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06/07/16 03:17 PM #24    

Barbara Baldwin (Moser)

Thanks for the laugh! (Are you sure you have enough to do to keep you out of trouble?)


07/21/17 12:42 PM #25    

John Curtis

O.K., the memory bank is empty. Need help. I remember being invited to a party by a girl, I think, in our class, maybe not. But the house was pretty amazing, the front yard--a 35 acre lake was super cool. I think the house was later converted to the "Club House" at Shireman Estates. Who the heck lived there when we were in school? I remember the spiral staircase in the house, but mainly I remember the lake. Cannot, for the life of me, remember the girl. Help?


07/21/17 03:41 PM #26    

 

Frank Hacker

Hi John,

Your talking about Janet Vandenbark. She was a year behind us. Their home is now Foxcliff Estates club house. The driveway to the house crosses the dam of the lake.

Frank Hacker


07/22/17 12:03 PM #27    

John Curtis

Thanks, Frank,

     I vaguely thought Vandenbark, but could not put a first name, or anything else, with it.


09/03/17 04:37 PM #28    

Pamela Neal (Cole)

Thank you Frank Hacker for remembering my BIG birthday!!!!


11/15/17 01:47 PM #29    

 

Richard Arnold

Hi Kids,

 

Dick Arnold here. Some old class pictures of South School posted. We had Mrs. Evans for 3rd Grade. That 3rd Grade picture does not look like her as my old memory recalls.....maybe a substitue teacher was there that day?

 

Also, my brother Dave and I use to often stop on the way home at a little store at Columbus and Marion. I loved those long Chesty pretzels! Does anyone recall the name of that store and/or the folks that owned it? Thanks!


11/15/17 10:02 PM #30    

 

Frank Hacker

Hi Richard,

I couldn't find the 3rd grade picture, although I have seen it. The grocery store on Columbus and Marion was Maxwell Grocery. My aunt, Sybil Maxwell ran the store and lived across the street from it. The building was owned by my uncle, John McDaniel, who's home was in the back of the building. He also drove a school bus.

While helping a group build a handicap ramp last month, I ran into your brother, Peanut!

Frank Hacker


11/15/17 10:58 PM #31    

 

Richard Arnold

Hi Frank,

 

Thanks for the very informative answer on grocery store! 

The picture is in the Photo section, More From The Past, Rich McDaniel Collection.I am bottom row, far R and I think you are same row far L? Anyways, I just took another look and maybe it is Mrs Evans but I thought she was heavier?

Yes, brother Dave, aka "Peanut" is a ramp-builder.

 

Dick


11/16/17 07:03 AM #32    

 

Frank Hacker

Hi Richard,

I found the photo and the teacher in it is not Mrs. Evans. I thought it was Ms. Johnson, our 1st grade teacher.

Frank


11/16/17 10:14 AM #33    

 

Richard Arnold

Hi Frank,

 

I beleive you are correct, that does look like Helen Johnson. So, is this our 1st grade pic and not 3rd? Some of us look older then that but hard to say. Mrs. Johnson use to send her students post cards from her summer vacation venues, I still have mine. Will post it if I can find it. We had Mrs Rowland for 2nd grade; anyone know much about her?

Thanks, Dick


11/16/17 01:56 PM #34    

 

Dennis Bowman

Thanks for the pictures from South School. That first one first grade and the teacher was Mrs Johnson. I’m sure because that’s the only one I would have been in since we moved early my second grade year and I went to Central. Thanks so much for memories!  Dennis


11/16/17 01:59 PM #35    

 

Dennis Bowman

I was only in Mrs Rolands  room for early part of year. Here husband became principal of Poston Road and I believe she moved there to teach after South was closed


07/30/18 09:41 AM #36    

Don Long

1965 Classmates.

It is with broken heart that I let you know Marilee Potter Kelly passed away this morning (July 30) at about 3AM with daughters Mechel and Kelly by her side.  At this time I have no specifics but do know she will be coming back to rest in Martinsville.  I will try to keep you posted.

