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NHS
Trichter
Der Nürnberger Trichter
Trichter,, sicher und schnell, macht die Köpfe hell!
Vol. XIV, No. 1
Nürnberg Alumni Association, Inc.
Spring 2002
A flock will be congregating June 20-23
Won’t You Join Us in Las Vegas
For the Gathering of LUCKY Eagles?
Don’t Forget the
Early Byrd Special
Book by April 1 to be entered into a
drawing for a one night’s free room.
Who’s Coming?
300
Already Registered
See ‘to-date’ list of attendees
on page 6.
IN THIS ISSUE
Reunion News
1- 6
Jorgensen’s Jargon
7
In Memoriam: Fallen Eagles
8
Looking Backward: To 1960
9
Alumna Reconnects
To 1950-54 10
Trichter Senior Issue
To 1978
11
Ideas
Transforming Art Education 12
by Donovan Walling, ’65
Memories of German I
14
Alumni Updates
15-17
Poll: Memorable Escapades 18
Next Poll: Travel ‘Bests’
19
Travel: Alums Revisit Nürnberg 20
You can book up until May 1
The Flamingo Hilton Hotel & Casino will be holding you a room for
$89 for Friday and Saturday, ($52, Thursday) if you call 1-800-888-2940
and ask for Ron or Marge before May 1 (See page 23 for Hotel, Flight, &
Car Rental Form).
The first night’s stay must be guaranteed, in advance, by credit card,
but you may cancel your room up to 72 hours prior to intended arrival with
no penalty.
Our Association registration fee is $80 per person – with more than
half of this fee going to pay for our Saturday night banquet and dance. All
of this registration fee must be paid by June 1, but you can cancel it up until
June 1 with only a minimal $15 penalty.
When you register, we hope you will sign up for the optional Friday
night Medieval Knights Show at the
Excalibur Hotel & Casino. It’s a
fabulous dinner and a show for $45.
See your 2002 Reunion Kit for
more information on this our very
best ever tri-annual gathering.
But most of all, we hope you
will come to our sixth tri-annual
reunion.
No one has come away
from a Gathering of Eagles
wishing they hadn’t done it.
– Doug Hatt, ’68 [Take the
Doug Hatt Challenge on page 3]
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NHS Trichter, Spring 2002
Vol.14, No.1
Board of Directors
Nürnberg Alumni Association, Inc.
Era Representatives
Officers
President
Terry (T.D.) Jorgensen, Sr. (’62)
2002 North Woods Drive
Marietta GA 30066
Tel 770-928-4948
Fax 770-928-9696
[email protected]
Vice-President — Advertising/Marketing
Dave Ogé (’70)
3407 Harwood Drive
Tyler, TX 75701
Tel 903-526-1971
[email protected]
Vice-President — Operations
Ron Burgess (’72)
c/o 1840 E. Barnett Rd., Suite B
Medford, OR 97504
Tel 541-773-6462
[email protected]
Secretary/Treasurer
Vint Wilson, MD (’71)
1150 Tulipwood Lane
Athens, GA 30606
1947-1959 (including teachers)
Betty Thomas (’54)
P.O. Box 287
Penney Farms, FL 32079
Tel 904-529-9092
[email protected]
1960-1969
Doug Hatt (’68)
543 Main Street
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 Tel 650-726-8400
[email protected]
1970-1979
Tom Kappelmann (’77)
13509 Copper Hills Drive.
Manchaca, TX 78652
Tel 512-280-8412
[email protected]
1980-1999
Ginger (Sizemore) Milling, MD (’91)
900 N. Oakland St.
Carbondale, IL 62901 Tel 618-351-9912
[email protected]
Tel 706-546-9666
[email protected]
Annual Treasurer’s Report
Trichter Editor
Bob McQuitty (faculty, 1958-62)
NHS Trichter
Volume XIV, No. 1
Spring, 2002
Published three times a year by the Nürnberg Alumni
Association, Inc.
Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob McQuitty
Proofreaders: Jeanette McQuitty, Terry Jorgensen
Send materials for publication to
202 E. Seneca
Tel: 918-456-8443
Tahlequah, OK 74464 E-mail: [email protected]
Balance from 2000:
$13,486.77
Total Deposits in 2001: $12,668.45
Expenses 2001:
AOSHS donation
$125.00
AOSHS building fund
314.00
AOSHS donation
1,000.00
Old web site domain fee
19.00
New web site domain fee
50.00
Archive storage
279.50
T-shirt design (for Vegas reunion)
200.00
OverSeas Brats membership
125.00
Kinko’s (for printing of 3 Trichters,
7,772.00
Alumni Directory)
Postage
2,125.27
Administratives (incidental postage, ink,
cartridges, paper, toner, envelopes,
CD-ROMs, etc.)
2,601.99
Total expenses for 2001
$14,641.76
Balance on Hand: December 31, 2001: $11,513.46
Vol. 14, No. 1
Special Celebrations
For Class of 1977
It’s a Silver Anniversary
It’s been 25 years since the class of
1977 graduated.
Lynn Tumey, class rep, has been
trying to contact as many class members
as possible in the hope of being able to
welcome them to the upcoming reunion.
Fourth Estate
To Gather
Bob McQuitty,
former NHS Trichter
It’s a scoop
adviser, and Jackie
Cauch,’61, will be hosting a luncheon
party for the Nürnberg High School
members of the Fourth Estate Saturday,
June 22, in the Flamingo Hotel. The
specific place and time will be in the
Registration Arrival Kit.
All those who ever worked on the
Trichter are invited.
McQuitty said he hopes to see as
many of the students he worked with
between 1958-62 as possible, and he
assures them that their journalism grades
will be changed to A.
“I would also like to get acquainted
with people who worked on the paper
both before and after I was there,”
McQuitty said.
Flamingo Recommends
A Baby Sitting Service
Those needing a baby-sitter at the
reunion may want to contact Around the
Clock Childcare. They will send a sitter
to your room. The charge is $44 for a
four-hour minimum for one or two children, $9 per hour after that. The service
is recommended by the Flamingo Hotel. For more information, call them at
702-365-1040.
Better them than you
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Tentative Reunion Schedule
We will have a Registration Arrival Kit for all attendees, as you go through
the Association’s registration desk manned by volunteers. This will contain the
final agenda/itinerary, and you’ll also get your Stage Pass I.D. Card, on a rope, to
gain access to all functions. But here’s what we know now.
Wed. June 19 — Early Byrds, this will be an OPEN night. Enjoy the company
as you dine with your closest NHS Eagle
friends.
Thurs. June 20 – OPEN night, to
go party, dine, drink, dance, gamble with
your friends.
Fri. June 21 – Medieval Knights at
the Excalibur Hotel & Casino is
Tell ya what – if you are on the
OPTIONAL, but we’re hoping that most
fence about going to the reunion,
will go with us for this fun-filled event,
just go ahead and make the move to
which includes a dinner and a “very
come to Vegas.
different show.”
Then, when you get there, if you
Friday afternoon there will be a
don’t have a great time, you come
Board of Directors meeting.
tell me, and I’ll personally . . . (don’t
Sat. June 22 – our final night in
wait for me to say I’ll give you your
town
will feature the Hawaiian Luau
money back – I don’t have it!) . . .
buffet
dinner and dance. Dinner is for
apologize to you.
sure, we’re just not sure about the DJ,
On the other hand, if you want
name of person or their company name,
to give me a hug and say, “Thanks
and the hours we’ll be negotiating to
for nagging at me to come to this
have him/her/them play.
get-together, I’d love that. Actually,
Saturday afternoon there will be a
that’s my favorite part—hugging
general membership meeting.
Eagles. – DOUG HATT, ’63
Sun. June 23 – Brunch. Because
we’re trying to save our people $$$, we
Reunions Began in 1986 will not have an organized brunch in a
The Nürnberg High School alumni private banquet room this year. Instead,
we’re suggesting that you make arreunions began in November 1986 when
rangements to meet with your friends at
Terry Jorgensen ran into Dave Worland,
one of the inexpensive breakfast buffets
also of the class of 1962, in Greensboro,
in the hotel or nearby. You’ll probably
NC. Both realized they wanted to resee a bunch of other Eagles and faculty
ignite the spirit of NHS in the United
members sitting in the restaurant as well.
States. Terry took Dave’s challenge to
And don’t forget ALL DAYS are
find enough alumni to have a reunion.
OPEN
for attendees to explore the city
By June of 1987 Terry had located
234 alumni and persuaded 119 of them and the nearby lakes, take motor tours,
take some gambling lessons (from pros
to come to the first reunion in Atlanta.
It was so much fun that they decided like George Estey or Mr. Lucier), or just
to try it again, this time in Dallas, where lounge around the poolside of the
Flamingo Hilton. It’s a perfect oppor238 attended.
In 1993, 336 came to Lake Tahoe, tunity to enjoy a leisurely three to five
CA. 275 found their way to Clearwater day mini-vacation with your friends.
In short, there’s more to do here than
Beach, FL, in 1996. An astounding 508
probably any other place on earth (so
came to Breckenridge, CO, in 1999.
The Association is hoping for a new they tell me, anyway)! – T ERRY
JORGENSEN
record this June.
Take The
Doug Hatt
Challenge
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Vol. 14, No. 1
On the Town – What to See and Do
Casino Shows
•Alexis Park: “BaddaBing,” a Godfather’s interactive birthday party (dinner
show)
•Bally’s: “Jubilee,” an
evening of showgirls and
magic
•Bellagio: “O,” an aquatic
production from the famous
Cirque du Soleil
•Golden Nugget: “The
Amazing Johnathan,” a
comedy & magic show
•Flamingo: “The Second
City,” comedy show by some
of the best comedians in the
business
•The New Frontier:
“Rock ‘n Roll Legends,”
tribute to the Beatles, Roy
Orbison, Stevie Nicks, Neal
Diamond, and of course The
King himself, Elvis!
•Imperial Palace: “Legends in Concert,” tributes to
Madonna, the Temptations,
Elvis, others
•Luxor: “Blue Man
Group,” music and comedy
with three bald, blue men!
