A Friday night meet-and-greet will kick off the first all-class Rosa A. Temple High School reunion with a weekend of activities that includes a Saturday program and Sunday worship service.

Friday’s event will begin at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 115 Cypress Center Blvd., off South Frontage Road, and includes socializing, light hors d’oeuvres and a disc jockey playing oldies until 10 p.m., said Shirley Smith, a member of the reunion executive committee.

Various Temple graduating classes have held reunions in the past, but some alumni began thinking about holding an all-class reunion as the drive to get the school’s panel at the Riverfront Murals took shape, Smith said.

“Everyone was very receptive to the idea, very enthusiastic,” she said. Planning has been under way for about a year.

The high school, named for longtime Warren County educator Rosa A. Temple, served black students in Vicksburg from 1958 to 1971, when segregation of black and white students was ended. The school then became known as North Vicksburg High School and served black and white students.