Subject: Re: Sam was a Duck?
From: Richard Besser (rbesser@ymail.com)
Date: Fri May 29 2009 - 21:36:09 CDT
Konkle, your post was the funniest damn thing I ever read....and I never went to Ottawa Hills High School....I just married the most beautiful blond bombshell ever to come out of that snotty school.
Dick Besser
That blond wanted to remind you of the time she and Gaskin got kicked out of somebody's (Gaskin?) mothers cottage because they were drunk. (See Monnette, you weren't the only "bad girl".) Steve Van Duinen got in an accident on the way home.
L
--- On Sat, 5/30/09, skonklesr@aol.com <skonklesr@aol.com> wrote:
From: skonklesr@aol.com <skonklesr@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Sam was a Duck?
To: ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu
Cc: jthomas@math.niu.edu, dtooker@miswaco.com
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 1:47 AM
Oh my God!!?? Sam was a Duck!!!? How could I ever forget that song, and Tom with that silly ass grin singing it.? You will have to forgive me, I am just getting on board with all of you guys, having been in the Witness Protection Program for several years, but dam if Dave Furtney didn't find me this week, so now I'm back on the street and flying without a net.? I called Dave Tooker last night, and he "made a long story short" for about 3 hours, and told me about this web site.? I've been looking at photos, reading letters and your emails all day.? I haven't been so moved and emotional since I stood and watched my wife take the Oath to become an American Citizen last year in August.? You all will meet my dear Rosario Alejandra Lopez Guadelupe Konkle, or "Alex" to all of us Gringos at the Reunion.
I am so glad to have the chance to go back and see all of you, and so proud to have been a part of the "Class of 59".
The whole flashback created by those four little words, "Sam was a Duck", prompt me to make one small suggestion for our Reunion festivities.? Why not create a little exercise which I would entitle, "Things I Still Remember" from the Class of 59.? We could all bring with us one 8 x 10 sheet of paper upon which we would document those few special things we still remember from our days together at Ottawa Hills, many of which like "Sam Was A Duck", may very well bring back smiles, and laughter, and even tears to our fellow class mates.? All the papers could be copied and bound together and sent to each of the people who attend the Reunion as a "rocking chair memory" of our time together at the Reunion, and our times together as classmates 50 years ago.? I know that I for one would love to have something like that to keep.
Mine of course would include the memory of puking my guts out learning to siphon gas from School Buses with Tom Reed by sucking on a garden hose.? Or standing outside Dan Gantos garage door listening to his brothers beat the shit out of him after they caught us steeling?his dads?blue ford station wagon?when we?went joy riding.? And then there was that wonderful time that we were at Benj Corels cottage in the fall (I think Tom Davis was there with us, and maybe Gantos) and we stole a Turkey from the turkey farm and decided to cook it.? Davis tied it to a beach chair and whacked at it's head with a dull ax trying to kill it.? I can still see that dam turkey dragging that beach chair down the sand dune with his head flopping while all of us peed in our pants laughing.? Yup, those are the times I hope I never forget, but of course I probably will..........unless we all write them down for posterity.
Love you all,
Steve Konkle
-----Original Message-----
From: Davis, Ann <Adavis@carmel.in.gov>
To: Ottawa Hills - 1959 <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
Sent: Fri, 29 May 2009 4:50 am
Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
You betcha and according to Tom the best piece of music written. I think all
the grandchildren know how to play it. He really has such good memories of
those camping trips. We have a picture that was in the Press of you boys
camping on a very cold night!!!
Ann Davis
Clerk Treasurer's Office
571-2414
-----Original Message-----
From: ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu [mailto:ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu..edu]
On Behalf Of harry rosenzweig
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:54 PM
To: Ottawa Hills - 1959
Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
Ann,
Was "Sam was a Duck" composed on a camping trip to Tom's patch of land up state
with Terry Schilling, Dan Gantos and I in maybe the 7th ot 8th grade?
Harry
--- On Thu, 5/28/09, Davis, Ann <Adavis@carmel.in.gov> wrote:
> From: Davis, Ann <Adavis@carmel.in.gov>
> Subject: RE: Class Song
> To: "Ottawa Hills - 1959" <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 1:12 PM
>
> Tom never gives up the chance to play it on the
> piano.? However his grandchildren don't find it the masterpiece that
> all of you have, mostly they laugh!!
>
> Ann Davis
> Clerk Treasurer's Office
> 571-2414
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu
> [mailto:ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu]
> On Behalf Of jd3_41@yahoo.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:01 PM
> To: Ottawa Hills - 1959
> Subject: Class Song
>
>
> Hi Larry,
>
> I'm not quite sure what you have in mind as "the class
> song," but as far as I personally am concerned it was that marvelous
> little ditty "Sam Was a Duck" with music (kazoo or jew's harp) and
> lyrics by that Irving Berlin of Ethel Street, Tom Davis. I think Buck
> Marris may also have been part of the highly talented creative
> process. I was but an awe-struck bystander albeit one who joined in
> the first singing of the song. During the 1950s whether in school,
> summer camp or just hanging out, whenever in need of a laugh
> or a lift we would sing "Sam Was a Duck."
>
> After we all graduated and went our separa
te ways, I often visited
> remote places yet to be blessed by electricity and television. At
> night there usually were only three options: drinking, singing and
> that third thing. I always have been a terrible singer, but when my?
> turn came up it would have been impossibly rude to prevaricate with
> excuses. Rather than choose "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall," I
> always have given a boisterous rendition of "Sam Was a
> Duck." In certain longhouses along the Mekong and Irrawaddy
> Rivers, in Thimpu teahouses, at gatherings on the
> Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and in towns on the edge of the
> Taklamakhan and Gobi deserts, Sam now is not unknown.
>
> Did anyone else take this song in different directions?
>
> Best,
> John Dolfin
> ? ?
>
> --- On Thu, 5/28/09, eljay1@bellsouth.net <eljay1@bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>
> From: eljay1@bellsouth.net
> <eljay1@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: Trivia question
> To: "Ottawa Hills - 1959" <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 12:28 PM
>
> Another trivia question.? Who wrote the Class Song, and
> can anyone remember the opening? line(s).? No fair if
> you had anything to do with its creation.
>
>
>
> ? ? ?
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