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Kathy: You might not know (Dick will verify this), you are speaking with the absolute, and final authority on Freelandville nicknames.
At the now defunct Freelandville Dutchman website, I researched and compiled a list (The Official Freelandville Dutchmen Nickname List) of over 400 Freelandville nicknames, several dating back to the late 1800's.
Here are nicknames of a few our Freelandville classmates and teachers. Some are from school years and some are current. We will put you at the top of the list !!
STUDENTS
Kathy Watson...........George
Tom Held...............Tink
Wayne Boberg ..........Weiner
Joe Robbins ...........Buzzard / Corky / Struckmeier
Pat Grabbe.............Roy Boy (RB)
Steve Telligman........Tiny / Ralph
Mike Summers...........Summytime / Summyingston
Richard Finke..........Dickie
(Yes, we called him "Dickie" in grade school !)
Lesley Jones...........Lucious Lesley
(I have it on good authority she lives in Las Vegas
and legally changed her name to this. Don't ask why, I
have no idea !)

TEACHERS
Robert Orr.............Oreo
Dana Snyder............Sneazy Snyder the Billy Goat Rider
Ruth Cummings..........Miss Ruth
Joe Ledbetter.........Lead Bottom
Anna Hufnagel.........Huffy
Elsie Nolting.........Nutty Nolting
Chuck Roche...........Coach Roche
Harold Offutt.........Offy

GOT ANY MORE ?

05/02/08 09:29 PM

#27

Kathy Watson

Tom: Wow! I am impressed....I do remember that when I moved back to Freelandville towards the end of 5th grade, we were calling Rich Dickie...I thought it was cute...sorry Rich! Are you serious about Lesley? And I don't even remember Dana Snyder but feel that I should!

05/03/08 02:40 PM

#28

Dana Snyder was 3rd grade teacher. I AM SERIOUS about Lucious Lesley.
And yes, Dickie was such a cute name...LOL. Dickie's best friend was Johnny Begeman. I shouldn't laugh, as I was called Tommy in 1st grade.

05/03/08 05:40 PM

#29

Tom, I have spent 38 years trying to rid myself of the "Dickie Finke" name and you have wiped it out in one post. Oh well. I tried to find Leslie's name on whitepages.com, but have not found her yet. I stay in Vegas some on layovers with the airline. I heard she lived there. I have always been expecting to see her behind a dealer's table when I am walking through a casino. Tom, what were some of the girl's names? Surely, more than Kathy had a nickname. When you mentioned Mr. Offutt. Do you remember when someone locked him in the building down at the ball field during a PE class. I felt sorry for the way he was treated many times. It just seems impossible that it was 42 years or so that we were in the 8th grade.

05/03/08 06:30 PM

#30

My favorite Mr. Offutt story, as told to me by Jon Singleton (NKHS 71).

During P.E. class down at the baseball diamond........the notorious Harold Clark asked Mr. Offutt "if he can steal second base". Harold proceeds to run to second base, picks up the base and runs "like a crazy man" into the cornfeild !

Favorite Offutt-isms: ALL RIGHT, OK !!!
'PORT AT NOON, BOY !!!

Yes, looking back, I feel sorry for him, too.

Mike "Summytime" Summers told me about Leslie's name change.

Next time your in Vegas, you must look up Freelandville legend Max "Adolph" Kettlehut. Years ago, we stayed with him for a few days while we were in town on vacation. He lived in apartment building just behind the Sahara. He at one time was dealer / pit boss on the strip.....now retired. He is Mark, Ed and Deidra Jo Sullenger's uncle and good friend of my Dad's.

05/03/08 10:00 PM

#31

Please check out the "Before High School" link. I found some pictures sure to embarrass me and some newspaper clippings you may enjoy. Please look through your attics and if you find any pictures please send them. If you can't scan them, please send them to me and I will scan and send them back.

05/04/08 04:19 AM

#32

Dick, the "Before High School" feature is great.
I love your "Flat-Top" haircut ! Is that done with "butch wax" from Paul Bluhm's Barber Shop ?

If you notice in the article "Freelandville Rolls Over Oaks" (Feb. 14, 1966), it mentions that Freelandville was without two starters (Koenig & Held) due to hand injuries.
My injury was due to Steve Telligman shooting me in the hand with his Marlin .22 rifle.........and of course, he took my place on the starting five !!!

Danny Roark, Kent "Moon" Harting, Don Dyer and Steve Stremming will probably not be logging on to the "Before High School" feature, as it would bring back too many painful memories for them. To this day, they still carry with them the "agony of defeat" at the hands of the "basketball juggernaut" known as the Freelandville Fightin' Dutch in the NK Jr. High championship game in March 1966.
OF course, Roark would bring up the lame "excuse" about Moon being sick that night. GO DUTCH !!!

