Everyone welcome a home town man named Lance Markley. Yes, this is Dr. and Lois Markley's son.
Join us often Lance and please find the roll call to let us know some about you. Some of our members won't know you, but tell whatever you like. I'm sure they will believe anything you write down.
Welcome, Lance. Yes, tell us anything you want. Ms. T and Ta Ta will believe anything. But some of us know you and know that you would never lie to us.
Ah, Lance. Seems as if my mother knows you. You must have been in that class with David Denton, Randy Fickle, that Osborn kid, or at least close to them.
David Denton, Randy Fickle, Sherri McDonald Mills Wilder, and I all graduated from the elite class of 1975 (the 2nd graduating class of West Elk High School) Lance Markley and that Osborn kid (Fred), along with the forum's Marty Hunter and Rhonda Signer McGown all graduated a year later (they couldn't keep up with our class). There may be more on the forum, but those are just a few that came to mind.
Hi, Sherri.
Welcome Lance..
Guess you will have to comment on that statement from Susan... :P
I mean.come on... You can't let something like THAT go unanswered! ;D
Go Class of 75: Not only were and are the best we are still the largest graduating class of West Elk High School.....Hi Back to you my friend Susan...oh how I miss some of our talks and so much sharing and laughter....I sure miss my friends. I was so thrilled when I found out who emptynest was...We were a fun fun class and I know two of us that are still so highly intelligent, and fun. tee hee....Oh I am starting to sound like my sister and ta ta...hahaha... :laugh: I will add this...I loved Rhonda...her and I had lots of fun times together as well even though she was an underclassman....Hi Ms. Rhonda...I am sure you are as sweet as you always were. Miss you too. :)
Oh my gosh...how rude of me :P ...Welcome Lance...I am so glad to see you on the forum.
Hello,
Welcome to the forum Lance. Hope to see you posting soon. Sherri, it's good that we're adults now and can't get in trouble for some of the things we did. Now I just hope and pray that my kids aren't like me!! Now Sherri & Susan you know that the Class of 76 just has to be the best class ever to graduate from West Elk. Regardless we did have a great time in High School and sometimes I wish things were as easy going now as they were back then.
Welcome Lance, I'm an east coast stowaway. So far they haven't thrown me out for my warped sense of humor.... have fun!
Welllll we need to hear it from the Moms !!! Oh what fun those gals and guys were and still are I'm sure -- Where are the comments from Carol Denton Nigh - Caroline Wilnerd - Sue Signer - Lois Markley - Nadene Fickle.....
ARE THERE ANY OF YOU "HEADACHE MOMS GOING TO RESPOND TO THIS? LOL LOL LOL LOL
Welcome Lance !!!!
my daughters were a few years younger, but could I tell you some stories that I have learned in later years. The oldest graduated West Elk in, I think, 1977. They'll laugh and tell you now that they are too old to be grounded or worse. AND LAUGH ABOUT IT. :-\ I worked at the school when most of your kids were in school, and some were rather onery, but most pretty well behaved. One or two may have been a problem ::) ::) but not the problems of today, I don't think.
I worked there, too, Flo. And I would say that was when things started getting out of hand. My youngest was a couple of years older and she never behaved the way those jr. high kids did. I think that being the oldest in the school went to their heads. They didn't have the juniors and seniors to batten them down once in awhile. I remember who the trouble makers were, but I won't tell if you won't.
The Osborn boy I was thinking of was not Fred. This boy was always a trouble maker. I just can't remember his name. Mother, you know who I am talking about, I'm sure. You had trouble with him in the lunch room and I think that Denton and Fickle were always egging him on.
Yes, I know who you are talking about but I can't remember his name either. I am sure it wasn't Fred. Some of these younguns that were in the same class should know. And I know Fickle instigated a lot of things but I don't remember Denton doing it. Fred Osborn was Neal and Phyliss's son.
Sorry about pinning it on Fred. It was Billy Bob Osborn. Oh boy!!! I bet Sherri and I could tell a whole bunch of stories that would send you all into hysterics. Like the time when he zipped the custom-made leather athletic bag over his head and the zipper got stuck. And boy did he have temper!!! Now if he or any of his relatives are on this forum---please don't shoot me. It's just the memories.........anyway, not only did he zip that bag over his head but he locked himself in the upstairs little empty principal's office that was rarely used for anything. He through the biggest temper tantrum that I have ever seen, especially for a junior high kid. There were days when it wasn't safe to be at North Elk Junior High in Severy, but it sure was fun! (What'd ya say, Sherri?)
Billy Bob Osborn. Yep. That would be him. I remember the story about the gym bag being zipped on his head. OMG. Wonder what he is up to now? Wonder if he ever grew up? Wonder if he is in prison? No, just kidding.
Jeepers_____- Janet --- I don't think so!!!
Hmmmmm. The only Bob Osborn I know is a 737 driver from Omaha.
That's a lot different than jail, but some days it is similar to having a gym bag zipped over your head.
8)
Oh my gosh, I have tears running down my face from laughing. I hadn't thought about that gym bag incident for ages.
