Rich Noever remembers:

I remember seeing Gertrude Ruttan falling over her desk drawer and breaking her arm.  I thought the world was going to crash down.

I remember David Rhoades who opened the world of great literature to me.

I remember Bod Duver, my best friend at the time.  We did everything together.

I also remember Kenny Hornberger's death. My first glimpse of mortality.

I remember a classmate Karen, I can't remember her last name who died from complications with the dreaded Polio.

I remember watching the World Series in the the Cordley School gym.

I remember being in a "special group" who wouldn't drink their milk in kindergarten.  We were sent to a room next to the gym and had to stay their until we drank that awful stuff.

I remember those days and nights at Southpark playing hardball and some nights watching Men's Fastptich softball.  I also remember all of the American Legion and CC Carl ball at the stadium on 11th. It's sad driving by Southpark and no diamond and grandstands being there anymore.

On 10/21/10 5:07 PM, "Richard Noever" <krich61@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, my informant says that legend has it that in the fall of 1959 a couple of thespians staged/performed a "murder" at 14th & Mass.
The first car (northbound I believe) came to the stoplite.  The victim (was it Ward R.?) was ejected from the car.
The second car pulled up alongside, a sound of an automatic machine-gun was heard.  Blood (ketchup) spewed forth from the victim.
The victim was scooped up from the pavement and removed from the scene.
Allegedly, both cars were secreted in a garage belonging to either Bob A or another individual (C. A.-in class of 60).  One car was thought to have a scanner.

Vice Prin HC Stewart was intent on uncovering the participants even though the event was off campus. There was quite a stir in the HS office (mostly by HC).  He either could never find out or gave up. It was also rumored that an elderly customer of the drug store suffered ill effects of the stunt.

Perhaps someone else knows of this and can shed a more accurate account

Rich to Scott:

I remember going to Potters Lake on the 4th of July.  To the west of the Lake there was and may still be a concrete pad.  My dad and other used to set off sky rockets.  Very illegal devices today.  We would always have a picnic there!