This guide features dates, times and events, so you can coordinate your schedule.
This one is about 12 pages, but you can print this guide to carry with you for future reference:
FRIDAY, JULY 1ST
12 Noon - 4 PM
Douglass Community Room
V.O. Dobbins, Sr. Complex
Lite hors d'œuvres
On Display: Douglass Souvenir and Sports Memorabilia items of interest in the Silent Auction.. successful bidders will be announced at the Douglass Reunion Get-Together Saturday night.
Kingsport Ebony Club Alumni Registration & Check-In
12 Noon - 4 PM
Douglass Community Room
V.O. Dobbins, Sr. Complex
Lite hors d'œuvres
On Display: Douglass Souvenir and Sports Memorabilia items of interest in the Silent Auction
4:30 PM
Courtyard outside the Douglass Community Room, V.O. Dobbins, Sr. Complex
This event will highlight the dedication of a tree in honor of past Ebony Club members no longer with us. The tree is located in the courtyard of the V.O. Dobbins, Sr. Complex, just outside the Douglass Community Room. At the same event, balloons will be released in memory of past club years and events that heralded the group while at Dobyns-Bennett High School.
6 PM
Riverview Splash Pad
Bring your lawn chairs and see Riverview's own "strut their stuff" in glamorous outfits and clothing in an outdoor setting. From the days of Douglass, the community has always been known to have some of the best-dressed folks in Kingsport, and whether they were on the Douglass Auditorium stage, or the hallowed hardwood of the Douglass gymnasium, the community always warmed up to the latest designs. Get ready to see very classy and sophisticated clothes, clean and sleek lines and colors. It's the chance to see very creative and colorful outfits modeled by our own citizens.
5 PM - 10 PM
A portion of Louis Street at MLK blocked off.
A street party reminiscent of Riverview's past, with music, outdoor dancing, sidewalk events, kids' facing painting, watermelon slices & bottled water at the neighborhood's most famous block. Music provided by Dee Jay Stokley on the Wheels of Steel. Lawn chairs are optional.
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SATURDAY, JULY 2
8 AM Tee-off time
Warriors Path State Park Golf Course, Colonial Heights
This charity golf tournament will probably be the biggest in Riverview's history, with at least 50 golfers in 4-person teams participating. Proceeds from the golf tournament will benefit the Douglass Alumni Scholarship Fund, given to deserving Douglass descendants either bound for college, or already in college, every year.
11 AM - 4 PM
Borden Park, Shelters 1 & 2
($10 dollars for non-Ebony Club alumni)
One of the newest venues for a Riverview reunion, bring your lawn chairs to Borden Park, where there'll be a cookout for the Ebony Club Alimni, featuring hamburgers, hot dogs, drinks and activities for the kids.
12 Noon - 3 PM
Douglass Ballfield
Probably the most familiar site in a Douglass reunion, the historic ballfield has hosted many spirited Douglass football practices and band rehearsals over the school years. Now with shelters and tents, food, trinket and information vendors will be present for Field Day, along with self-guiding tours of the nearby HOPE VI Homes and the V.O. Dobbins, Sr. Complex. Take the opportunity to see how the Riverview neighborhood has re-invented itself in an atmosphere of fellowship. Another event where lawn chairs will keep you comfortable.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Douglass Community Room
V.O. Dobbins, Sr. Complex
The biggest reason for the reunion of Douglass Alumni: the bi-annual election of new Executive Officers for the Board of the Sons and Daughters of Douglass, Inc. for a two-year term. The new officers will be sworn in
and the goals for the next two years will be discussed. Also announced will be the results of the Douglass Alumni Scholarship Golf Tournament, with the winners presented their trophies.
8 PM - ??
Douglass Community Room
This event replaces the old banquet that used to dress us up in fancy attire. A survey of alumni revealed that nobody really wanted to dress up when they reunion, so the Events Planning Committee decided on an event where you can just let your hair down (those of us who still have hair, and others whose hair would come down anyway LOL! At this event, winners and successful bidders in the Silent Auction will be announced. (BYOB, but drinking not allowed on city property)
9 PM - 1:30 AM
Rascals, 125 Cumberland Street, Kingsport
Light hors d'oeuvres
($10 at the door for non-Ebony Club alumni)
At Rascals, the "laughs will be on us" as the nightly comedy show takes on a distintive Ebony Club flavor. If you missed it 2 years ago, Riverview's own Xavier "Tim" Hall left folks is stitches as he entertained the crowd with a downhome sense of neighborhood humor. The comedy promises to be just as amusing for Ebony Club Alumni night. Leave the kids at Grandma's, because the humor will be of an adult nature.
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SUNDAY, JULY 3RD
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH STEEPLE
Central Baptist Church, 301 Carver St.
Shiloh Baptist Church, 712 E. Sevier Ave.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1026 Maple St.
Bethel AME Zion Church, 812 Mapleoak Ln.
St. Mark United Methodist Church, 929 Maple St.
Great Commission Church, 1249 Chestnut St.
Mt. Vernon Holiness Church, 386 Dunbar St.
Lyons Chapel AME Church, 303 New Canton Rd.
1 PM
Golden Corral, 1910 North Eastman Road
This meeting will be held to coordinate and discuss the upcoming goals for the Kingsport Ebony Club Alumni Association.
3 PM
Douglass Community Room
V.O. Dobbins, Sr. Complex
Traditionally, the last event of the Reunion weekend for the Sons and Daughters of Douglass. During the Memorial Service, there will be the lighting of a special candle to honor deceased alumni over the past two years, and the dedication of the Douglass Teachers' Bench outside in the V.O. Dobbins Courtyard.
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MONDAY, JULY 4TH
10 AM - 12 Noon
Center Street, Kingsport
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