NAA Trichter Der Nürnberger Trichter, sicher und schnell, macht die Köpfe hell! The NAA Funnel reliably and quickly makes one brighter. Vol. 21, No. 3 Nürnberg Alumni Association, Inc. Winter 2009 A publication by and for the alumni, faculty, and staff of the former Nürnberg American High School Release of Hitler Photos Provoke Memories Spirit of Hitler Lived On after the War By Bob McQuitty influence on the Germans would have after the end of the war. Indeed, I NAA historian been thoroughly obliterated. suppose you could say it lives on even Germany’s Wehrmacht was so Such was not the case. Although today. thoroughly defeated by the Allied forces their cities were in ruins and the The pictures recently released by and Adolph Hitler’s bizarre and brutal occupying Allied forces were Life magazine, some of which vision for Germany so thoroughly everywhere in Germany, the spirit of accompany this article, attest to his, still discredited, one would think that his Hitler lived on, especially in the decade ominous, presence. To see more of these Continued on page 12
Excited crowds greet Hitler at Fallersleben Volkswagen Motorworks cornerstone ceremony, near Wolfsburg, Germany, June 25, 1938. Copyrighted Photo: Hugo Jaeger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images/Reprinted with permission. 2 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter Oberammergau Passion Volume 21, No. 3 Winter 2009 The Trichter is published three times a year by the Nürnberg Alumni Play trip planned Association, Inc., a 501(c)7 not-for- profit organization, for the enjoy- Joan K. (McCarter) Adrian ’47, is and will not be presented again until ment of its members. All content is planning a trip to Bavaria in 2010, and 2020. the property of the author. For thought some of the alumni might be Joan invites you to join her for a reprint information, contact the interested in information and possibly return to our beloved Nürnberg, and see editor. joining her. This is a Collette tour to the play that is unique. “I saw the 1st Editor: Pat Gibson Bavaria, for 8 days, including 10 meals, production following WWII in 1950 and Editor Emeritus: Bob McQuitty 6 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 3 dinners. if any of you went, you remember the Proofreaders: Terry Jorgensen, Jeanette There are several departure dates theater seats were unpadded and it was and Bob McQuitty, Mary Gibson and she has not booked one as yet. You an endurance test to sit in them all day will stay in Munich as the base city. (the play runs for hours and takes up the Send material for publication to: Visits will be made to Innsbruck on a entire day). They are now padded seats. Pat Gibson day trip. Another day will be in Nürnberg The audience is under roof, but the stage 12700 Pauls Valley Road with visits to the Palace of Justice, and is open under the sky and performances Austin, TX 78737-9507 or the field we knew as Soldiers Field are held rain or shine.” [email protected] (where Hitler’s rallies were held), as well This package includes round trip as a tour of the walled city. Then transfer airfare from the U.S. to Munich. There to an Oberammergau hotel where we may be a small additional charge if you will attend the Passion Play, and depart need to fly from your location to a major the following day. If you are interested, international airport. Contact Joan and please contact Joan via e-mail: when we get more set info, she can send [email protected] or ph: 502-223- it to you individually. All prices are for 3000. The date will be sometime in double occupancy. “I am very excited spring or summer. The Passion Play runs about being able to see the play again Just a few notes about this issue. from around Easter (April) to Oct. only after 60 years.” Dr. McQuitty’s excellent article almost didn’t get included. Seems he got what is termed “scare-ware” on his computer. it has become active on your machine. Have a blessed and restful holiday This nasty virus/program pops up and It will continue to nag you to send it season however you choose to announces you have many serious some money so it can fix your machine. celebrate it! viruses on your machine and if you will If you give in and send the money, some allow it to work, it will fix it. DON’T members of an Eastern European CLICK YES! Close the window organized crime group will have your immediately. Then run your standard credit card number, e-mail address, and, virus protection program to find and worst of all, a back-door into your delete the seed of the program.* If you machine and the network where you are *What, you don’t run a virus give permission to the program to scan active. The FBI, European law protection program? If you have a your machine, it will embed itself in enforcement, and other groups have been computer and allow it to connect to the your operating system so tightly, the tracking this particular virus for months Internet or allow someone to put a flash only option is to reformat the hard drive, but because of the skill of the operators, drive or disk into the machine, you are reload Windows and all your programs. have not been able to catch them. foolish not to run some form of virus Yes, start over. Some of my tech support We finally got some rain here in protection. There are many out there, buddies at the University say the Central Texas and the scouts for the some free, some very expensive. You programming in this particular virus is flying pigs, our winter visitors, showed need to have it running AND keep it excellent. What a shame all that talent up this morning at the bird feeder. I guess updated. (Don’t be too complacent all has to be used for a criminal activity! It it’s time to dig out my felt hats and you Mac users, there are reports of a is almost impossible to eliminate once sweaters. version of this monster for the Mac as well.) Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 3 Board of Directors Era Representatives Nürnberg Alumni Association David Ogé Doug Veith, JD Pat (McCarroll) President-Chairman Legal Counsel [email protected] [email protected] Wood 1131 Waters Edge Circle, 4142 Mercier Street Era Rep, Faculty and 1940’s/1950’s Shreveport, LA 71106 Kansas City, MO 64111-4154 [email protected] H:318-210-0926 816-569-3512 6902 Raintree Forest San Antonio, TX 78233 Debbie (McLean) Robert A. McQuitty, 210-656-2260 Ogé PhD Doug Hatt V.P. - Advertising Historian/Archivist Era Rep, 1960’s [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 1131 Waters Edge Circle 202 E. Seneca 543 Main Street Shreveport, LA 71106 Tahlequah, OK 74464-7041 Half Moon Bay, CA 94019-1921 H:318-210-0926 918-456-8443 650-726-1259 C:903-530-0310 Pat (Knighton) Reni (Peek) Michael Terry T.D. Era Rep, 1970’s Gibson [email protected] Jorgensen Editor-in-Chief, Trichter 6209 Puget Road, N.E. 