This Week's Moment St. Patrick's Day in Las Vegas by Terry 'Moses' Preston I have found it!! The premier site for celebrating St Patrick's Day is on Fremont Street in Las Vegas. What a celebration! Whoa Nellie!! Being of Irish stock, I especially love St Patrick's Day, and I try to celebrate it in a different major city every year. This year, thanks to an invitation from Eddie and Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly (Generals and great Americans), we chose to do Las Vegas. They ended up canceling, so we felt it especially important to party twice as hard. I think we nailed it! We arrived in Las Vegas Friday evening, and headed straight for the Fremont Street Experience Downtown for the first evening of their three-day bash. Fremont Street has an overhead, semi-circular shaped, 5 city-blocks long canopy that is a state-of-the-art media lights and sound show. Minutes after arriving and getting our obligatory green beer, we were literally dancing in the streets to the sounds of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Doors, and other great groups, beneath the stunning overhead light show. Between the dancing in the street, listening to the Irish Bands, playing draw poker on the machines, and drinking too much of anything green (beer and Margaritas mostly), the evening lasted until 4:45 A.M., and that was only the first night! The next day began at the New York New York Casino where we marched in the St. Patrick's Day parade. The Casino honored us for having the most shamrock stickers on us, and we were photographed with Miss Liberty (look for us on the New York New York Casino web page). We then cruised the Excalibur and Luxor Casinos, then (a couple of Margaritas later) headed straight for Fremont Street again. What a street party! It was like we were in downtown Dublin, with five city blocks of rocking & rolling, gallons o' green beer, and tremendous Irish bands on outdoor stages. And there was no sissy Danny Boy stuff, just hard-driving Irish rollicking. Tiller's Folly, Seven Nations, and Craicmore were exceptional groups, but the greatest of them all was Kinship, who kept everyone dancing and singing for hours, in a veritable sea of green, interrupted each hour by a spectacular overhead light and sound show! We topped off the evening with steak & lobster tail at Tony Roma's before finally retiring just before midnight. It had been another 12 hours of celebrating and playing! Sunday afternoon was the finale for the weekend. We chose to dig the bands on Fremont Street again, drink some more Margaritas and green beer, celebrate with the other green-clad Irish folks in the street, and then head for the Lady Luck Casino. We exited there about $60.00 richer, had one more Coney Dog for the road, and then drove back to Southern California, happy, tired, and contented. We whole-heartedly recommend the Fremont Street Experience. It was good, clean fun, and all of the outdoor festivities are free. If you'd like to check it out visit http://www.vegasexperience.com, then head for Las Vegas! ________________________ Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections. ________________________ Something To Think About A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the sidewalk, and stopped inches from a shop window. For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said, "Look, don't ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!" The passenger apologized and said he didn't realize that a little tap could scare him so much. The driver replied "Sorry, it's not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver. I've been driving hearses for the last 25 years." __________________________ Senior Biology Test Question ________________________ |
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Remember Saturday Morning Cartoons? Trivia By Tommy Towery Hey kids...what time is it? It's Trivia Time!!! Yea! This week we go back to the boob tube and present you with photos of 10 clips of our early childhood TV friends. Some are oh so obvious. Others might force you to put on your thinking cap a bit. We always try to put in at least one hard one to keep it interesting. But, there's a new twist starting with this week's contest. To keep the memories going and not make this simply just another internet trivia site, the staff has elected to change our trivia contest rules a bit. From now on, e-mails with "JUST" trivia answers will not be elgible to win the contest. To vaildate your entry, you need to expand on some part of the contest with some personal memories for you. You don't have to write a 500 word theme, but you must include something. You can either share something about one or more of the questions, or share something about the subject of the week's contest in general. We think this will make the contests more fun to more people and will let all entries share their thoughts and not just have a list of correct