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 as of Wednesday, July 28, 2010 No news items were added July 28.
The following remains current because of the possibility of it altering the campus: Given the comments made by the Superintendent of Memphis City Schools and the passage on June 21 of the motion to study the fesability of moving a one-room schoolhouse to the East High campus. The study of proposal to move  one-room schoolhouse to
campus
was approved. Monday
night, June 21 by the Memphis City School board. The sponsor of the
resolution, Dr. Jeff Warren, said this was a
motion to determine the feasibility of the move, not approving any
move. Superintendent Kriner Cash said time was of the essence because
of the building's location at the old fairgrounds and because of its
condition. He said a month's delay might be too late so the task may be
expedited to take something like a week. Read a summary of the
student proposal written by the students themselves.Read more in an Apr. 30 article in The Commercial Appeal.Names and contact
information for the Memphis City Schools Board of Commissioners is
available on the city school's web site. To join an alumni conversation about this proposal, log into The East High
Alumni Page Plus.If you are aware of news of East High alumni, faculty alumni, or the school, please send it to us Major alumni headlines are available as RSS feed: RSS Feed  Other News  It's
wonderful to see old friends! That's what nearly 60 members of the East
High Class of 1970 have been doing this weekend as they celebrated at
their 40-year reunion. The first group of Friday and Saturday night photos are posted! If you have photos or a narrative of the reunion to share on these pages, contact editor@EastHigh.orgBilly Dover ('61), 67, of Memphis, died Friday, July 16. An obituary is available. Nina Maynard McIntosh, 67, of Asheville, N.C., sister of East alumni Billy McIntosh ('56) and John McIntosh ('58), died Sunday, July 18. See our sympathy page.  Tommie Henderson (East '91 and Faculty 1998-2003)
opens a new charter school in downtown Memphis focusing on business and
law. It will begin with the 7th grade, then add a grade each year until
it graduates high school seniors. Read the article in the July 20 issue
of The Commercial Appeal.Cool costs: The Memphis City Schools Board of Commissioners accepted a bid of $656,246.00 from S.M. Lawrence on July 19 to replace the chillers and pumps (circulating & system) at East High School. According to the school system, the chillers and pumps at East High School are no longer operable and are beyond repair and the most economical means of addressing this situation is to install new chillers and pumps at East High School. Ruth Faye Gatewood Kenner, 96, mother of East alumni Jack Kenner ('71) and Bill Kenner (associated with the Class of '73), died Thursday, July 15. See our sympathy page. Mighty Mustangs Band Boosters, a band booster club, has developed a web site for the Band. It can be accessed at www.mightymustangsbands.org  East High history teacher Mark Scott (Faculty) has been named
Tennessee's 2010 Preserve America History Teacher of the Year,
according to an article in the July 15 issue of The Commercial Appeal. WHBQ-TV
has published a profile of Sonny Flinn (associated with the Class of
'61), a candidate for U.S. Representative in Tennessee’s 8th District.
You may read the profile on the television station's website.Ada Carolyn Morris Smith, 88, of Nolensville, TN, mother of the late Chip Smith (associated with the Class of '73), died on Thursday, July 8. See our sympathy page. Chas McVean ('61) and Cortney Richardson ('07) are mentioned prominently or quoted in a story about McVean's Peer Power Foundation, an off shoot of The Greater East High Foundation, which arranges for older high school students with good grades to tutor others. The article is in the July 13 issue of The Commercial Appeal.  The
Tennessee Jewelers Association sponsored the 2010 Jewelers Open Golf
Tournament, which raised $500 for St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital. In a photo posted/published by The Commercial Appeal of the
golfers appear Van Smith ('65) and Cope Williams ('65). See the photo. "Critics
have lavished exuberant praise on the work of Memphis-reared fiction
writer Steve Stern ('65)," according to The Commercial Appeal. He will read
and sign his latest book, The Frozen
Rabbi at Burke's Book Store Tuesday, July 13, 5:30 to 7
p.m. Read more in the newspaper's blog. East alumnus Elizabeth Anne Brown
(class association undetermined) is featured in an article about her
Germantown, TN. dance studio and 50 years of teaching dance in in the
