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From: leonamae1@yahoo.com
Date: 18 Apr 2002
Time: 00:14:22
Remote Name: 12.218.103.62
i am searching for my brother who was born in ada, oklahoma sept. 29, 1949. his first and middle name might be joe don. anyone out there who might help me out, please e-mail me. mother had to give him up for adoption.
From: Dick Huddleston
Date: 29 Apr 2002
Time: 12:33:35
Remote Name: 24.206.76.17
If anybody is a member of the http://www.classmates.com website, please post a comment about this/our website http://www.adahighclassof50.com on it.
I don't want to pay $36 for posting - the messages are interesting, kinda, but I find I don't have much to talk about with the more recent grads - my AHS building is gone, (as well as much of my Grade Schools Hayes and Horace Mann) and it just isn't the same.
So if you are already a member it won't cost you anything but your time - and it's been 2 yrs since it was mentioned. Maybe some of those 'newbies' would like to see it.
Dick
From: Norma Jackson Ward-Class of '53
Date: 14 Jan 2002
Time: 10:49:31
Remote Name: 12.34.246.38
Really enjoy the website-great idea.
Dick Huddleston talked about the snow in 1949-seems I remember we had more than two inches-and then it rained on top of that and what we had was a skating rink all over town-I don't remember how many inches we got, but more than any of us had ever seen, I think.
From: Dick Huddleston
Date: 01 May 2002
Time: 09:32:22
Remote Name: 24.206.76.17
It's nice to see a 'clean' board, and archived old messages for referrals. Thanks, Bill
From: Dick Huddleston
Date: 25 May 2002
Time: 13:15:27
Remote Name: 24.206.76.106
Just finished watching the DVD of the movie "Remember the Titans" with Denzil Washington - great film by Disney.
It made me think of a few things about our time in AHS: as far as I can remember (no cracks please about my memory) we didn't have school buses, did we? Maybe so. Not like today.
And we were all-white: the 'colored' went to Napier on the N. side of town. Their team was the Napier Hornets, colors yellow and black. I sometimes wonder how different it would have been had we been integrated? What challenges/problems we would face? Actually, I guess we were pretty lucky not to have had to do that. What do you think?
From: Dick Huddleston
Date: 23 Sep 2002
Time: 18:29:59
Remote Name: 24.206.107.20
Looking at the picture on the first page of this site, I thought of the gym. Students now don't know about such a thing, since the entire building is gone!
As you face the building, the gym was on the second floor to your left (south) and was open up to the 3rd floor. The bleachers pulled out from each side, and the dressing rooms were at the west end, down at the very first floor. What I remember most was that at lunch time, the gym was used as a 'holding area' for those who brought their lunch, or to just visit.
Of course, you could always stay outside, but in cold and wet weather, the gym was the place to be. It was mainly a practice gym, with the BB games being played in the Jr. Hi gym (at the south end of the present building).
What really brought it to my mind was that last week while substitute teaching at a HS here, I looked at a floor plan and they have FIVE (5!) gyms. The student population is 3,000 - they count 9th grade as High School here - and keep the gyms busy. There is one practice gym, a wrestling gym, a cheerleaders gym (really), a varsity gym, and a girls' volleyball gym. And they don't have to use them for lunch since they have a cafeteria and serve 3 lunch periods.
Makes me appreciate what we had. More comfortable in a small place.
From: Dick Huddleston
Date: 24 Dec 2002
Time: 15:13:56
Remote Name: 24.233.56.162
Do you remember the "Teen Town"? That was a nice effort on the part of the city to make a place for us to 'hang-out'. It was around the corner from the police dept, (don't remember the street) just south of the McSwain Theater a couple of blocks on the west side.
It was a large building, up a lot of steps and a big open room inside with a couple of pool tables, and some chairs and tables.
Today being the day before Christmas, I remembered back when (pre-teen) I would be taken down there and see Santa Claus and get a mesh bag of Oranges, Apples, Brazil Nuts, etc.
And in our AHS days, we could have sock hops and just mess around there. Ah, what fun TVs, VHSs, CDs and VCRs have taken away...but not the memories.