and incorrect entries. (For example, this week you can relate your own memories about one of the cartoon characters above, or you can relate to the whole idea of watching cartoons on TV during your childhood. It doesn't have to be 1964-66.) To show you what we're asking for, I'll add one of my own memories about this subject. I didn't know all these guys were in color when I was at Lee. Neither my family nor any of my friends' families owned a color TV. I never had a color TV set until I was in the Air Force - 1969. We bought a little 13" GE set and thought we were the bee's knees. The first color TV show I ever saw was some football bowl game on New Year' Day of '63 or '64 at Miracle City on the Parkway. Now good luck and make your class proud of you. Please get your answers back to us by noon on Sautrday to insure that you will be in the contest. It takes a while to put all this stuff together you know! "Huntsville Photo" Trivia Contest By Tommy Towery We have two classmates who successfully identified the 10 buildings from the aerial photograph last week. I thought that I would fool a lot more of you, but we had many who missed only one or two. The Terry-Hutchens Building was a problem for a few, and several identified the Twickenham Hotel as the Yarborough Hotel. Does anyone have any information of the Yarborough Hotel? I have another postcard from the same period that definately identifies Number 6 as the Twickenham. Did it change to the Yarborough later? Anyway, the winners are Bob Alverson and Glenn James -Class of '65 (with their wives' help), and Bob Cochran from '64 who split the points and earn 50 for each class. Bob Cochran's answers to the 1956 aerial view of Huntsville postcard questions: 1. Post Office/Federal Court house 2. Russell Erskine Hotel 3. Terry-Hutchens Building (old Tennessee Valley Bank building) 4. Huntsville Times Building 5. Dunnavants 6. Twickenham Hotel 7. Henderson National Bank 8. First National Bank 9. Madison County Court House 10. YMCA (Editor's Note: Some of the buildings may have changed names at one time or another, but the question was "What were the names of the buildings when we were students at LHS.) ________________________________________________________ Bob Alverson also had all answers correct. Subject: Huntsville Trivia Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 09:02:05 -0600 From: "Robert Alverson" <BobAlverson@peoplepc.com> An undivided entry for the class of '65 since my wife's class doesn't count. She even offered to type this for me since I broke my arm Friday night but I managed to get it done with only one hand. Bob Alverson ('65) BobAlverson@peoplepc.com ________________________________________________________ Here are our answers to the Huntsville Trivia. Marie and I had to do a lot of dis"cussing" over some of these. But as usual, she being a native, I used most of her answers. Glenn James Class of '65 Marie James Huntsville High Class of '65 (Editor's Note: It's nice that some make this a family affair. As stated earlier, all are welcome to enter, but points can only be awarded to LHS 64-65-66 classes. That is done even though the brains of the family may belong to members of other classes and now it seems even other schools!!!) ________________________________________________________ Other Trivia Participants and/or Comments These clasmates scored less than perfect but at least participated! ________________________________________________________ Downtown Huntsville was one of my favorite places to hang out during the Fifties but, senility has creeped upon me in the grandpa stage of life! I worked for Mr. Lou Harrison of Union Dry Goods Store for a coupe of years in the fifties. His store was on Jefferson Street near Hornbuckle Music, Hale Brothers Furniture and Henderson Bank. This has been fun for me; thanks for the memories regardless of who wins. Johnny J. Sharp (Class of 1964 & Survivor of Ms. Faulkner's English classes) Stay healthy, happy and keep on smiling! ________________________________________________________ "Linda Walker" <lbwalker@usit.net> Sorry, Tommy, but my only guess is that No. 9 must be the Courthouse (hopefully that is the correct answer for a legal assistant to make). Nothing else looks familiar to me. My brain doesn't want to work. I spent the afternoon at the hospital with my mother. She has had a stroke and I believe she is one of the "Angels in Waiting" that we talked about in previous weeks. Please remember her in your prayers. Come on Class of '66. Let's try to catch up with the Class of '64. Linda Beal Walker Class of '66 (Editor's Note: Thanks for taking the time out of your troubles to share with us. If anyone wants to e-mail Linda, then click by her name above. Our hearts are with you.) ________________________________________________________ Tommy, I'm pretty sure about all of these except # 3 - it is now being remodeled into high priced downtown "New York-style lofts", which will sell in the $300,000.00 range, and # 6. The Yarbrough Hotel was used by the Huntsville Police Department as the headquarters of all detective sections and at one time was also the location of local attorney, Jack Daniels (I am not kidding). Always thought that was an appropriate name for an attorney - no offense to any of our classmates who were misguided enough to become lawyers (sorry Dag & J.R.!!). Thanks again for the good work on the site Rick Edmonds Class of '65 ________________________________________________________ Several of these I knew right off, several I guessed, and several I had no clue. This was a good teaser for the old brain.... Looking forward to the answers! Best ... Mike Griffith ('66) ________________________________________________________ From Our Mailbag Subject: Lee High School Generals Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:09:00 -0800 From: "PENNY SUMNERS" <pennysumners@knology.net> Tommy, I was given the email that you sent to Kathy McAmis. She apparently called the school and gave them a copy of your email. They sent the email to me. I went to LHS and picked up a copy of the things that we had written before I left. I do not have a scanner but I will fax you this information if you want. It is 5-6 pages. I am not sure when the change was made but sometime between 1988-1992. I became Asst. Principal in 1989 and I think it was done after that but I am not sure of dates. Principal Tom Owen made the change to make the mascot more representative of the student body. There was no controversy but he did not want one and he felt that the present student body should feel a part of the whole. I agreed with him especially since he was not eliminating Robert E. Lee but adding generals in a more inclusive manner. My only reservation was that he did not include a female but he felt he was justified in the generals that he chose. At that time, I could not name a famous female general so I could not argue his point on adding generals that had withstood time or society's scrutiny and acceptance. I hope this helps and I will send you what we put in the student handbook (or did) if you send me a fax number. I hope this finds you doing well. I really enjoy being retired. I do work sometime as a consultant but I keep that very limited. I enjoy playing tennis and playing with my 3.75 grandchildren a lot!!!!! Let me hear from you! Penny Lenoir Sumners Class of '68 (Editor's Note: I did not get the fax priod to publishing time, but we'll work it in on a later issue. Thanks Penny!) ________________________________________________________ Subject: Mea Culpa! Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:19:16 EST From: Barbdonn13@aol.com I cannot believe that I finally got all the songs to play, made my guesses (all were correct except for #10) and forgot to send them in to you! I thought #10 was Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. Also, I remember Pipeline by the Ventures. Did they do it, too, or is this just another senior moment? The only other one which gave me trouble was Little Surfer Girl. I guessed correctly, but seemed to want it to be In My Room -- also by the Beach Boys. Loved "Are These 6th Graders Future Lee Students?" I must say, however, that I am absolutely certain that #2 is incorrect. Moses did, in fact, make it to Canada and is alive and well and living in California today.I think the part about making the unleavened bread is true. The Ides of March, besides being a particularly unfortunate day for Julius Caesar, was our 33rd anniversary. In fact, we were supposed to meet the above-mentioned Moses (of the last name Preston) and Jan in Las Vegas to celebrate. However, due to an illness in the family, we had to cancel. Terry and Jan were still planning to party BIG TIME in Vegas with the Saint Patrick's Day revelers. Sorry Ed and I missed it, and we're looking forward to the trip in the near future. More later. AOL is being cantankerous and trying to sign me off! Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly Class of '64 ________________________________________________________ Subject: Huntsville "Postcard" Trivia Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:02:14 EST From: Spmclm69@cs.com Hi Tommy! Enjoyed reading your "Breath Taking Moments" - your career in a "Blue Suit" sure took you around the world - literally! Your listing of your parachute jump was timed perfectly for a joke I just received from Craig Bannecke: On "Hollywood Squares" - Charley Weaver was asked, "If you're going to make a parachute jump, how high should you be?" He answered, "Three days of steady drinking should do it...." (take a bow, Craig). I did get to sit in the cockpit of an F-4 and F-15 while I worked at McDonnell-Douglas, but rest assured neither of those birds was armed at the time! The closest I got to the military was 2 years in Air Force ROTC at Auburn. Even though