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Mack Kizer

One of my favorites at South was the librarian.  I can;t remember her name but she was a really cool lady.   She owned the coolest car I have ever seen.  It was a big ol white Jaguar sedan.  Looked like the kings car.  It had the most luxiourious bright red leather upholstry ever.  She always parked on the street right across from Ashcraft grocery store.  I was a big car buff and always talking to her about the car.  one day she asked me if I wanted to go for a ride in it  so we drove around fora little while.  That car probably cost what a teacher or librian would make in about 5 years back in those days.  I always figured  she came from some mega rich family and Dad gave it  to his Daughter for graduation or something.  Does anyone remember her name  or the car?                            I woke up this morning with 4 big piles of bear poop right at the bottom of the stairs coming up to my deck.   Looked like he had eaten a Texan.  MK

John Landess

Mack, was it a black bear or a brown bear?

Joe Treat

I believe the librarians name was Mrs. Gebhardt. I thought she was awfully cool.  Her husband did something at the museum.  Some days she rode a bicycle to the school.  They seemed so interesting to me.

Saundra Bennett (Whiteside)

Happy Birthday, Alice!  Have fun and celebrate on your special day!  Hope to see you soon.  🤗

John Allensworth

Happy Birthday Alice, hope your day is a great one

from Lynn & John

Mettie Cummins

Priest of birthdays, Alice. Hope it is an especially good one. Hope to see you soon in Tuidosa.,

Mack Kizer

Good memory Joe.  Gebhardt was right.  Back then when I was 13 to 18 years  old I thought anyone 25 was old..  We had aot of good young teachers at South that were just out of college.  Some of them were just a few years older than us.  It must have been hard especially for the women to work with a bunch of students nearly as old as them.                                                                                                                                                           John L,  It was a cinnamon black bear.  We only have Black bears here.  They range from blond to black.  Browm bears are grizzlies that live close to the coast .  Of course you know all of this.  You should try to think of something intelligent to say ever once in a while instead of always trying to stir things up with your brother Wrecks.  mk

Pat Sullins (Carpenter)

Alice, hope you have a GREAT birthday.  Kick up your heels and enjoy it!  Love ya, Pat and David

Don Ervin

A few years ago I was in Roswell.  Me, Tommy Weathers and Roy Allen stopped in a bar to have a beer.  We were sitting there when Tommy said, " look a those three old drunks sitting over there."  "in 6 or 7 seven years that is what we ae going to look like."  Roy said. I don't think so Tommy.".  Thats a mirror."

Rex Booth

Brother John L 

Don’t pay no mind to Mack. He could be jealous because (3) Red label FedEx packages arrived from 'Way up North. Can you believe this!! 20 pounds each of Coho and Silver Salmon including 10 pounds of King Crab!  Praise the Lawd and pass the biscuits!!  Not sure how the story got back to Rude Dosie, but if you want to keep a secret don’t tell a soul in Roswell or it’ll be all over town in an hour…  See ya in Church!    

~ Brother Booth

Mettie Cummins

Happiest of Birthdays, Don. Come see us next week in Ruidosa❤️

Saundra Bennett (Whiteside)

Brother Booth,

You should bring some of that salmon to the ‘Gathering’ next week, and share the wealth!  Yum!  🤗

Mettie Cummins

Absolutely Rex!! You should do that .... tote some of that yummy Salmon rite on up to Ruidosa😀👍

Rex Booth

Sistahs Saundra 'n Mettie,

Your suggestion taking salmon to Rude Dosie Gathering WAS... a good idea. However, the problem Ah had on mah hands was this … lack of refer freezer space.  So Ah sent a message by mule Xpress to my other Brother Phil Philistine.  Brother Phil said salmon frozen twice over ain’t as good as fresh salmon.  Brother Phil said he’d wander the wilderness East ‘o the Pekos and pray on it.  Mah little adobe hacienda is on west side in Li’l Chihuahua. Late Monday, looked out the window and had a vision, a revelation! Yay-us!  Looked like smoke clouds rising from the east.  I’m not a good proof-reader when it comes to reading a message from the  ‘cloud’.  But I’m sure Brother Phil’s smoke signal read:  “BBQ… salmon NOW… invite Homeless…lost Sheep…Inebriates…under Rio Hondo…get John D… ta hep round ‘em up…”  Well now, just ask yourself:  What would Jaysus do? 

With brotherly love,

~ Bruthah Booth

Don Ervin

Happy Birthday Roy!  Your my Buddy my Friend my Pal.  I'm keeping this picture so I will know what you look like in 15 years. After all we have known each other 68 years.

Rex Booth

Harvey,

There is a big celebration for Smokey this weekend in Capitan.  Smokey was a cub found in the El Capitan region in 1944.  His little paws and hind legs were burned from a forest fire.  I beleive Smokey lived till he was 26.   

El Juan, why don't you ask Mack K  if Smokey was a brown bear or black bear... and what age 26 means in bear years.... 

