A letter from our President, Douglas Releford and the Douglass Board (click on the letter to enlarge it):
The registration will be posted above this post shortly. Please print it off, fill it out, and send it, along with the registration fee to the address at the top of the letter.
Why is it important to attend the Reunion this year? Because next year, it will have been 60 years, since our beloved Douglass Elementary High School closed its doors for good. Since we reunite every two years, this year's Reunion will actually overlap to the 2027 Reunion. Plus the fact that Kingsport actually began closing Douglass in 1965. We've got a two-year commemoration that begins this year.
For this year's Reunion, we have secured special rates for Douglass alumni at the Fairfield Inn & Suites, 2485 South Wilcox Blvd, Kingsport ($124.00 a night, plus tax), and also the Marriott at Meadowview, 1901 Meadowview Parkway, Kingsport ($154.00 a night, plus tax). You need to book your hotel room (s) by June 4th, to receive these special discounts... just tell the operator that you're with the Douglass Alumni.
Catering our events is a crowd favorite. In 1972, the late Carcel Smothers and his wife LaMuriel decided to open a new barbecue restaurant on Kingston Pike in the Bearden neighborhood in Knoxville. They'd had great success with restaurants in the Chapman Highway area and for the Kingston Pike location's name, they chose the nickname that Carcel was best known by: Buddy. For the past 53 years, Buddy's Barbecue has offered mouth-watering smoked pork ribs and barbeque, along with specialty items to all of East Tennessee, including all UT football team events, the Basketball Vols, the Baseball Vols and the Lady Vols Basketball and Softball teams. Buddy's is coming up from Knoxville to OUR 2025 Douglass Reunion to treat our Alumni to some mouth-watering barbecue!
MORE NEWS TO COME!
