| 09/12/08 11:37 PM |
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Joe J. Hatcher
Hey guys ! Sorry, but here lately I'm a night-owl w/ everything that's gone on this past week. It's been a little EXTRA special for me too reading through all of the wonderful tributes for Goode and seeing so many more of our classmates join and be a part of the newfound '88 NHS family !
Greg & Stephanie, you are truly blessed with your kids, whether two or four-legged !!! Susie, we're praying right now for all you guys in TX that everyone is safe, and YES, I would love to meet up everyone for lunch/dinner downtown sometime and we can share our HS stories.
I haven't posted lately becuse our family just lost a loved one just days prior to Mike's passing. My brother Dave's son Steve who graduated from Lord Bot. a year after we did suddenly died of a heart attack early last Thurs. morning and his memorial service was Wed. evening. Our family is still in shock over that and it was rather surreal to have Jolee's email about Mike right after that news too.
A blessing is that I did get to see my cousin Trish (Melton) Alt there, you remember she was on the cheerleading squad and yearbook staff, and it was nice to see her. I wanted to be there for Mike too but appointments kept me away but we're ALL there for him through his spirit and his gleaming smile.
Okay, it's getting late but do any of you remember Ms. Frances Petty's 11th grade English class ? For background, Ms. Petty had taught at NHS for years and was for a long time head of the Eng. dept. Later in life she would teach during the day and then after all the stuff we put her through would then jump into her green '72 Mustang, go home and take care of her 90+ year old mother. Needless to say, she would get very drowsy during class, bless her heart. Anyhoo, I remember one day during a lesson, she dropped off and Mr. Goode decided that he would coax a number of our classmates to leave, walk all the way around the circumference of the hallways of the school, come back in while the still sleeping Ms. Petty was clueless as to what had just transpired. Mike then took his English book, dangled it in the air beside his desk and let it drop, landing flat on the floor so that it would make a loud THUMP, waking poor Ms. Petty from her slumber. She simply carried on where she had left off, never missing a beat as to the events that had unfolded in her class over the last several minutes ! To this day, that's probably the funniest memory I have from the years at NHS. Way to go GOOOOOOOOODE !!!
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