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Share your memories of your days at SE, your favorite teachers, and funny things that happened! Click on the email link below to email your SE memories. Then it will be posted on this page real soon! melvonna@sehsokc68.com |
DO YOU REMEMBER????
....those great greasy hamburgers from Spartans....those little plastic monkeys on your cup
at A&W.....when 74th street was the edge of town....madras shirts....Ben Casey shirts.....
collecting the loops off the back of guys shirts....wheat jeans.....gathering at Sussy's after
football games.....steering knobs on steering wheels.....Mr. Holland's famous stick......
walking the halls every morning before class.....starting the day with announcements and a
prayer over the PA system.... wearing "drops" from our boyfriend....Mrs. Carson's bell.....
full skirts with stiff can-cans (early 60's)....loafers and bobby socks....the wonderful
cinnamon rolls in the cafeteria.....the cold lunch line where you could get a sandwich and a
coke for about a quarter.....
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~~1968~~
President: Lyndon Johnson.........Vice President: Hubert Humphrey
House: $26,600..........Car: $2,450..........Milk: $1.21/gallon
Gas: $.34/gallon..........Bread: $.22/loaf..........Stamp: $.05
Average Yearly Income: $9,670........Minimum hourly wage: $1.60
Best Picture: Oliver
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson (Charly)
Best Actress: Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl)
Detroit Tigers win World Series........Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl II
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC
Martin Luther King assassinated
Robert F. Kennedy is shot and killed
Musical, "Hair", opens on broadway
The White Album is released by the Beatles
Born in 1968: Mary Lou Retton, Kenny Chesney, Celine Dion, Ashley Judd, Will Smith
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Lynn Vaughn
Guys training their hair to look like the Beatles....
Coach Choate's swats on the butt with his lanyard for messing up...
(NOTE: Lynn went to Junior High with us before moving to New Mexico after 9th grade)
=======================================================================
Melvonna Venter Schneider
~The slumber party at Louise Manuel's house when we got caught by the cops TP'ing houses
and thought we were going to jail. ~And when we TP'd the Choate's house....Steve and Neil
were on the roof waiting on us and had the water hose up there with them and started
soaking us when we jumped out of the car. ~Before a football game I wrote on my dull red
car "Go Spartans, Beat Eagles" and "Yea #74" with white shoe polish...it didn't come off
when I washed my car and was still there, in light pink, when I sold it. ~Miss Landers
teaching us the hula in gym class. ~When the cheerleaders sponsored a car bash and
someone caught the car on fire and the fire department had to come out....Mr. King was
NOT happy! ~I remember Mrs. Carson saying "I'm going to make you an outstanding
student---out standing in the hall---now quit talking!" Well....I never was an outstanding
student and I'm still talking!!
=======================================================================
Remember the band playing these songs at football games?
Peter Gunn
March Grandioso
==============================================================================
Charles Wood
First, those who befriended and hung with me through the years. Secondly, those who
knowingly or unknowingly motivated, pushed, pulled, or otherwise helped me to keep at it. -
teachers and administrators, friends, classmates, and non-classmates attending SE.
Others that come to mind in no particular order--
Joe Killingsworth (class of '66) making an uncatchable catch on the sideline in a football
game and running it in for a score- The Pep Squad- the Band competitions- Band Trips-
Pizza Hut on SW 59th after football games- "Wipeout" drummers- "Hello/Goodbye"- The
Dairy Queen on SE 44th as well as the bowling alley, TG&Y, and Rexall Drug on 44th-
========================================================================
Louise Manuel Lakin
We were having a slumber party at Carol Hobaugh's House and we locked Linda Duncan
outside naked and wouldn't let her in. She was running around the house outside. At the
time we thought it was so funny. I think Linda thought it was so funny too because we
always thought she was an exhibitionist but we loved her.
I had made my dress for football queen coronation (with the help of Mrs. Kellogg) and we
didn't allow for the weight of the pink trane of the dress. It was too low in the front (at that
time it was not proper) and I was called into the principal's office on Monday morning
telling me how disappointed they were in me to wearing such as revealing dress. I was so
embarrassed.
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Linda Scalf Fleshman
My memories of Southeast always bring a smile. I especially remember Miss Gill’s
Shorthand/Transcription Class. Every time she’d leave the classroom for something, she
would yell over her shoulder, as she walked out the door, and say, “I don’t want any trouble
while I’m gone…Scalf, Scott.” (Kathy Scott sat behind me).
