40th High School Reunion
Edmond, Oklahoma

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As you all know I am working on a scrapbook for the reunion. Have been unable to pull photos off the website so if anyone has pictures of any of the events, leading up to and including the main event, that you don't mind me using in my book please send to me and I will return them to you as soon as I've scanned them. My mailing address is:

Hope Johnson
8311 N.W. 7th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73127

Thanks in advance to all who can help me with this.

Thank you for adding the eulogy. Johnny you presented it as no one else could have. I believe again it shows what a special class the CLASS OF 64 is. Thank all of you for letting me to share it with you. Hope.

By the way, David, thanks for pointing out in your Top 10 Surprises that Gary Canan and I could still FIT into our little twirler outfits, even though we couldn't make them look as good as Marti and Andy. SHAME on all of you who pinched us, though. Some things never change! :)

THANKS to Janie & Alan, Sherry & Bill, and the rest of the committee and the ENTIRE CLASS for making the whole experience a BLAST! The memories, both new and old. were well worth the trip from California. The restaurant staff where the spontaneous after-gathering occurred asked: "Are you with "that crew?" as we entered, to which we proudly exclaimed: "YES!" Thanks to you all for being such wonderful people and friends then, in between, and now. "EHS the Movie" is excellent, and I've had much fun sharing it with my family and friends here in southern California who are amazed at how good it is, and better, how great the class is. I'm looking forward to next time!

John Ingram

The recent poem by "anon" is great. But don't remain anonymous. Take credit for the special thoughts you put together. I miss you all and wish we could have had more time together. I didn't get to see and talk to everyone as I would have liked. Can we do it again?? I really appreciated how far some of you traveled to make it to the reunion. We did and do have a great class! See some of you soon.

I've just been reading all the new comments in the Memories section and I agree with everyone... the reunion was uplifting, joyful, exciting, and it was wonderful to see your sweet lovely faces! I will remember it always. God bless you all.

Helen Parrish Smith

I WAS A LATE-COMER TO EDMOND. IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO FEEL LIKE I BELONGED. MOST OF MY MEMORIES WERE OF COLLEGE.
I DO REMEMBER ONE NIGHT AT BARB GAINEY'S HOUSE WHEN GENE SCHMIDT AND SOME OTHER GUY CAME OVER
WHEN ESTELLE WAS NOT THERE AND MAX(DIED LAST YEAR) SHOWED UP AND DRAGGED ME HOME! NANCY PIERCE WAS SO MAD AFTER I THREW AWAY HER ROSES SHE ASKED ME TO MOVE OUT OF OUR APARTMENT. SHE WAS GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO FORGIVE LATER. DO I REMEMBER ALL THE PEP CLUB ROLLING UP OUR SKIRTS AFTER WE
LEFT FOR SCHOOL? THANKS, NANCY FOR BRING ME UP TO DATE AND HELPING ME REMEMBER.

THE FILM IS FIRST CLASS,AS IS THE BOOK! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO LABORED!

I still think daily about our fabulous reunion. Seeing everyone there was a definite plus in my life. I wish I would have spent at least an hour with everyone in our class to get to know them a little. Looking back, I believe "Hi" was the most I ever spoke to the majority of my classmates.
Seeing a familiar face from long ago is uplifting. I am so very interested in what everyone has done since graduation. Maybe we can e-mail our classmates and get to know each other that way. I sincerely hope that all can attend the next one. I would like to thank all my fellow committe members for their unselfish dedication of their time to make this reunion happen. I will always appreciate the time that I spent with them. It gave me more than that "hour" opportunity to get to know them a little better. Love to all Judy

A big thank you to all who worked so hard to make our 40th reunion such a huge success. Special thanks to Sherry for being a great general and to Janie & Alan for making an academy award winning movie. I enjoyed every minute of the weekend and was so glad I got to see everyone (even the "spies" from other classes!). The Class of '64 rocks!! xoxoxo, Barbara

P.S. I got a late email from Tawny. She's all right now, but was ill and at the last minute couldn't make it after all. We missed you Tawny!

