Senior Year Classmates

* Updated 7/13 to indicate those attending the reunion!

What follows are initial fragmented rememberances of every single FCHS Senior Year classmate listed in the 1983 edition of The Reflector. If I can't think of anything special to say at first blush, I will simply type something like "a nice person" and then revisit at some point in the future once my memory catches up with the task at hand. In some cases, the student and I never shared a class and thus possibly never even met, so I may not be able to come up with anything. Here goes...

Ernie Andrews.... good friend during my time at Jasper

Doug Atkins... nice and funny guy, asked teacher about mating

*Dana Bankston... nice girl who had a sad dad

Crystal Barnfield... nice girl from Geff

Keith Beeson... a nice guy

*Teresa Best... always a flirt, sat next to me in Consumer Ed.

*Gina Betts... a nice girl

Cal Blackford... a nice guy

*Debbie Blackford... my first grade crush, has a funny brother

*David Borah... very funny guy, has nice older brother

Mike Borah... I worked with his brother Matt

*Brian Bradley... big shot during my Jasper year

Marty Brooker... another good friend from Jasper

Fred Brown... a good "lost" friend and fellow altar boy, we had a terrible fight during junior year but patched things up before he disappeared

Penny Bruce... a nice girl

*Sheila Bryan... Shelly's twin sister

*Shelly Bryan.... Sheila's twin sister

Chris Bunnage... a nice girl

*Lisa Bunting... sweet and cute girl forever

*Scott Camp... friendly

*Jennifer Carter... my 7th grade girlfriend, still have all her letters

Greg Coget... naughty boy

Danny Coomer... funny

Deniece Cullivan... a nice girl

Lisa Dunscombe... a nice, quiet girl

Ruth Eaker... smart, funny, good friend, "Eaker's Achers"

*Larry Eckleberry... eventual big shot, married Jennifer

Dale Ewing... a friend in the early years, one time I waited for him for hours right after he said "I'll be right back" and rode his bike away

*Sheila Feather... Homecoming Queen

Bruce Felty... a nice guy

John Fetherling... another Jasper dude

*Vince Fisher... Jasper dude, called me Batman, resembles The Thing

Wayne Fulkerson... tough guy

Gary Gifford... kittens await you in a warm place

Jim Goodman... funny

Greg Gould... quite a character in grade school

Kevin Green... there

Kim Grimes... nice girl from Jasper

Joey Gruner... liked state pencils and The Flash, accused me of tracing Uncle Sam

*Todd Hannaford... a nice guy

Pat Harris.... once had really long hair

*David Harrison... a nice guy, my sister lives in his house

Dirk Hodges... missing on Fridays

*Patti Hogge... clawed me, but nicer in later years

Joanna Holstein... nice Jasper girl

*Luther Hutchison.... very funny

Fllena Jelley... horse girl, I enjoyed working with her mom

Andy Jenkins... "Mr. Jaws", IBC, good friend during middle school years

Elbert Johnson... wonder if he's still crammed in that 6th grade classroom locker

Terry Jones... picked on at Jasper

*Scott Joslin... dad was a cop, right?

Pat Kempton... nice girl

*Jean Ketzner... my friend was temporarily obsessed with her

Alan Kincart... good basketball player from Jasper

David Kinney... a nice guy

Kim Kinney... a nice Jasper girl

*Darrin Laird... the unchanging man

*Donna Lawler... nice and sweet Jasper girl, went to my church

Kevin Leonard... laughed at me in the locker room

*Lisa Lowery... a nice girl

John McDuffee... I honestly do not remember this person

*Laura McGehee... ran into my car, but it was mostly my fault

Patty McGill... her cousin is Barbara Mandrell, right?

*Bruce McKibben... early bloomer, nabbed Deborah

*Charlie McMeen... a nice guy and Wilfred's cousin

*Chrissy Maculevics.... a nice girl

Amy Manahan... a nice girl

*Doug Mayfield... hands all over Ruth, said I was squirrely, weird hair

Lee Ann Meritt... a neighborhood friend from early years

Johanna Meyers.... a nice girl

Julie Miller... a nice girl

Susan Mitchell... "We had joy, we had fun, we had weiners on our buns"

*Beth Moats... flirted with me in Journalism class

Stanton Mourey... we lived on same Laurel St. block in early 70s

*Shannon Moye... ping pong, blind cat, bought popcorn for Stacey

Susan Murphy... a nice girl

Mark Musgrave... fellow BJ fan, became my first college roommate

Van Musgrave... tough guy

Junior Nolan... nice guy

Angie Padgett... only journalism student still doing journalism?

