The Cabool Alumni met November 17, 2025.
TREASURERS REPORT: There is $7792.14 in the general fund of the former Cabool Alumni Association; along with three savings accounts administered for designated scholarships. There is $2000 in the general fund of the former Cabool Alumni Park Board and $45 in savings.
OLD BUSINESS: Planning contues for the next All-School reunion to be held of the 2026 Memorial Day Weekend, May 22 & 23, 2026. A listing of some area lodging possibilities include: Ten locations within 15 miles on the Air B&B ap, Highland Inn & Suites, Cabool (417) 962-5888; Royal Inn & Suites, MtG, (417) 926-3152; and Comfort Inn & Suites, MtG, (417) 349-6022. Discussion continues for the Friday evening session at Gateway Park on Main Street, Registration for the Saturday morning session in the CHS B Bldg hallway going to the cafeteria, music possibilities and food truck possibilities for the Saturday afternoon session.
NEW BUSINESS: A tentative SCHEDULE OF EVENTS was established which will be modified as planning continues:
-- Friday Evening May 22, 2026, (6PM - ?): Gathering at Gateway Park on Main Street. Sign-in with name tags and year graduated. Members are asked to bring folding chairs. Watermelon wedges will be served.
-- Saturday (9AM): Registration & dues at class tables in B Bldg hallway leading to the cafeteria with name tags and year graduated. Breakfast of biscuits & gravy, fruit, doughnuts, milk, orange juice, and coffee available. Donation jar present.
-- Saturday (10AM): Business Mtg and Program. Various presentations including an Auction of school items and a firearm of some type (we are located in southern Missouri). 11AM visiting and adjourn to Alumni Park.
-- Saturday (Noon - ?) Food trucks beside Alumni Park in front of the "New Gym"
-- Saturday (12 - ~4PM) Visiting and individual class meetings at Alumni Park. Bring folding chairs. We are hoping to make Golf carts to car parking available. Volunteers with golf carts or 2/4 seaters are needed. Music to be provided by various volunteers and DJ playlists. Musical volunteers are needed. Requests will be accommodated as possible.
NEXT MEETING: The next meeting of the Cabool Alumni will be January 5th, 2026 at 5PM, History Society Bldg on Main Street.
The Cabool Alumni met October 21, 2025.
Old Business: The alumni float in the recent homecoming parade featured two banners, which said “once a bulldog always a bulldog.“ several alumni rode the float and the banners will be kept for future parades.
New Business: Discussion of the upcoming all-school reunion began by confirming it will be held the Saturday of the memorial day weekend, 2026. The 50 year class honorees for this reunion will be 1974, 1975, and 1976.
We will gather once again at the CHS cafeteria in the morning but a time to begin was not established. Biscuits & gravy, fruit, doughnuts, coffee, and milk will be available. A donation jar will be present. A short program will be presented and some music played and/or sungfor the morning session, but a big portion of the time will be for visiting with other alumni.
The morning session will be adjourned to The Alumni Park where activities will be fairly informal with some announcements & trivia each hour and different music being played by musicians or DJ. Food trucks will be invited to set up in front of the the “new gym.” Individuals are asked to bring their own chairs, but some tables and chairs will be available. We’ll move into the new gym in case of rain. A list of area lodging opportunities will be posted soon.
June Taff is working on a computerized listing of the egraved bricks at Alumni Park. Contact June, Jaminy McCrosky, or Missy Dotson for more information or to order a brick.
The next Cabool Alumni meeting will be held November 17, at 5PM at the History Society building on Main Street.
A meeting of The Cabool Alumni was called to order at 5:05 PM, August 26, 2025. The Cabool Alumni is an organization consolidating the former Cabool Alumni Association and the former Cabool Park Board. Assets of both former organizations will be incorporated into the new Cabool Alumni. Members present were: Missy Dotson, Kirby Holmes, Sari Wright, Diana Peabody, Edith Wayland, Jerry Buchholz, Basil Quesenberry, and June Taff.
The following officers were elected for The Cabool Alumni:
President- Sari Wright, Vice-President - Jamminy McCrosky, Treasurer - Missy Dotson, and Secretary- Kirby Holmes.
Treasurer's report: there is $7792.14 in the general fund of the former Cabool Alumni Association; along with three savings accounts administered for designated scholarships. There is $2000 in the general fund of the former Cabool Alumni Park Board and $45 in savings. It was decided to keep all accounts as they are but to have Sari, Missy and Jamminy able to access all accounts. June will pass on the information for brick requests and orders to both Missy and Jamminy, along with the administration of the former Alumni Park Board 501-3c Nonprofit Tax Exempt status. June will be submitting paperwork for the Nonprofit status designation to the state by September 1st, along with the name change and the newly elected officers and directors. In addition to the officers, Directors to be submitted will be: Dala Whitaker, Jerry Hood, and June Taff.
Sari started discussion of the upcoming CHS homecoming parade. The 50 year honoree will be the class of 1975. The Cabool Alumni will be entering a float for the members of the class of 1975 to ride on. A trailer is still needed and Sarah will work to find one. Basil said his truck can be used to pull the float. A motion was made Kirby and seconded by Edith for Sari to obtain an Cabool Alumni banner from Pro Graphics of Cabool, stating, Once a Bulldog, Always a Bulldog.” All were in favor.
Sari stated that the 50 year classes to be honored in the 2026 All-school Reunion which will be held over the Memorial Day weekend, will be the classes of 1974, 1975, and 1976.
There was discussion of whether to serve biscuits and gravy at the next All-school Reunion. Most were in favor, but further planning will need to be done. Also discussed was the desire to have a continually looping slideshow of alumni pictures as was presented during the last reunion. This was accomplished by submitting pictures to alumnus, Dr Nate Christensen of Cabool High School who composed the slideshow. Sari will ask him to do another one with additional pictures added. Alumni are asked to bring any pictures that they want to be included to the next few meetings.
Dianna asked who was in charge of the Alumni Facebook page and website. Kirby stated that he was, but he didn’t really know what he was doing since the data transfer from Don Toddingham’s server lost a lot of the former formatting and information. He has attempted to maintain the status of deceased alumni members in the class listings as much as possible, but due to an ongoing internet service failure by Brightspeed, there are about 20 deceased who’s designation still needed to be added to the lists. He asked if the Cabool Alumni could contract for help with the Facebook and webpages if he cannot get an alumni volunteer to do it. He said he would be willing to try and maintain them after the formatting was established. Everyone thought that was acceptable. He will contact Nate for help and/or Frank Stringer for help before proposing a monetary incentive.
June stated that the roof of the gazebo at the Alumni Park was in disrepair. She said she would ask Jerry Hood to evaluate what work needs to be done. The group suggested trying to get some Cabool Alumni members to do the work and if that could not be done, to try and contract the work.
The date for the next Cabool Alumni meeting was set for October 21, at 5 PM, at the Cabool Historical Society building on Main Street, Cabool, Missouri.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:15.
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