August 2006

 

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             PLAY - WHO DAT WARRIOR?
 CLICK on the mystery pic and identify each Warrior.

This pic was provided by Sandra Dodson. The reader who correctly id’s the most Warriors will
receive a tip of the hat and will be announced in Smoke Signals. The correct identification of each
pictured Warrior will be determined by the consensus of entries, mainly because neither Sandra
nor the Smoke Signals staff has a clue as to whom these folks are. Hint – the guy standing ain’t
the teacher. Extra credit awarded for identifying the class teacher and the subject being taught.

Send us a previously unpublished photo, i.e. not appearing in a Central yearbook, for the next

thrill-packed episode of  WHO DAT WARRIOR.

 

SEND US PICS AND STORIES OF YOUR VACATION!! 
Send 2 or 3 pics to Bob Pepper for publishing.

 

April ’06 – Mike Blackwell, Phil (Pinky) Murphree, and Bobby Pleasants left the wives behind
and enjoyed a few days of fun, fishing and fellowship in Destin, FL. CLICK FOR PICS

 

June ’06 – Bob Pepper his wife, two children and 4 grandchildren spent a week in the beautiful
sands of Destin, FL. CLICK FOR PICS

 

July2 – Clements vacations in Memphis. Patricia Clements Ford visited with friends and family at
the Cordova home of Sandra Dodson. Patricia left Layton, Utah, where she and her husband,
Mike, are civilian employees of the Defense Dept., to celebrate her mother’s 80 th birthday. Other
’63 Warriors in attendance at Sandra’s home were David Lloyd, Mike Kriese, and Bob Pepper.
CLICK FOR PICS


July 20 – Finlay runs with the bulls. I am sending yu this from Toledo, Spain.  Last week I was in
Pamplona for the running of the bulls festival, San Fermin, and once again live to tell about it. 
Memphis is the center for rock and roll.  Wish I could be at your Bandstand festival and there for
Elvis Week.                                                                                Best wishes, Robert Finlay

 

VACATIONING? Remember, you can find Warriors by state on our website click CLASSMATES
BY STATE.

 

MEMORIES from Sarah Kirchen

 

Dorothy Dow's reminder of Miss Mauzy's paper crumbling aversion brought back very clear

memories of my humiliation as a paper crusher in her 10th grade geometry class.

 

It happened so fast and so early in the year!  It had to be September or early October.  I was
clearing my desk for the next set of problem solving, while she was lecturing on some aspect of
geometry and talking on and on.   In a misguided effort to "do something" while waiting for her to
finish, I crushed my about-to-be discarded paper.

 

Without skipping a beat, Miss Mauzy's discussion detoured on to the sins of paper crushing, all
the while directing her attention at me.  As I sat there mortified, the class heard one of her famous
lectures on the ills of paper crushing and as Dorothy so vividly recalled the "correct" method of
paper disposal.  Miss Mauzy concluded her discussion with, "And I think I have crushed the paper
crusher", which I can tell you was certainly true!

 
Send your Central Memory to PAULA

 

SAY WHAT?!!

“I think that it's important actually not to make fun of them (North Korea) for the fact that their
Taepodong (missle), this one, failed because that just kind of eggs them on - Madeleine Albright,
former secretary of state on the Larry King Live show.  Letterman and Leno, take note.

 

Warnings to Warriors – From Smoke Signals Medical Advisor Dr. Vinny Boombatz

Even the recommended dose of Tylenol can cause liver damage.

 

It’s mid-summer, time to start thinking about the upcoming start of school, football, the annual flu
season along with the anticipated shortage of vaccine. TEMP LINK

 

Carol Lewis Towler warns that products such as alka-Seltzer Plus, BC Allergy and others
containing Phenylpropanolamine may increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke. For more
information, click on these FDA and SNOPES

 

FROM THE LAUGH TRACK

A Louisiana TV station aired an interview with a woman of color from New Orleans. The
interviewer asked the lady how such total and complete devastation of the churches in the area
had affected their lives.

The woman replied, "I don't know about all those other peoples, but we gets our chicken from
Popeye's." - Submitted by webmstr. Phil Aquino     
                                                                                               

            SEND US A SHORT BIO ALONG WITH A RECENT PHOTO SO WE CAN PUT
            YOU IN  “THE SPOTLITE”. Use this well done Bio. PINKY as a guide.

 IN THE NEWS NOW WITH VIEWS  send news of new jobs, retirement, kids, grandkids,anything of
interest going on in your life to Bob Pepper

June 20 – Sam N. Inman, 63 (CHS ’62), brother of Ray Inman died today in Jacksonville, Fl.
Links to OB have expired.

 

June 22 – Mrs. Rosalind Talbert Coker, 92, mother of Robert Coker, died in Loveland, Co. Mrs.
Coker retired from teaching American History at Kingsbury High TEMP LINK TO OBIT AND
GUESTBOOK.


