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Booker T. Washington Senior High School Class of 1960 reunion
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bag with the year and number of the class reunion at each reunion gathering. Our school colors are red and white and our mascot is a lion. Our shirts are proudly worn at reunions or when requested by classmates’ families at their funerals. After our first reunion, we formed a small group known as the steering committee which meets each year at the home of Anita and William Crawford during the Christmas holidays to discuss what is going on with classmates, their kids and grandkids. This event is called BTW Dinner Night and has been held for more than 35 years. This year our beloved chairperson of more than 50 years, Eugenia W. Chambers, died. The class was blessed to have someone with her dedication and love for her high school classmates. Class reunions were her dream and she made all the hard work look easy. To say that we’ll miss her is an understatement. To honor her dedicated service, she’ll be remembered on the t-shirts this year. Reported by Anita W. Crawford, New Orleans, Louisiana. The Booker T. Washington High School Class of 1960 makes t-shirts in red and white school colors with their mascot, a lion.
e were known then to other schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the Washington Lions. We began to celebrate class reunions twenty years after graduating. Our first reunion was celebrated with a meet and greet, dinner at a local restaurant, picnic at Audubon Park and Zoo, a church service and our first cruise. This has been the agenda that we’ve followed for all of our class reunions since. We have sailed to many places on our cruises: the Eastern and Western Caribbean, Hawaiian Islands, and The Inside and Outside Passages of Alaska. We have sailed on many cruise lines including Princess, Norwegian, Carnival and most recently, MSC Cruises. Our class has been fortunate to have a great travel agent in Darlene Thomas of Thomas Travel and Cruise, wife of classmate Reginald Thomas. We’ve had shirts made that showed where we traveled on our reunion trips. In addition, we’ve used some interesting mottos on the shirts such as “Cruising into the New Millennium” and “Striving for Excellence Past, Present and Future.” Attendees have received mementoes in a class
The Booker T. Washington Class of 1960 includes a cruise as part of their reunion program! 2021 REUNION CELEBRATIONS! v REUNIONS 11
