Members of the Broad Ripple High School class of 1957 will celebrate their 60th Reunion with five events September 15-17.

Opening gathering on the 15th will be a three and half hour boat trip up White River on the Broad Ripple Boat Company two deck covered paddle boat-Central Indiana's only paddle wheel excursion boat. Delicious refreshments will enhance this great opportunity to talk and catch up with friends.

Friday evening a number of '57 Alums will then attend the final Broad Ripple High School Homecoming Football Game at 7 p.m. In their senior year, the BRHS Football team of 1956 won the Indianapolis High School City Championships defeating all six city foes and ending season with a convincing 41-0 victory over arch-rival Shortridge High School.

Saturday the Class of '57 will have a box lunch in the Broad Ripple High School cafeteria followed by a presentation of the history of BRHS and a tour of the current high school led by Lou DeBruicker, BRHS Events Coordinator.

The Saturday evening banquet will be held at Woodstock Country Club with class displays, program and sing-a-long of memorable music composed by classmates at former reunions as well as the Ripple Fight Song and other songs from the 1950's.

The final Reunion Event will be breakfast at the Riviera Club where classmates had spent many hours in their youth. This will provide another opportunity to share happy memories, renewing friendships from the past.

Twenty-four members of the 1957 class have been planning the 60th Reunion for the past several years. The committee includes: Judy Ahring, Alice Appel, Ann Bowman Strong, Kay Brock Beineke, Ann Conner Cox, Judy Cravens Reeder, Sandra Dahlstrand Shevers, Mike Elliott, Brenda Eyles Taylor, David Gillette, Judy Heim Ritter, Charles Kendall, Jim Lafollette, Doris Lambert King, David Lawson, Gail Moll Pebworth, Judy Oliver Naaman, Sharon Oliver, Kurt Peters, Marcia Rinne Foster, Judy Riley Etheridge, Jim Schroeder, Patricia Shute, and Anne Williams Meyer. Most of committee live close to Indianapolis or in other parts of Indiana,but some have assisted from as far as Arizona, California and Florida.

The Reunion Committee can account for all but seven of the 322 BRHS graduates in 1957. While 82 classmates currently live in Indiana, 1957 Rockets now live in 30 different states as well as one classmate in Australia. Nearly 1/3 of the living alumni will participate in the reunion coming from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina. Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin as well as Indiana!