The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 322, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 27, 2011 Page: 10 of 24
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The Baytown Sun
Sunday, March 27, 2011
LIBRARY MEMORIALS
Gifts to Sterling
Municipal Library honored
the memory of the follow-
ing persons during recent
weeks:
The following persons
were honored during recent
weeks:
Beryl C'onsidine, in
honor of her HOth birthday:
“Decorate: 1,000 Design
Ideas for Every Room in
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Flavorful Recipes for the
Way You Cook Today”
from Ron and Glenna
Marsh
Doug Hinkle, in appreci-
ation for program: "Eco-
Yards: Simple Steps to
Earth -Friendly
Landscapes" and "Sunset
Outdoor Design:
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you. I needed no special
instruction.
Honey, explained the
pool professor, would
Landscaping with Stone"
from Cedar Bayou Garden
Club
Kathryn Stephenson, in
honor of her 90th birthday:
"365 Thank Yous: How
Simple Acts of Daily
Gratitude Changed a Life”
and “Linda Applewhite’s
Architectural Interiors:
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Transforming Your Home
with Decorative Structural
Elements” from Glenna
Marsh
2011 Goose Creek ISD
Board of Education: “The
Hows and Whys of
Alternative Education:
Schools Where Students
Thrive," "Laughing
give us instant energy
when we ran out of
steam.
When I approached
the first class, I was
tempted to take the
honey and run. Mary
didn’t tell us that mem-
bers of the Gander sw im
team would be in the
same class. Those
champion swimmers
were splashing and
dive-bombing all over
the place.
Intimidated? You’re
darn right.
Bobby wasn't as put
off by the whole scene
as 1 was because, well,:
she could swim better'
than I. In high school,
she could have been on
a swim team that is, if
we’d had a swimming
pool.
Let the Red Cross les-
sons begin:
Teacher Mary was big
on surface diving from
the side of the pool. We
did that over and over,
and we traversed the
width of the pool over
and over.
I never will forget the
smirk on the face of one
of the champion swim
team members as he
observed my futile
efforts to keep up with
the rest of the class. "1
presume that was a sur-
face dive?” he smarted-
off when I came up for
air.
For the next week or
so I spent every waking
moment thinking of
retorts, witticisms I
should have offered in
return.
As the class pro-
gressed, I seemed to be
getting out of the water
more than getting in.
and I was constantly
hogging the honey.
I'm not sure if a taste
of honey really supplies
energy but maybe, as
the result of its nutri-
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Admittedly, or so
rumor had it. there w ere
a few in my crowd who
downed a beer every
now and again, brews
such as Falstaff. Pearl,
and Lone Star. So rumor,
had it.
On the movie front, we
had John Wayne. Rock
Hudson. Gary Cooper.
Humphrey Bogart, Kirk
Douglas, and Jimmy
Stewart. And women
stars such as Doris Day.
Rhonda Fleming.
Elizabeth Taylor. Natalie
Wood, Katharine
Hepburn, and Marilyn
Monroe.
The only 1950s
movies kooks like
Charlie Sheen and
Lindsay Lohan could’ve
performed in would’ve
been produced by
Looney Tunes. And our
mamas would’ve railed
against Sheen and Lohan
as “bad influences."
But get this. You could
take your precious
grandmother to the pic-
ture show and not be
embarrassed by what
was on the screen. Want
to try that today?
You could get your
driver's license at age 14
back then. Crazy, I
know, and you could
drive a Ford, or Chevy,
or a hot Mercury. Or
maybe a Hudson, like
Leroy Starkes drove
In the old homeplace
there were only two traf-
fic lights, both on Main
Street, and you didn’t
dare do anything too
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vations whatsoever that
my dear Scooter was
going to receive the
finest of care. But the
look on his face once he
was “locked up" . . .
Pardon me, someone
pass a tissue.
I’ve wished a few
times that Scooter
understood English and
not just the inflection of
my voice, but never so
much as that morning. 1
know he sensed my dis-
tress over his distress,
Lessons: 149 2/3 Ways to
Make Teaching and
Learning Fun,” "But What
If I Don’t Want to Go to
College? A Guide to
Success through Alternative
Education” and “Alternate
Routes to Teaching" from
Students and Staff Peter E.
H viand Center
tional benefits, 1 man-
aged to get out of the
water more quickly.
In the.rescue portion
of the lessons, Bobby
and I were partners,
practicing saving one
another. Bobby did
quite well in pulling me
to pool side, but I nearly
choked her (sorry aboui
that) trying to pull her
out of the deep. By the
umpteenth time she
emerged, gasping and
coughing, she was terri-
fied of her life saver.
Time out for another
honey break.
And another.
Truth be told, I never
completed the course,
never earned my Red
Cross life saving certifi-
cate., I don’t recall
whether Bobby did or
not. but I dropped out.
Ran out of honey.
Wanda Orton is a
retired managing editor
of The Baytown Sun.
crazy with a car, because
if you did, chances were
your parents would find
out.
The “Tattletale Rule"
also applied in big
cities. Hey, these were
the 1950s, and "old peo-
ple" were everywhere.
And they wouldn't hesi-
tate to "tell on you." (I
know first-hand.)
Now, some things
never change. We guys,
for instance, had our pri-
orities straight - 1) girls,
2) girls, 3) girls, 4a)
sports, 4b) cars.
After real dates with
real girls, we’d all meet
at Paul Bledsoe's
closed-for-the-night
■ Phillips 66 filling station
and discuss our “ECHO"
problems, ECHO mean-
ing Early Critical
Hormonal Oppression.
We a,II had it. and the
discussion would last
until the wee hours.
Maybe what draws me
back to the 1950s most,
though, is the music. We
were there when Elvis
came along. when
Johnny Cash was getting
started. Plus we had Fats
Domino, Dean Martin,
Connie Francis, and
many more.
And we loved “slow
dancing” at sock hops.
All these years later,
most of niy generation
still know the w-ords to
hundreds of songs more
than 50 years old. Ah,
sweet music from a
sweet time.
Or put another way,
“Lawdy, lawdy, lawdy,
Miss Clawdy!”
Jim Finley is a retired
managing editor of The
Baytown Sun.
which surely compound-
ed the agony over my
abrupt departure. (I had
to get out of there! But
let it all go in the truck .
makeup job
RUINED!)
In the end and with a
little help from our
friends Dr. Dobbs and
Crosby Boarding
Kennel, Scooter and 1
managed just fine. But
if our activity level and
inseparability in holding
down the lounge chair
are any indication, we
need a vacation. It’s
stressful being away
from each other!
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Gray, Janie. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 322, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 27, 2011, newspaper, March 27, 2011; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1029063/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.