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Nürnberg High School was represented once again at the 2009 Overseas Brats Gathering with yours truly in attendance as the Nürnberg Alumni Association’s Ambassador-at-Large. This is our way of saying, “Thanks, Joe Condrill, for finding and referring lost NHS Eagles back to our Eagles’ Nest, whom Overseas Brats’ Founder Joe Condrill locates during each calendar year.” Since 1987, Condrill has referred over 500 Newly-Found-Eagles to our Association, many of whom become dues-paying members of our Association, and attend our Triennial Gathering of Eagles. So, our allegiance, loyalty, and support to Condrill and his Overseas Brats organization has been earned, and we enjoy giving back as a way of showing our appreciation. This year’s Overseas Brats Gathering was special for me, because we accidentally ran into Valeria Locklear-Fee ‘74, who was in the same hotel where Overseas Brats was being hosted, and her own seminar was being held. What a nice, and pleasant surprise for both of us. (See picture below.) Another Eagle, Diana Bock DuPree ‘75 was also in attendance, and as luck would have it, was able to reunite with Valerie Locklear-Fee once again, after hooking up with Valerie’s well-represented class of 1974 in San Antonio last year. So…a really good and surprising chance meeting which started well, and ended beautifully for all in attendance. Next year’s 2010 Overseas Brats Gathering will be hosted in Eugene/Lane County, Oregon, during October. So, if any Eagles in the Great Northwest need an excuse to exercise their Wanderlust…we’d love to see you next year at the O.B. Gathering, Y‘all ! Yvonne and I visited our wonderful Nürnberg High alumni friends/classmates, Jack & Judy Neville, in the Washington, DC, area this past Independence Day week/weekend, and had such a wonderful week visiting them and their families…their sisters…their children…and their 92-year old mother Mrs. McLane. The Good Lord blessed us that week for being there, for Mrs. McLane was called Home about a month later. We’re both so very glad we got to see her before she left us. Yvonne and I shipped a peach-colored crepe myrtle sapling, ready for planting, so that the McLane sisters can all see life going on each year as the crepe myrtle blooms in the summer, to remind us all of Mrs. McLane, and that she’s not been forgotten and is still loved. Our grandson Walker turned 5 on August 30th. Our granddaughter Katie turned 4 January 4th. (Seen below holding a baby alligator!) Yvonne had a birthday, too, but decorum prevents me from disclosing how many candles sat on her cake. For those of you who prayed for us during our recent ‘Great Flood of 2009…we thank you. It could have been much, much worse, and we know it. Our county was inundated with 20.3" of rain within 24-hours this past month, and that was after about 5-6 consecutive rain days, where we received ½” – 2" of rain on each of those days. So, it was serious. Eight Atlanta residents lost their lives due to the flooding. Looking forward to visiting with you once again, during the March 2010 Jorgensen’s Jargon- column, Y‘all. Make it a great, festive, and SAFE Holiday Season…and economically-rewarding for you and your families in 2010. Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 5
October 2009 – Consider Where We Are… and Where We Are Going
The year 2009 has just about run its down the lane of reunion gatherings over I encourage all of us to think about course; it is hard to believe! Time does the years and I look forward to continue what we can do and do differently to have a way of ‘marching on’ as Dr. meeting as we have every three years. bring off future successful reunions, to McQuitty has so aptly put it in his past However, I know that there are other take all of us in new directions. In 2011 Trichter segments. And it is because of ideas, new ideas regarding how, when at the General Meeting, I would like to this reality that I have written and and where to hold our reunions. In San see new faces with genuine interest pop continue to remind all of us that there Antonio last year, we had a very up and vie for leadership positions and are a finite number of Eagle alumni. generous alumnus Doug Veith, Class of take us into the next decade. The classes of the ‘80’s through ’67, reach deep into his own pockets and I look forward to having a great time ‘90’s are the most vibrant among us all to provide some rather unique live in Boise and look forward to hearing and it is to you (as well to any other class entertainment. (Thank you again, some new ideas and seeing people who year member!) that I reach out to Douglas!) That occurred because want to give it a go. What do you say consider leadership roles within our someone had a different idea. out there? See all of you in Boise! association. We have had a fine ride Dave-O, ‘70
Left: Charlotte Forman, Debbie Ogé and Teresa ( McLean) Smith getting ready to hit the town in Leavenworth, Washington to do some beer drinking and some German food eating !!
Right: David and Debbie Ogé visiting in Leavenworth, Washington this summer. This was a great little German town. 6 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 Vol. 21, No. 3
Bob McQuitty, FAC Jake Fuller, FAC Mini-Reunion of the Bob McQuitty, editor emeritus, I’ve traveled a lot lately. In July, claims he has something really big to we went to Los Vegas for the DoDDS Golden Oldies: brag about this time: Reunion, then I drove to Michigan to by Joan K. (McCarter) Adrian “I was on the stage with a visit relatives and old college buddies. From 29 Sept. to 2 Oct., a small Metropolitan Opera singer. The In August, we were in the Catskills for a group of alumni from 1948 to 1952 Northeastern (Oklahoma) State wedding, then on to Vermont and classes met in Traverse City, Michigan. University music department presented Massachusetts to visit friends and The reunion was organized and put a program at the Jazz Lab. It featured an relatives. In September, we were on together by James “Jick” Rickard ‘50 aging opera couple and a retired female Cape Cod to play golf for 8 days and and his wife, Kay. Those attending were opera singer. All three had performed at then in October, back to Michigan. I Peggy (Segur) Misch ’48, Leo Kelsch one time or another at the Metropolitan attended the Caledonia Class of 1964 ’49 and his wife, Cleora, Bill Shortt ’49 Opera. High School reunion. This was the first and his wife, Sonia, Joan Kay “For one of the numbers, the couple class that I taught when they were in 7th (McCarter) Adrian ’49, Jeanette needed a volunteer from the audience, grade in 1958. I had a wonderful time (Hembree) Kimes ’50 and her husband and since I hadn’t trod the boards since although I haven’t seen these kids since retiring from Tahlequah’s community 1962 when I left to go overseas Continued on page 7 theater, I volunteered. It was a scene from “La Boheme” in which Musetta flirts with a rich elderly Alcindoro in order to make her boyfriend Marcello jealous. Musetta flirted outrageously with me, musing my hair, hanging over my shoulder. She sang right in my ear, and she has such a powerful voice that I actually winced a couple of times (although I knew I shouldn’t have). I played the clown, grimacing and wiping my brow. The audience was in stitches. On cue, I was supposed to jump up in fear of the boyfriend and leave the stage. I got the cue wrong and Musetta had to pull me back. I had blown it! But later I talked with people in the audience and they thought my attempt to leave early was part of the act. “After the show I told Musetta it was an honor to be on the stage with her. She said she thought she would keep the attempted early exit in the act and said we needed to take this show on the road. I knew she was kidding.” Mini Reunion attendees on the shores of Lake Michigan. Left to Right: Kay Rickard, Cleora Kelsch, Bill Shortt, Benita and Gaylord Long and Joan K. Adrian in front. Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 7 Continued from page 6 Kathy (Mays) Smith Bob, Eddie Thompson ’50, and his wife published a history of the camp which Edna, the Rickards ’50, Billie Jean ’52 is considered the most in depth history (Outsen) Durham ’50 and her 2 sons, On Saturday, October 10, Kathy of any of the over 4,500 CCC camps run Robert of Phoenix and David of received the CCC Legacy President’s between 1933 - 1942. The book is titled Evergreen, Colorado, and Gaylord Long Award for Meritorious Service to the Gold Medal CCC Company 1538: A ‘52 and his wife, Benita. Civilian Conservation Corps. Her father Documentary. Last November, ARMY Our first evening was at the Rickard commanded a CCC camp in 1933 that Magazine published her article, home and we caught up on all the family took Outstanding CCC Camp in the “Roosevelt’s CCC: Backbone of the news. Billie Jean’s sons were delightful Army 5th Corps Area. In 2001, Kathy Army.” the entire reunion and kept us all laughing. If laughter heals like they say it does, this Golden Oldie group came away in better health. We explored the town the next day and toured a winery in the afternoon. This area is noted as the cherry capital of the world and we never saw so many things made from cherries (including a lovely cherry wine). The 3rd day we drove to Sleeping Bear Park which is on the southern shoreline of Lake Michigan. Outside of Florida, we had never seen so much sand and enormous sand dunes. It was a beautiful day for this drive and exploration of the dunes. Fall colors were just beginning to show here and there, but not in full display yet. We had great weather until our day of departure on October 2. Our final evening was a wonderful banquet at the local Elks Club with great food, great company. The motel staff were wonderful and we used their breakfast room as our gathering place during the day when not out exploring. We found Traverse City a charming, friendly, well manicured village. Recently it was listed in a magazine as one of the top 10 places to retire in. Our good-byes were hugs and kisses and promises to do this again sometime in the next year or two. Connie (Porter) Johnston ’53 Jin and I visited our son David and beauty of that part of the country can be his wife on a recent trip out to Colorado we seldom ever saw another car on the enjoyed with each trip, no matter how and New Mexico. We flew to Colorado road and had perfect Fall weather - many times you visit. We went to Cripple Springs and after visiting family, drove everything from warm sunny days to Creek, Alamosa, Pagosa Springs, Taos, around the mountains of southern Santa Fe, and flew back to Atlanta out Colorado and into New Mexico. Some of Albuquerque. In some mountain areas routes we had traveled before but the 8 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 Vol. 21, No. 3 live in Atlanta and our eight one day and night with her before she grandchildren who live there. And we passed away. She was 95. She had a still see our son from Philly regularly wonderful life and really enjoyed living with our trips to Philly and their trips to in Nürnberg for three years while my dad Atlanta. was teaching there. I lived in Fürth in Our reason for selecting Vero Beach 1955-57, when I graduated. We really was that my parents had lived there for did a lot of traveling while we lived in thirty years and we were familiar with, Germany. My dad had all of the holidays and loved the area. My father, Chester the students had, so we took advantage Hoyt, who was the Industrial Arts/Shop of that time and toured Italy, Austria, teacher at NHS in 1955-58, passed away Switzerland, France and Scandinavia. in 2005 at the age of 93. Moving to Vero My mom and I were like sisters. I will Beach gave me the opportunity to spend treasure the wonderful times we shared much more time with my mother. My together and I will always miss her. I was brother Ken lives in Vero Beach year so fortunate to have her in my life for so round and my sister Karen lives on the many years street next to us six months of the year. While in Florida this past February Jim and Connie Johnston We really do enjoy the winters in Florida. we took a Holland American cruise to even a bit of snow on Pike’s Peak and a We are in an active adult community Aruba and Curacao. What beautiful light dusting of snow on the mountains with the emphasis on “active.” We love islands and the colors there are around Santa Fe one night. The next day all the social activities and have met so magnificent. It turned out our cruise the temperatures were quite warm as we many people (all from the north) who departed on Super Bowl Sunday. Of toured around the city. We have been we have formed close friendships with. course Gil being from Pittsburgh we just taking trips out West every summer, This year we were delayed in had to watch the Steelers. They had a some years incorporating our “NHS returning to Georgia as Gil had large Super Bowl party onboard with Reunions” with the travels. unexpected open heart surgery the end plenty of food, drinks, and TV’s . The of April. He was actually in the hospital best part was that the Steelers WON!! Diane (Hoyt) when I celebrated my 70th birthday. He In 1998 Gil and I went to Germany really wanted to do something special. I to tour the country and to spend some DiSalle, ’57 assured him there would be time for that. time in the Nürnberg area. I showed him Gil and I bought a home in Vero While Gil was in the hospital my where I lived on Gerhart Hauptmann Beach (Sebastian), Florida in the Fall of neighbors had a gathering for me which Strasse. NHS looked so different, but it 2005 with the plan of spending the was so nice considering I was going was great to be there and see all of the winters there and the summers in our through a very stressful time. Gil’s changes. Gil enjoyed seeing where I had home of forty-four years in Philadelphia. recovery