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04/27/09 01:27 PM

#612

Dickie Tracy

I remember our class was in the Library when Kennedy was shot. The librarian turned on the TV set in there. On the morning of 9-11, I was watching TV in my classroom as was my nature and I remember telling my class to sit up and watch this - that history was unfolding. Only one watched. The rest had their heads down asleep. I finally had to pound on the tables to get them to watch. To them, it was just like any other thriller movie. What a shame! History being made on TV - LIVE and all they want to do is put their heads down and sleep. It was before school started and they were in there just waiting for the bell.

04/27/09 01:28 PM

#613

Dickie Tracy

JD: Right, I think Bourgeois. I think Pekar was the other one and I think she was my French teacher at B'port. Can anyone straighten me out on that one.

04/27/09 01:31 PM

#614

Dickie Tracy

I guess I'm going to have to bring my yearbooks to school with me so I can refer back when someone has a question. Only thing, I don't want my school kids to see how dorky I looked. I guess most of us had that 60's look.

Alice: How much time did you spend on your hair every morning?

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Dickie, maybe 5 minutes back then!!! Now, hmmmm, probably 15 min. I need all the help I can get. I have real thick, coarse hair and it has a mind of it's own. Always has been straight. Why? Does my hair look awful? Alice
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04/27/09 01:32 PM	#615
Joe Ballard Dickie, you are so right I remember being with my family in my parents bedroom, when the cuban missle crisis peaked

04/27/09 01:55 PM

#616

Dickie Tracy

Here are the 25 things I always wanted you to know about me:
1. Lake Jackson was a great place to grow up. I could ride my bike all over town and not have to worry about drunks or pedophiles or crime.
2. My parents never locked our house. NEVER! We left the keys in the ignition when we went to Shaddocks or Wackers.
3. I had friends located all over town, not just in my immediate neighborhood. Mike Sharp on Azalea, Tom Glenn over near Beutel, Tommy Parker over on Mulberry, Jerry Tarkington over on Oleander. We made the rounds!
4. Mrs. Goddard made the biggest impression on me as a young kid.
5. Grady B. Rasco and Paul Todd were two men you didn’t want to tangle with. To see the principal was certain death!
6. I only got one swat in 12 years and that was 6th grade for forgetting my spelling book in my locker right outside the classroom. Todd gave it to me. I was scared and had tears in my eyes, but I did not cry.
7. Someone mentioned trading disks. I only did that once with Judy Teague and after a few days, I must have done something wrong because she gave it back to me scratched up and broke my heart. I then took a hammer to hers! I paid $1.50 for that at Harp’s Jewelry.
8. Band and Mr. Hood taught me appreciation for music and the love of big amplifiers & speakers. Remember those humongous speakers he had in the band room. Turned my trombone into a planter. Really nice!
9. In retrospect, teens should not be allowed to drive until they are 21. My parents replaced so many tires on our 63 Oldsmobile and 65 Chevy Truck. I dropped the driveshaft on the truck doing burnouts on 2004. How do you explain that to Daddy?
10. There were no teachers that I did not respect, even the ones I gave a hard time to.
11. The Dairy Bar was THE place to be and be seen. I remember the old one when Plantation Drive was still a shell road.
12. Tommy Parker and I went to the Alps in France to snow ski as a graduation present from our parents. I can remember people giving us dirty looks as we talked Texan in Paris.
13. College was fun and exciting. Can’t remember a more enjoyable 4 years thanks to Mike Sharp, Jerry Tarkington and Elaine Garrison.
14. One of the highlights of college was helping Elaine Garrison burn up the clutch in her new Vega. She didn’t like it and we were determined to help her get a newer car. Starting off in 3rd on the hills of Nacogdoches is a sure fire way to do it!
15. Straight out of college, I had a job waiting for me in Rockdale, Tx at the Alcoa plant. After that, I was rarely in LJ. Moved to Pueblo, Steamboat Springs, Houston, Deer Park, Jackson, Ms. and didn’t find the right woman until 1978.
16. Married my first wife for love. Married the second for money. After that, it didn’t matter.
17. Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it!
18. Money is good for only two things…..making and spending.
19. Adopted a “debt-free” life style in 1993. Vowed no car payments, no house payments, no credit card usage. To this day, absolutely no debt. I don’t owe anyone anything! It’s a great feeling.
20. I am a Right-wing Conservative. I listen to conservative talk radio daily. Drive my 98 Eclipse with 170,000 miles that gets a steady 40mpg.
21. I am a Christian with a strong personal relationship with Jesus Christ-my savior. I have also been my church’s organist for 15 years….until I moved to NM.
22. My favorite movies are just about anything except chic flicks and grisly horror films. I love comedy. My favorite movies lately have been Slumdog Millionaire and Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood.
23. I like all kinds of music except rap or any ethnic music. I wake up every morning to Khii in Cloudcroft – New Mexico’s only Southern Gospel Station….and I mean old style southern gospel – not this new fangled heavy Christian music.
24. I still have hundreds of old record albums and have several turntables and still use my reel to reel deck. Still have tapes of ”The Dawn Explosion” the high-school band that starred Tommy Ripkoski, Tommy Parker and others.
25. Thank you Alice and Dee or whoever organized this site. Thank you. The brain stimulation from prompting the memories may keep Alzheimer’s at bay.

04/27/09 01:57 PM

#617

Cyndie Strother (Cunningham)

Jim, Bobbie Jean did live next door to me. She was a very bad example. I can only recall about 5 times getting in trouble or grounded and they involved her.

I remember I was in Mrs. Chafin's class when the announcement came on Kennedy. All the female teachers were crying and we didn't know exactly what was going on.

