Herbert Evans:  

CLASS OF 1969
Dover High SchoolClass of 1969
Dover, NJ

Herbert's Story

Life Well where do I begin? As most will remember I was always a flirt, that hasn't changed, but don't tell my wife. Oh she already knows this. I live in Myrtle Beach SC an have for the past 18 yrs. I'm still a bad boy but I graduated to Harleys and Leather. On that second marrage as well. This ones gonna last as it's been almost 27 yrs since we've been together. Always a crapshoot the first time out of the gate I guess. Though I have on record 5 kids between the two marriages, believe me, I only have three with my blood in them. That is a big hint as to why I bailed out the first time around. With me now is a daughter and son, both teens. I still don't have a southern drawl even after all these years. If anyone wonders how or why in the heck I got to be a southerner, I've always been that rebel so where better to practice what I preach than to go against the grain and move to the heart of the south. I wear my stars and bars on my biker vest with pride. Not to represent the south but to represent me, a true rebel with a cause. As many of the ladies will remember, an you know who you are, I was always one to demand and get what I wanted, get your thoughts on school not sex here. From homework to dates, I was always THE MAN. Since high school I developed and refined who and what I was all about. I now live an alt. lifestyle. I was never one to hide anything, and I always told the truth because I then and still do hate liars. I was in the military, another part to be revealed, and I learned I had a, Very high "A" type personality, what a surprise. So to be blunt, I'm BD/SM. Control freak or whatever, I'm that real cool but very weird guy you always thought I was. Took awhile to stop talking about just me but I'll give your eyes a break. My wife is from Stanhope, she knew me when I was playing in my band doing the club and college scene. I sure wish I'd known her then, what a full and complete life I would have had. Wait, if I'd done that, all the fun I had inbetween wouldn't have happened. If any are wondering would you have had a chance had I not ran for my life away from that little town, the answer is yes. I was very much in love with two ladies when I went to high school. Sorry but woodstock was that turning point. Sex drugs and rock an roll. For the rest of the story, well I guess you'll just have to ask me yourself. a question asked to add...how do I blow off steam. I just jump on the Harley and ride till I'm one with nature. It's a quick process and the ride becomes the destination. School Seems school was just a layover for me. Most of my years were truely very boring. I spent most of my time playing around goofing off, and basicly being very annoying to probably most. I did fall in love, twice. Yes it was love. Oh you want names, hey I'm not shy, just hope the named parties don't hunt me down and do unspeakable things to me. Karen D, my name for her was Legs. I sometimes rushed through the building just to be at a hallway to watch her pass me. That one person, the one who when she looked at me an her eyes pierced my very soul, the real reason in those days I wasn't able to express anything to her, Penny D. Had I not been so busy trying to prove I was all of that and a bag of chips, Penny may have turned me down, but I sure would have asked if I had the courage back then. As far as teacher inspiration, flip a coin. I did have a special connection with a few teachers, but I was always drawn to women so no surprise there. Props to Ms Kastner, she usually set the tone for the rest of my day after leaving her room. I'd visit her first thing in the morning with some flowers. She saw in me then what I am now, but I didn't understand how to read between lines back then. Ms Giammalvo, she was a hottie who made me see more than just me. Ms Sauder, just the name, the memories I'll carry forever. My funniest an scariest time was the night the boys pep club went to Randolph to take their ram before that BIG game. Sneaking through the woods. seeing those guys out there trying to protect that stupid thing. then running for what I thought was my very life, because the cops were staked out waiting on us to do something. The craziest thing I ever did. I took two girls to church one sunday. Different church at different times. I wondered for a long long time about them knowing about each other. My grades weren't always the best, maybe if I'd done my own work once in awhile instead of having the ladies do it for me. But no matter what, I could not fail in anythin...Expand for more
g. There is just one thing, and I mean one thing I would change if I could. The comment I believe was left in the graduating class yearbook. I think it was something about leaving my head for the boys to play with. By todays standards that just sounds wrong, but at the time, rubbing my head was good luck for our teams and as you all know, back in the day, we were good. We were very very good. If I can think of any thing else that glares out from those day at DHS I'll add it. College My college days are really just a blur. I went to the County College right after high school. Spent more time in the game room instead of the classroom. Boy did I let my hair out and become a ladies man in the Doctoriate Degree program. But I had a short attention span an school really didn't keep my interest. Even a short stint at Rutgers to get further away wasn't enough. Needless to say, I dropped out of school and went into the military. No I never went back an finished to get a degree. Workplace What can I say about work. I've been a cop, nurses helper in a hospital, cook, janitor, supermarket produce mang, worked a car lot, went through construction from a gofer to having my own drywall biz. Lets face facts here. I'm too easily bored. I stay with something until I feel it's time to move on. I usually set my sights on a certain goal and once I get there, I'm not looking to own the world, just my small little corner lot of it. If anyone out there needs a been there done that guy, give me a buzz. Hint, feeling kinda bored again. Military I joined the Air Force in 71. How I got there is the real story. If anyone ever walked into that recruiting office in Dover, you know the AF office was the first on the left as you enter. Well that's as far as my lazy butt would take me that day. Therefore it was AF blue. I could have been in any branch of the service, but they got me. This folkes is how I finally got the heck out of Dodge so to speak. The military was controled idioticy. I did make my way around being that oh so adaptable person I am. I did my basic in Tx, then stayed there for K-9 training. I requested it as I always liked dogs. After it was onward to southeast asia. Tailand, Korea, Nam. Though not in that order. I was wounded in Nam, bullet in the left leg. I don't limp or anything, very good nurse in rehab. She saved my career. Then back to the states. To where I live now, Myrtle Beach. During my stay here I returned to Lackland Tx to attend so many schools I lose count. Bomb detector, Drug, Supervisor were the most important. With that knowledge I brought the first dog to the Beach. I was the KennelMaster at the time, but being just a lowly SSgt, I was replaced with someone with more rank. I was relagated to the K-9 training NCO. I even had the very rare and humble privledge of meeting Mick Jagger when he came here. We showed him the things the dogs could do. An yes he does have very big lips. My time in service allowed me to visit every state in the country as well as most of the southeast Asia. I only went to Europe once and hated the cold damp weather. I do have plenty of war stories but I reserve them for quiet times, just to reflect. Who in their right mind would really want to talk to much about gore and blood. I simply remember fondly all the bars and hookers ( just kidding). The bars are real, not the ladies. They exist in my imagination and grow more vivid and a lot better looking as I get older. The one person from my past who I'd most like to see again is Jimi Hendrix, because I remember this as if it happened just yesterday. I'd gone to the city to watch the ball fall on New Years eve in 69. I found out Jimi was going to be at the old Filmore East. I knew one of the guys who worked there and as luck would have it he let me in backstage. I got to talk to Jimi before he had to do his set but before he had me leave so he could tune up he said, and the words are burned forever in my brain. "Take the world...don't let it take you." The one person from my past who I'd most like to see again is Jill C, because even though I was a ladies man, Jill was that one special person I always looked at but didn't get to know as well as I wanted to. Classmates, a blessing or a curse, I've met so many long lost faces and had so many memories return, most good, some bad. While talking to some I've come to realize a lot of repressed feelings about some. I've got a lot of catching up to do, and those of you, and you know who you are, will always be close to me.
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