MWHS 50 Year Club
Executive Board Meeting
Friday, June 8, 2012
Mineral Wells High School Cafeteria
R. E. Mason
President
President
Class of 1949
MINUTES
50 YEAR CLUB EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
APRIL 11, 2012
The meeting was called to order by Pres. R.E. Mason. The following
officers were present: Second Vice Pres. Jo Murphy, Secretary Marguriete
Crum, Corresponding Secretary Neta Mason, Historian Judy Shubert and
representatives from Classes 1942 thru 1963.
Neta Mason made the motion to accept the minutes of January 11, 2012
meeting as presented. Diane Long seconded and motion carried.
R.E. Mason gave the following financial report. Marguriete Crum made
the motion to accept the financial report as presented. Seconded by
Bobby Blackwell and motion carried.
Renovation $75,009.00
Membership 8,548.07
Scholarship 4,054.95
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Total $87,612.12
Under New Business Jason Ringo of RBR Construction gave an update on the
Homemake Building. Mr. Ringo stated the renovation of the Homemake
Building would be done in two phases. Phase one would be the outside of
the building which involves extending the roof line to keep water out of
the building. Phase two would be the inside of the building. The cost
of the phase one would be $82,800.00. After a lengthy discussion Bobby
Blackwell made the motion to go forward on the renovation of the
Homemake Building phase 1. Crockett Grimes seconded. The motion carried
with two opposed.
Lou Warren, chairperson of the reunion lunch committee gave the
following report on bids for the lunch: Smoke House BBQ $10.95 per
plate; Pasta Fina Italian Restaurant $18.00 per plate; Pulido’s Mexican
Restaurant $7.00 per plate plus $40.00 per server; Soda Springs BBQ
$11.75 per plate. The executive board voted to go with Soda Springs.
Pres. Mason reminded the classes to bring items for the silent auction at the reunion.
Neta Mason, Corresponding Secretary reminded classes of their duties for
the reunion. She asked all class representatives to please send out the
letters about the reunion as soon as possible.
Marguriete Crum made the motion to adjourn, seconded by Diane Long and meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m..
Next meeting June 8th at the Mineral Wells High School Cafeteria.
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R.E. Mason, President
Marguriete Crum, Sec.
MINUTES50 YEAR CLUB EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETINGJANUARY 11, 2012The meeting was called to order by President R. E. Mason. The following officers were present: Second Vice-President Jo Murphy, Secretary Marguriete Crum, Corresponding Secretary Neta Mason and representatives of Classes 1942 thru 1963.Bob Vaughn made the motion to accept the minutes of the November 9, 2011 meeting as presented. Raymond Brewton seconded and motion carried.Marguriete Crum gave the following financial report. Neta Mason made the motion to accept the financial report as presented. Seconded by Jo Yarbrough and motion carried.Renovation $88,726.06Membership 9,148.27Scholarship 3,449.59___________Total $ 101,323.92Scholarship FundIn Memory of Charles Carter $ 1,805.00Under New Business it was approved to have an auction at the 2012 reunion.President Mason appointed the following committees:
Nominating Committee: Jean Harrington, Chairperson, Nancy Wallace, Marguriete Crum, John Murphy and Neta Mason.
Scholarship Committee: Raymond Brewton, Chairperson, Hank Gayler, Jonowene Hall and June Roden.
Banquet Catering Committee: Lou Warren, Chairperson, and Crockett Grimes.Neta Mason gave the dates of June 8th and 9th, 2012 for the 2012 reunion; and duties for the reunion as follows:
Class of 1963 GreetersClass of 1962 Inducted into 50 Year ClubClass of 1961 Snacks for Fri. night and Sat. morningClass of 1960 Decorations for CafeteriaUnder Old Business, President Mason gave an update on the Homemake Building. He stated we are moving forward and the abatement has been completed. The abatement was going to be $1000.00 more than expected.
Update on the letters sent out for donations on Homemake Building Fund: 45 out of 1100 responded with donations.Crockett Grimes made the motion to adjourn and Jean Harrington seconded. Meeting was adjourned at 10:55 a.m.
Next meeting, April 11, 2012.
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R.E. Mason, President
Marguriete Crum, Sec.
MINUTES
50 YEAR CLUB
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
The meeting was called to order by President R. E. Mason. The following officers were present: First Vice-President Hank Gayler, Second Vice-President Jo Murphy, Secretary Marguriete Crum, Corresponding Secretary Neta Mason and representatives of Classes 1943 thru 1962.
Roy Brooks made the motion to accept the minutes of June 10, 2011 meeting as presented. Louise Blackerly seconded and motion carried.
Marguriete Crum gave the following financial report. Neta Mason made the motion to accept financial report as presented. Seconded by Raymond Brewton and motion carried.
Renovation $ 66,470.44
Membership 8,946.16
Scholarship 2,025.14
Total $ 78,015.71
Scholarship fund
in Memory of Charles Carter $ 1,205.00
R. E. Mason and Jo Murphy gave a report on the 50 Year Club participation in the Crazy Water Festival. President Mason stated we didn’t make a profit but all had fun that night.
