51st Annual Homecoming
May 10, 2013
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11 months and 20 days
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| Front:Mary E. Jernigan*, Dorothy R. Ross*, Mary E. Braddock,Thelma Water*, Mary E. Spencer* Middle: Mable L. Bonner*, Gracie B. Saunders*, Annie E. King, Clarice Smallwood Back: Annie S. Davis*(Advisor), Helen Conner*, Sidney Winfield*, Mary J Mann*, Eli
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This web site became available in September 2005 due to the number of requests we received from those who visited the site for the BHS Class of 1963. It is designed to help renew the strong bonds that were formed at Belhaven High School and to keep you informed on plans for HOMECOMING 2012.
It has been said that a person without knowledge of himself is like a tree growing without roots. Each of you have some knowledge about our Hometown and dear old Belhaven High School and we hope that you will continue to share it with fellow alumni. Over time, we have forgotten so many things and often we somehow have those that we remember all scrambled together. Through this web site, we can improve our memory as well as fill in the gaps in our own memory banks and preserve our heritage for those who come after us. The younger generation needs to know where "they come from" so that they will know "where they are" and "where they are going".
Some alumni have been faithful in assembling each year and are to be commended for their diligence and support of the Belhaven Alumni Club, an organization that is truly ours whether it's the parent chapter in Belhaven or one of the daughter chapters - Greenville, Triangle or Northside or New York.
Prior to the Grand Reunion I, classes assembled on the year they were being recognized and then wait 10 years until the next assemblage. The Grand Reunion I, in 2007, was designed to change that and make each homecoming celebration a reunion of alumni, whether they graduated from Belhaven High School, John A. Wilkinson High School or Northside High school.
Homecoming 2007 was indeed a Grand Reunion as alumni converged from the states of California, Washington, Massachusettes, Georgia, Mississippi, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and throughout North Carolina to celebrate the 45th homecoming celebration hosted by the Belhaven Alumni Club.
We have received a lot of positive feedback about the 2007 Reunion and we repeated it in 2008 with Grand Reunion II. We commend everyone who participated and/or rendered assistance in the planning and execution of those plans. Without the generous support and cooperation of alumni, the Grand Reunions would have been impossible.
It is written that "coming together is a beginning, working together is progress ss and staying together is success". We agree with that and since we came together in 2007and worked together for the Grand Reunion I, staying together will be easy. To make this happen, we need your continued support.
Please help us to spread the word about the 50th Homecoing Celebration to those who attended and to those who missed the 2007 and 2008 Grand Reunions. Please extend an invitation to them to join you for Homecoming '12 to be held May 11 - 12, during the Mother's Day week-end.
We have included a school roster page on this site and encourage you to add your biographical sketch. We also request that you sign the guest book with comments and/or share new ideas for '12. Please note that any personal information that you submit on the class roster page will not be displayed unless you insert it in the space for comments.
For those who do not have a personal computer, please take advantage of the internet access that your local library provides, normally free of charge.
We expect to see you in 2012 for our Golden Anniversary. The roll will be called and you must be present to answer. WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU!
Membership is also available in each of the alumni chapters to all former students. Many hours of planning and lots of energy, creativity and stamina were required to coordinate the activities for the 2007 and 2008 Grand Reunions and your help is still needed and appreciated. We are counting on you!
Updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Our companion website http://belhavenhigh1963.myevent.com is no longer active. Thank you for your support of that website. We received a lot of positive feedback and it helped us to make this website possible.
John Clark, Web Master
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