I could not pass a military physical, I was STILL required to finish my 2 years of ROTC before I could graduate! But your story jogged my memory - read on. Every Tuesday and Thursday of my last quarter, I put on the Air Force ROTC uniform and drilled for an hour. As our squad assembled for the very first drill, my expectation that I would be the oldest person in the group was confirmed - with the exception of one other guy! That person was our very own classmate from Lee, MIKE JETT! He was the Squad Leader! I had not seen him since we had graduated from Lee. I was really shocked, because I had no idea he was on campus. Mike and I only had a short time to get re-acquainted, and then our marching drill started. That's basically what ROTC was for us, marching in formation so the guys actually headed for the service could get some experience commanding a group. I did attend classes once a week, where the U.S. Military Mission was explained to us. Anyway, Mike and I never had much time to talk - both of us had a class back on campus immediately after the ROTC session. So I really didn't get to spend any "off duty" time with him. I didn't recall him enrolling at Auburn intially, I remember he always talked about attending Purdue University in Indiana. Mike did, though, explain to the squad that he and I were old friends, and he put me in charge of coming up with "Jody Calls" to keep everyone entertained during our marching drills. I have no doubt all you REAL veterans know what a "Jody Call" is! I haven't seen Mike since - does anybody know where he is and what he's doing? Best, Bob Cochran Class of '64 ________________________________________________________ Subject: Absence Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:09:18 -0600 From: Collins Wynn <jcwynn@gulftel.com> Hey Tommy, I'm going to be hard to find for a few weeks (a business deal) so I will be out of the net until about Apr 1st or so. Didnt want you to think I had lost interest. Keep up the good work. I'll check back in as soon as I can. Collins Wynn Class of '64 PS check out the movie "Blackhawk Down"................that's essentially what I did (minus the hostile fire). ________________________________________________________ |
Est. March 31, 2000 21,846 Previous Hits March 25, 2002 Editor:Tommy Towery http://www.leealumni.com Class of 1964 Page Hits This Issue e-mail ttowery@memphis.edu Staff Writers : Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly , Joy Rubins Morris ,Terry "Moses" Preston Collins Wynn Staff Photographers: Fred & Lynn Sanders Contributers: The Members of Lee High School Classes of 64-65-66 |
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Remember Saturday Morning Cartoons? Trivia By Tommy Towery Hey kids...what time is it? It's Trivia Time!!! Yea! This week we go back to the boob tube and present you with photos of 10 clips of our early childhood TV friends. Some are oh so obvious. Others might force you to put on your thinking cap a bit. We always try to put in at least one hard one to keep it interesting. But, there's a new twist starting with this week's contest. To keep the memories going and not make this simply just another internet trivia site, the staff has elected to change our trivia contest rules a bit. From now on, e-mails with "JUST" trivia answers will not be elgible to win the contest. To vaildate your entry, you need to expand on some part of the contest with some personal memories for you. You don't have to write a 500 word theme, but you must include something. You can either share something about one or more of the questions, or share something about the subject of the week's contest in general. We think this will make the contests more fun to more people and will let all entries share their thoughts and not just have a list of correct and incorrect entries. (For example, this week you can relate your own memories about one of the cartoon characters above, or you can relate to the whole idea of watching cartoons on TV during your childhood. It doesn't have to be 1964-66.) To show you what we're asking for, I'll add one of my own memories about this subject. I didn't know all these guys were in color when I was at Lee. Neither my family nor any of my friends' families owned a color TV. I never had a color TV set until I was in the Air Force - 1969. We bought a little 13" GE set and thought we were the bee's knees. The first color TV show I ever saw was some football bowl game on New Year' Day of '63 or '64 at Miracle City on the Parkway. Now good luck and make your class proud of you. Please get your answers back to us by noon on Sautrday to insure that you will be in the contest. It takes a while to put all this stuff together you know! "Huntsville Photo" Trivia Contest By Tommy Towery We have two classmates who successfully identified the 10 buildings from the aerial photograph last week. I thought that I would fool a lot more of you, but