Welcome to the Home Page of

the Class of 1960 Alumni

Wakefield High School  -  Arlington, VA

These web pages are to inform, assist, and engage our "Classmates" from Wakefield who were seniors in the 1959-60 school year  -  and those who would have been there in 1960 if fate hadn't intervened and taken them to other schools and other circumstances (our "Auxiliary Classmates").

Here you'll find info on Class of 1960 activities coming up, see reports and pictures of events past.  Get info here to help to plan sightseeing and extracurricular activities if you're coming to the DC area; and enjoy some things that will bring back memories.  Send in stories about what you've been doing, and pictures if you've got them.  We'll post them in the "News" section.  Lost your Starstone?  We've got all of it posted in the "Memories" section.  Got a question?  See the "Contact Us" and "Committee" sections to find out who you need to get in touch with.  Got money you're itching to give to a worthy cause?  See the "Donations" section for ideas.  Don't see something that should be here?  Let us know and we'll get 'er done.

New Mailing Address

101 Glasgow Court;  Stephens City, VA   22655-4854   Wakefield '60 no longer uses a P.O. Box.  Do not send mail/donations to the formerly used P.O. Box.  Send it instead to the address cited at the outset of this paragraph (Rich Lyons' address).  Alternatively, check the "Contact Us" page to see if there are contact persons on the Reunion Committee for your specific area of interest.

Reunion stimulus effective!

Last fall's 50th Reunion has clearly kicked-off renewed interest in Warrior get-togethers, staying in touch, enjoying old friendships, and in getting to better know people that we didn't know so well in high school.  2001's 3rd annual Sarasota get-together (a.k.a. Ken's Party in Paradise) was a great success and the largest yet - 61 people showed up for the long weekend in early May.  And a substantial number of reservations have already been made for the spring (19-22 April 2012).

Click here to go to the 2011 FALL PICNIC page

Click here to go to the 2012 SARASOTA page

What should you look at/plan to do?

Attend!  -  Our next event, coming up in the spring, will be the 4th annual Sarasota mini-reunion (19-22 April 2012); and it looks as if that's going to be another roaring success.  Advance bookings are strong.  Don't be left out.  Out of the initial allocation of accommodations earmarked for us, only a handfull remain unreserved.  Depending on when those last few are spoken for, it is possible that "Tropical Breeze" may be willing and able to carve out a few more accommodations for us.  But at some point, advance bookings of non-Wakefield-allocated rooms will put the squeeze on availability of rooms allocated/discounted for Wakefield '60.  Even if rooms aren't all spoken for, if you haven't reserved by a month in advance, you won't get a discount.  Don't put it off!  Make that reservation soon!  Remember, the early bird gets the worm; and while being an incautious early mouse can often lead to an unpleasant experience, we've done Sarasota a few times now, and at this point the process works pretty smoothly.  So call Jessica at the Tropical Breeze Resort (800-300-2492) and reserve your accommodations.  For you close-in Floridians that don't need accommodations, don't forget that everybody planning on attending needs to let Ken Scruggs know (941-351-8430) so he can plan on having the right amounts of stuff to eat/graze on, and reserve the right number of spots on the dinner cruise, etc.  Note: This year the dinner cruise on Marina Jack II will be on Friday night - NOT Saturday night as it has in the past - due to scheduling difficulties.

In Memoriam  -  This part of the "Memories" section has just (Dec 2011) been tremendously improved, thanks to expansion of our Website staff by 100% (to 2).  Dick Wheeler has been on the job since October 2011, and getting Rich's "Rembrance Book" materials on-line is was his first major undertaking.  All names of our deceased 1960 classmates - listed on our "In Memoriam" page - are now active links to the 1960 "Remembrance Book" materials.  The quality of those materials have been improved by painstaking reformatting and rescanning of materials.  Take a look, and you'll be impressed at what a fine tribute we now have on-line to our friends who have passed.  Enjoy browsing through obituary/remembrance materials that formerly you were only able to see in hardcopy form at reunions and other gatherings of the past.

Memories  -  This section has just (Dec 2011) been improved by the addition of our 7th grade pictures from the 1953-1955 STARSTONE, thanks again to expansion of our Website staff by 100% (to 2), as discussed above.  Thanks Dick.  Enjoy a serious stroll back into memory lane by clicking on the appropriate link on the Memories page.

News  -  For recent and upcoming events, check the "News" section of these web pages.  Also, we post items of interest on Classmates when people send them in, or when we otherwise find out about them.  Send us pictures and comments regarding what you're up to.

Warriors Down List  -  We're at the stage of life where there's the possibility of winding up laid up for extended periods.  When we are made aware of someone facing a protracted spell of being flat on his/her back, we'll let you know about it under the "Warriors Down" heading in the "News" section of these pages.  When someone's stuck in bed, a note from you indicating you're sorry to hear they're having trouble, and recounting some shared experience, or some something that you've experienced of interest lately can be just the thing to give them a nice lift.  When you see names posted there, take a little time out of your day to send a few lines to a classmate that would really enjoy and appreciate hearing from you.  When you know of someone who should be listed there, let us know.

Memories  -  The "Memories" section is a collection of things nostalgic.  There are pictures and descriptions from 5-yr Reunions past, as well as the Sarasota "Mini-Reunions", and the fall picnics.  Also, the "Memories" section has some things to reminisce with, including our yearbook, the Starstone, and our graduation photo.  There are 600+ of us in the bleachers, and those of us that were in the back rows aren't as in focus as those in the front rows.  But if you look them over carefully, you'll be able to identify yourself, and quite a lot of others, probably.  Have fun with it! 

50th Reunion Celebration in Oct 2010 made history!  Want to see what it was like?

Click here to go to the 2010 REUNION page

Many Thanks.

We are indebted to the Wakefield Education Foundation (WEF), for hosting our Class pages, and to Conchita Saulmon Mitchell (Class of '66 and President of WEF) for putting us in touch with a couple of savvy web page gurus, namely:

John Abbott (Class of '65 and Wakefield Education Foundation Trustee) who put together a "strawman" framework for us, gave us many tips, and has continually installed new and updated pages for us on the WEF site; and

Tom Rowlett (Class of '59 and web-master for the '59 Class pages at WEF web-site) who steered us to some invaluable references and software, gave us many tips, and shared his web-page coding for the Wakefield '59 Class pages for edification.

Want to go to W.E.F. (news for all alumni of all classes)?

Click here to get to WAKEFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION web site

© 2010-2011 Wakefield H.S. Class of 1960 and Wakefield H.S. Education Foundation (information@wakefieldalumni.org)