If you were a graduate of Winnfield Senior High School (or Winnfield High School before that), then Winnfield’s Civic Center was the place to be Saturday night where the 2025 WSHS Reunion filled the hall with graduates and guests.

The focus of the reunion was the 50-year mark and it was the Class of 1975 that organized and hosted reunion events that saw Friday night activities, a Saturday morning tea and the Saturday night gala.  

But the tradition of the WSHS Reunion is to include all classes.  The earliest class represented was the WHS Class of 1951 by Edna Jean Finney Strickland who was accompanies by her daughter Judy Wagoner, WSHS Class of 1974.  The Travel Trophy went to Rose Bennett Pye who came here all the way from Salt Lake City, Utah, with husband Steve.

The hall at the Civic Center was filled with guests, conversation and reminiscences of “School Days.”  Tables around the room carried photos, keepsakes, tributes those classmates who have gone on and more from five decades ago.  

A theme of memories was built around the old Parkway Drive-In Theater, compete with the familiar red and white bags of popcorn handed out to all following a plate-filling buffet dinner.

The theater theme carried over to the evening’s video presentation that captured memories for the 50-year class, including the pre-showing sequence that theater-goers remember of era-suited commercials plus the periodic countdown of “3 Minutes to Showtime,” then “2 Minutes to Showtime” and finally “1 Minutes to Showtime” until Showtime rolled.

Old newspaper accounts would conclude, “And a good time was had by all.”  The bar was set high as the Class of 1976 took notes and begins plans for the 2026 WSHS Reunion.