There are some US Grant year books for sale in e-bay. Just type in Oklahoma City memorabilia and you can scroll down to look at the. Late 70's early 80's
I remember my English teacher Mr. Chase telling the class that the older you get the faster time goes by. At the time I thought that was a weird thing to say. "Now" I get it!
Chase also said that someday we would come back and thank him for having been such a hard teacher. And I did, indeed, do just that. He was a rare bird.
If you remember looking out the windows of Chase's classroom you looked out at people's backyards. I remember one day two dogs "getting busy" out there and Mr Chase freaked, he tried to close the blinds and was telling us students to hush up, couldn't do it we were going insane with laughter. To this day it is one of my funniest memories. On top of all this I was very,very stoned.
Some of you older Generals here may be interested to know that Mrs. Baugh was still teaching at Grant when I was a senior there (1984). She was my AP English teacher that year. I believe that was her last year before retiring.
Mr. Cable was still there too. He was my Biology teacher in 9th grade. (His son is a doctor now - anyone know that?) He was at the big reunion that day when everyone showed up (right before they tore the old building down).
Ms. Sughru was still there as well, though she was working as an administrator rather than as a teacher.
Anyone a little younger remember Mrs. Overstreet? She taught math there for years and years. I think she started there right out of college. I had a little crush on her, actually. Her younger brother Bobby McDougal was a student there (and a star athlete) at the same time I was (though he was a couple of years older).
Generals64 mentioned how USG once had some good teams back in his day. We did too, in the 1980s! The baseball team won the state championship in both '81 and '84, and the basketball team finished runner-up one year. The football team, on the other hand, stunk. (We did usually beat CHHS and Southeast, though, as they were even worse in those years.)
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Glad to have another General on board. Did you know Miss Shugru was the original girls p.e. teacher???????Hey come (let me know) to this Saturday' s Southside meeting at Coit's and I'll bring you a locker handle from the OLD USG HighSchool...If you want one. Read my response about TG&Y when you get a chance.....
I gotta admit I really hated HighSchool, don't know exactly why but, probably alot of reasons. One of the biggest reasons was the Viet Nam thing, I just thought " what's the point" it seemed like a cloud over my head. Well I didn't even have to go but, it put a damper on my Highschool experience. That being said I wish I had the whole HighSchool thing to do over. Now that I'am getting older I have some good memories of my HighSchool days. This is not a boo hoo story, just the way I felt at the time, I'am really a positive minded person.
The same here, except I never liked school, period. From the first day of first
grade until graduation, I didn't want to go. The Viet Nam thing didn't affect
me like it did others. I just couldn't stand school and haircuts.
College was different, once I could focus on my majors. If it hadn't been for
the basics I would have graduated magna cum laude.
I remember standing at the bottom of the stairs coming up from the Gym area and about thirty of us were talking about a place called VIET NAM.....No big deal they won't bother a bunch of important guys like us. In November the following year the battle that the movie "we were Soldiers" occurred and I think all of us got drafted.....I was reclassified 48 hrs before I was to report for training at beautiful downtown Fort Polk Louisiana...The rest is history.....stupid military blunder.....too many friends didn't come back. some in a body bag and some are still not right in their minds.........
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No, originally I was a complete Moron...I thought you were supposed to do your best on the military test and I made a 97 on it.....Woke up one morning with 4 recruiters on the front porch...Didn't want to join the army, Navy, Air Force or Marines.....I wanted to join the TG&Y management team. I ended up taking six physicals in 1965....I was drafted in November of 1965 but, I had had a Heart Murmur when I was a little kid. The doctors felt it wasn't to their advantage to have me having a Heart attack on the battlefield...Thank you GOD...so, I was reclassified 1Y.....Years later when your friends were being killed or maimed...physically and/or mentally.....you begin to have a tremendous GUILT trip within yourself.....
I remember Viet Nam very well. My brother which graduated from Grant(1964) went into the Navy in 1965 and spent two tours in Viet Nam on an aircraft carrier. The guy that lived across the street was drafted into the Army and was a heli door gunner in Viet Nam. He was wounded and had part of his leg blown off. There were several young men in my neighborhood that went. All of them came back, but some were wounded.
I graduated in 1970 and went to college. Why in college I had classes with a lot of Viet Nam veterans. When I graduated from college in 74, I joined the Marines. I went to Pensacola Fl to flight school and I can remember watching the fall of Saigon on the news while sitting in the squadron's reading room.
There is a military wall of the fallen Grant Generals in the new school. The first American killed in Laos was a Grant graduate (Terry Anders) class of 1966.....
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