Sincerely

Donnie Long

 

 


 


08/01/18 10:11 PM #37    

Don Long

Services for Marilee Potter Kelly will be heald at Neal & Summers Mortuary in Martinsville. 
Family and friends are invited to visit on Monday, August 6th from 10:00 am – 12:00 noon at Neal & Summers Funeral and Cremation Center in Martinsville.  All are welcome to attend a service celebrating her life beginning at 12:00 noon at the funeral home on Monday.  She will be laid to rest following the service in New South Park Cemetery beside our son, Erik.

Thanks to all for thoughts and prayers that we have received.

Donnie


12/16/21 10:15 AM #38    

 

Richard Arnold

Hi Kids,

On the NW corner of square is the eatery  "Come & Get It". Above it is some offcies/space. I have a feeble memory of visiting a dentist there when I was very young; before the family started going to Gordon Gray.

Can anyone confirm this and maybe the name of the dentist?

 

Thanks

Dick

 

 


12/17/21 08:36 AM #39    

 

Frank Hacker

Hi Richard,

Hope you and yours are well. I remember the dentist office. I believe his name was Hickman. Merry Christmas!


12/18/21 09:48 AM #40    

 

Richard Arnold

Thanks Frank!  A Happy Holidays to you and yours.

 

Dick


06/06/22 10:37 AM #41    

 

Ray Leitzman

Sally and I will be in Martinsville coming in on 17th and leaving on 20th and was wondering would anyone like to meet for breakfast on Saturday on Sunday. Just let know when and where Thanks


06/20/22 03:10 PM #42    

 

Ray Leitzman

Happy Birthday Jim Foster


09/01/22 03:14 PM #43    

 

Ray Leitzman

 

 

 

Sally and I will be in Martinsville the Friday of Fall Foliage Festival and is class planning any get together just  let me know thanks

 

 


03/10/23 11:36 AM #44    

 

Janette Ennis (Hodge)

Sherry Kris Walker died October 25, 1922.  I posted her obit but she is still not listed in the memorials.  What do I have to do to get her post updated?

 

I'm so sorry I didn't see this message where did you post her obit, I have now listed as In Memory and would love to add her obit to it.

Elaine


05/08/23 09:08 AM #45    

 

Ray Leitzman

  1. Sally and I will be in Martinsville this weekend and if anyone that would like to get together for breakfast or lunch let me know and where

05/08/23 09:08 AM #46    

 

Ray Leitzman

  1. Sally and I will be in Martinsville this weekend and if anyone that would like to get together for breakfast or lunch let me know and where

05/26/25 03:34 AM #47    

 

Richard Arnold

 

 Those of us who served in Vietnam left that distant place, one way or the other, more than 55 years ago. But for many, the Vietnam Experience still hovers at the edge of our consciousness as though it all happened just yesterday.

The smell of wet grass after a summer storm, the echo of a distant helicopter thumping its way through a morning sky, the image of a tree line silhouetted against a bank of rain clouds on a humid afternoon, any of these might carry us back in an instant. That said; it would be wrong for non-veterans to presume that such flashbacks are inherently unpleasant, wrenching experiences. Frankly, I am of the opinion they take veterans back to the good far more often than to the bad. In fact, stereotypes of the Vietnam veteran notwithstanding, and recognizing PTSD is real, I am also convinced that the war emotionally strengthened many more of us than it might have damaged or destroyed.

Though an infantryman who experienced his full share of traumatic events, I can only tell you that my war was indeed filled with far more laughter and wonder than it was with tears and horror.

Nothing in my lifetime has ever approached the intensity of emotion, or heights of experience, of that which painted the 12 months I spent in the jungles and mountains of that far-away land. Nothing. It is also true that I would not part with those memories for the world, and experience tells me that I am not alone in that regard.

The soldiers of the Vietnam generation had the ill luck to draw a bad war, an unnecessary and unwinnable war; a tragic, terrible mistake. But valor has a worth of its own; and ours deserves to be honored and remembered.

Dick Arnold

RVN 1967-68


05/26/25 10:27 PM #48    

 

Frank Hacker

Richard,

Great, eye opening article. I salute you and all our veterans.

Hope to see you at our 60th reunion August 16 at the Elks club, 2 pm.

frank

 


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