Announcements and News

January 30, 2025

 OK, UHS alums start packing your bags. The UHS reunion is on for 2025. As you may recall when the UHS alumni Association was set up the plans were for reunions every five years on the zero and fifth year. We all remember what happened in 2020 with Covid and we had to postpone that year’s reunion to 2022 . However, the board wanted to get back on schedule and have the reunion this year. We have moved the time to a more comfortable month. The date of our main event will be Saturday, October 4. We have also changed the venue to a more casual setting.  More information with registration forms, costs, time and place will be forthcoming. With fewer of us and time more precious we hope all will make an effort to be here this year.

Just for information your UHS alumni board has continued to be very active and in the last two years worked on the following items:

  1. Restructured the board to meet by law requirements.
  2. Rewrote, reviewed, re-wrote and edited new updated bylaws and approved
  3. Eliminated costly storage unit and cleaned it out
  4. Created a virtual ongoing history of UHS and attached to Oxford Lafayette County historical site
  5. Upgraded our website so as to be more used by Alumni
  6. Updated website data in an effort to be more cost-efficient in Alumni contact… ongoing
  7. Began work on a memory bench, which will be dedicated in 2025
  8. Sent periodic updates to Alumni via email list and Facebook
  9. Conducted a major effort to raise additional money for UHS scholarship fund… increased by 55%
  10. Worked out an ongoing agreement with the university foundation to administer UHS scholarship in perpetuity

Thank you,

Morris Denton
President, UHSAA
Class of 1952

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December 18, 2024

Get the holidays behind you and start planning for the UHS reunion coming up next year, 2025. As all recall when the reunions started in 1980 they were to be done every 5 years. All went on schedule until the COVID pandemic and had to postpone the 2020 reunion until 2022. We want to get back on schedule so it will be in 2025. We have decided to move it to the fall when it is a little cooler in Oxford. We will firm up the date in January. There are fewer of us now, but just as much warmth seeing old schoolmates. Hope all will be here.

Thank you,

Morris Denton
President, UHSAA
Class of 1952

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July 8, 2024

Here is another update on your board’s activities as we look forward to our next reunion in 2025. That will put us back on track of having a reunion every five years after Covid threw us off schedule for two years. As I mentioned before, we have eliminated the storage locker to the tune of $900.00 per year and are now preserving memorabilia as a pictorial history, which is part of the historical website for Lafayette County and Oxford. You can go to lafayettemshistory.com,, all letters linked together or oxfordmshistory.com, then click on the info bar and then the  UHS picture to see the site. If anyone has a picture of anything you want on the site send a picture of your picture or take a picture of an object you may have to our UHS website administrator, Pam Swain @ pam@oxfordms.com. We especially need a picture of the class composite photos. Some have been lost over the years. The large photos were framed and hung on the hall walls of UHS and all of us received an 8 x 10 of those composites. The years we have are 1948 1950 1951 1952. 1954, 1957 1958 and 1962. So, if you’re graduating class is not listed and you have one of those 8 x 10 composite pictures please take a picture of it and send to Pam at email given previously. The board has also been working on and have just completed the updating of the bylaws to be sure the organization stays in compliance of its purpose, duties and activities. We hope everyone will make plans for our get together next year, 2025 as it will be in the fall what it is a little cooler. Plans now are to have more of a leisure outing. More info will be coming soon as plans are formed. Lastly, please go to the UHS website to be sure your info is up-to-date. It is uhsoxford.org (note, it is org not com). click on navigation then Alumni info and type the year you graduated in the box and all class names will be listed. You could scroll down click on the next page all the way through each class. Any updated info needed please send to Pam. Again that is pam@oxfordms.com. Finally, we are begging for you up-to-date email. That is the only way we can keep you up-to-date on all that is happening as periodic mailings are now too expensive. Again, send info to Pam.