•MGM Grand: “EFX
Alive,” Rick Springfield
•Mirage: “Siegfried &
Roy,” long-running magic
show
•Monte Carlo: Lance
Burton, master magician
•New York, New York:
“River Dance”
•O’Shea’s: “HipNosis,”
audience participation hypnotist
•Riviera: “An Evening At
La Cage,” the most beautiful
“ladies” in Vegas
•Reviera: “Splash,”an
adult revue
•Sahara: “The Rat Pack
Is Back,” tribute to Frank
Sinatra on his birthday in
1961: Frank, Sammy, Dino
•Stratosphere: “American Superstars,” celebrity
RON BURGESS,’72
We have been receiving
numerous telephone calls and
e-mails asking the question:
“What events are planned?”
The answer is not many.
We think you would rather do
your own planning, selecting
from an enormous list of fun
possibilities.
Thurs., June 20, is the
official start of the reunion.
Nothing is planned for
Thursday evening, so many
of the class reps are
discussing the possibility of
BY
having Era Get-Togethers.
But, as always, the
numerous casinos have a
variety of evening entertainment. You might want to
choose from the list in the
box at left.
Each casino also has its
headliners, which change
tribute show featuring Madonna, Ricky Martin, Elvis
(gawd he gets around ), et al.
•Treasure
Island:
“Mystere,” Cirque du Soleil
production
•Tropicana: “The Comedy
Shop”
•The Venetian: “Melinda,
First Lady of Magic,” world’s
no.1 female magician
about every 30 to 60 days.
Right now, we only have
information on headliners
through the end of April We
will let you know on the web
site who will be performing
at each of the major casinos
in June.
If night club shows are
not what you are interested in
seeing, virtually all the
casinos also have club and
lounge acts, primarily musicians, for example:
At New York, New York,
“Coyote Ugly,” a bar based on
the legendary New York City
establishment.
Caesars Palace has Cleopatra’s Barge, where you can
dance on a replica of an
Egyptian ship that rocks gently
in five feet of water and also has
a martini bar that serves 28
varieties of gin and vodka!
At Mandalay Bay, the
House of Blues
The Luxor has Ra, the
trendy nightclub where celebrities are known to visit and
Thursday evenings are “Vixen
Night” for the ladies!
At MGM Grand, Studio 54
Barbary Coast has a
karaoke lounge.
Planet Hollywood is
known for its unannounced
visits by celebrities.
And there are various
adult theme shows at the
various casinos.
But if you are not into
dancing, shows, or karaoke,
Las Vegas has numerous
exquisite restaurants. Virtually any taste from around
the world can be found in Las
Vegas, and don’t forget the
numerous buffets! Here are a
few restaurants:
New York, New York:
ESPN Zone, sports-themed
eatery
Hard Rock Café: A.J.’s –
let’s talk steak and seafood!
MGM Grand: Rain Forest
Café, pasta, salads, sandwiches
and a 10,000 gallon archway
aquarium!
Stardust: Tony Roma’s,
the best rib house
Las Vegas Hilton:
Benihana’s –the best way to
describe this restaurant is
definitely interactive!
Las Vegas also has great
shopping at outlet stores,
numerous free shows during
the day and evenings, a
variety of museums, indoor
skydiving, tours of the Grand
Canyon, golf, on and on and
on.
But, of course, you may
prefer to do nothing but
lounge by the Flamingo’s
HUGE 11-acre swimming
pool reminiscing with friends
from days gone by.
If there is something
special you are interested in,
a show, tour, whatever, let us
know and we will research
the costs and availability.
Send your questions to Ron
at [email protected] or call
toll-free to 1-800-888-2940.
You can ask for Ron OR
Marge.
Getting Around
to Salt Lake City
The Las Vegas Strip Trolley starts at the downtown
Hilton and runs the strip to Luxor. The fare is modest, and
trolleys run every 15 minutes from 9:30 to 2 a.m.
Various free trams link some of the hotels: Treasure Island to the Mirage; Bellagio to Monte Carlo; Excalibur to
the Luxor and Mandalay Bay; and Ballys to MGM Grand.
Casino Resort Features to See
• Best Indoor Woodland (rainforest) @ Mirage
• Most Opulent Hotel Lobby @ Bellagio
• Most Imposing Outer Space, Eiffel Tower @ Paris Las
Vegas
• Most Impressive Fake Skyline @ New York New York
• Most Imposing Inner Space (inside a pyramid) @ Luxor
• Wildest Casino Sculptures @ Orleans Hotel
• Glitteriest Casino Entry @ Circus Circus
• Best View of Las Vegas @ Stratosphere Hotel Tower
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Harmon Ave.
• Circus Acts in the main casino @ Circus Circus
• Fountain Shows (animated statues) at the Forum Shops @
Caesars Palace
• Sound and Light Show, “The Fremont Street Experience”
@ downtown Casino Center
• Pirate Ship Battle @ Treasure Island (come early)
Tropicana Ave.
• Masquerade Show in the Sky @ Rio Suite Hotel
• Sports Hall of Fame @ Las Vegas Club Sports Hotel
• Sunset Stampede @ Sam’s Town Hotel
• Volcano Eruption & White Tiger Lair @ Mirage
Russell Road
• Gondola Rides on the Grand Canal @ Venetian, across
from Treasure Island
Best Kids’ Attractions
• Gameworks (arcade, carnival midway games) in the base
ment @ Showcase, adjacent to MGM Grand
• Adventure Dome (indoor amusement park) @ Circus
Circus
• MGM Grand Adventures (outdoor amusement park)
@ MGM Grand
• The Race for Atlantis (realistic motion simulator)
@ Caesars Palace
• Star Trek: The Experience (ride simulations) @ Las
Vegas Hilton
• Manhattan Express & Coney Island Midway
(rollercoaster, arcade) @ New York New York
• The Secret Garden & Dolphin Habitat (dolphin and
animal sanctuary) @ Mirage
Ten Buffet Survival Tips
When most people talk about food in Las Vegas, they
don’t talk about the famous restaurants, they talk about the
buffets, which offer some of the best dining bargains around.
However, the more popular and cheaper ones on the Strip often have long waiting lines. To avoid the wait, go very early.
1. Avoid buffets on Friday or Saturday nights, unless you
enjoy standing in long lines.
Interstate 15
Best Free Attractions
Las Vegas Blvd. -- The Strip
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2. Patronize the more popular buffets -- food is fresher, turns over
more quickly
3. Reconnoiter the food line once you’ve been assigned to a table to
determine which items you’d like to try.
4. Don’t fill up on ordinary stuff.
5. Don’t embarrass yourself by taking more than you can possibly eat.
6. Avoid seafood at buffets, other than chilled shrimp and crab
7. Use a clean plate when you go back for a refill.
8. Ignore the sugar-free section at the dessert table.
9. Tip your server about a dollar or two per person.
10. Try not to stare at all the fat people with their heaped plates.
Best Cheap Buffets
Holiday Inn Boardwalk,
open 24 hours
Circus Circus
Imperial Palace, across
from Caesars
Information on this page
from Las Vegas: The Best
of Glitter City by Don &
Betty Martin
Games People Should
& Shouldn’t Play
The best odds
blackjack
craps
baccarat
roulette
The worst odds
video poker machines
video blackjack
slot machines
wheel of fortune
bingo
keno
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Vol. 14, No. 1
Who’s Coming as of March 2. Go to nurnbergeagles.com for an updated list
Women are alphabetized by
maiden name in italics where
known.
This is not usually a
complete list of everyone in a
given person’s party.
Question marks indicate
some doubts about registration.
Check with Ron to confirm.
Absher, Deanne
Barga, Claudia
Barrett, Edith
Bartholow Smith, Patricia ’57
Bennett, Ken/Becca
Benson, Jr, Barton
Benson, Beaton
Bingham Turpin, Michelle ’64
Binkle Shaw, Pat
Brady, Hugh/Carol, Fac
Brandon, Mark
Braunstein, Robert ’66
Brewer, Don
Brown, Charles
Brown, Lanita
Brown, Robert
Brugger, Bridgit
Buchieri, Mike ’71
Buchieri, Tony
Buchieri, Donna ’70
Bulken, Wendy ’77
Burgess, Ron/Pam’72
Buther, Louie
Buxton, Beverly/Frank ’67
Campbell, Cletus, Fac
Casinger, Don/Debbie
Cauch, Jackie ’61
Childers, Fred
Cook, Charlie
Cook Dillon, Judith
Corriston, Gina
Cousins, Steve ’72
Cunningham Priest, Tere
Daly III, Wilbur
Daly, Allen
Daly Cook, Judy ’57
Davis, Bernie ’72
Davis, Herb ’77
Denda, Dick, Fac
Dension, Michael
Dickson, Dallen
Dingman, Joan, Fac
Doloway, Tony/Colleen
Downing, Shannon
Drouillard, Duane
Dufree, Diana
Dunn, Rudy ’83
Dunn Jaeger, Barbara’60
Durhan, Bill/Jane
Eiscabar, Eileen
Etler, Doretta
Farrell, Jim/Marge
Fischlein, Fred
Flecker Ehinger, Darlene ’63
Flippen Conroy, Shelley ’73
Foster, Georgia/Mike
Fraser, Baxter
Frey, Kim
Fry, Gary ‘Buz’ ’57
Cardinale Galloni, Fran ’56
Gamble, Harry ‘Woody’ ’54/
Audrey Hammond ’55
Garafalo, Toru (?)
Gibson Stuhler, Fran
Goold, Ken/Ann, Fac
Gossard, Jim ’64
Gregory, Peggy
Grey, Renal
Hamilton, Patricia/Doug
Hammer, Dale ’78
Hannahs Jr., Jim
Hansen, Conrad/Marge
Harnes, Holly
Harrison, Kent/Barbara ’56
Hart, Horatio ’94
Hartman, Kenny ’77
Harwell, Bill
Hatt, Doug ’68
Haugse, Joni
Hedrick, David (?)
Hedrick, Ted ’67
Howard, Shirley ’53
Hudachek Stephens, Mary ’76
Jannusch McKenzie, Rita ’63
Jansen Hetue, Franca’66/
Kenneth
Jensen, Ingrid
Johnson, JoAnn K., Fac
Johnson, Michelle
Johnson Smith, Rhonda
Jones, Shannon ’95
Jordan, Monika
Jorgensen, T.D. ’62
Kallio, Pete’77/Krista
Campbell ’79
Kapplemann, Tom ’77
Kennerly, Jim ’64/Janice
Kiley, Lawrence
King Taylor, Lianda ’57
Kirby, Lenora
Leseney, Joseph ’57
Liesch, Matthew ’84
Long, Sue/Nicholas
Marler, Mike (?)
