Rogers60

This month Wyatt Newman and I are each taking a 10,000 foot flight over the senior pictures pages of the John R. Rogers H.S. 1960 Treasure Chest annual. This is risky because we might unintentionally offend  a classmate by omission or commission. I'm going for it, hoping for no faux pas.  Let's go, page-by-age through pages 24 through page 57. I will mention only those I either knew face-to-face in 1956-1960 or subsequently became acquainted with through cyberspace, at a reunion, or at a dinner. This is going to be long. It's purpose is to try to get you to browse the 1960 TC to  recall your own list of senior classmates.

1. Ronald Anderson: Classmate at Cooper Elementary. Good student. Teammate from tennis. He was in the top five or three. I was in the bottom two or three.
2. Gary Anderson: Next-door neighbor and classmate at Cooper. Good student. Another teammate good at tennis. I ran into Gary at his house in 2006. I was just leaving his house after visting his father the first time in 40 years. Gary said he had no clue who I was until I said my name. "Eddie!" he exclaimed. That was cool.
3. Sharon Anderson: We played as preschoolers. Attended public kindergarten together in the basement of my grandparents' Lidgerwood Presbyterian Church. First girl I ever kissed. This was in the first-through third grade when I attended Hamilton Elementary. Never spoke to her after third grade Never even saw her after third grade, until Rogers. Then I never even spoke to her in the hallways. I have no idea why, except that personalities diverge in teen years. I understand she was was into crafts in her late years and was known as the "Ice Cream Lady" of Deer Park.
4. Lloyd Apitz: I probably knew Lloyd at Rogers, but I know him better nowadays in cyberspace. He lent me some photos of the new Rogers for putting on the class website.
5. Dennis Bendickson: Classmate at Cooper.
6. Jim Birge: We had some classes together at Rogers. He signed my TC.
7. Patty Blangeres: Classmate at Cooper.
8. Jack Blum: Good guy. He was in the radio amature club. Good preview, because he spent his work life in radio. We correspond from time-to-time.
9. Phyllis Bordwell: Classmate at Cooper and was a neighbor across a field from my boyhood home. Her older sister, mother, and dad were good folks too. Super student. I always imagined her teaching piano. At the 40th reunion I told her this (after having NO problem recognizing her). She said she had taught piano. Bingo.
10. Billie Bretthauer: I don't recall knowing "Biker Billie," then, but I've talked to her in person at a dinner and in cyberspace. She's one of the good ones.
11. Joanne Brown: Super student. I took various math classes and shared Mr. Grafious' debate class with her at Rogers. I talked to her at the 40th reunion.
12. Larry Burrow: I knew him casually. He was probably the first Southerner I ever met. He was a solid, straight-up guy.  Good practice for me, as I've spent my most-recent 32 years in the South and plan to die here.
13. Mary Elizabeth Carr: I think we had some classes together.
14. Robert Cartwright: I probably have only talked to Bob in the last ten years.
15. Richard Churchhill: We were in the Future Medical Doctors of America (aka FMDA) club together. I had no intention of being a doctor. It was a mix-with-chicks club. Dick and I competed for the attentions Virginia Langston. He won, I think. I talked to Dick at the 40th reunion.
16. David Cogley: We were in upper math classes together. I corresponded with him once about ten years ago.
17. Wanda Conboy: Sat across an aisle in a history class from me. We bantered a bit.
18. Lonnie Connor: His locker was next to mine in the freshman year. My combination was 27-32-10.
19. Norman Cooper: Bantered with Norm many times in the day. Nice guy.
20. Bob Dawson: He was in Boy Scouts, Troop 6, from Bemiss. I met him at Camp Cowles. One year we took a two-week canoe trip together.  Funny guy. He was in the stern of his canoe, yelling to his bowman, "Paddle faster. Faster! Faster!" Bob was steering, not paddling. Later, at Rogers, we greeted one-another in the halls.
21. Ken Krampton: We shared Mr. Poffenroths's geography class in Fall, 1956.
22. Betty Dehn: I must have known her. She signed my TC.
23. Deinine Denman: Shared classes in junior and senior years. She wished me love and luck. Thanks for that.
24. Gary Dinsmore; Shared upper math classes with Gary, who signed my TC. He was an exceptional student. He and his wife have been wandering around the US and Canada in a motorhome pulling a shop housed in a trailer. The shop holds a DIY recumbent bicycle, their only transportation, aside from the rig. In 2005, I was on a consulting gig in WInston Salem, NC. Gary camped at Pilot Mountain. I took him and his wife to dinner a couple of nights. He stuck around to see Bob Parry on the weekend. Bob, like me, worked 100 miles from home, but lives near Winston Salem.
25. Allyn Dossett: Talked to him at the 50th reunion.
26. Betty Ann Dyer: Materialized from Ohio in our upper-class years. We shared a class or two with Mr. Grafious. I once escorted her to a football game, but soon realized she was out of my league.
27. Tom Foster: Knew him casually. He recently opted out of his rogers60.com registration because he wondered if it caused a computer problem of his (I say it didn't).
28. Duane Frederic: Shared Mrs. Frisbie's English class with Duane. He was a cut-up. He went on to become a US Army officer. Ten years ago he championed a posthumous Medal of Honor for a Vietnam vet. Duane got the medal for him. Duane and I corresponded during that time.
29. Judith Freese: Classmate from Cooper.
30. Mina Gormanos: I know her now! I didn't then -- or forget that I did.
    
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