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MY ALUMNI MEMORIES
This is a test for us, old kids! The answers are printed below, but don't you cheat.
READY????? Here we go! Enjoy!!
01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the
sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man?
Invariably, someone would answer, I don't know, but he left this
behind. What did he leave behind?____________
02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all
watched them on The __________________ Show.
03. "Get your kicks, ___________________."
04. "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been
changed___________________."
05. "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________."
06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we
"danced" under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a
dance called the "_____________."
07. "N_E_S_T_L_E_S", Nestle's makes the very best
_______________."
08. Satchmo was America's "Ambassador of Goodwill." Our parents
shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was
_________________.
09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________
10. Red Skelton's hobo character was named __________________ and
Red always ended his television show by saying, "Good Night, and
"_______________".
11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning
their____________.
12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk
in
the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by?
____________ & _______________.
13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, "the day the
music died." This was a tribute to ___________________.
14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The
Russians did it. It was called ___________________.
15. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large
plastic
ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the
________________
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ANSWERS:
01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02. The Ed Sullivan Show
03. On Route 66
04. To protect the innocent.
05. The Lion sleeps tonight
06. The limbo
07. Chocolate
08. Louis Armstrong
09. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, The Freeloader, and "Good Night, and may God Bless."
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned.)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hoola-hoop
lass rings, friends, term papers, parties...such memories we each have!! PHS was a special place in all of our lives!!!! I have lived, taught and watched my own sons grow up in Pulaski and I still look up on the hill at PHS..a part of my life.
All in all, I believe it was really the best years of my life except I did not look at it as such then!
.Cruising from one end of the town (on Rt 11)to the other end to see who else was out and about (especially girls!).
.Hanging out at the Orange Float, the Blank Angus, Tom's drive-in, the Freezer Fresh (for the same purpose as cruising).
.Sock-Hops in the Gymn after Football and Basketball games.
.Friday night Football and Basketball games.
.Friday or Saturday night double dates at the Pulaski Theater.
.Those lovely nights of parking on Peak's Knob (or elsewhere).
.Saturday night dances at the American Legion and the National Guard Armory.
.Cruising Wytheville, Dublin and Radford.
.Roy Alley's hot dogs at Roy's Lunch.
.Claytor Lake and working there in the summer.
.Drag races between the bridges on Dublin Road at the Country Club.
.Tyler's Drug store after school.
.Swimming at Pine Point and Needle Rock in the summer.
.Last but not least...cruising the back roads late at night listening to AM radio station WLAC in Nashville TN (Black Rythem and Blues) while drinking beer and smoking Camel cigarettes. Nobody else was on the road, and if the good sheriff did happen to catch you, he'd just tell you to go home (That must sound amazing to kids these days)! We were so lucky to be there then back then!
Not good at estimates, but it is probably a hundred feet or more high or at least it seemed that high. We would also jump off and swim the length of the bridge. We were pretty adventurous in those days.
It was Our High School - We left the comfort and familiarity of our neighborhoods to pass into a world of strangers. We were filled with the same apprehension we had the first time mommy dropped us off for our first grade classes.
It was the year we met new friends, greeted puberty and melded into the Class of 1967.
Memories of sports competitors, “The Dublin Dukes” with their top hats and the rival games we had along with all the other school teams we played.
Even today, those schools, the teachers, and the friends we made are part of our memory - and provide a source of friendly rivalry.
Our old High School became a Middle School
So did the Dublin High School, both completely different now.
Now The Pulaski County High School absorbs surrounding students and they have their memories.
If not ‘Greatest Class That Ever Was' We're the best under Heaven,
We're the Class of '67, we were one of the most fortunate!
We never knew depression – Pulaski was prosperous and all the stores were open. We assumed everything would stay as it was. – Although we were in the middle of Viet Nam, and unrest in other parts of the country, Pulaski Virginia was not a part of it, to us it was all far far away, there was no doubt that our futures would be great.
When we walked across the stage of the High School Auditorium and took our diplomas from the hand of William E. Porter, our Principal, we marched hopefully into the world where there was no inflation, no unemployment, low interest rates and low taxes; 25 cent hamburgers, 10 cent hotdogs, and 10 cent cokes. A world full of opportunity, with the promise that we could even earn $200.00 a week and our security was assured.
We just knew that those things would last forever.
Turmoil was to come later.
Though each of us now have other lives; different friends; families of our own and other interests, our high school years will forever be a part of us. A memory when activated brings a smile or a tear of emotion in ether case gratification that we have those memories within us all.
Our memories of friends, our first, (second, third, or forth) loves will haunt us the rest of our lives. I remember all of you – I miss all of you.
Many things change, but there is one permanency; solid even today the Class of 1967!
Thank all of you for being a part of it with me.