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Comments: My, my.....how things have changed. At Lisbon Elementary, some of the more trustworthy Lancaster Road Scholars were chosen to be Hall Monitors. We had a metal, curved badge that was held to your upper arm by a strap. We kept the punk kids in line and were not to be triffled with. Today in the Dallas Morning News there was a quote that caught my attention.....not so much the quote but the person who made the remark, a guy named Craig Miller. His job description? Dallas Independent School District Police Chief Gee, if I had only stuck with my hall patrol job.
Comments: Wow - what a great web-site!! Woke up this morning (great start for a blues song), thinking about old friends, And I couldn't help but wonder, what had become of them. So I logged onto Facebook, and lo and behold There poured forth photos of friends from on old! You just gotta love the technology - who would have ever envisioned the gadgets we have these days. Didn't see here anything about our 50th Reunion - date been set?
Comments: Phil, thanks for coming to watch Terry Monday. He appreciates the support. I wish you had been there Tues night for the packin up and loading the trailer with tack and horse. We could have used your help!!!! Haaaa
Comments: Congratulations to Charlotte's husband for making the finals and ending up in the money in the non-pro cutting horse competition ,at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo!
Comments: Phyllis, I suggest that you are only a victim of the years that you didn't have Ramon Ford for a teacher.
Comments: Oh, Doug, thank you for telling us about Mr. Ford, too. I didn't know he had passed. I dearly loved him and give him personal credit for my having even gone on to college. I was the first in my family to do so. When he asked me about college, I was unsure, and he said, "of course, you're going to college," and that settled that. So I guess he's to blame for my ending up a victim of 21 years of formal education. 
Comments: Sharon, I met Ray through Larry Bennett (Class of '65) but in the past few years I've not had much contact with Larry, nor heard any tales of Ray.
Comments: I am so envious of all of you remembering all the teacher names...I remember Bruce Norman...had such a crush on him..not only easy on the eyes but a very good teacher...made class interesting. So enjoyed seeing him and meeting his wife at one of our reunions.. They had no problem keeping up with everyone on the dance floor.
Comments: I just saw where Dale Robertson passed away. He was one of my favorite actors. Thought he was so handsome. Also, saw where Coach Fred McCain of North Texas fame passed away at age 90. I worked for him while he was assistant football coach and then Director of the Coliseum. Really, a dear man. JS, do you still keep in touch with his son, Ray?
Comments: Mr Ramon Ford passed away on 8-22-07. He attended our 40th reunion in Sept of 06 and was so much fun! Less than a year later I saw his obit in the paper. My Sr English teacher was also Mr. Joe NMI Waddell. He told us the story about being in the military and everyone had to have a middle initial. He didn't . . . so they assigned him NMI . . . it stood for No Middle Initail. I adored him and did well in his class. He always brought out the best in people.
Comments: I, too, can still recite Chaucer from Mr. Waddell's senior English class. I can still recite the opening sentence of every chapter in our Spanish 101 class at Boude Storey. You know, the Pan American Highway passes through many cities! Las caraterras pan americana pasas por muchos cuidades. Ole.
Comments: Doug Graham, what a great story about Ramon Ford. I started SOC with Marie Yium for English.She threw me out and insisted I get into one of the high level English classes. Loved Miss Yium. Next was Mrs. Dickson for soph English, then the wonderful Jim Lloyd for junior year. I absolutely adored him. Mr. Waddell was my senior English teacher, and like Phyllis I remember memorizing a lot of poetry in his class. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Maybe I'll go recite that one to David now. He will be impressed.
Comments: I never memorized that and Ramon didn't make me either....hmmmm. I guess I got away with a few things huh?
Comments: When did Ramon die? I loved that man!!!! I had him for English 3 years in a row. He knew me well...and I him....Did you know he and his wife were vaudeville entertainers before he decided to get an education and teach??! Yep!!! I hate it that these wonderful mentors have or are leaving us. Of course, so are some of our classmates....sigh!
Comments: RE first 14 lines of the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, - Ramon Ford had us memorize this, same as all teachers of English at SOC. I never forgot these lines, and in the years after SOC, whenever I would visit Ramon Ford, I would recite them. ( Ramon knew a lot about Chaucer, because he, Ramon, had studied with George Bond, a professor of English at SMU, who was a Chaucer specialist ). I guess there can be too much of a good thing, even Chaucer, because in recent years when I would visit Ramon, I would ask, " Would you like to hear some Chaucer ?" . And Ramon would answer, " No Thanks!" I got the last word, tho'. Ramon's family asked me to give the eulogy at his memorial service, and I closed my remarks by reciting those 14 lines. ( And the heavens didn't open up and lighting didn't strike me ). I don't remember anything from anybody else's class at SOC, so Ramon Ford was, for me, the best teacher at SOC. Rest in peace, Geoffery Chaucer and Ramon Ford, - both towering figures in the world of English literature.
Comments: Oh, John. You are breaking my heart here. I just heartened back to when Leonard Fitzgerald wrote "to the greatest" in my '61 annual.
Comments: Mike, your comment about a Zumwalt talent show stirred some old memories in MY head. Maybe I am dreaming but I can recall a rock band that included Carl Ward and Pete Poppel (not sure who else). Also, a guy named Don Blakely (I think) did a good job singing a song about "Would you like to swing on a star ... carry moonbeams home in a jar ... and be better off than you are ... or would you rather be a mule?". At the time Don and I were vying for the affection of Darla Williams and his outstanding vocal performance sealed the deal in his favor. BUT ... by the end of high school my status with Darla had risen to that of "a real pal" if one can believe those yearbook parting comments.
Comments: Sad to see Van go. He beat the daylights out of a piano, and it sounded beautiful. May he rest peacefully with the comfort of knowing how happy he made his fans.
Comments: I think I may have had Miss Stamps for a year..? I preferred Senor Arguelles, though.. Van Cliburn died at 78. Sorry to lose him. Saw him for the first time when I was 10 at the Dallas Music Hall. Long time piano students would have heard of Van Cliburn, who was a native of Ft Worth...
Comments: To Dan Shellito:
Comments: Thanks Ken. I feel much better now. Backup performed by the Zumwalt cheerleaders?
Comments: Johnny Bullard
Comments: **Zumwalt Question** Could have been 8th OR 9th grade; can't remember THAT far back. I surmise there was a talent show (of sorts) that a guy named Johnny (I think) did my first ever seen lip sync (I didn't know what lip sync was; I thought they were good singers) with backup by some (maybe all) Cheerleaders. They sang "(Johnny, you're too young) I'm gonna get married." Does anyone else remember this or have I been having a bad dream for more than 50 years? Miss Stamps? OMG! What a little darling she was! I think she hated me. I was sooooo naive back then.
Comments: iF Mrs Stamps taught spanish,I loved her.She gave me a's for 2 years. Let me see if i remember any of it.Wan that april with the surest sota.The drughts of march hath its corasona.and smalley foolest mocken melodia ........... I'm sure senor Chauscer and you will forgive my spelling tonight. How many of you remember that prelude?
Comments: That's okay. I'm always opening my mouth and inserting my foot. Don't feel bad about it.
Comments: Well, leave it to me to blurt it out!!!! Haaaaaa
Comments: Charolette I agree with you about Miss Stamps. I was thinking the same thing but didn't want to comment
Comments: I think her mode of transportation was a broom!!!!!!!!
Comments: Thanx Charlotte...and all these years I thought it was just me.
Comments: That is MISS Stamps and boy I knew why too...ahem. Okay, I admit it...that is not very sweet of me....but truth is truth!!! |
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