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| 01/20/12 12:38 PM |
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Barbara Peate Sabo
Holly--I do remember one Christmas when Lin & I went to Florida. You & Sally Willey stole our boyfriends. Dumbest thing ever--Lin & I gave Xmas gifts to them before we left. Never got one back from either of them. Believe it was Barry Nichols & John Mylius. I could I ever??????
B
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| 01/20/12 02:34 PM |
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Bruce McKelvey
OK...Since I was not voted the "Most Likely to Succeed" @ RRHS....I need help on how to place your vote for the Family Photo Contest.
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| 01/20/12 03:41 PM |
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Fred Thomas
Doc could usually be seen squating at the tail end of the parade, yammering about the "glory days" of the 1960's and claiming to have been a hippie war protestor even though he had never marched against the Vietnam War, spit on a returning veteran or even smoked a joint because that would have possibly jeopordized his student deferment. Doc had actually spent the entire war years hiding in the Ivory Tower and eventually receiving a PhD in Trans Gender Studies. He always wore a tee shirt to ralies with "DOC" printed on both sides of the shirt because of his glowing pride in his academic accomplishments.
"I was at Woodstock, I did LSD, I had sex with Mick Jagger", Doc would blurt out. "Very profound Doc", someone offered and the crowd roared. "Lying fool", "cowardly wimp", and "pointy headed liberal", were some of the other comments from the crowd.
http://www.drudge.com/user/fwthom
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| 01/21/12 12:28 PM |
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Larry Gilbert
Bruce and esteemed Forum members: the family photo contest voting will begin early in February after we get (hopefully) some more submissions. I'll put something up on the home page to clarify that....
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| 01/21/12 12:46 PM |
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Barbara Peate Sabo
John--wondering how you are feeling. Bruce, how is your wife doing now? Time for another mini-reunion. Going to visit Lin in Florida around 2/19 then to my son's in Dallas for Easter. Holly--do you live far from Southlake where he lives?
Barb
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| 01/21/12 04:55 PM |
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John Dawson
Fred,
It always seemed as though our class was always a "day late and a dollar short". We not only missed out on the swimming pool, but the extended stadium, next to the High School. I am sure our teams would have filled the bleachers.
Even Hockey was a new sport shortly after we graduated. When I worked downtown in 1967, I remember watching a boss' son (Hugh Goldie) playing. We could have fielded (or is that arena'd) a good hockey team for another winter sport since we kicked some butt down at the old RR park (by the lake). I'll always remember the pot bellied stove to warm us up in that shed!!
Oh well, our loss was some other class' gain!!
John
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| 01/22/12 09:39 AM |
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Fred Thomas
John,
Yes, a lot of organized sports came along after we graduated including swimming, hockey and soccer. The classes that followed us were able to enjoy those facilities but we will always remember our own games like mud football, baseball in the street, and hockey in the park. We organized them ourselves without parents, coaches or referees and we played just for fun and imaginary glory.
Kids now play organized sports like soccer, baseball and football from the age of three years old. They face screaming coaches and parents from an early age. Will they ever know the joy of real children's games? I think not and I don't envy them, I actually feel sorry for them.
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| 01/22/12 12:45 PM |
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Ellen Aspinwall Templar
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Guy. Hope you got out for an early morning jogging celebration today! In your woolies and maybe rain coat and don't forget the fog lights! Sounds like Oregon......But seriously, have a terrific day and enjoy all that wonderful family!
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| 01/22/12 05:51 PM |
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Holly Portz Koiro
Hey Barb. You can't pin that one on me! lol I don't even remember who either of those guys were...let alone date them. So if that is what THEY told you, they LIED!!!
I live about 2+ hrs. east of Southlake and must admit I have never been there. Perhaps we could meet in Dallas sometime.
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| 01/22/12 07:24 PM |
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Barbara Peate Sabo
Barry Nichols was w/Sally (he was in our class for a short time) & his parents were good friends w/my parents. Then he went to private school I think--must have been those darn uruly Rocky River guys! John went to Lakewood High. Maybe it wasn't you then. Okay, I'll forgive & forget now. I don't even know how I was w/him in the first place! Let me see about trying to connect when in Dallas!
Love,
B
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| 01/22/12 09:39 PM |
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John Dawson
Fred,
You are right!! We organized our own games w/o having someone say "it is too cold", "it is too muddy", and rarely did we encounter concussions, etc.,
Oh yeah, mom's always said we'd poke our eyes out, or "you'll break a bone", but we did it anyway!! And YES WE HAD FUN!! And speaking of mom's saying "you'll put your eye out", we did play soldier or cowboys and Indians (excuse me Cowboys and native americans - who happen to own all of today's casinos) with our BB guns that stung like hell but damn we knew we were hit!!
