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06/12/10 12:18 PM #4    

 

Sally Sheffield (Attaway)

Attaway-to-Go, Char!  This website is awesome!  Thanks!

06/14/10 07:52 PM #5    

 

Walter Rotsch

Ya'll ROCK, Great Website, and Great ideas!!!

06/16/10 10:14 AM #6    

 

Terri Leshikar (Caldwell)

 

I love this...it's so much fun looking at the old pictures.  I've only just begun adding pictures LOL..

06/20/10 08:43 PM #7    

 

Ronald, (Ron) Vickers

Love it too!!  Maybe some one can tell me how to find the registration form for the reunion.

Thanks, ronnyv (looking forward to seeing everyone in April, 2011)

07/12/10 03:22 PM #8    

 

Charline Beardsley (Eppright)

Do you recognize any of these "little" people?  This is from Westminster Presbyterian Kindergarten on Exposition.  The top row:  Teacher Mary Ellen Herring, ?, Janet Paggi, ?,?,?, Bobby Westling.  Middle row: Carole Massengale,?, ?, Ralph Karotkin, ?,?. Bottom row: Jimmy Babcock, Joe Carrington, Charline Beardsley, ?, ?. 

08/04/10 08:46 PM #9    

 

Charline Beardsley (Eppright)

 Christine Hatch submitted the following 2 photos, taken at Casis School.  

08/07/10 09:46 PM #10    

 

Christine Hatch (Jones)

FYI
The first grade picture below was taken at Ms. Schofield's (SP?) private first grade. We were all "under age" for public school......
christine hatch jones

10/01/10 12:46 PM #11    

 

Dave Parsons

For anyone that might be attending the Texas Book Festival in Austin, I will be in The Texas Institite of Letters or the Texas A&M University Press booths (will be bouncing between them) on Sunday hawking my books...would be delighted to see ya!

11/21/10 02:00 AM #12    

 

Dave Parsons

The following poem is included in my last book of poems, "Color of Mourning" (Texas Review Press/Texas A&M Univ.Press...I have an entire section of Austin in the Sixties poems...thinking it might resonate with some of you:
THE PRIDE
(For “The Group”)

Running with those young lions so many years ago offers up
memories of each that are ineffable…their individual aspects
are wound around in me—timbres of song—ruddy Swede; tough
as a fence post, mythic story teller Terry’s infectious laugh; Steve
with his strutting bravado and his Flip Wilson smile; lumbering
Robert; a Saint Bernard in another life; and brilliant Jeffery John’s
tall and angular Cherokee presence—I cannot pen in a single line
the unique aspects each imbued in a single line—each deserves an entire poem,
odes that when chased, escape into random memories—fragments, like

those countless Austin summer evenings, we would all cram inside and out
of our group troubadour Rusty Wier’s El Camino (he named Tom)…it was our
weekend ritual of cruising like sharks from the Holiday House on Barton Springs
Road south to the Pig Stand, across from the Texas Theater on South Congress
to peruse each hang-out for whatever was happening…always on the prowl
for a carnal teasing glance—a fresh glowing new face—blond pig tail—laughing
into a coke and fries, or the other testosterone rush of some rival’s challenge
framed in a car window glare—as we would glide by—their orbiting tail fins
crouched in chrome—glaring red—a ritual that has become an American pop
culture cliché and though we long for that animal quiver that always triggers
the nostalgic images so intricately meshed in memory with those pyrotechnic
sounds: Buddy Holly, Elvis, The Stones, The Beatles, The Eagles, the Beach Boys,
Simon, Garfunkle, Peter, Paul & Mary, Mo Town—the list just keeps humming—

We can’t deny the outrage of it all: the Pollyanna idealism that took us, in less than
a score of rockin’ years, from what seemed to be the hard earned clarity of a proud
Ozzie & Harriet society to blurring interventions—changes that questioned all
that seemed settled by the mid-fifties; changes that even brought into question
the validity of all questions—there is in Africa an exotic Magicicada species
that transforms itself every seventeen years— the number of years seems odd
and a bit arbitrary—their tymbals bringing forth a unique and wild new song, music
that on a long summer night, is said to fill the trees; and after one listens for a while,
these sounds, resonating in a single chant, singing the haunting voice of the sacred.

12/14/10 05:36 PM #13    

 

Dave Parsons

 

12/31/10 12:15 PM #14    

 

Suzy Smith (Juncker)

Dave,

I only JUST found your beautiful poem about the '60s.  Thank you!

See you in April!