we had many who missed only one or two. The Terry-Hutchens Building was a problem for a few, and several identified the Twickenham Hotel as the Yarborough Hotel. Does anyone have any information of the Yarborough Hotel? I have another postcard from the same period that definately identifies Number 6 as the Twickenham. Did it change to the Yarborough later? Anyway, the winners are Bob Alverson and Glenn James -Class of '65 (with their wives' help), and Bob Cochran from '64 who split the points and earn 50 for each class. Bob Cochran's answers to the 1956 aerial view of Huntsville postcard questions: 1. Post Office/Federal Court house 2. Russell Erskine Hotel 3. Terry-Hutchens Building (old Tennessee Valley Bank building) 4. Huntsville Times Building 5. Dunnavants 6. Twickenham Hotel 7. Henderson National Bank 8. First National Bank 9. Madison County Court House 10. YMCA (Editor's Note: Some of the buildings may have changed names at one time or another, but the question was "What were the names of the buildings when we were students at LHS.) ________________________________________________________ Bob Alverson also had all answers correct. Subject: Huntsville Trivia Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 09:02:05 -0600 From: "Robert Alverson" <BobAlverson@peoplepc.com> An undivided entry for the class of '65 since my wife's class doesn't count. She even offered to type this for me since I broke my arm Friday night but I managed to get it done with only one hand. Bob Alverson ('65) BobAlverson@peoplepc.com ________________________________________________________ Here are our answers to the Huntsville Trivia. Marie and I had to do a lot of dis"cussing" over some of these. But as usual, she being a native, I used most of her answers. Glenn James Class of '65 Marie James Huntsville High Class of '65 (Editor's Note: It's nice that some make this a family affair. As stated earlier, all are welcome to enter, but points can only be awarded to LHS 64-65-66 classes. That is done even though the brains of the family may belong to members of other classes and now it seems even other schools!!!) ________________________________________________________ Other Trivia Participants and/or Comments These clasmates scored less than perfect but at least participated! ________________________________________________________ Downtown Huntsville was one of my favorite places to hang out during the Fifties but, senility has creeped upon me in the grandpa stage of life! I worked for Mr. Lou Harrison of Union Dry Goods Store for a coupe of years in the fifties. His store was on Jefferson Street near Hornbuckle Music, Hale Brothers Furniture and Henderson Bank. This has been fun for me; thanks for the memories regardless of who wins. Johnny J. Sharp (Class of 1964 & Survivor of Ms. Faulkner's English classes) Stay healthy, happy and keep on smiling! ________________________________________________________ "Linda Walker" <lbwalker@usit.net> Sorry, Tommy, but my only guess is that No. 9 must be the Courthouse (hopefully that is the correct answer for a legal assistant to make). Nothing else looks familiar to me. My brain doesn't want to work. I spent the afternoon at the hospital with my mother. She has had a stroke and I believe she is one of the "Angels in Waiting" that we talked about in previous weeks. Please remember her in your prayers. Come on Class of '66. Let's try to catch up with the Class of '64. Linda Beal Walker Class of '66 (Editor's Note: Thanks for taking the time out of your troubles to share with us. If anyone wants to e-mail Linda, then click by her name above. Our hearts are with you.) ________________________________________________________ Tommy, I'm pretty sure about all of these except # 3 - it is now being remodeled into high priced downtown "New York-style lofts", which will sell in the $300,000.00 range, and # 6. The Yarbrough Hotel was used by the Huntsville Police Department as the headquarters of all detective sections and at one time was also the location of local attorney, Jack Daniels (I am not kidding). Always thought that was an appropriate name for an attorney - no offense to any of our classmates who were misguided enough to become lawyers (sorry Dag & J.R.!!). Thanks again for the good work on the site Rick Edmonds Class of '65 ________________________________________________________ Several of these I knew right off, several I guessed, and several I had no clue. This was a good teaser for the old brain.... Looking forward to the answers! Best ... Mike Griffith ('66) ________________________________________________________ From Our Mailbag Subject: Lee High School Generals Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:09:00 -0800 From: "PENNY SUMNERS" <pennysumners@knology.net> Tommy, I was given the email that you sent to Kathy McAmis. She apparently called the school and gave them a copy of your email. They sent the email to