Milestone Class Reunion!

 

(On Wednesday, June 11, Stephen Decatur High School's Class of 1955 celebrated 70 years since graduation with a reunion at The Berlin Beer Company. The group represented the first graduating class from the new Stephen Decatur High School, which was founded in 1954. The school's creation combined the "island kids" at Ocean City High School with the inland group from Buckingham High School in Berlin. Nineteen members of the graduating class attended. The 40 members of the 69-person class who are deceased were recognized. Pictured front from left, are Helen Mae Ellis Chamblin, Helen Rounds Tinsman, Joyce Davis Davis and Virginia Hudson Pepper; middle, Gloria Truitt Nolan, Betsy Barrett Ludlum, Nancy Davis Owens, Joanne Quillen Jackson, Fay Collins Wooten, Roy Watson and Norma Wainwright Rickards and back, Mary Dean Rouchard, Clifford Dypsky, Dale Cathell, Bob Murray, Jane Disharoon Bunting and Bob Gray.)