I couldn't resist putting in the memories you supplied at our last reunion!  We all look forward to reading your current comments on your profile pages, and, hopefully, lots of pictures.

From 2002:

Nick Abernathy: I wouldn't trade my growing up years and the good memories of basketball, the Youth Center,learning to play tennis, the Dairy Queen, all my friends at MHS, for anything.

Faye McGuyer Babb: Dairy Queen, Youth Center, and Capitol Theater

Gary Beaver: Arriving at Madisonville High School and being introduced to an event called Sadie Hawkins Day!

Jim Bevill: The dances across the street from school. Eating lunch off campus. Working at Peelers Drug store. Campaigning for Cherry Brown. Going to football games. Cruising in my 50 Ford on 18 cent a gallon gasoline. Burgers at Ferrels ( not sure of the spelling of that ) Snow sledding on cardboard boxes one winter with a lot of you on the golf course. Senior prom. Graduation. Senior party at Ky. Lake. Oh, the memories.

Phyliss Hight Brassey: A party we had and how we stole flowers from some lady's yard to decorate the clubhouse.  A car load of girls driving around the Dairy Queen - and pooling our money for gas.  Skipping school one day with Edith Ann and being spied before we got far (by Ms. Finley, who promptly called our mothers.  and when we got home from Owensboro was the first I knew they were on to us)  The youth center, football games, and just hanging out with "The Dirty Dozen" ...anybody remember who they included?

Bill Cardwell: Playing sports, going to youth center, hanging out with friends

Roy (ikey) Cates: GOING TO THE YOUTH CENTER WITH MY FRIENDS

Horace Clayton: The 1957 undefeated football team.

Bill Clements: Friday night football games and all basketball games, followed up by a visit to the Youth Center, if allowed in and not thrown out by Mrs. Wells.  Hayrides at Ray Cardwell's farm.  Submarine races held nightly at Lake PeeWee.  Sadie Hawkins Day races with Willie, Ronnie and Johnny at my side.  Running track for the Madisonville Maroons.  Being a football team manager with Ronnie Davis, Willie Mills, Ronnie Proctor, Kingsley DeBow, for Coach Bill Welborn.  Being President of the Key Club and going to the national convention with Willie in Chicago and seeing Kim Novak in person.  The weekend after graduation at Walter Wright's cabin on Kentucky Lake.  I was banned from the teen hangout at the Dairy Queen because I dumped a sack full of snakes caught by Bobbie Brown and I on the patio in front of the juke box.  Weekends spent at the city park lake eyeing the babes.

Edith Ann Pritchett Cox: Our junior year the famous pep parade and being suspended for going on it.  The Senior play, being cheerleader, the Thanksgiving games, the proms, Mr Dowdy and the band, Miss Lulu and the annual staff, Beta Club conventions, homecoming parades, Mr Zachem, Mr Hall, Hart Finley, Mrs Thomson blowing her nose and pulling at her bra strap, slumber parties  I had a wonderful group of friends and we had a wonderful time without getting into major trouble.

Michael Crowley: Playing football.

Retha Skaggs Davis:  Married Robert

Marilyn Egbert Derington: Riding around Madisonville, Shady Nook, Duncan's Drive-in, Basketball and football games, sock hops

Sandra Furgerson Donaldson: Trying to catch Toby Fox on Sadie Hawkins Day. Moose Zachem standing in the hall with a bull whip. Study halls. Senior Sneak Day, no fun because everyone else was still in school. Swimming at the old mine cuts.   State basketball tournaments. The snakes spread around the school. The many band trips we took.

Sarah Pike Duffy: I loved the feeling of security and freedom

Robert Dutton: All of them are special

Faye Buffington Gamblin: Working at Duncan's drive in, and would drive from one end of town to the other all the time dragging Main Street. The Dairy Queen had the best hamburgers in town and all the kids would hang out there. Also West Drive in theater.

David Gentry: peg leg blue jeans Dairy Queen and Duncans Drive Inn, roller skating, Cheap gasoline worked as usher at Capitol Theater. Worst job I ever had.

Ann Castle Gillum: So many wonderful memories with Barry, walking across the football field holding on to his arm.  These memories of our courtship will last forever, along with fun times at school especially in studyhall.

Bill Hanner: I recall my dad buying me a '54 Ford Crestline when I was 16.  My high school experience was ok, but college and especially grad school were great experiences.

Jerry Jones: Kentucky Lake, ABC Print Shop, Civil Air Patrol, City Lake, walking to school at Waddill Ave.--Sunset Drive-In, 15-cent movies, Lash Larue, Commando Cody, "The Thing," a skunk on Center Street, double-dating with Jon and Janet in the Rambler, spilled a milk shake in my lap at Ligon's drive-in--sitting behind Nada in history class in the tenth grade.  A fire in the chemistry lab when some phosphorus was taken out (by some irresponsible nut) of the oil bath it was supposed to be stored in.  Shooting rats at the city dump.  Lots of good people in M'ville.

Linda Robertson Jowers: Band Trips & Dean Dowdy, Senior Study Hall (until Mr. Zachem made us take typing), Typing Class sitting next to Johnny Waskom, Mr. Zachem, Glee Club with Miss Williams, Willie D & I being voted "Most Friendly" in Senior Class

Jon Kelly: How simple life was.  Our family always eating dinner together.  The biggest problem in school was having homework to do and taking tests.  Great classmates.  Everyone got along. Good teachers.  The future seemed endless and everything was possible.

