Created by the first graduating class: the Class Of 1974!
Maintained by representatives from the classes of '74, '75, and '76
Funded by your contributions!
CRUISE UPDATE & REMINDER!!
By now I hope you are aware we are going on a cruise and hope to have many classmates take advantage of the mild weather and low rates to join us as we sail from Port Canaveral to the Bahamas and back, April 20th - 23rd, 2012!
Passports are NOT required! (Ask for specifics when you call to book your cabin);
Singles can be paired up to share a cabin rather than pay the "single supplement";
We have our "own" cruise agent to answer all your questions and make all arrangements! Call Bev Mouchette at Cruisemax in Jacksonville toll-free at (877) 737-2629 or locally at (904) 399-3446. By doing so Bev can book cabins close to each other and arrange seating together for dinners, etc. She can also be reacheed via email at tedbev@bellsouth.net;
Once you've booked your cabin - let us know! Come back here and click on the "Classmate Cruise '12" link and submit your information!
CONFIRMED:
Ronnie & Rosalyn Perritt
Don Sutton & Renee Duke
Dianne Perritt (needs 1-3 roomies!)
CLASS of '77 REUNION UPDATE
Nothing to report! :-(
How about it Class of '77 - who is going to step up and take on the task of planning your 35th year reunion? Lots of resources available to help make it successful, so let me hear from you!
A thank you to Doris (Glidden) Hanna for this nostalgic reflection...some of us were right on the cusp of this generational change:
Someone recently asked, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,' I explained. 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed...slow!
The one TV set we had in the house was black and white, and the stations went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally-produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home...but milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered
newspapers, six days a week. He had to get up before sunrise every morning.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of mom's ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with water, because we didn't have steam irons.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals..
Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. The ratings are at the bottom.
1. Candy cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie 6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
7. Peashooters
8. Howdy Doody
9. 45 RPM records
10.Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with a lever to release the ice cubes.
12. Blue flashbulbs
13. Cork popguns
14. Studebakers, Packards, Ramblers, Edsels, Imperials.
15. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still too young;
If you remembered 3-6 = You're in our age group;
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age;
If you remembered 11-15 = You're older than dirt! Call the Fire Department before you light the candles on your cake!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life...
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends
Anyone planning any other gatherings for classmates (outings, cruises, etc) or have news or events you'd like to share with everyone? Just let me know and I'll put them up here!
Also remember to update your profile every once in a while with current happenings and pictures from your daily life.
*REMINDERS:
* For new members, and others who do not yet have their yearbook picture posted - please scan your yearbook picture/senior picture and email to me so we can add it;
* Please look through the "Missing Classmates" and help us locate and get back in touch with as many as we can. Several are still "missing" and YOU just may be able to help!
Want to join us here?? If you graduated or attended TCA between the years of 1974 and 1981....Simply email me here. I'll then add your name to the list. Once I've done that you go back to the site and click on your name and follow the directions to join.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Welcome to our web site! Since this is your first time here - a few instructions on navigating the site...
Look for your name - if it is here, just click on it to go to the registration page;
If your name isn't here yet, please email me using the link on the sign-in page. Please tell me your name and graduation year or how you are affiliated with TCA and/or the class of '74.
Once you have done that, I will be notified and must add your name to the site before you can join. Usually I can do this within an hour or so, but I must be near a computer so please keep checking back to see if I've been able to get to it.
I will try to find and upload your TCA yearbook picture, but if you have an alternate picture (your senior picture) you can scan it into this site and I will move it to your profile picture.
Last but not least, have fun! Once you are in please complete your profile, upload pictures, and contact your friends via the site's email system.
Ron Perritt, Site Coordinator
- THIS DAY IN HISTORY -
Apollo 1 ( 1967 ) Three astronauts aboard Apollo 1 ( Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee ) die while still on the launch pad as they are practicing for a two-week mission in space.
Outer Space Treaty 27th January ( 1967 ) : The Outer Space Treaty which banned the placing of nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth is signed by 60 countries of the world including the two most important superpowers at the time The Soviet Union and The United States Of America who both had large Space Exploration programmes and Large Nuclear programmes. This was an important treaty because if any country was to place Nuclear Weapons or other Weapons of Mass Destruction in Orbit no country in the world would be safe.
Michael Jackson 27th January ( 1984 ) : Michael Jackson receives serious burns to his head after his hair caught light while singing his hit "Billie Jean" for a Pepsi Cola commercial in Los Angeles when the special effects went wrong.
Birth of Television 27th January ( 1926 ) John Logie Baird, gives the first public demonstration of a television system in London. The BBC started the first public broadcasts in London in 1936. Regular television broadcasts began in the United States in 1939.
