From: Freeman, William
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 07:12:13 -0400
Subject: Re: 1967 Yearbook
Bill Freeman '67
From: C. Richard Tolbert
Subject: Re: 1967 Yearbook
C. Richard Tolbert wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Does anyone know how or where to get old year books?
>
> 1967 in perticular.
>
> Please let me know.
>
> Rick Tolbert '67
Hi Rick
No, I don't, but would love to have 64, 65, and 67.
Rolf
From: Linda M. Cox
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:31:07 -0500
Subject: "I Made It"
I am now on the Baker High School Web Site. I found out about the site through my sister, Susie (Class of '76), and immediately tried to find it. I'm pleasantly surprised.
I'm from the Class of '72, and also have a brother, George (Class of '74) who attended Baker. Yes, a whole Baker family (well . . . siblings, anyway).
I now live and work in Dallas, Texas, and visit Georgia (and Columbus) every couple of years. I was in Columbus last Christmas (1995), and had the opportunity to see Baker (it's a Middle School now, right? . . . or is it closed?). It looks like it hasn't changed much, at least its appearance.
I'm glad to be a part of the Internet project, and look forward to hearing from fellow Baker HS Alumni.
Linda M. Cox Class of '72
From: Bob Brown
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 96 11:43:44 EDT
Subject: Satterwhite - Class of '46 ?
--Bob (BHS'65)
From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 22:22:23 -0400
Subject: Howdy
<< I Made It!
I am now on the Baker High School Web Site. >>
Yep Yep Yep - and welcome!
Mike Omelanuk '64
From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 07:39:33 -0400
Subject: Fw: Listings
If you all will remember, I mentioned 'Reunion Hall' back in July. Lots of us registered there, but it has taken over two months for them to create the 'Baker Alumni Page'. It is now in place, but all that registered previously, are not recorded there.
I sent my buddy, Robert Kim, an E-Mail to find out if the names would be applied, or if we all need to register again. I am forwarding his response to the group, and asking everyone to please register there (again).
Reunion Hall is a huge database, and will be seen by many people
around the world. To go directly to Baker's page, the URL is as follows:
<http://www.xscom.com/reunion/ga/col/bhs> Thanks.
Johnny Joiner
Class of '65
- ----------
> From: Robert A. Kim <rkim@xscom.com>
> To: Johnny Joiner &
> Subject: Re: Listings
> Date: Tuesday, October 01, 1996 1:42 PM
>
> Johnny,
>
> At present, Reunion Hall's new school submittals are independent of the
> alumni site. Therefore, they will need to re-register at the alumni
site.
>
> This will be changed when the revised RH is implemented by the end of
this year.
>
> Thank you for visiting and for your support!
>
> Robert A. Kim
> Reunion Hall
>
> At 9:41 PM 9/30/96 -0400, Johnny Joiner wrote:
> >
> >Since July 16th, approximately twenty people from Baker High School
> >in Columbus, Georgia have registered. The school it's self has only been
> >listed in the last day or so, with no names in it.
> >
> >Will all of the peolple who are already registered be added
automatically,
> >or do we all have to register again, now that the school page has been
> >created ?
> >
> > Johnny Joiner
> >
>
> Robert Allen Kim / BYRK & Assoc. | * * * Reunion Hall * * *
>
From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 19:23:22 -0400
Subject: Goodie Day
I'll try to get copies of as much as I can to Bob so it can be scanned into
@Baker. I suspect that much will have to be retyped. Anyway, here is the
inventory:
Program 1964 BHS Graduation exercises
Program 1964 BHS Class day
Program 1964 BHS Honor Student Banquet
Program 1964 BHS Commencement services at the First Baptist Church
The Senior issue of the 1994 Lions' Roar (with class history)
The congratulatory letter Senator Herman Talmadge sent all graduates
The 1993 Challenger Literary Magazine
The 1994 Challenger Literary Magazine
(Kathy, there was nothing in either by Petra Kelly.)
And the April 1 parody on the Lion's Roar - The Cat's Meow.
I've got to get hopping and find a scanner. The two challengers do not look like they will lend themselves to scanning. We will have to see.
Mike '64
From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 22:13:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Goodie Day
You did good with your discoveries!!
I finally have my desktop computer at home working (it's been 3 months and I was feeling a bit like a gypsy checking mail at the closest computer.)
I think I discovered a bit of archive info: (exceptional for someone who doesnt' save anything!)
*wedding announcements of my classmates *The October 21,1992 announcement of Petra's death in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer *The 1965 graduation program
Linda Cox: meant to write to tell you welcome!
Bob, Kathy, Deborah (and my other professor friends): how are classes going? Have a meeting in Atlanta in a couple of weeks but just for the morning. Still hope to get together with the Atlanta bunch when we all have a moment to visit.
Jeannie '65
From: Bob Brown
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 96 19:47:06 EDT
Subject: Professor Friends...
I did a stupid thing. I signed up to teach CS675, a graduate seminar on the management of technology. It's Saturday afternoons, it's a subject I know well, and the students are supposed to do about half the work.
