Bushy Tales Dedicated to All Who Attended London Central High School in Bushy Park, London England from 1952 to 1962
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
- 1 - Bushy Tales Dedicated to all who attended London Central High School in Bushy Park, London England from 1952 to 1962 Issue #9 November 2005 Volume #5 Gary Schroeder (55), Editor [email protected] Visit the Bushy Park Web Site at http://www.bushypark.org/ Class Representatives 118 Nantucket Island Centerville, GA 31028 1953 - Jackie (Brown) Kenny (478) 971-3799 [email protected] 1954 – Betsy (Neff) Cote New Email addresses: [email protected] 1955 – Nancie (Anderson) Weber Sandra J. Scanlan Matlack (57) [email protected] [email protected] 1956 - Glenda F. Drake [email protected] Diane Lund (58) McMahon 1957 –Shirley (Huff) Dulski [email protected] [email protected] 1958 – Pat (Terpening) Owen Elsa Mary Coleman Blades (60) [email protected] [email protected] 1959 - Jerry Sandham [email protected] Judy Hall Reazer (60) 1960 - Ren Briggs [email protected] [email protected] 1961 - Betsy (Schley) Slepetz [email protected] New address: 1962 - Dona (Hale) Ritchie [email protected] Austin E. Ganly (60) [email protected] Roster Changes 9232 41 Street Pinellas Park, Florida 33782 Change of job to: (Editors Note: We had another error in the First Baptist Church, St Petersburg last issue. See below.) Florida [email protected] Don't know who submitted the information on Church Administrator me but it is incorrect. Should read: Virginia K. (Kaye) Caldwell Jones (56) [email protected] Look Who We Found some time ago, that "Judy Hall" was deceased but didn't know which one it was. After we Kathleen M. Casey Sanders (55) located Judy's brother John "Mike" Hall, we [email protected] found that it wasn't his sister, so anyone who 63 Woodside Drive knew Judy Hall (Mike's sister), she is alive. Albany, NY 12208 If anyone has any information on the other Richard L. Jaros (61) Judy Hall, we'd be happy to publish it. 868 Vassar Drive Edwardsville, IL 62025 NOT INTERESTED Memories of Bushy Stephen C. Marks (61) From Bob Overton (61) 7919 Sierra Seco [email protected] San Antonio, TX 78240 I was going through some old boxes and found Leon D. McGinnis (62) a roll of undeveloped film. I had it developed 6545 Martin Road and low and behold the pictures were taken at Milton, FL 32570-9505 Bushy Park. They are pretty scratchy as they NOT INTERESTED have been all over the world since taken. I am going to email them to you to see if you can use them and identify the people in them. I Classmates Who Have Transferred recognize a few, all look familiar but names To The Eternal Duty Station elude me. By the way, you are doing a fantastic job with the newsletter. Thanks. Our love and prayers go out to the family and (Editors Note: I will use one or two in each friends of our classmates who have gone on issue as space permits. Anyone knowing before us. We will miss them, yet we can find who is in the picture should send me an comfort in knowing that one-day we will all email with the name and anything else you join them for the greatest of all reunions. might remember about the person or times spent together.) Jon Conklin Iams (59) - per genealogy records Dan Crismon (61) - per SSDI records Ken Robie (56) - Dear Friends of Ken, Ken passed away this past Sunday, October 16 2005, of a heart attack at home. I don't know any of you, but thought he would want me to inform you. Laura Rudman-Robie widow of Ken Editor's Note: There were TWO Judy Hall's in the Class of 1960. We'd gotten word, quite 2 Mini Reunions From Martha (Connor) Bartsch (56) [email protected] We, my husband and I, had a most delightful reunion this past week! We had a planned visit from Paul Middlebrook and his darling wife, Mary, or Mim, as her family calls her. They arrived from FL on Monday, September 27th, and since Mary has a brother and sister- From Bob Overton (61) in-law who reside right here in Wilmington, [email protected] NC, Paul and Mary stayed with them while here. It occurred to me last night as I was letting my memory take me back to those wonderful We were graciously invited to a lovely "Bushy Park" years of my life that I probably evening at Mary's brother's and sister's-in-law, hold the record for the longest time spent at and yakked the whole evening long! It was so Bushy Park high school. wonderful and truly brought back some marvelous memories...mostly thru Paul. He My Father was transferred