*Wilfred Pennington... Gomer, Kong, dinosaurs, Dimension Comics, Battleship, Mountain Dew, bat computer, Red Tornado, boysenberry, bat-buddies forever

Barbie Phillips... art class, skating, not allowed to date me, doesn't age

*Sam Phillips... a survivor and the first of my closest friends

Dena Pope... nice and cute girl, Food Park coworker

Renee Puckett... "Southern Nights", my sixth grade crush

Bob Putney... a nice guy from New Hope

Mark Reyling... fellow churchgoer who now lives it

Deanna Robertson... a nice girl

Marsha Robertson... I honestly do not remember this person

Pam Robertson... a nice girl

James Savage... a nice guy

Teresa Scarbrough... a nice girl

Beth Shelton... a nice girl

Kirsten Shore... I honestly do not remember this person

David Shoultz... Hogan's Heroes, Jasper dude who sold me a Star Trek book

Brad Simpson... a nice guy who likes hoim

*Lea Ann Simpson.... my buddy from Food Park

*Lindy Simpson... Lea Ann's whiny twin brother

Doug Skaggs... good friend

Larry Smith... funny guy, messed with Renee in the library when Sam's dad wasn't looking

*Stacey Smith... nice girl, cute younger sister, shared rides to EIU, likes Prince

*Virginia Smith... a nice girl

Roger Sons... a funny guy from New Hope

Ed Staley... a nice guy

Chris Stanton... a nice girl

*Doug Strange... a nice and strange guy

Carmela Sunglao... very nice and sweet exchange student

Krista Taylor... told me I was a good writer

Brent Thomason... taunted by Wayne

Pam Thomason... my kindergarten crush and junior year Homecoming date

Cindy Thompson... nice girl at my church, married Doug Mayfield's older brother Jeff who told my dad to buy me a Kansas 8-track tape

Jamie Tibbs... a nice girl

Cheryl Tickner... a nice girl teased by the boys who changed a lot when she got to college

Paula Todd... a nice girl who wrote me hundreds of letters

Steve Troyer... nice at Jasper, but punched my stomach in the FCHS boys locker room

Greg Tuggle... dated Susan

Cheryl Urven... a nice girl

Lisa Vaughan... Barbie's nice friend in art class

Marty Vaughan... Mayor McCheese, sang Devo songs in class behind me, nicely invited me to hang out with his group when I was alone at the Strand, dated my sister, Hunting Sleeve

Michelle Vaughan... a nice girl

Richard Vaught... a nice guy

Mike Waters... Freakies, good friend during middle school

*Connie Weaver... a very funny and friendly girl

Cheryl Weedon.... ambitious, nice and friendly

Anita West... a looker

Paul West... a joker

Mike Wicinski... a nice guy

*Jim Williams... his mom kept us well fed

*Doug Wilson... basketball star

Greg Wilson... laughed at my "you wax the car, then it wanes" pun

*Tonya Wiser... a very sweet and cute girl

*Jeff Wright.... Jasper joker

Kenny Xanders.... Jasper joker

Russell Young... Jasper friend

David Zurliene... "I've slept since then", lots of siblings

Now to explain the Jasper references. During the summer of 1977, my parents sold our house on North First Street (next to the cemetary across from the grade school -- the Bergs eventually lived in that house), so then we moved to a rental house in the Jasper township. I attended grade school there for only three months, but it evidently made quite an impression on me. The teachers were great (esp. Mr. Smysor), I made lots of good friends, and even had a nice girlfriend who kept writing to me after we moved away to Marion, Kentucky. My teacher and classmates threw a big going away party and made me feel really special.

Doing this list made me remember than I was once good friends with Andy Jenkins, Joey Gruner (in band and cub scouts, right?), and Mike Waters.... Andy and Mike even had me over for sleepovers, which I hadn't thought about in years. We weren't around each other during high school, but I can still remember those fun middle school years to some extent.

It will be cool to see how many of these people show up for our reunion later this month...