period took some time and we lived and the school that I had graduated A year later we decided to downsize our didn’t want to rush that. He is now doing from, after hearing me talk about it for home in Philly and began looking at fantastic. We were able to leave Florida so many years. We walked all over Fürth adult communities in the area. and get back to Georgia the middle of and Nürnberg. The walled city looks At the same time one of our sons June. It was just a slight setback. beautiful once again, now that all of the moved his family from Cincinnati to Unfortunately, my mom became ill towers have been replaced. We were able Atlanta. He and another son, who the middle of July and we flew back to to spend several days there and then we already lived in Atlanta, convinced us Florida to be with her. I was able to spend drove to Frankfurt to join a tour that that we should look at adult communities traveled to Cologne, Berlin, Munich, in the Atlanta area. After a period of Leipzig, Rothenburg, and the Black looking we sold our house in Philly to Forest. We also enjoyed a cruise down our third son and moved our summer the Rhine River. headquarters to Woodstock, GA, just The month of September has been north of Atlanta. So now we spend our special to Gil and me, we just celebrated winters in FL and our summers in GA. our 50th anniversary on the 27th. We The commute between GA and FL is decided to spend it in Hilton Head and much easier than between PA and FL. Savannah. We enjoyed the quietness of So now we have the pleasure of spending much more time with our two sons who Diane and Gil DiSalle Continued on page 9 Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 9 Continued from page 8 Deb Barron ’68 Hilton Head in September. Isn’t it just For the past 10 years I have been amazing how fast 50 years go by. It the bi-weekly host of The Folk Spot, a seems like we just celebrated our 25th. three-hour folk music program on Our son from Philadelphia and family WCUW radio in Worcester, Mass. I’ve are coming down so that the whole also served on the station’s board of family can be together and celebrate with directors for six years. This year WCUW us. He has a daughter and one son. Our began streaming live, so the show can second son Dave has triplet boys, boy now be heard anywhere in the world by and girl twins, and an adopted daughter logging onto WCUW.org. The show airs from China. Our youngest son Richard Sundays, 11 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST. So has a son and one daughter. So all in all far, I’ve had phone requests from we have 10 grandchildren. listeners in Wisconsin and California. Lawrence (Skip) Lewis ’59 Now that I am getting old, I have a great- grandson, born August 27. His name is Silar Henry Lewis. Adorable! Of Deb Barron course I am not biased. He resides with his father (Lawrence III) and mother (Stephanie) in Greeneville, TN. Needless to say I am very proud of him already. Blessings to you all.
Right: Skip with his new great-grandson.
Terry Jorgenson ’62
In July, Terry and Yvonne visited Jack and Judy Neville, in Washington, DC. At right are Judy and her family with Yvonne. 1 0 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 Vol. 21, No. 3
From left to right: top row: Col C. F. Mudgett, MG Walter B. Yeager, 3rd Row; Bob Wood, Mary Gordon, Gerald Long, Lonne Salyers, John Bremen, 2nd Row: Jerry Cochrane, Joan Mudgett, Richard Bull, Larry Mayberry, 1st row: Charles Salter, Bonnie Stroud, Steve Kirkendall, Ed Kirkendall
Bamberg Shooters ‘57 by Richard Bull ’59 A sub-species of Nürnberg High students were those of us who resided in the dorm. We were in school all week, then Friday afternoon we disbursed to a dozen other towns back to our families. Frankly, I did not know as much about the Nürnberg area as I did about my home town from 1956-1958, Bamberg. One of our youth activities in Bamberg was a Junior NRA .22 rifle program. A group of NCOs taught us how to shoot and we were eligible for NRA awards after certain levels of proficiency were demonstrated. I found this old photo taken around 1957. Maj Gen Walter Yeager showed up to recognize us. I learned something other than how to use a 22 target rifle; it was that teenage girls can be really good rifle shots. That is a significant learning event for a teenage boy whose Dad was a soldier. The eye-hand coordination is long gone, but memories of Saturday morning at the indoor range still evoke smiles in my heart.
Editor’s note: I too remember the rifle class fondly. I took it around 1960 when living in Bamberg. However, I was not one of those girls who did well. I could not hold up the heavy Army issue guns converted to 22 caliber. But if allowed to brace the gun on a sandbag, I could hit the target! —PKG Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 11
Jumping into Sixty
By Kathi (Jones) Havard ’67 We arrived promptly at 12:30 maybe I should sit this adventure out. What do two old Nürnberg (class of (remember we are military brats) for our Gloria advised me to jump or she would 1967) alumni do to celebrate turning jump, but had to wait until 4:30 until it push me out. OK, then. sixty? They meet on a hot August was our turn. This did not help our Gloria jumped first. I came out afternoon in San Marcos, Texas and nerves. We finally suited up, asking each behind her. For the first minute we would jump out of a perfectly good airplane. other if our jump suits made us look fat free-fall, then our chutes opened and we Almost two years ago my childhood (they did), and received a briefing from slowly drifted to land. The fear, friend Gloria (Brooks) Reid and I our skydiving partners. Did I mention exhilaration and thrill of drifting to earth rediscovered each other. For the past that we were tandem jumping? For those were incomparable to anything we had fifteen years we have been living within of you who do not know, tandem ever encountered. Family and friends fifty miles from each other and never jumping is when a qualified skydiver is were jumping up and down as we knew it. What a blessing it is for these hooked to a novice skydiver and takes landed. It was an amazing experience two old military brats to reconnect with on the jumping duties. They also, made richer by sharing it with an old/ a friendship that never really died. The especially in my case, reassure you, and new friend. memories of hanging out and riding our promise that you will not become Will I do it again? Heck no! Will bicycles on various adventures in maimed or die. Gloria? She plans to jump with her son Nürnberg were never forgotten. So when By the time we climbed onboard the around her birthday in November. I told Gloria of my plans to celebrate airplane and were flying into the clouds Not bad for two old broads! my sixtieth birthday by skydiving, I I wondered aloud if I was crazy, and wasn’t really surprised when she decided to join me.
