Submitted by Linda Newman
The Woodlawn High School Classes of 1964 and 1965 held an annual reunion June 25, at Center Missionary Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, where a potluck meal and all the trimmings was severed. Attending in the Class of 1964 were: Rachel McKinney Ashcraft and her husband Steve Ashcraft, of Rye Community, Jimmie Boyd and his wife Sylvia Woolley Boyd, Lynn Woolley all of the Woodlawn Community, Dina Kimbrell Hankins of the Glendale/Fennyville Community, Linda Rushing and her husband Paul Newman, and Johnny Leon Reed all of the Calmer Community, Elizabeth (Liz) Woolley Robertson, and her husband Burl Dean Robertson of Star City, Darrell Rodgers, and his wife Dorothy of Mountain View, AR., Robert Thomas of Sheridan, Dewey West and his wife Katie West of Monticello, AR., Glenda Smith Norton and her husband Jimmy Norton of Pine Bluff, AR., Mike Thomas and his wife Barbara Thomas and their Son, Michael, of the Surplus Springs, Pine Bluff, AR.
Attending in the Class of 1965 were: Benny Dixon of Rison, Mary Ann Jacks Parrish and her husband Donald Parrish of the Rowell Community, Barbara Ashcraft Martin and her husband Paul Martin of Fordyce, AR., Ruth Ann Norton of Pine Bluff, AR., and Joan Taylor Wilkerson of Monticello, AR.
A lot of visiting, and lots of wonderful stories being told on each other while we were in school back in the days. One of the major parts of our years in school, we were considered as the North and South Kids. The North kids were label as the good kids, Whereas the south kids didn't have a chance to be good, they had to be (except) or check out of school the first of every year to pick cotton.
The meal that was served consisted of barbecue pulled pork, potato salad, bake beans, fresh tomatoes from Bradley County, sweet onion, dill pickles, vegetables, tea, coffee, cokes, and a lot of delicious deserts.
Our next reunion will be June 23, 2023 at 3 p.m. at the same place, Center Missionary Baptist Church at Rowell. Come and join us, you will have a wonderful time of your life, laughing.
A very special thank you to Michael Thomas for doing the meats, and to Sydnie Newman and Dayton Rogers for all of the help with serving the food and cleaning up behind all of us.