WHERE WE LIVE

Events in Celebration of our Alma Mater

October 2025

PLEASE share these events with your 1967-era classmates. The more the merrier!

Friday, October 24^th –  At Coral Gables HS  (Free to Attend)

Coral Gables 75th Anniversary Event: our high school is celebrating 75 years since they opened their doors in 1950. Gables High School and Friends of Gables High will host a celebratory party at the school. Quoting from their invitation:

• pep rally in our auditorium
• local legend 2007 World Series MVP Mike Lowell will MC
• honor our past sports teams
• commemorate our recent Hall of Fame inductees
• showcase incredible performances that will have everyone on their feet! 

Afterwards, walk over to the pavilion to dance to the music of your decade, relive unforgettable memories, and experience the incredible impact of $52 million in campus renovations.

DETAILS, TIME, PARKING will be emailed to those who RSVP

Saturday, October 25^th  - Site Seeing Together + Waterfront Party

Saturday afternoon our classmates will nostalgically ride an air conditioned bus around Coral Gables and its landmarks while sipping champagne courtesy of our classmates Rick Strain and Brad Booke.
The bus, champagne, & good times are FREE.   

Saturday evening, 6 -10 PM join the waterfront party:

Salt Waterfront Restaurant - Map will be emailed to those who RSVP

4600 Rickenbacker Causeway (next to the Miami Seaquarium, free parking)

• hors d'oeuvres
• buffet dinner
• cake
• soft drinks
• wine and beer (for cash sale)
• music by DJ Alan Smith
• dancing!

TICKETS: $ 135 per person (thanks to donations by some of our classmates) 

To register, send a check, payable to: 1967 Coral Gables Class Reunion

Rose Smith Elmore

1928 South Club Drive

Wellington Florida 33414

561-319-3154
 

**THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS**

We are grateful to our donors who are helping make our party a great success.
Your loyalty and generosity are so much appreciated:

Alex Soto
Ana Devoe (Garcia)
Anna Rhodes (Spinale)
Bill Pierce & Ann
Bradley Booke
Brenda Puck
Clark Cochran &Ann
Connie Knight
Frank Kendrick
Maggie Shealy
Maxine Clark
Rick Strain
Scheffeld Wright
Sonya (Shelley) Milton
Tom Porter

For questions, call Alex!  or Rose:

Alex Soto
8764 SW 61Place
Pinecrest, Florida 33156
Cell: 305-562-6091
alexsoto@bellsouth.net

Rose: 561-319-3154

Hotel options, if you need accomodations. Please contact them directly yourself:

Hampton Inn— Coconut Grove 305-448-2800. Near US 1 and 27th Ave. (2 miles & 8 minutes from Gables High)

Four Points by Sheraton 305-567-0534. Near Ponce Bird Road. (1/2 mile and 2 minutes to Gables High)

Thesis Hotel 305-537-4927. On US 1 across from UM, ( 2 miles and 8 minutes from Gables High) a few of the Crescent Club members may be staying here. Thesis has offered a discount to their rates. Use code 3202691. 

https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=MIALTQQ&corporateCode=3202691

Hampton Inn at Dadeland 305-269-0072. 5 miles from Gables and 20-30 minutes.

MEMORIES
Class Birthday Party - April 6, 2024

We Cavaliers of the Class of 1967 are 75 Years Young

Food, Wine, Dancing at Salt Waterfront Restaurant - Key Biscayne

DANCING!  as you might guess. the ladies stepped forward.
(But not the guys...)

Some Cavaliers partied at their hotel, Silver Sands Resort, on the beach and reconnected with wine & champagne poolside. (THANK YOU, RICKY STRAIN). Also, about 20+ people dined on April 5 (Friday) at Rusty Pelican. You can see photos of that dinner occasion in the album. Several additional photos are from Alex's house, where 4 ladies were the Soto's house guests 

Appreciation for our dear leader, Alex   +  DK's organizing skills & creative decorations +  Candy's successful work with the catering folks at Salt Waterfront Cafe + each of the other folks who pitched in.

SPECIAL thanks to our generous donors who supplemented the monies from our ticket sales. Without you, it would not be the same! 

• Daru & Harry Morrell
• Candy Washer
• Don Robson
• Dave Kinney
• Maggie Patterson Hartnett
• Connie Knight
• Katrinka Quirk
• Frank Kendrick
• Steve Spooner
• Bill & Shelley Avirett
• Maggie Morris Shealy
• Sonya Shelley Milton
• Felicia & Tyler Rentz
• Anna Spinale Rhodes
• Janet Holmes Evans
• Ana Garcia Devoe
• Tom Porter
• Knox Rodgers
• Maxine Kasselman Clark
• Rick Strain
• Alex Soto

Our 60th reunion union (!) will be in 2027, so planning efforts will begin before you know it. Let's make that milestone a HUGE one.

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55^th Reunion Photos

 Photo from Western party in Davie, April 28, 2022

   Photo from Yacht Club Party, Fort Lauderdale, April 29, 2022

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Reunion Appreciation

We are thrilled to hear all the positive feedback for our recent 55th Reunion! For us, it was an honor to organize the weekend and a blast working together, but there were many classmates involved with making the two events so successful. We sincerely thank the following :

Alex Soto for spearheading the efforts, serving as treasurer and managing communications and registration;

Rose Smith Elmore for her technical expertise in budgeting, financial forecasting, among other things, communicating and managing reservations using clumsy website programming;

Rick Strain for securing the venues and providing amazing entertainment not the least of which were the calf roping lessons and contest as well as trailering donkeys to the Thursday night venue;

Debbie Henderson Kondelik (DK) and Connie Knight for designing and creating decorations for the events that were both magnificent and meaningful;

Bill Averitt for creating and leading the outreach team and compiling the reported data; and

Nancy Kohlenberg Watkins for creating the attractive nametags for yet another reunion.

And kudos as well to the army of classmates who did whatever was necessary to ensure a good time was had by all. Many wore multiple hats, and most did a whole lot more than they initially volunteered to do. Listed in alphabetical order, our amazing volunteers were:

• Yolanda Hutchins Beckman
• Brad Booke
• Ellen Dale Butler
• Clark Cochran
• Janet Holmes Evans
• Rebecca Hoodwin
• Diane Adams Hughes
• Frank Kendrick
• Linda Tonks Johnson
• Joe Lowry
• Daru Sena Morrell
• Harry Morrell
• Steve Spooner
• Beth Calvin Travis, and
• Rocky Young

Many, many thanks to all the above and the vibrant classmates who were able to attend and bring the venues and events to life.  The weekend could not have been successful without their enthusiasm, kindness, and comradery, not to mention their eating, drinking, and dancing skills!

For this we will be eternally grateful.

Onward and upward! 

Ba Ba Ba Ba BarbaraAnn    

(aka Barbara Law Torlone and Ann Youngman Glenn)

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