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One thing the younger generation will never have is our memories.  When we tell our children about our high school days, they think we lived in "Happy Days" or "American Graffiti."  It was a golden time that today's youngsters can't imagine.  So, let's share some of those memories.  I'll start and you email yours to oaxacaone@gmail.com

Here it is:  the official Seniors of '60 photo, courtesy of Eddie and Ruth Little

Front row: Gary Worthington, Ernestine Scott, Bill Shoemake, Helen Horn, Tommy Cranford, ?, Donald McWright, Karen Kornegy?, David Burton, ?: Second row: Miss Spike, ?, Donald Festerman, Ruth Ann Spill, , ?, Archie Austin, ?, Louis Dietz, ?; Third row: Sammy Albro, Franklin O'Dell, Carolyn Faubion, ?, Charles Weardeon; Fourth row: ?, Raymond Snooky Johnson, Jessie Bailey, ?, Jimmy Esquivel.  Photo provided by Don McWright. Please send names/corrections to oaxacaone@gmail.com

Front row: Neil ?, Sara Rice, Benny Scott, Bertalina Lewis, Tommy Cranford, Karen Kornegy, Dennis Davis, Helen Horn, Bobby Thomas; Second row: David Burton, Wanda Templeton, Barbara Gerhart, Linda Simpson, Carolyn Gerlach, Sandra ?, Ray Nell Riddle; Third row: Jon Leyton Hill, Junior Guy, Roger Frick, Elmer Nelson, Roy Childress, Bill Pumphrey, Jerry Grider, Walter Kraatz; Fourth Row: Jerry Dunham, Miss Bailey, Meryl Horton, ?, ?, Ernest Banks.
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The 1980 Reunion.  Wow!  That's 40 years ago!


Remember Nellie Lacy as "Bubbles" the dancer, wearing a swim suit covered in small balloons, at the Glacier Queen program.  I believe that they started restricting our creativity after that...  Remember the Cry Room at the State Theatre meant for parents with small children but where the high school crowd would "court."...  I remember being in Mrs. Jackson's typing class one afternoon and I saw Mattie Cooke leaving the room where tests were duplicated.  Shortly after that a couple of students hurried into the room then hurried out.  Miss Cooke returned shortly to the room and came out looking puzzled.  She went back in again then came out and talked with Mrs. Jackson.  She said she was sure she had left the backing copy of a math exam in the room and someone had stolen it.  Sure enough, that night my brother and some friends gathered at our home to work out the answers to the exam.  Mattie caught them though.  She reprinted the test with only one question changed, Xs and Ys to As and Bs.  The cheaters had memorized the answers as they were not as Mattie had changed them and she caught them purple-handed (remember the ink on those exams)...  My mind hurts.  It's your turn.  Email me your memories today.  Bill Pumphrey



Here's a photo from one of Bill Little's birthday parties.  See how many classmates you can identify.

Don Roland submitted this photo and recalled the event:  "As I recall, this was our Christmas Concert in December 1955.  We were in the eighth grade.  Our junior high band had bought Mr. Gans a Christmas gift and decided we would surprise him by all hitting wrong notes on the first beat of the song that was to be our finale.  Then, as president of the band that year, I was to jump up and present him with the gift.  ... The ploy worked perfectly, and when we hit the sour notes Mr. Gans said something to the effect, 'Oh no! And I wanted this to be good.'  I am quite certain that the photographer was Bill Little's father, and he captured the moment precisely."

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