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 Last Updated:  Thursday, 29 February 2020, 10:54 pm

How About a Little Nostalgia?  Click Here.

(After clicking on the above link, click on the Handley High tab and return to this web page to continue browsing while the music plays.)

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HHS Class of 1959 Contact List has been updated. It can be viewed or downloaded by clicking on the link in the column on the right. 

Latest HHS Class of 1959 Contact List is dated:  27 February 2020. It shows the passing of our classmate, Kenneth Ray Forehand.

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*** HHS Class of 1959 60th Anniversary Reunion ***

Our 60th HHS Class of 1959 Anniversary Reunion occurred on the 20th of July 2019. Everyone seemed to have a great time. The following link opens a document containing the pictures from the 60th reunion. After opening the file you can save it to your own computer for viewing and printing.

The following link permits downloading of an Adobe Acrobat file containing the front matter from the printed 4-Volume set of HHS yearbooks. It includes the links for downloading any one or all of the 28 scanned yearbooks from Handley High School and the included indices linking individual graduates with their year of graduation (viz., the relevant yearbook to locate the individual). The document contains about 80 pages.

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Can you believe that it has been 60 years?

What has changed on the website: 

          ** Updated HHS Class of 1959 Contact List

          ** Memento Pictures from 60th Anniversary of the                   HHS Class of 1959 Graduation <Click Here>

          ** Listing of scanned HHS Yearbooks.

               To download the list (with links to each yearbook

               for downloading):  <Click Here>

                   After opening the list click on the download link at the top.

Table of Contents (this page)

                    1.  Special Events and Announcements

                    2.  Birthdays & Anniversaries

                    3.  This and That

                    4.  Special Requests

                    5.  Special Feature

                    6.  Links (in the column to the right)

                    7.  Site Statistics for Prior Week (see below)

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1.  Special Events and Announcements

We're waiting to hear from you.

The game is already in process, you are at bat, the bases are loaded, and your team mates are waiting for you to hit the ball.  The pitcher is winding up and about to throw the ball.  Will it be a strike or a home run?  Hit the ball by sending me your contributions.  The pitcher has thrown a perfect pitch that's heading right through the strike zone.

It's your turn . . .

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5.  Special Features

     There are 2 essays that I have written that discuss financial planning that I wish to make available to my classmates who might be interested.  Both papers are posted on my personal web site where they may be downloaded.  To access either paper simply click on the respective essay title which includes a link that will take you to my personal web site where you can access the essay.

The most recent essay is "A Brief Essay on Financial Planning" that I wrote primarily for my family, but then decided to share it with my classmates who might be interested in the subject.

The other essay "Determining Amounts That May Be More Safely Withdrawn During Retirement From Accumulated Savings and Investments" looks at the problem of planning the use of retirement assets in the context of an unknown lifetime.  It gives a simple, high confidence method for maximizing the annual "draw" from those assets in such a way as to minimize the risk of depleting those assets before the end of life.

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Another document has been posted on my personal web site that pertains to genealogy and documenting one's family tree.

For quite a number of years now I have been documenting my family tree. I began many years ago compiling information gleaned from older family members such as my grandmother. I entered the information collected into a family tree program. My collection is presently quite extensive, largely through the contributions of others that I was able to locate through internet sources. However, in the last few years a new facility has become available that is truly remarkable. The facility is called Find-A-Grave, and it provides a remarkably effective way to collaborate with others in extending knowledge of one's family and lineage. I've provided a little more information on my own personal web site that you can take a look at if you are sufficiently interested. Click on the following link to go there:

                 https://sites.google.com/site/davidmc41

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Handley High Class of 1954

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A Tribute to HHS Classmates and Teachers

This "tribute" was delivered at the HHS Class of 1959's 50th Anniversary Reunion as an after dinner speech.  A preface has been added as a word of explanation so that its relevance to others might be a bit more clear.  This modified version is provided here for the benefit of other alumni of HHS.  It may be that your experience paralleled ours.  Click on the link below to view it.  You can decide if it speaks to your own experience at HHS.

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A Note Regarding Older Special Features

Prior special features have been moved to other pages.  The contribution by Mrs. Jacks has been moved to the "Contributions by Our Classmates" page. 

A Bit of Humor: A Biologist, a Physicist, & a Mathematician

A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician were sitting in a street cafe watching the crowd.  Across the street they saw a man and a woman enter a building.  After ten minutes they observe them to reappear with a third person.

The biologist remarked, "They have multiplied."

The physicist responded, "Oh, no, you've simply made an error in measurement."

The mathematician observed, "If exactly one person enters the building now, it will be empty again."

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