July 9 issue of The Commercial Appeal.Josephine Alquist Eggers, 88, of Atlanta, Georgia, mother of Louis Eggers (associated with the Class of '66), Steve Eggers (associated with the Class of '68), and Andy Eggers (associated with the Class of '70), died Saturday, July 3. Mrs. Eggers husband, Jack Albert Eggers, died March 24. See our sympathy page. Rebecca Dodson (Peggy) Pearson, 85, of Memphis, mother of East alumni Liz Pearson ('68) and Becky Pearson ('70), died Sunday, July 4. See our sympathy page. The following family association with East High is considered likely but has not been verified. George M. Tribble, 79, died Saturday, July 3 in Memphis. His family includes a daughter and son who may have attended East, Donna Morris and Rob Tribble. A Donna Morris attended East in 1968 and a Rob Morris was associated with the Class of '75. See The Commercial Appeal for the full obituary. The following family association with East High is considered likely but has not been verified. Charles William Griesbeck, 92, died Sunday, July 4. His family includes brother Joseph G. Griesbeck, Jr. A J.G. Griesbeck, Jr. was principal of East High School 1964-1972. See The Commercial Appeal for the full obituary New and updated profiles were posted on The East High Alumni Page Thursday, July 1.  Susan
Haspel ('62),
president and CEO of the Mid-South Food Bank, will retire at the end of
this year after almost 20 years and is the focus of a June 29 newspaper
article in The Commercial Appeal. Some
of us already know him because he was our schoolmate, graduating from
East High after attending for six years. For the rest of us, get to knowEric Harris ('91), the new principal through our extensive interview in the latest edition of the Mustang Roundup - Alumni Edition. '91 Grad is
new East High principal
 Eric Harris ('91),
a 1991 graduate of East High School, has been appointed principal of
his alma mater. Mr. Harris comes to East after serving as 11th grade
principal at Memphis City Schools best academic performing high school,
White Station. Harris and White Station principal David Mansfield face
misdemeanor charges November 3 in Shelby County Juvenile Court
for allegedly failing to report to police an on-campus attack upon a
student at
White Station last September which resulted in injury. State law
requires such reporting. Mr. Harris replaces 5-year East principal Fred Curry (Faculty 2005-2010). Curry was suspended with pay in April pending an investigation/audit initiated by superintendent Kriner Cash after some school fights among pupils, an alleged off campus rape during school hours in which those accused and the victim were East pupils, and some questions about missing laptop computers. Monday night (June 21) Cash told The East High Alumni Page Curry remains in the pool of administrators available to him for appointments but that Curry would not be reappointed to East High. A retired principal who often serves in an interim capacity, Harry Durham, temporarily served as principal after Curry's suspension until the end of the school year. A copy of the City Schools
internal audit of East High School for the majority of the 2009-2010
school year is available.There are additional stories and links about Mr. Curry below. A newspaper article Wednesday, June 23 reports on the audit of former East High Principal Fred Curry's (Faculty 2005-2010) administration. "East High School principal replaced for lack of control; student funds, laptops missing" can be read in The Commercial Appeal and a TV news report is available at WHBQ-TV. There are additional stories about this situation and about Mr. Curry in our "In the news ..." section. [Editor's note: Monday night Memphis City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash told The East High Alumni Page the report was "available," but declined to otherwise comment on it. Tuesday, an e-mail was sent to the e-mail address linked on the City Schools web site as being the director of Communications requesting a copy or access to the report. The link and the listed address were not the same. The City Schools e-mail system reported that the linked e-mail address was not in their system.] "'All these years I've had a flashlight in my desk for this moment," said copy editor Beth Gooch ['75],'" in June 26 article in The Commercial Appeal about the newspaper being unable to publish and deliver newspapers the day before because of an area wide 5-hour power outage. "Memphis-based Poag & McEwen Lifestyle Centers, the original developer of Saddle Creek in Germantown, is talking with Bass Pro about developing part of the adjacent Pinch District," according to a newspaper article in the June 26 issue of The Commercial Appeal about an agreement for Bass Pro leasing the Pyramid. Dan Poag ('59) is CEO of Poag & McEwen Lifestyle Centers Delayed notice1: John Calamis (class association undetermined), of Rockwood, TN, formerly of Memphis, TN. brother of at least two siblings who attended East: East: Mary Elizabeth Calamis (class association undetermined) and Johnnie Irene Calamis (class association undetermined), died Friday, June 11. An obituary is available. East High Athletic Championships - The athletic director at East High is attempting to identify championships won by East High athletic teams and individuals during its history. District, City, Regional, State* and other championships are welcome and information as to the sport (i.e. women's track), level (senior/junior high), and year of championship is needed. You may e-mail the information to editor@EastHigh.org. * We are aware of the TSSAA state championship listings. An
alumnus asks us, what is
this about a "Memphis East High
Alumni
Archive" soliciting his participation. Read our answer to
his
questions: about
commercial alumni pages.