Marrone Duet, Mary Jane ’65
Marvey, Bob/Barbara (?)
Mathern, Larry/Norrine, Fac
May, Tom
Mayo Smith, Carolyn’54 /Bryan
Mazares, Ann Mary ’57
Mazares, Joseph/Gloria ’61
McCarroll Wood, Pat ’59/
Francis
McClure, Don/Charlene ’61
McCollum, Ellen
McCoy, Tim’62/Gaye Richards
’63
McCullin, Edward/Melinda
McKenna Henry, Jane ’60
McKenzie, John
McLane, Joyce ’63
McMillan, Troy ’79
McMillon, Mike ’75
McMullin Eddie ’67
McNulty Ferris, Allyn
McQuitty, Bob, Fac/Jeanette
Melby, Naomi, Fac
Mersinger, Marie/Janice
Minder, Robin/George
Moale Firth, Peggy ’62
Montieth, Tom/Sue ’72
Moudy, Tom’61/Joan
Murray, Elizabeth
Myers, Melinda/Stephen
Nehammer, Jenná ’61/Karl
Neighbors, Harley Travis
Nemith, Wade’61/Susan
Nemith, Bill ’60
Neville, Jack/Judy McLane ’62
Newman-Shruhan, Rick/Vicki
Newsome Stanton,Nancy ’59
Nichols Blonder, Marie
Nickle Borri, Janice’67
Nickle Piccioli, Janet’67
Nigg Alford, Debra’76
Norman, Larry and Lacey
(daughter),’65
Odom, Chris
Odom, Bettye ’59
Orcutt, Charles’60
Owens, Rebecca
Peek Michael, Reni
Peterjohn, Dick, Fac /Elspeth
Pierce, Steve
Poh Garcia, Michelle’59
Pohlman, Carol/John
Porter Johnston, Connie ’53
Posey, Rick ’72
Pretzeus, Robin
Rackin, Stanley ’49
Reberry Smith, Kay’62
Record, Sean
Reed, Shirley
Reitler, Randy ’65
Rich, Ron ’75
Rizor Parke, Georgine, Fac
Roberts, Karen
Rocha, Ken
Seals, Frank/Karla
Seals, Gregory ’79/Karla
Shaller Traeger, Joanne ’60
Shields, Kim
Sinason, Jeff ’76
Skiouing, Jeanette (?)
Smith, Robert
Sonneman, Julie
Stephens, Mary H.
Stevens, June
Stille Ely, Claire ’55
Stockwell, Heyda
Stubbs, Gordon
Sultanik, Paul ’73
Tedesco, Tony ’72
Thayer, Ron ’62/Heidi Gottwald ’63
Thomason, Harold
Thomas, Cindy
Thomas, Elizabeth ’54
Thompson, Edward’50
Tracey, Mark
Tumey, Lynn ’77
Turpin, Michael
Vergara, Ann
Voyles, Jack ’62/Tom
Wade, Steve
Walsh, Jemma
Walters, John/Betty, Fac
Warren, Doris ’67
Waters, John/Lorriane ’70
Wayson Reichwein, Connie ’66
Wells, Lisa
Wendricks, Catherine
Wenner, Bert, Fac /Inge
White, Cindy ’76
Wilkerson, Larry
Williams, Ron
Williams, Clyde ’61
Williams, John
Wilson, A.T. ’71
Young, Kathleen, Fac
Younkin, Barbara ’64/Carl
ADD YOUR NAME HERE
BY CALLING RON AT
1-800-888-2940.
Vol 14, No. 1
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Jorgensen’s
Jargon
From the Desk of the President
As of April 1, we will only have 80 days left
until the Eagles are scheduled to start arriving at the
Flamingo Hilton Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas. Time
sure has flown since we left Breckenridge, Y‘all.
I’m sure by now everyone is hurriedly
attempting to make arrangements to come to this
Gathering of LUCKY Eagles. One 1956 alumnus and
class rep, Kent Harrison, is coming Wednesday the
19th, and departing for a family wedding on Friday
the 21st, just so he can get to see all of his friends
from that era. What a great American, to make that
kind of effort. Thanks, Kent.
We have been awaiting word from the
Flamingo Hilton’s marketing department, regarding
the coordination of our dinner-dance on Saturday, our
DJ entertainment, etc., and will publish all the
itinerary-agenda information, once finalized. We truly
wish this information could be in this issue, but there
are still some things Association V.P.-Operations Ron
Burgess is trying to work out. He has been designated by the Flamingo Hilton as the agent responsible
for room bookings for our Association. So, please
make sure you give Ron your credit card number
when booking your room so he doesn’t have to try to
track you down, making needless long-distance calls,
and wasting his and his staff’s time and resources.
Thanks.
We will try to create a link on our Association’s website, once final arrangements are made, that
will show the actual official convention agenda. There
will always be plenty of free time, since that’s what
alumni seem to enjoy most when coming to these
gatherings. However, there will be an organized outing
to the Medieval Knights dinner-show at the Excalibur
Hotel & Casino, down the street from the Flamingo
Hilton. That will take place on Friday night, and we
fully expect most will want to join us as we enjoy an
early evening together.
There is just so much to do in this city that
Burgess felt that people will probably want to pair up
with their friends and former teachers, and take in
some of the sights together in order to explore the
town and get as much out of their visit as they can.
Then, on Saturday, (probably between 7:00 7:30 p.m.) we will be treated to a fabulous Hawaiian
luau, with all the food, side dishes, condiments, and
atmosphere of a tropical paradise. To get into the spirit
of the luau night, male Eagle alumni should pack their
favorite Hawaiian shirt, and ladies are invited to bring
their favorite muumuu dress to match their significant
other’s attire.
Following dinner, there will be a disc jockey
entertaining our Eagle crowd with music from all eras.
And, yes, early on, DISCO, as the mid-to-late-70’s era
Eagles have requested. Sounds good. I mean . . . who
didn’t love disco from the 70’s?!
Please be sure to contact your class rep or era
rep/board member, should you have any last minute
questions or requests, as we’ll be in contact with them
via e-mail, so that no one will be without all the
correct, current information they’ll need, to make
plans.
Should anyone experience difficulty in
obtaining the answers they request from their class
reps and/or era reps, please feel free to contact me
directly. I can be reached at (770) 928-4948, during
normal business hours, or you’ll be forwarded to my
residence after hours until 9:00 p.m. (E.S.T.). I can
also be reached by e-mail at [email protected]. I
look forward to seeing everyone in Las Vegas.
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Vol.14, No.1
Fallen Eagles – Gone but Not Forgotten
William T. (Bill) Zeffiro
A faculty member from the first decade of Nürnberg
High School, Bill` Zeffiro died Sept. 9, 1997. He lived for
more than 25 years after having had heart surgery in 1972.
His widow reports that Bill went to Germany in the nineties
to recapture some of his love of that country and time. He
was an avid walker, and loved the South. He often talked of
NHS and of getting to a reunion one year. But the year he
thought he could come, he had a conflict after all, with a
son's wedding.
Charles Hitselberger, ’51
Wishing to update our records, Charlie Hitselberger, Jr.,
reports on the death of his father in June 1970. Charles
Hitselberger, Sr., was president of the class of 1951.
John (Jack) Barton
A biology teacher at NHS in
the 1959-60 school year, John
(Jack) Barton of El Monte,
California, passed away on Jan.
15, 2001, at the end of a long
battle with several illnesses. He
was 75 years old. Jack Barton is
survived by his wife, four
children, and five grandchildren. Jack Barton in 1959
A knowledgeable and enthusiastic science teacher, Jack
knew how to bring lighter moments to the classroom as
well. His former students will perhaps remember that on
occasion he would bring his banjo to class and play and
sing for the students.
Though he was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jack
Barton grew up, lived and worked in El Monte, California.
Both his life as a student and as a teacher are associated
with El Monte High School, one of the oldest public high
schools in the state.
As a high school student at El Monte, where he met
Jorane King, his first and only love, Jack excelled in
academics and sports, lettering in football, baseball, and
basketball, which was his forté.
Upon graduation at the age of 17, Jack enlisted in the
Army. After completion of his basic training, he was sent to
Europe with the 70th Infantry Division, which fought in the
Ardennes/Alsace, Rhineland, and Central Europe campaigns.
Following his discharge from the Army, he married Jorane
(Ronnie) King in May, 1946. Later that same year he entered
Whittier College under the G.I. Bill to pursue a degree in
secondary education. At Whittier, Jack played on three consecutive conference championship basketball teams.
After graduation, he returned to El Monte High as a
teacher of general math and biology and assistant coach of
the basketball team. In 1959 he came to NHS.
After his year abroad at Nürnberg, Jack returned to his
teaching position at El Monte, concurrently pursuing
studies for a master’s degree. In 1961, he moved into
counseling, and in 1966 became the assistant principal for
instruction.
In 1969 Jack became principal of his alma mater, a
position he held for 14 years, an honor for which he was
ever grateful. As principal, he strove always for close
rapport with his students and staff, and many felt that the
school flourished under his leadership.
After retiring in 1983, Jack began a second career as a
writer. He published A War Remembered, a memoir of his
World War II experiences; Hurray for Hollywood, a book
about growing up in Hollywood during the depression; and
A Brief History of El Monte, about his adopted hometown.
At the time of his death, he was writing My Love Affair with
a High School, a history of his alma mater.
The Bartons were traveling in Europe in 1995 and
happened to be in Fürth at the high school the day that the
closing of Nürnberg High School was commemorated.
Jack, who remembered his experiences at NHS fondly, was
introduced at the assembly, and both Bartons enjoyed
visiting with students, staff, and parents that day.
Storage Bin Problem Solved
Since the closing of NHS in 1995, the Association has
been storing school memorabilia. In the last few years the
Association has been paying for its storage in a commercial
facility, under the supervision of Gila Montfort, our
historian.
In January, Gila reported some good news. Ted Glover,
representative for the class of 1969, called her to see if he
might lend assistance concerning the storage area. He and
his wife are building a new home in the Dallas area, and
Ted said they would have plenty of storage room. He
offered to keep whatever the Association needed stored.
His house won't be ready until close to the time of the
reunion, necessitating the need for a storage bin until that
time, but Ted then made an additional offer. He would write
a check to pay for storage for the next few months.
“I know we are all grateful to Ted for his generosity.
And this isn't the first time he's shown such generosity. Ted
donated one year's storage fee when we first needed to
move everything to that facility. So this is definitely above
and beyond as they say,” said Gila.
