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Comments: Oh, there were definitely distinct tables in the cafeteria. I remember Barry Gibbs and I sat by ourselves at that table in the back left corner that had a placard on it reading simply "L". I can't recall if that meant lepers or losers? We shared a similar affliction in that we couldn't find any girls who'd go out with us more 'n once. Lynell might recall how I pined away for Adrea Fleming (Class of '61). A pure case of the lure of the unattainable. A few days ago her class had their 50th reunion and she attended. I asked Ken Sellers if she mentioned me specifically by name or was it more by coy innuendo? He replied "The first thing she said when she walked in the room was 'has anyone seen John?'". It warmed my heart. (see official reunion pic I lifted from Facebook) http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/adrea.jpg
Comments: I can say for sure there was no Den table. Janelle, that's funny about the chicken bone and Jack Womack. Wonder what he's up to these days.
Comments: Danny, good for you for recognizing that you need help and that you are doing something about it. Depression is very serious and I am so glad to know you are getting help and hope you feel better and continue to climb out of that illness that can be so debilitating.
Comments: Maybe, Senior Table???
Comments: There was a Deb table? I don't remember that, but was there a Band table too..Football table...different sports tables...Den Staff table..Bear Tracks..etc etc....????
Comments: I, too, scrutinize the name tags trying to recognize everyone. I must say you all always look like you are having so much fun at your luncheons. I ran across a pic of Kayleen Bowser and suddenly remembered being in the cafeteria having lunch and her sending something (can't remember, maybe a chicken bone?) over to me. She was sitting at the Deb table directly behind me. We were competing over Jack Womack. ha,ha. Funny memories.
Comments: Welcome, Mike! Keep posting. You are part of us. This is a great group of Friends. If it were not for our fine people who post our pictures after our Luncheons, I would not remember any of these characters.............. I am still trying to find out who Peaches is?? Bob Clifton told me, "He thought she sold Ice Cream in the Canton, TX area". ....... I can now remember things that happened to me before I was born...... My Dad took me to the Drive-in Movie & I went home with my mother. I have not lost my humor as yet. A lot of other parts of my mind don't seem to work as it use to. I have been taking a medication called "Prevogen" for my Short Term Memory Loss or disappearance. After refusing for many years, to take any medication for my Depression, I no longer have any choice in the matter. Depression is terrible for me. .............I draw a lot of my strength from you people. I Love all of you. You all are much more than Friends to me. Thanks for listening.
Comments: Forgot to say, if anyone wants to send a note, the above email works (if I remember to check it). Mike
Comments: Just logged on to the site for the first time in about two years; OMG, how distressing to see more missing classmates. I do enjoy looking through the image archives; same folks most of the time and I hate to admit it but I cannot recognize many. Of course, a few of you NEVER change. Sharon Reeves, Peaches, and B.J. can be recognized ANYWHERE. Ageless wonders. If any of you want to see 'who the heck' I am, you will have to look at 1962 Den since I was not in the '63 Den. Keep up the postings and when you go to the events, write BIG on your name tags so us old guys with bad eyes and worse memory can recognize some of you. By the way, we have had perhaps 10 days in the upper 80s in Pittsburgh, PA. N I C E, cool weather. I won't tell you about the snow-covered ground between December and March though. Mike Peters (class of '63 sorta) those of you that remember me will likely understand that comment.
Comments: Nope, Charlotte - just wondering.....
Comments: I was in Colorado last week. I was in snow 12 feet over the top of my F250. Rocky Mountain National park. I drove up to Kansas Yesterday to pick up my granddaughter. It was 65 degrees and raining this morning. A lot cooler just a few states away.
Comments: Sharon, where I am it is 70 degrees at 1 P M.............aaaahhh! So fine!
Comments: Hey, Charlotte, why aren't you in Colorado yet? With this heat, I'd be gone.
Comments: Cynthia, are you bragging????
Comments: Watched Thursday Mavs game at 'Blue Smoke' restaurant in Manhattan. I was surprised how many Dallas fans in NYC. Watched part of Sunday's game in an Irish bar in Manhattan and whole bar was pulling for Dallas. Lots of Germans with Dirk jerseys!
Comments: Oh my - is this what we have to look forward to in 2 years?
Comments: I spelled ophthalmologist wrong. Eye doctor.
