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Comments: Kathleen, we are supposed to be observing the spelling error. Can you detect it?
Comments: John, Bill, I can't tell from your pictures what I am suppose to be looking at especially in the top picture. Would you please tell us what we are suppose to be seeing.
Comments: Unfortunately, JS, it was the real deal. Saw the story on Channel 8 News last night. They had contacted the school and were told that it had happened, but had been corrected.
Comments: I'm not sure of the source of the following pic, but it was brought to my attention on Facebook today. I find it disturbing on a number of levels. Hopefully, it is some "PhotoShop'd" prank. 
Comments: Glad to hear they are doing fine.. I love New Mexico,but have never been to Hobbs. Thanks for the info..Have a great weekend. It's pretty in Memphis..today. Rain expected later this weekend or next week. 
Comments: Ginger: I just heard back from Randy and he said that Mary and Jim are still married and do still live in Hobbs, NM. Jim is retired but he thought Mary was still in education. Randy said that he and Jim have actually gone on several fishing trips over the last 20 years and stay in touch. Randy and Jim graduated from SOC in 1961 and neither of them have been back for a reunion.
Comments: Thanks, Sharon. I remember Mary and Judy were such good friends and they were going to 'nursing school' and then work at Charity(?) Hospital in New Orleans.. Remember that..? They were both very nice people and Mary was always friendly to me at SWB.. I will always remember that about those two friends.. They were very close back then.. It's nice to pull these memories out of our past.. Good memories.
Comments: Ginger: Mary married Jim Harris (Judy's older brother) and they lived in New Mexico. I believe Jim taught at New Mexico State. I haven't heard anything from them in over 30 years. In the mid-70's, Randy ran into them at a journalism seminar in San Antonio and they were adopting a Native American child. I have no idea what happened to them. I can check with Randy to see if he knows, because he and Jim graduated together and were in the same educational field. Mary stood next to me in the Deb line and I would really like to see her again. But she never seemed interested in coming to the earlier reunions.
Comments: I wasn't impressed with most of the sororities at Baylor or N. Texas...unless it was a 'service sorority' and I didn't have the money, either.. I was 'in service' working with 5-6 yr olds in Church Training..at 1st Baptist Dallas. Working full time, most of the time, at Southwestern Bell Telephone..Whitehall Office off Zangs..near Cliff Temple. I commuted, and thought of moving to Denton and working for the telephone company in Denton..but never made the move.. I also thought about moving to California and transferring to Pacific Bell out there. I was always jealous when MMM left Texas and moved to California..wanted to be that brave and do the same, but never was brave enough..to do it. Mary Roush...also worked at the Whitehall Office before she married.. Whatever happened to Mary..? She married a professor..back then.
Comments: I attended UNT on and off from 63-69 working my way through school. I got married in 1965 and continued to live in Denton until 1968. I commuted the last year and did my student teaching. I don't remember my language teachers. I took French at UNT. I do remember my Italian diction teacher. The inside joke between Sharon and me was something in high school. Whether I wanted to or not I didn't have the $ for a sorority.
Comments: Charlotte and Sharon, I attended NT between the years of 1963-1967. What years did you attend?. I remember quite a few students from SOC that went to North Texas. Although I was anti-sorority at the time, I was surprised how many of the SOC girls joined them, even though they weren't particularly social in high school. My husband taught Spanish and Latin during the years I attended. Could he have been your Spanish teacher, Charlotte? I would also like to say the productions of plays at NT were better than some of the productions I saw at the University of Texas while Bill attended graduate school.
Comments: Sharon, you are right THE perfect job for you! Pat and Jerry lived close to us in those final years. Now, the apartments we lived in are gone and that new athletic area is in it's place...whoa! Have you seen it? You would soooo approve! I was working at Sears part time while I went to school and I had no idea where Pat was working at that time. We were all finishing up. Terry worked on his masters while I finished. I would still be there if I could...I became a professional student switching majors every year...that drove T crazy!! ha!! As you can imagine..Spanish was NOT one of my majors!!!! (inside joke)
Comments: Charlotte: I actually did the job on two separate occasions. The first from 1966-68 and then 1971-73 (I said '70 but it was '71). The three years inbetween were spent with Randy in the Army. To this day, the best and most fun job I've ever had. As sports crazy as I am, it was great. When I left in '68, I persuaded my former roomie, Pat Vessels, to take my place while Jerry finished school. Those were indeed great times.
