Audrey Elizabeth Talley Haugan

I have a Magnificent Obsession to contact you all, inform and encourage you to come to our 55th Reunion on November 15, double-check your contact info, and get to know those I never met in high school.

My Dear Classmates,

I was awake until 3 am Thursday morning as I reflected on the effort Lois Mann Maxwell and I have given to finding a 55th Reunion venue and menu that will keep the price affordable. We want everyone to be able to come to what could possibly be our last Reunion--the last time some of us might see one another. The ECG69 Facebook page was begun on Christmas Eve, 2017 with A Grand Vision, and it is too late for me not to continue that dream. I am like a tenacious bull dog who will not release a bone. I think I've been looking at our quandary the wrong way: why not design a Perfect Reunion for us and then figure out how to still keep it at $50 a person? To whet your curiosity, the solution will involve things like my new "Chez Audrey" (separate dwelling in my backyard) with dinner by my personal assistant/chef, meaningful conversation, a film of your choice in my living room, with popcorn, my Breckenridge ski time-share, a superb painting by one of our classmates, etc. I HAVE FUN IDEAS!!! Our coming to be so close a half-century after graduation, the thousands of new friendships, a 50th Reunion that can never be equaled, the fun, the laughs, the memories, the support, the reconciliation. DO YOU ALL REALIZE HOW EXTRAORDINARY THIS JOURNEY HAS BEEN? We have been given a second chance.

So here's my plan. I have not shared it with my wise and indispensable co-chairmen Lois and Randy yet because it is so newly wrought. Lois can run my visions by the two venues that seem best and compare their price quotes. Susan Burnett Wright, former Reunion chairman, and Betty Norwood Smiley had only a little over a thousand dollars remaining in the ECG69 account, so we have a small budget right now. Whatever difference there is between the price quote of my dream evening and a $50 per person limit, I will, God willing, envision ways for us to make up the difference. Lois is a GENIUS when it comes to comparative spreadsheets about money! Randy Bush has years of experience organizing banquets for thousands in his previous job.

Lois, ask the two venues we like best to give price quotes with these choices:
Round tables of 8 because so many of us have mobility, arthritic, neurological, etc. issues and need to sit down frequently. We can STILL get up and move around a lot to talk with old friends, but will have a seat to return to if we wear out. Plus it's hard to enjoy food standing up balancing a plate.
Light hors d'oeurves because we don't need a heavy meal, and it will save money for the event. Plus we'll be too busy enjoying old friends.

Other things I'd like:
Entrance around 5 pm so we can get there before dark (cataracts, glaucoma, etc)...plus most of us go to bed early now
Departure between 9-10 am (yeah, to bed early...dang old age!)
No dancing or band (to save money. Plus we classmates who never learned to dance and/or whose minds think they're 16 but whose bodies think they're 101 won't be envious

Many of my ideas were generated by the myriad phone conversations I've had with members of our Class. I have slowly but joyously begun to call each and every classmate to reconfirm contact info for a new Directory (my last four digits are 4441; please pick up!) Thanks to Lois's husband Max, we once again can get a great discount on printing since Max used to own the company in Richmond that we used for the 50th Directory. For many on our Facebook page, the online Directory document is sufficient, but many have greatly desired a paper copy. Some members don't have a computer. But we'll worry about this down the line...

I have almost completed a Friday night Reunion program of events. It makes me smile. I'll share a tentative outline of it soon. I hope it might make those of you on the fence about coming reconsider and join your old friends.

There's lot more I want to say, but I don't want wordiness to make you not read something important to me. "I'LL BE BACK!!!" --The Terminator AND Audrey

With love and gratitude,
Audrey

Audrey Talley Haugan
2507 Fleet Ave.
Henrico, VA 23228
(a mile or so outside the Richmond City limits, on the west side of Richmond

THOSE WHO HAVE SAID THEY'D PROBABLY COME (the official RSVP, will come in July)
160 so far!!! Email me to add or subtract your name: AHaugan@aol.com

