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06/22/09 11:21 AM	#86
Chris Cousineau It was truly more than I expected. Thanks for the opportunity to catch up and hone some memories. Everyone seems to have done well for themselves. Please keep in touch.

06/22/09 07:13 PM	#87
Mo Sneller (Standley) Didn't you just love Mrs. Johnson? She was just so nice! Does anyone remember the principal's name at Intermediate? It is about to drive me crazy that I can't remember.

06/22/09 07:17 PM	#88
Stuart Jones Mo, I believe the principal's name was Mrs. Stone. I seem to recall spending a little time there - possibly due to the penny flipping gambling ring.

06/22/09 07:27 PM	#89
Mo Sneller (Standley) You are so right! Thanks so much, Stuart!

06/22/09 08:31 PM

#90

Vicki Embrey (Lazure)

I also had a great time both Friday and Saturday and a special thanks to the committee for getting the web site up and going. It really helped all of us get a head start by reading the profiles. Glad to hear we can keep it going ~

Mrs. Stone was the only person to ever get me in trouble and sent to the office. I believe I had just tripped Doug Hanson for being an all around pest and of course he fell and blamed me. I actually was kinda thrilled to be in the office but it also kept me in line for the rest of my school life!!!!

06/22/09 10:32 PM

#91

Ron Sybert

Yep, Edna Stone. How in the world did I remember her
first name? I probably visited the office a time or two!
I remember one time Arlie Townsend sent our whole gym class up to visit her, and I can't remember who muttered
something under his breath, but Edna must have had the
Belltones cranked up, and sent everyone back to gym class, and whoever it was had to stay and endure the
wrath of Edna Stone! Gosh,I wish I could remember who it
was!

06/22/09 11:46 PM

#92

Sandy King

Does anyone remember all the "marching" at Intermediate? We marched off the school bus in the morning, single file, into the auditorium, where we had to sit (in the same order we got off the bus) and wait for the first bell to ring. Then we marched out of the auditorium single file. In fourth-hour classes, we marched into the lunchroom, through the lunch line, and had to sit in the same order as the line we marched in. Then we marched out of lunch and back to class.

I had lots of friends at Intermediate whose last names were close to mine in the alphabet--Hollie Johnson, Sharon Jelley, Gayleah Hummingbird, Mary Harding--We sat alphabetically in class, marched to the lunchroom together, and sat next to each other every day!

06/23/09 12:15 AM

#93

Donna Thurman

Edna Stone... Didn't she take away an end of the year school trip one day when we were talking too much? Maybe she just threatened. I remember being very disappointed.

Mrs. Johnson was the sweetest woman, and I enjoyed Mrs. Bland. Science never was my thing, but I did learn forever the major cloud types in her class. And do you remember having to make a picture out of seeds that autumn? She said we didn't have to look the day they disected an eyeball that someone brought in. I loved her for that.

Marching... Sandy, Mr.Evans (art) marched us all around outside before taking us back to class after lunch one day and intentionally marched us past the trash bins and told us to breathe deeply. I complained about my grade in his class once and he told me he could lower it a notch... so much for asserting myself.

06/23/09 11:52 AM	#94
Tracey Grigsby (Welch) I also loved Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Williams. The thing I remember most about Mrs. Bland was the order of the colors of the rainbow. I still teach it that way! The reunion was awesome!! Thanks to everyone who had a hand in it. It was by far the most comfortable, relaxing event our class has had.

06/23/09 03:33 PM	#95
Clarence Ely Hey everyone,had a great time.Except for Sunday evening our Flight got delayed didn't arrive in Clr until midnight.Mark Ellis was on the same flight 5 hours in the airport not fun.Thanks to everyone who had a part in making the reunion happen the downstream was a great place for it.Hope its not another 30 yrs b-4 I see you all again.

06/23/09 07:46 PM

#96

Mo Sneller (Standley)

Sandy, I do remember the marching! I had forgotten about it, though! I loved Intermediate!

Donna, Mrs. Stone didn't take away a trip but she did threaten. I was standing beside her when we were going to the buses for the trip. When everyone got a little rowdy, she grabbed my arm in a death grip! I had 4 perfect bruises where her fingers had been. She didn't seem mad...just nervous!

I, too, want to thank Cheryl, Patricia, Rob, and Ron for this wonderful website. I am so glad it is staying up!

Does anyone remember Mr. Bland's biology class in HS when the refrigeration had quit over the summer and all of the contents thawed? Mr. Bland said he was going to teach us about air movement and he opened the door to the lab. The smell was so bad. I think some people got sick and he just stood their grinning!