 Asheville, NC – Patty Wallace Grear is recuperating from lung cancer surgery. A recent PET
scan gave a clean bill of health to Patty, who wrote” We are we forever grateful for all of your
prayers and heartfelt concern! I Thank God for my wonderful friends and family with each breath I
take.”

 

July 5 – A child is born. Roger and Susan Gray McInnis are grand parents again. 7lb. 2oz. Gray
Christopher McInnis was born today at 8:45 am. Gray, son of Roger Gray and Catherine McInnis,
will join sisters Emma Claire, 4 ½, and Eleni Catherine, 16 months, at their home in the Ft. Worth
area.

 

July 17 – James L. (Jimmy) Gresham, 53 (CHS’71), brother of Peggy Gresham Weiner died
today in Memphis.  TEMP LINK to OB & Guest Bk         TEMP LINK to story

July 23 – Rhon J. Parris, 67, husband of  Nancy Perryman Parris, died today in The Villages FL.
Mr. Parris had been an insurance administrator for Ford Motor Co. TEMP LINK TO OB & GUEST BK.

 

July 22 – David Lloyd pulls the pin after nearly 39 years of service with First Tennessee Bank.
Daughters Faith and Hope throw Pop a surprise retirement bash and Smoke Signals was there.

CLICK FOR PICS

 

 NEWS FOR THE OUT-OF-TOWNER for more, visit Commercial Appeal

 

So, your funeral is all planned and paid for,  ya think? – “The Forest Hill situation may be the
biggest case of a single funeral home not honoring customers’ prepaid burial contracts we’ve
ever seen.” Josh Slocum, funeral Consumer’s Alliance. Memphis news outlets have been
saturated with reports of Forest Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery’s refusal to honor pre-paid
funeral plans. According to reports, over 13,000 policyholders are affected. Can you say “class
action”? To review the plethora of articles on the subject, click TEMP LINK

 

June 22 – Elvis’s favorite fairground’s attraction, the Pippin, sold for a paltry $2500 to two
Nashville men. The second oldest operating wooden roller coaster in the nation was sold to a
private party that originally intended to purchase only one car as a piece of Elvis memorabilia.
The ride, built in 1912, may be retained for this year’s Mid-south Fair, (9/21 – 10/1).The sale of
over 200 items brought slightly over $850,000. The Merry-Go-Round, the only item to escape the
auctioneer’s gavel, may be relocated in Memphis.

 
June 23 – First, Baptist Central, then the Fairgrounds, now Crump Stadium. Russ Vollmer
(CHS’60) made one final visit to the site that brought him fame for many years. Russ sat on the
crossbar of the goalpost as the 72 year-old WPA project crumbled around him. As reported in the
June/July Smoke Signals. A new stadium will be constructed on the site. TEMP LINK

 

June 26 – A Great Voice Falls Silent.  Stan Torgerson, voice of the Ole Miss Rebels died in
Meridian, Ms. Monday at the age of 82.  TEMP LINK

 

Memphis Light, Gas, and Water reaches a new high, in low -  While water was the 5th best in the
nation, CLICK FOR LIST, every thing else pretty-well sucks. JD Power ranked us dead last out of
the nation’s 76 largest. Six years ago MLG&W ranked as the South’s best. CLICK FOR LIST

 

LINKS YOU’LL LOVE

America the Beautiful – submitted by Carol Lewis Towler

I can dance - Ed.

Boz is a great treasurer, but.....

                                                                  HENRY’S CORNER

 

Speaking of  “The Birds”, we were, weren’t we? Alfred Hichcock’s inspiration
for the ’63 hit movie may have been the 1961 invasion by thousands of sea
birds into northern California. The birds were flying under the influence of
algae tainted with domoic acid, which tends to act as an intoxicant. In June

’06, a Calif. Brown Pelican, under the influence of the acid, flew through the

windshield of an automobile being driven along the Pacific Coast Highway in
Orange County, Ca. As of this writing, the bird is recovering at the Wetlands

and Wildlife Care Ctr. CLICK TO VIEW BIRDS REDUX

                            

More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.    

                              

Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear I 40. On June 29 th, the nation
celebrated the 50 th birthday of the Interstate highway system. In 1919, after seeing the ease with
which Germany moved convoys across their nation via the autobahn, the U.S. military chose Dwight
D. Eisenhower to take a convoy across America. The trip took several months. In 1956, Congress
passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act. The system was originally named the National System of
Interstate and Defense Highways. We just call it the Xpressway.

                            

Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Tucson were 1, 2 & 3 respectively in Old Spice’s “Sweatiest Cities”
rankings. Cities with the least potential to offend were, Spokane, Seattle, and San Francisco.
Memphis came in at 18 th, which is really the pits.                    CLICK TO VIEW ENTIRE LIST    

 

Also, Happy birthday dear bikini.  On July 5 th,the world observed the 60 th birthday of the bikini.
French designer and former engineer Louis Reard introduced the swimsuit,in 1946, which
shockingly revealed the navel of its wearers. Because of this, the attire didn’t receive widespread
acceptance until the ’60’s. Thankfully, we were there to see it.