Lisa Roberson Oakley

via email: 01/29/2024

We will be on vacation the May dates. Thanks. Lisa

Greetings from Pensacola! I hope this finds you well. Thanks so

much for including me in the invitation to the Class of 1974’s

upcoming anniversary festivities. It’s really hard to believe it’s

been half a century, isn’t it?

First of all, I wanted to confirm that my email address is still the

same as what you have on your table, mf@mjflynn.net . I will be

happy to provide any other contact information you might wish to

compile. I should also mention that I have not been on Facebook in

years, so I won’t be able to keep up with developments and

discussions posted there in the coming months. Have you

considered a parallel group on Instagram maybe? I am there, as

you know. Just a thought.

Unfortunately the timing of the anniversary weekend is going to be

a little tricky for me. I am leaving for two weeks in Colorado just a

couple of days after the anniversary weekend in Decatur, so I am a

little doubtful whether I will be able to make it. Deposits have been

payed on my Colorado lodgings, so it won't be a simple matter just

to reschedule my vacation. Still, I will give it some thought and

things could evolve before late May.

Take care, and let everyone know I am alive and well!

All the best,

Mike,

Mike

Hello! This is Al Bingham. I had registered for the reunion weekend

but, unfortunately, it now looks as if Becky and I will be unable to

attend. I hope you all have a wonderful event.

Hope you are doing well! Someone forwarded the reunion email to

me but the links are blocked. I will not be able to attend but it looks

like a weekend of great celebrations.

My current email address is frankiestrother@gmail.com

Thank you.

Frankie

Pam Sipes Scheet

via email: 03/27/2024

At some point I had filled out a reunion form indicating my husband

and I would be attending the 50th reunion, but now, unfortunately,

a conflict has arisen and we will not be able to make it. If there is

anyone else I need to inform please let me know. I’ll miss seeing

everyone and I hope to be there for the next one!

Thanks,

Pam Sipes Scheet

All Karen Hansen Brown

Patricia Chumley Suggs

via email 04/17/2024

What? Fifty years!!!

Thank you for organizing the upcoming reunion -- and all the ones

before that! … You have put so much work, positive energy and

generosity of spirit into keeping up with people and pulling all this

together! The older I get, the more I appreciate your efforts. Thank

you doing all this.

I am writing to tell you that regretfully, Pat Suggs and I (Karen

Brown) won’t be attending this year.

However, if anyone is interested in Zooming, or having an annual

Zoom or other occasional online meet-up, that would work better

for me . . . It might be a good way of sharing photos and memories,

and of even having fairly personal group and/or breakout room

conversations. If you would be interested in this, I would be very

willing to help organize.

I hope you have a great reunion weekend. We will be thinking of

you, and regretting we are not with you. Please forgive our

absence, and keep us on your email list.

Warmly,

Karen and Pat

aka

Karen Hansen Brown

Patricia Chumley Suggs

Mary Anne Dunlap

via email: 04/21/2024

I will be unable to attend the reunion. Thanks, Mary Anne Dunlap

Dan O’Donnell

via email: 04/22/2024

Due to my work schedule, I won’t be able to make it. Y’all have fun

and say hi to Gary Kulaw and Debbie (Sherrod) Dumas for me.

Dan

Richard Richardson

via Facebook: 04/26/2024

I will be in Destin celebrating our own family reunion. Tell all that I

said God bless them.

Don Richter

via email: 05/01/2024

I so regret that I won’t be able to attend our 50th DHS reunion. My

wife and I now live near Boulder, CO, where for the past year I’ve

been struggling with major health challenges. With you, I share

deep affection for our many caring and talented classmates and I

pray for everyone’s wellbeing. Wishing you all a wonderful time as

you gather to celebrate this milestone!

Cheering you on ~ Don Richter

Phil Anderson

via email: 05/01/2024

Thanks to the committee for all the work and prep for the reunion!

Phil

Dianna Braudaway Ray

via email: 05/01/2024

Hey guys! First of all I’m shocked that you found me. I was so

excited to get the info. Unfortunately the timing is bad for me. My

firstborn grandson is graduating from highs school. Hope there is a

great turnout and you have loads of fun.

Dianna Braudaway Ray

Mary Anne Dunlap

via webform: 05/02/2024

Retired after career as Physical Therapist in Nashville Tn. Moved

with partner to Charleston,SC. Built house and just moving in. 30

min from beach. Loving life and happy to be here.