Mo

06/23/09 09:40 PM

#97

David Hukill

Mr. Bland's biology class ... what a riot. Anybody remember the time someone brought a opposum in to show and tell? Mr. Bland thought it would be neat to disect the animal. He gave it some sort of shot that knocked it out and then, he let me, Greg Mears and someone else cut it open during 7th hour. We're sitting there with the guts of this animal spread all over these trays, and this kid comes in to pick up his PET opposum! Oh, the look on ALL of our faces. Please tell me that someone else remembers that story!

Or ... how about the snakes he kept in the room ... and then he would feed them mice every now and then ... WHITE mice! Anybody remember those gory days?

06/23/09 09:50 PM

#98

Stuart Jones

Oh, David, what hoot that story is about the opposum! I have not heard that one before. Even if it didn't happen it's good enough to be real, so I'll tell it that way in the future.

Speaking of snakes and stories that may or may not be true, I heard that Mr. Bland offered extra credit for students that brought in small, live critters. Supposedly somebody brought in a shoebox full of baby mice one day and then they were traumatized when Mr. Bland dumped the whole box full into the snake cage. Can anybody confirm that one?

06/23/09 10:55 PM	#99
Mo Sneller (Standley) David, That is a great story about the possum! LOL! I do remember him feeding the snakes. I was one of the lab assistants and I had to help with some of that. Thanks for sharing!

06/24/09 09:04 AM

#100

Tom Payne

I remember some sort of "bio-banquet". Mr. Bland cooked snakes and other animals that were repulsive enough that most people would not eat them.
I also learned that snakes stink. It took two days for the stink to wear of my hands and arms after handling them while cleaning their cages.
Anyone else remember the notorious two-headed calf?
And the creation vs. evolution "debates"?
I think the ACLU and PETA would own NHS if this happened now.

06/24/09 10:14 AM

#101

Sandy King

All the talk of Mr. Bland's class got me thinking--NHS was surprisingly progressive in some of its curriculum choices for the 1970s. Mr. Bland taught creation AND evolution side-by-side in his biology class, long before it was a hotly debated public issue. We had books in our library then that other schools had banned (and some schools STILL have banned). We had college-prep courses before "AP" courses had even been invented. We got drug prevention education in junior high. And we got sex ed, too. Not just "the film" that Mrs. Youngberg showed in 5th grade, but in health class, somewhere around sophmore year. We talked about birth control, including how to put on a condom (except we called them "rubbers" then). Looking back, those were pretty bold choices for a small-town high school in that day and age.

06/24/09 10:33 PM	#102
Craig Ramsay It was great to see everybody.Did a great job of getting this reunion together.Thanks and best wishes to all.Keep in touch.

06/25/09 12:58 PM	#103
Kathy Crowder (Thornberry) I real;lyu would like to thank all those involved with the reunion. You did a great job. I have not ever had so much fun!!! It was so great to see everyone again!! I hope to see you all again in ten years!!!!!!!!!!!11

06/25/09 06:06 PM	#104
Donna Thurman Guess who I saw at Wal-Mart today!!! I saw Mr. Bland coming out as I was going in. He looked exactly the same, white hair and all, except older. He has to be way up in his 80's by now, you think? I found a bat in our garage once and Mom helped me get it into a glass jar to take to him. It didn't survive. Maybe he fed it to those snakes!!

06/25/09 06:14 PM	#105
Tom Payne I think I ate the bat at the Bio-Banquet! yum.

06/25/09 10:00 PM	#106
Mo Sneller (Standley) Too funny! I can't believe Mr. Bland is still alive! He seemed so old 30 years ago!

06/25/09 10:44 PM	#107
Stuart Jones Ditto, Mo. Seems to me one of the nicknames some of the students had for Mr. Bland was "Skunk head", in honor of the streak of white hair that ran down the middle of his scalp.

06/25/09 11:49 PM	#108
Ron Sybert I remember the having the rattlesnake as an entree, Lowell said it tasted like chicken...not sure even to this day about that...

06/27/09 01:09 PM

#109

Terry Osborne

David - I do remember the story of the possum although I don't think I was in that class. I do remember one of the black snakes taking a bite out of Paul Bradfords hand. The snake turned his head and latched on to to his hand. Paul had little snake teeth marks between his thumb and index finger.
Keith Owen and I would sneak out of Mr. Bland's class when he was writing on the chalk board. I don't know if he did not notice we were gone or just did not say anything.
Does anyone remember the biome tank? It was suppose to be self sustaining. It did not work very well. I thought of it about 10 or 15 years ago when a group of scientists from Arizona built a bio sphere and tried to live in it. I don't think that worked so well either.

06/28/09 10:20 PM

#110

Mo Sneller (Standley)

I was talking to some friends this weekend and the subject of hickeys came up. It brought to mind a high school memory. Does anyone remember the German exchange students that came in eighth grade or ninth grade? They learned from someone what a hickey was and they spent a whole baseball game giving them to each other and just laughing. Their necks were completely bruised. I always wondered what their parents thought when they went home and shared what they learned!

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