me. I went to LHS and picked up a copy of the things that we had written before I left. I do not have a scanner but I will fax you this information if you want. It is 5-6 pages. I am not sure when the change was made but sometime between 1988-1992. I became Asst. Principal in 1989 and I think it was done after that but I am not sure of dates. Principal Tom Owen made the change to make the mascot more representative of the student body. There was no controversy but he did not want one and he felt that the present student body should feel a part of the whole. I agreed with him especially since he was not eliminating Robert E. Lee but adding generals in a more inclusive manner. My only reservation was that he did not include a female but he felt he was justified in the generals that he chose. At that time, I could not name a famous female general so I could not argue his point on adding generals that had withstood time or society's scrutiny and acceptance. I hope this helps and I will send you what we put in the student handbook (or did) if you send me a fax number. I hope this finds you doing well. I really enjoy being retired. I do work sometime as a consultant but I keep that very limited. I enjoy playing tennis and playing with my 3.75 grandchildren a lot!!!!! Let me hear from you! Penny Lenoir Sumners Class of '68 (Editor's Note: I did not get the fax priod to publishing time, but we'll work it in on a later issue. Thanks Penny!) ________________________________________________________ Subject: Mea Culpa! Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:19:16 EST From: Barbdonn13@aol.com I cannot believe that I finally got all the songs to play, made my guesses (all were correct except for #10) and forgot to send them in to you! I thought #10 was Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. Also, I remember Pipeline by the Ventures. Did they do it, too, or is this just another senior moment? The only other one which gave me trouble was Little Surfer Girl. I guessed correctly, but seemed to want it to be In My Room -- also by the Beach Boys. Loved "Are These 6th Graders Future Lee Students?" I must say, however, that I am absolutely certain that #2 is incorrect. Moses did, in fact, make it to Canada and is alive and well and living in California today.I think the part about making the unleavened bread is true. The Ides of March, besides being a particularly unfortunate day for Julius Caesar, was our 33rd anniversary. In fact, we were supposed to meet the above-mentioned Moses (of the last name Preston) and Jan in Las Vegas to celebrate. However, due to an illness in the family, we had to cancel. Terry and Jan were still planning to party BIG TIME in Vegas with the Saint Patrick's Day revelers. Sorry Ed and I missed it, and we're looking forward to the trip in the near future. More later. AOL is being cantankerous and trying to sign me off! Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly Class of '64 ________________________________________________________ Subject: Huntsville "Postcard" Trivia Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:02:14 EST From: Spmclm69@cs.com Hi Tommy! Enjoyed reading your "Breath Taking Moments" - your career in a "Blue Suit" sure took you around the world - literally! Your listing of your parachute jump was timed perfectly for a joke I just received from Craig Bannecke: On "Hollywood Squares" - Charley Weaver was asked, "If you're going to make a parachute jump, how high should you be?" He answered, "Three days of steady drinking should do it...." (take a bow, Craig). I did get to sit in the cockpit of an F-4 and F-15 while I worked at McDonnell-Douglas, but rest assured neither of those birds was armed at the time! The closest I got to the military was 2 years in Air Force ROTC at Auburn. Even though I could not pass a military physical, I was STILL required to finish my 2 years of ROTC before I could graduate! But your story jogged my memory - read on. Every Tuesday and Thursday of my last quarter, I put on the Air Force ROTC uniform and drilled for an hour. As our squad assembled for the very first drill, my expectation that I would be the oldest person in the group was confirmed - with the exception of one other guy! That person was our very own classmate from Lee, MIKE JETT! He was the Squad Leader! I had not seen him since we had graduated from Lee. I was really shocked, because I had no idea he was on campus. Mike and I only had a short time to get re-acquainted, and then our marching drill started. That's basically what ROTC was for us, marching in formation so the guys actually headed for the service could get some experience commanding a group. I did attend classes once a week, where the U.S. Military Mission was explained to us. Anyway, Mike and I never had much time to talk - both of us had a class back on campus immediately after the ROTC session. So I really didn't get to spend any "off