Morris Denton
President, UHSAA
Class of 1952

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September 7, 2023

l am happy to tell you that, thanks to some very generous alumni givers, we not only reached our goal of $10,000 to match the challenge donation, we exceeded it. A total of $15,375 was donated and with the $10,000 coming from the challenge donor we have added over $25,000 to our scholarship fund bringing it to a total of about $87,000. If we could get to $100,000 by reunion time in 2025 it would then be possible to give two scholarships instead of one. This is the best legacy our alumni association could leave.  Something for those descendants coming behind us.  Anytime you are so inclined you can mail a donation to P. O. Box 1131, Oxford, MS 38655

Morris Denton
President, UHSAA
Class of 1952

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July 12, 2023

My fellow alumni of UHS,

To all alumni who have already sent in money to help match the $10,000 pledge of a UHS grad, thank you. We now stand at $6,000 raised with only $4,000 to go. The raised funds will be matched, giving us an additional $20,000 in our scholarship fund, helping to secure the endowed scholarship. We are putting things in place, with the help of the University Foundation, for the UHS scholarship to be perpetual.  This is a wonderful legacy for our special school. We have raised the $6,000 from a very few alumni.  Hopefully, there are still other alumni who are willing and able to help and will give to this special effort.  I am just asking you to please consider making a donation.

Make your check payable to the University of Mississippi Foundation and in the for line put UHS Scholarship.  Send it to UHS Alumni Association, P.O. Box 1131. Oxford, MS 38655. We will record it and get it to the foundation.

Morris Denton
President, UHSAA
Class of 1952

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June 12, 2023

My fellow alumni of UHS,

We have some exciting news and, yet, with it comes effort so that the excitement can be brought to fruition. A UHS alum has graciously pledged to meet dollar for dollar if we can reach a $10,000 goal for new scholarship donations. We have already had about $3,500 collected, so we are in need of $6,500, which will result in the match and raise $20,000 for the scholarship fund. The UHS scholarship is given from interest earned each year so there will always, from now on, be a UHS scholarship. We, as a board, are trying very hard to make memories for alumni and their families. Please help me reach this goal.

If you would, make the check payable to “University of Mississippi Foundation,” and in the for line, write “UHS Scholarship.” Send it to UHSAA, PO Box 1131, Oxford, MS 38655 so that we can record it, and we will then get all checks to the University, which is now administering the scholarship for us. Remember – any donation qualifies as a tax deduction on your federal taxes. Can we count on all reading this to help?  Many many thanks if you can and will.

Morris Denton
President, UHSAA
Class of 1952
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February 15, 2023

February Update from UHS Alumni Association

I requested of the board, and they approved, the formation of two new committees. One, the UHS Memorabilia Committee, and the second, the Scholarship Promotion Committee.

I asked Jim Pryor, class of 1963, to chair the UHS Memorabilia Committee with David Ard (64), Max Hipp (62), Polly Taylor (60), Joe Stewart (53), and David Knight (60) committee members. Their task is to find a way to preserve the history of UHS. We have items stored in a storage locker, some in public buildings and pictures many individuals may have that could be added.

William Lewis, class of 1954, agreed to chair the Scholarship Promotion Committee with Barbara Coleman (64), Ed Williston (65), Joanne Johnson (57) and Anna Ruth Kesler (64) committee members. Their task is to find ways to create a greater awareness of the UHS scholarship available to any descendent of a UHS graduate.

I just wanted to keep you all up to date on what is going on.

Morris Denton, President
Class of 1952
UHS Alumni Board
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December 20, 2022

A LETTER FROM THE UHS ALUMNI PRESIDENT

As President of your UHS High School Alumni Association I am committed to keeping you informed of the activities and planning of your board. With the ever increasing costs of mail and the technology available to us now, the most efficient and expedient method to maintain ongoing contact is via email. 

We want to develop a comprehensive and up to date list of all alumni.  To do that we need your help. We are sending this initial note to all alumni whose email addresses we have on file. If you are in the initial group getting this note please send us any emails you may have of any other UHS alumni.  To check whether we already have it in our files go to the UHS website. Everyone needs to know how to access the website where the information for all will be posted periodically.  

Here are are the instructions to check our current listings:
1.  Type into the internet search bar uhsoxford.org and tap go or enter.  Or you can click here on www.uhsoxford.org
2.  There will be a menu of options across the top of the page. 
3.  A list of categories will appear.  Tapping on any will give you information in that category.
4.  To see all classes tap on alumni info.
5.  A search bar will appear.  Tap on the bar for a curser. Then put any year in the box to search for a particular class year, and tap search.
6.  A list of the class will appear.  First tap on the next number to go through all class pages.  

All information we currently have on each class member can be seen. If you have an email for an individual where one is not shown,  we need it. Please email our UHS admin by clicking here and the updates will be made.  Thank you and we hope to see you all at our next grand reunion in 2025.  

Morris Denton
Class of 1952
President, UHS Alumni Association