Dear Fellow Alumni,

I would like to thank you all for letting me be your President for another year, it has been challenging and fun. Last year's Alumni Day was enjoyable and participation was good. We are still trying to make our Alumni Day a FAMILY DAY in the park.

We need to keep getting the support of all Alumni to make this a continuing success. Your input and concerns are very important to us. When we make decisions for Alumni, we discuss and try to do the best we can for everyone concerned. This year's parade theme was not clear to some but we have discussed and revisited this subject often. We will be looking for a theme for next year and would love to have input from all of you. Please email or call anyone on the board. We are all here for you.

This year a lot of our Alumni have passed on and hopefully we have them listed. I would like to thank Alice Hayes Stevens for keeping us informed since not all are listed in the paper. Many contributions came from these Alumni in memoriam and went into our scholarship program. Thank you to all the families.

We, as a board, met with the school board to let them know what we do for LHS students. No school board member is an LHS Alumnus, so we felt it was important for them to know about our efforts. However, many of them are parents of alumni or prospective alumni. They were very welcoming and would like to help us in any way that they can. We have a few things we would like to address at a later time. We all felt that LHS and the Alumni Board will be working together in the future.

If you have a Reunion Year this year, please check out the RULES in regards to children on floats and throwing candy. We don't feel that some previous classes looked at the rules—THERE CAN BE NO THROWING CANDY FROM FLOATS INTO THE CROWDS. Please be safe in delivering candy to spectators. Also, DON'T forget your truck driver, they are special people and very important to us all. Thanks and have a great reunion!

This year's reunion years are those ending in 2's and 7's so please plan to join us for another fun-filled Alumni Day, Saturday, June 16, 2012. See you in the Park,

Dianne Moodie Grant '69
Email: diannegrant69@yahoo.com