Gloria and Kathy on the ground safely! 1 2 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 Vol. 21, No. 3 Hitler Photos Provoke Memories Continued from page 1 In 1947, her father was appointed something about Hitler’s ghost coming military governor of a rural district in to punish them for not fighting harder pictures on-line, type “Nazi Germany Germany adjacent to the Czecho- and longer for the Fatherland. photos from Life archive” in Google. slovakian border. One night before his It seems that one of the villagers Those Nürnberg High School family arrived from the U.S., he was whose night job was to watch over a alumni who attended the school at 30 asleep in his walled-and-gated home, railroad crossing from his gatehouse had Fronmüllerstrasse (opened January 3, formerly owned by a Nazi doctor. been telling everyone that Hitler’s ghost 1952) may be only dimly aware that Hearing scraping noises outside his had attacked him. Indeed, he had great from the time of the surrender of the bedroom window, “he pushed the gashes along his cheeks, neck, and arm. German army in 1945 until October 24, pillows up high on the back headboard He said Hitler’s ghost had threatened to 1951, Germany and the U.S. remained and slid himself down flat toward the haunt all who had failed to protect the technically at war. Our Army was an foot of the bed. A few minutes later, Fatherland. Army of occupation. May 26, 1952, automatic gun fire cut the pillows in two As military governor, the duties of France, Great Britain, and the U.S. and left a jagged bullet hole pattern Ann Marie’s dad also included “quelling signed a treaty ending West Germany’s across the bedroom wall.” The Hitler mass hysteria and panic exodus status as an occupied territory. fanatic had slipped past the Polish behaviors.” But since the nearest U.S. During this six-year period after the soldiers hired as guards. troops were in Grafenwöhr, a snow- war, one should not have been surprised One cold morning sometime later, bedecked mountain away, dad had to that some Germans remained loyal to the O’Roarks were awakened to the come up with a more peaceful solution Hitler’s spirit. sound of wagons rolling through the to the problem of Hitler’s ghost. Ann Marie O’Roark, ’51, recently streets of their village of Kemnath. The Apparently acting on intelligence he recounted in the NAA Trichter (Spring villagers were evacuating. When had received, he instructed one of the 2008) two such instances, one scary and questioned, the frightened Germans said village’s officials to go to the Gasthaus the other ending with a humorous twist. Continued on page 13
Sports Youth Reichs Party Congress at Nazi rally grounds in Nürnberg Germany, September 1, 1938. Copyrighted Photo: Hugo Jaeger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Reprinted with permission. Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 13
GERMANY - 1938: League of German Girls performing during a gathering of the Reichs Party Congress at the Nazi rally grounds in Nürnberg. Photo: Hugo Jaeger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Reprinted with permission. Continued from page 12 where the gatekeeper was telling his coffee. Because she was such a lived in a former SS officer’s house, story, to listen patiently, and then instead pretty little girl, he sat her on his not too far from Stein Castle, where of recoiling in horror, to laugh heartily lap and talked to her and gave her we played and swam as kids, and at the gatekeeper’s account. He should mother an autographed copy of the Faber pencil factory, which was then say, “Now tell us all, just why it is “Mein Kampf.” one place our school took us for that you took that woman into your That book floated around my field trips. gatehouse in the first place?” Problem folks’ house for years, and we never We had a German housekeeper, solved. thought about it. After my parents and she would take my brothers and Mary Jane (Myers) Soyenova, ’61, died, we realized that it would be me out on the back balcony and grew up after the war in Eibach, worth many thousands of dollars, show us how to raise our little hands approximately six miles southwest of but too late. My brother had and say “Heil Hitler!” When we Nürnberg. The photos of Hitler released taken it to the dump, because he would walk through the little town by Life magazine set her memory banks thought it was just too negative to with her, people would hold their in motion. have around. hands at their sides, and just raise She recalled first a story involving The photos provoked another the palm and say, “Heitla,” since it her sister-in-law and Hitler. memory, one showing how Hitler’s was forbidden to give the actual My brother, Charles Myers, influence lingered on in defeated salute. married a German girl, Trudy. One Germany. The “Badenweiler Marsch,” day during the war, when she was You can see in the photos how which was, I guess, like the Nazi little, she and her mother were at popular Hitler was and how the anthem, was also forbidden to be the Grand Hotel in downtown people loved him. We lived in played for many, many years, but Nürnberg. Adolph Hilter was there Eibach, a town that is mostly gone with his cronies having now, to make way for a freeway. We Continued on page 14 1 4 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 Vol. 21, No. 3
Crowds greeting Hitler at harvest festival (German Thanksgiving Day), 1937 on swastika-flag-lined Street of the People. Copyrighted Photo: Hugo Jaeger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Reprinted with permission. Continued from page 13 Wouldn’t you think that that Another NHS alum had a very people would sort of whistle it under might neutralize some of the different reaction to Hitler’s rally their breath. [This march was negative energy there? I now live grounds. Hitler’s entrance theme, much like one cove away from Billy Graham Ceil (Marchese) Roberts, ’61, our “Hail to the Chief” is the in Black Mountain, NC. whose knowledge of Hitler and the war entrance music for our president. To I suppose every NHS alum has been was only history, remembers vividly an hear the march, type “badenweiler at one time or another on the Nazi Party incident that occurred at Soldiers’ Field marsch” into Google.] Rally Grounds in Nürnberg, which we in the spring of 1961. Mary Jane offered a third memory, called Soldiers’ Field. How could we The Crailsheim bunch had one serving as an antidote to Hitler’s not, our football games were played already been transferred to baleful influence. there? Many have no doubt stood on the Stuttgart, but we came back one When I was 12, Billy Graham Führer’s rostrum and looked out over weekend for a track meet at the came to Nürnberg [this was in Zeppelinfeld and perhaps imagined the Soldiers’ Field track. The 1955] on one of his crusades. My massed audience Hitler addressed. beginning of the track meet was mom took me and we went, with Joanie (Robison) Poole,’55, who delayed, so I went for a walk and thousands of other people, to came to Germany in 1950, said at a ended up at the top of one of the tiers Soldiers’ Field, put our blankets on Golden Oldies reunion, that she re- of steps around the field, looking at the parade ground and waited for membered going to the Zeppelintribune the area off to my right, the entire Billy. He stood exactly where Hitler Granstanne and standing on the Führer’s field laid out before me. had stood, and preached. Then he’d rostrum, with forefinger over her upper As I stood there all alone, with ask if anyone wanted to be lip and hand in the air, mocking the the sun shining and a light breeze “saved.” I did, and went with my fallen dictator. mom up to the front. Continued on page 15 Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 15