Suzy (Smith) Juncker

02/02/11 02:20 PM #15    

 

Georgana Dettman (McNeil)

Some of you knew that I was leaving to go to Egypt and Jordon on Jan 30th and returning Feb 18th,  As you can tell from the news I never got to leave Houston.  Still want to go maybe in November.  So I am safe and will be there in April      Georgana

02/03/11 07:31 PM #16    

 

Charline Beardsley (Eppright)

Gerogana, I am so glad you did not go.  You know there are a lot of places in this world that are safer than the Middle East.  I know that you can't ride a camel in most places but I think you might find a dude ranch in Colorado where you can ride a horse, and horses don't spit.

02/04/11 03:06 PM #17    

 

David Tisinger

Charlene,

Hi!  Great to hear from you.  Hope you and Russ are doing great!  This is a GREAT website!

Thanks,

Del Tisinger

03/18/11 06:37 AM #18    

Dudley Harris

Friday, March 18

I would like to recommend George Arnold's book, Growing Up Simple in Texas.  It is hilarious!  The chapters about Austin High are more than amusing.

Dudley Harris

03/20/11 10:32 AM #19    

 

Gladney Flatt (Johnson)

 Char - This website is a labor of love that gives many people pleasure. What a gift to us all!

Gladney Flatt

03/22/11 10:05 AM #20    

 

Terri Leshikar (Caldwell)

 

the cute couple is carol clewis and her husband :)

04/19/11 12:13 PM #21    

 

Jane Heckmann (Haner)

 

Charline...Just a note to thank you and the committee for all the hard work that has gone into planning our 50th Reunion.  This website is great!  Will only be able to attend the Friday night event, but am so looking forward to it.  See you there....Jane Heckmann Haner

05/02/11 08:07 AM #22    

 

Terri Leshikar (Caldwell)

WOOOOOW!!!!!

Our reunion was FABULOUS...thanks to EVERYONE that made it possible.  I haven't had this much fun in ages.  It was great seeing everyone and I can't wait till the next time.  THANKS, THANKS, THANKS for all the hard work that was put into making this such a wonderful reunion .  I truly appreciate it as I'm sure everyone else does.  We for sure have the BEST class ever at AHS...Loyal Forever to the class of 1961.

Terri     

05/02/11 04:19 PM #23    

 

Kearney Eifler

Many thanks to all who worked so hard to make this possible.  It was terrific. 

Kearney

05/02/11 05:48 PM #24    

 

Carol Clewis (Bray)

Thank you, thank you and thank you to the committee for all the hard work which went into making our reunion such a grand affair!  I will treasure forever the footage my hubby got of Billy K watching Georgana as Patsy Cline ......and who knew Janet had that kind of "stuff"!  We just didn't put her in a wig or something.  I tried to hug as many classmates as possible--there was not not enough time and probably never will be.  We had a great, grand group--we were blessed in our growing up years to have been an Austin High School Maroon with each other!

Loyal Forever,

Carol Clewis Bray

05/02/11 07:55 PM #25    

 

Janet Stern (Fleckman)

 Janet Stern Fleckman

Countless thanks to the 50 Year Reunion Planning Committee.  What a stellar job each of you did to make the Reunion a truly wonderful and memorable celebration.  

 

Janet Stern Fleckman

05/02/11 09:24 PM #26    

 

Karl Broom

I want to add my THANK YOU!!  Billy K and his gang arranged a wonderful weekend for all who could attend and produced a memory book and CD for all 1961 Maroons!  I wish we had more opportunity to chat with our many friends from days at AHS.  

05/02/11 09:59 PM #27    

 

Karl Broom

OK - one thing I would do differently.  I would lower the volume on the music a bunch!!  Not just a little -- I mean a bunch!  To be sure, music for dancing shouldn't be background, but everywhere else, it should be just background.  The only reason I came to our reunion was to talk with our classmates -- as many as possible.  I know, my hearing ain't what it used to be and I never could shout over amplified music.  

On the boat, the music outside was OK.  At the CC when the music volume was cranked up, that was game, set, and match.  That ended my opportunity to talk with classmates -- and I left.

If there is to be a 55th, I suggest that all venues provide the opportunity for conversations -- without the need for hearing aids! 

Thanks again to all who helped pull together a wondeful weekend 50th!

Karl

05/03/11 10:36 AM #28    

 

Georgia Oliver (Speir)

"Thank you" seems inadequate to the committee members for the many hours put into planning a great reunion.  The entire weekend was such fun...but too short!  I agree there was not enough time to visit with many people.  Some were there and I never crossed paths with them!  I will treasure the memories of a wonderful time seeing old friends and renewing old friendships.  Post those photos...but please identify the people!  We won't have our name tags to help us out!

Georgia (Oliver) Speir

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