Provo High Class of 1960 Committee Lunch at Brick Oven

Paul Coon explains golf plans to Kathryn Heal Knight.
Susan Field Walles will make BIG name tags.
Linda Wightman Fleming collects the money ($30 per person) and extra donations (PLEASE!). Kathy Ostler Fryer is putting together a decoration committee.
Jeanne Merrell Niesen looks like Coco Chanel.
Doc Hansen is arranging the dinner menu. Kathy Davis Allman will select a dance combo. (Suggestions?) Linda Cannon Aukshun wants to help, too.

Sixteen Provo High Class of 1960 pals met for lunch today at the Brick Oven. We reviewed plans for our 50th reunion next July 2 and 3, 2010, but mostly we chatted and joked and had a great time. We are going to hold more of these events in the future prior to the reunion. We want to get all of the bulldogs in the St. George area together sometime this fall or winter, too. We handed out the list of 51 deceased classmates, 59 lost classmates and 376 total classmates. Want to find someone? Send us a message!
Our next official meeting is October 7th, location to be announced later. Please join us.

Left to right: Doc Hansen, Kathy Davis Allman, Linda Cannon Aukshun, Susan Field Walles, Ray Hintze, Charles and Diana Dowling, Paul Coon, Kathryn Heal Knight, Bob Valentine, Linda Wightman Fleming, Burt Robbins, Jeanne Merrell Nielsen, Kathy Ostler Fryer, Marce Croft and Wayne Clarke (not pictured).

Provo High drama teacher Ray Jones has died.

Ray B. Jones

1925 ~ 2009

Our brother, uncle and friend, Ray Barnett Jones, passed away August 7, 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Born April 19, 1925 in Magna, Utah to Ebenezer M. and Lucy Jones, he grew up in the towns of Malad and Pleasant View, Idaho and Hunter, Utah, developing close friendships with his extended family.

Ray was an active member of the LDS Church and served missions in the northeastern states and Switzerland/Austria. Fluent in German, while on his mission, he interpreted for President David O. McKay during the Swiss Temple dedication ceremonies. He loved reminiscing about his mission experiences.

From his youth he had a passion for the stage and appeared in many local productions and LDS films. However, his friends and colleagues will remember Ray best as the gifted speech, drama and debate instructor at Provo High School where he taught for 30 years. His students were involved extensively in speech and drama competitions, consistently seizing top honors. Ray also judged high school Shakespeare competitions, and one of the awards was named for him. Many students who acted in his prize-winning Shakespeare plays became his lifelong friends, and several have pursued careers in the theater.

Together with colleagues from Provo High, Ray hosted summer student tours throughout Europe for many years. As a result, he developed a vast knowledge of all things European and became an authority on the history and culture of England. Nothing pleased him more than a good conversation about the monarchy of Great Britain.

Ray was a talented speaker and master story-teller, regularly entertaining a wide array of audiences with his wit and intriguing life experiences. He was blessed with a remarkable memory and became the repository for family stories and history, stemming from his association with his family in his childhood in Idaho and Utah.

Ray is survived by his brothers, Earl B. (Maude) Jones and Bernell B. (Gloria) Jones, both of Salt Lake City; 7 nephews; 2 nieces; and many great-nephews and nieces. He is preceded in death by his parents and brother, Eldon M. Jones.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 12:00 noon at McDougal Funeral Home, 4330 South Redwood Road where viewings will be held Monday, 6-8 p.m. and Tuesday, 11-11:45 a.m. prior to services. In lieu of flowers, Ray's family suggests donations be made to the Utah Shakespearean Festival, of which Ray was an ardent supporter.

"When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer."

-William Shakespeare

What do you want to do at the reunion?

Many PHS 1960 graduates will travel some distance to attend the reunion dinner/dance on Friday, July 2, 2010 at 6 to 10 p.m. at Academy Square and the golf tournament and picnic the next day. What about other activities. We now have the addresses of all but about 60 of the graduates. Some of you may want to organize other breakfast, lunches, open-houses for your high school friends. If you need other addresses of "lost" classmates, send an email to Bob Valentine - ryvalentine@comcast.net

Let's have all kinds of parties and get-together activities before, during and after the reunion next year.

The "lost" list continues to decline!

I am searching, searching for you, da da da duh. How does the song go?

I sent out an email to most of you and have received a lot of new information.

We are now down to only 58 "lost" graduates. The "lost" list as of August 11, 2009 now includes:

Lora Allen, Carolyn Hundley Anderson, Linda Anderson, Ronald A. Anderson, Sandra Janet Anderson, Joan Barton,
William Berrett, Lillian Imogene Brayton, Della Brown, Margaret Brown, Sandy Brown, Virginia Bullock, Calvin Robert Christensen, Jay Cox, Gary Frederick Crosby, Don Dahlquist, Stan David, Elizabeth (Eliza) Eunice Decker, Robert Ernest Eccle, Carl Fox, Don L. Gale, Thomas Giles, Karen Diane Grover, Chris Leon Harrison, Karen Hatch, Carol Lee Haward, Marcia Haws, Barbara Jean Henderson, Betty Lou House, Helen Hudson, Lavert Jensen, Larry Jepson, David Johnson, Gary Johnston, William Kent (Bill) Jolley, Tim Jones, Zelma Lorraine Keel, Roger Lewis, Eliza Gay McCoy, Joyce McKee, Melanie Mitchell, Judy Rae Morris, Joyce Kathleen Kandra Nuttall, Margo Olds, Marilyn Joanne Olson, Louise Marva Peay, Myrna Joann Reed, Josephine Vivian Root, Karen Lynette Scott, Sherry Seamons, Leland Smith, Robert Stone, Dean Strebel, Donna Tilton (Oates) in San Antonio, TX, Helen Margaret Timm, Robert Weiner, Camille Wilde.

Can you locate some of these classmates?

Regards, Bob Valentine