would include remarks about historical references as well as culture outside of school
Every man born between 1947 and 1954 has a draft story. Our cohort was impacted by this element of the Vietnam War because all males were required to register before their 18th birthdays with the military’s Selective Service System, aka the Draft. Men’s numbers were assigned by a random lottery which was matched to birthdays, […]
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Kelley Burford spent every summer, including 1969, working on the family sheep ranch. “The one that sticks out in my mind was landing on the moon. We were up at the ranch and had no TV.” Kelley remembers driving to the neighbors property, where the was TV, two miles down the road. “It was a
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“We sort of came of age during the Vietnam War. My two main memories of that are, one, the body counts on TV every week – how many American soldiers and how many VietCong were killed every week. Every week there were, like, 200 Americans and 2,000 Vietnamese. I remember thinking, ‘oh, we must be
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Carol Hunt (Rodel) had two stand-out teachers in elementary school at Orchard Avenue School for, third and fourth grades, with Mrs. Apple and Mrs. Whittier. Both made learning fun. “Of course, the most memorable kid in there was Harry Brown. He wrote a book called ‘Sundays in August,’ I have a signed copy. That book
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An excerpt from “Sundays in August” by Harry Clifford Brown Harry’s first novel, “Sundays in August,” draws upon his growing-up experience in the early 1960’s living in the neighborhood near Orchard Avenue school at 1800 Orchard Ave. Carol Hunt (Brodel), who has an autographed copy of the book, says Harry perfectly captured the place, time
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Tammy Shriver (Keller) has a great first job story. In May of 1971, between junior and senior years, she decided she wanted a summer job. She checked out the phone company, then Mountain Bell, and was hired as a Directory Assistance operator. “Remember back in the day when people would call 411? They had us
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Carol’s summer memory was swimming with the Dolphins swim team, which her father, Floyd Hunt, coached. She swam on the team for nine summers, including being part of “the most magnificent medley relay and freestyle relay (team), and Jane Bergman was on it.” Carol swam the backstroke, Jane the breaststroke, and, Carol proudly says, “no
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