Bob Kincheloe: All friends

Carolyn Hoffman Lewing: -We were the last "good" group.  -Tri-Hy-Y Convention.  -Ms. Patterson's Latin Class- professional singers of "The Wayward Wind"   -Decorating for the Jr. Prom   -Friendships...The Best!

Randall Maddox: Swims and parking at lake peewee.

Madonna Hudson Mahurin: Graduation from High School.  Looking forward to college and expanding my world.

Arthur Melton: Getting drivers license

Gay Duncan Midgett: Getting expelled for attending a pep rally in the 10th grade.

John Morton: Senior Sneak Day at Kentucky Lake; All-State Band and Chorus, band trips

Judy McGregor Nichol: Slumber Parties, Hayrides, Church Socials, Record Parties,Basketball Games, Football Games, DriveIn Movie Theatres

Linda Cron Oglesby: Skating and drive-in movies

Jim Peters: moving from Evansville to Madisonville and spending my last year of high school at Madisonville. And getting to know a lot of you folk.

Mike Peters: GOING TO THREE DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOLS

Peggy Pendley Phillips: I liked pep rallies and parades.  I also liked going to Grill uptown and listening to juke box, skating at St. Charles, movies at Capitol Theater.

Phyllis Parker Phillips: Youth Center, pep rallies, football games, hayrides, glee club, "Moose" Zachem, picking up boys by seat of pants, cruising Dairy Queen, PEE WEE lake, etc.

Sherry Hammack Pierce: The Youth Center, proms,holiday & tea dances,Sadie Hawkins Days, coke parties, slumber parties w/Joni James records,music festivals,ball games,Jr.class concessions.Sr.class sponsors angrily labeling Bobby Kincheloe and me "irresponsible" for spending $30 more than '58 class on New Year's dance decors. Mr. Zachem.

Janis Presley Price: There were so many fun times, and we really did do some strange things. Bill Cox compiled a fun list of some of the good things about Madisonville, but he left out shooting rats at the city dump, driving down Main St., pretending to be very short people (not much of a stretch for me); acquiring flowers for a spring dance.  None of it very exciting, but we came through better than most.  Someone asked if I really missed it and would I have wanted to stay at that point.  No.  Growing up has been too much fun!  All of us lived in such a sheltered time and a time of wonderful innocence.  I believe that not since then have young people enjoyed that special quality of life.  It all ended in the '60's with the war and all the atrocities that it brought in its wake.  I saw some of the end result first hand, and that was more than enough.  I do remember so many special people and the times that we enjoyed being young and really wish they were with us still.

Ellen Finley Reddick: I remember not being allowed to join the boys' golf team (have things changed, or what?), so many friends, slumber parties, band, band trips, Youth Center, Dairy Queen, student council, "Moose" and Mr. Hall.  Truly carefree, "Happy Days."

Kenneth Reynolds: Sadie Hawkins Day started it all.  I got my first motorcycle in the 50's too.

Carroll Rickard: GOING TO THE COLLISIUM IN EVANSVILLE AND SEEING ALL THE ROCK AND ROLL SINGERS-FATS DOMINO-CHUCK BERRY-THE PLATTERS-LITTLE RICHARD-THE SURPREMES-FRANKIE AVALON-THAT'S ALL I CAN REMEMBER ASK IKEY CATES ABOUT THE REST.  HE'LL KNOW.

Jim Rickard: (1) Remember when Johnny Waskom was killed
(2) In 1952 I lost a violin solo contest to Ellen Finley

Freda Whitaker Sallee: Going with friends to Pennyrile Park to swim in summer

Allen Seibert: Key club conventions - Parties at friends homes  - Capitol theater,West Drive In, Sunset Drive In, Dairy Queen. Letting the air out of Mr.Hall's car tires.  Mr. Zachem--need him as principal today.

Arletta Warner Slaton: Senior Sneak Day & going to Mammouth Cave with Anna Mock, Linda Downey, Martha Mason, Willa Young

Daphne Dollar Sloan: "The Dirty Dozen," Paying in Dean Dowdy's band, The Senior Play, Youth Center, Miss Williams chorus

Ron Stuart: Too bad things are not as simple now.

Brenda Sisk Tompkins: I remember those days in "study hall" which were held in the auditorium and the confiscation of the "Peyton Place" paper books from students reading them.  I remember going to the Happy Chandler inauguration when he was installed as governor of KY. I remember how excited the girls were when "Love Me Tender" came to the Capitol Theatre.  I remember being scared to death that if I was caught talking in class I would be sent to Mr. Zachem.  I remember how so many people took advantage of Ms. Simmons, who was a very old teacher.

Keela Duncan Troop: The music, clothes, circling the Dairy Queen, high school activities with friends

Tony Whitfield: John Morton and I drove the Band Van to Lexington for AllState Chorus/Band. What a trip!  Playing the organ and piano at my home church.

Janice Puryear Cardwell: Playing in marching band, drive in movies, proms, hanging out with friends

Nada Sue Hayes Jones: Double dating with Jon and Janet, trips out west with my family, learning to drive.

Janet Dossett Kelly: Double dating with Jerry and Nada Jones in the 1950 Nash Rambler (which is currently in our garage and in which the grandsons love to ride - they think it's great fun!)