Hey, take a minute to think back on all those events and people that were just so important in our lives at Southeast. Now that you think about them, some were poignant, some rather scary, and some are worth a good belly laugh now! Can you remember:

• How the band always played "The Stripper" when Mr. Choate came out at pep assemblies.
  
  
• How cute Marilee Carroll and Sherry Manney looked? Our majorettes and cheerleaders were always the best looking of any school!
  
  
• In the seventh grade, Rod McClaren threw-up one Mrs. Cox.
  
  
• After Easter, we used to have dress-up day. I (Kathy Collins) thought it would be cool if a few of us were different, so I talked Barbara Shupe, Melvena Wirt, and Donna Braden into wearing sweatshirts, white pleated shirts, and tennis shoes. Mrs. Cox was upset and told us if we couldn't afford a dress she'd buy us one! Don Brooks and Jerry McGarry got sent home because their jeans were raveling. Wouldn't the teachers be excited if that's all the kids did to be rebellious today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  
• When Barbara Shupe ran for Student Council treasurer. "I (Kathy Collins) wrote her campaign skit. I put black make-up on some of the guys They were African natives with cardboard bone necklaces. Gary Williams and Robert Brown '64 ran out into the crowd and grabbed Paul Walquist (without his knowledge) and yelled, 'If you don't vote for Shupe, we'll put you in the soup.' The NAACP and my Black friends would protest now."
  
  
• One classmate noted that one event happened while we were in high school that affected not only the lives of all of us young teens at SE, but also those of the world -- the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Who among us cannot remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we heard the radio reports that President Kennedy had been shot. I (Janeice) remember that Patty Miller, Linda Barnett, and I had taken the Spartan Shout to the printers and had stopped to get a coke before returning to school. The announcement came over the radio, and we were stunned and couldn't get back to school quick enough. The silence in the halls was audible before we were dismissed early to go home to parents who were equally saddened. It truly is something that will remain with us always.
  
  
• Janyth (Ritter) Hoff asks if anyone remembers waaaaay back in 7th grade when she had to stay after school for talking in class (Mr. Choate's class) and had to miss her own birthday party. All her friends waited around, however, until she got home and then partied.
  
  
• Remember the Classen Traffic Circle? One Saturday night, David Oakes drove a car load of us around it 69 times! I don't think his left arm has ever recovered!
  
  
• The wooden "fish paddle" Mrs. Carson kept in her desk? Some of us became quite acquainted with it. Or, how about sitting through her class with a wad of gum stuck on the end of your nose?
  
  
• The day Gayle Mabee and Elaine Logan came to school with their hair bleached. Elaine (now Elaine McGrath, who lives in New Zealand, says that one memory she will never forget, "I still remember the looks and comments!"
  
  
• In rebuttal to Robby Calton's memory of Tommy Trammell and Gary Newell in baby diapers, Tommy says, "Nope, it wasn't me." Tom remembers that the big babies were Pemberton and Newell and he (Trammell) was the cutie in a tutu as Mr. Mosier. "You old people can’t remember squat," Tommy writes.
  
  
• Trammell, on a roll, goes on "How about the poster in the hall that stated Buddhist Monks use Standard Gasoline, or who had the sharpest knife in school.
  
  
• Who gave the best haircuts to the football team? Answer, according to Trammell, "We did. We cut each others hair on Friday afternoon before the games.
  
  
• Adding David Moore's Mc Garry story, Trammell says, "We ate at Grebbs Italian food that night, and Jerry never knew what we were eating or where we were."
  
  
• Billy Stapleton received a severe head trauma during one game and turned to ask Trammell how many kick-offs we were ahead.
  
  
• And in response to the Foshee remarks about the guy's and their aftershave or cologne, well, Trammell says, "The boys smelled, Hello, who remembers Estee’ Lauder? How about you Shupe???? Who had the locker next to you senior year and just waited to sniff you everyday. How sick was that?"
  
  
• Everyone walked around "wobbing" everyone else? Ever wonder what that really meant?
  
  
• The WOB? I (an unnamed contributor) dunno who started that, but it was nothing compared to "The Phantom". Most of the gentlemen in the class probably recall when they first met "The Phantom." Remember? Usually very courteously...a sort of Southside version of that snobbish "Gray Poupon" voice might ask: "Scuse me, buddy...but have you met The Phantom?" No matter the response to the question, the responder was left writhing in that-pain-only-known-by-males. Whoever it was that made the introduction, grinned maliciously, and said something on the order of "You have now!" and fled the scene. It's a wonder most males in the class have offspring.
  
