Debra Allen:  

hullo, hullo to all the blasts from my past who might eventually pass this way. it HAS been a long time, but i still think back to mcfarlane and my days on meyers road often enough...hate the way folks scattered so i lost touch with nearly everybody i knew from way back then. i finished up high school at lakeview in st. clair shores; went on to cmu from there and picked up a b.a. and an m.a. in speech/language pathology. married my college sweetheart in dec., '74 and we will celebrate our 35th anniversary later this year. ('some of the best years of his life' he always says...let's see, there were those 11 days we were married in'74' etc, etc. 'funny guy' (snore, snore.) worked for a couple years in michigan--at a 'state home and training school' initially--which was about as bad as it gets (public mandate 94-142 had just gone into effect.) we then moved n. of green bay where we stayed for almost 6 years; our daughter was b. there in '80. in '82 we moved to ne ga and have been here ever since. our son was b. in '85. as my husband is also a public school slp, when it came to add't. kids we (he) decided 'anything more would be redundant.' ;-) (a quip from the guy patrice grenat married, actually, who told her the same thing after they had a boy and a girl as well.) i got sick several years ago (finally diagnosed as 'fibro') and have been disabled since the mid '90s. started doing genealogy after that as a way to reconnect with some extended family and also to keep my brain from turning to 'head cheese.' our daughter had a son in '05--quite the lil pistol i promise--and i am looking forward to being even more of a grandma soon, as they plan to move stateside from germany this spring. that's about if folks; nothing really uber fab or glamorous here, though i am indeed thankful for all that we've got. what stands out for me as far as mcf memories go...let's see...i recall the weird semi-circular 'sink' in the girl's bathroom downstairs near the auditorium. (also remember dancing around in there singing the 'petticoat junction' theme song...dear God!) i recall ms. wheeler being a total ***** (well, i'd surely get banned from the website if i accurately depicted her with a favorite noun)-- always rolling a pencil in her hand while saying something like 'what's your trouble, bubble?' ugh. i recall lots of people and think the karen jones (lincoln park; if she lived on steel n of joy rd and had a june bd) and linda simpson (coral gables; same area as karen...maybe sorrento tho, n of joy rd) who signed into mcfarlane are friends i knew. (tried to contact you both but had no luck.) i still talk to pat grenat but she's the only one; (she was my maid of honor years ago and is as wonderful as ever.) in college, a friend told me that deavers (brian) had then moved to grand rapids. think i found an address for john silcox someplace e of detroit one time; he was a real cutie and nice kid. (didn't initiate a contact tho, as i figured it might not be cool with the 'little woman.') ;-) also thought i found gayle lutey (older sis of carole jean) on a yooper post about pasties once, but couldn't even track the right lutey down. figure alan whitfield must be findable per his dad's ford business on telegraph for decades, but have never run across him directly. what/who else? so many many more i wouldn't have a clue as to how to find...especially the women of course. other things i recall from those 'good ole day...Expand for more