Well... it turns out that the department chairman didn't have anyone to teach the evening undergraduate computer architecture class, and he asked at the last minute if I'd take it. I stupidly said yes. Tomorrow night I get to give a 2-1/2 hour lecture on Boolean algebra, a subject about which I know slightly less than nothing. I have the textbook out, and my old graduate architecture book, and Kohavi's _Switching and Finite Automata Theory_ from 1970, and _Elements of Data Processing Mathematics_. It'll be interesting to see how I do with this.
I get my life back December 11. If I live that long!
--Bob '65
From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:24:06 -0400
Subject: Renaissance
Hello to all! I'm trying to keep my head behind the proverbial log at Emory. The last time I emerged, I was zapped with an additional three sections of business communication (65 students) for a whopping total of 182 students! Yikes, this is worse than teaching high school English! Hey, Bob, when you learn how to say "NO!" could you give me a few lessons?
My book, CrossTalk: Communicating in a MultiCultural Workplace, is being pushed for adoptions now, but the trade push will be after the first of the year. That means it won't be in regular bookstores until around February of '97 (it's a '97 copyright --Prentice Hall). So far the academic reviews have been favorable.
We're officially "empty nesters" now with William (18) at Auburn and Ann Larie (20) at Univ. of GA. Still feels strange, but we're QUICKLY getting used to it. Hope all of you are having a great change of seasons! Keep up the chat --certainly makes for interesting reading. And remember to keep your heads low!
Deborah Alderman Valentine '66
From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:00:36 -0400
Subject: Reunion - Class of '64
From: Dick Stewart
Menses,
What a terrific time! Both Friday and Saturday went well. Last night a Holiday Inn was a delight--management very friendly and coopera- tive. Small group stayed in hospitality room until 3AM+. Brenda V showed up w/engagement ring. Will become Mrs. Chesser in Dec. Mrs. Griner + Oscar P. in good form. Paul Voorhees showed up Sat, plus 8-10 more that hadn't signed up or notified us. Holiday Inn--no sweat. And the Chow X was tasty: Salad, Roast Beef + Gravy, Fried Chicken, Green Beans, Potatoes Au Gratin, Squash Casserole, Rolls, Peach Cobbler. They let us have the dining+dancing rooms until 1:30AM. Melillo beside herself with fun she was having at 1st reunion. Bob Brown (invited and pre-paid) joined us Sat. Robbie Williams', Pat Olds', and Linda Boswell's husbands were quiet for 2 nights, but helped quite a bit.
Al, we didn't use the stereo you so laboriously disconnected and reconnected last year. Used a much smaller set + speakers I have back in the Den. Plenty of volume. Melillo, Jimmy Lawrence, Candy Hiatt, and others got cranked up on the dance floor for awhile. Hope the tape turns out well.
Enough for now--want to feed you this in bits and pieces.
Dick Stewart '64
From: James E. Friese
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:46:04 -0400
Subject: Re: Welcome to lions-l
From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 21:51:13 -0500
Subject: Re: Welcome to lions-l
PS Please give us a clue as to your graduation date 'cause there are folks here from the beginnings of Baker to the end, therefore lots of kinfolk as we say here in the south.
Jeannie '65
From: WILSON C GRIER
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:35:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: James E. Friese
Regards...Wilson Grier...Class of '65
From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:41:54 -0400
Subject: Re: Welcome to lions-l
Welcome Jimmy. It's always good to find other '65ers checking in. This is really a great site with lots of good people.
Johnny Joiner ' 65
From: W.J. Orr '59
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:26:21 -0400
Subject: Re: Welcome to lions-l
W.J. Orr '59
From: Bob Brown
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:59:36 -0700
Subject: He's Baaaaack!
It's nice to be back. --Bob '65
From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 07:41:34 -0400
Subject: Re: Welcome to lions-l
To W.J. Orr,
No, I'm not one of those Joiners. My brother, Tommy, graduated with you in ' 59. He played basketball with Paul Holmes, Robert Pritchard, Bruce Bolden, Jet Nixon and those guys. They were a great basketball team.
Other brother Eddie, graduated in ' 61 ( with Newton ), and also played round ball, although he and Bubba didn't see eye to eye and he sat out his senior year.
I left Baker, as a sophmore in ' 63 and graduated in ' 65, from Leilehua High School, in Hawaii.
I always idolized those guys from the late fifties who played sports. Being in the seventh and eighth grades around then, of course, it was my 'goal' to be the best basketball and baseball player, to ever walk Baker's hallways. Too bad that we all have to grow up.
Johnny Joiner ' 65
From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:04:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Welcome to lions-l
From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 07:14:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Welcome to lions-l
After watching the Braves 'cream' St Louis 15-0 last night, I realized that I was dancing on the ceiling and no one else was in the room. I guess I was secretly celebrating with them, on the field.
Johnny Joiner '65 P.S. You're in New York aren't you?
From: Dunn, Keith
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:06:39 -0400
Subject: Welcome Message
K. Dunn
From: JOY WHITE
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 13:43:19 -0700
Subject: Fletcher Avenue House
I love how the Lion Cub first grade picture turned out. I know, I promised that once the Olympics ended I'd transmit current photo of me and my senior picture. Soon to be done -- I hope.
BTW, my friend never made it to Columbus for job hunting. Her father had a heart attack just before driving out the driveway with car fully packed. So, everything is on hold. Thank you to those who responded with excellent job search information. Your efforts are truly appreciated by me!