05/04/08 10:55 AM

#33

Tom, That was "Butch Wax" from Paul's Barber Shop. When we cleaned out my Aunt Laura's home, after she passed away, (Mrs. Volle, 5th Grade to you all), we found a jar of Butch Wax. I couldn't throw it away. It is still as good today as it was 50 years ago. I am not sure what that stuff was made with. I thought the hand injury was probably the gun shot. That was one way to make the starting five.

05/04/08 07:34 PM

#34

Tom,

I wish someone had that clipping from that night..the junior high championship...Dan, Don Dyer, Anderson or Steve Sanders could tell you about that night as well as myself.....I remember the gym was packed.......Hosea Land was our coach in Sandborn and came in and told us Kent was coming tonight...he was ill....
Another odd thing about that team only Sanders was actually from Sandborn.
We played our guts out that night and we did get beat (Tom, if memory serves me right we had you beat but missed free throws late in the game.......it has been so long ago I do remember the crowd of course we were all kids) but Tom you might remember when we Freelandville and Sandborn players all ended up in high school the next year we were all playing for the high school team as well with Dennis Pinnick and Donnie Boyles.....and if I remember Tim McCallum......
Oh yeah Richard......thanks for that memory!

05/04/08 07:56 PM

#35

Ok Kent, I have heard much about your being sick the night we played you. Please tell us why you didn't play that night? Were you payed off by someone from Freelandville to not show up or were you really sick? The world awaits your answer after all of these years.

05/04/08 08:08 PM

#36

Dan will remember this and so will Kent our class was the very last class ever in the old Westphalia school.

And while we are on the subject of 8th grade.........who were the cheerleaders from Sandborn and Freelandville....help me here on the Sandborn side......too many years......I remember Jill McKee, Karen Linneweber and here is where I need help......who else?

05/04/08 08:16 PM

#37

STEVE: Yeah, it sure was a long time ago. What I wouldn't give to turn back the clock and do it all over again.

Switching subjects, my Freelandville Dutchman pride has been dealt a severe blow, as my grandson Hunter "The Bullet" Jones, is going to play Little League baseball this summer for Oaktown. (Freelandville didn't have enough players sign up).
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm considering purchasing an Oaktown green T-shirt....YIKES !!!! Even if I buy one, I'm not sure I can bring myself to actually wear it.

05/04/08 08:30 PM

#38

Debbie Odell, Leslie Jones, Linda Pepmeier, Kristy Kixmiller. Was Christy Land one of the Blue Jay cheerleaders?

05/04/08 08:41 PM

#39

I thought Cathy Curry was one.

05/04/08 08:48 PM

#40

I think you guys hit a home run with those two names......Kristy and Cathy........
Now okay....how did you both remember that?

05/04/08 08:53 PM

#41

We don't forget "hot babes"...............even in our old age !!

05/04/08 08:53 PM

#42

Oh by the way.........my mom thinks she found a couple of old school newspapers.......when i go down next weekend I will try to remember to pick them up......I will scan them and email you Richard so you can post them......

05/04/08 08:53 PM

#43

I couldn't have said it better, but Tom beat me to it.

05/04/08 09:01 PM

#44

Okay.....who was everyone's favorite teacher in high school and why?

05/04/08 09:06 PM

#45

Mrs. Cadwell........she never got the respect she deserved for her dedication to the job.

......good night, I gotta get some sleep. Talk later.

05/06/08 12:08 AM

#46

Kathy Watson

OK, there were several teachers I liked...I liked Mr. Berry 'cause he was the newspaper sponsor and easy going...for those of you that took Latin with Mrs. Begeman ( I think that was her name), remember when Mr. Berry would substitute for Mrs. B. and he would instruct us to remind her that Latin was the DEAD language...then when we mentioned this to her, usually someone like Danny, I think...anyway, she would get red-faced and sputter about the importance of Latin...I liked Mr. Hardin because he made Physics tolerable and actually make sense to me...I also liked that he had an on-going feud with Mrs. Lawlis, and would show the kids taking senior math with her how to take shortcuts with the problems that would give the right answers but that she couldn't do...it would make her furious...I liked Mrs. Dalzell (? spelling) and Mrs. Dunn..she really taught chemistry well...

05/06/08 08:47 AM

#47

Kathy, I like your list as well. I think my favorite teacher was Mr. Bubenzer for Algebra. I like the way he did problems on the overhead projector in such a methodical manner. He seemed to make Algebra easier at least for me to comprehend.

05/06/08 12:11 PM

#48