How many of us would have worn helmets on our heavy duty Schwinn bike? Or was too afraid to go down the hill(s) with our hands off the handlebars? How many used our American flyer sleds as ramming weapons on the slopes? And how many of us would have ridden a $500 thin wheeled racing bike when we had a can of paint, an old Schwinn Roadmaster, no fenders, and playing cards in the spokes?????
You are right Fred life WAS Great then!!!!!!!!
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| 01/22/12 10:19 PM |
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Alan Greenleaf
Hey, where the heck ARE you guys? I'm still at Beardens. This is my 214th Beardenburger.....
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| 01/23/12 02:15 PM |
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John Dawson
Al,
Between you and I the steers in Texas are shaking in fear!! They finally put me in my car when I collapsed from following the train around the room.
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| 01/23/12 05:00 PM |
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Alan Greenleaf
John,
You are lucky they didn't ride you out on a "rail"!
Beardenburgers will give ya a big caboose!
You enjoyed high school more than the rest of us, since you were there a year longer!
Nancy,
yada yada, yada!
 
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| 01/24/12 01:24 AM |
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John Dawson
Al,
Give me some credit, I left the Roadrunner dust clouds behind my feet after 4 long, long years....... I guess those 4 years felt like 5.
And speaking of being run out on a rail, I do remember one of the Linden's, I think Jim, and I had lived near the tracks. One day we caught the crew of a steam engine on lunch break leaving their engine on idle. We just wanted to blow the steam horn and somehow engaged the engine as it very slowly started chugging. Somehow we undid what we did and jumped off as the crew came after us. I don't think we stopped until we got to the old Little League Ball field.
This one is for Fred since he and I apparently were always looking for danger. Fred, how many times did you play "chicken" on the tracks when an oncoming steam engine/train came? I was pretty good until one day I tripped on the tracks. The sight of that train roaring down the tracks was scary to say the least. I nearly crapped myself. That ended my "chicken" days.
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| 01/24/12 09:17 AM |
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Fred Thomas
John,
I never played chicken with the train, just regular stuff like making rockets and bombs, climbing the cliff next to the Lake and River, riding on the ice floes on Lake Erie, climbing trees to see how high we could get, riding five on a bike and throwing slushballs at cars. We did put pennies on the tracks to get squashed by that steam engine though. That train was awesome, spewing out all that black smoke. I once threw a rotten apple as a car passed by and I led perfectly as the apple came down right on the windshield. I had to cut through a lot of back yards to get home that day as they were chasing me, but I was always proud of that perfect shot. I can still picture it in my mind.
I guess we are incredibly lucky not to have our eyes put out from those spears, arrows, buckeyes and clumps of clay we used to fight with and not to have more broken bones but I miss the days when we were made of rubber and had infinite energy.
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| 01/24/12 01:10 PM |
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John Dawson
Fred,
Yeah, a few pennies for me too. That coal smoked engine still reminds me of that odor. We also sat on the freight platform as a steam engine rumbled by and that was really scary especially when someone you sat with would yell "jump".
As for rocket making we used to attempt to make a bigger explosive scraping the gunpowder from ordinary firecrackers, and were doing so (Chuck, Jim Linden, and I) when a spark started a large explosion and burn't Chucks hand. This was done in a small room (originally a bedroom) next to the Dining Room. Wow!! we were injured more from our parents!!
We also used to climb the cliffs along the valley and the Rocky River usually on a dare, especially since those heights really did scare me. We also waded in the river upstream and gigged for frogs with spears. I thought I held the record for largest frog but found out my spear went through my boot and foot.
Yeah Fred, those were the days when we narrowly escaped maiming or worse but dang they were fun!!
Which reminds me, didn't you play chicken with your dad's car against (litteraly) a telephone pole? You won though.........................
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| 01/24/12 02:16 PM |
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Fred Thomas
John,
To set the record straight it was not my dad's car and I was not driving but of course we were roaring drunk. I did win the battle though because I wiped out the windshield and the car took car of the pole. Those new fangled inventions called seat belts and air bags are for pussies. Those were the days, yeah!!!
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| 02/02/12 02:28 PM |
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Holly Portz Koiro
What the what? Are you trying to tell us this was your private yacht?
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| 02/02/12 08:29 PM |
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Fred Thomas
Holly,
That is a photo of our cruise ship. The Captain says we can board as soon as they straighten it out. When we get on the ship I'm getting a double pina colada and then hitting the blackjack table instead of going to the practice life boat drill. What do you think?
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| 02/04/12 07:54 PM |
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Holly Portz Koiro
Doesn't seem the life boat drills (such as they were) did any good so you might as well get drunk and go for broke! We'll miss you at the reunion.
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