Comments: A fellow music student(UNT) and roommate of mine(Dallas), has posted a pict of us as Saloon Girls in the Ballad of Baby Doe Opera at UNT..1968, I believe. It's on FB.. The UNT Music School put that opera on and we (Gloria and myself) were saloon girls and part of Horace Tabor's family..Lots of fun and lots of work for weeks and weeks.. I don't know how to transfer it to this website..however... Donald Kern was the Opera Workshop Professor at that time... After that, someone opened the Baby Doe Restaurant that you could see above Stemmons. We went there after my UNT graduation. It closed later, after I had moved back to Tn.
Comments: Sharon, I didn't know you did that job. I know exactly what bldg you were in and you did have access to free concerts. ;-) I assure you the guys I dated that were jazz guys didn't belch....at least not in my presence. They were handsome, talented and fun. They loved the fact I was a voice major so I never felt their disdain for the music school either. I, too, remember the Three Penny Opera. And remember MMM playing in the union bldg. Those were wonderful times in our lives.
Comments: When I was Athletic Secretary at NT in 1970, our offices were located in what used to be the kindergarten and elementary school where the profs sent their children. The lab bands practiced in the wing adjacent to ours. I remember that on really nice weather days, we would open our windows so we could hear the One O'Clock Lab Band rehearse, and it was great. But by four o'clock, all the windows were shut! I remember, as a student in 1963, I went to see Ferrante & Tichner (?) and later, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. They were great.
Comments: Ginger, I remember seeing "Three Penny Opera". I didn't know Michael Murphy was part of that production. I remember a scene where the old man and the old woman who had been married for years stood facing each other on stage and her large boobs fall right between his big. stomach. It was one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen in a play. They quietly stood their for a moment and let the audiences imagination figure it out.
Comments: Took a ride down memory lane this morning. Attended a funeral at Laurel Land, so I picked up my mom and took her for a tour. Our house on Alaska is barely standing, but it is there. I was amazed because a few of the older homes had been razed and really pretty, new brick homes had been built. And they really stood out. Maybe someone is trying to do something in that area. If so, they do have their work cut out for them. The schools looked the same - Harrell Budd, Boude Storey and SOC. My mom didn't recognize a lot (she has on-set dementia), but she reminded me that she didn't drive back then so she was unfamiliar with the streets. She used to take the bus everywhere until I got my license and then I drove her. Good memories but sad too.
Comments: I think the 'scuttlebutt', on the One 'O Clock Band and any of those Jazz musicians was...they didn't care for the regular music school at NT.. The 'belching' was a daily occurrence with those band members. I always believed they were sharing their disgust for the music school by belching.. They were the reason the NT Music School was on the map...so to speak. MMM performed in the Three Penny Opera..while attending NT. The song "Mack the Knife" is from that opera. He had actually decided to preach at one time and was studying Greek, too. I like him better as a Singer/Songwriter.. I always met him coming and going from the English Bldg..
Comments: Ginger, the One O'Clock Lab Band was wonderful. I remember hearing them practice. We also had Trini Lopez and Michael Murphy attending durning this period. Does anyone remember the famous concert pianists who you could often hear practicing? She may have been on the faculty. I loved to go to all the free plays and lectures from famous people. One of my favorite lectures was Ashley Montagu's "The Natural Superiority of Women."
Comments: OK..I shortened it, and they are still goin..I think for about 64 years now the One O'clock Lab Band has traveled the world.
Comments: One O'Clock Band...girls.. That was the top band and Doc was in that band, I believe.. Had several members of that band in my Music Theory Class.. They were also talented in 'belching the loudest' as they left the music building.. The Juries were very hard. We also had the privilege of seeing Phyllis George as she left her dorm and came through the music school every day.. Girls ran to her side to greet her.. Did Elementary Ed and Early Childhood at Univ. of Memphis and David Lipscomb Univ..not UNT. There are many people out there that will make fun of our accents. Mine probably 'mellowed' some when I left Dallas for years and years..
Comments: Doc Severenson (sp?) from Johnny Carson's Tonight Show was a NT grad from the Lab Band.