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Marching to 1960
Backward
John F. Kennedy elected President
in narrow contest.
Black students stage sit-in at lunch
counter in Greensboro, NC, to
protest segregated seating.
Soviet Union shoots down U-2
reconnaissance plane.
U.S.relations with Cuba deteriorate.
U.S., Britain, France, and the Soviet
Union conduct summit talks, but
without results.
Russian tanks stand behind the
Czech border 100 klicks from
Nürnberg.
Der Adler fährt Wieder. Thousands were on hand Dec. 4 when a
replica of the Eagle, the first train in Germany, steamed into Fürth.
From the NHS Trichter, fall 1960
Enrollment Rises to 678,
43 Teachers and 67 Seniors
Lenny Habas Elected
Student Council President
Seniors Elect Herby Browne
Homecoming Queen
Nancy McLane Commands
Team to Win – They Do
Football Team Wins 5, Loses 1
But Finishes 2nd in League
And Where Are
The Stars of Yesteryear?
sity basketball game when the entire
Teacher bench raced onto the floor to
help its beleagued comrades protect a diminishing 45-42 lead.
The referee then called a technical
foul on the whole team, giving Eagle Pat
Moran five free throws, but he only
made two of them because he was
greatly hindered by Mr. Goold’s unorthodox behavior. Final score: 45-44.
Mr. Jahnke led the Teachers’ all-out
attack with 20 points. Dave Worland,
unruffled Eagle, tallied 14 for the losing Eagle Varsity.
The Eagles’ Nest
by Marie Ertl
George Bingham doesn’t know what
to make of faculty sportsmanship. In the
game, George kept tryTeacher Terrors Vanquish Faculty-Varsity
ing to get up after a scramble for a loose
Varsity Basketball Team
ball, but he couldn’t do it because Mr.
Hedden had him by the arm. “Mr.
by Larry Voelker
Pandemonium reigned in the last Hedden! Mr. Hedden! What are you
few seconds of the recent Teacher-Var- doing, Mr. Hedden?”
We hear that Charlie Eagle is named
after Mess Sgt. Charles Homer Albert
Savoie, who presides over the Eagle Hall
of Fame downstairs.
Trichter Topics
by Elaine Hudson, editor
“How does a human react when his
head is cut off?” This was a recent topic
in Mr. Rosin’s English class. Next?
Gil Frisbie and Toni Miller are keeping their distance nowadays–not because
of incompatibility but because of incapability (crutches and a cast). Next?
When Jenna Skirving was asked
what one thing she would take to the
moon, she promptly answered, “Tom.”
When Tom [Turnmire] said he’d take a
football . . . . Next?
December Dateline: Joe Gazzo and
Dianne Wiest, Sue Worley and Dave
Worland, Judy Brown and John
Sanderson, Bob Lipscomb and Nancy
Marvin, Terry Morley and Buddy Goins.
What’s Next?
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Alumna Who Reconnects with Former German Housekeeper Asks,
Vol. 14, No. 1
Is a Dress the Most Important Thing?
BY BETTY THOMAS, ’54
At the time Rita made an impact on
my life, I was the typical self-centered
Nürnberg High dormie teenager thinking only far enough into the future to
plan my dress for the upcoming dance.
But these many years later I have come
to treasure the memory of her. I'm speaking of Rita Holtzmann, our housekeeper
in Würzburg, where my father was stationed from 1950 to 1954. The last
memory I have of her was when we
moved from our "off-base" quarters to
our "new" apartment.
In the early part of this year, and
quite by accident, I located Frank
Schleehuber, who is affiliated with an
army publication on the Würzburg base.
I sent Frank an e-mail asking for his suggestion on how I could go about locating Rita. He went far and beyond any
suggestion. Within two weeks I received
an e-mail from him. He had located the
former Rita Holtzmann, now Mrs.
Eberhard Kultscher. The message also
included her home address, phone number and fax number! Since then there
have been many e-mail messages between us, some of which included recent pictures. Due to providence we've
been able to go one step further. Previously I had scheduled a trip on a river
cruise in Europe that was taking me to
Bamberg, only 30 kilometers from their
home, so on September 29, I spent the
day there with Rita and Eberhard. It was
a perfect day with incredible weather,
incredible atmosphere, and perfectly incredible friends.
In the early part of 1954, Eberhard
became a dentist and opened his practice with Rita as his assistant. He said
they were full of hopes and grateful to
have survived the cruel war. He was an
officer of the Bavarian Dental Association in Munich from 1974 to 1991. They
have since retired and reside in
Altenkunstadt. They "enjoy every day"
and are fortunate in having their daughter Carolin and their grandchildren live
Looking Backward
Rita Holtzmann
and Betty Thomas
THEN
close by. Eberhard said that they "consider retirement as wonderful, apart from
looking for a doctor more often!"
We have renewed our relationship
by sharing many fond memories. Rita
and Eberhard said that over the years
they have often remembered the good
times with the Thomas family. They remember my mother as a polite, beautiful, dark-haired lady. They remember
my father as having treated them both
very fairly and how he loved to buy his
steaks from the German butchers. They
even remember our dog. I remember Rita
taking me shopping, to the opera, and to
Betty and Rita
NOW
the German movies. They remembered
some of my friends and the parties we
had. Of course, if she and Eberhard have
any bad memories they were far too gracious to mention them!
Thanks to providence, the Internet,
and the Grace of God, I’ve been able to
let Rita know that I finally realize a dress
is not the most important thing in the
world.
Looking
Back
At
1957
photo
from
Michele
Poh
Garcia,’57
My goodness, that’s Frau Ingrid Gutschmidt, the German teacher, a.k.a.
the Berlin Bombshell, but who are these eager Studenten of Deutsch?
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Looking Backward at 1978
Seniors Publish Last Wills, Embarrassing
Experiences, Memorable Moments
Becky McAdams [Setliff] wills to Mr. Jenssen a permanent absentee
pass. To Mr. Mulder she leaves a box of Birdseye Frozen Strawberries from
Foodland. To Ingrid Moreira she leaves her Guinness World Book of Excuses
and her big eyes and long eyelashes.
Bob Davis wills his ability to look high, ripped, and drunk all at the same
time to Mr. Jack Hass. To Brenda Weaver he leaves his 37” chest. To Tom
Werner he leaves his ability to eat like a pig and not gain any weight. To
April Warner he leaves the ability to breathe out of her ears so that she will
not drown if she ever gets caught in a rainstorm.
Blane Michael Kelly knows he’s not of sound mind and body but he has
so many tough things to give away. His luck with the women, he gives to El
Wimpy in the hopes he’ll get a date for the prom next year. To Tom Walter he
leaves his sense of fair play because he never cheated
Most Embarrassing
during the wrestling season. He gives his full beard to Mr.
Rodney Davis: Getting caught sending funny notices
Mulder, knowing how much he loved it.
to
teachers
and to students
Viola Gonzales wills to Julie Sonneman her “I’m a
Mike Porter: Partying at a Gasthaus 2nd hour and Mr.
Barry Fan” posters and buttons. To Terry Mixon, she wills
Kirsch
[the principal] walks through the door!
her collection of Marty Fledmann films. To Mr. Kampe she
David
Garcia: When I first came to NHS, almost
leaves her fantastic coordination in typing and her multilineveryone
said
I spoke funny. It was so embarrassing that I
gual abilities to April Warren.
kept my mouth shut most of the time.
Jocelyn McWhirter bequeaths to Mr. Judd a threeDebbie Brasfield [Stillinger]: I had my classes mixed
year supply of chewed-up tenor saxophone reeds. To Eric
up
and
went and sat in the wrong class for ten minutes
and Greg she leaves all the pens she borrowed off them (if
they can find them), and to next year’s Honor Society much before the teacher and I realized I was in the wrong place.
Most Memorable
success.
Mike Wright: First class cafeteria meals. Fit for a king.
Howard Segal leaves two bottles of tequila to Denise
Rodney Davis: Trudy Green
Rawls. Party Hearty! To Lori Gallo he wills his noteHoward Segal: All the fun times at lunch playing
writing ability. To the next Student Council president, he
football and buck-buck.
wills the office.
Mike Porter: When I was signing up and saw the most
Tom Bookman leaves his jock to David Riley. He
beautiful girl in the world!
promises to show Duane Drouillard how to play football
Debbie Brasfield: How easy it is to skip and not get
the right way. He also wills him the name ‘Duck.’ He
caught.
leaves his weight-watchers book to Mel Bailey, and gives
Marie Taylor to Duane Drouillard for the rest of the year.
Ten Years from Now: A Guide to
Regina Raab wills to Sharon and Heidi a lot more
the Futures of NHS Teachers
declensions and conjugations in Latin. She advises all
underclassmen to enjoy their remaining
Mr. Mulder will go to South Africa to find a market for
years; they go by too fast.
suntan lotion.
Joe Cortez wills to the few “cool”
Miss East will open a thrift shop of her old clothes in
juniors his (funky) tolerance and ease! To
New Jersey.
the next senior class president, he wills a
Mr. Denda will become a ballet instructor.
London Trip Travel Agency.
Miss Koch will go back and finally finish high school.
Franny Curtis [Alvarez] wills to Kim
Mr. Kampe will become president of the National
Richie more sense in picking her classes.
Society of Mentally Disturbed People
She also wills to Keith more artistic ability
Mr. Abramo will be wearing a funny white jacket with
and art lessons at the Rec Center.
sleeves that tie behind his back. He’ll spend his time yelling,
Thanks to Christine Phillips,’79, for the Trichter “Everybody is late.”
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IDEAS
BY
How Computer Technology Is
DONOVAN R. WALLING
Albrecht Dürer, the
German Renaissance master,
created and used technology
to assist with perspective, as
can be seen in his woodcuts.
Leonardo da Vinci blended art
and technology as often in
painting as in mechanical
invention. In fact, art and
science were inextricably
linked prior to Gutenberg,
when, as James Bailey argues
in “The Leonardo Loop:
Science Returns to Art”
(Technos, spring 1998), “the
printing press drove a 500year wedge between science
and art, pushing the latter to
the brink of extinction in the
curriculum”(p. 17). Today the
bits-and-pixels technology of
Donovan Walling came
to NHS as a 7th grader in
spring of 1961, but moved
back to the States at the end
of the year, only to return in
1963 as a 9th grader. He attended NHS through his junior year.
