Mount Vernon High School, Alexandria Virginia, Class of 1960

Welcome to the Mount Vernon High School, Alexandria Virginia, Class of 1960 - Home Page
| Last updated 12/10/2011 |

[ If our Site Index frames are not visible on both sides of your display, please click here; Home ]
Also... some of the counters / timers / buttons / banners / flashing gadjets on this site may not display on all computers...

FLASH #1 - UPCOMING 60-SOMETHING REUNIONS
OUR 'SISTER' CLASSES OF 1962 AND 1963 ARE GETTING UNDERWAY FOR THEIR 50TH!
IF THOU ART INTERESTED, IT WOULD BEHOOVETH THOU TO RECHECKETH THY CONTACT DATA ON THIS WEB SITE
IN THE APPROPRIATE '19NN TRACK' PAGE [RIGHT SIDE SITE INDEX] SO YOU CAN RECEIVE INFO BLURBS AND INVITATIONS.
ADDITIONAL INFO WILL BE INCLUDED ON THIS SITE AS WE ARE ADVISED... STAY TUNED!

FLASH #2 - GHS INCLUSION
YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT DUE TO THE POST - WORLD WAR II 'BABY BOOM' PHENOMENON,
MANY OF OUR MVHS SCHOOLMATES WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW GROVETON HIGH SCHOOL IN 1956.
THIS ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION SEVERELY DISRUPTED THE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF HUNDREDS OF OUR SCHOOLMATES.
A SCHOOLMATE RECENTLY DESCRIBED IT THIS WAY....
"When we were all sent up the road to Groveton in 1956, it was just an amazing break that, like a lot of other things, we never questioned.
Suddenly, people we had gone to school with for three years, including all the seniors in the class ahead of us, were more or less wiped off our social map.
For those of us who had been active in multi-class activities such as band, debate and sports teams
it was a kind of crazy bureaucratically engineered amnesia and we lost contact with friends.
We also lost contact with trusted and valued teachers.
Now that our numbers are diminishing, this may be a last chance to reconnect and as I said I think this is a good thing."
WE COULD NOT AGREE MORE.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF ADDING THOSE WE CAN FIND TO OUR WEB SITE '19nn Track' PAGES.
YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THEM BY THE ADDITION OF THE 'LE/56>GHS' TAG WITH THEIR NAME ENTRY.
WE HOPE THAT THOSE SCHOOLMATES WHO SHARED GRADES (AND TEACHERS) FOR YEARS AT BOTH GROVETON ELEMENTARY,
AS WELL AS MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, BUT WERE THEN SEPARATED, CAN RE-CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER.

FLASH #3 - 1961 REUNION PHOTOS
QUIK-LINK TO 1961 50TH LUNCHEON PHOTOS - C. W. DEAN PHOTOGRAPHER WEBSITE

FLASH #4 - MVHS ANNUAL PICNIC [AND MONTHLY LUNCHEON]
There are a group of folks (most graduated a lot earlier than we did) who meet every month for lunch at one of the restaurants on Rt 1.
They asked us to post the info (see below) of their Annual Picnic.
Mt. Vernon High School Alumni Picnic
Wednesday, September 14, 11:30 a.m. at the Occoquan Regional Park (located on Rt. 123, just off of Interstate 95).
Cost is $15.00/person. Make check out to Barbara MacDonald and mail to her at: 7700 Wolford Way, Lorton, VA 22079
NOT LATER than Wednesday, September 7, 2011.
Dixie Bones Barbecue will be catering again this year. Pork Barbecue, barbecued chicken and all the trimmings, plus drinks, are on the menu.
Last year we had 96 people, including spouses. Hope you will attend, and spread the word.
For further information, contact: Sarah Baggett Daniel 703-539-8693, or, Barbara Pegelow MacDonald 703-339-1226
[ Editor's Note - This flash is a trifle outdated but this event is an 'annual' so do make contact if you are interested ]

FLASH #5 - WEB SITE SUPPORT
WE RECENTLY (06/12/2011) EMAIL REQUESTED DONATIONS TOWARD MAINTAINING THIS WEB SITE.
A SOLICITATION WAS SENT OUT TO ALL 600 OR SO EMAILS WE HAD ON HAND.
WE WERE HOPING FOR ANOTHER YEAR'S WORTH OF SUPPORT AND WERE BLOWN AWAY BY YOUR RESPONSE.
WHILE DONATIONS ARE STILL TRICKLING IN, WE CAN SAFELY COUNT ON NOT WORRYING ABOUT IT FOR SEVERAL MORE YEARS, PLURAL.
THANKS AND A HAT TIP TO SO MANY OF YOU WHO ANSWEED THE CALL - VERY GRATIFYING.
A LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE DONATED CAN BE FOUND ON OUR 'CONTRIBUTORS' PAGE.