Does anyone remember the English teacher (I think it was Mrs. Dugan) calling for Mr. Shepard, the science teacher to come help by pushing on the pipe in the back of the room?
OH, shoot, yes.....I remember Mrs. Dugan........and when she would have discipline problems she would rattle the upstairs radiator or whatever those pipes were called. That meant that Mr. Shpeherd should get upstairs quickly. One particular day, though, someone (name not released to protect their rights) put a piece of cheese on the radiator( boy, did those things get hot in the winter). Anyway, it melted and started to smoke and the entire class had to evacuate the room. Where most of the students evacuated to is a whole different story. When the radiators upstairs were turned on, it got so hot upstairs that the windows had to be opened in the dead of winter. And since the library was also upstairs and centrally located, those big windows would let in lots of cooler air. But one particular time, it had snowed and the onery kids (???) went outside and threw snowballs up throught the upstairs windows into the library----and practically took out the substitute librarian Mrs. McGee. There was snow everywhere in that library!!!! It's a wonder we survived being at that school.........I personally think I am a better teacher for having "PARTICIPATED" as a student at North Elk Junior High.....
Susan, I think the word should be "survived".
Maybe survived BECAUSE they participated !! hahahahahah
I had one in there at that time...Remember???
I was there and I think you are right, Jo.
Welcome, Lance. Log in often and say hello. Nice to have another male in this e-community. Believe me, we're outnumbered which results in frequent harrassment by the females. Poor us.
Quote from: Rudy Taylor on July 12, 2007, 10:22:05 AM
Nice to have another male in this e-community. Believe me, we're outnumbered which results in frequent harassment by the females. Poor us.
sighhhhhhhhhhhh~~~ :-\
Oh for the love of the Lord ..would you listen to that drival~~~ ::)
Wait a minute while I get my little teeny weenie violin and play you a sad song ... ::) ;D
hahahahahahaha...Mrs. Dugan and Mr. Shephard...I had Mr. Shephard and I remember when we or I mean some of the onery ones turned his desk upside down against the door and we didn't have class that day...He had sanitary napkins in his closet...weird man...Remember Mr. Culberson? He looked like a monkey...oh those were the days....We were so bad there..It is a wonder we survived. I got locked into a locker one time and Mrs. Perkins opened it up...I was in big trouble and I was the victim that time...Oh so many memories. hahahahahahahahaha....The cheese on the radar was limberger....And then there was Billy Bob...Poor thing...I thought he would die in the zippered bag...Freddie was right there with him trying to help him....Oh dear. hahahahahahaha....
wish I could keep a straight face while I read these past few posts, but rememeber? I was there, only I was in the office. Remember everybody getting frantic cause they couldn't get the bag off of Billie Bob's head. I told them to leave him alone, when he run out of air, he'd take it off himself. Remember Donnie McCollum telling Mrs. Knox (sub teacher) she couldn't hit him (new law, you know) and her comment was "watch me" and whacked him up side the head and then marched him to the office by the ear. Now with that one I couldn't hardly keep a straight face. You talking about the study hall - I have 4 oak chairs from the study hall. My father-in-law bought about 10 at the auction and gave me some. I sat in those same chairs when I went to high school. Did you all know that teachers and personnel alike were expected to wear dresses when I started working at the school? Frances Perkinis and I dared each other to wear slacks the next day and we did. Pant suits, however. We got some stern looks from Mr. Culbertson, but from that day forward one by one teachers began wearing slacks from time to time. Times have changed, however I don't know if the changes have all been good. Yes, Wilma, there were a lot of trouble makers, and a lot were from Howard. Ask the Howard teachers and they would say most of the trouble makers here were from Severy. Think the kids were asserting their freedom in a town separate from their parents for the day. Also it was about the time that they decided teachers could not discipline students and the students really took advantage of that to see just how far they could push it. I won't go into things we done when I was in school.
I started teaching elementary school in 1966...only dresses and skirts then. I went through at least one pair of panty hose a day,( and yes, I was around before they were developed.) Those kids were hard on my nylons! But, when Emma Peale showed up on the "Avengers" in those great pant suits, we teachers petetioned the school board for the right to wear nice pant suits and won. Always wore pants after that.
I am certainly old enough to remember rules that said all skirts for the ladies and all coats and ties for the gentlemen, but I can't say I ever understood them. I did a management fill-in gig at Visa International as recently as 1995 and, although slacks for women were acceptable, all men wore ties and all management wore suits, whether male or female.
I also remember when I left there (San Mateo, CA) and was looking around for my next consulting contract, I interviewed at Intel in Roseville, CA. I rushed up from work at Visa in a three-piece suit and was ushered into a conference room for an interview with plant management. I was the only one in that conference room wearing long pants! Everyone on the Intel management team was wearing shorts, pullover shirts, and sandals.
Oh sister.... hahahahahaha
And Flo... hahahahahahahaha
oh I remember so many things, but I was out of school when you both were there..
But as you were telling it..
I was right there witnessing it.. hahahaha
Thanks~~ I needed that hard laugh.. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D