Marguriete Crum gave a report on the Coming Home Queen. The Coming Home Queen was Yvonne Vaughn class of 1947. She was escorted on the field by her husband Bob Vaughn, class of 1944.
Under Fund Raiser, President Mason stated it would be between 10 to 14 thousand dollars to abate the old homemake building. This building has to be abated before we can do anything in it. If it is abated then we can fix the building back to its original floor plan.
Neta Mason made the motion to take bids on abating the homemake building. Seconded by Georgia Dowdey. President Mason stated he already had bids to abate the building. Neta Mason amended her motion to go forward with the abatement of the homemake building. Georgia Dowdey seconded and motion carried.
Raymond Brewton made the motion to send out a brief news letter to all 50 Year Club members for donations to refurbish the Homemake Building. Also, to stress what has already been done to this building and what is going to be done to it. Include pictures and state more information to follow concerning this renovation. Seconded by Jo Murphy and motion carried. Jo Murphy and Raymond Brewton were appointed to compose this letter.
President Mason stated the insurance for the Mountaineer Heritage Park is $6000.00 per year. This is divided three ways: the band hall, homemake building, and the old high school.
Judy Shubert, Historian, informed the club that the old web site has been disabled to save the club money. A new web site has all that the old site had, and it is called the MWHS 50 Year Club. It can be accessed by going to http://mwhs50yearclub.blogspot.com/.
Marguriete Crum made the motion to adjourn, seconded by Neta Mason and meeting was adjourned at 11 a. m.
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R.E. Mason, President Marguriete Crum, Secretary
MINUTES
50 YEAR CLUB
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
JUNE 10, 2011
The meeting was called to order by Pres. R. E. Mason. The following officers were present: First Vice-President Hank Gayler, Second Vice-President Jo Murphy, Secretary Marguriete Crum, Treasurer Earl Medlin, Corresponding Secretary Neta Mason, and representatives of Classes 1935 thru 1960.
Bill Webb made the motion to accept the minutes of April 13, 2011 meeting as presented. Seconded by Charles Carter and motion carried.
Earl Medlin, Treasurer gave the following financial report. Neta Mason made the motion to accept the financial report. Seconded by Hank Gayler and motion carried.
Renovation $67,097.54Membership 10,528.33Scholarship 2,025.14Total $79,651.01
NEW BUSINESS:
Jean Harrington, Nominating Committee Chairperson, presented the following nominees for officers. President R. E. Mason, First Vice President, Hank Gayler, Second Vice President Jo Murphy, Secretary, Marguriete Crum, Treasurer Earl Medlin and Corresponding Secretary Neta Mason. Charles Carter made the motion to accept these nominees for officers and seconded by Crockett Grimes. Motion carried.
Raymond Brewton, Chairperson of Scholarship Committee, thanked the others that served on this committee. He announced scholarships were given in the amount of $1000.00 to Jacob Smith, Skyler Flaska and Manonita Mandas.
Pres. Mason stated that Carol Elder, chairperson of the Crazy Water Festival, would like for the 50 Year Club to have something to kick off the Festival on Friday night, Oct. 7, 2011. The Club agreed to do something to kick off the Crazy Water Festival at the Mountaineer Heritage Park. Jim Stephen was appointed chairperson and Jo Murphy as assistant chairperson of the committee to get something up to kick off the Crazy Water Festival.
Jo Murphy gave the report on upgrading of the computers at the 50 Year Club office. The computers are Vista and Vista doesn’t get support from Microsoft. We need Windows 7 on them, or sooner or later the computers will crash with all of the information on them. We could get the desk top and laptop computers upgraded for $451.00. Johnowene Hall made the motion that we upgrade our computers and seconded by Neta Mason and motion carried.
Pres. Mason asked if the board was in favor of staying in the Old High School for at least another year or turn it back to the Mineral Wells ISD. But for one hundred thousand dollars we could complete the old home-make building and have the 50 Year Club offices over there.
Neta Mason stated if we fix up the home-make building we could also rent it out for different occasions and charge for it. After a lengthy discussion Ken Clary made the motion to keep the Old School for at least another year. Georgia Dowdy seconded and motion carried.
Donna Parker, of the Mineral Wells High School spoke to the executive board about having a Coming Home Queen for the homecoming football game on September 16, 2011.
OLD BUSINESS:
Neta Mason gave information on how to fill out forms for the reunion.
Raymond Brewton made the motion the 50 Year Club go up from $15.00 per plate to $20.00 per plate at the 2012 reunion and dues remain at $10.00 and associates $5.00 for membership. Neta Mason seconded and motion carried.
Marguriete Crum made the motion to adjourn and Neta Mason seconded and meeting was adjourned.
Next meeting will be November 9, 2011 at the First Methodist Church.
___________________________/ ________________________R.E. Mason, President Marguriete Crum, Secretary
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