The reunion was great. It seems everyone is so happy with themselves. I think that makes us a very successful class. I look forward to hearing more on Greg and Jackie's 60 year plan. Also Renea wanted to let everyone know how much she enjoyed meeting everyone and how welcome all made her feel.

Terry Brooks

I just want to tell whoever did the Poem it is Fantastic. Only to have such talent. I have also started the scrapbook for the 40 Year Reunion so if anyone has any photos or memories they would like to add to it please fill free to send to me; I need all the help I can get. Once again; thanks to all who attended for the all the memories then and since.

Hope

The Reunion

I heard you laugh
just as I got to the door
and suddenly we were kids again
in the hall, interacting, classmates, friends.

Running, walking, hurrying, waiting,
reading, writing, working, playing,
yelling, whispering, studying, goofing,
dating, loving, heart breaking, heart speeding,
dancing, romancing,
dragging,racing, hanging, driving,
Living.

As I walk down the hallowed halls of time
I hear you laugh
and I am warmed
because I know you are all right.
No matter what the world has dealt us
Triumph, tribulation, war, assassination,
we are classmates, we are friends
we are going to be alright.
I heard you laugh.

And now as good or bad as things may be
what I am, what I’ve become
as I and others see.
You were my classmate, you’re my friend
and for better and forever, you’ve become a part of me.

So at the very last reunion
as I step through the door,
if you are inside or behind me
I’ll hear you laugh.

Thanks to everyone who worked on putting together an awesome 40th reunion. I truly enjoyed getting to see everyone and hearing about people's life adventures during the last 40 years! Wow - what a novel some of those stories would make! Carla

I would like to say "Thank You" to Sherry, Nancy, Carolyn, Karen, and Bill for sharing your stories about the reunion. I am so sorry that I let a broken shoulder stand in the way of being with all of you at the reunion. This is something that I will regret forever! I should of made myself go.......I would like to say Thanks to all of you who worked so hard putting this reunion together. Even though I wasn't there...through the Video and C.D. I got to see all of you that were there! You all looked wonderful. Lord willing, maybe I will be able to attend the next reunion. Until then...Love and Best Wishes

I just want to thank everyone that made a special effort to come to our "40th" reunion. It was so good to see all of you. It was worth all the long hours, sweat, and tears that all the committee members shared to put this together. I know that I had the best time ever! I can't believe we can still dance like we are teens. I do believe that several of us (Warren, Judy, Betty, Janie, Sharon, David, John and myself) need to make an AARP commercial to the tune of YMCA. At first I thought we all might need Jerry Hyatt to revive us but we all made it. It was so good to see so many having the best time. It was as if it hadn't been 20 years since the last reunion. I also want to say that John Ingram gave the best eulogy (in honor of our deceased alumni). It made us all realize the importance of their existence in our lives. We also enjoyed seeing past teachers, Don Matthews, Ralph Bullard, & Ella Mae Broyles. I also want to thank those that traveled from beyond the state of Oklahoma just to come to the reunion. Mary Hamilton came from Korea, and Janie White from Bonaire. They need a very special award. Those that didn't see the "Movie", missed a real treat. It really brought us down memory lane! Janie and Alan should start their own production company and make movies. I don't know about you all but I hated for it to end! See you all at the next reunion!!!!!

I can't believe how much fun we had at the reunion!! It was wonderful to see everyone and we all look pretty good. Sherry and Janie and everyone who put it together did a great job. I did miss seeing the people who didn't make it, especially those who live right here in Edmond. They just don't realize what they missed. Let's not wait so long again to get together. Tawny, Paulette, Janie Browne, Donna, Gary Beck, George, Bill T.--where were you all??

