From: dewey [mailto:dewey@scanlayr.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:14 PM
Subject: LSMSA Class of 1986 Reunion

 

My Fellow Eagles:

 

The 20-year reunion of the LSMSA Class of 1986 will be held in
Natchitoches on May 19-21, 2006.  Yes, you are that old.

 

The tentative schedule is to have a family gathering Friday night, an
adult gathering Saturday night with child care available, and maybe a
brunch or some such epilogue on Sunday.  So mark your calendar, pull
out your 1986 Rubicon (Choice of a New Generation) and get ready to
get wistful, because less than seven months from now you’ll be having
the most fun you’ve had since special projects week.

 

Reunion weekend is now held on graduation weekend.  At last year’s
graduation ceremony, the classes of 1985 and 1995 lined both sides of
Prather Coliseum, and the class of 2005 processed through them.  Nice
touch.  The graduation speaker was Dr. Bobby Alost, who looks and
sounds EXACTLY the same.  He told some heartwarming stories about the
good old days (the ‘80’s) and was warmly received by the graduating
seniors, most of whom were born in 1986.

 

Dr. Rodney Allen and Cindy Allen were apparently preserved in Lucite
along with Dr. Alost.  Stanley M. Powell (retired) is still getting
around fairly well, but looks a year or two older than you remember.
It was fun to see Dr. Sharon (Sturdivant) Williams with a beer in hand
at the class of 1985’s reunion.  Other remaining faculty and staff
members whom I think I saw included:

Elizabeth Hall
Martha Kay Talbert
James Loftin
Jim Finley
David Wood
Art Williams
Pat Widhalm (he’s now the school’s director)
Myrna Schexnider
Bill Ebarb
Bill McBride

Apologies to anyone I forgot or didn’t see.  They’ll probably all
still be there next spring for you to see for yourself.

 

Natchitoches: it’s as pretty a town as you’ve ever seen, the kind of
place you wish you’d paid more attention to when you were there for
two years.  There are now over 50 bed-and-breakfasts.  Everything is
Steel this and Magnolias that.  Miss Teen Natchitoches is Sarah
Williams, daughter of Dr. Art and Dr. Sharon.

 

I won’t give away too much, but there’s a real-live coffeehouse
directly across from 715 College Avenue, while a former off-campus
hangout has been shuttered for a long time, from the looks of it.
It’s still possible to get drive-through liquor on the strip – it
turns out that they’ll sell you drinks even if you don’t have a fake
LSMSA student ID.

 

The official location of the reunion festivities, and a list of B&B’s
within walking distance of that location, will be sent soon, once
everything’s finalized.

 

Finally, some electronic housekeeping: Please respond to this e-mail
[via a forward to dewey@scanlayr.com] to let me know you received it
– you don’t need to say anything, just let me know you got it.  If
you get more than one copy, please give me a response from any address
where you receive this message.  I am working from a cumbersome list
of all e-mail addresses any of you ever had, and I will delete the
addresses from which I don’t get a human response.  I will create a
“where are they now” list that I will send in a month or so for
any classmates that don’t respond.  Please forward this to anyone
you’re in contact with – I only have e-mail addresses for about
half of our class, and many of those are outdated.

 

If you have scanned photos (or video or audio) from back in the d-a-y,
please find a way to get them to me and we’ll see if we can do some
kind of video/slideshow.  With the help of the LSMSA media center,
I’ve recovered some school videos from 1984-1986, which I hope to
incorporate into the presentation.  If you want to e-mail then-and-now
photos, do that, too.

 

Thanks,

 

-Dewey Scandurro

dewey@scanlayr.com