Hitler standing on the rostrum at the Zeppelintribune Grandstanne waiting to be introduced by Himmler at the 1938 Reichs Party Congress in Nürnberg, Germany. Copyrighted Photo: Hugo Jaeger./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Reprinted with permission. Continued from page 14
blowing, it was very quiet. Slowly, I seemed to sense the previous occupants and hear a growing chorus of “Sieg, Heil! Sieg, Heil!” It was creepy when it happened, and after 48 years, it still makes the hairs on my arms stand on end just to think about it. One last memory. David Brown Parrish, my wife Jeanette, and I joined a teachers’ reunion in Nürnberg in 1997. On the day we visited Soldiers’ Field, we too stood on the Führer’s rostrum. The area behind the grandstand was now a place for skateboarders to try their skills. As we descended to the ground, I looked at David Brown and he seemed to be upset. I asked if he was crying. He replied, “Hitler thought he had A recent photograph of Hitler’s grand stadium, renamed Soldiers’ Field. founded a thousand year Reich, but he is gone and we are here in his place.” 1 6 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 Vol. 21, No. 3 Marching Backward to 1951-52 School Year Edited by Bob McQuitty, NAA Historian/Archivist Excerpts from the Army Brat Important Events of 1951-52 Kay Salek, editor • July 10 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong. Miss Vivian Howes, advisor • Sept. 8 – Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which allows United States Armed Forces to Published by the Junior Class be stationed in Japan after peace treaty is signed. [5 of 9 issues extant, Oct. 5. - June 11] • Oct. 15 – Oral contraceptive synthesized by Luis Miramontes. • Oct. 24 – Pres. Truman declares official end to war with Germany. SENIOR NEWSSTAND • Dec. 20 – World's first (experimental) nuclear power plant opens. True Stories: our excuses to Mr. • Stockholm, Sweden – 18-year-old sailor fined for kissing in public. Behavior Stickney described as “obnoxious and repulsive to the public morals.” Redbook: Miss Glick’s grade book • Feb. 26 – Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces his nation has an atomic Charm: Jinny Hadfield bomb. Country Gentlemen: senior boys • Mar. 27 – Konrad Adenauer survives assassination attempt. Good Housekeeping: girls’ senior dorm • May 26 – The Deutschlandvertrag ending West Germany’s status as an occupied Life: September through June territory signed by France, Great Britain, and U.S.A., but did not take effect Holiday: June through September until 1955. [This is the treaty alluded to in the editorial on the next page – Ed.] Time: 3:45 June 30 – Marshall Plan aid ends in Europe. The years 1948 to 1952 saw the fast- SONJA BLACKWELL CROWNED est period of growth in European history. Industrial production increased by 1951 FOOTBALL QUEEN 35 percent. During half-time of the Berlin- Nurnberg game at Soldiers’ Field, Sonja SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 6 – NEW YOUTH CENTER OPENS Blackwell was crowned football queen. NURNBERG HIGH WELCOMES General Ernest A. Bixby, Nurn- Her attendants were Nancy Lurvey, berg Military Post Commander, turned Kay Salek, Jean Clower, and Joan NINE NEW, NINE RETURNING over the key to Nurnberg’s new Youth Hadfield. Bill Killough was the lucky FACULTY MEMBERS Center to Nancy Varney, representing fellow to give the corsage to the Queen. Enrollment Figures: the high school. Located on the Post at Mike Clower and Steve Caldwell gave Seniors 29 the former Colony Club, the Youth Cen- flowers to the attendants. Juniors 24 ter will serve as a recreational area for EAGLES LOSE LAST GAME school youth, as well as a meeting place Sophomores 25 TO BERLIN 20-6. Freshmen 42 for community young people’s groups. THE PRIZE BONER Eighth Grade 25 NURNBERG EAGLES MEET The Berlin halfback was away, bobbing Seventh Grade 26 and weaving through the players in his Total 171 LINZ PANTHERS TODAY The Nurnberg Eagles will play its way. He was about to cross the goal first home game and meet the Linz, Aus- when, out of nowhere, came a helmet HADFIELD, CLOWER, OWENS tria, Panthers this afternoon ... at Sol- bearing Nurnberg colors. Who threw it? NORTHINGTON, MORRIS WIN diers’ Field.... Eyes in the stands picked out the bare CHEERLEADING POSITIONS According to Mr. Russell Stickney, head of Dick Markham. To quote him, Cheerleading tryouts were held at High School Principal, only morning “The coach said to!” an assembly Sept. 26. classes will meet today and school will ********** Surprise of the day was the selec- be dismissed at 12:22. All students will THROUGH THE KEYHOLE tion of five girls and one boy cheer- attend the game. Buses will take students ********** leader, Wally Jones. to the game, and at the conclusion of Lovemaking hasn’t changed much Jinny Hadfield was selected head the game, home and train buses will over the centuries. Greek damsels used cheerleader. leave from Soldiers’ Field.... to sit and listen to a lyre all evening. Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 17