THANKS FOR THE AWESOME REUNION AND ALL THE HARD WORK THAT WAS PUT INTO IT...IT WAS GOOD TO SEE ALL THOSE WONDERFUL FACES AGAIN....THANK YOU JUDY FOR BEGGING ME TO COME EVEN THOU YOU DIDN'T DANCE ALOT WITH ME.....NICE TO SEE WHAT GREAT PEOPLE EVERYONE HAS BECOME.....THE DVD WAS MIND BLOWING AND SO GREAT THAT YOU WORKED EVERYONE IN.......OUR CLASS REUNION HAD TO BE THE BEST EVER....THANK YOU ALL AGAIN AND AGAIN....................KEEP ON DANCING IN YOUR HEARTS..............VIVA LAS VEGAS....DEEDEE.........................................

I just want to thank all who came to the reunion. It was something I really needed to attend and didn't realize until I got there. Thank you Sherry for being so persistent. I have started a special scrapbook to remind me how special it was to be brought up in Edmond at a special time and with so many special people.

Thanks to all of you. For all of you who where unable to be there you remember you were thought of often throughout the weekend.

THIS 40TH REUNION WAS AWESOME AND AMAZING. TO SEE EVERYONE AGAIN WAS SO VERY UPLIFTING AND INSPIRING FOR ME. HOPEFULLY WE CAN CONTINUE TO KEEP IN TOUCH AND GET TOGETHER MORE FREQUENTLY. THOSE WHO WERE NOT THERE, WE MISSED YOU! THERE SHOULD BE A 'MAKE-UP' REUNION FOR THEM. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR MAKING THAT SPECIAL EFFORT.

Nobody ever TOLD me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When, as freshmen, we graphed our achievement test results. Andy Hicks was not there so Mrs. Anderson did hers....99s all the way across! Unheard of!

Mr. Burdett would always play with his lighter in his slacks pocket and we'd wish that someday it would light and he'd burn himself.

Flee Fly Flow....a hit at the top of the charts in Korea!

I actually teach this "cultural highlight" to my Korean university students at Kyung Hee University, Seoul.

It is actually a good rhythmic excercise for language aquisition, belive it or not!

The interesting part comes when I ask the students to explain what they think it means......
(a few of the responses: something to do with dating
sounds sexy to me
running away from home
asking permission....or not
"come fly with me"
Western thinking is illogical
something to do with Latin dancing
can't make up your mind
is an oaten doaten something to eat?)

They really get into doing Flee Fly with a lot of rhythm. Sometimes they add extra words or verses. You hear it on campus sometimes.

Well, who knew the EHS '64 "class chant" would become a Korean university chant?




Flee, flee fly, flee fly flow, VISTA!
Poma loma, cuma loma, cuma la vista.
Oh, no, no, no, NOT the vista, VISTA.
Eenie, meenie, disaleenie
ooh,ah,ah, maleenie
ah, cha cha cha, koomaracha
ah, ooh, ooh
Ish a bibbly oaten doaten
Bo bo buh deeten dotten
Why not? And shhhhhhhhhhhh!

You went skinny dipping at Salvo's lake and swimming pool(we know who you were).
See the pictures at re-union.

Several guys removed the school's south entry door's center post, then
carried Ms. Miller's English Ford from the parking lot, up a flight of stairs
and left it sitting in the hallway near her room. Over the intercom, soon
afterwards, the principal offered amnesty to the responsible parties if
they would immediately return the vehicle to its rightful parking place
outside. There were no suspensions that day(except for the car.)

Who was hiding in Mr Burdetts room when I slid through the glass window as I and another were running from Ms Millington.

Remember when 2 full rows of Ms Hall's American History class along with numerous others skipped school and went to the Ponderosa for the day?

Just remembered , we smoked in Pinto Beans model T ford

Someone snuck out of Mrs. Kevlin's spanish class to have a smoke and
got caught. I forgot Who else was with me but that was my first whipping I ever got in school from 1st grade on.

