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Message From The Editor:
Dut,
Duh Duh Dut Dut, Dut Duh Duh Dut, Dut...
Cheer,
Cheer For Old Glidden High
Shake down the thunder from the sky!
Yeah, I know, this could really flop, but
maybe it is time to shake down some thunder.
You might remember me bumbling and a
stumbling thru the halls of GHS. The guy who
sat in the back of the classroom (it was
always alphabetical order). The guy who
never did study much. The guy who was kicked
in the leg by Ruth Robb and slapped on a
school bus by Elbie Davidson. The only guy
immature enough to make Mr. Lutes angry. The
guy who was kicked out of Isaac Jenkins’
music class on his FIRST day (remember that,
Steve?). The guy who was sent to the office
for putting a stinking wasp nest in the
teacher's desk? Yeah I know, what a moron!
Class Idiot? Dumbo without the ears? Homer
Garp is the name and irresponsibility is my
game.
OK, we have this problem. It’s been 45 years
since we graduated and some of us are
thinking it might be time to get together,
but we’ll need everyone’s help to pull it
off. A small committee (Peggy Clark Irlmeier,
Lora Janssen, Warren Riedesel and I) has
been investigating ideas. There appears to
be enough interest to have our own gathering
the day AFTER the All School Reunion, so we
WILL be celebrating our 45th on Saturday,
August 3rd in Carroll.
Help us by making sure we have your e-mail
address. Check the column at right on the
main
web page. If your name is in black, we have
no e-mail address for you. Please send it to
me at
tryondb@mchsi.com
.
If your
name shows in blue, we do have an e-mail
address for you but who knows whether it’s
current?! Click on your name and check it;
notify me if you have a newer or preferred
address.
During my
almost 40 years of teaching in high school
classrooms, I was reminded daily of the
school days of my own youth. Looking out at
my students, I could always spot another
Jeff, John, Peggy, Mike, Kris or Carla. (Not
so sure I’ve run into another Ricky,
though!) The names were different, but a lot
was eerily familiar. I discovered long ago
just how lucky we were and how grateful I
have become to have been associated with so
many wonderful classmates, superb teachers
and such a supportive community in Glidden.
I think we all bleed a little blue and gold
from time to time.
Even though we’re scattered geographically,
we do have a bond.
We’re not
getting any younger and frankly, I’d hate to
think that we might never again see some of
our fellow "wildcatters" who sweated,
labored and laughed their way through years
of school together. Admittedly, very few of
you have been as poor as myself about
attending reunions over the years, but I’m
afraid we may be running out of
opportunities. It is time to restore the
roar! We need contributions. Not money, just
your help, interest and attendance if we
have a reunion this year. I volunteered to
design this web site to help us communicate
better, get back in touch with each other.
Will you help us?
Last summer, James Grant Tracy and I finally
got together. First time since the early
1970s. We went to Kansas City and watched a
couple of Royals games against the Baltimore
Orioles. Jim and I went to our first major
league baseball game together in 1961, when
his dad and an uncle took us. That too, was
in KC, So long ago, they were called the
A's. Well, not to bore you, but Jim and I
laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed
for two days, at everything. Man, did the
stories fly in that car! Some were even a
little true. We both got to thinking how
much fun it would be to reunite with other
classmates to cherish and relive the great
times we had growing up. We couldn’t have
picked a better time period, a better school
system, a better community or a better
country to grow up in. I always told my
students I grew up with the BEST people and
in the BEST school anyone could have hoped
for. Gosh, I was lucky. Even an idiot like
me had the opportunity to do things that I
never could have done at a larger school.
Even if you cannot make the All-School
Reunion or the Class of ;68 reunion
in August 2013, maybe we can get you to
contribute in some way to this website.
Think of it as our own private Facebook. Old
or new pictures, storytelling, news of your
family or community people, fond memories
could all be hosted here. You can even
contribute just by checking in from time to
time. The mission of the web site is to show
the world what a great class we were and
are! So try to support this effort. ON TO
STATE IN 68!! --Homer Garp, editor
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