William Ginder

LINDA

MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU.

BUTCH

Jacquie Campbell (Biggs)

Pat, If anyone can write a book on the Class of '65, Ben certainly has the skills.  He has written several pieces about his time in Viet Nam and as Officer Carbo on HPD.  He could take a few stories from WHS65 and develop them into a bestseller.  Who knows? We might become a mini-series from Netflix or Amazon.  jbiggs

Robert (Robby) Colmenares

Kirkley Lee Thompson

Jacquie,

 I will second that Book deal to get Benny to write a WHS 65 class history.  Interestingly, we met in Columbia, SC,  2 years ago and worked  Hail storm claims together for 2 mos. Real fun working with him.   We had not seen each other since graduation.  I read and listened to some of his stories too.  Very, very good!    ...klt

Patricia Bissonnet (Bissonnet)

I would love to read Benny's memories!  How can I find them? 

Roger Felton

Ok, but I want an autographed copy of Benny's book.  He needs to get going on it, though.  I found out that when guys get to be our age they sadly discover that the memory is the second thing to go...and I forgot what's first.

Robert (Ben) Carbo

Patricia Bissonnet (Bissonnet)

I do the same, Benny.  I write short vignettes of things that I remember --not necessarily in chronological order, and all viewed through the lens of the present.  Not sure how "retired" you are, but if you are retired, and have time, Inprint in Houston offers courses in memoir writing.  They are not for expert writers, but for people like you and I.  I took one, and it really provided the motivation to write more.  Would love to read what you are writing, so start a blog!  

Patricia Bissonnet (Bissonnet)

I suppose someone could take the pages from this website and create a book about us--an "Up the Down Staircase" about Waltrip.  Or a Chorus Line of Old Folks talking about who they were back in the day.....

Stephen Puckett, I nominate you.....

Robert (Ben) Carbo

Pat Wilcox (Prewit)

Linda Webster needs our prayers. If you have not read her message on the Home page please do so. She is having three days (yesterday, today and tomorrow) of tests done at M D Anderson to see if a mass on her pancreas is malignant. She also has two protruding hernias on her stomach that will need to be removed. I encourage you to pray for Linda. If you can please call your church to have her added to its prayer list and to ask them to send a message to their prayer chain/prayer warrior members. Linda needs to hear from us. Let her know she has your prayers and support. 

Pat Wilcox (Prewit)

I need to make a correction to my previous message concerning Linda Webster. She is at Memorial Hermann Medical Center as as an outpatient not M D Anderson. 

Stephen Ray Puckett

Memories of Distant Daze...

Milkdrop was played by shorty Bobby Lauher who lived in SW Houston for many years.  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6806296 

He was a regular on the Ernie Kovacs show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tgjkq-xmO8

Bernard Brady

Hello to all of ya !!!

A while back, I wrote a long artical about the jitters in the US and World stock markets.

I also asked that you take a good hard look at adding gold and silver to your portfolios while the two metals were down in price. Many of you know that I made my career selling rare coins and precious metals. But not in Texas ! I spent 12 years in Colorado and 24 years in Tennessee, where citizens were much more receptive, and were leery of equties and bonds. Most all of my relatives live in Texas and would not even listen to me. They are loaded  in their 401K's with stocks and bonds. My brother in law and my step father went all in with Enron. They walked away with nothing. It's not too late to avoid the crash of equity markets in 2016, but it is very close. I really do not mind being labled "a kook". However, you guys have known me since I started at Oak Forest Elementary when I was five years old. I graduated in the top 10% of our graduating class at Waltrip. I have a very clean reputation and alot of wonderful clients. I'm not even asking that you buy anything from me. Buy locally. Steve Puckett and Jim Bogle collected coins as youngsters with me. I spent 5 years in college getting my Degree in Marketing Management from Lamar University in Beaumont and paid my own way though and came out with no student loans. My parents were divorced and unable to help with the college of me or my two brothers. My older brother Kyle graduated from Lamar in accounting and my younger brothet Jeff went to Viet Nam and received the GI Bill and went to Sul Ross in Alpine, TX. Non of us are slouchers.  Our words are our bond. I'm not trying to scare a soul. Just trying to educate anyone who is listening. If this is not for you, go on back to your chili recipes. I do care about all of you....

Hilda Carol Smith (Godell)

In the early seventies, my husband and I owned The Pizza Plaza on the square in San Marcos and I drew a cartoon strip we used as advertisment in the local paper.  I "created" a little guy called The Pizza Lover who was the constant main character and after we published the first one or two, I realized he had an uncanny resemblence to Mild Drop Moe!!  Just bizarre to see the original pop up here!  Hope there's not a lawsuit in my future!!  If I had a clue about technology and knew how to post a picture, I'd send a sample - maybe my three year old grandson could give me a hand .

Roger Felton

Thanks Bernard.  Anyone who has known you for a day knows you aren't a kook.  I understand exactly what you are saying and I firmly believe we're in for some rough times ahead.  When I first started teaching the skill of trading, my office was right across the street from Enron and I still remember looking down from my office window and seeing those sad people pouring out of that building under guard with their belongings in cardboard boxes.

For the past 20 years I've never put a dime into equities.  Probably never will because it's like going down the freeway in a covered wagon.  I have friends who have done well in the stock market but it took them 15 years or more to get any good at it on a consistent basis.  It's no fun to teach something that takes an eternity to master.