Hey Jackie Norman , Remember the Bus LOL I sure do and to those who are reading
this , its nothing bad so settle down.

The first Golf team in EHS History and who were the Team members were??
Also what happened on the way back from a Golf match?? I'm sure some of the
Golf team will remember I sure do . :) Thats the only sport I lettered in and
They didn't give out lettere . Check out the year book for some pictures.

This is for Marie..yes I remember that night with out blonde wigs..well,Marie Guess what I'm blonde and living in Vegas and still wearing blonde wigs and going to Studio 54" and giving out different names..I changed my name to "DeeDee" GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

WONDERING WHAT COLOR GENE SCHMIDT'S '52 FORD WAS GOING TO BE THE NEXT DAY!
MAYBE THE BIGGEST SHOE PURCHASE FOR A GUY IN THE EARLY SIXTIES, CORDOVAN SADDLE OXFORDS.

Betty Compton - do you remember the night in our sophmore year when we (both redheads) put on platinum blonde wigs and went "dragging main"? Willie Ozbirn, D.L. Jones and a couple other senior jocks started following us and pulled in beside us at the Sonic. We gave them phoney names and said we were from Putnam City H.S. - they did not recognize us - what a hoot!

I remember all the fun school bus rides with Bobbie John and all his constant teasing, especially over shaving legs and oh yea- the topper - when he named his FFA pig after me. I was less than thrilled, but he said I should be flattered; he loved that pig - ha!

How did Sammie Kellner get the nickname "Snake"? Jimmie Green claimed he was responsible, but was he?

TO ANONYMOUS: Was that really supposed to be an engagement ring?

Does anyone remember the theme of the senior homecoming float? I have a photo with Penny and Greg on it and it looks like they are angels, obviously miscast. jt

Does anyone remember exactly how or why she got to be called "Goose" anyway?
I've always understood that it was an unfortunate by-product of her running around during early morning band practice whilst striking the ground with her clarinet and shouting "Goose! Goose!"

All except Martha DuBois are urged to recollect and respond. As for Martha(as some might say): "You go, Goose."

Danney "I-Been-on-Oprah" Goble
(and it shows)

When I heard the announcement that JFK had been shot, I was just walking into "Problems of Democracy" class. I remember thinking that this was one problem not covered in the lesson plan.

Stan Moore

RE: Warren's memories of the JFK day, I think the rest of us heard Sherri Gragg make the announcement of the intercom.

TIME: 1963
PLACE: Backstage at Rehearsal of EHS Junior Class Play, "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
SCENE: During a break, Student Director, Martha D, is consulting with Play Sponsor, M (for "Mister") Shaw.
The Cast is goofing off. CHANTMASTER(CM) ENTERS, BACKSTAGE, LEFT.
CM(in a commanding voice): fleeeeee... CAST(a few responses): fleeee!
CM(louder): flee, fliiii... CAST(more voices, louder): Flee, Flii!!
CM(insistent now): flee, fli, floooo... CAST(everybody, emphatic): FLEE, FLI, FLO!!!
CM(now with a long falling tone): viiiis-taaaay... CAST(they've got the spirit now): VIIIIS..TAAAY!!
HEAR that Call&Response as the Beat Goes ON: Pomma-lodda-kooma-lodda-kooma-la-vistay. Ooooh, nooooo-oh, no not the vistay. Vistay. (Vistay.) Vistay. (Vistay.) Eeeni-meeni-dis-aleeni-oo-ah-am-aleeni. Ama-racha-kooma-racha-ah-ooo-ooooo. ISH-BIBBALI-Oaten-Doaten-Bo-Bo-Buh-DEETEN-Dotten. Why NOTTEN??.........ssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!

