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From: Dick Huddleston
Date: 08 Oct 2000
Time: 15:52:24
Remote Name: 168.191.155.122
Today, I sometimes feel sorry for kids having to got to school without all the fun we had - I remember the non-airconditioned classrooms where the windows actually opened - no telling what could drop out!.
Gas was .20c a gallon, and cars went 20 mpg. You could get a grape coke at the Kit-Kat drive inn. Do you remember the Grumman Wildcat airplane to the west of the gym?
The "B" team games on the practice field after school. The "A" games and meals out of town. The debate team and plays with Mr. Wasson. The choir and mens' quartet. Track, Baseball. All the kind of stuff that seemed to go on forever then, but ended too soon. And in the evenings, DeMolay and Scouts and more fun.
The picture of our AHS (long torn down) is something we can remember, but today's AHS students can't. The funny assemblies, and teachers who seemed so old then, but now they don't. I don't think I would trade going to highschool at AHS for anywhere else, at that time and that place.
A month after we graduated, N. Korea invaded S. Korea and a lot of AHS classmate men - kids no longer - shipped with the 45th to fight the 'police action' for the UN. Funny how history repeats itself with war.
I remember then, music was music - no one yelled, or broke guitars, or wore bizarre clothes or lack thereof. The language was kinder and gentler. Yes, I have memories. And strange to say, the bad ones seemed to have disappeared and only the good ones remain.
Looking forward to seeing you this weekend. If you can't come, send an email to Norma (Thomason class of '51) and I at dhudd@stratplan.com, or check my website at http://www.stratplan.com - I dabble with websites, too. Bill, you have done a real service to the class with this one. Thanks.
Dick