From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 06:59:11 -0400
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
It was I who lived on Fletcher Ave. Our house number was 810. I remember living next to Charlie and Buddy Wilson, across the street from Roy ( we called him Sunshine ) Cook, and near Jimmy Herrin and Ritchie Hester.
I also lived in Baker Village ( couldn't do that anymore ), Andrews Rd, Pye Ave, and Meade St.
There was two blocks on Fletcher Ave. I think I probably lived on the one down from you. I also remember living near Bob and Bill Layfield. I later served in the Air Force with Bill. Does anyone know if he is still around Columbus ?
Johnny Joiner ' 65
From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 07:53:29 -0400
Subject: Welcome Keith
Welcome aboar Keith. What's you class?
Mike Omelanuk '64
From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:37:34 -0700
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
I remember "Sunshine" - he was the kid with no hair, right? I went to Eddy Jr High with him.
Rolf
From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Saturday, October 19, 1996 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
It was I who lived on Fletcher Ave. Our house number was 810. I remember living next to Charlie and Buddy Wilson, across the street from Roy ( we called him Sunshine ) Cook, and near Jimmy Herrin and Ritchie Hester.
I also lived in Baker Village ( couldn't do that anymore ), Andrews Rd, Pye Ave, and Meade St.
There was two blocks on Fletcher Ave. I think I probably lived on the one down from you. I also remember living near Bob and Bill Layfield. I later served in the Air Force with Bill. Does anyone know if he is still around Columbus ?
Johnny Joiner ' 65
From: Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 21 Oct 1996 08:37:56 EDT
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
Elaine Graves Baker '67
From: Dunn, Keith
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:58:59 -0400
Subject: RE: Welcome Keith
I was class of "69 (YOTL)
K. Dunn
From: JOY WHITE
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:38:31 -0700
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
Probably so. You must lived near the little store. We used to ride our bikes "all the way down" the street to buy gum. I remember when they blacktopped our dirt street. What a dust bowl for several days! It was the big back yard that I remember most, as well as climbing up the big chinaberry tree. Georgia brings so many good memories to our family.
I plan to tote my family to Columbus in about 3 years when I take my daughter's Girl Scout troop to Savannah. You guys have told me it has changed tremendously, so I'll have the Chamber mail a city map to me this winter. The lake house we lived at for two years was on a simple RFD road and now it looks like a main artery northeast of Columbus (Floyd Road now). Three years is a long time to wait.
Joy White (69 Lion Cub)
From: W.J. Orr '59
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:06:09 -0400
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
was Fletcher the street that ran by Benning Park Baptist church? Is Sue Layfield the older sister of the Layfields you mention?
W.J. Orr '59
From: Barbara Seymour Griffin
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:00:57 -0400
Subject: Re: Sunshine
Barbara Seymour Griffin
From: Mike Evans
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:13:11 -0400
Subject: Re: Welcome Keith
Mike Evans '72
From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:18:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Sunshine
Jeannie '65
From: WILSON C GRIER
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:50:57 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Lions Digest V1 #181
Regards....Wilson
From: JOY WHITE
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:44:55 -0700
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
Hey everyone, guess what? Because of the alumni lists I was able to locate my mom's good friend. I tracked down the kids, Sonia, Don, Robert Aultman, with Sonia the one registered with e-mail. Our mom's haven't seen each other since the late 60s. Now everyone is excited about reconnecting. Thanks to Sonia for registering and thanks to you all for creating the Baker page.
Joy White (69 Lion Cub)
From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:18:04 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
Al '64
From: C. Richard Tolbert
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:47:33 -0400
Subject: Digital Pictures
I found a web site that most of you might be interested in. It's a photo processing company that puts your pictures on a 3 1/2 floppy. I thought this might be a quick and easy way for all of us to put current pictures on our Baker pages. The web address is;
http://www.filmworks.com
They also have a toll free number that you may use. 1 800 345 6967.
You know, 'Sunshine' was taller than most of us at Baker and with that shiny head of his, anyone that walked down the hall would remember him.
Richard Tolbert 1967
From: Barbara Seymour Griffin
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:35:04 -0400
Subject: Re: South Columbus
Barbara Seymour Griffin
From: JOY WHITE
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:28:36 -0700
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
Now that my Mom has reconnected with her friend, Mom will be making a trip back to Columbus. She's going to AAA this morning to order a city map and we'll begin tracing the roads we followed from Benning to the "River" and out to RFD 2 (now Floyd Rd).
Joy (Mellen) White '69 Lion Cub
From: Barbara Seymour Griffin
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:22:01 -0400
Subject: Re: Prom
Barbara Seymour Griffin '64
From: JOY WHITE
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:53:14 -0700
Subject: [Fwd: Re: California]
It's the high-technology boom that I like. I own a technical writing services company and have some big clients like TRW and Hughes, as well as the smaller start-ups, like Kofax and Irvine Sensors. Our writers and editors work at home and so do I. I'm the school mom and get the kids to elementary school by 7:50 flag salute. Then at 2:25, you'll find me at the bus stop waiting for the neighborhood kids. After that my afternoons are filled with activities: Tuesday Youth Bowling League (I just earned my certificate this week -- 100% on the written exam!!), Wednesday I spend 2 hours at school with the Riso and ditto machines (2 very cooperative @@####!!! machines), Thursday is Brownies (I'm the Leader of 11 seven-year olds!!). That leaves Mondays and Fridays for sales calls and client meetings and in between my share of writing, editing, or illustrating.