After earning degrees
from Kansas State Teachers
College and the University of
Wisconsin, he was associated with the Sheboygan Area School
District in Wisconsin for many years as an art and English
teacher and curriculum administrator. He taught in Germany
for the Department of Defense, 1981-83.
He is now Director of Publications and Research at Phi
Delta Kappa, an international professional association for educators at all levels. His most recent book is Rethinking How
Art is Taught: A Critical Convergence (Corwin, 2000).
the computer is bringing art
and science back together.
Computer technology is
transforming the teaching of
art through two types of activ-
ity: using the computer to
create or manipulate images
and using the computer to
study the visual arts. The first
involves art making, while the
second involves art history,
art criticism, and aesthetics.
Student artists in today’s
classrooms can use the computer to create plans for
sculptures, ceramics, or other
three-dimensional objects; to
produce finished “virtual”
works; and to render twodimensional works. A student
can make a sketch, for example, and electronically scan
it. Then, using a program
such as Adobe Photoshop, the
student can manipulate the
electronic image before taking it back to a paper printout
to continue working by hand.
Or the student can choose to
refine the image wholly
within the computer program.
In the latter case, the finished
work may simply be a
computer file that can be
viewed onscreen or it can be
Why Art?
– from the Army Brat, (published by the junior class of Nürnberg American High School) Jan.,1953
BY VIRGINIA CALNAN
Americans spend more money on art than on anything else
in the world except bread. There is an art-trained mind behind
the pattern in your tie, the weave of material in your suit, the
design of a silk dress, the shape of your new washing machine,
the packaging of the very perfumes on your dressing table, and
the box your Wheaties comes in. You cannot live in the modern world for five minutes without encountering at least a dozen products fresh from the drawing board of some art-trained
person. Yet some people have the idea that art is a special field
with no practical application for most of its students! Why?
Possibly it is because most people think of the art field in
its high form of the artist in Fine Arts – the portrait painter, the
sculptor, the landscape artist. This is rather careless reasoning
as there are few talents big enough to major in this field, anyway, but for every great talent in Fine Arts there are thousands
of lesser ones producing daily the world’s advertisements,
billboards, its newest cars, houses, wallpaper, or silk prints –
and reaping the cream of industry’s wages as well. In thinking
of the portrait painter it is as though we expected every child
who has ever studied grammar to become a great writer!
For those who cannot aim as high as the field of design,
there is still much to be gained from art in public education.
Every time you produce a crayon drawing or a design, you
have said or expressed something that is yours and yours alone.
No one could – or ever has, or will – say it in just that way or
with just that outlook. It is as highly individual as a fingerprint
– and no one can say whether one fingerprint is more valuable
than another. If your effort is sincere, your drawing or design
has said something about you, what you think and feel about
your world, that no one else can ever do. When that happens,
you have “created” something, and this is one of the valuable
capacities within human nature. We all have it, but under the
pressures of modern life, it is growing more and more confined. If it disappears entirely, then all people will be content to
stop thinking for themselves, saying what they think; and they
are then ripe for the first “master” who wishes to take over and
do their thinking for them.
It is too valuable a capacity for any people like Americans
to lose. That is one reason why art is a prescribed addition to
the public school curriculum.
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Transforming Art Education
printed out for a more traditional, “frameable” work.
Computer-assisted art
making has revolutionized
commercial art and consequently is altering how art is
taught to students who plan to
enter that field. But computer
technology also is changing
the “fine” arts, as students
explore alternatives to traditional methods of art making.
Computer technology
also offers resources for
teaching and learning about
the visual arts. One form
includes CD-ROM resources,
many of which replicate but
also enhance print resources.
CD-ROM versions of print,
from encyclopedias to art
collections, offer students and
teachers a wealth of information in a highly compact form.
No competent textbook
publisher in art education
today would consider offering
a program without a CD
component —
including the hardware to use it. And
many programs not
related to textbooks
can be found to complement those resources.
Typically CDs
also include audio and
video, such as visuals
of historic events, sound bites
from famous people, and so
on. These “extras,” not
available in print resources,
enliven CDs. Students do not
merely read the information,
they experience it. While
most CDs cannot replace
books that include in-depth
information about art, often
they provide highly accessible
basic information. Moreover,
because the best CD-ROM
resources are interactive, they
also motivate students to
learn.
A second resource for
teaching about art is connectivity to the Internet. School
capacity for connectivity is
increasing rapidly. Some 78
percent of schools were
connected by 1997, according
to the National Center for
Education Statistics. As
connectivity extends into
literally can explore the
world’s art online, and they
can readily make connections
between art and culture across
national boundaries. Singly or
in groups they can embark on
“virtual field trips” to hundreds of museums and
galleries, including some that
exist only on the Internet. For
example, students can take a
Starting Points for Connectivity
www.wwar.com
World Wide Arts Resources.
More than 500 types of resources
and links to nearly 1000 websites
of museums, indexes, galleries,
art schools, and children’s resources worldwide.
www.icom.org/vlmp
World Wide Web Virtual Library.
www.si.edu
Smithsonian Institution
www.louvre.fr
Louvre Museum
www.uffizi.firenze.it
Uffizi Museum
www.museoprado.mcu.es
Prado Museum
Art musuems and other histori- www.british-museum.ac.uk
British Museum
cal collections.
www.libraryspot.com
www.warhol.org
Library Spot. Gateway to the Andy Warhol Museum
websites of more than 2500 li- www.greatbuildings.com
braries around the world.
Great Buildings Collection
more and more individual
classrooms, art educators and
their students are discovering
the burgeoning array of
museums, gal-leries, archives,
and libraries that maintain
websites, which are continually being updated and
expanded. (See box for
starting points.) Many websites also include lesson plans
and samples to make teachers’ work easier.
Connectivity is particularly important as art educators work to be responsive to
cultural pluralism and diversity. Teachers and students
virtual tour of the massive
Louvre Museum in Paris.
Several “visits” will be
necessary for the complete
tour, which is true of the real
museum. For cross-over
foreign language study,
students also can take the tour
in French, Spanish, or Japanese, in addition to English.
Smaller and closer to home is
the Andy Warhol Museum,
physically housed in a converted seven-story warehouse
in Pittsburgh, PA— and
online, where a floor-by-floor
virtual tour is offered.
Ease of use and the
wealth of resources also make
the Internet ideal for serendipitous teaching and learning, for capitalizing on a
teachable moment, and for
nurturing creative approaches
to art history. For example,
not long ago I read a notice
that the Italian government
had rejected a request from
the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C., to bring
the Bernini David to the
United States. The sculpture
was to be the centerpiece of
the gallery’s celebration of
the 400th anniversary of
Bernini’s birth. However,
Italian authorities deemed the
six-foot marble figure too
fragile to travel.
Of course, few students
would have been able to
travel to Washington to see
Bernini’s sculpture in any
case. Far fewer are likely to
travel to Rome’s Borghese
Gallery to see the sculpture
there. Apart from books, how
might students discover (or be
led to discover) more about
the David and its creator? I
decided to search the Internet.
At first, my search was
disappointing. Of the hundreds of museums that maintain websites, the Borghese
Gallery, where the Bernini
David stands, is not among
them. And so I looked for
other possibilities, beginning
with the Uffizi Museum in
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Florence, Italy, which I thought might
have information about Bernini. Indeed, the Uffizi site did show examples of Bernini’s work (and I
noticed that the site can be explored in
English as well as Italian) — but no
David.
Other “side trips,” hard to resist,
led me to Professor C.W. Westfall’s
Architectural History 102: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
(www.lib.virginia.edu), which offered
pictorial tours of Bernini’s San Andrea
at Quirile, Piazza San Pieto, and the
artist’s contributions to the Palais du
Louvre. In fact, if I had wanted to look
at architecture in general I could have
found a wealth of information at the
Great Buildings Collection website,
which catalogs well known architecture worldwide and offers a searchable
database.
But at last my fascinating meander
in cyberspace took me to Thais —
1200 anni di scultura italiana, or 1200
Years of Italian Sculpture
(www.thais.it). Not only did this site
contain numerous examples of
Bernini’s sculptures but, most importantly, it contained the David. The
famous statue was shown in both a full
view and a close-up of the head.
In an art classroom I might choose
to project these views for my students
to study. A real-time projection could
be created using a minimum of equipment to display a life-size view of the
David. LCD projectors that interface
with computers to display large-scale
images range from under $2,000 to
more than $11,000. But prices are
coming down, and the LCD projectors
are no more difficult to use than a
standard overhead projector. Eventually, in the wired class-room of the
future, they will be as common as the
overhead is in today’s classrooms.
Alternatively I could save the
image as a file on my computer and
then use it later in teaching a lesson. I
could also print out a copy of the
image on standard 8-1/2” x 11” paper
that could be duplicated as a handout.
By using a simple news item as a
starting point, as in this example, a
teacher (or an independent student)
might embark on an Internet-based
exploration that exemplifies the best
characteristics of creative teaching and
learning. And, because the Internet
knows no national boundaries, it is
explicitly multi-cultural. In this
example I was able to move easily
among websites in the United States
and Italy. Although some foreign sites
require at least a rudimentary knowledge of the host language, many are
available in multiple languages, English
invariably being one of them.
Computer technology is a tool, or
perhaps more accurately, a collection of
tools, that is reshaping how art is taught.
In schools and classrooms where such
technology is still limited, the computer
may be simply a tool for enrichment.
But as the availability of computer
technology increases, the potential also
increases for the technology to be
transformative.
Errinerungen von Deutsch Eins
Memories of German I
Do you remember when you were at Nürnberg High School and you signed
up for German so that you would be able to communicate better with the natives
and at the same time learn something about German culture? Perhaps your dad
forced you to sign up? Are your memories like these?
Remember the incredulity you felt when you were told that each German
noun had a gender, either masculine, feminine, or neuter – and each one had to
be memorized one by one?
Remember how disgusted you
were to learn that while the word for
‘married woman,’ Frau, was feminine,
both words for a ‘young girl,’ Fräulein
and Mädchen, were neuter?
Remember your elation when you
learned that the German word for
‘bright’ was hell so that you could say
with impunity in German class,
“Unser Lehrerin ist hell.” (Our
teacher is bright)?
To learn German, you were told to asRemember how hip you felt when
sociate with Germans. What better
you could walk down the hall saying
place than the Trinkstube of the
“Wie gehts?” instead of a mundane
Hofbraühaus?
