Subject: Re: Some questions
From: Bill DeBree Sr. (bdebreesr@debreeins.com)
Date: Mon Jul 20 2009 - 17:25:31 CDT
As a spouse, I would like to say it was so much fun to see you all together.
You are a close bit group, and have so much fun together.
It was more fun than my own class reunion.
Marty DeBree
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Thomas" <jthomas@math.niu.edu>
To: <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:24 PM
Subject: Some questions
>
> It was great to see so many "old folk" looking so young! We ain't
> our grandparents' senior citizens!
>
> A few questions came up from various people, and maybe we can pool
> our collective synapses (maybe even get them firing together more
> or less in unison) for some answers.
>
> An easy one with the answer: Will the homepage/e-list continue after the
> reunion?
> Sure - we can keep it going as long as somebody is alive to deal with
> it. We'll move both over to a permanent location in the next two weeks
>
> Harder ones that maybe somebody can answer:
>
> 1) There was some collective memory joggling: Does anybody remember
> a homeroom incident back in spring '59 when we were trying to decide
> on what our give to Ottawa should be and there was some heated
> discussion both within the class and between Mr. Newton and Mr Love?
> Didn't they have a bit of a shouting match and one of them stormed out
> of the auditorium?
>
> 2) For ALGER folk: There were some students in our class from "the
> projects." I don't know if that was the name, but they lived down
> off Alger/Kalamazoo in housing set up right after the war for
> returning GIs who inexpensive housing. We had at least one (Charles B)
> and maybe two in our class. Does anybody remember these, when they
> tore them down, and what they were actually called?
>
> 3) Somebody mentioned Saturday night a senior "prank" that the class of
> '56 or '57 pulled. The rumor was that they put somebody's volkswagen
> on the OHHS roof. I recall hearing the rumor, but as far as I know,
> it was a myth/hoax. Somebody (don't recall who) swore it was true.
> Does anybody else recall the rumor?
>
> 4) There was a time, usually in the spring, that cigarette companies
> came and handed out free samples of cigarettes to us outside of
> school. The last I recall this happening was around 1956 (as a
> freshman). Does anybody recall the *last* time the freebies were
> handed out?
>
> Sidenote: ALGER - for those who haven't driven by the old school and
> seen what replaced it: Much of the green space has been replaced by
> a monstrous middle-school that looks like a contemporary prison.
> It might be fun to put up a before/after pic on the homepage if somebody
> can snap a pic of the current monstrosity and send it over.
>
> I putting together a couple of paragraphs of goofy memories that
> we collectively experienced, so if you have any questions you want
> answered or have a wierd collective memory to share, send it over.
>
> Jim
> Ottawa Hills High School Discussion List - 1959
>
>
>
Ottawa Hills High School Discussion List - 1959
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