The Middleton High School  Class of 1959 celebrated their 70th birthday last month with a weekend of events at the Little Harbor Resort in Ruskin. They enjoyed eating carioca sandwiches, drinking Nehi sodas and peanuts; prayer on the beach; dancing the chicken and twist to music of their era and on Sunday they gathered for worship. Dr. Ernestine Anderson Glenn and Gloridine McNair were chairpersons.  Classmates in attendance, front row, left to right: Joyce Brown, Mary Staples, Mattie Houston, Carolyn Miller, Gloridine McNair, Eloise Lowe Crump, Cecelia Cambridge, Novellar Campbell Cherry, Ernestine Anderson Glenn, Eloise Smith, Virginia Murphy Arnao, LaVerne Latson and Olivia Carmichael-Brown. Second row: Larry Houston, Joyce Stokes, Leroy Twiggs, Gloria Nelson Austin, Alberta Ellison, Carolyn Harris Baker, Dora Dixon, Florence Reeves, Lillian White, Nathleen Nix, Helen Johnson, Brenda Dennard Thompson, Dorothy Cherry Paige, Pearl Cross-Claybrooks and Johnny Armstrong. Back row: Michael Gilbert, Joe Sturks, Henry Evans, Alphonso Sheppard, Ollie Chatman, Sr., Henry Brown, Ernest Collins and Winona Hardin. Not shown: Alton White, Charles Kennedy, Dwight Weaver, Betty Collington Thompson and Inez Buggs Joseph. (Photo by Harris Photography)