Comments: I loved the NT music school. I loved my voice teacher and did well in Juries. However, I decided that I couldn't make a living as a pure music major and changed to a music education major and then after exploring other majors I finally became an education major with music and art minors. I know Gaylan Williams finished as a Music Education Major and taught music in the DISD for many years. Another fun thing at that time were the Jazz Guys! When I was a music major NT was the only University to offer a degree in Jazz and had a terrific Jazz department. The Jazz Lab Band was famous. That is why the school had the reputation it did...we had the greatest Jazz department in the country?. What would "nose in the air" Juliard know about the Jazz? ha! I met guys from Chicago, New York, Philly and many other foriegn places. They came to NT for the Jazz program. I dated some of them too. They always made fun of my accent...imagine they were in Texas and made fun of MY accent...ha!! They would say...see-uht ri-uht hee-er to make fun of me...They said that all Texans always made 2 syllables out of wo-un. Ginger mentioning the NT music school brought back many memories...thanks!
Comments: Ginger and Phyllis, you are not the only ones who passed the U.S. Postal Exam. I also took it and worked for the Post Office in Oak Cliff when I was a junior at NTSU. Working for the Post Office was one of the most boring jobs I ever had. Fortunately, the pay was quite good.
Comments: The court reporting certification test was by far the hardest exam I ever had. When I took it, it was five solid minutes of two inexperienced readers trying to hit the 15-second marks at only 175 words per minute. I could handle much faster than that in real life, and off training tapes in school and at home. There's something about someone reading instead of speaking that has always freaked me out. At any rate, I passed the thing and went out into the "real" world where I clocked one lawyer at 325 more than once. No court reporter can write that fast, certainly not I. Right after I certified, they raised the speed to 225. After I got into the field, I learned that speed doesn't have as much to do with it as understanding gibberish, mumblings and jargon. I was blessed with an ability to understand just about anyone who sort of speaks English. On a cheerier note, I saw a wonderful movie today. I must confess the only reason I saw it was because of Meryl Streep, but I absolutely loved Iron Lady. It's about a woman of conviction who stood her ground. Ms. Streep should have gotten two Oscars for her incredible performance. Popcorn and a small Coke $8. No wonder there were only five people in the audience. The movie did not get very good reviews -- no cussing, no nudity (well, except for a couple of exuberant breasts at one point) and excellent values.
Comments: Okay..clarification... The UNT Music School Juries..were HARDER... (left that one hanging, didn't I.?) They supposedly 'softened their attitude..later.. When I first attended UNT in Music. A Professor told me..They didn't like commuters.. I always thought that comment was strange because Dallas and Ft.Worth Commuters..probably kept that school...afloat. Oh well, I got out of there, anyway and I never had to live in a POW Camp..!
Comments: I like the idea that the Postal Service Exam is harder, Phyllis. The Juries at the Univ. of N. Texas Music School were not. I use to say if you could graduate from that Music School, you could survive any POW Camp in the world. UNT also said that they talked about the UNT Music School in the halls of other music schools. I met a graduate of Julliard who said, "Yeah, on the 'restroom walls". Funny..Life is never boring, and you better be able to laugh a little a long the way to survive it.. 
Comments: Well, Ginger, I passed both the Texas Bar Exam and the Postal Battery 470 on the first try; the Postal exam was definitely harder! If I had not taken a prep course for the Postal exam, I could not possibly have aced it, because of the amount of sheer memorization required in the address memorization section. I don't think hiring is the Postal Service's problem; it's the World's most efficient postal service by far. I think the real problem is that the country cannot figure out if it wants USPS to be a self-sustaining business or a publicly-supported service. It has been a business for decades now, with no taxpayer funding, but Congress has been unwilling to deregulate it enough to allow it to make ordinary, business-like, decisions, like how many locations to maintain, how many days to deliver, what services to offer, what prices to charge, etc. To the contrary, Congress has demanded First-Class, universal, service, while -- at the same time -- draining off the resources necessary to sustain them. But, that is the situation with our government at large: people want great services, but don't want to contribute the revenues to pay for them. In both cases, some livable balance needs to be struck.
Comments: Ginger, you've hit on sumpin there!!! Haaaaa! Wonder if our Congress persons could pass that test (or any test) the third go round? Just saying!!!!¥ |
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