Several people were unable to attend due to health issues.  Susan Green (believes she suffered a stroke and will be going in for tests on Tuesday), Don Greene (recovering from heart problems and is on oxygen), Al Greene (bad health), Les Thatcher (growth in his right eye), Roger Kirby (eye surgery), Frankie Cain (bad health, plus his wife is undergoing chemo for the cancer she's been fighting for many years), Bill Dromo (Parkinson's disease), and Dick Steinborn (tore his right knee last week).

  Mike Sircy, a member of the NWA and owner of NWA Top Rpe Wrestling, set up a ring for the group picture and photo ops.  In the last hours of the reunion, after many of the attendees had left, Debbie Combs and Sylvia Hackney went through a series of moves.  Ethel Brown asked Debbie to give her a body slam, which was a scary thing at her age, but she took it and got up with the help of Ronnie Garvin and Ann Casey.

  Mac McMurray was awarded the "Crowbar" award for 2011 and Len Rossi (who showed up for just a short time due to an irregular heartbeat) was given the award for 2010.  Before the awards and door prizes were given out, the music "Pomp and Circumstance" began playing and Gorgeous George Jr. walked down the steps in one of his old jumpsuits, handing out "gold" bobby pins to the attendees.

  This was the first wrestling event in more than 30 years for two wrestlers: Lee Teal (no relation to Scott), who wrestled as Mad Dog Teal in the Carolinas and Rip Tyler (with Buzz Tyler as his partner) for several other promotions, and Charlie Fulton, who was reunited with his old partner, Frank Morrell.  They wrestled together as the masked Mighty Yankees in 1973.

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