U.S. GRANT GENERALS.......got memories?

[Prunepicker]

Yeah... a great big Concrete truck... There were three of them... they were
by the tree in front of the office which is now cement and blacktop...

OUCH! I just sprayed a big gulp of 7urp though my nose... You're gonna
pay big guy! 7UrP through the nose isn't fun!

[Generals64]

Does anyone out there remember Mr. Hess?
He taught jr. High Science and Math.

[CarltonsKeeper]

Does anyone out there remember Mr. Hess?
He taught jr. High Science and Math.

If you remember Opal Hampton you remember Hess and his aluminum paddle for swats. I had that character for 7th grade science. I don't believe all of his dogs were attached to the same leash!!!!

[Generals64]

If you remember Opal Hampton you remember Hess and his aluminum paddle for swats. I had that character for 7th grade science. I don't believe all of his dogs were attached to the same leash!!!!

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They were if they were a junior high girl....sorry.....

[oneforone]

Okay Grant Grads..... Fact or Fiction


Grant had a pool in the basement of the school.

[Generals64]

Okay Grant Grads..... Fact or Fiction


Grant had a pool in the basement of the school.

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Fiction...swimming pool was at the Southside YMCA 4 blocks south on Penn...
Did have a rifle Range though in the basement over by the Gym...

[grantgeneral78]

See I heard a pool also

[CarltonsKeeper]

No pool, just a wild tale! I went there 6 years and attended functions there while still in grade school. If you went swimming it was at the "Y" where the swim team met in the afternoons...

[grantgeneral78]

No pool, just a wild tale! I went there 6 years and attended functions there while still in grade school. If you went swimming it was at the "Y" where the swim team met in the afternoons...

When -I went there thats where they went was the "Y" but the rifle range would have been cool to see. What else was down there besides that......maybe Al Capones vault?

[Prunepicker]

See I heard a pool also

That was after a hard rain.

[LandryTeam]

My dad went to Grant....he was born in 1950 which means he would have graduated 1967 or 1968. His name was Eddie Landry (his brother went too...Bruce Landry). Do any of you guys know either of these names? Have any memories?

Eddie

[USG '60]

When -I went there thats where they went was the "Y" but the rifle range would have been cool to see. What else was down there besides that......maybe Al Capones vault?

It was the guts of the building, mechanicals. Nothin' worth seeing, I assure you.

[Generals64]

My dad went to Grant....he was born in 1950 which means he would have graduated 1967 or 1968. His name was Eddie Landry (his brother went too...Bruce Landry). Do any of you guys know either of these names? Have any memories?

Eddie

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Know them both...they had either a sister or cousin named Linda....She was my age, went to Grade school with her....

[LandryTeam]

Generals64...wow...very cool! Linda was their sister (my aunt). Eddie was my dad. Kinda neat to connect with someone who knew him in his HS days.

Eddie

[Generals64]

Generals64...wow...very cool! Linda was their sister (my aunt). Eddie was my dad. Kinda neat to connect with someone who knew him in his HS days.

Eddie

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Knew him Grade School Buddy...He was I think a couple of years behind ..I think he graduated from Highschool in '66 with my wife....I'll check and see when she gets home....Linda was a pistol growing up. Meek and mild and took no Crap off anyone. Is she still the same way?????

[LandryTeam]

WOW....you described Linda to a T! She is fiery and will speak her mind to anyone! My uncle Bruce retired from the OKC Fire Dept many years ago. My dad...well after HS he got in trouble and the judge offered him jail time or the Marines....he choose to enlist and he went to Vietnam. Once he came back he was still wild and hot headed....drank too much (along with other stuff). He was in prison until I was 17...then just as he and I was starting up a good relationship he was killed in a car accident in 1993. He had been drinking and it was raining (never a good combo). He was a 43 year old man living like a 20 year old. I'm 35 now and it is interesting to talk to someone who knew them growing up.

[grantgeneral78]

WOW....you described Linda to a T! She is fiery and will speak her mind to anyone! My uncle Bruce retired from the OKC Fire Dept many years ago. My dad...well after HS he got in trouble and the judge offered him jail time or the Marines....he choose to enlist and he went to Vietnam. Once he came back he was still wild and hot headed....drank too much (along with other stuff). He was in prison until I was 17...then just as he and I was starting up a good relationship he was killed in a car accident in 1993. He had been drinking and it was raining (never a good combo). He was a 43 year old man living like a 20 year old. I'm 35 now and it is interesting to talk to someone who knew them growing up.

That is terrible Landry, at least yall were getting back on a good footing before you lost your dad.

[Generals64]

U.S. Grant Highschool.....Many graduates and many a good person went through the halls of our alma mater. But, with every class there was something donated to the school from the graduating class....Can you guys and gals remember any of the items donated byt he seperate classes?.....Grant's first class was 1956 or 55.....The class of 64:....An Organ for the Auditorium:...Class of 65:.....THE CANNON...class of 66:.....Original Marquis out on Penn...Don't know any more anybody????

[grantgeneral78]

I don`t remember our class donating anything.

[Generals64]

I don`t remember our class donating anything.

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Get serious surely they gave something besides Semrad a hard time.....

[CarltonsKeeper]

U.S. Grant Highschool.....Many graduates and many a good person went through the halls of our alma mater. But, with every class there was something donated to the school from the graduating class....Can you guys and gals remember any of the items donated byt he seperate classes?.....Grant's first class was 1956 or 55.....The class of 64:....An Organ for the Auditorium:...Class of 65:.....THE CANNON...class of 66:.....Original Marquis out on Penn...Don't know any more anybody????

Grant opened it's doors and tents in 1953 and the first graduating class was that of 1958! Where we lived you had a choice of Grant or Capitol Hill the first few years! My brother went the Capitol Hill route while my sister and I went the Grant trail.

[Prunepicker]

I don`t remember our class donating anything.

Ours wrote numbers to bail bonds by the pay phone.

[CarltonsKeeper]

Does anyone other than Gen/64 remember the "Big Top" negro minstrel (not being racist) that U.S. Grant use to put on from about 1956 to 1961???????? I was in grade school in the 50's and I went to many of them. For obvious reasons they were done away with. They were done in good taste with no discrimination of any kind, but the times they are a changin' or did someone else say that!! Anyway, they were a lot of fun to go to, the stage was the one in which I went to Study Hall in, the North West corner of the building! Did anyone else ever go or know what I'm talking about. I bet 60 or Rickster or one of those guys did!!

[USG '60]

I don't remember that for some reason, old age maybe, BUT...... Our senior year I played the part of Genesis, the "negro" gardener in the play Seventeen. Because of that role one of the young ladies running for student council president asked me to create a skit as Genesis in which I pitched her at the nomination assembly. Stereotypical blackface makeup was not used and I remember nothing whatever about how I did the pitch. I don't doubt a bit that the minstrel shows occurred, I just don't remember them.

[Generals64]

I don't remember that for some reason, old age maybe, BUT...... Our senior year I played the part of Genesis, the "negro" gardener in the play Seventeen. Because of that role one of the young ladies running for student council president asked me to create a skit as Genesis in which I pitched her at the nomination assembly. Stereotypical blackface makeup was not used and I remember nothing whatever about how I did the pitch. I don't doubt a bit that the minstrel shows occurred, I just don't remember them.

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I remember the plays but, most of all I remember the 7th hour study hall....I'll bet Prunepicker does also Huh?