A packed house greeted the officers of the Douglass High School Alumni group, meeting in Bristol, Virginia on Saturday, July 7, 2012.
"We actually had a really good turnout," says Alumni president Fred Delaney. "We covered a lot of issues, and the business discussion went smoothly."
Click here to see a slideshow of the Douglass High School-Bristol VA 2012 Business Meeting.
The alumni budget was discussed, and among the issues that came up, was continuing the reunion and preparing to meet again in two years.
"Continuing the reunion was actually the first thing we talked about," Delaney says. "Our members want that, and so we'll have one, two years from now."
Another hot topic was the invitation to join in a gathering of all alumni associations representing African-American schools in the Tri-State region. Douglass alumni members were quite excited about that. Details of that discussion will be forthcoming in another story on this webpage.
Douglass High School in Bristol, Virginia always holds its reunion with nearby Slater High School in Bristol, Tennessee. The once-bitter enemies now hold joint events, including the alumni banquet.
Click here to see a slideshow of the 2012 Douglass-Slater Reunion Banquet.
"It was even a full house for the banquet," Delaney noted. We expected 140 alumni members to to be there, and we actually had a few more than that."
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