“How’s it going?”
Remember how disappointed you were to learn that Götterdämmerung
didn’t mean what you thought it meant but instead was the title of an opera by
Wagner, Twilight of the Gods?
Remember the glee when you found out – outside of
class – the German words for certain four-letter activities?
Remember how great you felt when you finished German I and could then find your way from any Bahnhof to
the nearest Ratskeller and order and receive Bratwurst
oder Wienerschnitzel mit Kartoffelsalat und ein Glas
At the Rats’ Keller
Bier oder Coke? – BOB MCQUITTY
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Greetings from Ella Larson, ’53-’55
Dear Alumni,
I’m so sorry to cancel my membership, but I am unable
to read the interesting news [in the Trichter]. I have such
wonderful memories of my teaching the “brats” from 1953
to 1955. I still receive greetings from some of my students.
If any of you are in my area, please stop in to visit. I
live in Northeast Nebraska about 40 miles west of Sioux
City, Iowa; 40 miles southeast of Yankton, South Dakota;
and 40 miles northeast of Norfolk, Nebraska.
With fond memories – Ella Larsen
Dean (Duncan) Woodland, Can’t Retire,
Off to Cambodia to do Humanitarian Work
I have so appreciated receiving a letter every year for
the past several from the Alumni Association. It has been
almost my only connection with other “overseas army
brats” since we came back to the States in 1952. Even
though I know only a few names that appear from time to
time [in the Trichter], I would miss even that little connection.
I attended Nürnberg High School for the last half of my
freshman year after going the first semester to Munich
(school year, ’50-’51). During the summer of ’51, we
moved to Heidelberg, and I spent my sophomore year and
first semester of my junior year there. We returned to the
U.S. in November, 1952.
There may be no one left that remembers me, but I
remember many! Some time ago Delaney O’Rourke was
mentioned – he was at NHS when I was there. Some of
these names may be in the directory: Polly Davis, Alonna
Heine, Sandra Morse, Harry Foster, Joan Domino. It
would be great to find one or two of them.
Because I really disliked being uprooted every so often,
I made a decision early in my life that when I married I
would sink my roots very deep and never move again.
Actually, a mind set can often take you where you want
to go. My husband is DeVon Woodland, and we will
celebrate our 48th wedding anniversary in November, 2002.
We are the parents of 10 children, 27 grandchildren, and 9
great grandchildren. We live in Blackfoot, Idaho, and farm
15
500 acres there. We haven’t figured out yet how to retire.
However, for the next 18 months we will be in Cambodia serving in humanitarian work for LDS International
Charities. For the last six weeks we’ve been learning the
Khmer language, and my (limited) Deutsch is getting in the
way a bit.
It’s been great [living in one place all these years] but I
still really treasure those years in Deutschland!
Thanks again for stirring happy recollections.
– DEAN (DUNCAN) WOODLAND, ’53
On the Road with Berta (Williams) Bryner
Berta Williams, ’56, reports that she and her husband
Jim have sold their home in Illinois and have been traveling the U.S. in their 5th wheel trailer. In early January they
were enjoying the Texas Hill Country and were heading to
California later in the month. They plan to summer in the
upper penisula of Michigan and regret that they won’t be
able to make the reunion.
Peggy (Moale) Firth Anticipating Reunion
Upon joining the Nürnberg Alumni Association, Peggy
(Moale) Firth, ’62, was amazed that so many Eagles had
found each other. “It has given
me hope that some of my past
is still alive and not lost in the
emotional refuse of all of the
military transfers I experienced,” she says.
She still remembers her
Eye by Peggy Firth,
NHS art teacher, Mrs. Freda
medical illustrator
Harshbarger, as the person
who introduced her to pen and ink drawing. She feels that
she learned the basics in her class, and this helped her to
land her first job as a medical graphic artist. Twenty-four
years later she is still refining her style and is associated
with USC and UCLA, writes and illustrates self-help books
for women, and is working with medical publishers around
the country.
She is looking forward to the class reunion in June in
Las Vegas, where she lived for two years while working at
the University of Nevada.
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News from around the Nest
Jim Kennerly Hoping to Hook Up
With Classmates of the ’62-’64 Era
Jim Kennerly, is planning to be at the
reunion in Las Vegas in June and hopes to reunite
with some of his schoolmates of the ‘62-’64 days.
When he was going to NHS he commuted
into Fürth daily via bus from Ansbach. If he had
stayed a year longer, he would have been in the
graduating class of 1965. After his family left Germany, his
stepdad was stationed at Fort Hayes in Columbus, Ohio. He
graduated from North High School, which is only a few
blocks from Ohio State University.
After one quarter of living on the Ohio State campus,
he fell in love with it and did both his undergraduate and
veterinary professional schooling there.
During his sophomore year of veterinary school, he
married his wife of 31 years. Following graduation, they
moved to Akron, Ohio, where Jim did a 13-month internship, and his son, David, was born. Next they moved to
California, at which time his wife made him aware they had
been moving once a year since they had been married. She
thought it was strange, but being an Army Brat, Jim thought
it was normal.
They have lived in California for 28 years now. Their
son is a science teacher, and their daughter is in her first
year of law school at Akron University.
Jim’s wife has decided she likes traveling now. They
have been in China, Hong Kong, several Canadian cities,
Mexico, and the Caribbean. In 1998, they toured Europe for
21 days, stopping in Nürnberg to peer into the now-closed
Nürnberg High School. “It seemed like I could almost see
and hear the hustle and bustle of the students of yesteryear.”
Later that same day he had lunch at the PX in Katterbach
and visited the housing complex where he had lived as a
teen in Ansbach.
Twelve years ago, Jim (in the middle in tux and bow tie)
moved into his new office building in Santee, California.
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Janet Hill Conley, ’54,
Connects with Classmate
I was at Nurnberg American High School in the
early fifties and thru the magic of your organization and the Internet, I have connected with
two more friends from that time. I had the
pleasure recently of meeting one of them,
Mary Alice Beaudry MacDonald, in Virginia.
Over a three-hour dinner, Mary Alice connected back to a
time that was very
important to both of
us. We realized we
had not seen each
other since 1954 at
the Nürnberg train
station when I left to
return to the U.S. after
only 18 months there.
We were in the ninth
grade then. My dad
had been the editor of
the Nurnberg Post,
Janet and Mary Alice
got sick, and had to
return to the U.S. for medical reasons. She brought her
scrapbook and we had a great time. We agreed that when
we talk with friends from Nürnberg we immediately revert
back to giggling and have an urge to chew a wad of gum!
We are in the talking stage of a get-together of Jean Brady
Kerly and Laura Copeland Colbert, both of Texas, with
Mary Alice and myself. – JANET HILL CONLEY
Tony Tedesco,’72 – Policeman, Soldier,
Postmaster – Recounts Life after NHS
In a recent e-mail intercepted by the Home Office, Tony
Tedesco recounted his life since leaving NHS. Here is an
edited version of it.
After graduating from NHS in spring of 1972, I went to
the Univerity of Maryland in Munich for a year. It was a lot
of fun, a lot of partying. [See p.17 for more details on his
escapades in Munich.]
From there I went to the U.S. and the University of
Maryland in College Park. What a rude awakening. They
really wanted you to study there! While going to school, I
worked as a police aide doing night security. One day, I
rode along with one of the cops and we got an emergency
call. He drove and I worked the siren and that's all it took
to let me know that I wanted to be a cop, not a diplomat.
After three years I graduated with a major in political )
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News from around the Nest
science and minors in German and law enforcement.
After graduation in 1976, I became a summer cop (with
pistol and all) in Ocean City, MD. After that I got hired as
a University of Maryland police officer. In 1977, I went to
the Police Academy and graduated number one in my
class. Shortly after that I was told I was too gung ho to be a
university policeman.
I left and finally, in 1979, was hired as a deputy sheriff
in Washington County, MD, a very rural area. I talked to
animals a lot and avoided skunks! I would
rather have wrecked my cruiser than run
over a skunk. I did, however, put it through
a telephone booth, which made me lose my
take-home cruiser for a month. So I bought
a 12-speed bicycle and bicycled 14 miles
each day to work and back. One afternoon
while I was out riding for pleasure, if you can imagine that,
on my bicycle, I chased
down and arrested a
drunk driver in his car.
The sheriff was not happy about the publicity I
got and he didn't get.
I had two other incidents in which I broke up a strongarmed robbery attempt and got into a bank robbery shootout, both off duty. For this I was named the Deputy Sheriff
of the Year for the state of Maryland and got the Police
Hall of Fame's Outstanding Commendation Award. The
sheriff was playing golf during the shoot-out and wasn't too
happy again because I got a week's worth of publicity and
he caught hell for playing golf while his deputies were
getting shot at.
After almost three years, I decided it was time to part
ways with my sheriff boss. I enlisted in the Army, hoping
to be sent to Germany, which I hadn't seen since 1973.
After Basic Training, I ended up in God forsaken Fort
Riley, Kansas. But three weeks later I was back in Germany. I kissed the ground when I got out of the C-141. We
were there for seven weeks on maneuvers. I was hoping to
be taken as a prisoner of war and not returned, but I did get
a week's leave to see relatives; my mom is German.
Back in the U.S., I went to Officer Candidate School.
From there I went back to Ft. Knox and from there to 3-12
U.S. Cavalry in Buedingen, Germany which is near Hanau.
When I didn't make the Captain's List, I had to get out of
the Army.
I took a European discharge and finally got a job as a
GS-3 mail clerk in Dec. 1986, and I now have worked my
way up to a GS-9, Civilian Postal Officer (Postmaster), one
of only three civilian postal officers working for the Army
in all of Europe, and that on the little post of Hohenfels.
I am looking for a job in the States now. I want to go
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back. I have about 10 years left
before I can retire and I want a
house and land. I’m also looking
forward to the NHS reunion. It
sounds like a winner. – TONY
TEDESCO
Ginger Milling, ’91 Gives
Birth to Baby Boy
Malcolm Xavier Milling
Ginger (Sizemore) Milling, ’91, gave birth to a baby
boy by C-section on Jan. 4, 2002. Malcolm Xavier Milling
weighed 10 lbs 7.9 ounces and was 21 3/4 inches long.
Ginger says, “He’s happy and healthy, and we are
working on the sleeping issue. He’s backwards. He sleeps
during the day and is up at night . . . just like his mother.”
