BRANSON MO NEWS: AHS graduation for me and my classmates was not so awfully long ago. It seems that just the other day, we were skateboarding down the steep sidewalk to the new band room below the new auditorium completed in December 1963 or early 1964. There was a host of parties thrown in April and May of 1965 to celebrate the end of our high school careers which concluded the end of May 1965 – soft drink afternoon parties; dinner parties; teas where the girls wore dresses, hats, and gloves; river swimming and boating parties at Point A; and beach weekend bonanzas where those fashionable two-piece bathing suits were modeled on the white sands of P.C. “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine” was our unofficial class song as the girls wore madras, culottes, and Bass weejuns. The boys made a fashion statement sporting those Oxford cloth button-down collar shirts.
A stylish matched set of American Tourister luggage, red in color, was gifted to me for graduation from aunts and uncles, parents and grandparents. As Peter, Paul, and Mary later sang in the early 1970s, “All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go…” And ready to go, I was. The number of days left to leave home was marked off the calendar one by one. The week after high school graduation, my freshman roommate Connie Zeanah and I stood on the steps of Martha Parham Residence Hall at the University of Alabama that summer of ’65 with a few pieces of that red luggage. Her mom, Helen Zeanah, took the photo. She was probably silently thinking, “They have a lot to learn, a long way to go!” She was right since a few weeks before, we had gone up to the campus for orientation and left the sheets we had brought on our beds – never to …
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