Saturday, January 31, 2009

Some chapters are very interesting

Sorry I haven't been posting here lately. A lot has been happening in my life and I have been trying to chug along on "When I'm 64."

I recently finished a first draft of a chapter on Barbara Lanzer, the one member of our class who returned to Woodson as an administrator before being promoted last year.

I'm not posting her chapter yet -- she hasn't commented back on it -- and I don't know if I will, but the one very interesting thing I found in talking to people -- particularly guys -- about Barbara was that she was remembered as one of the really "hot" girls in our class.

Now I didn't know Bobbie in that way (actually I didn't know anyone in our class in that way), but I find myself wondering what "hot" meant in '66-67 compared to 10-15 years later.

I always liked the song "Good Girls Don't," by the Knack, which came out in 1979, but I have a feeling a girl didn't need to be that active in 1967 to be called "hot."

Maybe just kissing with something other than tightly pursed lips would have done it.

More soon.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Moving right along ...

Happy New Year to all of you; 2009 is our third year on this blog, although we started relatively late in 2007.

I'm currently working on four different chapters -- Mike McCuddin, Dale and Susi, Dale and Judy (different Dale, of course) and Bobbie Lanzer. Any thoughts, any reminiscences, are greatly appreciated.

Happy 2009.