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Not planning on
attending the Grand
June 20th Friday- 6:30 pm,
soirée at the Luton-Brewer Estate
catered by the original Leonard’s Bar B Que.
Saturday night – 8pm, dance at Whispering
Woods Hotel.
Entertainment provided by Alex Ward with interludes by The
Blazers.
The registration forms have been mailed. If you haven’t
received it, you can
go to here http://www.centralwarriors.com/pages/replycard.pdf and follow
the instructions. Let’s get those forms in by June 6th.
THE
TIME IS NOW!
View the list of those who have made the commitment.
http://www.centralwarriors.com/pages/2008_Reunion_Attendees.html
Claire Schwamm, CHS’63’s
connection to the Mable C. Williams class of ’38. Click
for temp link
It didn’t occur at
Central, but Robert Finlay weighs in with his favorite year and it’s
easy to see
why.
Click to see why Robt. loved the millenium
Memories – Send you Central Memories to PAULA
Marvin Palmer takes
time off from the real estate game to make quite a haul Click for 'Fish story'
SAY
WHAT?!!
“Bootie U95… "The name sounds like
some sort of nuclear isotope in a barium enema,
and it delivers all the flavor the name
suggests."
The world's 10 most disgusting beers By Joey Redner, tbt* columnist.
See “Links You’ll Love”
FROM THE LAUGH TRACK by Bette Jo Olive
After retiring, I went to the
Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind
the counter asked me for my driver's license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets
and realized
I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I
would have to go home
and come back later. The woman said,\
"Unbutton your shirt."
So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said,
"That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me," and she
processed my Social Security
application.
When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social
Security office. She said,
"You should have dropped your
pants... you might have gotten disability, too."
WARNINGS TO WARRIORS – from Smoke Signals medical advisor Dr.
Vinny Boombatz
These 4 can add fourteen years to
your life - regular physical activity, not smoking, five servings
of fruits and vegetables a day, the equivalent of between half a glass and seven glasses of
wine a
week. Click for more.
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May
17th – Update from Paula Wicker Hamby on “Sweet Baby James”.
Yesterday, Baby James had
tubes placed in his ears, and everything went well. This was his 19th time in
the operating room, and
this time we got to take him home instead of staying in the hospital. As far as
the ABR hearing test,
the results so far are the same....his right ear is still good, and his left
ear has a moderate to severe
loss. We were referred to a speech pathologist, and told that he may need a
hearing aid or an fm
system. Click for pic.
May
25th – SupperClub. 20 Warriors and guests dined at
Yia, Yia’s in
one of the best brunches offered in the
any measure. The food and service was outstanding, though the accommodations
were somewhat
cramped. Click for
pics
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more, visit THE
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April 25th - Starting off about the size of a basketball, the sinkhole at downtown Memphis
Station is growing daily. Caused by the collapse of a storm drain 50 feet
beneath the surface, the
hole has caused the removal of mail line tracks and the subsequently the
rerouting of Amtrak
service, bypassing Memphis
April 27th – Johnie D. Hill, husband of Kay Cross Hill CHS’63, died today in Memphis
April 29th – According
to the Commercial Appeal, over 160 gun crimes have been reported on the
campuses of
May 1st - Daphne
Beasley, the principal of
her staff to provide her with the names of all students who are “couples”,
heterosexual or homosexual.
The list was then posted where the entire school population had access to it.
As a result, two gay
students were outed. Temp link to story.
May 3rd. – As gang
investigator Jimmy Chambers briefed faculty and administrators at
gunfire interrupted the morning discussion. Chambers looked out a window and
saw Illya Benson Jr.,
18, walking down the street firing an assault rifle. When police arrived, they
issued Benson a
misdemeanor citation for unlawful possession of a weapon. Temp.
link to story
May 4th – James Edd
Pugh, father of
May 5th – Thomas
Boggs, CHS’62 died at his
May 5th – A
You Tube .com video titled "Mitchell High School Memphis ... Rape Dat Ho,"
has caused
quite a stir in
extremely graphic depiction of sexual activity at a dance in the gym at
the
Temp link to story and video.
May 8th - Today’s
school students reported having sex. 10.6% did so before age 11. In
2005, 67.1% of MCS high
school students were sexually active. In 2006, 3032
reported being pregnant, 77 were between the ages of 10-14.
May 14th –
♪♫
The Name Game ♪♫ – Today’s
in the Shelby County Jail on $750,000 bond in the death of Paul Tuggle, 31.Temp
link
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Some collect stamps, some coins, then there's Sigurdur
Hjartarson On-camera melt
downs
How it
feels to get shot. Gives a whole new perspective to "Put a sack over her
head."
HENRY’S CORNER
Speaking
of the “Beverly Hillbillies” we were, weren’t we, the show was arguably
the best sitcom of the mid sixties. With 274 episodes running from 1962 to
1971,
Hillbillies rose to the top of the TV ratings in the first three weeks of its
debut,
faster than any other show in history. That feat remains a record unmatched to
this day. Even the show’s theme
song was a hit, reaching #44 on the charts in 1962.
The plot revolves around family patriarch Jed Clampett (BuddyEbsen) moving from
the
Ozark back woods after his gunshot unearths oil on the Bug Tussle property,
which served as the family
farm. The family, Jed, his daughter Elly May, his mother-in-law
"Granny" and his nephew Jethro packed
up their belongings and drove their rickety flatbed 1921
Oldsmobile pickup truck to the hills of
There a near record 9 seasons of low-brow, absurd but hysterical comedy ensue.
Among the more notable guests
appearing on the show were, Paul Winchell, Soupy Sales, Roy Clark,
and Sharon Tate, of the Manson Family murders fame, who appeared in 15
episodes. In 1971, CBS
wishing to shed it’s “rural network” image, cancelled
Hillbillies, along with “Green Acres” and
“Petticoat Junction.”
Fallen
Warrior – Edward Oliver Bailey Jr., CHS’41 died
May 8th at his Memphis
Long involved in the commercial art scene in Memphis, his greatest claim to
fame was the fact that
he held the Ripley’s “Believe it or not” record for the surviving the greatest
freefall from an aircraft
without a parachute. The incident occurred during WWII when his B-17 “Flying
Fortress” was hit by
German anti-aircraft fire, blowing him free of the plane. He landed in a snow
bank and was captured.
Temp link to story. A perfectionist, while serving as the art director at
Archer Malmo, Bailey, worked
with our own Buddy Boswell.
Because of the lower
atmospheric pressures, water boils at around 156 degrees F. at the summit of
Mount Everest .
The brother of
the next elder brother of John Wilkes Booth, saved the life of Robert Todd
Lincoln when
fell between the platform and a moving train at a
from perilous position.
There is not one shred of
evidence to support the allegations that FBI Director J.Edgar Hoover
was a cross dresser. The assertion appeared in the Official and
Confidential: The Secret Life
Of J. EDGAR Hoover in 1993.The source of the allegations was a woman, Susan Rosenstiel with
mob ties and a known hostility toward the bureau.
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