When we were seniors, Miss Gill had a habit of coming to class anywhere from 10 to 20
minutes late. We all knew what we had to do, so she left it up to us to work on our
assignments until she came in. On one particular day, we were all talking and laughing
about everyday events while waiting for Miss Gill to show up when we heard the ‘speaker’
come on. The static was so loud; we all knew that someone in the office was listening to us.
Linda Duncan looked around the room and slowly brought her index finger up to her lips
and gave a jester to us to be quiet. With the classroom quite, she proceeded to climb up the
bookcases in the back of the room until her face was even with the speaker. She coughed
loudly and said directly into the speaker, “I’m not going to stay here and be spied on…. I’m
going down the hall to take a grunt.” She jumped down and walked out of the classroom.
We all sat there for a few minutes and then in unison we all broke up laughing. Within a
few minutes, the speaker static went silent. Seconds later, Mr. King came in. He said he was
looking for Miss Gill. We all put our heads down and started working on our assignment.
No one said a word to Mr. King. Oh, Linda never came back to class. I have laughed at
that event many times over the years. Duncan was a hoot.
Of course, my memories also have to include the famed Hillcrest Drive Inn Theatre – I
worked there all through high school - four years! How many of you received the special
prices for drinks and pizza???!!! *Wink* cokes were 10, 20 and 30 cents…pizza was 75
cents. Does anyone remember the Mondo Cane movie???? I had nightmares about that
movie for years.
One of my favorite teachers was Mr. Monk. I sat in the front row, which was next to the
door. Right across my classroom’s front door, was the back door of the classroom across
the hall. Guess who sat in the back of his class at the same time I sat in the front of mine….
My brother, Jimmy. He used to sit there making faces and jesters, as I tried to ignore him.
One morning, Mr. Monk slowly got up and walked out the door. When he walked back in,
he brought a visitor. It was Jimmy. It seems the numerous times Jimmy had been making
faces to irritate me, he was also irritating Mr. Monk. Mr. Monk made Jimmy bend over in
front of the class and give him some resounding ‘swats’. (Can’t do that today!). Jimmy
thought it was funny – I was mortified!
Remember the Black Brick? Hanging out at the pool on Shields? (I never got a tan…only
a burn using baby oil and Mercurochrome mixture!!!)
Anyone remember those horrible one-piece gym suits we had to wear in the 9th grade?
Gads, someone under the influence of a 100-proof beverage must have designed those one-
piece, snap-if-you-can ‘bloomers’ topped with a straight-jacket top! You had to dislocate
your shoulder to put that thing on…then we had to run laps outside for the entire world to
see us!!! I think I threw mine away the last day of school in 1965! Does anyone remember
the day someone cried, “fire!” just as we were all taking a shower? We were told to throw
the towel (which was the size of postage stamp) over our heads and run out… hahaha…that
way no one would know who we were!
Remember lunch! We had 30 minutes to drive to McDonald's or Del Rancho and get back
to class without being late. Ask Barbara Little about those mad dashes. Her car’s front
seats had orange-slush and ketchup designs! “No brakes, No brakes!”
It was during our last day at SE. There we were all sitting in a hot gym with our parents and
relatives melting in the bleachers. Our principle was standing in front of us looking like he
always did. Since we had to sit in alphabetical order, I sat next the Sherri Seals. As we were
about to rise and get our diplomas, she leaned over and whispered, “Well, I can say one
thing about Mr. King…he really has soul!” We were laughing so hard, I was afraid we
might not make it across the floor.
I think I spent most of my time laughing...or at least, that's how I remember it!
=======================================================================
Walter Long
My favorite memory is when I was sent home during class for having sideburns too long. I
thought about placing band-aids on the sideburns and telling them I cut myself shaving the
sideburns -- but then I considered it would only work for a day -- and shaved them off,
reluctantly.
Our class was the last "7th through 12th grade group" at SEHS. I remember on that first
day as a seventh-grader rushing from class-to-class with a stop at our new locker on the way
and still trying to not be late. While we were in our own little world, the bigger world of
upper-classmates brought us to reality when the intercom voice cautioned us seventh-
graders to slow down and to quit running over the complaining seniors.
=====================================================================
Bruce Daniels
Sophomore Year: In wood working class with Mr. Kaywood. He would park his little VW
back by the shop. Between the shop and football practice field was a short pipe fence. One
day while he was out of the class room some of the guys picked up his VW and set it on the
other side of the fence. I still don't know how he got it back over the fence.
