At our First Friday gathering this month the group voted to have an 80th Birthday reunion this fall. We are proposing a dinner one evening and a bus tour of downtown Kingsport with our immediate past city manager, Jeff Fleming, to hear about recent changes in the downtown area as well as history of the area. He wants to solicit our memories to add to his knowledge of Kingsport’s history. I bet each of you have a couple of memories of something fun about downtown back in the day!

We found one location we liked – Fusion - a very good restaurant that has moved into the Ridgefields Country Club building. We thought it might be good memory wise as well as food wise but - it has limited space so may not work – depending on interest in attending.

We need your input to help us with our planning. We are thinking late September or October would be a good time to gather. We are considering a Thursday evening with the downtown tour either Thursday afternoon or Friday morning.

Please send an email to Jane Harris at jharris@chartertn.net if you think you would be interested in attending. We realize this will only be tentative interest in attending since no date has been selected. However, your interest will help us select a location. A response needed by July 28th. If there are dates that will NOT work for you, include this information as well. We will move forward with plans and let you know a date and accept actual reservations by late August. We will try our best to accommodate everyone but know that may be impossible.

[Editor's note: Responses about holding a reunion for our 80th are running 4:1 in favor of having one.  Please respond to Jane if you have an opinion.]

Margaret Ketron Colley and Diana Aggett Woodard will be contacting the classmates who do not have an email address – believe it or not there are 12 of us with no email.

Our committee so far - let one of us know if you want to join us in planning the party!