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Many thanks for all the great birthday greetings! It's nice to have classmates wish me a "Happy Birthday". Having a summer birthday meant not getting to have school parties.
In the Bible, the number 8 is a symbol for new beginnings. Won't go into detail, but there really are some new beginnings for me.
Tom - 56 is just a number! I'm much younger on the inside, aren't you? Hmmm? Everyone else think so too?

08/09/08 04:55 PM

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Lu, all kidding aside, up until a couple years ago I felt much younger than I really was. I was Superman....nothing I couldn't do.
I'm sorry to say, today I honestly feel about 10 years older than my actual age. 70+ hour / 6 1/2 day weeks have finally caught up to me. I look back and can see my "downhill slide" started around the time I came back to work from my second back surgery in March 2005.
But that's just the way it is. I will survive...but at a little slower pace than I once did. LOL.

On another subject. Next time you attend an OTP production, go up and introduce yourselves to Robin Overbey. He is a player and OTP President. I told him to give you guys the "backstage tour" !!! Don't be shy....he is a very nice person and good friend. He'll talk your leg off !

08/09/08 10:25 PM

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Tom, the last play we went to - we tried to talk with Robin afterward. However he was surrounded by groupies (lol) and so we didn't wait around to chat. Will try again next time!
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I've been trying to recall teachers' names from K-8 at West Side and Central/Jr. High. Today I asked Mom the first name of the K teacher and she remembered. So here goes: K-Myrtle Cutshall (Bill's mother), 1-Carmen Steffen, 2-Garnett Bonham, 3-4-Genevieve Easton, 5-Evelyn Hanley and Loren Goode, 6-Elnora Kovaleski. 7-8-Chuck Roche, Lucille Donham (Herb's mother), James Brenton, Gary Edds, and more! and Helen Lawton taught music most of those years. Does anyone remember who taught Home Ec.? Art? (other?) Those escape me.

08/09/08 11:04 PM

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Lu: Did Chuck Roche also teach at Bicknell ? What year would that have been ? He was teacher and basketball coach at Freelandville when I was in 8th grade.
I still run into Chuck every once in awhile in Vincennes.

08/10/08 12:16 AM

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Kathy Watson

Hey Lu...Happy belated birthday! I'm behind checking my e-mails....also, happy extremely belated birthday to Danny...wow, you're not aging and retired at the same time....hmmm
Sandra, hey! Great to hear from you!

08/10/08 03:38 PM

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Brenda Sue Holmes (Deweese)

Thanks, Kathy!

Tom - Yes, "Mr. Roche" taught at Bicknell, both 7-8 I think?? Thought of another one today, Donald Vickers.

08/12/08 11:11 AM

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Steve Stremming

Everyone,

After reading about Herb, it makes me wonder how many others on our class list that no one has heard from in years aren't with us anymore?

08/12/08 11:13 AM

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Steve Stremming

Also two questions to everyone...........
Who did you go to the junior prom with and did you go to the senior prom?
and if you could do one thing different during our school years what would it be and why?

08/12/08 05:19 PM

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Tom, I made an appointment for you with an optometrist. You can't go around telling Danny Roark how young he looks, he may set out to prove he is still a young thing and he is just like the rest of us.... 56 on the inside too! Where has the last 40 years gone?

08/12/08 08:02 PM

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BRENDA: How careless of me ! I know firsthand that feeling younger than you really are can be dangerous.

I foolishly thought I could play in the Freelandville Co-Ed Softball Tournament a couple years ago. I should have known better, all the other players on the team were in their 20's and 30's. But I just had to show everyone that I "still had it". I did pretty good....that is, until I had to actually run around the bases !

Luckily, I was on vacation the next week. HONESTLY, I spent the entire next week in bed with severely pulled ligaments in both knees.

Dan....WARNING: Act your age, you don't look THAT young !
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No idea where the years have gone. Can it be 42 years ago this month that we walked into our homeroom class on our first day at NK. If my memory is correct, our first homeroom was across from the office....room 203(?)....is that correct ?

08/13/08 06:24 PM

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42 years ago we looked good in our paisley shirts and bell bottoms pants with our beetle boots. I finally let my hair grow out after having a crew cut for the first 14 years of my life. In the Fall I went out for basketball, but Mr. Ellett and Lentz kept making me go back to the barber because my hair was not short enough for them. I would always have to do laps around the gym until I got my hair short enough. Our barber in Freelandville, kept cutting it shorter, and thought the coaches were crazy.

08/13/08 09:57 PM

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Brenda Sue Holmes (Deweese)

My favorite 1966 duds:
Dark red shirt with yellow polka-dots. "British green" courdroy(sp?) hip-hugger bell bottoms....complete with wide belt & big belt buckle. Beatle boots that zipped up in back.
Oh, and if those threads were not groovey enough, I topped my ensemble off with a green courdroy "Mod" hat !!!

