The 81st Foster-McCall reunion concluded Sunday, June 25, 2010 with a farewell dinner at First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens. Reverend Blake DeForest Soaries and first lady Donna Soaries were in attendance. Representing the Fosters and McCalls were Cynthia Allen (MD), Tanayah Canty (PA), Claude Chaney (NJ), Evette Chaney (NJ), Joy Chaney (NJ), Cheryl Dowdell (NJ), Miliken Dowdell (NJ), Linda Felton Smith (AL) Beverly Maxwell Goodwin (PA),Deborah Goodwin (PA), Elizabeth Goodwin (PA), Eric Hamilton (NJ), Rose Jones (MD),Earline Lang (PA), Ramona Lang (PA), Brenda Lockhart (AL) Charles Lockhart Sr (AL), Charles Lockhart Jr. (AL), Jarrod Lockhart (AL), Antoinette McCall (PA), Linda McCall (PA), Bertha McKinney (MI), Gwen Patton (AL) Patrick Poblete (NJ), Evelyn Roper Johnson (AL)and Emmett "Al" Smith (AL).
On Saturday, June 25, 2010 the family took a Circle Line cruise around Manhattan which was followed by the banquet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Somerset, New Jersey. During the banquet Gwen Patton presented the idea of a Foster-McCall Scholarship Fund and Claude Chaney presented the first Lisa Nicole McKinney Award for Academic Excellence which went to Beverly Maxwell Goodwin (great granddaughter of Evelyn Roper Johnson) who excelled in several diverse fields (Honor Roll Student(Straight A's), Science Award winner and Dance Award winner at her school).Earline Lang was congratulated for her successful completion of high school and her acceptance to college.
The family decided that the next two family reunions will be in Atlanta (2011) and Detroit (2012).
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