Bob,

We moved to Carmel when I was 6 years old.  Sara Baur lived 2 doors east of me.  Our parents played bridge every weekend Sara was my 1st Carmel friend.  In 1st grade on the school bus a friend who happen to be a girl was difficult and I got a large amount of BS over that. Grade School, Jr High & High School were all on the same bus.

I envied Rodney because he had older brothers Rex & Rick to protect him.  It took until about 8th grade for me to establish myself and not get bullied.  I got strong enough be a problem for the older kids.

I didn't lke Huffer either.  Dave brought up Garrison on 10-31, I'd forgotten him too, Garrison was a jerk.

Vickie Morton was worth remembering.

Wink

Wow! So much to chew on...hope I cover everything. Just "watched" the Colts barely win again on my puter as I refuse to pay extra to watch Prof. FBall.

Bob: I attempted to play drums. I remember in 5th grade Ben Lovell(sp?) coming around & asking if anybody wanted to play in the band. For some reason I picked drums. It wasn't until many yrs later that I found out he told my Mom that I was "rhythm deaf", but he figured I was smart enuf to overcome it! I struggled thru Jr Hi mostly playing the bass drum which helped improve my peripheral vision. Never mastered the snare drum. I hated those evaluations w/ the whole band sitting there watching...I was so embarrassed. I did enjoy playing the kettle drums & remember a State band competition complement from a judge...I soon ran out of available hours (even then I was contemplating stage vs. architecture) & had no interest in marching on the parking lot for State Fair Band contest. Alas, that was the end of my band days.

Terri: We were getting abit testosterone heavy there...way to play the race card! Just kidding...My Dad taught @ Shortridge HS for over 20 yrs. He was even Dean of Boys for a year. That's when I knew I didn't want to be a teacher. He wasn't really a racist, but I do remember alot of negative comments, especially near the end when Shortridge was on its downward spiral. I never had any problems w/ African-Americans & played Volleyball on a team w/ one other white guy. I remember my disgust when we were playing every week at a church in Woodruff Place & the guy renting the gym asked "how can you play w/ those people?" Living in GA for 4 yrs was another eye opener. But again, I never had any bad experiences. I believe our generation & the next will continue the homogination & mixing together. However, there will always be those ignorant intolerants...

I hate being so obvious, but whatever happened to the Hall sisters?

Larry - wasn't your dad @ Marshall HS, too? Seems I remember him doing the stage manager gig when I was teaching dancing in Indpls and we had our dance recitals there.

I think the Hall sisters are on the missing list - like really missing, not just the list of missing classmates on this site which includes those we have address for but haven't joined the site.

I know you were just kidding, but my ex made Archie Bunker look like a liberal and here I was- a facilitator for one of the Anti-Defamation League's prejudice reduction programs. (Just one of the value differences that eventually drove us apart.)

On another note, Senator Lugar spoke at a Chamber economic luncheon that I attended in Jeffersonville, IN a few months ago- he made some interesting comments about all the bail outs and the impact it would have on each taxpayer if we had to ante up to pay it back....it would add about $35-38,000 to everyone's debt load. Ouch! 

So let's see....the only 'safe' topic is the weather?? What about global warming? That's weather related or at least impacting the weather. Is it a myth or reality?

T

Terri:   Double wow! & irony, small world & granfaloons all rolled into one big ball. Lugar is one of the distinguished alumni of Shortridge along w/ Kurt Vonnegut who said INdy was a good place to be from. Anyway, the rest of the story: You are correct. After 20+ yrs @ Shortridge, my Dad did move to Marshall & I actually worked some of those dance recitals. I'm sorry, but they were really boring! "OK, she's got a green outfit on, so I'll throw some green light on her," etc. But the money was good for a college kid on the weekends...I also did lights & sound for a newly elected Sen Lugar speech! I think I may have even shook his hand afterwords when I came down from the booth...

Sorry about the race card comment. Just one of those things I threw out there. Sometimes I type before I think...As far as I can tell, any subject is fair game. Anyway, he made it thru another 10+ yrs until busses got turned over. A kid got shot in the stomach outside his homeroom & that was it. He retired the next year.

So, I rolled over & saw the BB blinking & couldn't go back to sleep...isn't technology grand? 

Well.....I think all of you are right. We lived in a very exciting time, probably more than any generation before or after.

We experienced a Man on the Moon, pocket calculators, racial fights, Nam protests, The Beatles, The Doors, and The Rolling Stones. Let's not forget why we wore long hair, took off the bra's, and wore bell bottoms with tie died t-shirts. We were fighting... the establishment. Anything that could be percieved as radical and/or against "the established" norm.

We were smart and young and restless. The cars were faster and the girls were prettier, especially without the bra's, than any previous generation.

As we grew older, we grew almost out of it, or most of us did, by getting a good job and having a family. Getting involved in the community and trying to be the model citizen. But something happened along the way that is, in my opinion, our generations fault. We are the ones that let America slide to where it is today. It's our generation that has outlawed paddling in schools, even the hugging of a crying 1st grader missing his mom on the first day of school by a teacher who is afraid of a law suit for "fondling" and/or "sexual intentions". Our generation elected the local, state, and federal law makers. Our generation is the one that really took on and expanded civil rights, birth control, cancer, homelessness, and the world economics.

We are the greatest generation because of the tools we have had to work with. We are also the worst generation for, at times, abusing the tools we were given. It might be time to sharpen the shovel and spade that has become dull with to many "give aways" and "turning of the cheek", and regain the radical attitude we once had to show "the establishment" they are wrong and full of shit.

Got on a roll and just a little windy.

Just when I hot this string had about played out...over a 100 have looked in on this thread & just a handful have commented...David B, you make some good points...along with the freedoms & rights come responsibilities. The boomers have been & are coming into positions of power. Hope it's not too late for real change. We've gotta reduce our carbon footprint...but, on the otherhand, look at a volcano & what gets put into the atmosphere. And plastic... There are huge "islands" of the stuff out in the Pacific.

Just one last thot: those who forget history are condemed to repeat it. For instance, the French in Vet Nam. the British (& the Russians & everyone in between) in Afghanistan. Nobody has ever really "conquered" &/or controlled Afghanistan...

Bob:   you asked if I played the Sousaphone & I replied that I attempted to play the drums...but I don't see that 'string' anywhere...anyway, I seem to remember our Jr Hi band director...don't remember his name...grabbing your clarinet & showing you how something should be played. The look on your face when you had to put it back in your mouth! Didn't Alan Voorhis play the Sousaphone? I remember Chris Pickett playing the snare drum...