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Last updated: March 10, 2010
Spring Newsletter
now available on this site.
Attention Class of 1960: Reunion Information
here.
A Big THANK YOU To the Class
of 1974
Dear Class of
1974,
Thank you for your
class reunion's
contribution to our
school's current
campaign to renovate
Manual's track. Our
current renovation
plan
includes upgrading
the track surface
to rubber, along
with naming that
area after former
Manual principal
George Sauer.
As you may know,
this area is used by
both our athletic
teams and physical
education students
and is vital to our
continued goal of
excellent physical
fitness and athletic
achievement.
Your
significant gift
gets us closer to
the financial
commitment needed
for the project. We
hope to break ground
on the project in
mid-March. Thank you
again for supporting
the current
Crimsons!
David Zuberer
Athletic
Director
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INTRODUCING COACH LUCAS!
It is
with great pride and excitement that
we introduce
Dr.
Oliver Lucas
as the 34th coach in Manual's
illustrious 116 year football
history. Dr. Lucas comes to us from
Lexington Bryan Station High School
where he turned that program into a
6A power. Dr Lucas comes to Manual
as an educator first. He has his BA
in Biology as well as a minor in
Adaptive PE . In addition, he has
earned a Masters degree as well as a
Doctorate in Educational
Administration. He has served as a
classroom teacher, athletic
director, assistant principal and
principal in his 28 years as an
educator...twice he has been awarded
"Teacher of the Year" by his
colleagues and students.
Coach
Lucas' football resume is equally
impressive. In addition to his vast
head coaching experience, Coach
Lucas served from 1984-1991 as the
running backs coach at the
University of Colorado where he
helped Coach Bill McCartney win two
Big 8 Conference Championship Titles
and one Division I National
Championship. Coach Lucas is a
seasoned professional with a track
record of success that includes
numerous district, regional and
state championships in Colorado as
either an assistant or head coach.
He is a man known for his integrity,
innovation, and compelling
leadership that generates enthusiasm
to achieve at the highest levels and
garners commitment to high levels of
excellence.
Welcome, Coach
Lucas!
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PARTNERS FOR
EXCELLENCE Campaign 2010
Please help
the Manual PTSA in their drive to improve and upgrade our
technical equipment.
Click here for more
information.
FALL ALUMNI
LUNCHEON CELEBRATES
1959 CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAM
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An overflow crowd turned out at Hurstbourne
Country Club to hear from Steve Wright and
Sherman Lewis, and to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the team's 62-0 victory over Male
High. Read more about the team, past and
present, in the current
newsletter.
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Former Alumni Director Alan Goulder with Scott
Detrick
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Steve Wright, Alumni Director
Mike McDaniel, and Sherman Lewis |
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Support the
school and shop for many new items of Manualwear available through the PTSA ... see it all
HERE.
HELP MANUAL
BUILD A NEW TRACK:
F.A.S.T. (Friends and Students for the Track) has established a
registered 501 c organization
for financing a new track facility at Manual. We
are in need of funding and are almost 1/2 way to our goal.
Our hope is to get a new track by the summer of
2010. We hope that alums will
want to help this worthy project.
Please contact the school office for more
information. Thank you!
Tina Palmer
Treasurer of F.A.S.T.
1964-1965 Concert
Band Recording
... has been shared
with us. Click here for
more information and the recording.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT
CLASS REUNION SITES:
We are
seeing an increasing volume of solicitations for
class-reunion sites. A new one seems to surface every
month. Most of these are commercial at some level and
either solicit your personal information for marketing
purposes or ask for a membership fee before permitting
access to any significant amount of content from other
users. The duPont Manual Alumni Association does not
subscribe to or endorse any of these enterprises. This
site,
www.manualalumni.org, is the only official site we
recognize. We will continue to provide you with this
free resource to connect with your classmates, organize and
publicize your reunions, celebrate your accomplishments and
publish your news. Just remember to keep us informed
and we will keep you all in touch ...
for free!
ROBERT B. GRIFFITH
EDUCATION AWARD
The
University of Louisville School of Music Alumni Council is
in the process of creating an award for a graduate of U of L
in Music Education. Named for the late Robert B.
Griffith, this award will recognize someone who has excelled
as a music teacher in kindergarten through high school.