to England from has a sensational memory, and we had more Karachi, Pakistan, in February of 1957. fun listening to him recount the many special I had been attending a boarding school for times, both at Bushey and at Bentwaters, that Americans in Beirut as a freshman at the time. he has kept with him! My parents spent that spring trying to find an English boarding school that would take me or Another special part of his memoirs included that I would stay at without running away. tales of my brother, Miles Connor, and what a They failed, so the first week of May, simultaneous love and rascal he could be! Our 1957 I arrived at Central High, having missed second son and his wife had been asked to join about two and one-half months of school. us and they listened and laughed as much as At the end of the semester, I received we did! incompletes. There is no apt way to describe the moments When the fall semester arrived I went to of that evening. I know I shall cherish it for a register for the new year and was asked if I very long time to come! was a freshman or a sophomore. For some inexplicable, but as it turned a very fortuitous, Pat (Terpening) Owen (58) reason I said freshman. I graduated in June of [email protected] 1961. That gives me 4 full years and about 4 weeks in High School. Do I have the record? Shirley Huff (57) Dulski and Pat Terpening Let me know if anyone reading this can beat (58) Owen enjoyed a wonderful evening of this. eating and talking when Shirley stopped by Topeka on her way home from the recent "Reunion" in Washington, D.C. Shirley said 3 the reunion was great and she had a wonderful Would the couple who hailed me down at the time. recent LCHS reunion please identify yourselves? I went back to your table later in Reunion News the evening and you were gone. I'm ashamed to say that although I remember your faces From Ruth (Lund) Bethea (55) very well (how could I forget a San Diego [email protected] dinner companion), I'm not as good on names. It would be fun to do dinner again at the next The LCHS reunion in our nation's capital gathering (soon I hope) as my sister and I provided a spot in time (and a warm welcome) enjoyed your company. I did tell Diane you for those folks who had either: said hello. 1) Just been found and this was their first opportunity to meet up with former From Bill Grimes (56) classmates; OR [email protected] 2) Wouldn't miss a chance to get together; OR 49years after graduation and after attending 3) Could finally afford a trip; OR other peoples reunions, I finally had the 4) Just happened to live close by (like me); opportunity to attend mine in DC and it was OR outstanding. 5) Those who were brought by someone in one of the above categories (like my Dan) to While our 56 reunion class size was small, re-visit old friends, make new ones, and to John Enroth, Nancy Reed Robinson, and I share memories of days gone by. I mean that's were able to hold our own with the rest of the what it's all about. classes. While I constantly had to refer to my yearbook to re-establish faces of people you It was fun to look out over the crowd and see once saw in the Bushy Park halls so long ago, folks enjoying themselves. There was some it was great to say hello. pretty good dancing going on for (supposed) old timers... Mike and Judy can sure cut a rug! Enjoyed talking to George Keich from the Lots of folks were taking pictures and I'm sure basketball team, Bill Douglas (great beard) others will be shared in the newsletter. from Bus #107-I think that was the number- Vaikai, Sandy, Carol, Robyn and many others There were four of us from the class of 55, all Stories were told and even had some to tell graduates of Bushy Park - Pat Miller Hodges, about the Teen Club at the Columbia House, Joe Wolfe, me (Ruth Lund Bethea), and and tubes rides to London-I did leave out Dianne Pendergrass Hopkins. It was great to Tythe Farms. spend some time together and catch up on recent events in our lives. Although we Bill Cooper and his group did an outstanding certainly missed all the others from our class job organizing a very enjoyable weekend and (and hope to see you at the next reunion), we Sherry Burritts DC tour book was most had fun visiting with Joe's brother Neil Wolfe informative. In short, it was a fun weekend and Nancy Reed Robinson who spent time at spent with people who had the great the table we shared with folks from the class experience of living in England and attending of '59.