BEHS Class of 1975

BISHOP ENGLAND HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1975 50th REUNION

Bishop England High School is a diocesan Roman Catholic four-year high school in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It was located on Calhoun Street in downtown Charleston until it moved to a newly constructed 40-acre campus located on Daniel Island in 1998. With an enrollment of 730, Bishop England is the largest private high school in the state of South Carolina. The school was founded in 1915 and was named after John England, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston.

EVENT DETAILS:

Friday, September 12

  • Golf available at Dunes West. Contact Bobby Swain to play.  bswain.class79@gmail.com.   8 spaces available with more if needed.  Tee times TBD according to the number of golfers.
  • Working on a Friday afternoon tour of the new BEHS campus on Daniel Island. Time of tour to be determined—stay tuned!
  • Friday night football! BEHS vs. Dreher High School at 7:30 pm.  We’re working with the athletic director for an announcement about our class during the game, and an honorary coin toss with Jerry Theos as former football team captain.

Saturday, September 13

  • Setup and decoration of the venue at 10 am at Hobcaw Yacht Club, 180 Hobcaw Drive, Mount Pleasant. Complementary continental breakfast for those helping.
  • 6 pm: Drinks and hors d’oeuvres at Hobcaw Yacht Club.
  • 7 pm: Benediction and a few short words, followed by dinner.  
  • Dinner will be buffet style, from 7 to 10.
  • Beer and wine will be provided with dinner. Glasses and ice will be available for those who want to bring their own adult beverages.
  • There will be a photographer available for photos.
  • We’re looking for some volunteers to help with cleanup after 10.

Sunday, September 14

  • Mass at Saint Clare of Assisi on Daniel Island at 9 am. Celebrant will be Father Greg West, BEHS Class of 1976.  

How to RSVP:

  • Go to the registration form further down this page, and register your contact info. If you plan to come, LET US KNOW BY AUGUST 23 by indicating same on the registration form.
  • The price is $100 per person, or $175 per couple. PLEASE PAY BY AUGUST 30 by sending money to Miriam McManus.  If you can, use venmo—Miriam’s venmo address is @miriam-mcmanus.  If you can’t venmo, please make out a check to Miriam McManus and send it to her at 1004 Lansing Drive, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464.  For any payment questions, e-mail Miriam at mmcmanu2@att.net.

Other details:

  • We have a block of rooms at the Courtyard Marriott in Mount Pleasant, which has easy access to Daniel Island, Hobcaw, and the beaches. Call 843-284-0900 and ask for Ms. Ashley and the BEHS Class of 75 reunion.   There are lots of other hotels in the area depending on what hotel chain you typically frequent.
  • Bishop England provides scholarships to deserving students who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford the tuition. A Class of 1975 Scholarship Fund has been graciously initially endowed by one of our classmates (name to be provided only after we get his/her permission).  The BEHS Development Office will be providing information on how the rest of us in the class can contribute to that worthy cause.  More info to be provided.  (In the meantime, think about bringing an extra thousand dollars or two to help build that fund.)

INPUTS:

We want to know what you’ve been doing in the last 50 years!

Please fill in the questionnaire at the link below.  Before the actual event, we’ll pass this information around so everyone will be up-to-speed.  The bottom of the questionnaire asks whether you think you’ll be coming to the event–no obligation yet. 

CONTACTS:

For more info, stay tuned to this site, or contact the following.  If you provide your e-mail in the Classmate Info Form, we’ll keep you up-to-date via e-mail.

PLEASE HELP US FIND CLASSMATES!

We graduated about 165.  About 156 are still alive.  Of those, we have a good address or e-mail for about 100.  That leaves about 56 we’re still trying to find!   They are listed below.

If you have contact info for any of these lost classmates, please e-mail Rob Wray at robert.wray.jr@gmail.com.

John Bennett

Tina Bertilacci

Scott Blazer

Larry Blyth

Francis Brainovich

Valbea Capers

Cynthia Carson

Mary Clark

Tanya Dingle

Silvia Duane

Michael Dursse

Marion Esler

Laura Ferri

Henry Fields

Dennis Forrest

Brenda Gaster

Terri Gibbs

Dianne Gordon

Timothy Gorman

Claire Greene

Gail Gurtner

Archie Harmon

Darryl Hart

Bobby Heuer

Dwight Huffstetler

Francis Johnson

Sallie Johnson

William Kerr

Mark Kithcart

Michael Lamar

Greg Lowery

Wanda Marshall

Carla Middleton

Pamela Miller

Lois Miller

Bernadette Oliver

Joseph Palmer

Anita Parnelle

Kenneth Pinckney

Ann Price

Donna Price Fitzgerald

Paula Russell

Louis Santos

Ann Scarborough

Mary Schmidt

David Sellers

Leslie Shaid

Yvette Shecut

Jill Smith

Michael Sordelet

Mark Vashon

Steven Wagner

Moses White

Yvette Williams

Stephanie Wise

John Zwingmann

 

SEND IN PHOTOS IF YOU CAN!

Fortunately, or unfortunately, we didn’t have smart phones in 1975, so we don’t have the 100,000 high school photos that most kids do nowadays. (Perhaps a blessing.) But if you have any high school photos you want to share, send a jpeg file to robert.wray.jr@gmail.com, and we’ll try to get them up on this site.

SCHOOL HISTORY:

Class of 1917

Below is the school’s history, courtesy of wikipedia.

Bishop England High School (BEHS), a Catholic high school, was founded in 1915 by Reverend Joseph O’Brien and Reverend J.J. May with the approval of Henry N. Northrop, Bishop of Charleston. Classes were conducted in the Cathedral school on Queen Street for one year until Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan of New York, New York, donated property to the diocese. The high school was transferred to a temporary building at 203 Calhoun Street, while funds donated by Catholics of Charleston were raised to construct a new high school building. On October 12, 1921, the cornerstone of the new BEHS building was laid by William T. Russell, fifth Bishop of Charleston.