Grab, do you remember those green "Mod" hats that you, Telligman and myself had ?
I recall all three of us were sitting in the gym at lunch hour with our hats on (we must have looked like idiots) and Darlene Nierste (Hartsburg) came up and asked us where we bought our hats. We got them at Kixmiller's Store, we said proudly. (Kixmiller's was a leader in trend-setting British fashions, you know !!!)
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I have pasted the ELVIS PRESLEY PLAYLIST at my profile. I'm on vacation this week and I had nothing better to do.

08/14/08 06:04 PM

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Tom, Yes, homeroom was in 203 across from the office. Wasn't it Ken Lutterbach's class? I remember hearing Mr. Vogelsong yelling at some boys and then paddling them out in the hall... scared me to death! I remember that our skirts had to touch our fingertips when our hands were straight down by our sides! I don't think he could handle the dress of students today.

This is just a thought....but instead of sending flowers to the families of classmates that have passed away, how about sending a donation to the North Knox Scholarship Foundation in the deceased's name. The foundation would send the family a card noting the donation and it would have more longevity than flowers plus it would help fund an N.K. graduate's college expenses. Just wondering what anyone else thought of that idea.

08/14/08 07:08 PM

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Brenda, Sounds like a good idea to me. I could make an electronic donation page on our web site with credit cards, or we could designate someone to send the money to. Let your thoughts be known on this site and we can work on it.

Tom, Thanks for the Elvis music. For those wanting to hear Tom's music, go to Tom's page and click on the music.

Steve, I took Kathy Watson to the Junior Prom. I did not make it to the Senior Prom. I think we have a pretty good list of the classmates we have lost, but if anyone knows of anyone else, please let me know.

08/14/08 09:15 PM

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Brenda Sue Holmes (Deweese)

Brenda - I like your idea for the scholarship fund!

Tom - thanks for posting the music. I'm listening to it right now. I don't remember much about homeroom....Any other "B's" out there remember where we gathered?

Steve - Jeff (my hubby) took me to the prom his Senior year, then my Junior year, but we did not attend when I was a Senior. Lots simpler back then, and cheaper too! 'Course we had to spend a little extra to get those beehive hairdos! There's not much I would change about those high school years, but wouldn't want to go back...

08/15/08 12:05 PM

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Rich - I think the electronic donation would be a good idea if we decide to do it. Does anyone know if Patty Thompson still has access to our bank account... although I'm sure it is empty! We should check on that before we do anything.

Tom - Did you know there is an Elvis look-a-like contest at the state fair today? :)

08/15/08 12:35 PM

#241

If they have a contest for Vernon Presley (Elvis' white-haired, old-geezer dad ) look-a-likes, I could probably take the grand prize !

08/18/08 08:09 PM

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Patrick Grabbe

Tom
I remember the hats, as for the idiot part, that was never a problem for me.

Steve
I did not attend the junior prom, and as for the senior prom, I spent 2 and a half months in Good Sam with a broken neck and back, due to a car wreck that Dan, Joe Robbins,and myself were in. Fun Summer

08/18/08 08:12 PM

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Pat, I was thinking about your wreck the other day. Was that not after high school?? Dan who was in the wreck with you? I remember visiting you in the hospital, but I thought it was when I was home from the Air Force. I remember it was a close call for you.

08/18/08 09:18 PM

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GRAB: Broken neck and back.....and full body cast. Hence, the nickname "Mr. Ready-Mix". You can thank Miller for that one !
Lotta fun at Indy Nationals that year.
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Telligman stopped by for a cold one on Saturday afternoon. Unbelieveably, he still has his wide "hip-hugger" belt and big buckle from '66. Wears it occasionally when he works. He also fondly recalls those "Mod" hats.
Did my best to convince he & Debbie to visit this site. He says he likes his privacy. He says he speaks for Deb, also.

08/18/08 09:32 PM

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Patrick Grabbe

Dick
I missed the last four or five weeks of the semester,three of which was in the ward at the hospital, Me and five older men were all lined up in a row. I think they did away with the wards shortly after that. Actually I was back stage for graduation, I got to walk up and get my diploma, then back out the side door because I was in a back brace and neck brace. Within a couple of days after graduation I went back for X-rays, thats when they determined that my neck had been broken which was missed in the emergency room the night of the wreck.I Was taken imediately to the hospital where I was put in traction. They told me that I had been extremely lucky that the vertebrae hadn't slipped off They had to take the pressure off my neck for a week before they did the spinal fusion. Seven or eight weeks later I finally got out of Good Sam, wearing a body cast for seven more hot, itchy, weeks. While I was in the hospital the second time, mom was coming out of the Tastee-Treat, fell out the back door and broke her kneecap, she spent three weeks in the hospital on the floor below me. Dad had a fun summer also.

08/18/08 09:34 PM

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Patrick Grabbe

Dick
I almost forgot. Dan Roark

08/19/08 10:41 AM

#247

Pat, I cannot believe I do not have a better memory of the three of you being in the wreck. I guess I visited you in the hospital just before I left for Colorado in 1970. Was the wreck between Bicknell and Freelandville? Did Mike Land find you on Facebook? He is on there if you check.

08/19/08 11:44 AM

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