Dan Goodenow
Just some quick comments before I start work:
Lanny,
Thanks for the pictures, I just went on-line and did a quick search on "Fruit-O-Matic" vending machines and a company in Glendale, CA came up showing an advertizing poster that was an exact match. I definately had the color wrong. The caption said it was from the 50's. Judging by the two kids in the photo, I would have to agree with that. I love their outfits! Pretty funny. Do I have it correct in that we were only allowed to wear blue jeans on Fridays? I used to tell that to my boys and they'd get a hoot out of that too.
Doug,
Troop 19? Was that the same one that Bob, Jim and Greg were in? Kropp and I were in the Bushnell Basin troop in 8th grade. I also reached Star. Kropp beat me out and reached Life...
Peggy,
Yea, that was it, Pepe! About your back, My one son Paul has had a bad back in the same place, for about a year now and it is really a handicap. I can imagine how that cheering bending and so on could be bad. In college, I took one gymnastics class and after learning just a basic hand spring as a part of the required moves, I said to myself, "Okay Dan, that's enough of this". The instructor was Gene Wettstone, a former olympic coach and after giving me a 9.0 on my final hand spring test, he turned to me and said, "Dan, I appreciacte your effort in class, but you really won't go far with this." I asked why and he said, Because you don't have any kinesthetic sense." I asked, what's that? and he said, "It's when your brain knows what your body parts are doing as they are moving!" All I can say is that he got that one correect! Maybe he saved my back. To this day I enjoy watching sports like gymastics, figure skating and so on... The operative word is "watching".
Tom,
I didn't know Jay well, but I agree, he did seem like a gentle soul back then.
Paul,
Did get to chat with coach Borrosh at the last reunion. Don't know if you remember that our track was built around the baseball field instead of the typical football field. In all my years, I've never seen another one that shape.
Norine,
I had Coach Ordiway as my driver ed instructor. Had Wendy Dischinger and Jeff Lewis in the car. I still remember Jeff's first drive on I think it was called the expressway. Great fun...
Dave,
How cool that you still like to sing. I was in a school chorus in 7th grade in a diiferent town and got pushed off the risers during a school concert. That was the end of that type of singing. I still like to sing and do some open-mike, singer-songwriter singing and guitar stuff around MA. Bob Legge had and still has a great voice. He did most of the singing in our old HS band.
It amazes me how many students of our class ended up teaching. Dan Kropp not only was a teacher, but became a Principal! I'd love to have been sent down to his office for dicipline! "But Mr Kropp, I was told that back in your day, you.... :) He retired and works in the energy conservation field now. Soon to retire from that. Bob Legge, Dan and Jim Womeldorf and I still email frequently. All are doing well...
The other thing that amazes me is how many clubs, sports and activities we had available to us. Our local high school of about the same size has about half of those offered back in our PCS days. Is it just my local school?
Dan
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