Speaking of John Gary, does anyone know what happened to him? And Lola lives somewhere in Europe... Brussles maybe? I can't remember.

04/27/09 02:05 PM	#618
Joe Ballard Lake Jackson the "The City of Enchantment" Do not forget Rolands Sea Ville der deh goe.....

04/27/09 02:05 PM

#619

Michael Poehl

MISS Stafford was the young teacher I recall. She had an older sister that also taught at LJJH.

04/27/09 02:11 PM

#620

Dickie Tracy

Ooh yeah. She was hot! SSSSSssss! But none of us boys had her.

I was always disappointed that I lived too close to ride the bus. I thought that would be fun. I remember Mr. Murray drove about a 1958 Chevy school bus that had dual exhausts and probably a 283 V8 engine with manual transmission. He used to leave the parking lot at LJJH and rack off those mufflers when he shifted gears.

04/27/09 02:14 PM	#621
Joe Ballard Ms Stafford was she blonde and wore black rimmed glasses?

04/27/09 02:18 PM

#622

Cyndie Strother (Cunningham)

Michael,

Do you remember waaay back when you lived by Debbie Neal, Leslie Skinner, Larry Bell, Pat Epps and me?

We were in K-1st grade?

04/27/09 02:38 PM

#623

Dickie Tracy

Does anyone remember any inter-racial dating while we were in school? I can't recall any, but I had a crush on Jessie Moore when we were seniors. She didn't know it and I didn't act on it because of the social pressures of the "times". Diane Whitley and Julie: you should remember her. She was smart and whitty. Her daughter was my TA when I taught at B'wood back in about 95.

04/27/09 02:52 PM

#624

Julie Davidson (Sabrsula)

Carol, Mike Poehl has a great idea for an act in the talent show. Read his last entry.
Mike-you win the award-it was Miss Stafford. I had Bougoius (or however you spell her name) and Tommy Dye got in trouble for chewing gum in that class.
Dickie-I couldn't wait to take French in high school and was so dissappointed with the teacher, she was horrible, believe she was there one year but I don't remember her name.
One more thing. Does anyone remember driver's ed with Mr. Huffman? We had to sit on the corner of Oyster Creek and Circle Way and watch cars. His point was that the tires never came to a complete stop at the stop signs. He was right. I shared this with my kids when they were learning to drive.
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Mr. Huffman was my drivers ed teacher too. He was a fun teacher. I still to this day make sure I am coming to a complete stop. Well, 90% of the time I make sure I stop. Alice
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04/27/09 03:14 PM

#625

Dickie Tracy

Was it Krouthamer? Something like that. All I remember is that I didn't remember any of it when Tommy and I went to Paris that summer. We found it more interesting to talk Texan had have them oooh and aaahh at us.

04/27/09 03:17 PM	#626
Joe Ballard Herr Slaughter taught German

04/27/09 03:19 PM

#627

Julie Davidson (Sabrsula)

When I went to Paris a few years ago with our church I used my one French phrase I learned on our bus driver. My church buddies were impressed-he burst out laughing. Je taime, mon petit chuchu (sp?) I love you my little cabbage head. That's was the extent of my French from a YEAR of French at BPort. Thank goodness my other classes were much better. I seem to remember the teacher sleeping alot during class.

04/27/09 03:39 PM

#628

Margaret Dubois (Ammons)

I remember the French teachers first name was Angela-gone blank on the second name. I do remember the time she came to school with her neck covered in hickies! Seems like the rumor was that she was seeing Mr. Slaughter-don't kinow if that was true or not or just teenage gossip.

04/27/09 03:40 PM

#629

Dickie Tracy

One more observation before I go home for the day.....Have you been back to Brazosport and looked on the walls at the old class photos? Ours was the last of the superlarge classes. It was huge and then the next year when more LJ people went to Brazoswood, it was a third the size. It's like you go down the line looking at the photos and go: "Hey, what happened to all the kids?"

Does anyone know the exact number that graduated with us?

04/27/09 03:42 PM	#630
Joe Ballard Herr Slaughter was strange!!! I spent time in Frankfurt in the army..Germany was nice

04/27/09 03:47 PM	#631
Julie Davidson (Sabrsula) Margaret-I remember that day too!!!!!!!!!

04/27/09 03:48 PM

#632

Judy Teague (Crenshaw)

I think the exact number was 552. I don't know why I remember, I just remember thinking it was more than that.

04/27/09 03:53 PM

#633

Margaret Dubois (Ammons)

I asked the same question yesterday at the reunion meeting. I was told 555 graduated-that didn't count the ones that didn't graduate. I think I remember that we started out with about 720 or so.

04/27/09 03:53 PM

#634

Judy Teague (Crenshaw)

Hey Dickie,

I am so sorry about the disk. I guess to justify things in my memory, I had you giving mine back all scratched up first. I remember being hurt too.

Its amazing what stands out to us.

I had the other coach for Texas history. WHat was his name. He would put assignments on the board and walk across the hall and sit in the teacher's lounge while we worked. That is where I was when we heard the announcement about Kennedy.

One time Linda Milks and I had an ink fight during that class and he never knew.

I remember one time when Linda Milks and I put pencils under our sweatshirts points outward like boobs when we were in chorus. We got in a lot of trouble for that.

04/27/09 03:57 PM	#635
Joe Ballard Starts w a G...Coach Girouard? What happened to Dicky Pitts anyone know

04/27/09 04:01 PM	#636
Joe Ballard Someone mentioned earlier about someone passing away in school at Beutel? Was that David Nelson.. Seems he was in Mr Lees class

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