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Bill Leggett

THIS IS FROM THE 1962 COYOTE HOWLER

Mettie Cummins

Happy Happy Birthday,Kay !!! Hope it is a special one!!!

Kay Schrimsher (Shields)

Thank you so much.  Sadly I probably won’t be at the Gathering. A friends daughter is graduating from college and we have planned to go

Mettie Cummins

Well, we certainly are going to miss you, Kay ....?but it is nice that you can attend the graduations. Those things are important too.

Mettie Cummins

It looks like North she High to me the street past Pennsylvania- Keith Wyatt, Jimmy Smith! Sonny Cates, Clyde Forbes

Rex Booth

Yup!  It's North Jr.  Some who went to North were Janet & Glendi Mooney, Saundra Bennett, Patsy Skipper, Linda Dumas, Alice Isaacs, Perrine Girard, Charline Lake, Caroline Allen, Mari Anderson, Claudia Phillips, Mary Guynes, Pat, Tamera, Roger Sullins,  Roland Schenck, Burnard Crawford, Willard, Ardist, Henry, & Roy Allen, Harl Rogers,  Howard Allen, Robert Holmes, Dan Cook, Jack Hankins, Danny Caussey, Don Ervin, Tom & Jimmy Qualls, Mike Fields, Howard Holt, Mike Ingram, Fred Tucker, Jerry & Terry Green, Whitey Yates, Demosthenes Metarelis, Roy McKay, Maynard Lee Blanton, Louis Archuleta, Buzz Fleming, Bobby Coons, and Verlon Miller.  If I left anone out, now's yer chance to get some recognition!!

And mucho kudos to my leather-jacket buddy Jerry Floyd who was Clyde Forbe's nemesis. Mettie,  bet you thought I forgot you... by the way, what's a "North (she) High"...  a separate fraternity for party girls?   

Charline Lake

Hey, Rex, thanks for the memories.  I believe Perrine went to East, and didn't Claudia go to South?  Maybe I'm wrong.  I can't forget North Junior High School friends Mike Truelove, Nancy Jennings, Nancy Miller, Eddie Ely, and Bill Madison.  Didn't Kay Schrimsher go to North?  And Louise Kling?  And Melody Tyner?  And Jeannie Sacra?  And Lucie Loveless?  I'm sure I'm forgetting people.  I loved North.  We had great teachers, and I made friends for life.  Jeannie, moi, Lucie, Nancy Miller, Caroline, ca 1959.  Photo:  Linda Dumas

Billie Butts (Mathias)

I was there, too.  In the 7th and 8th grade.  Also, there was Sandra Grizzle, Sherril Ulrich, and Jim Webb.  Love seeing that picture.  

Billie Butts Mathias

Don Ervin

Charline, Nancy Miller gave me my first kiss.  I was in 7th grade and we were playing South in a basketball game.  I made a shot from half court to win the game as the buzzer sounded.  Nancy was a cheer leader and she ran out on the court and gave me a kiss right on the lips and I liked it!

I nver heard where she moved to.

Saundra Bennett (Whiteside)

 Charline,  Perrine, Patsy and I, as well as others went to North our 7th and 8th grade years before transferring to the new school, East, for our freshman year.  I, too, loved North and found it difficult to leave good friends who remained at North.  A few others who went to North were Cari Edwards, Harriet Carter, Glyna Daniel, Kay Parker. Sharon Chewning, Joyce Parks, Stephen Wolfe, and Ferrell Dunham.  Hey, I still have the Puppy directory so I could go on and on, but will spare everyone....ha!

Mettie Cummins

No, Rex, just smart phone taking over my spelling & messing things up - I put in Jr. But it didn’t come out that way. I believe Sherry Waggoner also went there. I liked walking downtown for lunch with friends to eat at the Woolworth counter & get Cherry 🍒 facfets.. yum yum ... delicious! 

Rex Booth

Mettie,  are you sure it's a 'smart' phone?  Ask Saundra how my techical 'suggestion' cured her 'not-so-smaht' fone...  turn the dang 'speel cheek' off.  During noon hour at North, Doug Pulley & I walked a couple blocks down to 8 Ball pool hall on 3rd and shot a couple games of snooker.  Was this a sign of a mis-spent youth...?  Well, I can't blame it on a lack of parental guidance. Then again...

Ferrell Dunham

Other North "Puppies" were Raymond Wilson, Robert Tyler, Don King, Joanna Shamas, Susan Helmig, Jimmy Elloitt, Tyrone Wagnor, Norman Corzine and Linda Lepard (Weathers).

Charline Lake

Don, Nancy Miller is in Lubbock:  Nancy Weiss on Facebook.  Linda Dumas told me that she introduced George W. Bush at the Republican convention before his first term.  She is a great, generous soul, and I'm not surprised that she kissed you.  As far as I can tell, she continues to spread love.  XO

Charline Lake

How could I forget those other Puppies?  Apologies!  And how about Cherry Smith?

Diane Alley ((Webb))

Charline I just wanted to let you know that Linda Dumas Files passed away in 2015 due to COPD. Her husband and daughter continue to live in Lubbock. Her sister Dianne also moved there about three years ago.

Charline Lake

Diane, right, I'm aware.  Thanks.

John Landess

I also attended North in the 8th, (following a year at South) for about 1/2 year, then Farmington (with Maria Bigrope), then on to East for 9th. Too bad there wasn't a West, I am sure the nomads would have led me there! Then 2 great years at RHS................then north to the great land!!! I think over this 12 year period, I had attended 17 or 18 different schools. It was a wonder I made it....

Thanks Mrs. Ramsey (RIP)

Charline Lake

John, that can't have been easy.  I feel for you.

John Landess

Thanks Charline... it wasn't. Seemed I always missed something in all the moves, either before I got there or after I left. In those dark ages, before teacher involvement, Mrs. Ramsey noticed and took it on herself to help me. I cannot even begin to tell how much she, and her husband encouraged me and brought me to understand much that I had missed. She encouraged me to read and learn, and opened their huge (a garage) home library to me. To this day, I am a reader of most everything. But I am stuck in my time warp (HA)... I have to hold a real book, no kindle for me.

I guess the upside is I saw a lot of country!!

Charline Lake

Wow, John.  Amazing.  They changed your life.  The power of teachers to help students is enormous, no?  And they obviously succeeded in contributing to your educated, literate, and perceptive adult self.  Tell me more about Mrs. Ramsey.  What did she teach?  I'm embarrassed to say that I can't remember most of my teachers' names.  Have you ever thought of writing an autobiography?  I'd read it.

John Landess

Charline,

Mrs. Ramsey was an older teacher, I think originally from back east. Her husband, who was older, was a retired Presbyterian minister. They had no kids, but a couple of house hounds. These I ended up often house-sitting when they were on various trips. She was an english/english-lit teacher.

One of my other favorites was Mr. Moore, history, and of course my crafts-instructor..which lead to 3 blue ribbons from the NM state fair, for leather design and work.

As to my auto-bio, it would have to titled... "Been there, Done that, but lost the T-shirt!!" ha

Charline Lake

Love it, John.  Thanks for filling in details.  Such an interesting life, and really should have impaired your ability to attach emotionally, right?  But clearly didn't.  Respect.

Charline Lake

Post photos of your prize-winning leatherwork?

Rex Booth

Mettie,

Hope you have a good'un on your birthday!