TLC #58: Sept. 20, 2003
Dear Hearts and
Gentle People:
Emergency! People are lost! A whole
classful of them! Actually, it is their addresses that are lost. Attention
Class of 1954!!! Your local members hope to put together a whiz-bang 50th
Reunion during the last weekend of September 2004. So, first write it on your
calendars. Second, get out your address books and send any addresses you have to
one of the following contact people:
Jan Beretta
Beyer #2 Lakeview Drive Lexington, MO 64067
660-259-3203 rjjbeyer@iland.net |
Sue Bell Bartley
1302 Amelia Avenue Lexington, MO 64067
660-259-3583 |
Louis Mautino Country
Club Lexington, MO 64067
660-259-2736
|
Or you can send them to me and I'll see
that they get to the proper place.
News from Lexington: This very morning
the groundbreaking ceremony for the new county jail was held. It will be
located behind the courthouse, and the project also includes rehabilitating
our 1905 City Hall!
Now that the
business portion is concluded, on with the
show:
In response to Barbara '55 Tabb Jarman's Central School
photo, the following arrived from Ken (Mickey)
Conger:
Hi, Susan - the TLC's are great. In the TLC website
pic of Central School- 1944-45 the teacher at the lower left is my Mom, Mrs.
Ralph Conger. As I went to Arnold School, I can't help with student I. D.'s.
Keep up the good work.
Be sure to see the new web page photos! And while
you're there, see the treasures sent by Don Stephenson. Here's what he
wrote:
Some time back, I indicated in an e-mail that I was in a play while
attending dear old Lexington High School and that I thought I had a copy of
the program somewhere. Well, believe it or not, I found it. Attached
is a copy of the program. (Ed - see web
page.)
The play was entitled "A Very Light Brigade" and, after 60 years, I have
a little trouble remembering exactly what it was all about, but I think it was
about guys either recently entering the service or facing entering the service
during the period before the United States was officially a combatant in World
War II but was getting prepared for the possibility that we would be, The
time period of the play was the summer of 1941 but it was performed on May 6,
1943.
The interesting thing is that within a month of the time the play was
performed, I was sworn into the Army and spent the next 3 years in the Army
including 15 months overseas in India.
If any of the "thespians" in the play are still around the area, you
might ask them for details about the play. One of the actors, Ralph Hawkins, was
a close friend but I lost touch with him after I went into the service and
I never heard what happened to him. I think his family moved away
from Lexington during the war, so I couldn't contact them to find out. So, if
anyone knows what happened to him, I would like to
know.
I guess I never got the acting fever because I pursued a career in
engineering, not acting. However, I did take part a couple of times
in a musical show that was put on for a fund raising for
charity.
Some may find interesting the list of actors and sponsoring
teachers.
And, while he was looking, he found another
treasure:
I don't know how much interest there would be in this but I have a copy
of the Lexington Jr.-Sr. High school newspaper, the "Incubator" for April 5,
1939, when I was an eighth grader. I don't know why I happened to
save this issue except that I don't think the Incubator was published regularly
and this may have been the last issue while I was in
school.
There is a write-up for each grade from 7th through 12th, as well as some
articles of general interest. There is an article about a music program to
be presented by the Mo. Valley Choir, one about the outlook for boys' track,
girls' athletics, corridor chatter, unruly behavior in assembly, and a warning
from the student council about students violating school regulations by
loitering in the halls after entering the building, blocking traffic on the
sidewalks, going to lockers between classes, boys wearing hats inside, and other
shocking acts.
Jack Gueguen sent a memory after Fern
Tabb's passing:
Back in 1951 (when I
became 18), I think she was the local Selective Service (Draft Board)
representative. I failed to register with her on my birthday, apparently
oblivious of this little requirement, or thinking it would be taken care of
automatically when I entered WMA that fall. When somebody finally alerted
me to it (maybe it was she, as she often saw me pass her home--on Washington
Ave.?), I made the bashful appearance of a delinquent at her
home. After a little "official" remonstrance, she figured out a way
to "finesse" the registration. (It may be that such cases did happen now
and then.) She was such a gracious, noble lady.
That's the end of the TLC text. But a lot of fun awaits you on
the web page. You will be amused to see The
Incubator devoted a column to Nicknames! Even in those days Lexington abounded
with them.
Just you watch your Citizenship Habits and don't be loitering in
the halls or wearing your hats inside!
Your devoted scribe,
Susan
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