  
• Tommy Trammel and Gary Newell dresses as big babies in diapers in an assembly skit. Robby Calton remembers that as a really "funny sight" -- wonder what they would look like today in diapers? Now, that would really be funny -- or scary!
  
  
• Tommy Canada and Tommy Foster dedicated the Del Rancho Drive-in by claiming it for Southeast with a flag raising.
  
  
• Jerry McGarry getting knocked out at McAlister football game our senior year and not coming to his senses until the next day. According to David Moore, Jerry tried to line up with the other team since we were on defense and he was offense.
  
  
• Football players dressed as cheerleaders and coaches during a pep assembly? That's Cliff Boyle's favorite memory.
• David Moore also rather cryptically remembers. . ."Graduation night -- Wedgewood drive-in -- one guy -- was it 3 or 4 girls, huh Patty?"
  
  
• Jerry Foshee's VW always ending up in strange places.
  
  
• When Mrs. Pitts had more than enough of one math class' antics and stuffed red tissue paper in her ears so she didn't have to listen to them?
  
  
• During a dispute in Miss Pitt's class, the teacher got even -- turned up the thermostat to a hellacious temperature and locked us in, stood outside the door's window and looked in at all of us heating up...one of the guys, who remains anonymous, stood on top of his desk and beat his chest while doing Tarzan calls.
  
  
• When guys at SE started using cologne other than Old Spice -- we had Jayde East, Brut, British Sterling, and English Leather -- don't you remember when you could smell the guys coming for at least a block before they got there? (from Jerry Foshee)
  
  
• One day, during 10th grade Algebra class, Linda (Hall) Pennell decided to try her luck at imitating Mr. Lucas' skill with his piece of rubber hose. She whirled it around her head like a lasso, then lashed it toward Mr. Lucas, and accidentally wrapped it around his head. Some of us nearly died we laughed so hard.
  
  
• Ronnie Streetman, Neil Newcomb and myself, Tommy Mustain, were in Chemistry class in the 10th Grade with Sheryl (Helms) Barrett and Janet Morgan (the girl that turned a bright red from head to toe, if she got embarrassed), so therefore we were always trying to embarrass her, naturally. Janet was wearing a light blue "wraparound" skirt, with a neat little bow tied on it. We were heating some chemicals up in a crucible over a Bunson Burner. Sheryl and Janet were working together, and Ronnie, Neil, and myself at the lab station next to them. Now, we were talking about the TV show "Ripcord." I Really, Truly, Truly forget if it was Streetman or myself who pulled that neat little bow on her dress, but she was bent over the desk with her hands full and a very hot crucible being held by forceps. And, we will all agree that it was Neil Newcomb who yelled, "Ripcord." Janet's skirt dropped about a foot. Luckily, Sheryl dropped what she had in her hands and pulled Janet's skirt back up and around her. And that is how we found out that a "wraparound' skirt did not have culottes (?) under them.
  
  
• As Jerry Foshee would say, "Really, True, True Story." Oh, those Attorneys. Or is it Politicians? Anyway, Gary Newell and I (Tommy Mustain) had Marjorie Allen (we called her the "Wicked Witch East"). Now Newell just was not a natural in American History, but he was my good friend, so I had to help him. Mrs. Allen, God rest her soul, would always stagger the desks, with every other desk slid back about three feet every Friday. Gary and I had this down to a science. So I always let Gary copy my test, except I would cover up three of the answers. Now I made almost straight A's in Mrs. Allen's class for 2 years, so no matter what Gary says, it was me "assisting" him on the tests. This particular test, I put my hand over three questions, and he had to guess the answers to those three on his own. On Monday, we come into class as she starts handing out the graded tests with the scores on them. As I sit down, she hands me mine, and then Gary starts to sit down. Mrs. Allen tells Gary, "You just go straight down to Mr. King's office." Gary says, "But why, Mrs. Allen? I just got here, and I have not done anything wrong." "Yes, you have," she said. "Anytime I give Tommy Mustain an 88% and you a 97%, Gary, I know you have cheated. I just do not know how." Newell protested, but he had to leave the classroom for the day.