duty" time with him. I didn't recall him enrolling at Auburn intially, I remember he always talked about attending Purdue University in Indiana. Mike did, though, explain to the squad that he and I were old friends, and he put me in charge of coming up with "Jody Calls" to keep everyone entertained during our marching drills. I have no doubt all you REAL veterans know what a "Jody Call" is! I haven't seen Mike since - does anybody know where he is and what he's doing? Best, Bob Cochran Class of '64 ________________________________________________________ Subject: Absence Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:09:18 -0600 From: Collins Wynn <jcwynn@gulftel.com> Hey Tommy, I'm going to be hard to find for a few weeks (a business deal) so I will be out of the net until about Apr 1st or so. Didnt want you to think I had lost interest. Keep up the good work. I'll check back in as soon as I can. Collins Wynn Class of '64 PS check out the movie "Blackhawk Down"................that's essentially what I did (minus the hostile fire). ________________________________________________________ |
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This Week's Moment St. Patrick's Day in Las Vegas by Terry 'Moses' Preston I have found it!! The premier site for celebrating St Patrick's Day is on Fremont Street in Las Vegas. What a celebration! Whoa Nellie!! Being of Irish stock, I especially love St Patrick's Day, and I try to celebrate it in a different major city every year. This year, thanks to an invitation from Eddie and Barbara Wilkerson Donnelly (Generals and great Americans), we chose to do Las Vegas. They ended up canceling, so we felt it especially important to party twice as hard. I think we nailed it! We arrived in Las Vegas Friday evening, and headed straight for the Fremont Street Experience Downtown for the first evening of their three-day bash. Fremont Street has an overhead, semi-circular shaped, 5 city-blocks long canopy that is a state-of-the-art media lights and sound show. Minutes after arriving and getting our obligatory green beer, we were literally dancing in the streets to the sounds of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Doors, and other great groups, beneath the stunning overhead light show. Between the dancing in the street, listening to the Irish Bands, playing draw poker on the machines, and drinking too much of anything green (beer and Margaritas mostly), the evening lasted until 4:45 A.M., and that was only the first night! The next day began at the New York New York Casino where we marched in the St. Patrick's Day parade. The Casino honored us for having the most shamrock stickers on us, and we were photographed with Miss Liberty (look for us on the New York New York Casino web page). We then cruised the Excalibur and Luxor Casinos, then (a couple of Margaritas later) headed straight for Fremont Street again. What a street party! It was like we were in downtown Dublin, with five city blocks of rocking & rolling, gallons o' green beer, and tremendous Irish bands on outdoor stages. And there was no sissy Danny Boy stuff, just hard-driving Irish rollicking. Tiller's Folly, Seven Nations, and Craicmore were exceptional groups, but the greatest of them all was Kinship, who kept everyone dancing and singing for hours, in a veritable sea of green, interrupted each hour by a spectacular overhead light and sound show! We topped off the evening with steak & lobster tail at Tony Roma's before finally retiring just before midnight. It had been another 12 hours of celebrating and playing! Sunday afternoon was the finale for the weekend. We chose to dig the bands on Fremont Street again, drink some more Margaritas and green beer, celebrate with the other green-clad Irish folks in the street, and then head for the Lady Luck Casino. We exited there about $60.00 richer, had one more Coney Dog for the road, and then drove back to Southern California, happy, tired, and contented. We whole-heartedly recommend the Fremont Street Experience. It was good, clean fun, and all of the outdoor festivities are free. If you'd like to check it out visit http://www.vegasexperience.com, then head for Las Vegas! ________________________ Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections. ________________________ Something To Think About A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the sidewalk, and stopped inches from a shop window. For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said, "Look, don't ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!" The passenger apologized and said he didn't realize that a little tap could scare him so much. The driver replied "Sorry, it's not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver. I've been driving hearses for the last 25 years." __________________________ Senior Biology Test Question ________________________ |
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