Ackley, Jim + 1
Alfredson, Eric + 1
Arthur, Steve + Barb (Geason)
Baer, Charlie (+ 1?)
Bartley, Dick + 1 (maybe)
Bibb, Debbie
Bird, Patty (Bowling) + 1
Blankenship, Ben
Blosser, Jane (Wilson) + 1
Bottone, Nancy (Leys) (SC)
Brown, Charlie + 1 (NC)
Bush, Randy
Calvert, George + Gigi
Campbell, Diane (Grant)
Carpenter, Pam
Christian, Bruce
Claytor, Cynthia (Ellis) + 1
Coffey, Margaret (Hicks) + Rick (NJ)
Colagreco, Tamara (Feese)
Cooper, David (NC)
Corbett, Robin Sigler
Cothran, Bill + Sharon
Cumby, Glenn + Teresa Watson
Day, Carolyn + 1
Driskill, Janet (Francis)
Droog, Juanita (Francis)
Emmons, Viki + Harry
Evans, Roy
Faulconer, Mark + 1
Fielding, Charles + 1
Gallagher, John + 1
Gilliam, Donna
Glass, Jim + 1
Gordon, Sherry
Gresham, Dee (Templeton) + Jim
Hampton, Fred
Harris, Scott (CO)
Harvey, Patrick
Haugan, Audrey (Talley) + 1
Hedrick, BobDebbie
Helms, Lee + Sandi
Higginbotham, Chip + Janet (GA)
Hunt, Bren
Jambard, Sharon (Crawford) + 1
Johnson, Karen (Burton) + Tom
Johnson, Bob + Janet
Kirstein, Sid + Teresa
Johnson, Neal + Debbie
Larson, Carol
Lawson, Janet (Ferrell) + Jim (NC)
Lipscomb, Brenda (Dudley) + Jim
Martin, Beverly (Bev Dawson) + Wayne
Maxwell, Lois (Mann) + Max
McCabe, Debra (Harvey)
McNamara, Sandy
Merrill, Celonia (Saunders) + John
Noell, Becky (Glass) + daughter
O'Brian, Bobby and Becky
O'Neill, Jackie (Davis)
Pearson, Charyle (Patterson) (NC)
Plantamura, Suzanne (Shearer) + 1 (NC)
Pugh, Reggie + Pat (Quick)
Rash, Charlie + Barbara
Read, Pen + 1
Reynolds, Emmett
Rhoads, Nancy (Preas)
Riley, Pam (Mitchell) + Chuck (NC)
Roberson, Donna (Holland) + 1
Roberts, Jody (Bennington) + Roger
Robertson, Dickie + Nancy (Somers)
Sandidge, William (Bill)
Scoville, Linda
Seagle, Carty
Sheppa, June (Stevens) + 1 (NC)
Shields, Butch + Joan
Simms, David + Anne (Suhling)
Smiley, Dorie (Dillard) - maybe
Smith, Mark + 1 (NC)
Smith Sandy (Wright) + 1
Snead, George + 1 (maybe) (NC)
Snavely, Trisie (Patricia Campbell) (FL)
Somers, David
Spencer, Jay + 1
Stack, Rebecca (Becki) (Blankinship) + John (GA)
Stewart, Vernon + Faye (Wood)
Stone, Susan (Schuyler) (OR)
Tabor, Frank
Tielke, Dee (Gayle Beale Jennings) - maybe (NC)
Tilson, Debi (Witt) + Bill (FL)
Trent, Rickie + Amy (NC)
Trutt, Sandra + 1 (FL)
Turner, Barrow + 1 (TN)
Vass, Laurie Thomas (NC)
Vernon, Gary + Alma (Smith, ECG69)
Viar, Frankie + 1
Weishaar, Lynn + 1
Whitmore, Bill
Williams, John
Williams, Sharon
Wright, Susan Burnett

Please email me at AHaugan@aol.com if you'd like to bring someone and include their name.

Posted on: May 08, 2019 at 4:33 AM

Loved your comments and school story, Jackie!

Posted on: Dec 11, 2018 at 2:10 PM

Suzanne, we were born on the same day! If you were born at Virginia Baptist Hospital, then we might have been friends since Day One!

Posted on: Dec 01, 2018 at 10:37 AM

Anne, you were born the day before me! I bet we were babies in the nursery ward together!

Posted on: Nov 27, 2018 at 11:47 AM

Love the photo, David! I'd like to post it on the ECG69 Facebook page banner soon. Let me know if that's not okay with you.

Posted on: Nov 27, 2018 at 11:44 AM

Got a smile out of your memory concerning David. And, as a female '69 grad, particularly liked your last statement.....HA!
Love seeing humor on the site.

Good for you in volunteering for CASA, John! Hey, you're in my new banner shot on the E. C. Glass Class of 1969 Facebook page today---I'll add the photo here. (Click on photo to enlarge)