The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, September 7, 1979 Page: 17 of 38
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form. He maintained that high school
was for teaching useful skills:
“Schooling’s fer lerning thangs you
awl kin use,” he’d tell us.
Not all Milby teachers were like that.
Claudine Atkinson had long since lost
The committee did come through on
N ILBY HIGH SCHOOL was never the decorations. There were blue and
IV anyone’s idea of progressive god streamers attached to the bands-
education. Clinging as it did to the tand, and football chrysanthemums
edge of a Houston barrio, it had ivy- sprinkled with glitter on the tables,
colored walls and 85 teachers in 1969. The crowd arrived late, but the sun
We, as the class of that noteworthy Was still high and hot. In the parking
year, suspected both suffered from dry lot there were three new cars still
rot. proudly bearing their price stickers.
Not that we really cared. In other Inside was Dennis Hamlin, who once
parts of the country an army of told my mother that popcorn made his
radicals had formed on college cam- stomach swell. He now writes pension
puses by 1969 — a vanguard trying to plans. Nathan Hale, football quarter-
avoid the scaffolding of organizational back, is an exterminator.
society. Young women let their armpit Johnny Steinbower came. We once
hair grow in the name of liberation and had Shirley Temples at Bill Bennett’s
equality, and the original Hippies, the Steakhouse in the Sky.
Original Activists were born. Mike Hopf was there: “We went out
once, but you must not have liked me.
“BLOODY THURSDAY” erupted in We went to the movie and then to one of
Berkeley’s People’s Park that May 15, those drive-ins where they put the tray
at a time when anti-war sentiment was on your car window.”
nurtured by demonstrations and The sanitation supply business was
violence. The park was a battlefield for represented, so was air conditioning,
weeks, until the peace-lovers ended it real estate and construction. The
’60s High School Years Recalled
10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday
10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday
1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday
moved to the other side of town. Neither group had changed its atti-
Hugged individualism still carries tudes toward racial equality.
more weight than social conscience, They have homes they are proud of
success is still measured in dollars, in the suburbs, children they take to
cogged determinism is preferable to Little League games, jobs that offer
8iveness. advancement, if not creativity. When
IE wAg • . they have a cockroach problem, they
, nm WOMEN in the class hadn’t call Nathan Hale.
doush into ''berated womanhood, nor But some things do change. After 10
onez.ds me if 1 had. The men years I don’t find appropriate our class
ea. Aren t you married yet?” song - “The Impossible Dream."
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a class of 550 made it to the University
of Texas 200 miles away. A handful
enrolled at the University of Houston.
Scores made draft protection out of
San Jacinto Junior College.
A well-rounded education was not a
universal concept at Milby High. While
every skirmish on Texas’ pre-
indepence soil was studied in strategy
and battle cry, the last World War
mentioned was fought by doughboys.
PEACE, ITSELF, was foreign con-
cept. Fighting, as in “I’m gonna beat
your a-,” was the stuff of manhood,
and the yellow belly who walked away
from confrontation was likely to find
himself without a date to the prom.
Guys got dates on the basis of their
bravado, otherwise known as bull-—.
Girls, on the other hand, had honed the
skill of honeysuckle flirtation until it
dripped from their rosy lips like melt-
ed butter. Gossip was who did, who
didn’t, and who could be persuaded.
Ten years later, it seems nothing
much has changed.
In the spirit of the Lone Star state
and Milby High in particular, the
reunion committee vetoed any at-
tempts to hold this characteristic con-
fab in a hotel ballroom as had been
tradition. With pluck, they chose a
German beer garden, promised Willie
Welson on the P.A. system, and Texas
grub — all for $15.
The beer, the beans and the
barbecue brought back memories
selectively recorded. The class liar
was there.
He used to swear that he had written
“Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast," only
to have Wayne Newton steal it out from
under his own guitar strings. He was
well-known for telling dates he had
leukemia and only three years to live.
“Don’t you want to make a dying boy
feel good?” He is now a reporter in
Dallas.
Spunky James Gilber was there in
cowboy boots and ‘‘James’’ etched
across the back of his tooled leather
belt. A class cheerleader, Gilbert had
married Candace Mills, but they have
since divorced. “I told her how the hog
ate the cabbage,” Gilbert explained.
He is now married to Pam Schlosser,
also cheerleader, also spunky.
The thugs didn’t appear. Neither did
the Mexican-Americans. Milby had a
large Chicano population, but when it
came time to invite the Class of ’69 to
the reunion, nobody thought to contact
them. A spokesman for the group
called the committee explaining that
they had 80 names of Mexican-
American students who were not con-
tacted. He took this to mean they were
not welcome, and they, therefore,
planned to have their own reunion.
THE COMMITTEE chairman
shrugged and said, “ Well, how do you
VIALS TRAVEL WELL
Those child-proof drug vials can
provide a spicy addition to camping
trips says Ms. Martha Voght, Bishop,
Calif., in a recent magazine article.
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EVERYTHING!
learning from a barrel-chested,
drawling pundit how to fill out a W-2
with a massive march. women were mostly mothers. Only
Long-haired women kissed the Na- three of the women there weren’t
tional Guardsmen sent out to quell the married. Six or eight women were
turmoil, and stuck flowers in the pregnant. "I‛m working on my third,”
barrels of their rifles. heaved Glenda Haygood. “Ages 6, 5
We were the Original Drifters, the and zero. 1 swear this is my last.”
Original Low Energy Achievers who Having a baby makes your
lived for cherry Dr. Peppers and $l-a- marriage so much better," explained
1 carload night at the drive-in. The Suzanne Edwards. “The first three
dream of a new life never touched the weeks you can’t believe it, but it gets
Milby Buffalos - not the cheerleader better ’
squad, the football team or the Future Most of the class stayed in Houston.
Farmers of America who raised pigs An incredible number hadn’t even
in pens behind the school.
By graduation, some of us seniors
had spent six weeks in civics class
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the blush of youth, but she was deter-
mined to turn her charges into literati.
She read Milton to her yawning
students until the back row snored,
and, straight-faced, suggested we save
Kant and Kierkegaard for college.
We not only saved Kant and
Kierkegaard, but the majority also
avoided college altogether. Three from
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