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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
Are we still doing stupid things to impress the girls?
Are the Girls still gullible enough to be impressed by our stupidity?
What do you remember happening at Mesa High while you were
there?
Send me a note with your memories. The subject of your email should be
"Remembering Mesa High", send it to Les
Olsen.
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Friday Night
Rememberances
Does anyone remember going to the Tempe Armory on Friday nights and dancing to Gil Monte and the Sonics and doing the NT while they played music from the Beach Boys, Beatles, Jerry and the Pacemakers?? I remember really shaking it up to WIPE OUT!! And who was out in the parking lot drinking Jim Beam out of a bottle...Jim Brinkman???? Could that have been you and maybe Gerald Kerns?? And then when the band took their break we would jump in our car and run up to the University Drive Inn (which some of us called UDI) on Apache and having Cherry-Lime Ricky's and french fries. They were the best! And of course who can forget Artic Circle on Main. That was an easy escape for lunch and that scrumptious French fry sauce they made..mmm mmm. Oh sweet memories. Sandy Michalenko |
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Look
out for your Car
I remember that any girl dumb enough to drive a small car would often come
out of the school to find it had been carried by several male students to
another location, with wheels usually straddling the curb. Then she would
have to round up more strong young males to move it back onto the street. |
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Tempe High Pranks
Who remembers when Tempe came over and Painted the School Seal in front of Old Main with black paint?
Also they BURNED a very large T in the
football field but the grounds crew got new grass up in time to hide it before
the game (in less than 48 hours!), and how the crew did it? I still take my hat of to the crew.
I like all of the photos on the web site, Incoming Oranges. Who remembers when un-welcomed visitors from Tempe High came over and launched a hit and run in the area in front of the bookstore? orange missiles. I remember that several cars left and went over and did the same to them. Who remembers this? |
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Alligators Who remembers the incident of alligators in the freshly irrigated front lawn? I understand that Mark Ewart knows something? Send me your best, first hand, story of this MAJOR event. I will compare notes and publish the most original. You can publish names, because we don't want to protect the innocent. Have fun. I am not sure who is innocent here, but it looks like Rick Shumway had something to do with it. Rick said:
Very interesting and
incriminating evidence here, don't you think? Check out Rick's own copy of
the event in the Tribune. Who can identify those pictured? Isn't that Ernie Swanty holding one of those snappers? Wendell G. Peacock remembers.... "I recall trying to coax one out from under a car parked in front of the library. I was unsuccessful. I believe it was a 50s Chevy owned by Terry Hammarstedt." Darvil West says that he and Byke Bennet did the dirty deed..... (Members of the class of '63 is taking the credit. How do rumors like this get started?) "Say Les, if the alligator story was told correctly you would know who was the first to go to Jack Adams alligator farm. It was Darvil West and Byke Bennet. They brought back a car trunk full and let them go in the irrigation. The reason their names don't come up often, is because they hardly told anyone." "It was definitely Ernie Swanty in the newspaper picture. The caption read he was rescuing the alligator, but as I remember it, he got caught red-handed turning one loose. Ernie was a quick thinker & told the Tribune reporter/photographer he had just retrieved it from the irrigation! Only Ernie knows the truth."--- Jeff Swanty
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Senior Ditch Day Was it our junior or senior year that Senior Ditch Day was cancelled and most of the school went anyway? I remember that detention was held in the auditorium? Who remembers? Not me, I was in class that day. |
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Hey, the hot pumps at 3rd canal was a favorite. I remember heading out to the canal and taking a dip. It was one of the fun things to do during the long hot summer! Didn't we have a great time over at the Country Club where the canal goes over the hill? Lots of time spent there having fun. What do you remember? |
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Gardners Stand
I remember the lunch stand across the street from Old Main. I believe it was
called Gardners and they served the best and the greasiest tacos you can
imagine. Not only were they available during the lunch periods, I often grabbed
one between Social Studies (the old Webster School) and English at the Library
complex. I wonder how much cholesterol I consumed my senior year. |
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A MEMBER OF THE CLASS
OF '61 REMEMBERS
I love your website, even though I was a Senior in 1961, and I don't remember most of the classmates of '64, I want to commend you on the wonderful job you have done on this. I especially liked the before and after pictures, along with the brief synopsis of their lives. I hope that in the future, more of the classes of Old Mesa High will have a chance to have a website similar to yours. The photos of the old building brought back good memories of going to a great High School. I saw the building burn, though from afar. I also remember Tim Woolsey, as I was there when he had the accident at the Junior High. My dad came to pick me up from school, and he went to Tim's house to inform his parents of the accident, as I don't think they had a phone. He had been showing off his scooter, when he crashed and severely injured his foot. I also lived not far from where he met his maker. How sad it was for all of his family. Again, I want to tell you how much pleasure I have gotten from the website. Thanks for the memories. Terry Durfee aka Cheryl Knight |
Can you name any of these students in Mrs. Peterson's 6th grade class?
(Submitted by Jim Pomeroy)
Can you name any of these students in Mrs. Fitzgerald's 4th grade class?
(Submitted by Don Anderson)
Do you remember?