======================================================================
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....those great greasy hamburgers from Spartans....those little plastic monkeys on your cup
at A&W.....when 74th street was the edge of town....madras shirts....Ben Casey shirts.....
collecting the loops off the back of guys shirts....wheat jeans.....gathering at Sussy's after
football games.....steering knobs on steering wheels.....Mr. Holland's famous stick......
walking the halls every morning before class.....starting the day with announcements and a
prayer over the PA system.... wearing "drops" from our boyfriend....Mrs. Carson's bell.....
full skirts with stiff can-cans (early 60's)....loafers and bobby socks....the wonderful
cinnamon rolls in the cafeteria.....the cold lunch line where you could get a sandwich and a
coke for about a quarter.....
(click here--and give us some more to add)
======================================================================
~~1968~~
President: Lyndon Johnson.........Vice President: Hubert Humphrey
House: $26,600..........Car: $2,450..........Milk: $1.21/gallon
Gas: $.34/gallon..........Bread: $.22/loaf..........Stamp: $.05
Average Yearly Income: $9,670........Minimum hourly wage: $1.60
Best Picture: Oliver
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson (Charly)
Best Actress: Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl)
Detroit Tigers win World Series........Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl II
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC
Martin Luther King assassinated
Robert F. Kennedy is shot and killed
Musical, "Hair", opens on broadway
The White Album is released by the Beatles
Born in 1968: Mary Lou Retton, Kenny Chesney, Celine Dion, Ashley Judd, Will Smith
=====================================================================
Lynn Vaughn
Guys training their hair to look like the Beatles....
Coach Choate's swats on the butt with his lanyard for messing up...
(NOTE: Lynn went to Junior High with us before moving to New Mexico after 9th grade)
=======================================================================
Melvonna Venter Schneider
~The slumber party at Louise Manuel's house when we got caught by the cops TP'ing houses
and thought we were going to jail. ~And when we TP'd the Choate's house....Steve and Neil
were on the roof waiting on us and had the water hose up there with them and started
soaking us when we jumped out of the car. ~Before a football game I wrote on my dull red
car "Go Spartans, Beat Eagles" and "Yea #74" with white shoe polish...it didn't come off
when I washed my car and was still there, in light pink, when I sold it. ~Miss Landers
teaching us the hula in gym class. ~When the cheerleaders sponsored a car bash and
someone caught the car on fire and the fire department had to come out....Mr. King was
NOT happy! ~I remember Mrs. Carson saying "I'm going to make you an outstanding
student---out standing in the hall---now quit talking!" Well....I never was an outstanding
student and I'm still talking!!
=======================================================================
Remember the band playing these songs at football games?
Peter Gunn
March Grandioso
==============================================================================
Charles Wood
First, those who befriended and hung with me through the years. Secondly, those who
knowingly or unknowingly motivated, pushed, pulled, or otherwise helped me to keep at it. -
teachers and administrators, friends, classmates, and non-classmates attending SE.
Others that come to mind in no particular order--
Joe Killingsworth (class of '66) making an uncatchable catch on the sideline in a football
game and running it in for a score- The Pep Squad- the Band competitions- Band Trips-
Pizza Hut on SW 59th after football games- "Wipeout" drummers- "Hello/Goodbye"- The
Dairy Queen on SE 44th as well as the bowling alley, TG&Y, and Rexall Drug on 44th-
========================================================================
Louise Manuel Lakin
We were having a slumber party at Carol Hobaugh's House and we locked Linda Duncan
outside naked and wouldn't let her in. She was running around the house outside. At the
time we thought it was so funny. I think Linda thought it was so funny too because we
always thought she was an exhibitionist but we loved her.
I had made my dress for football queen coronation (with the help of Mrs. Kellogg) and we
didn't allow for the weight of the pink trane of the dress. It was too low in the front (at that
time it was not proper) and I was called into the principal's office on Monday morning
telling me how disappointed they were in me to wearing such as revealing dress. I was so
embarrassed.
========================================================================
Linda Scalf Fleshman
My memories of Southeast always bring a smile. I especially remember Miss Gill’s
Shorthand/Transcription Class. Every time she’d leave the classroom for something, she
would yell over her shoulder, as she walked out the door, and say, “I don’t want any trouble
while I’m gone…Scalf, Scott.” (Kathy Scott sat behind me).
