The roundup of 1964 Colts is set for the dates of Friday, September 20, Saturday, September 21, and Sunday, September 22, 2024. Thanks to all who filled out the informal questionnaire that was posted earlier here. Your responses helped guide our planning! NOW IT IS TIME TO MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS AND BOOK A HOTEL ROOM IF YOU NEED TO DO SO!
An official registration form for all reunion activities is posted on this website on the AGE IS JUST A NUMBER page. Click on that label in the menu bar at the top of this page to access the reunion registration page. Online registration will be possible using the official form until September 6. You must complete this form to officially register for reunion activities! If you would like a registration form mailed to you, please contact Ruth Taravella by email at ruthtarv@gmail.com.
IN A NUTSHELL, HERE'S WHAT THE REUNION PLANS ARE.
Friday, September 20, 2024:An informal mixer followed by a casual dinner at the River's Edge Restaurant. Cost is $60 per person, and personal checks made out to South High Class of 1964 should be mailed to Ruth Taravella no later than Sept. 6, 2024.
Saturday, September 21, 2024: An optional bus trip to historic Cripple Creek to gamble or enjoy other attractions. Tickets for the shuttle bus from Pueblo to Cripple Creek can be purchased online at https://casinoshuttle.com/pueblo-cos-cripple-creek/. This is the web address for the Ramblin' Express website. Ticket cost per individual is $40.
Sunday, September 22, 2024: Golfing 9 holes together at DESERT HAWK GOLF COURSE (not Elmwood as previously scheduled) is on the calendar for those who choose to play a short round. Just show up at Desert Hawk at 251 S. McClulloch Blvd. in Pueblo West at 2:30 p.m., purchase your round in the clubhouse, play 9 holes, and then stay for a while to socialize!
Classmates celebrate being 77 together in August
We're Real Great!
We've DONE More!
We're the Class
of '64
Classmates Dine Together May 1 in Castle Rock
Unfortunately Mother Nature took charge on March 14 and forced us to cancel the class dinner we had planned for that date, but the good news is that it was re-scheduled for Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. at La Loma Restaurant in Castle Rock. A dozen classmates plus spouses and significant others dined together and enjoyed a pleasant early spring evening.
***Classmate Claude "Butch" Chavez was inducted into the South High School Alumni Foundation Hall of Fame on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in a ceremony at Pueblo Community College. Butch, a Vietnam War vet himself, has worked tirelessly to promote the causes of our generation's war veterans. To see pictures taken at the ceremony as well as at the South High School assembly on October 25, 2019, visit the NEWS FROM CLASSMATES page.
Early in the summer of 2019, Butchannounced that the Pueblo POW/MIA Memorial was to be recognized August 16 to 18, 2019, at a HUGE salute to American Veterans rally in Cripple Creek. Go to the NEWS FROM CLASSMATES page for links to information about that event.
Butch's veterans' organization has a website entitled "The Pueblo Seven." A link to it is also included on NEWS FROM CLASSMATES page.
***Two original paintings by Sheryl Hutchings were accepted into the Fine Arts Exhibit at the 2019 Colorado State Fair. See them and access a link to her body of work as a budding artist by going to the NEWS FROM CLASSMATES page!
***Ruth Power Taravella was inducted into the South High School Hall of Fame on November 3, 2018. See the whole story on the NEWS FROM CLASSMATES page.
***And, Ruth, Bennie Swanson, and Jim Beal were featured in the Pueblo Chieftain as part of its GENERATIONS series of feature articles! See pictures and get linked to the stories themselves by visiting the NEWS FROM CLASSMATES page!
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE 2017 SOUTH HIGH COLTS FOOTBALL TEAM WHO CLAIMED A FIRST EVER COLORADO CLASS 4A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP!
OUR CLASS HAS DONATED $500 TO OUR ALMA MATER TO PURCHASE A GIANT FRAMED TEAM PICTURE OF THE NEW STATE CHAMPS!
TO VIEW A STUDENT PRODUCED VIDEO
OF THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME,
CLICK ON THIS BUTTON.
Two of our esteemed classmates have been inductied into the South High Hall of Fame: LESTER GARRETT, posthumously (nominated by Bennie Swanson and Sheryl Hutchings) and JOHN REINERT (nominated by Ruth Taravella).
This exciting and prestigious occasion took place on April 15, 2023, at the Pueblo Country Club.
The annual dinner and auction to recognize Hall of Fame recipients was the sixteenth in the tradition. It is the number one fundraiser to support students' needs at our alma mater.
We are still
doing things!
To stay informed, check out the various pages of our website. Just click on a link in the menu bar above to visit a page and find out what's going on in the future, what's happening with fellow classmates, or just to re-live a memory!
60 years and counting
TWO CLASSMATES INDUCTED INTO THE SOUTH HIGH ALUMNI HALL OF FAME
On August 23, 2023, pool side at Ruth Taravella's home, class members gathered to celebrate their 77th birthdays as a group. It was a lovely day, and there were a few new faces in the group. See if you can pick them out and identify them!
South High Class of 1964