Norman Puckett remembers:

I remember my best friend, Dennis Burgert, being the first male cheerleader at LHS.

I remember my first day at a city school at Central Junior High.

I remember Nanny Duver as the greatest gym coach ever.

I, too , remember the night Jack Allison died.  The juke box at Allen's Drive In was playing "Hit the Road, Jack" when someone ran in and told us he had just crashed on 23rd across from the Mall.

I remember a brutally cold football game at Highland Park.  The team trainers had to go back to Lawrence to get different shoes for the players.

I remember the article in Life magazine about Lawrence High School.  I still have the magazine.

I remember Al Woolard as the greatest football coach ever.

I remember Mickey Mantle walking around our block with Mickey Woolard in hand.  Mickey Mantle and Al Woolard were very close friends and Al's family lived around the corner from us on Tennessee Street.  Mickey Woolard was named after Mickey Mantle.

I remember John Ames as the greatest teacher ever.

I remember Carolyn Rogers as the tallest girl I ever knew.

I remember working for Henry Collins at A&W on 6th street in front of the swimming pool.  One Saturday night in 1959 a little known group of musicians stopped at the drive in and asked Henry if he would feed them if they played for the customers.  Henry said yes and they set up their equipment on the corner of the lot next to 6th Street and played until closing.  The place was packed all night and Henry fed them twice.  The name of that band was Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders.

I remember watching "The Fly" at the Sunset Drive In on West 6th.

I remember my first car and wanting to drive to school my senior year even though we lived only two blocks away from LHS.

I remember attending a DECA convention in Emporia with my class my Senior year.  We smoked cigarettes all night long in the motel room just because we could.