Part two: Fort Scott all-school reunion weekend

Editor's Note: This is the second edition of a two-part series.

Our reunion adventure continues. On Saturday, the second day of the reunion, we decided to have breakfast at the Nu Grille. We had heard they had made a lot of changes. We hardly recognized the place. Rooms had been added and it had been completely redecorated. When eating out, my very favorite breakfast consists of sausage gravy, biscuits and hash browns. When the waitress said they made their own hash browns, not frozen ones, I could hardly wait for those dudes. Let me tell you they were worth waiting for. They were absolutely delicious.

After breakfast we had a list of people to visit, so started making the rounds, and before we knew it, it was time for our reunion luncheon at Eugene Ware.

It was a yummy luncheon prepared by Georgia Brown and her helpers. I was told she does lots of catering. Fort Scott is very fortunate to have such a great catering service. I was very impressed with her two granddaughters who waited tables. They looked to be maybe 10 and 12 years old. (Give or take). They kept our coffee pots and our water glasses filled and they were "Johnny on the spot" when anything was needed. We all lingered over our meal, again catching up on the latest news since our last visit to Fort Scott. Robert Dempsey sang a song for us. He is good. Before we knew it, the photographer had arrived to take our class pictures. That is always lots of fun, especially for the photographer, who has the job of getting everyone to smile and all heads showing.

The rest of the afternoon was spent looking at pictures and collages and all sorts of paraphernalia bringing back many memories.

Before we knew it, it was time to again go back to our host's house, Shirley and Varrell Forgey, and get ready to partake of "Chicken Annie chicken" at the football field. It was so hot and muggy that I wasn't looking forward to sitting out in the hot, blistering sun. Our 1949 class chairman Katherine Ruhl, who is the manager of Cavalry Crossing, invited anyone who wanted to go out there and eat our boxed chicken dinner in their air conditioned dining room. Let me tell you, about 20 of us held our hands up and couldn't get out there fast enough. What a fun evening, one of our classmates Dwight King who is a great pianist played some very nice dinner music for us.

Before we knew it, it was time to head back to our bed and breakfast and get some shut eye so that we would be "bright eyed and bushy tailed" the next morning at our farewell breakfast at Eugene Ware, again prepared by Georgia Brown. It was so sad telling everyone goodbye and more hugs and tears, but hopefully we will all be back in five years, God willing.

The class of 1947 had 83 who graduated and have lost 21. The class of 1948 had 140 graduates and have lost 36. The class of 1949 had 112 graduates and has lost 32.

Between the three classes there were 96 total that attended various activities during the reunion.