Many people who invested their money in managed accounts would have done better to take their money and head to Vegas.  They'd have still lost it but at least they'd have gotten free drinks.  When it comes to investing, the first thing people need to realize is that nobody cares more about your money than you do and to trade successfully and consistently you have to learn to trade for yourself. 

We live in a world that has gone totally insane.  Just check the news headlines on any given day.  America, the greatest country in the history of man, is morally and financially bankrupt.  Now it looks as if our next  president might be serving their term and their prison sentence at the same time.  No country can prosper that would ever allow something like that to even be a remote possibility much less a realistic probability. 

So, yeah Bernard, Americans should have the jitters.  It's gonna get so rough we're going to need seat belts on our recliners.  There are many theories on how best to financially survive but investing in stocks makes little sense right now...especially at our age.  

There are things that everyone who is financially secure today can do to prevent losing that wealth tomorrow.  It all comes down to knowledge.  It's now essential for financial survival these days unless your money is under your mattress. 

I hope everyone pays attention to that Bernard "kook".  He knoweth of that which he speak.  The words he never wants to speak are " I tried to tell you".

Roger Felton

Well, by golly Hilda, I can see how easily that could happen.  Take Milk Drop Moe and slap some pepperoni on him and some cheese and "Presto" you have The Pizza Lover!  Perhaps you could have had the pointy top end have a crescent shaped jagged "bite" taken out of it to help mask the resemblance a bit.  I don't even remember Milk Drop Moe, so the little pizza lover guy would have been all new to me.  I think you had a great idea there!

Teddie Jordan ' 64

I was a card carrying member of the Milk Drop Moe Club.

Thanks for that memory Steve.

Roger Felton

Milk Drop Moe reminds me of when they had "Looney Bucks".  I think that's what they were called.  They were those little cardboard disks that they put in the openings of milk bottles.  The ones the milkman used to bring and leave on your doorstep.  Gosh, I miss the milkman.  When I grew up I wanted to be a Milkman and wear one of those cool looking white uniforms.  I guess that was so, if he dropped a bottle of milk in his lap, nobody'd notice.  

How come we get to have our mail delivered every day but we gotta go down to the Piggly Wiggly and lug those big gallon milk jugs back to the house?   As I get closer to 70, those get heavier with every trip.  Did they take the lead out of gasoline and put it in milk?  I bet if ole Milk Drop Moe was still around he'd have a hernia.

Stephen Ray Puckett

Ah, Looney Bucks.   You must then remember Captain Bob and his Isetta of Looney Auction and Looney Town.  "It’s time now for Looney Town and you can bet we're ready set to GO!"

Roger Felton

Ah, yes...Looney Town!  It's all coming back now.  I never got to see Capt. Bob but that's ok because on my 11th birthday I got to go to KTRK-TV where I fell in luv with Kitirik.  You gotta remember Kitirik don't ya Stephen?  Bunny Orsak.  I think that's when I first learned about fish net stockings. 

I remember she came over to me with her microphone to talk to me cause it was my birthday and all.  The cameraman was following her across the set and when she got to me she decided to move over to my other side while still facing the camera.  Well, you guessed it.  She hit me in the head with her tail.  Not that I minded, though.  I was just a bit shocked..ok, maybe a lot shocked since she asked me my name and I couldn't remember.  Just sat there grinning. 

Now I gotta go explain to my wife (looking over my shoulder) how Milk Drop Moe made me think about Kitirik's tail. 

Stephen Ray Puckett

Ah, yes, Kitirik.  Beloved by lotsa girls and boys and some bigger boys as well.

When Kitirik talked I paid attention.

She enticed me to drink Bosco.

When Texan Fess Parker was around her, he wanted to stroke a tail.  Who knows what that thing on the lamp was wanting to do...

Why's this boy half nekkid?

Kitirik and Skipper

Kitirik and Nod

The substitute Kitirik, Toni Burke.  Not quite the same.

Stephen Ray Puckett

Another TV personality from our younger days, Cadet Don

Another was MariJane of the Magicastle.  Kinda like Kitirik but not the same.  She still works around Houston.

Stephen Ray Puckett

Roger Felton

Hummm, Stephen.  Somehow I'm getting vibes that you were fond of Kitirick's tail, too.  Whenever she walked, it would kinda swing back and forth.  Sorta mesmerizing....

Her face always reminded me of that sweet, lil biology teacher at Black, Mrs. English.  I always thought she was incredibly smart because she could spell paramecium on the blackboard without taking 2 or 3 stabs at it like I had to.

I remember on a test one time there was a question about amoebas and I wrote that they were lucky because they got to spend all their time with their friends and didn't have to go to a biology class to learn about people.  As the bell rang the next day and everyone headed to the door, she called me over to her desk and asked me why I put such a dumb answer to an easy question.

I told her I just wanted to make her laugh.  She looked puzzled and asked me why missing a test question just to make her laugh was a smart decision.  Of course, I knew it was stupid but I had to think fast and come up with an answer that I thought she'd be ok with.  So I told her that I had never seen her smile and anyone with a face as beautiful as hers should smile a lot.  That did it.

She blushed a little but her smile was there big as Dallas.  She had one of those "Miss America" smiles.  You know, perfect snow white teeth and gums exposed clear up to her nose.  It was an amazing smile.

All she could say was, "You can go now, Roger". 

Hers was the only class that I got an A in that I didn't think I quite deserved.  But I did learn how to spell paramecium on the first try.