Alan - Dennis Rowe:  

Geeze... I spent hours working on this thing years ago¿ I guess "Classmates" erases it if your account goes dormant. I'll do it again, but will try to use less space/words. In the original, I sent regards to all my high school friends. I have so many good memories of high school and there is no way I can include everyone's name, so if you get left out of this, know that you are in my head and heart. Ever seen television's "That 70's Show"? Reminds me a lot of life on Haven Crest Drive in East Brainerd where I grew up. We spent a lot of time in the basements of our houses. The ubiquitous Avocado or Harvest Gold matching washer and dryer in the background. The likelihood of finding an illegal substance being passed around or someone cracking the top off their dad's beer was higher in the summer when school was out or on the weekend. But you could count on it happening. Mike Wilhoite had a cool basement. John Wallace's house was the best 'cause it had a pool AND a basement. The Wallace's were (still are) the best folks -it was like the Cleaver house. I probably came across like a watered-down Eddie Haskel. Randy LaGasse was a great guy to hang out with and they were always loading the kids in the car for a trip to HOLIDAY BOWLING LANES on Brainerd Road. Ahhh, I remember my first Pina Colada. Mrs. LaGasse treated... she winked at the bartender and told him to leave the alcohol out (I did not know that until later.) Those Murphy boys... Tim Lewis... Mark McFalls... Trish Rivers and her brothers. Trish Rivers was our DONNA from the '70 Show. She was "the" girl. We only had one, so she was the center of attention. There were several guys that lived on our street; Trish was the only girl that was our age. So, when you needed advice, you asked her. I remember the summer she and her family went on vacation. It was kinda like when you took a roll of film to the Drive-thru 2-day photo processing stand. When she came back, she had developed, so to speak. She was absolutely beautiful. I remember when our senior prom rolled around, neither of us had a date. Somehow it worked out that we went together. She wore a peach colored dress that looked great on her. (I FOUND THE PICTURES AND WILL BE BRINGING THEM TO THE 25 REUNION --SEPT. 2008!!) She was a gracious girl with a beautiful smile and so much fun to hang around with. Drama Club, Football and Track kept me busy in school. I played Football 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th grades and I ran track 9th, 10th, and 11th grades. Some team mates: Marvin Rhinhart, Danny Gray, Steve Morgan, Roddy Fitzgerald, Mark Stack, Sam Huff, Cari Miller, the Ford Brothers, Mike Wilhoite, brother Larry Rowe, Jimmy Favors, Sanford Balou (rest his soul) Doug Lawhorn, John Massey and all the others (too many to name) WHERE THE HELL IS DANNY GRAY?? When we graduated a bunch of went to Florida. I remember one day in Florida, it was raining cats and dogs. "Morris" cats and dogs. Morris Hilton-cats in particular. It was raining so hard about nine of us had gathered in a hotel room that four of the girls had rented. Because it was raining, we piled up in their room to stay dry and DRINK. We were just sitting around laughing, drinking and having a good time. Morris was having such a good time, he not only offered to pull out his privates and show them... HE DID pull it out and show! Sorry, Morris... maybe I shoulda left this part out... (I was going to try to ERASE this but my backspace button quit working about three years ago.) ... In 1983 I started ...Expand for more