The serious business of reporting on a big reunion like our 50th takes some good photography. We got that, thanks to Suzanne Hill Fitch, Elayne Stewart and Syble Horn, with a few others adding to the collection. Had enough to keep going, to show more than the pomp and ceremony and the smiles. "Out-Takes" is a collection of fun and love, captured for the less serious side of reporting on reunions. Enjoy it in the spirit with which it was lived.

Kathleen McFarland Williams and husband, Dave, arrive
at the upscale Westchase, packed for two weeks of Reunion fun.

Through these portals...or, rather, the archway of baloons...passed a lot of kids
who successfully passed their high school finals in 1957.

A particularly large number of Smith girls passed their finals in 1957.

Before the food comes, there's always a lot of milling around. The ballroom was full of millers.

Suzanne Hill Fitch, Mary Ann Duncan Field, Sue Nel Dobsky Thompson and Barbara McCauley Polk display varied reactions, as a yet unidentified bald streaker with red hair sprinted across the ballroom.

Upper-classman, Billy Keith (1955), talking to a classy younger woman, as unidentified elder mimicks the leer made famous in the days of big hair.

Ed Bettencourt III and Richard Briones exchange individual perspectives on life's challenges.

Margaret Chambless Reece succesfully operated the Hospitality Room juicing machine.

Syble does not seem pleased, as the hotel worker explains, "I don't think we have any glasses this tall."

Dolores Huckabee Allen appears completely taken in by Gary Pugh's Billy Graham impersonation.

Harold Walling describes how he once strangled a tiger in Indonesia.

New meaning was brought to the once famous "BYOB" practice, by folks not content with a margarita dispensing machine, and the mixers were there to accomodate.

Even sitting down, Paul Berlin is entertaining.

Demonstration of how to safely hold your .45, when applying for a carry permit.

There was a lot of hugging going on at this Reunion, but they say we can't use the in-room security photos to show most of that. Here is some of the affection that spilled out into the Hospitality Room and even in the ballroom.

It was either politics or religion, but discussion about some topics became lively.

Nice outfit.

Wonderful desert.

David Waters, announces he is hanging up the mean horn he blew for the Houston Symphony for many years. Here he is seen sharing French postcards with Ray Wilson and Jay Juneman.

The hotel reported, with some relief, that our whole bunch took only two towels and a large loaf of french bread from the rooms.