What’s this we hear about Carl the length of one wing and has an adjoin- Costumes of the men faculty at the Peterson getting Student Council Presi- ing storeroom and lecture room. The polio benefit volleyball game? dent, Senior Class President, and Jinny music department will make use of a very The dorm girls’ vain attempts to beat [Hadfield]? How lucky can one get? large room also on the third floor. the boys at pinochle? Well, how do you like our new The adjoining dormitory features The dorm girls serenading the boys cheerleaders, especially Wally [Jones] dark furniture, plush chairs, three study and the boys’ return visit with the fire and that leap frog cheer. Pretty sharp, halls on the second floor, and tile kitch- extinguishers? huh? ens in both the boys’ and girls’ wings. The night the lights blew and fire- The coach said to one of the team: The wings are separated by a center sec- crackers exploded in the boys’ dorm? “Mike Clower, you don’t look in shape. tion containing a large lounge and a rec- The two feet of water in the shower What have you been doing? Betty Tho- reation room. ... room of the girls’ dorm after someone mas, you tell us. “accidentally” plugged the drain? There have been some changes The boys’ chorus line led by made. Connie Porter and Bob Jones “Cuddles” Hobbs at the Youth Center had a date last Wednesday night. Party? Have you heard about the serenad- The floor show between the halves ing the senior boys’ dorm received from at the girls’ basketball game? 10 girls from the senior girls’ dorm? The big move to the new dorm and The senior girl that goes around in the struggle to get settled? a Buick. Could it be Angie Magliochetti? Editorial: Our New Ally Joan Domino and Bob Isett, On May 26, the United States signed Dulaney O’Roark and Ann Wyss are a contractual agreement with West Ger- going steady now. Oh, well, puppy love many. Her role as an occupied nation is is only the begining of a dog’s life. finished; she is now a full-fledged part- Tell us, Sharon Light, why does ner, for better or worse, in the western Frankfurt High School hold so much in- alliance against communism. terest? We must realize that the decision to Cutting the ribbon at the new December 21, 1951, issue “be friends” was made primarily for the school – yearbook photo protection of our own country. There- NURNBERG POST OFFICIALS TO fore, it is the duty of each of us, despite OPEN THE NEW SCHOOL JAN. 2 In 1962 how we may personally feel, to The new Nurnberg High School and Will You Remember? strengthen this necessary friendship, not Elementary School will be officially weaken it. The “lend lease plan” of dating opened Jan. 2 at a ribbon cutting cer- How can we as American students among the different classes? emony by Nurnberg Military Post offi- contribute to the success of this alliance? The fabulous excuses the senior cials, according to Mr. Sanford Bale, We must forget our role of “con- girls used to give Mr. Stickney? Superintendent. Classes begin Jan. 3. queror,” and remember that it is far The “thorough” rules set up for the The school itself is modern in de- easier for a winner to be generous. We Prom? cor and equipment. The classrooms are should make every effort to meet and Wally Jones and his “leapfrog” large and contain individual lockers. know the youth of Germany, for in the cheers? Lockers for coats are proved in the cor- youth of our nations lies the hope for Pat Skelly’s fabulous cheat sheet ridors. High school classrooms are on understanding in the future. for a German test? the second floor and junior high on the It will not be easy, particularly at Miss Glick’s senior assignment to third. However, high school students the beginning, but the benefits we would summarize three-fourths of the literature will use the study hall and library on the reap by becoming “friends” would be book? third floor, an art room, and a typing innumerable. It is hoped that one of The time a chemistry student had to room. these benefits will be a lasting peace. get an order request to get a cracker for The first floor contains the admin- We must remember that it is easier an experiment? istration offices, a nurse’s office and the for the young to forgive, than for the old. mess hall. Capable of seating 240 stu- The time Ted Worzbyt raced for the dents, the mess hall will also be used as wrong basket during a game? NHS Graduates 30 at Stein Castle the temporary auditorium. The G.I. attendance at the girls’ gym Jinny Hadfield is valedictorian, The chemistry and physics lab runs classes? Winona Caraway, salutatorian. 1 8 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 Vol. 21, No. 3 Fallen Eagles — Gone but not Forgotten
I first met Allen the day before the first day of school “I thank God that we were able and 1955. With our mothers we could give him some of our time and traveled from Schwäbisch friendship while in San Antonio. I know Hall to Nürnberg, enrolled for he was genuinely happy to go out with classes and settled into the us for the several times we spent eating dormitory. I remember that we and visiting at different places. I recall went to the movies that first one time when I was talking with him in night. The next day we began the lobby of the hotel (near the Eagle our experience as NAHS items for sale) waiting to go on another students. I always kind of escapade with both of you. He remarked At the San Antonio Reunion. envied Allen because of his to me at the time: ‘Ted – this entire trip intelligence. He made A’s and B’s in to the Nürnberg High School reunion to Robert Allen Moore ’58 math and the sciences with apparent be with you, Linda and Mary has been minimal effort. wonderful. This has been one of the by Larry Shuman ’57 I would characterize Allen as highlights of my life and I will treasure I have lost a friend. Known as “reserved.” Everybody knew him and I it forever. I will be sad when all of us “Allen” to his NAHS classmates, Allen know of nobody who disliked Allen. leave.’ At the time it struck me as being passed away on September 27, 2009. He Both of us living in the confines of the a little strange – but it was strictly how attended NAHS during his Sophomore, dormitory during the school year and in he felt and I’m sorry I didn’t pass it on Junior and Senior years serving as “Mayberry” Schwäbisch Hall during the sooner. Student Council President his senior summer provided the means for Allen “I knew Allen fairly well when we year. After graduating from NAHS, and me to become quite close. I always attended NHS and I was always struck Allen earned a BS in Math from Florida regarded him as a friend. I was very by his sincerity, warmth and caring State University, a Master’s Degree in happy in 2004 to renew that friendship. attitude. I loved to play sports and Allen Systems Engineering from Kansas State For the past five years Allen and I had was more into academic pursuits, so we University. (He also attended Virginia lunch once a month. Sometimes we didn’t get to know each other that well Tech under an MBA program). Allen would talk about the old days but most in high school – but I always had the entered the U.S. Army as a Distinguished of the time we pursued a friendship in utmost respect for him. Intellectually we Military Graduate securing a regular the present. We were pretty much in were at opposite ends of the spectrum – commission in the Air Defense branch. synch politically and we had the same he and Ethel Walske had brains to spare He served with distinction for over 20 basic value structure. and I was a little deficient in that arena.” years earning the Bronze Star, the Army I solicited comments from alumni From Joanne Powhida ’59: “Allen Commendation