Update on Barbara Carver Schneider, ’55
After leaving Nürnberg at the end of my junior year, I
moved with my family to Ft. Sill, OK. I graduated from
Lawton High School in 1955 and attended the University
of Oklahoma for one year. I met a wonderful lieutenant
named Bill Schneider in 1956 and we were married eight
months later.
Bill was a career Army officer and we, like so many
others, made many moves. I finally graduated from George
Mason University in 1980, just a few months before our
son, Mike, graduated from West Point!
Bill retired from the Army as a Lt. General in 1989.
Sadly, he was diagnosed with non Hodgkins Lymphoma a
few months later. He had a good quality of life for most of
the next few years and was president of Texas Military
Institute at the time of his death in 1994.
I am very fortunate in having a great family. Bill and I
have two sons, two daughters and eleven grandchildren, ten
of whom are girls! Both boys are in the Army as is one
son-in-law. I do have one daughter, son-in-law and three
grandchildren and my parents in San Antonio. We are all
runners and several of us are marathoners.
For the past six and one half years I have been Executive Director of a non-profit educational organization, the
World Affairs Council of San Antonio. I love San Antonio
and always welcome friends who would like to visit this
beautiful city." – BARBARA CARVER SCHNEIDER,’55
Tammy Renee Price, Class of ’91,
Weds Lt. Col. John L. Salvetti
At a ceremony in the Infantry Chapel at Ft. Benning,
GA, Tammy Renee Price, a 1991 graduate of Nürnberg
American High School, was wed to Lt. Col. John L.
Salvetti March 2. Salvetti is a graduate of West Point.
–Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
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Now It Can Be Told!
Memorable Escapade Poll
In the last issue we asked, What unusual adventurous action do you remember from your days at NHS, an action
that ran counter to approved or conventional conduct?
How to Get the Chalkboard Washed
BY BOB MCQUITTY
When I came to Nürnberg American High School in
1958 to teach English and journalism, I had taught school
only three years and I didn’t know much, but I did know
who ran the classroom.
Two things bothered me about my classroom at NHS:
1) the chalk was soft and produced lots of dust, and 2)
every morning when I got to school, the writing and dust
from the previous day were still on the board.
So after several weeks of dealing with dust, I wrote on
the board, in my newly acquired best German, a message
for the cleaning woman, the Putzfrau: “Waschen Sie die
Tafel, bitte.” But she didn’t. So the next day I repeated the
message. Nothing.
On the third day I put in several more “bitte’s,” and got
back a message in German from the Putzfrau that told me
washing the blackboard was not part of her job.
I was dismayed. Helen Crowell told me that it was true;
some Army officer who was obviously not a teacher wrote
the contract with the cleaning women and had failed to
include cleaning the blackboard as one of the duties.
The next day I wrote on the board a note that said if the
Putzfrau didn’t clean my board, she would be sorry.
Nothing. The following day I proceeded with my plan.
Each English class began
with a short quiz over the
assignment, and when we had
finished grading the papers and
recording the grades, I asked a
student to pass the wastebasket
and told the students to put
their papers in it, for I abhorred Now then, throw your
a messy classroom littered with papers on the floor.
papers.
On this day, however, I told the students to throw their
papers on the floor. At first they wouldn’t, but when I
asked repeatedly, all but a few neatness nuts did. I repeated
the request in the 2nd hour class In the 3rd hour class one
student thought I was trying to trick him. After the 4th hour
the room was, in places, up to ankles in paper.
I wasn’t there, but was told later that when the Putzfrau
saw the room, she shrieked and ran down to Norah Speck,
the school secretary, babbling about the madman in 312.
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Waschen Sie die Tafel
bitte. Danke Schon.
In the end, though, with the help of the principal, she
cleaned the room up . . . and washed the blackboard.
Helen Crowell told me there was an easier way — give
your cleaning lady a big bottle of whiskey at Christmas.
Which I did henceforth.
High School High Jinks
BY PAT KNIGHTON GIBSON, ’62
If you lived in the NHS dormitory in 1960-61, you
may remember the night an adult male broke into the girl’s
side of the building. [Merilyn] Tschirhart [Fields], one of
the dorm counselors, called the MPs, who in turn called
the local police, and, voilà, we were in the papers!
I put my foot in my mouth when I told my English
teacher, Mr. [Bob] McQuitty, that I thought we might even
make the “Over-Sexed Weekly.” Not amused, he dryly
pointed out that the name of the publication was the
“Overseas Weekly.”
Later that year, someone with the initials SW [Sue
Whittig?] rolled a trash can down the second floor hall and
stairs just to get Ms Tschirhart all upset. It worked too! Ms
T came puffing up the stairs in a huff.
Wasn’t this the same time that some bold
male student ran around the dorm nude?
I also remember what happened to the
woman brought in to substitute for Mr. [Bill]
Davis, the advanced mathematics teacher
who became seriously ill with meningitis. An officer’s
wife with an advanced degree in math, this woman
volunteered to teach for Mr. Davis. It seems she left the
classroom in tears when some of her students got rowdy
and climbed out the window onto the cafeteria roof and
had a snowball fight.
The Only Time Karen Ever Got in Trouble
One day in English class Miss [Helen] Crowell had
tried to play a tape recording, but it just wouldn’t turn on.
Although usually not outspoken in class, Karen [Robinson
Trevino,’61] blurted out, “Well, that’s good!” Miss Crowell
turned abruptly and pointed to the person sitting next to
Karen, “You, out! Report to the Principal’s Office!” Since
it was her friend who had been singled out, in error, Karen
confessed. Miss Crowell then said, “Well, Karen, then you
report to the Principal’s Office!” Karen claims this was the
only time she ever got into trouble in high school.
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Memorable Escapades
’72 Grad Signs Autographs at Olympics,
Steals Mugs, Gets Mugged by Police Dog
TONY TEDESCO
After graduating from NHS, I went to the Univerity of
Maryland in Munich for a year and did all of the general
education requirements and took a bunch of German classes
by exam.
It was the year of the Olympics. Norm Hawkins and I
spent a day in the Olympic Village. We walked in the back
gate with our Nürnberg letterman jackets on, and when we
left out the front gate, we were asked to sign autographs.
We also went to the Oktoberfest, and like all good
Americans, we snatched a bunch of beer mugs, which in
turn were stolen out of our hiding place. To make a long
story short, I ended up getting back the mugs but got bit by
a waiting German shepherd police dog. I got some nice
black and blue marks, but wasn’t arrested. [Perhaps the
German police officer thought the dog bites were enough
punishment – ed.]
Munich was a lot of fun, a lot of partying. We only
studied the night before the exams, an all-nighter, with the
coffee brewing in the percolator.
BY
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Next Trichter Poll
Travel ‘Bests’
Nürnberg High School alumni are among the most intrepid travelers in the United States. Most of us have lived,
worked, or traveled in several countries. What is the most
beautiful country that you’ve ever been in? What is the most
beautiful natural sight that you have ever seen? What is the
most beautiful church that you have ever visited?
You get the idea. Travel books tell us about the best things
to see and do when we travel, but we don’t always agree with
the travel books. We all have our own ideas about the best
places and things we have seen in our travels.
Take a look at Bill Lillevig’s picks below and
then participate in the next Trichter Poll by e-mailing or posting me your picks. Tell me what you think
are the best in the categories below – or make up
your own categories. Make one pick or make a
dozen, it doesn’t matter. Include pics with your
picks, if you like.
Send your “BESTS” to [email protected] or to
Bob McQuitty, 202 E Seneca, Tahlequah, OK 74464
by June 1.
Bill Lillevig Picks His Travel ‘Bests’
Those who read Bill Lillevig’s
account of his trip around Cape Horn in
the last Trichter know that he and his
wife Diana are world travelers. In the
same package that your editor received
Bill’s travel manuscript, he also received
another in which Bill intrepidly set forth
his list of “Bests.” This is his list:
Most Beautiful Countries
1.Norway
2. Switzerland
3. Austria
4. New Zealand
Best Natural Sights
Yosemite Park in California
Grand Canyon in Arizona – “for
heights and depth”
Crater Lake in Oregon – “for
spectacular beauty”
Grand Homes
Biltmore Estate in Ashville, North
Carolina
Hearst Castle in California
Meriwether Post home in Washington, D.C.
Palaces, Castles
Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia
Churches, Cathedrals
St. Peter’s in Rome, Italy
Lillevig must not have seen
Linderhof, King Ludwig’s castle
southwest of Munich.
St. Isaac’s in St. Petersburg
Chartres, southwest of Paris
Museums
The Hermitage in St. Petersburg
The Rijks Museum in Amsterdam.
Architectural Marvels
Alhambra in Granada, Spain – “a
marvel of geometry”
The Blue Mosque in Istanbul
Archeological Sites
Acropolis in Athens, Greece –
“these people knew how to build”
Stonehenge in England
Ephesus in Turkey – “walk the
streets with St. Paul” – Bob McQuitty
Unusual Sights
Ayer’s Rock in Australia – “see it
because it’s there”
Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires,
Argentina – widest street in the world
The dike across the Zeider Zee in
Holland – “an engineering marvel”
Beautiful Harbors
Rio de Janiero, Brazil; Stockholm,
Sweden; Sydney, Australia
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Vol. 14, No. 1
Take Sentimental Journey
Alums Revisit Nürnberg 50 Years Later
taking photos, and waving us off. Randy
said, “I’ve had people come to see me
We were scheduled to fly on Sept.
by car, train, bus, plane, but never by
20, 2001, to Budapest for the start of
jumping ship to get here.”
our European River Cruise. And then
Within half an hour, we were at
came Sept. 11. Like all Americans, we
Soldiers Field and climbing the steps to
were shocked and amazed by those
Hitler’s speaking platform. The stadium
events, those emotions mixed with
is pretty much run down, with concrete
sadness, anger and concrumbling off, pillars
fusion. The airports shut
gone, the grassy area in
down and for the next week,
front of the spectators’
we weren’t sure if the tour
bleachers fenced in and
would continue on schedule
used for soccer practice.
or not. As for our cancelling,
On the other side of the
that was not even considered.
bleachers is a new
My husband Donn and I
enormous soccer stadium.
knew that it would be at least
From there we went to
several weeks, if not a few
Congress Hall, where
months, before our governHitler was going to rule
ment could or would retalithe World Congress, now
ate. No, there was never a
just an empty, roofless
thought to cancel.
shell.