Jim Dykes

via direct entry: 05/02/2024

added: 05/04/2024

I worked for 40 years in IT. Having been employed with shuttle

subcontractor USBI at both MSFC/KSC, then moved to private

sector work for 11 years in Atlanta before returning to the Huntsville

area for 23 more years of full-time work. Currently working part-

time after getting married and retiring in 2018.

I discovered that the domain of dhs1974.org was available when

getting ready for the 50th Reunion. Since I previously devoted a

portion of my dycom.us domain for class info from its creation in

2003, I elected to purchase it for use by the class. Let me know if

you have any issues or suggestions regarding the website.

Addional note. I’ve been fortunate to meet a few well-known

people in my time on this earth so far, but I must admit that the

time Steven Tyler of Aerosmith reached out to shake my hand while

backstage in Birmingham was one of the most profound.

Sheri Johns Herron

via webform: 05/03/2024

Hey great class of 1974! I have been so blessed with a wonderful life!

Rick and I have been married since 1981, we have 3 awesome

children and 4 grands! Digging back in my life archives--- I played

tennis at Calhoun (state champ!!!) I went to Florida State receiving

my degree in Meteorology. I worked at the National Weather

Service as an intern. I came back home and worked in the Defense

Industry in Huntsville until retiring in 2018. I met a lot of wonderful

people and traveled around the country. As faith in Christ has been

my life, Rick and I have invested in our local churches, I have been

involved in women's and children's ministries. I was able to go to

the Dominican Republic twice to speak to women missionaries and

visit and share with the local women in the villages. - Sheri Johns

Herron

Our past 50 years

Bob went to Auburn and I went to Alabama for college. We

married on my actual graduation day and for the past 46 years we

have lived a truly blessed life.

We first lived in Auburn-and Bob started the process of becoming

an Episcopal priest. The bishop sent us to Sheffield, AL to work for a

few years in a parish. Our son was born at Helen Keller hospital

during our time in Sheffield. From there we went to Wisconsin for

seminary. Three years flew by and our middle daughter was born in

Oconomowac, WI. Bob’s first church was in Mentone, AL. And our

third child was born while we were there. Four years later, we

moved to Talladega, AL to serve at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and

raised our children there for 17 years. Feeling called to the mission

field, we went to Damascus, Syria. Unfortunately, we were only able

to sty 2 of the 3 years we committed to due to the growing unrest of

the country. We moved back to AL in 2007, to Grace Episcopal

Church, Cullman. Bob served there until he retired in 2014. Since

his retirement, he has been doing interim work: An African

American church in Birmingham for 2 years, the largest episcopal

church in Pensacola for 1 year, back to Auburn for 3 years, Edisto

Island, SC for 1 year, then back to Auburn for another year. We are

enjoying full retirement back in Cullman, waiting to see where the

Lord leads us next.

My work has been helping Bob and raising our children. I love

being a clergy spouse and now playing with our 6 grandchildren.

Kay Loyd Blackwell

Mary Anne Dunlap

via webform: 05/14/2024

We have just completed and moved into our new home right out of

Charleston SC. Also just got a new puppy and this makes travel

very limited. I hope all of my classmates enjoy each other. What a

blessing it is to be able to connect with each other. Please put a lot

of pics on facebook. Cheers!

Emma Allen

via webform: 05/16/2024

I plan to attend the event at the McEntire House and possibly the

event at the Double Tree. Will probably "tag along" with someone. I

attended Alabama A&M University, then went to graduate school

at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. I love to travel and

went to West Africa (Ghana), earlier this year. I look forward to

seeing each of you. Emma Allen

Carol Smith Murray

via webform: 05/18/2024

I so hated to miss the reunion but my husband and I are on an

extended trip to Europe and the UK. We had planned around the

reunion being Labor Day as usual. We are spending 72 days on

ships to 22 countries and about the same amount of time in

Scotland, Ireland and England. I have two adorable grandkids that I

am really missing while being away. Hope to see everyone at the

next reunion.

Kathy Sherrill Lucia

via webform: 05/18/2024

I have to change my status to not attending the reunion. I hate to

not come, but my daughter needs us in AZ at this time. She

delivered our 3rd grandchild (her 2nd child) on Mother's Day. A

JOYOUS event, but the timing just doesn't allow me to be in AL next

weekend.

Nancy Stewart Peterson

via email: 05/22/2024

Hello classmates!

I am so very disappointed to miss the reunion! I looked a year out

and somehow missed the plan. We booked flights, tour guides,

trains, hotels, and dinners for 3 weeks in England and Scotland. So,

I am sending this from Isle of Skye to say how disappointed I am to

not be with you!