Major alumni headlines are available as RSS feed: RSS Feed 2010 Reunions (see our Reunions page): Class of 1960 - completed Class of 1970 - Completed - photos posted! Class of 1980 - Initial planning 2009 Reunions: Class of 1959 - Photos posted Oct. 27 Class of 1967 - New photos June 3 Class of 1969 - photos posted June 16 Class of 1994 - reunion canceled Class of 1999 - completed - photos wanted Periodic Class
Gatherings/Dinners: Check our Reunions page to find your class and visit its reunion page. Because many of our urgent notices are news of deaths of alumni or that of members of alumni families, you may wish to also check our obituary and/or sympathy pages for additional information or for notices more than a month old. Some alumni with profiles listed on The East High Alumni Page are getting e-mail solicitations from an outfit calling itself EastHighAlumni.com. That organization appears to be a commercial, for-profit outfit, similar to classmates.com, catering to alumni of many schools but with the smart idea having lots of web addresses with particular schools' names in them. EastHighAlumni.com has no association with The East High Alumni Page and to the extent they may be using e-mail addresses gathered here, they are being taken without our involvement. We hope you find our alumni site provides what you want and need in an alumni web site without a need to use any of the other "alumni" web pages. We occasionally receive a "bounced back" message indicating an e-mail message from The East High Alumni Page was rejected by the recipient's computer because the message contained a virus. The messages were never from us and all messages originated by us are anti-virus scanned automatically before they are sent. For any mail you receive, use standard precautions in deciding whether to open the message(s) and always be running an anti-virus product. Obituaries of alumni and faculty and sympathy notices to alumni and faculty for their family losses remain on The East High Alumni Page permanently. You may review them at the obituary page, the sympathy page (covering the past 12 months) or the sympathy archive page. News items about the school and/or alumni can be found in our news section. Most
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Notes from column 1 (footnotes): *The East High Alumni Page has a long definition of what qualifies as urgent news for the purposes of this Portal Page. Summarized, it means news available in time for alumni to take action in support in cases of a serious risk to life or express sympathy for loss of life of alumni or their families, or major news about the school. News not considered urgent or especially important usually appears in our "other news & previously urgent items" section, also on column one on this page. Also, news of alumni and the school is posted, often in greater length, on our In the news... section. 1. Delayed notices - consist of information which would have qualified as urgent or other important news if posted here in a timely basis but were unknown to us at the time or were otherwise delayed. If it would have qualified as urgent, it is usually posted in the urgent area of this column for about a day before moving into the "Recent (previously) urgent and other recent important news" section. 2. Our
ability to provide
useful information about deaths and obituaries of alumni and/or members
of their families has likely been compromised by a new policy of The
Commercial Appeal, Memphis major daily newspaper, which was
implemented June 16, 2005. It has limited the number of words provided
in a free obituary to that which severely hampers an attempt to
correctly identify people. Additional words are available only for a
price. The East High Alumni Page’s primary source for news of
alumni and family deaths is that newspaper and our ability to identify,
with some assurance, those with East ties is based on names of
relatives and other information in a properly written and presented
obituary. So, we expect we will recognize fewer names and be unable to
confirm individuals are East associated and, therefore, be unable to
relay the information to you. The newspaper's decision is regretted in
this office and that disappointment has been communicated to that
publication. 3. Entries with the "reported deceased" designation indicate a reunion committee or other person(s) believed closely associated with the class or the family has indicated they have information they believe quite reliable about the death of the individual so designated. The East High Alumni Page has not received sufficient documentation to confirm the information and therefore does not confirm the death or that the individual who died is the one of the same name who attended East High School. Such reports without confirmation should be taken with a degree of skepticism. Anyone with documentation to confirm the report or refute the report is strongly encouraged to contact the editor of The East High Alumni Page at editor@EastHigh.org promptly. Please see our obituary policy.
The
Commercial
Appeal ran a Mid-South Memories item in the
January 11, 2007 issue of a school snow day on the same date in 1962.
Pictured is an aerial view
of East High School.
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Some
of us already know him because he was our schoolmate, graduating from
East High after attending for six years. For the rest of us, get to know Eric Harris ('91), the new principal through our extensive interview in the latest edition of the Mustang Roundup - Alumni Edition. At the school (selected items): The East High Class of 2010 graduated May 15. Mr. Eric Harris appointed principal, June, 2010 2010 Football Schedule - click here Featured Links: Meetup.com - meet folks with similar interests Landmarks and Legends in Memphis Metropolitan Charter Referendum - Shelby County, TN.  East
High's cafeteria was used for airport scenes in the 1989 movie "Great
Balls of Fire" about Jerry Lee Lewis. Read more and see images from
the movie on The East High
Alumni Page Plus.The East High Alumni Page  Reunions Section RSS Feed East Elementary School section East High Alumni Discussion Board Mustang Roundup-Alumni Edition Site Map (Contents) The East High Alumni Page Plus Editor's Memo (blog) Resource
Material Sought
The East High
Alumni Page
is seeking donations of East High resource
material, i.e. yearbooks, phone directories, historical
documents. For more information, please see our Resource Needs page.
On-line Dictionary/Thesaurus/Encyclopedia Favorites: East High School (Official) Web Site The Greater East High Foundation Mighty Mustangs Band Boosters East High Football Alumni Honors (East alumni apparel, art) Landmark & Legend - Memphis Memphis Memories Yahoo E-Bay (Auctions) Amazon (Books and more) Civics in Schools 2008 Flu Shot Clinic Locator Flu Occurrence Report (U.S.A.) Mayo Clinic (Medical Info) Prescription Medication Info Medical Journals Medical Dictionary Recipes Home Improvement Tips Gardening Tips Television Schedules U.S. Government portal Fiscal Wake-Up Tour Computer News (Ziff Davis) Computer Software Downloads Computing Threats People Finder (address/phone) Earthquake Information C-SPAN Computer Virus Information Consumer Reports: Online Security Friends For Our Riverfront Flight (aircraft) Tracking Meet folks with similar interests Religion: Free
Computer Applications East Alumni (students & Faculty): Let us know your favorite web sites. If they prove popular among alumni, we will put links to them here.
Current
Computer Consumer Reports: Online Security Guide Can't see the
Security Alerts below? The following threat assessment chart will also include phishing scams when they are a high or recent threat.
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