East Jr. Highl  Some of y'all lasses and laddies who attended... Saundra, Lynn, Patsy, Johnny A, Jim Milstead, Dan Cook, Bill Turley, Mike Truelove, Harl Rogers, and many others.  Those that can... Give This Forum a Shout!!

Kay Schrimsher (Shields)

Happy Birthday to Roy and belated wishes to Don.  And a big thank y’all for the great visit with the Lynn and John 

Lynn Snipes (Allensworth)

The picture on the Home Page is East Junior High and I came from East Grand Planes and was amazed at all the kids that were at East.  But the one that amazed me the most was John Alllensworth!!  He took me to my first formal dance at East and who would have known that 6 plus years later we were to be married!! (Now for 54 years!!)  Also there was Jim Milstead, Connie Mac Smith, Mike Truelove, Gwenda Sterrett, Dolores Casarez, all from East Grand Planes ~ it was quite a change for all of us!!

Now to change the subject ~ we just had a great visit with Kay Schrimsher Shields and Jim last evening!!  So fun to see them and remember all the good times!!

Happy late Birthday Roy!!  Hope you had a good one!

Hugs to everyone ~ Lynn

Saundra Bennett (Whiteside)

I figured that must be East.  It looks different now after about 60 years!  A few others who went there and haven’t been mentioned were Elaine Huntly, Mickey Gann, Jim Melson, Carol Wiegman, Steve Stevens, John Madden, Harriet Carter and I think Pat Sullins.  I’m sure there are many more, but I don’t have a Panther directory!  That year was a bit of a blur for me, so I don’t remember but one teacher....Mr. Smith for Algebra.  He was an older gentleman, and didn’t have very good control of our class.  I got into trouble for talking, and most of you know what a talker I was back then!  Once when he was helping a few students at his desk, several of us walked out the back door, down the street and back.  We didn’t get in trouble...he didn’t even notice we wete gone!...ha

Pat Sullins (Carpenter)

Yes, Saundra, I went to the 8th and 9th grades at East.  In my class were Karen Burton, Elaine Burton, Queda and Rita Watson, Danny Summers, Jim Melson, Kay Skipper, Sue Ann Carpenter, Connie Schuerman, Nelson Evans, Sue Burchfield along with all the other kids from the base. It was great getting to meet them!

Mettie Cummins

Hope u had a very good Birthday, Roy!🎂🎂🎂you 2 look great in those bright a Hawaiian shirts. I like!!!

John Allensworth

East Jr. High Chicken Race

Two of our better known guys, Billy Turley and Larry Jump, and the infamous "chicken race" both guys loaded up their cars at noon and drove east on Bland, then one went to one end of the north/south road and did their best to be James Dean.  Needless to say there was a collision and everyone was lucky there were no serious injuries.

A few more students: Andres Delgado, Virginia Delgado, Jr. Robles, Julian Linares, Al Zignbine, Steve Stevens, Clayton Brown, Gene Round, Eddy Jones and teachers: Mr. Rankin, Mr. Finley, Coach Lair, Southworth, & Staeden.

Mack Kizer

In the 9th grade before Turley crashed his Merch, Billy, Jeep Lavender, Dan Cook Steve Stevens, Larry Don Shumate and a few others use to meet a few of us rebels at the Dairy Queen on the corner a block from South at lunch on Wed.  Turley's chicken race put a stop to that tradition.  Turley was one of the first to get a car and as best I can remember never had another one through highschool.  Guess his dad had the wisdom to put himon foot for a while.  Does anyone remember Larry Don Shumate?  The last memory I have of him he went to work on a ranch north of Roswell.  He may have been abducted by some aliens.  I know one thing they had to be fast to catch him.  That guy could really run.  mk

John Doyal

Dan Cook Jack Hankins, and I were at east.  I still have my easr-ronaut which was our yearbook.Somebody put one of the coaches cars on top of the gymn.

John Landess

Rex, thanks for raising my spirits........... just after Charline had made me feel like I was almost normal, considering, Mack zapped me. I didn't know that grizzlies lived only on the coast. My brother-in-law shot one a few years ago in Montana... anyway, looking  up info on the same, I found that the last documented grizzly killed in Northern Mexico was in 1976.. and coastal browns are that and inland browns are called grizzlies and are scattered in 6 or 8 states and provinces.... Now, please don't take this personally, but the real live Smokie was found in 1950 in the Capitan Fire, and he did live to 26, and is buried in Capitan. Our neighbor Marion Emery was one of the rangers that carried him out. Their boss then took him up to Santa Fe to recover. Living next to the Emeries was great fun as their large fenced yard was always full of animals (usually orphans), but I was always leery of the skunks and porcupines. His main claim to fame though was citing Jimmy Blakely (Sr.) who wrote a song about him and the "incident". First sung at Scottie's Club...

ps I was an East'er, as well as Johnny Perry, Kenny Lott, and George DeShurley. We helped George swap engines between two 1938? Dodges from his Grandfather, and he drove the runner to East.