But, hey, I get the best of both worlds. Now, I need to get that retirement pool started, after all, I'm no youngster anymore (45). It does get hectic and the university wants me to come back to teach technical writing at night!! I don't think I can stay awake until 10 pm anymore. Those of you who have taught Extension courses know that wages are paid after the semester ends and it is poverty level. You have to really enjoy what your doing that's for sure.
Well, back to a different kind of writing. Keep in touch.
Joy (Mellen) White '69 Lion Cub
From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 07:32:20 -0400
Subject: Layfields
Yes, Susan was the sister of Bob and Bill Layfield. If I remember correctly, she was the oldest ( class of ' 60 ), Bob was either from ' 61 or ' 62 ( he and my brother, Eddie were friends ), and Bill was in the class of ' 64 ( He and I were pretty good friends. They were all good people.
As I said before, Bill and I were stationed at Keesler AFB, Miss. together in ' 67. In fact, we had a group of about five or six guys from Columbus. Mike Shirley, Bill, Marty Harrell, and Doug Foster come to mind immediately, but I think there was one or two more. Anybody know if any of these guys are still around ?
By the way W.J., I don't know if you've been asked this before, so I'll ask you. Do you, by chance, have yearbooks from the years ' 57 and/or ' 58 ?
Johnny Joiner ' 65
From: Chip Conner
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 07:46:22 -0400
Subject: I made it, too
It is great to see ya'll sharing such great memories of South Columbus. I grew up in Oakland Park and only wish we had such great neighborhoods for our kids to grow up in today. It was fun to play near the river, Bull Creek or just collect Coke bottles for my 3 cents from the Piggly Wiggly and spend the money on baseball cards at the dime store. I live in Marietta, GA. now and the pace is much different for kids today.
I grew up in a Baker family. My sisters are Fran Conner Bilon('65) who married David Bilon('65) not to long ago. She teaches school in Newnan, GA. and Carol Conner Stockman('77) who lives about three miles from me in Marietta.
Go Braves!
Chip Conner ('76)
From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:01:31 -0400
Subject: Re: I made it, too
It's great to see a baseball fan come on line. If I had all of the baseball cards that I collected, while in Columbus, I could probably retire today. The only person that I ever knew of having more than I, was a friend named Jimmy Herrin. To make matters worse, when I left Columbus, I thought it was the end of the world, so I gave Jimmy most of my collection, thereby nearly doubling his. No telling how many ( thousands ) of cards he had after that.
I have heard that Jimmy is a doctor in Columbus now. If so, I wonder if I helped put him through Medical School.
Anyway, welcome to ' @ Baker ', you're gonna like it here.
Johnny Joiner ' 65
From: W.J. Orr '59
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:57:27 -0400
Subject: Re: Layfields
The Layfields were/are good folks. Yes I have Arrowhead yearbooks from 1956 through 1960. Presently they are in storage in Texas. I have recently moved to Memphis, TN and am living in a temporary apartment and searching for a house. My job here has thoroughly consumed me so I haven't had time to look much recently. My boss was promoted so I am doing part of his job plus my number one subordinate, our accounting manager, has left for greener pastures. I am getting pulled in both directions. I am going to provide the yearbook and try to assist somehow in scanning in the photos from the yearbooks when I finally get settled.
Do you remember any Yarbroughs or Cooks who lived around the Fletcher Ave area? What about the Gallaghers? (Spelling?)
Adios,
W.J. Orr ,59
From: W.J. Orr '59
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:19:18 -0400
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
For you "youngsters " who attended BHS after 1959, did you know that Baker housed all twelve grades for years? I started in 1947 (age 5) and attended from grades 1 through half of the the 6th grade. They opened South Columbus Elementary School (Torch Hill Road) where I was part of the first 6th grade class in the 1952-1953 school year. They added a new wing the next year and I became a member of the first 7th grade class also. It was back to Baker for grades 8 thru 12. So I attended Baker for 101/2 out of the 12 years. Who on line can beat that??
W. J. Orr ,59
From: Elmer H. Young Young
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 96 13:41:35 UT
Subject: RE: Layfields
Pete '63
From: Sandye Smith
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:21:35 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: I made it, too
FYI
We don't have a physician in Columbus by the name of Jimmy Herrin.
From: Sandye Smith
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:23:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
Sandye '64
From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:04:19 -0700
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
I think you've got all of us
Rolf '67
From: Chip Conner
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:40:06 -0400
Subject: Memphis
Chip Conner '76
From: Freeman, William
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:26:02 -0400
Subject: Re: @Baker, etc
Bill Freeman '67
From: Huston Sansome
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 19:05:34 -0500
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
Sonny Sansome.
