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 as of Tuesday, March 9,
2010 10:11pm CST
Other News
& In
the neighborhood: On its 10pm newscast Mar. 9, WREG-TV reports "Memphis
Police are investigating a possible rape involving an East High School
Student...Police confirm the alleged rape happened near East High
School Tuesday, but not on campus." A text version of the report is
available at wreg.com.
A Mar. 7 article in The Commercial Appeal focuses on Memphian Melody Weintraub's part in the movie "The Blind Side." Mrs. Weintraub is the wife of Jeff Weintraub ('67). Joe Taylor (Faculty), 79, died Wednesday, March 3. Mr. Taylor taught music and was band director at East High 1958-1964. An obituary is available. Franchester Carter ('00), 28, of Memphis, died Friday, February 26. An obituary is available.  "Now,
after more than four decades of business ingenuity, the native Memphian
who grew up on Galloway and graduated from East High School," Kem Wilson ('60) will be honored as a "Master Entrepreneur" by the Society of Entrepreneurs in Memphis, according to a Mar. 3 article in The Commercial Appeal.An article about a new playground at Shelby Farm Park funded largely by the Plough Foundation contains this comment, "Plough chairwoman Diane Rudner ['68] credited the efforts of local leaders over the past half-century to protect Shelby Farms from development proposals." Levi Burns, 88, of Florida, father of Bonnie Burns ('60) and the late Millie Burns ('63), died Thursday, February 25. See our sympathy section. New and updated profiles were posted on The East High Alumni Page Sunday, February 28. Linda Miles ('59), 69, sister of East alumni Pat Miles ('61), and Laura Miles (associated with the Class of '66), died Wednesday, February 24. An obituary is available.  "In
honor of Black History Month," the Memphis Grizzlies are
recognizing Memphians who played in the National Basketball Association
and shared their talents with the world during Grizzlies home games
played in February 2010. East High's Cederick Henderson ('93) is the only player in Memphis history to rank in the top ten in all-time scoring, steals and blocks. Read more on the Grizzlies' website.Raymond F. Mayer, 95, of Arkansas, formerly of Memphis, father of Bobby Mayer ('60), Brownie Mayer ('64), Becky Mayer ('69), and the late Carolyn Mayer ('57), died Sunday, February 21. See our sympathy section.  A 1955 photo of the that
year's All Memphis Junior High Basketball team includes East alumnus Lee Welch
('58) (far left in the photo). The picture was
republished in the Feb. 23 issue of The Commercial Appeal. Memphis City Schools will hold a Town Hall meeting Thursday, Feb. 25 at 6 p.m. at East High School. The East High Alumni Page suggests this might be a good time for alumni with concerns about city schools to ask questions, present their views and hear from school system officials. Superintendent Kriner Cash is expected to attend. The school board commissioner representing the district which includes East High is Dr. Jeff Warren (  ).Ken Weatherford ('69) is mentioned in the article "Veterans, investors lead turnaround at Landmark" in the Feb. 21 issue of The Commercial Appeal. Sylvia Cornelia Seawright Eaton Wall, 90, who died February 14, 2010. The family includes East alumni Craig Eaton ('64), Steve Eaton ('69), Beth Eaton ('71), the late Tim Eaton ('66) and other brothers and sisters who may have attended or graduated from East including Bron Eaton, and Sandra Eaton. See our sympathy section. "All of us are tired of people going bankrupt because of unexpected health care issues," is one of the comments from Bill West ('65), one of those quoted in an article entitled "Business leaders are urged to back Med" in the Feb. 19 issue of The Commercial Appeal.  In February, The Memphis Magazine web site carried an
article about Cybill Shepherd ('68)
being a supermodel in her early career. It also has a few photos of her
on the cover of Glamour
magzine from 1969 through 1971.While she continued modeling, her career
path expanded to include feature films with the release of The Last Picture Show in the fall
of 1971 and later, television. Read the article.In the neighborhood: perhaps not in the physical neighborhood of the East High School district, but certainly within the zone of activity of its pupils, the "Zippin Pippin" roller coaster structure at the Fairgrounds has been dismantled. You can read more about it in a Feb. 11 story in The Commercial Appeal. You may also read more about the demise of Libertyland and the Memphis version of the Mid-South Fair at Landmark and Legend. Shirley W. Brigham, 86, of Memphis, mother of East alumni: son Terry Brigham ('67) and daughter Diane Brigham ('70) , died Monday, February 8. See our sympathy section.  East
High's Advance Placement courses are used extensively as an example of
AP courses ini high schools in a Feb. 12 newspaper article in The Commercial Appeal. Along
with students mentioned in the artice is also Nicholas Getschman (current Faculty)
who teaches the environmental science AP class. Michele Mallory (Faculty), French
teacher at East High, is the author of a "My Words" article in the Jan.
7 issue of The Commercial Appeal about
some schools replacing French classes with Mandarin Chinese.Margaret Endicott Fry, 93, mother of Billy Endicott ('58), died Saturday, February 6. Visitation is at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 9 at Memorial Park Funeral Home, Memphis, followed by a funeral service at 2:30 p.m. at the funeral home. 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. Something not working on this web site? To better serve us all, this website was moved to a different server the evening of July 25. Not all features have been checked after the move. If you find a page missing, incomplete pages, or something doesn't work, please let us know at editor@EastHigh.org 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. See other East related Mid-South Memories pictures on our "In the news..." section. 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 - April 23-24, 2010 Class of 1970 - July 23-24, 2010 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.
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