Bob Duver remembers:
I remember Kenny Hornberger kissed Marjorie Fisher on the way to recess and he was a GREAT baseball player
I remember playing baseball on the Scottish Rite team with Rich Noever (undefeated season) and endless hours of playing catch-throwing curves/drops and hitting wiffle balls
I remember Hazel Lee Simmons, petting a bull dog through the fence, and losing cherished marbles at Cordley
I remember our sixth grade teacher making us do the bunny hop at recess time
I remember Miss Wismer, our seventh grade science teacher-lived to be 100-my daughter and I visited her at Presbyterian Manor
I remember I and some guys in our Jr. High metal shop wrote to Annette Funichello
I remember learning to bowl at the Palladium Bowl and, Tom, the proprietor
I remember long summer days and summer vacations that seemed to last a really long time
I remember 4th of July's with M-80s and Cherry Bombs
I remember going down the Wakarusa river in a Chevrolet hood as our boat with Burk Villee
I remember coach Duver yelling at Jim Calvert (and always being asked how I was related to him)
More from Bob:
I remember batting against the pitching of Fred Hartman (those slow curve balls that you couldn't really hit squarely) and Daryl Green (they called him "sparrow") who had a fast ball that really scared me.
I remember nanny Duver saying "shinny up that rope boy"...even though he had never taught any of us to do so
I remember John Scott, at lone star lake, swinging on a rope over the water and dropping lit M-80s out of his mouth into the water (before they went off thankfully)
I remember someone putting M-80s into the mail box of Cheryl and Kathy Bowman at their Pleasant Grove home
I remember going steady with Linda Wright (I wonder if she ever became a veterinarian as she desired)
I remember riding my bike to Grant's pet store and buying "cleary" marbles there
I remember that I and my friends were sure there was a witch living in our neighborhood on Barker St.
I remember long evenings playing kick the can and seeing the "test pattern" on our TV
I remember driving around the square and through Allen's Drive In; especially those good times cruising in Burk Villee's '34 Chevy. I think Tex Rider bought that car.