| The first day of school getting picked to go to Miss Mozelle
Goodwin's class. |
| In the second grade, Ms. Daphine Murphy hitting someone on the
shoulder with a paddle. |
| The Christmas program in grade school with the wise men dressed
in colorful robes walking down the aisle of the auditorium singing "We Three
Kings." |
| Going to the cafeteria smelling turnip greens, red beans and
cornbread and running out the door to Rosile's Cafe for a 20-cent hamburger. (I hated that
cafeteria smell.) |
| In the sixth grade Billy Don wanting to buy me a candy bar
everyday. |
| A party at Susan Adam's house and the girls lining up to kiss
Lyndell Kent. (7th or 8th grade) |
| Having a great time every year going to the Fair with the band
and Miss Loving acting crazy. |
| Mrs. Wells (study hall or library teacher) wearing gray work
socks (no shoes) taped with black electrical tape. She also taught our girls' Jr/Sr
PE class. She wouldn't let us dance. Ms. Wells said dancing with boys was evil
because the boys would get bad thoughts (maybe sexual?) and they would have to run off to
hide. Was that true, guys? [Note by BR: Sandra, SEX and "BAD THOUGHTS" were
NOT the first things on our minds then....There were lots of other thoughts such
as....uh,.....well,.... uh...I'm sure there must have been other things.
(Guys, help me out!)] |
| Paula Teel wrecking Frank McFarland's car. |
| Riding around with Jerry Dale, Billy Bob and Patricia Shelton in
his '48 Mercury throwing firecrackers out the window. Jerry lit a cherry bomb to
throw out the back window, but it was rolled up. The bomb landed in the floor and
went off. The car filled with smoke and we couldn't hear for a couple of days. |
| Graduation night going to LuAnn's in Dallas, then to Oak Cliff with Charlie
Jurden, Avon Cawthon and Jerry. On the way back Charlie tried to drive all the way
home without stopping for a red light. There were no freeways then. Think we
made it to Terrell. |
| And the senior trip--Well, we all have our memories of that. |
| Being in the car with Joe Rice when he gave Mrs. Trixie Lester the ride of her
life. She never did ask for another ride home. |
| As I look back these were great times. We didn't have much money, designer
clothes or a car, but I had a great time. Hope you did too. |
| Swimming at Myrtle Springs. |
| Smoking in the bathroom in the band hall. |
| Kenneth Foster's dad smiling at me when I handed him my tray in
the cafeteria. |
| Wearing 3 starched crinoline petticoats, quilted circular skirts,
bobby socks, saddle shoes and "Poodle" hairdos. |
| "Duck Tail" haircuts. |
| East Texas Band Day at the State Fair of Texas. |
| Going to the movies on Sunday afternoon. |
| Dancing on the dam at City Lake. |
| Playing trombone with the Seven Saints Plus Two (A J. Loving
Production) |
| Charles Jurden asking Mrs. Riley, " What is a virgin?" |
| Mr. Roberts urging us to go to college and major in chemistry or
physics--his later taking several of us to the University of North Texas (then
"North Texas") to tour the physics department and meet professors. |
| Competing with Patricia Clemmons in band for first place trombone
chair--Ms. Loving was our teacher. |
| Raymond Hargrove, John Neill, and Billy Bob Ashworth running from Mrs.
Riley's English classroom to be "first in line" in the cafeteria. |
| Raymond and me double-dating girls in Terrell. |
| Raymond and me getting his car stuck down a long and muddy
rode--and having our dates get out and push! |
| Mr. Robertson, our football coach, would not let us drink water
until half-time during football games (he thought it would make us sluggish). |
| Painting "SRS 58" on the old water tower. |
| Our senior trip to Galveston -- enough said. |
| Sandra McLeod, Susan Adams, and Rosa Curtis giving me a surprise birthday party
when I was about 14 years old. |
| My old Cushman motor scooter--and Raymond Hargrove wrecking out on it.
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| The night of our graduation and who we each paired off with afterwards. |
| Janelle, John, Raymond, Sue Scott, stealing peaches from an Elmo
orchard--and the terrible itching afterwards by the guys who got peach fuzz on their bare
chests. |
| Circling the Dairy Maiden, then dragging main street, then circling the Dairy
Maiden, then dragging... (trying to find and impress girls). As it turned out, I met a
beautiful Dallas girl there in 1960 who wound up being my bride. |
| Raymond and I dated girls in Terrell our Junior and Senior years. |
| Raymond fighting guys in Terrell just to see who was the toughest. |
| The night Raymond abandoned me in Terrell when he drove back to Wills Point
without me, IN MY CAR. And the friendly Terrell cop who helped me get a ride home
with a truck driver. |
| Meat loaf at the school cafeteria. (Yuk!). |
| Sitting by the big cedar trees on the north side of the old high school building
after lunch and talking with the girls. |
| We macho guys leaving the top 3-4 buttons of our shirts unbuttoned (to show off
our "manly" chest hair). |
| Annual medical exams in the old gym for athletics in a long line of naked guys
("just cough"). |
| Extra milk in the cafeteria that cost 2-cents. |
| All the "really bad" kids who smoked at Rosile's Cafe. |
| The worst thing a kid ever did was smoke a cigarette. |
| Playing under the old football bleachers in grade school. |
| Spending Friday nights with fellow football players at our family
get-away at the "T&P" Lake after games (safer than having designated drivers). |
| Lake parties at Calloway's lake. |