Memories of a 1962 Grad

by Forrest Towry '62

1. Poncho the true Edison Eagle
2. Annette on the Mickey Mouse Club
3. Splitting the day with the high school and classes in the pre-fabs.
4. Jim Shanner running through the glass doors.
5. Electing Alfred E. Newman as class president in Mr.Winfrey's homeroom class.
6. The day the Jr. High School football team was advised it had to have facemasks.
7. Mustang Motor scooters.
8. Not to wear green and yellow on Thursday.
9. Madras shirts, wheat jeans and blue tip tennis shoes.
10. Going to Penningtons in John Stambaugh's 1936 Ford with the one and only Galard Sartain and shooting Jake the security guard with a water pistol.
11. Circling Penningtons for hours just to park in sosh row.
12. Being chased off stage after singing a verse of Hay LA TE LA TE DOE in reference to my dad and being pulled into an office by my dad to escape the arms of the speech teacher.
13. Watching Mr. Butts walk down the hall. 14. Escaping to Penningtons with Mr. Hayes English class.
14. Using the elevator without getting caught.
15. Swat's from Coach Sellers.
16. The song that drove a lot of us nuts because it kept on playing: Tammy, Tammy's in Love.
17. The tree across the street from the gym that had all the shoes hanging from the limbs.
18. Gas at 27.9 per gal. and that was Ethel! 20. Sneaking into the Admiral Twin Drive In in the trunk of a car when the cost of a car load was only $1.00.
19. In-car heaters at the drive in.
20. Coach H.J. Green painting our thumbs red for right and blue for left to insure him we would go in the right direction.
21. The best memories has to be Penningtons, Mr. T's, the Blue Moon, the Twist (everyone could do it) and most of all not having drugs pushed on us only a quart of cold Coors was all we needed.

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