Class of '56

Congratulations! It's your 50th reunion! Here's what we have planned for this special occasion.

The 50th reunion dinner on Friday, June 9 will be hosted by President Brent DeVore and will be a grand celebration for all classmates who were part of the class of 1956 at any time from 1952 to 1956. It will be held at the Brookside Country Club in Worthington.

The event will begin at 6:15 pm with a reception and dinner at 7:00 p.m. The program will include:

• Recognition of each classmate
• "Otterbein" Then and Now - President DeVore
• "The Way We Were" a presentation by College Archivist, Stephen Grinch
• "A Faculty Perspective on the 1952 -1956 Years" by Professor John Wells
• Special entertainment and some surprises
• Plenty of time to get together with classmates for lots of reminiscing

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Schedule for the Weekend
Friday, 6:15 p.m. - Class of '56 Golden Anniversary Celebration, Brookside Country Club
Class of '56 - Hospitality Room, Towers 121
Saturday, 9:20 a.m. - Class picture on Towers Lawn
Saturday, 12 noon - Alumni Luncheon Campus Center
Saturday, 6:30 p.m. - All-Class dinner at Embassy
Sunday, 9 a.m. - Class Brunch on the Lawn of Howard House

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Life Stories: a Collection of Reflections of the Class of 1956.
With your help, The 50th Reunion Committee is creating a memorable publication to which all of our classmates are invited to submit a short autobiography. This is to be an exceptional Otterbein publication because it is about you, and all of us, related to our class. Its title is "Life Stories: a Collection of Reflections of the Class of 1956." Get the details about this exciting project here.

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Otterbein Reverberations
The first-ever Creative Talents and Interests Exhibition will display items from the Golden Reunion Class. Over twenty members of the class plus two former faculty/staff from the era are featuring 100 creative pieces. We anticipate that this will become an Otterbein tradition.

Twenty one class members and two former faculty/staff members will be exhibiting. The participants are: Irvin Bence, Carole Bullis, John Bullis, Mary Ann Eschbach, Bill Evans, Sonya Evans, Sarah Rose Gorsuch, Shirley Amos Hodapp, Marty Myers, Mary Wagner Myers, Betty Pooler Driever, Bill Replogle, Lola McWherter Smith, Marilyn Hert Spires, Rex Sprague, Fran Myers Strong, Ruth Harner Studer, Curt Tong, Jim Wagner, Dave Warner, Bob Wilkinson, John Wells and the late Bert Horn.

Among the creative items being displayed: afghan, wooden sculptures, many other woodworking pieces, collection of handmade New Year's and Christmas cards, stamped greeting cards, stained glass, jewelry, baskets, needlepoint, paintings, play script, framed photos, published books, collages of theatre productions, large gas-powered model airplanes, CDs of live performances, notebooks of musical productions, bound compilations of published articles, Otterbein scrapbooks, handmade children's book, framed arrowheads, poems, many nativities, unique cultural art from around the world and genealogical church records.

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The committee who made it all possible . . .
William and Sonya Stauffer Evans '56 Gail Bunch Arledge
John and Carole Kreider Bullis
William E. Downey
Mary Ann Charles Eschbach
Mary A. Wagner Myers
Thelma Hodson Orr
Richard Reichter
William Replogle
Curtis W. Tong
James and Mary Lou Stine Wagner
David Warner
Robert and AnnBeth Wilkinson
Robert Wright