When we were seniors, Miss Gill had a habit of coming to class anywhere from 10 to 20
minutes late. We all knew what we had to do, so she left it up to us to work on our
assignments until she came in. On one particular day, we were all talking and laughing
about everyday events while waiting for Miss Gill to show up when we heard the ‘speaker’
come on. The static was so loud; we all knew that someone in the office was listening to us.
Linda Duncan looked around the room and slowly brought her index finger up to her lips
and gave a jester to us to be quiet. With the classroom quite, she proceeded to climb up the
bookcases in the back of the room until her face was even with the speaker. She coughed
loudly and said directly into the speaker, “I’m not going to stay here and be spied on…. I’m
going down the hall to take a grunt.” She jumped down and walked out of the classroom.
We all sat there for a few minutes and then in unison we all broke up laughing. Within a
few minutes, the speaker static went silent. Seconds later, Mr. King came in. He said he was
looking for Miss Gill. We all put our heads down and started working on our assignment.
No one said a word to Mr. King. Oh, Linda never came back to class. I have laughed at
that event many times over the years. Duncan was a hoot.
Of course, my memories also have to include the famed Hillcrest Drive Inn Theatre – I
worked there all through high school - four years! How many of you received the special
prices for drinks and pizza???!!! *Wink* cokes were 10, 20 and 30 cents…pizza was 75
cents. Does anyone remember the Mondo Cane movie???? I had nightmares about that
movie for years.
One of my favorite teachers was Mr. Monk. I sat in the front row, which was next to the
door. Right across my classroom’s front door, was the back door of the classroom across
the hall. Guess who sat in the back of his class at the same time I sat in the front of mine….
My brother, Jimmy. He used to sit there making faces and jesters, as I tried to ignore him.
One morning, Mr. Monk slowly got up and walked out the door. When he walked back in,
he brought a visitor. It was Jimmy. It seems the numerous times Jimmy had been making
faces to irritate me, he was also irritating Mr. Monk. Mr. Monk made Jimmy bend over in
front of the class and give him some resounding ‘swats’. (Can’t do that today!). Jimmy
thought it was funny – I was mortified!
Remember the Black Brick? Hanging out at the pool on Shields? (I never got a tan…only
a burn using baby oil and Mercurochrome mixture!!!)
Anyone remember those horrible one-piece gym suits we had to wear in the 9th grade?
Gads, someone under the influence of a 100-proof beverage must have designed those one-
piece, snap-if-you-can ‘bloomers’ topped with a straight-jacket top! You had to dislocate
your shoulder to put that thing on…then we had to run laps outside for the entire world to
see us!!! I think I threw mine away the last day of school in 1965! Does anyone remember
the day someone cried, “fire!” just as we were all taking a shower? We were told to throw
the towel (which was the size of postage stamp) over our heads and run out… hahaha…that
way no one would know who we were!
Remember lunch! We had 30 minutes to drive to McDonald's or Del Rancho and get back
to class without being late. Ask Barbara Little about those mad dashes. Her car’s front
seats had orange-slush and ketchup designs! “No brakes, No brakes!”
It was during our last day at SE. There we were all sitting in a hot gym with our parents and
relatives melting in the bleachers. Our principle was standing in front of us looking like he
always did. Since we had to sit in alphabetical order, I sat next the Sherri Seals. As we were
about to rise and get our diplomas, she leaned over and whispered, “Well, I can say one
thing about Mr. King…he really has soul!” We were laughing so hard, I was afraid we
might not make it across the floor.
I think I spent most of my time laughing...or at least, that's how I remember it!
=======================================================================
Walter Long
My favorite memory is when I was sent home during class for having sideburns too long. I
thought about placing band-aids on the sideburns and telling them I cut myself shaving the
sideburns -- but then I considered it would only work for a day -- and shaved them off,
reluctantly.
Our class was the last "7th through 12th grade group" at SEHS. I remember on that first
day as a seventh-grader rushing from class-to-class with a stop at our new locker on the way
and still trying to not be late. While we were in our own little world, the bigger world of
upper-classmates brought us to reality when the intercom voice cautioned us seventh-
graders to slow down and to quit running over the complaining seniors.
=====================================================================
Bruce Daniels
Sophomore Year: In wood working class with Mr. Kaywood. He would park his little VW
back by the shop. Between the shop and football practice field was a short pipe fence. One
day while he was out of the class room some of the guys picked up his VW and set it on the
other side of the fence. I still don't know how he got it back over the fence.
======================================================================
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