Medal, the Joint Service siblings and I appreciate the responses: and I were on the student council our Commendation Medal, the Vietnamese From Ted Brostrom ’58: “It is with sophomore year. I had some obscure Cross of Gallantry, and the great sadness that I forward you an email amendment which I wanted to make to Distinguished Meritorious Service about our mutual friend Robert Allen our bylaws, and which I had brought up Medal. He retired as a Lieutenant Moore. I thought back to the time in San at every meeting that year, bored Colonel. After retirement he completed Antonio (2008) when the four of us everyone to tears and never came up an illustrious career with General made “mini-treks” next to the area of with any solution. Allen was elected Electric. where we stayed at the hotel to such Student Council President our junior Allen is survived by his daughter places as the Riverwalk and the Alamo. year. At the first meeting over which he Rebecca Rooney, two sons Alan and Allen had a gimpy knee and some other presided, I began again with my pet Robert Moore, six grandchildren, his issues and sometimes we would wait for project. Allen interrupted me, dissected sister Sara Hansen and his brother a few minutes for him to catch up. the problem, resolved it and we moved William. on. I was stunned. What he said made Continued on page 19 Vol. 21, No. 3 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 19 Continued from page 18 Burial was in Veterans Cemetery, that created and performed the sound. Union Grove, WI. “I regret that I didn’t get a chance to perfect sense, and left me speechless. Roscoe Cartwright, ’62, submitted see him again and share a laugh. I feel Two good outcomes in the space of two the following tribute: honored to have been his friend. Do you minutes! Allen was brilliant, kind and “Roosevelt came to Nürnberg High think maybe he is out there still doing decent. I learned so much from him. We School from Lawton, Oklahoma. He was the Twist?” were very lucky that he was one of our not well known by a lot of the students Joseph L. Klesen ’64 leaders at NHS.” at NHS so many of them may not From Gary “Buz” Fry ’57 (For remember him. Joseph L. Klesen, 63, of BellaVista, several weeks Buz and I were dormitory “Those of us who knew him called Arkansas, died Sept. 23, 2009, at Circle roommates with Allen), “Thanks for him Rosie. He was the center on the of Life Hospice in Springdale. He was sending out the notice on Allen. I do NHS championship football team. He born July 25, 1946, in New Kensington, remember him well. Who could not after was “famous” (to us) because of his loud PA., to Joseph and Rosemary Helen spending so much time together?” yell after each play called by the Knize Klesen. He was an Army veteran Roosevelt Bennett, quarterback and his fierce com- of the Vietnam War. Survivors include petitiveness and dedication to the game. his wife, Gail Klesen; a daughter, Stacy Jr., ’62 “Off the field, he was quiet, shy and Marie Klesen of Powder Springs, GA.; a stepdaughter, Karen Mason Buckland Coach Cletus Campbell alerted the very studious (honor society) but Rosie of Siloam Springs. Trichter to the death of Roosevelt was a charmer. This was evident in the Burial was in the Missouri Veterans Bennett, class of 1962, on October 2. way he was able to get the most votes Cemetery in Springfield, MO. Roosevelt is survived by his son and become president of the student Memorials may be made to Bella Almustafa LaFren’ier Bennett, a government our senior year. Vista Animal Shelter, P.O. Box 5248, granddaughter Imani Bennett, his father “Few people knew about his love of Bella Vista, AR 72714 or Bella Vista Roosevelt Bennett, Sr., three brothers, jazz. He was quite proficient in the Veterans Wall of Honor, P.O. Box 3085, one sister and other loved ones. history of the music and of the artists Bella Vista, AR 72715. 2 0 NAA Trichter, Winter 2009 Vol. 21, No. 3
Mother Nature Lives in Boise I’m sure many of you are wondering …., “What’s Boise like?” Or, “What can we do for fun in Boise?” Or even …, “I’ve never been to Boise, so why should I start now?!” Well… here are a few things worth considering BEFORE you make up your mind to join the All-Classes- PLUS-Staff-and-Faculty (of the Nurnberg Alumni Association) Gathering of Eagles reunion in June 2011. First off, did you know that “Outdoor Living” magazine recently named their TOP-TEN CITIES in the U.S.A. to live, or visit for a vacation (May/June 2009), and four (4) of those Top-Ten cities were in the beautiful cities of Idaho??! On a personal side-note… #2 on their list was my birthplace hometown of Marquette, Michigan, located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on the shores of Lake Superior! Yea! So, if you like to enjoy the sheer beauty of the outdoors and all that Mother Nature has to offer you, this is your state to visit, especially if you’ve never been there before. I hadn’t ever been to Boise or Idaho before I began my first visit to Boise in 2008, and oh what a wonderful and pleasant surprise it was for me, and all who joined me for our inaugural visit (which included President David Ogé, his wife Debbie, Dr. Shelley (Flippen) Conroy and husband Rich). One of THE most impressive offerings of this culturally-diverse and scenic city is its Greenway. The Greenway is a 17-mile stretch of paved paths on either side of the meandering Boise River, where visitors can enjoy their favorite recreation with family and/or friends (i.e., walking… jogging … running … skate- boarding … roller-skating … bicycling, etc.), while stopping along the way to enjoy the many informative Nature Center venues that includes various species of animals known to this region … abundant, large schools of fish … and flora and fauna like you’ve perhaps never seen before. It’s truly quite breath-taking! If you enjoy aqua interests, you’ll no doubt revel in the Boise River Tubing experience as you gently float down river and take in all the Greenway scenery. You can rent inner-tubes for this sport. And, how many know that as of this writing, the Boise State University Broncos are Ranked #5 in the A.P. Football Poll? This is serious football country, and their Bronco Stadium has one of THE most beautiful backdrops for their games, with the mountains to the north adding another dimension to their scenery. It’s gorgeous. And, it’s the host stadium for the Humanitarian Bowl every year, and draws tremendous crowds. The stadium is available for tours, as well. We’ll continue to offer our opinions and photographs of Boise and its outdoor offerings for fun and frolic over the next 18-19 months, in hopes that we can convince many of you to join us for another Gathering of Eagles in June (15th – 19th) 2011, which is sure to be another wonderful reunion experience for all who come. Hope to see you there, too. T D. J.