working feverishly -- at the last meeting Charles Edwards, Laverne Kubosh Gibson, Annette Hartfiel Schmidt, Mollie Riley Lehmann, Gerald Albrecht, Martin Schulze, Betty Matthies Curry, Rochelle Mellon, and Carolyn Hruzek Eiteman were present. Next meeting will be Monday, May 4 at 7 pm at the Ft. Bend Country Club.

Send your pictures, memorials, views of the school now for us out-of-towners, messages from former teachers, old photos, newspaper clippings, etc. to the webmistress Rosilyn Hoffman Overton at roverton@nyfinancial.com

U.S. Statistics in 1959                             U.S. Statistics in 2009
                                                                 (or most recent available)

President: Dwight D. Eisenhower         President: Barrack Obama
Vice President: Richard M. Nixon         Vice President: Joe Biden
Population: 177,829,628                         Population: 303,824,640 (July 2008 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: 69.9 years      Life expectancy at Birth: 77.8 years
                                                                  For men: 75.82 For women: 80.4 (2005)

                                                                  Life expectancy for person aged 65: 18.7
                                                                  For men: 17.2    For women: 20

Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 4.6           Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 5.2 in 2007

The Homicide rate reached a high of 10.6 in 1980.)