From: janice pait bolles
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 20:20:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
Well I guess you are the oldest one on the line!!!!! but, i love you still from your sister -in-law janice pait bolles class of 1966 with jimmy bolles 1962. oh, yes bubba ball says hi to all you baker high folks . he is my in-law too. sushine has a cookies store in columbus some where i'll look it up in the columbus phone book. i live at lake harding and columbus is just 20 miles away, go there every day or so . if anyone wants infro let me know.
janice pait bolles 1966
From: JOY WHITE
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:02:46 -0700
Subject: Fletcher Ave
Joy White (69 Lion Cub)
From: Bob Brown
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 96 20:13:39 EDT
Subject: Perfesser Brown Resurfaces
Well, I gave my graduate seminar students their midterm today. I've read over, but not graded the answers. (Twelve handwritten pages of essay each!) As expected for grad students, they're going to be A's and B's.
Tomorrow my schedule is: grade the grad students' exams, write a midterm for the undergraduate architecture class, and get the @Baker stuff caught up.
I might actually do a bit of work on my day job if there are any hours left, as I don't expect there to be. Sigh.
Anyway, the quarter is half over, and I shan't do this to myself ever again!
--Bob '65
From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:07:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Perfesser Brown Resurfaces
and NetMeeting with a microphone? My Internet course is goin' and the
faculty development course is comin'.... just got back from Rock Eagle.
You would have been right at home there.... (smile)
JS
Subject: Baker 1-12
From: Luther Story
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:16:46 -0400
Hi WJ,
I went to Baker 1-12th. Good to hear from class of 59. LC came to Baker in 56. We are still married, and live in Ozark, Al. LC is still an Air Traffic Controller, and can retire anytime, but still likes to go to work.
Jean (Cannington) Story
Class of 59
From: BoAngus
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 16:47:15 -0500
Subject: Re: Time Management
Dudley
From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 19:29:31 -0500
Subject: Re: Time Management
This is a welcome to Dudley ('65) and Joyce ('66) Wells to our list! Glad to have you chat with us. For some of us, this is the best email of the day. For those who have joined us recently -- another welcome. Please *lurk* and/or contribute to our "kitchen table" discussion from time to time. This project is almost 1 year old -- and it has been heartwarming to rekindle old friendships and make new ones over the past year.
I have missed hearing from Sandye and Elaine G. lately. Are ya'll still there?
I am glad the South Columbus folks have found a thread. Wish I could find some of the Buena Vista/St. Mary's Hills folks....
Anyone know anything about my Germany gradeschool classmates: Nadine Johnson, Bonnie Sue Nunley, John Turk?
Jeannie Penny Sweeney '65
From: W.J. Orr '59
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:34:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
We were classmates. I still have the class photographs for 6th & 7th. Ms. Young was one of our teachers. Mr Turner was principal. Great memories!
W.J. Orr '59
From: W.J. Orr '59
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:55:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
W.J. Orr '59
From: W.J. Orr '59
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 01:01:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Layfields
Sure I know the Slocumbs. I probably bought my first corsage from Slocumbs Florist on Cusseta Road...and for years later until they finally closed. Ron & Ashley both worked there. Ron was a little younger than I and Ashley older. Good people! Thanks
W.J. Orr '59
From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:54:36 -0400
Subject: Re: Fletcher Avenue House
We played in the band together our freshman year. I played flute, and we had a TERRIBLE band director. Do you remember forming the shape of a rocket on the field? Personally, I had a heck of a time at away games trying to figure out which way the band formations would face (I'm directionally challenged anyway.) Also, we came to Atlanta for a massing of high school bands at a GA Tech game. Our band was part of the "T" in spelling out GA Tech! Do you remember that it rained and we all were soaked and muddy for the bus trip home? Wouldn't have been so bad if we hadn't had those white shoes and spats (not to mention the wool uniforms).
Also, wasn't your husband something of a football legend? Didn't he have a brother who was also an excellent player? When the Bolles boys were babies, their mom had to take a ship to Europe to meet her husband who was stationed there. My father (William Ray Alderman "Ray") helped her take care of the boys on the trip over. My mom later brought me (age 4) and my sister (Dana Alderman, class of '70) who was 6 months old at the time, over to Munich where my dad was stationed. Amazing how many "connections" we are finding through @Baker.
Deborah Valentine
Emory University
Atlanta
From: Freeman, George
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 11:39:00 EST
Subject: [none]
I remember you as Debbie, and I was in your sophomore English class- not to mention geometry and band. I think you sat next to my sister Carolyn Freeman '65 in band. Since I moved back to Georgia several years ago I have been trying to locate some of the members that were in the class of '66 (I left in '65).
Do you or anybody else happen to know the whereabouts of John Smith or Don Miles? They would have been in the class of "66. Also, can you recall most of the names of the students that were in your English class of that year.
I know this is a tall order but I can't remember the name of one of the girls who sat in the row by the windows. I figure she is an accomplished author of some sort by now just like other members of that class that I won't mention. I was pretty overwhelmed by transferring to Baker that year and it didn't help being in a class full of geniuses.
Also, do you know what happened to Ms Pound (Trimble)? Did she continue teaching at BHS? I wish I would have been able to have graduated from Baker.. maybe someone could print up some honorary (dishonorary perhaps) degrees...
George Freeman'66
From: Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 28 Oct 1996 14:55:46 EDT
Subject: Re: @Baker, etc
I am here. I have been hesitant about responses lately. As I explained to Bob...I don't always get who these are from unless you all sign your names. I talked with our sysop but he says it can't be helped. So if I don't know the person...I don't assume it is for me. Most everything lately from BHS has been before my one year at Baker (67).