Mr. Griffith was the band and orchestra director at Manual
from 1945 to 1961. In 1961 he was named head of U of
L's music education division and he remained a professor at
the university until 1978. He was a composer of over
75 published marches, including "The Courier-Journal
March" written in 1972. Every first Saturday in
May at Churchill Downs his ballad arrangement of "My Old
Kentucky Home," written in 1962, is played prior to the
running of the Kentucky Derby. That same year Griffith
wrote "Fight U of L," the official school song at all
U of L sporting events.
If you are
interested in making a contribution, please mail it to:
Tedi Vaughn, Director of Development, U of L School of
Music, Louisville, KY 40292, and mention "Griffith Education
Award" in the Memo line of your check. Thanks for this
information to Quentin Sharpenstein,
Class of 1961, President of the U of L School of Music
Alumni Council.
LARRY WOOLDRIDGE NAMED
MANUAL'S 10TH PRINCIPAL
Wooldridge, Manual's athletic director for
four years and assistant principal for two, took over as
principal August 15, 2008, succeeding retiring Dr. Beverly
Keepers, who served the school since 1991. A veteran
of 21 years in education, Wooldridge carries a reputation
for creativity, as a communicator and as a "people person."
His background is in English, having taught that subject in
the Bullitt County high schools from 1986 through 2002.
He holds a B.A. in English (1986) and a Masters in Secondary
Education (1991), both from the University of Louisville,
and is due to finish his Rank I in school administration
this year. His other experiences include having been a
basketball, baseball and soccer coach, creative writing club
sponsor, school newspaper adviser, performance arts club
sponsor and Fellowship of Christian Athletes sponsor.
ALUMNI
MEMBERSHIP DUES ARE DUE.
Still only $10.00 per year. If you did not receive
your recent newsletter with a remittance envelope
inside,
they can be mailed to the Alumni Office at the address
above. If you wish to be added to our mailing
list
to receive future mailings, please fill out the form
here.
A MESSAGE FROM THE MANUAL PTSA:
We
would like to let our Manual alumni know that you don't
have to be a current student or the parent of a current
student in order to join the PTSA. The PTSA welcomes
everyone who cares about Manual and our students to join,
and we would like to extend an invitation to our alumni to
do so as well. A link for downloading a PTSA membership
form can be found on the PTSA website at
http://www.dupontmanualptsa.org/join_ptsa.htm.
Every year the traditional schools
like Male and Butler boast a much higher PTSA membership than ours.
Last year, for example, though Male's student population was about
1,600 (compared to the 1,800 or so students enrolled at Manual), Male
had over 2,364 PTSA members to our 1,975. We would love to be able
to prove that we have just as much support from the Manual community
as they do.
We would also like to invite any
alumni who may be interested to sign up for our
email newsletter. It is mailed out approximately once a week as a
supplement to our printed newsletter, and it contains information on
campus events, reminders, and information that has a short turn-around
time.
To sum up: BEAT MALE!
BEAT MALE! BEAT MALE!
Read the Alumni
Message Board for news and greetings from your
classmates.
BE SURE TO CHECK OUT ALL THE SEASON'S REUNION
NEWS ON THE REUNIONS PAGE!
HELP US KEEP OUR INFORMATION CURRENT! If
you move, please notify us. This will assure that you will receive our mailings
without interruption and will save the association hundreds of dollars in postage.
Either call the office or fill out the "Information for Alumni Directory"
form
on the website.
URGENT APPEAL TO ALL ALUMNI!
We need your help to assist in upgrading Manual Stadium.
We are selling 4,500 personalized bricks, at $100 each,
to renovate the locker rooms in the small window of time
available for construction work.
For more information or to purchase a brick, call 459-5341,
e-mail Shirley Smith of the Manual Football Boosters at
sasmit04@aol.com or
write to her at 2319 Alta Ave., Louisville, Ky. 40205-1107.
To view and print the
brochure and order form for the Crimson Spirit wall, click
here. Donations
are tax-deductible.
| BUY A COPY OF THIS PRINT! The Alumni Office has a
limited number for sale. Size is 18" x 24", prints are signed and numbered
by artist Phillip Stapp.
If you would like a copy, please send $30 for the print plus $3 for shipping and
handling, to the Alumni Office (address above). Please allow three weeks for
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