After graduation from Alabama, I stayed in Decatur and substitute

taught with our old teachers for several years. In 1981 I married Phil

Peterson, who was a blind date set up by Katie Harris, his realtor.

We lived in Decatur, Mountain Brook, St. Louis, and now Greenville,

SC. I have been a substitute teacher, Realtor, and Carlisle clothing

consultant. We have no children. I have had Shetland Sheepdogs

since 1979-if you know me well, you know I love animals! My

parents are still living independently at Lake Martin in Alex City.

They are 97 and 98. We visit one week at least every month. If you

come to booming Greenville please email me at

nspeterson@bellsouth.net and I would love to see you. Please have

a 55th reunion with very early save the date notice as we love to

travel. I will be thinking of you all this weekend! I look forward to

reading what you all have been doing.

Fondly,

Nancy Stewart Peterson

Chip Winand

via webform: 05/25/2024

I just returned from three weeks of vacation to visit the five young

grand daughters in Kaufman Tx and Peoria Il. We and our four

daughters (aged 23 to 40) just can seem to create any boys..... The

23 year old just got engaged so there's yet hope for gender balance

in this world....

Cathy and I will celebrate 44 years together this July. Most of our

time has been in Texas since meeting at Auburn. So sorry to miss

this big milestone! I saw some of the gang at the State

Championship football reunion a couple years ago.

Sorry to miss out on the big event. Thank you, organizers, for

finding so many to be a part of this big day.

I'm hoping that the Lord will come back before there's need for a

60th reunion! We're blessed to be active both physically and

spiritually, but the aches and pains - they do remind us that these

are but early tents we live in for a while.

Go Red Raiders!

Chip Winand, aka the Belgian soccer kicker

Scott Terry

via email (Deb): 05/26/2024

The past 50 years have been packed with adventures, starting with

me meeting the love of my life the first semester of my senior year

of college and marrying Deborah (Deb) during our Christmas

break, then graduating from Jacksonville State University in 1978

with a degree in Finance. When you know, you know!

After graduation, we moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where I

landed my first BIG job as a supervisor at Blue Cross Blue Shield of

Tennessee. It didn’t take long to know, that wasn’t the best fit for

me…supervising 30 women! Later that year my wife and I moved

back to her home town in Albertville, Alabama and I enjoyed

learning the construction business and using a gift that God had

given me in building from little things to houses.

The 46 1/2 years that my wife and I have been married we’ve been

blessed with two children, our son Blake, who is married for 20

years and he and his wife have four children and live in Texas and

our daughter, Michele and her husband have two children who live

in Tuscaloosa only a mile from my wife and I. So we are blessed with

six grandchildren ranging from pre-school to college age and love

spending time with our family and watching these young people

grow into amazing young adults.

We’ve had the opportunity to have our own businesses in both

retail and wholesale as well as me working for a great company in

my last job in Central Florida ( outside sales for 19 years) , and my

wife has been in full-time ministry for almost 30 years up until

when recently we retired. God knew I needed a strong godly wife!

Among our adventure, we have moved 18 times over these 46 1/2

years of marriage and many times just to a different home that we

built or remodeled in the same town . We’ve lived in Tennessee,

Alabama and Florida, twice in Orlando and twice in Tuscaloosa,

which is where we currently reside.

We love traveling and have been on multiple cruises from the

Caribbeans to Alaska , visiting many of the states as well as Hawaii

and Canada and have been on mission trips to Belize.

We are settled in Tuscaloosa, home of the Crimson Tide who I love

watching and attending many of sporting events. Needless to say,

we are loving retirement. I currently work a very part-time job at

my Dream job, which is Ole Colony Golf course where I get free golf

and cart, range balls, use of driving range and a paycheck! We are

members of the Church Of The Higlands where we both serve and

love hosting Small Group in our home. I love this little life we have!

Thank you, Deb

Toby Davis

via email: 06/12/2024

My wife and I came in to Decatur a day early for the reunion and

stayed a day after Memorial Day to avoid the holiday traffic.

Therefore we stayed at the DoubleTree Hotel 5 nights. There were

other costs involved as shown below.

Friday night event dinner for the two of us: $50.

Saturday night reunion event for the two of us: $170.

Gas cost to travel from Georgia and back home: $161.

Food and other miscellaneous expenses during our visit: $127.

Sunday morning brunch at 609 Social Market: $18.

Five nights at the Doubletree: $969.

Grand total: $1,495.

Being with classmate friends for our 50th year celebration:

PRICELESS!

Toby Davis