This is what time it is right now for me...

Please don't call my telephone from 10:00:00 PM to 10:00:00 AM! - Thank You, the Site Guy

...btw, which of you are going to bird dog 1960's next reunion???... I am permanently exhausted!

This one is a hoot...

The Official Countdown

The Mount Vernon High School motto
"Esse non-vederi" - "To be, not to seem"

Alma Mater
"Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, we sing to thee,
Your spirit and honor, humble and free.
Our praise to thee we sing: Your bells of truth shall ring.
Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, praises to thee we sing."

School colors [and this site's colors] - Maroon and Gray | Sports teams - The Majors | Sports mascot - Major Movern

Quiknotes-Our 50th reunion on June 12, 2010 has come and gone.
There is some admin junk left over, of course... and YOU CAN HELP!!!

Memorabilia -
1. Our 8x10 glossy color class group photos with the circles and arrows on the back of each one were bulk mailed to ALL on Thursday, July 29, 2010.
We have heard no complaints so we assume all did receive their photo(s).
If you have not received yours, email the Site Guy immediately.

WE NEED HELP ASSEMBLING THE LEGEND OF NAMES with the non-1960 sister class photo.
The photos and legends are (temporarily) portrayed below to make it easier to see where we need help.
They will be placed back on the 'Photos' page where they 'belong' when completed.
PLEASE advise ASAP if you recognize someone (or yourself!).

Legend for 1960 alone

Legend for sister classes 1955-1959, 1961-1965

Speaking of photos, all are invited to share their reunion pics with us - here are a few links we have been sent:
From Tom MEEKS '62 - These reside on the Flickr site and should come up instantly.
Picnic pages #1-3 (140 in the entire set)

From Barb SHOEMAKER '60 - These reside on the Kodak site. You must sign in first (create an ID/pw - FREE), then you are good to go.
| Set #1 | Set #2 |

2. DVDs - We are advised by our videographer that our DVDs will be sent out by mid - late August.
Again, we have heard no complaints so we assume all did receive their video(s).

3. T-shirts - All gone!

4. Alumni Booklets - All gone, but you can view the bios contained in it from our 'BioPages50' page.

5. Attendance -
We had a few unclaimed name tags so there were probably that many no-shows. Please let me know if you were scheduled but demurred.
Nametags for others who did not attend 'disappeared'? - we assume by folks intending to send them along to their 'owners' as keepsakes.
A corrected version of our actual attendance will be published soon, probably within the 'Documents' page.
This final list would replace the page published within the Alumni Book.
If you see errors or omissions there, please advise.

6. Funding - It appears that, just as for our 40th in 2010, we will come in just barely under the wire for all expenses.
We wanted to refund as many very late demurs as possible, but that wasnt't expected (and didn't) work out.
Bottom line: about $25,300 taken in, $25,2?? paid out. As expected, your donations, almost $4K, bailed us out - THANKS TO ALL!!!

Any other glitches you may have, email the Site Guy.

OK... we didn't EVER want to ask for help, but over and above any costs related to our planned reunions,
is does cost us to keep this site operational, and since it's inception in October, 2008, has already piled up on us.

The web site we created for our 40th in 2000 was more limited, but at least it was free because we used our own ISP;
but this commercial site with all its space and add-on perks costs every month, relentlessly, both before and after our reunions.

Just $12 a year from just ONE in 60 (1.67%) of our 'found' schoolmates would guarantee uninterrupted operation!
If you like what you see here and respect our efforts, let alone our ongong costs, won't you consider chipping in a little?

Click on this clever little button and you are good to go. Your credit card or existing PayPal account will do nicely.
We are partial to high digits and lots of zeros to the left of the decimal point, but ANYTHING you can spare is helpful.
We will keep track of your donations and remind you if we think you are donating too much!