We have some people on this board at Bragg that have duplicated logins. It has caused us some trouble and we lost our teleconference for a while. I thought I logged on to the Peachnet site. Did it not show up? I just tried the login for Peachnet. It will not allow me in. I was using the above login: student and password: bhs. I looked at the site during the test phase. Maybe I just thought I was logged in. As for today is it supposed to come back and ask for real name, etc.?
R. Elaine Graves Baker, Class of '67
From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:54:42 -0500
Subject: Re:
I remember Ms. Pound (Trimble), but haven't heard anything about her recently. Sorry I'm so forgetful. Maybe this will prompt others to remember.
From Deborah Alderman Valentine '66
From: Katherine Agar
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:11:17 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Pound's English class
Petra Kelly was also in that class and I recall her reading an essay about her early life in Germany with a father who would not allow tears or dolls. Since then, I have thought that the essay explained a lot about Petra's motivations, but who knows.
Mike (Sharon) McCloskey was in there too--she did _Member of the Wedding_.
Kathy (Omelanuk) Agar
From: Sandye Smith
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:58:46 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Time Management
I am still out here. Have just been "listening" lately.
Since you mention St. Marys/Buena Vista, I grew up on McCartha Drive which runs between Steam Mill and St. Mary's. Where did you live then?
Sandye
From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:23:16 -0400
Subject: Re: Time Management
If you lived on McCartha, we might have ridden the same bus. I remember that David Pilgrim and Cathy King both lived on McCartha. I lived on Oriole (my parents are still there). Glad that you haven't left us and are still listening.
Jeannie '65
From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:53:44 -0500
Subject: Germany Aluma
<< Anyone know anything about my Germany gradeschool classmates: Nadine Johnson, Bonnie Sue Nunley, John Turk? >>
have you tried any of the overseas alum pages?
Mike '64
From: JBolles174
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:18:14 -0500
Subject: Re:Fletcher Avenue D AV
Yes !!!!!! I remember all the crazy and wild things we did in the band. mr. Bryson Curry was his name. yes, the rocket was a hard one to remember to count our steps and to keep up with the counting of the songs we were suppose to be playing . but, Barbara Gilbert ,who was a majorette alternate told me not to play just count the steps and go in line with Kathy Ball,Class od 63, who was number 1 in the flute section at that time. I never stopped following her to this day. She is my sister -in-law, still to this day. She married John Bolles class of 1964 .Ain't that neat. Ain't is in the dictionary nowadays. haha!! Mrs. Robert Hanvey!! (That was my English Teacher back then. I disliked her very much. Oh,well. Maybe she knew something I did not about my English!!!!!! Not to good!!
Deb,
I just talked to my in-laws The Bolles and they said it was on a ship going to Korean. That your Dad helped her with the boys. Also , they saw your mother in Panama City a week or so ago and she said for them to come by and when they did her house was up for sale. Is this right? They did not see any cars so they did not stop in. They live in PC. 6 months out of the year . Then up here by us the rest.
From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:18:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Germany Aluma
My overseas alums were from 2nd grade.... all went to Baker in the freshman
and sophomore years. The only one that I know graduated from Baker is
Bonnie Sue Nunley. But you have a point, the others may have finished high
school overseas. Kathy & Debbie might know my Dean - Pam Cornett Levi(who
finished HS in Germany '66, but went to Baker until her junior year).
Jeannie '65
From: Bob Brown
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 22:40:11 EST
Subject: Germany Aluma
--Bob '65
From: Linda M. Cox
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:20:47 -0600
Subject: RE:Fletcher Ave
The weather forecaster was Doug Wallace, wasn't it? The BBQ place was the Pit Plantation (if my memory serves me correctly), my family lived really close to it and we drove by there quite often. There's nothing quite like the BBQ in the South, I agree.
Linda Cox
BHS '72
From: Al Muehlke
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:18:06 -0700
Subject: Re: Germany Aluma
Al
From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:22:20 -0800
Subject: Re: Time Management
I have not been able to remember the name of the street that we lived on when we first moved to Columbus, and then I see it here! We lived on McCartha (sp?) drive from the early sixties until 63 or 64. I remember catching the bus at the bottom of a hill (kind of a low point in the road actually).. I think I could find it again. The bus stop was near an intersection with another road. Now I wish I could just remember some of the names of who rode that bus, etc.
Rolf '67
From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:24:42 -0800
Subject: Re: Time Management
I remember going to parties at some houses that were newer than those on McCartha and there were girls there that were one or two years ahead of me in school. This is getting too strange . .
Rolf '67
From: W.J. Orr '59
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 05:42:05 -0500
Subject: Re: Memphis
I am finding Memphis quite enjoyable. Will be better when I get setled in and have all of my things including my best friend and exercise partner, a tri-color collie named Sye.
I lived in the Texas panhandle ( Pampa, which is near Amarillo) from 1980 - 1995. Lewis Grizzard (deceased humorist and columnist) performed in concert once in Amarillo and joked at the scarcity of trees and foilage, saying that he felt sorry for the kids there because they had to take a number to climb a tree. While I enjoyed the great people, I really missed the babbling brooks, the tall oak trees, the pines of dear 'ol Georgia and the like. Memphis geography is closer to that of Columbus.
