Eight of the 16 students who graduated from Gulf High School in 1947 are still living, and six of them attended a reunion at the residence of Louise Geiger in Aripeka on Oct. 12. Pictured below Donald White (Meigs, GA), Dorothy Smith (Fitzgerald, from Brooksville), Louise Geiger (Norfleet, from Aripeka), Louise Luz (Nichols, from Inverness), Byrum Cooper (Haines City), and Kent Townsend (Lakeland). Photos by Bill Stevens of the Tampa Bay Times. A column by him about the reunion will appear in the newspaper on Wednesday. The bottom photo shows the 16 graduates on the stage in 1947 at the old Gulf High School (now Schwettman Education Center). To see what these alumni looked like as seniors, you can view the 1947 Gulf High School yearbook.