IMPORTANT!
The funds contributed here support the web site ALONE on a long-term, non-reunion basis
and are separate from funds collected for any specific reunion effort.
RSVP reunion funds, temporary in nature, are not used to support this site, so a mechanism is needed to help keep the site in operation.
THANKS!
On behalf of all the classes represented on this site, THANK YOU in advance for your thoughtful consideration.
Our list of supporters can be viewed on the 'Contributors' page from the Site Index.

NOTICE
This site is under chronic reconstruction, being converted from it's original,
"We are planning our 40th in 2000" tenor; then, "We had our 40th in 2000, AND we had our 50th! in 2010" tenor
- now we are including reunion photos and such and getting back into informational mode.
If you previously established bookmarks for the now obsolete 2000 site, they will not function as of 10/18/2008.
However, the address of this home page (www.mvhs-1960.com) is now stable, so you may safely add this bookmark.

Since this web site was resurrected using the code for the year 2000 40th reunion web site,
for now the pages indicated in the Site Index frames may present a mix of 40th / 50th reunion data.
'40th REUNION' selections are totally historical and have been included here as reference sources;
'50th REUNION' selections are cleaned up or new pages, but are being migrated to 'historical' status.
Please forgive the rough 'row and column' look and feel of this site;
since our FIRST PRIORITY is classmate location, pretty bell and whistle eye candy will have to wait!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE

YOU CAN HELP!
If you are an alumnus and have not already done so,
please check your entry on your appropriate graduating year '19nn Track' page from the Site Index.
If your entry does NOT contain a pro-active recent (2008 - 2010) re-verification note,
*DO* email the Site Guy ASAP to confirm or correct.
*PLEASE*, PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP!
Help us get this contact mess straightened out. We are begging.
EVEN IF your data is correct, if it does NOT have a RECENT CORROBORATION date (post-2007), we don't KNOW that!
If we holler, we need to hear *ALL* of the echoes come back in order to be sure!
Otherwise, exasperated classmate researchers will continue to spend pointless time looking for you!

An important and useful FREE site we recommend to check information / reunions
for ALL MVHSnnnn classes is the MVGrads Alumni Registry [VA].
This separate but allied site is the only site devoted exclusively
to the alumni and faculty of Mount Vernon High School, Alexandria Virginia, Class of 1960 ,
from its first graduating class (Class of 1940) [1939-1940 school year] through the present.

Legal Gibberish (with translations)
This site was re-created from the ashes of the Mount Vernon High School, Alexandria Virginia, Class of 1960 2000 40th Reunion web site.
It was placed in operation 10/18/2008 on an 'UNDER CONSTRUCTION' basis
and is maintained as a labor of friendship by the Site Guy, MVHS1960 (VA) alumnus.
We do not accept advertising and everything here is available without charge.
Translation: You are welcome to 'borrow' from this site, including source code, and use it as your own.

All photos have been voluntarily contributed. All other data about people is of a vital statistic nature.
Location data is displayed unless individual permission is specifically denied (refer to the 'DW' code on the '19nn Track' pages).

Notwithstanding the public domain status of our contact data, if you do not want it here, we will make it disappear!
We do the best we can to keep track of and respect the wants of over 4000 MV-ites, but myzzsteayckes are sometimes made.

Translation: Play nice, please don't sue us; phone / email / smail us - WHATEVER it is, we will fix it ASAP.

This site is not interactive. If you need information altered here, please email the Site Guy.
Please do NOT confuse us with the MVGrads Alumni Registry [VA], an allied but SEPARATE site.

The 3 (three) MVHS oriented web sites;
1. Fairfax County Public Schools (MVHS (VA)),
2. MVGrads Alumni Registry [VA] (MVGrads Alumni Registry),
3. [and this site],
are independently run and although their subject matter necessarily overlaps in various areas,
have no official association with one another.

BOOKMARK this site and check back for information about the Mount Vernon High School, Alexandria Virginia, Class of 1960
Have ??? Have info? Need info? Comments? Email the Site Guy,
or, IF this button says 'ONLINE', Click and chat directly RIGHT NOW!

Mount Vernon High School, Alexandria Virginia, Class of 1960 - Home Page