Texas barbeque (mostly beef ) was great but nothing like our southeastern style. Memphis has some of the greatest - but I still haven't located any Brunswick stew. Neither have I seen the duck walk at the Peabody but will put it on the agenda. I love eating at the restaurants overlooking the mighty Mississippi, Beale Street and the great blues music, Graceland and the king, and being closer to my mother and other family members in Georgia.
On the down side I really miss my daughters and two grandchildren who live in Amarillo. This is the first time I have moved to a new location solo (without wife and family) which makes the transition difficult at times. This great city has some attractions which ease the burden though.
Thanks for your pointers on Memphis.
W.J. Orr
'59
From: Freeman, George
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 96 07:17:00 EST
Subject: Miss Pound's English Class
Actually you're recall of Miss Pound's English class is better than mine. I do remember someone named Duna Poteet. (spelling?). The person I'm trying to remember sat behind her( I think). Her brother got a scholarship at Columbus (Community College). I think it was Debbie who squealed when she heard some Beatle's music that filtered through from a party upstairs. (Also irking Miss Pound-should I tell your children?). It was the also the class where we heard that JFK was shot. I believe we had a sustitute teacher that day who was from Texas and was worried about John Connolly/ but not Lyndon Johnson or JFK.
As for the play in Greek mythology I believe I played someone trying to catch a spear (but was killed instead). There were only 3 boys in the class and I was the smallest. Probably the smallest student in the school. I grew after that but it was mainly out. It was by far the hardest class I ever had in my life -Col. Mitchell's geometry class was a picnic in comparison. I should give Miss Pound credit for preparing me for college, its not her fault she had so little to work with (comma splice included). Presently I am a biologist at the Center for Disease Control working with a parasitic disease (Schistosoma mansoni) ...sort of mentioned once on X Files.
...George Freeman'66
From: Katherine Agar
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:23:33 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: English class
I wonder if we had Miss Pound the same period? This is getting confusing. I don't remember Debbie being in my class, but Duna Poteet was. She was working on a novel of some sort, as I recall. Also, I was not in that class when JFK was shot; I was in P.E. and then in Mr. Stewart's anatomy class when his death was announced. Oh, well.
Kathy
From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:44:09 -0500
Subject: Band Memories
That's right, it was Korea and not Germany! Also, Mr. Curry was an excellent band director, but he left and another fellow came who was ill prepared to work with a high school band. He only lasted one year. Maybe that was my soph. year. Can't remember squat these days! My parents just moved to Lynn Haven (Hurricane Opal and the evacuation really scarred them!). My folk's names are Lois and Frank Leslie. (My dad, Ray Alderman died of cancer in '78.) Please tell your in-laws they're in the phone book. Thanks
Debbie Alderman Valentine '66
From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:53:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Miss Pound's English Class
George, you're tooo funny! Just as I remember you. OK, the substitute teacher's name was Ms. Mueller (pronounced Miller, or so she claimed). She was real haughty acting as I remember. I vividly remember being in there when Kennedy was shot. Also, I remember the hellacious mythology test we had during the last six weeks. Seems as if only one or two people passed it. Virginia Achey? Was she in that class? She came to the reunion this year. Such a sweet person then and now.
From: Sandye Smith
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:10:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [none]
David Pilgrem lived across the street from me. Sandra France lived next door and James Crowson was next door to David. Diane Culverhouse was one house down from James.
Ann Bridges and Laura Childs also rode the same bus.
Sandye '64
From: Sandye Smith
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:14:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [none]
I rode that bus. The intersection you are talking about is probably McCartha (correct spelling) and Curry. It was at the foot of the hill from my house.
Sandye '64
From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:54:13 -0500
Subject: Re:
-- it is wild, I can almost remember every bus stop.... Kathy Devine and her sister were just before the "dip" at Rolf's stop at the bottom of the hill. Now, like others, I am trying to visualize "where everyone sat" on the bus.... of course, I was on the left behind the bus driver, mid-way down *smile*. I sat with Treesa Colley, Dorris Ann Blevins and Suzanne McCain (see my Baker home page picture of the reunion). Ann Bridges, Ricky and George Dorer, Steve Myrick and Ann Bridges lived in my neighborhood. Sandye, I looked up your picture, but still can't "remember". Gosh, are we gettin' old?
Jeannie '65
From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:13:39 -0800
Subject: Re: McCartha Drive
This is getting really strange ;-)
Let's see; I'll try to describe where our house was: if one were to start from the North end of McCartha (St. Mary's Rd?) and head South, then our house was on the right, at about the beginning of the hill down to the bus stop, which was on the other side of the street at the bottom of the hill, at the intersection (yes, I think it might have been Curry) - right about now I'd commit a crime for a street map of Columbus.
The terrible thing is that I don't remember any names - shoot. I remember that I had a really good friend that lived toward the bottom of the next hill on McCartha on the left - toward the next intersection, which was a road from the right. ( . . .wasn't there a nursery, or cemetery, or something toward the South end of McCartha, on the right?) Hmm, I guess more than 30 years takes its toll on the memory, too bad.
Don't get me wrong, but my most vivid memory was playing spin the bottle in the carport at a party at one of the newer houses (brick, of course) with a group that included one girl, a touch younger (or the same age as I) and her sister, one or two years older; at the time I was either in the 8th or 9th grade.