Comments: John, that was SOME video. Thanks for that. I watched several of his others while I was visiting You Tube. What a hillbilly hunka hunka. Ask yourself what's more fun, a vacation or two root canals and a colonoscopy. You may be onto something about us being cash cows -- although I wish you'd found a svelter animal. Cash gazelles maybe. Not that many years ago ago, I saw one doctor annually and had one dental visit. Now I go to the dentist twice and see the internist, gynie, mash-o-gram tech, ophthmologist, and lung doctor once per year. That's in addition to my frequent flier status at the hand doc's office. The good part is that last week the guy who hands out senior parking stickers at Presbyterian Hospital carded me. Yep. Made my day.
Comments: Just got home from the dentist and am facing two root canals. Earlier this year I went through skin cancer surgery, prostate biopsies and still ahead is PAD testing and a colonoscopy. Am I the only one that feels that our group is becoming little more than "cash cows" for the medical & dental industries? To cheer myself up I went back to YouTube and found this funny 1950-ish video. It features fiddler Gordon Terry and a very young June Carter. Gordon introduces the number as a "love song" but it goes downhill fast. Johnson's Old Gray Mule may be my new favorite song. Everybody sing along ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8mBdtLR9Q
Comments: Yeah Peaches -sure hope I can come. Got a family reunion in July so I will be holding my breath! Sounds like fun.
Comments: A new annual Summertime luncheon is being planned at my house for the month of July. Your Annual Christmas Hostess and Hosts will be putting on the event. We will announce the date next week. Please RSVP (NO maybes or if you can not attend needed). We only need to know if you are coming so we will know how many sandwhiches to prepare. More information next week. If this is a success we will start having a Springtime luncheon (when it is cooler) every year plus Christmas luncheon at my house.
Comments: Thanks to everyone for sending the directions to Bob's peach orchard. I didn't get there but at least I know where it is. My 92-year-old mom was so tired from the reunion that we went straight home. Had a wonderful time and ate way too much good food. Heard a good one on the radio this morning. Cleveland disc jockey talking to Jody Dean said he heard it was LeBron James Day in Dallas today - everybody gets off work 12 minutes early!
Comments: Congratulations Mavs!
Comments: Congratulations MAVS!!! You are a great team and all of you seemed to be clean players and great sportsmen. Don't you know the Cleveland fans are happy tonight because Dallas won.
Comments: Ginger, how sad about your sister. And most of us appreciate large fonts at this age!
Comments: Sorry, didn't mean to make the print 'that large'.. It's impossible to tell how large one is making the print, when the choices..are #'s 1,2,3,4..etc.. I'm more familiar with 'actual font sizes'...
Comments: After the Oak Cliff....'white flight', they moved back in... really that neighborhood, that Vick Haak, Tommy McGowan, Mike Murphey grew up in, on Lakeview...which was on a hill across the street from a creek.. Charlene Hearn lived back in there..too. It was a pretty spot.. The house burned down, long after the Hearn's left.. When Fran, was in Jr. High...cheerleader at Boude Storey, she had a group of kids, called the Fran Hearn Fan Club. They would come up the hill and visit with Fran on that front porch.. Those were better times for her in Jr and Sr high school. She had been diagnosed with Bi-Polar disorder by the time she was 28.. Fran had lots of friends that had not seen her in years.. I have several that are on FB with me.. Several from the old Hillcrest Baptist Church that have emailed me and also a student in DISD... No one had seen her in about 10, 20, 30 yrs.. Her personality, her friends really, really changed about 10-12 yrs ago.. The Bi-Polar 'stuff' really took hold.. We've honored her any way we could. I had not seen her in years... She was disabled, and had physical problems that related to a Lithium-derivative medication..the 'drug of choice' for medical doctors dealing with the Bi-Polar Disorder.. an illness not to be taken lightly.. The drug damaged her muscles, which affected her heart.. She was 59... Fran was reading Ayn Rand...books, when she was 9-10 yrs of age.. she was known as Frannie...when she was a kid...
Comments: Ginger, did your sister go to Adamson because SOC wasn't built yet or did you live in a different school district? She was so beautiful!
Comments: Okay..just google whadamsonalumni.. and you'll eventually get there.. The other way..does not get you there...sorry..
Comments: The 1970 Adamson Leopardettes are honoring my sister, Fran Hearn by paying for a Leopardette, I believe an officer, to go to camp this summer.. Really sweet people.. You can go to www.whadamsonalumni.com.. or just google it and go to Leopard Talk and then posting at the top.. There's a picture of her, too, but you have to click on it and it takes you to Facebook.. Fran Hearn 1952- May 1, 2011 (If you're on the Oak Cliff Boomers on FB..you can see this anyway...) Ginger Hearn |
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