NOTE FROM 'ANDY': Wasn't Alex the one who started us doing that Chant? I've remembered that thing ever since 1963, although I wonder how much it's changed in my memory over the years. Do any of you other Cast Members remember it differently?? Post your version, OK? (If you can figure out how to spell that stuff :-} )

This also being the forty year anniversery of the Kennedy assassination, I bet we all remember that day. I remember being at a speech tournament in Enid--Phillips University--when the announcment was made. The members of the speech team went to the motel we were staying at and watched the aftermath togetheron T.V. I don't think any of us fully understood the greater consequences of that day, but I do remember it being a very surreal experience. I remember watching it with Alex Frank, Danny Goble, Mary Smith, Bob McLaughton, and I think Marcia Roberts.

Mrs. Anderson reaching inside her dress to pull her bra strap up! I think of her everytime I see someone do that!

During a party at his grandma's house Warren tried to teach me how to belch by drinking a whole bottle of cola without stopping. I successfully belched through my mouth and nose and Warren practically fell off the balcony laughing. He assured me that belch was good enough to last me the rest of my life. I've gotten better at it, Warren, Thanks!

Dan Goble - and his C02 cartridge powered race car!

Early morning "Native American" war dances by the wierd band members on the practice field in the wet grass!

and how damn OLD the codgers of the class of 66 look in all the pictures on their web site!

jack shaw nicknaming three of us--motor mouth (joe butler); metal mouth(richard patterson); and mammoth mouth(myself)

Phil Wallace backing his truck up 15 miles so it would turn over 100,000 miles in front of Sherri Gragg's house.

I remember setting in Miss Halls class 1st hour , she would always ask Gene schmidt,if he was hungry.He would always say a little.She always pulled a bright yellow banna out of her brown bag lunch sack . Gene would eat as always , then he would get sleepy ,So we had to open all the windows and all stand up ,no matter how cold it was out side .THANKS ALOT GENE .

Nicnames:
ADNIL-Linda Martin
Bird Legs-Janie Browne
Joe Bruce-Gerald Shilling
Twiggie-Elwyn Hastings
Gracful Gar-Gary Billen
Charlie-Andy Hicks
Tom Cat-Tommy Smith
Johnathen P Johnathen-Paul Kessler

ooops,,,make that retch,,,not wretch. :-)

mary mahood, delicately picking her nose and rolling the results between finger and thumb, while she delicately chugged 1/2 a coke. disgusting. i sat behind carmen and we would both gag and wretch during her performances.

During Mrs. Hall History class, Connie Conrad took her shoes off and Mrs. Hall casually picked them up and put them behind her back for the rest of class without Connie knowing it and when we were ready to leave, she wouldn't give Connie her shoes back without making it a really big deal. It was quite amusing to everyone but Connie.

I took American History in summer school so I would not have to take it in regular school year. Miss Hall would make the girls comb all the teasing out of their hair for her class and then they had to run to the girls room and try to fix it back before the next class. Stress........

I remember having to go get a Coke every afternoon for Miss Mahood. The Cokes were so cold and looked so goooood in the heat of the afternoons, I thought surely one day I would take a sip...... but never did.

I remember how our principal and teachers instilled in us an awareness of fairness and courtesy. They helped us to remain responsible and considerate
I think we were fortunate to grow up in a small town, although we were over protected. Edmond High School was a great place to go to school and my memories of those years are all very pleasant. I absolutely LOVED

Ratting our hair real high (the higher the better) and then putting a bow in the side to make it look even better.

trying to sleep with HUGE rollers in our hair and then having to wear them all day Saturday to get ready for a date on Saturday night.

all the many early morning band practices and having to wear rollers in our hair just to be prepared for school.

When Ms. Mahood would choose someone "Special" to get her afternoon coke. I never got chosen!

Stanila had a black cape and was pretending to be "The Duke of Earl" in the Senior Hall.

Nancy Payne
Oct. 11, 2003

And remember when Mr. Burdett would always get his foot caught in his desk drawer? (Seems my memory has a foot fetish.)

Remember Mr. Rice walking around barefoot in winter?

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