Strange, the memories that come back after all of these years. I have to admit, I got pretty exited at seeing ya'll write about that neighborhood - thanks!
Rolf '67
From: C. Richard Tolbert
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:53:04 -0500
Subject: Re: At Baker
Kathy Devine's sister is Donna. Kathy was on a couple of soups and a cricket lighter commercial. Donna and I lived together in Kansas City, Mo. in 1979-80.
For the Fletcher Ave. group, I was over there yesterday. He is right, there is no 921. The church on the corner is the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. My family lived at 1008 Fletcher in 1951 (I was 2 years old).
Rick Tolbert 1967
From: Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 30 Oct 1996 08:00:12 EDT
Subject: Baker 1-12
....Hi...Elaine Graves Baker '67 here....
....hmmm...I just wondered if Ozark, Alabama is near MacIntosh, Alabama? That is near Mobile, Alabama. My brother, Ron, his wife Jeanne and their son, Wesley, live in MacIntosh. Ronny used to work for Bell South in Mobile (was transferred from Jackson, MS) but then was laid off due to a merger. He is now just getting into real estate in the area. It is hard to start over at 60. I think of him often and wonder how it will all turn out for them.
If Ozark was close by...you might know him or Jeanne. They are quite active in the community and have horses. I think Wes played baseball or softball these past years. Ron was a coach in his spare time from Bell South in past years. They are both upbeat, fun people.
From: Sandye Smith
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:20:07 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [none]
Jeanne- I was one of Ann Bridges' bridesmaids when she married Don Pegg in l964. They moved to PA but Ann and I stayed in touch through the years and Don's death (malignant brain tumor), leaving Ann with small children. Ann later remarried George Bennett and even though she always said she would not move back to GA they are now living in Midland and I speak with Ann regularly. She's a grandmom too.
Rolf- Yes there is a cemetery on St. Mary's Road. It is Evergreen Memory Gardens and both my parents are there. If you were headed towards St. Mary's on McCartha, the cemetery would be to the left and on the right.
>From your description of your bus stop it sounds like it was closer to St.
Mary's. Curry Street was the second bus stop from the Steam Mill Road end.
Sandye '64
From: JOY WHITE
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:39:25 -0800
Subject: Re: At Baker
>
> For the Fletcher Ave. group, I was over there yesterday. He is right,
> there is no 921.
Okay, then, I guess I'll have to travel to Columbus real soon and find our house. Dad swears it was 921 on the same block as the church, not the block with the store. Say, maybe we have a picture of it and I'll scan it and send to Webmaster or can I attach it to e-mail? Joy White (69 Lion Cub)
From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:45:27 -0500
Subject: Re: McCartha Drive
Sounds like you lived really close to Kathy King (at the bottom of the hill on the corner, closest to St. Mary's school.
Sandye -- Ann Bridges was such a nice person (she lived about a block away from me). Didn't she go to nursing school at the Medical Center in Columbus? Please tell her that I said hello. I would love to see her. I lost my husband with cancer of the stomach -- my sons were older - one a senior in high school and the other in college -- not easy.
Donna Devine was another wonderful person. Does anyone know what she is doing now? I know that John Chase (the last I talked with him) kept up with her sister, Kathy. It is funny how names just pop into my head that I haven't thought about in YEARS and YEARS.
I can't wait until Christmas card time so that I can let some of those once a year friends know about this chat area.
Jeannie '65
From: W.J. Orr '59
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:18:20 -0500
Subject: Re: At Baker
W. J. Orr '59
From: Bob Brown
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 96 01:31:55 EST
Subject: Re[2]: McCartha Drive
>once a year friends know about this chat area.
Hah! In a sleepless moment (like this one!) I actually designed an @Baker postcard. Nothing fancy... black type on white paper, but it explains enough for someone to find us.
I may have to drop by Kinko's and get some of them printed up so people can include them in Christmas mailings. (I wonder if I will...)
--Bob '65
From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 23:33:13 -0800
Subject: Re: McCartha Drive
> Rolf, There is no CR Milton in my '65 yearbook, but there is a Chester
> Milton in the '64 yearbook... any relation?
Yep, that's me. I've never seen that yearbook; sadly enough. Can't wait until we get pictures to go with the names for the class rosters at the Baker site.
>Older women, Hmmmmm...
Oh boy; I knew I should have kept that to myself ;-))
> Sounds like you lived really close to Kathy King (at the bottom of the
hill
> on the corner, closest to St. Mary's school.
Can't recall the name. We moved over to Hunt Avenue (near Eastway ? Elementary School)) in '63 or '64.
Thank you Larry Johnson for the information on the maps! Great tip! My memory was partly correct. The bus stop was at Curry, but St Marys Rd is to the South and Steam Mill Rd is to the North. I'd say our house was about half way between Steam Mill and Curry.
BTW, Jeannie. I don't thing that we are getting old. We're just getting broken in.
Oh boy, just had another bit of memory torn loose by something I've read. During Summer vacation in '63 (I think) I recall going to a lake to water-ski with Bobby Peters and a family that attended the Church along St Mary's Rd. Had a great time, but maaaaan was it hot!
My thanks to all of you for letting me have some fun remembering McCartha Drive.
Rolf '67
MRO