From: Robert Allen
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012
Subject: BY High Class of 56 Fireside

There will be a fireside on Sunday 11 March 2012, 7:00 PM at Jeri Snow's (Geraldine Jacobsen)
4249 Cumberland Road, Salt Lake City
Y'All Come!! Refreshments served

Dean & Susan Madsen served as a service couple in Israel from August 2008 to January 2010

From Dean & Susan:
In our presentation we would like to share some thoughts on the following:

--BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies -- --Preparing the Soil; Building Bridges.
--Jews, Moslems, and Christians -- Cultural Conflict and Agreement.
--Our service in three Arab schools in Nazareth: Na'amat--An All Girls Alternative High School, teaching English; St. Joseph's Catholic High School, teaching Music; Nazareth Galilee Academic Institution (College), writing letters and talks in English to help with fundraising.
--Our service in the LDS Galilee Branch.
--Conducting oral history interviews with 20 members of the Galilee Branch.
--Our daughters and spouses visit us in Israel.
--Sheep, goats, camels, fertile fields and orchards, bananas, dates, deserts.
--Sacred sights in Jerusalem and elsewhere -- Western (Wailing) Wall, Dome of the Rock, Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Garden Tomb, Gethsemane.
--The people we met who seem like family now -- Ann and Michael Hansen, Sonia Malel, Ramzieh Hamad, Father Emil, Mohammad, and others.
--What did it all mean for us? What could it mean for you?

Directions:

4249 Cumberland Road.....

Easy to get there from I 80 and 23rd East off ramp.... or 45th south from I-15 ....or I-15 East to 215 and off on 3300 south then west to 23rd East...and south to Lincoln lane. etc. I'm sure you'll look it up on your GPS.

4200 South (Lincoln Lane) and 23rd East....go west two blocks to Cumberland Road. Turn south (left)proceed around the bend...we are the third house on the south side....
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RSVP to Jeri Snow 801-272-7244 Jsnow6@msn.com

NOTE: Daylight Saving Time begins this day, 11 March

The Class of 1956 celebrated its 55th year reunion on Saturday, September 24, 2011.

The celebration was held in the Skyroom Restaurant in the BYU Wilkinson Center, 6th Floor.

Festivities began at 6 pm and continued to 10 pm.

A Reunion Announcement in pdf format can be downloaded by clicking below. A Reservation Form can also be downloaded by clicking below. Cost for the meal was $25 for each person, and they had a choice of entrees on the Reservation Form.

Reservation Forms were returned to:

Kaye J. Ivie
4575 N Canyon Road
Provo, Utah 84604

The Brigham Young High School Class of 1956 50th Year Reunion was held on Saturday, June 3, 2006. Honorary members were also invited. They first met for lunch at Academy Square at 1 p.m. The main event of the reunion was dinner together at 6 pm at the Riverside Country Club. Out of a possible 78, there were 52 attendees, plus several faculty members, probably a record! Bill Owen, class photographer, attended with his clone (see photo), but together they were counted as just one.

The 40th Year Reunion for the BYH Class of 1956 was held June 22, 1996 at Rock Canyon Park, Provo, Utah starting at 6 pm. Twenty-nine alumni were present.