This first
section of the page was submitted by 
Sandi Bateman Chestnut ('65) of VA
on 04/09/01;
Jerry ('65) and
Judy Phillips ('66) Allen of VA on 01/10/06;
Joan Ownby Mathieson ('58) of VA on
04/26/06;
Linda Lane Lane ('64) of VA on 08/04/06;
Wayne
Stokes
('65) of VA on 02/20/07;
Catherine Slusser Hudson ('64) of VA on 09/03/07;
Glenn Dye
('60) of TX on 09/22/07;
Joyce Lawrence Cahoon ('65) of VA
on 10/03/07 and 07/07/08;
Elizabeth Tedder Nunnally ('65 / '68) on 08/13/08;
Joan Lauterbach Krause ('60) of VA
on 07/09/09;
Carol Collier Sparrow ('63) of
VA
on 03/17/10; and
Ron Watson (Hampton HS - '61) of
?? and
F.A.
Saunders (Hampton HS - '64) of VA
on 04/28/10 - when it was finally added.
Thank
you, One and All!
How's This
for Nostalgia?
Remember When
---
All the girls
had ugly gym uniforms?
It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nobody owned
a purebred dog?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking,
all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading
stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or
towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real
restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if
they failed. . And they did it!
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to
cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were
because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never
locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your
friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids
with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one
had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back
in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that
awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by
shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger
threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
... as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the
pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass
it on.
To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on.
And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better
and too young to care.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody, The Peanut Gallery,
the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and
Buttermilk.
A dedication to our Wizard of
Wonderment seems most appropriate to me!