Though our 50th wedFrom then on, the day
ding anniversary was at the
is a fast blur. We went to
end of June, we prefer to
Stein Castle, where Donn
travel in the fall. So the river Standing on Hitler’s Speaking Platform at Soldiers Field and I had our wedding
cruise from Budapest to are (back row) Gaylord Long, ’52, Donn Adrian, Randy Reitler, reception when it was an
Amsterdam seemed an ideal ’65; (front row) Benita Long, Joan K. McCarter Adrian, ’49, Officers Club. The Faberway to celebrate our Betty Thomas, ’54.
Castell family no longer
anniversary and to make that city, we were going to be late, so I told
sentimental trip back to Europe. Vantage the tour director our problem. Ulla, a
Travel Company conducted a great wonderful young woman from Austria,
cruise. We spent 14 days on the boat talked to the Captain, and they decided
with its wonderful crew, going through that we could leave the boat at a lock
68 locks on the Danube, Main, and about 25 miles from Nürnberg if our
Rhine Rivers. We took tours every day friend could pick us up there. I e-mailed
through cities we had visited years ago, the name of the lock to Randy with the
and some we had never had a chance to phone number of the boat, and immevisit. All in all, it was about the most diately received a call from him that he
Where Hitler stood.
nearly perfect vacation we ever had.
could meet us there at 10 a.m. It was
But this story is only about the stop only a 30-minute drive for him and he uses it as a residence, but it is now a
in Nürnberg on Sept. 28.
was familiar with the lock. When we tourist attraction. I had brought copies
Randy Reitler,’65, who lives in arrived, Randy, with van, was waiting. of our wedding photos taken on the
Nürnberg and is a wonderful friend, When the Captain nudged the boat up lovely marble staircase and the banquet
agreed to rent a van to pick up our small against the lock’s concrete wall, the deck room on the 3rd floor. The ladies
group – Donn and I, Betty Thomas,’54, was about four feet it. Two crewmen got working there were charmed that we
Gaylord Long,’52, and his wife Benita off the boat and helped all of us “jump were returning after 50 years. We
– when we docked south of Nürnberg ship.” The 127 passengers on the boat requested to be allowed to take photos
along a connecting canal.
all knew that this was a special stop for in the same locations, but like most
Due to heavy rains a couple of us and were in the lounge watching, museums they had a rule against taking
BY
JOAN KAY MCCARTER ADRIAN
weeks before our arrival, the rivers were
high, and since we were traveling
against currents, we were not making the
time schedule as planned. Though we
were originally scheduled to dock at
Nürnberg about 11 a.m., that was
changed to 1 p.m. Since Randy had
made lunch reservations in the walled
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photos inside. However, a tour guide
offered to take us to the banquet room
on the 3rd floor, and when we were
inside, she slyly said she had to shut the
door but must do so from outside in the
hallway, and she would leave us for
several minutes. Naturally we got the
photos. After a few minutes, she stuck
her head in with a quick message: “mach
schnell, mach schnell!” Obviously
someone was coming and either she
didn’t want us to get caught or she didn’t
want to get caught letting us take the
photos. On the way downstairs, there
was a great deal of laughter, like kids
who had been in the cookie jar. They
did let us stop and take more photos on
the marble staircase, where most of our
wedding photos had been taken, so now
we have our sentimental photos side by
side – 1951 and 2001.
Next we went to Dambach to locate
the first home assigned to us after we
were married. At that time the American
apartments had not been opened, so we
were assigned half of a requisitioned
home. It is now a one-family home.
Today Dambach is a very upscale
neighborhood, and the officers’ quarters
built some years after we returned to the
U.S. are now owned by German families
and very well maintained.
Gaylord Long’s family was stationed in Nürnberg, and we went by his
quarters as well to get some photos. He
had not been back to Nürnberg since his
family departed to Munich after his
junior year (1951) at the Nürnberg
school.
Next we went into the walled city
where we had lunch at Randy’s favorite
restaurant, on the second floor overlooking the market square and the
Beautiful Fountain, the Herrenbrau.
At some point, we went by the old
school on Tannenstrasse and got photos
there, then out to Zirndorf, where
Donn’s unit had been stationed, and then
to the American housing area and the
Kalb Community high school that
opened in January 1952. Donn and I
were moved into one of the brand new
apartments on Dec. 1, 1952, at 56 Jacob
Wassermannstrasse. Our first daughter,
Donna, was born on Dec. 29, and this
was her home until we returned to the
U.S. in fall, 1953. Today, the apartment
Joan, Betty, and Gaylord stand
outside “their school,” the building
that was NHS from Jan. 1948 to Jan.
1952.
units are all remodeled and the grounds
well maintained.
We also stopped at the Palace of
Justice where I had worked for two and
a half years. After the war trials were
over in spring 1949, it became
headquarters for the Special Activities
Division, headed by Gen. Roy Rickard,
father of Nürnberg alumnus, James
“Jick” Rickard, ’50. Gaylord’s father
had also worked in the Palace of Justice.
We stepped inside the main lobby, but
they have strict security and we were
not allowed further. This was a weekday, and the courtroom where the trials
had been held was in use. The old
American hospital building has been
bulldozed, and the land is being cleared
for some sort of high-rise.
When Randy had to leave us for a
couple of hours, he dropped us off at
the Grand Hotel (where Donn and I had
met, and which at that time was also an
officers’ club and had transient billets
and the American Forces Network
station on the 3rd floor). We went into
the bar for a drink and admired the
renovation of the lobby and dining room
–all lovely pinkish, coral, and beige
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marble and brass. The only thing kept
of the original old hotel was the Crystal
Ballroom at the back of the lobby.
We then went into the walled city
to shop and see all the rebuilt buildings.
Betty Thomas and I had been back in
1992 before the base closed, but Donn
and Gaylord had not seen the completed
reconstruction of the walled city. We
worked our way back to the Beautiful
Fountain, where we were to meet Randy
and go to dinner at another restaurant
near the market square.
After dinner, Randy returned us to
the boat, now docked at the Nürnberg
pier and due to leave at 10 p.m. for
Bamberg. Randy decided that since it
was going to be another lovely fall day
on Sept. 29, he asked if he could drive
to Bamberg and have lunch with his
friends on the boat. The Captain granted
permission, and we had another lovely
day in Bamberg with Randy. At lunch,
the chef presented us with a small
celebration cake for our anniversary trip.
Later, Donn and I found my parents’
home in Bamberg, got photos, walked
about seven blocks down the street and
got photos of the home of Ed Thompson,
’50, where his family had lived from
1946 to spring of 1949.
The two wonderful days left us
feeling nostalgic and full of memories.
The entire trip had wonderful new and
old memories mixed, and I am still
sorting through a few hundred photos
taken by me, Betty, and Randy. Later in
the trip, I also got a lot of photos of the
castles along the Rhine River and want
to put them beside the photos from 1949
that I took on our Senior Trip from
Wiesbaden to the Lorelei on Hitler’s
yacht.
There were no problems on this trip,
everything turned out lovely, and 95
percent of the time we had great weather.
Yes, there was extra security at the
airports, especially at Amsterdam, but
we felt this was a necessary precaution.
We arrived back on Oct. 5. Our dream
trip, planned for over a year, was over.
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Vol. XIV, No. 1
Alumni Association Inscribes Its Premium Paver
Our Alumni Association recently
wrote the inscription for the premium
granite paver we acquired after donating $2500 to the American Overseas
Schools Historical Society.
The courtyards and walkways at the
yet-to-be-built AOSHS Museum and
Park in Wichita, KS, will be paved with
memorials honoring educators, students,
families, and friends who have been associated with the American education
experience abroad. The park site was
dedicated July 21, 2001.
The Society is now in its fund-raising phase, and our association has been
one of the first to become actively involved in supporting it.
The inscription for the NHS paver
appears at right. To view it on the internet go to http://aoshs.wichita. edu and
then click Memorial Kiosk, then click
Interactive Kiosk, then click “N” for
Nürnberg.
In addition to the premium paver,
several members of the Association have
bought memorials.
Joan Kay (McCarter) Adrian donated money for a brick honoring the
Class of 1949. Jeanette Hembree
Kimes bought a brick honoring the Class
of 1950. Betty Thomas bought a Ceramic Block honoring the Class of 1954.
Hans Jenssen-Tusch and Edward
and Mary Mantel purchased a brick in
honor of the late Hazel Youngman (d.
1995), longtime teacher and administrator at NHS (1954-1977).
A Memorial Fund for the late Edward Mantel (d. 2001), teacher and
principal at NHS from 1972 to 1982, is
now open for contributions. Those wishing to contribute to this fund may contact Barbara Burke, by mail at 16
Amity Place, Amherst, MA 01002 or email at [email protected]. Donations
may also be sent directly to AOSHS until
May 30, 2002, when the fund closes.
The Association encourages contributions to AOSHS as a way of furnishing tangible evidence of the Spirit of
Nürnberg American High School.
RISING IN 1947 FROM THE RUBBLE OF
WWII, NURNBERG AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL
SERVED U.S. ARMY DEPENDENT STUDENTS
UNTIL IT CLOSED IN 1995. THOUGH
ITS CLASSROOMS AND HALLS ARE SILENT,
ITS SPIRIT LIVES ON
IN THE HEARTS OF FORMER STUDENTS,
TEACHERS, AND STAFF
VERBUNDEN IN FREUNDSCHAFT
DEDICATED IN 2002
BY THE NURNBERG ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Contributers to the Memorial Paver
The Nürnberg Alumni Association, Inc. and Bob Braunstein ’66,
Margo Breeden ’68, Gail Hatchett Bursch ’74, Beverly Luce Buxton,
Barbara Chandler ’55, Woody Gamble ’54, Audrey Hammond Gamble ’55,
Bettie Rae Hairston, Kent E. Harrison ’57, Douglas Hatt ’68, Terrence D.
Jorgensen, Sr. ’62, Donald McClure, Jr. ’61, Dawn Goad McCullough ’69,
Rita Jannusch McKenzie ’63, Ginger Sizemore Milling, MD ’92, Jack and
Judy Neville ’62, David Ogé ’70, Debbie McLean Ogé ’71, James Orcutt, Jr.
’58, David Slivka ’89, Nancy Sudduth ’61, Betty Thomas ’54, Joseph
Tomblin ’60, Joanne Traeger ’60, Donna Trandahl ’80, Melissa Untersehr
’90, Marvin Wilson, Fac, Alvin ‘Vint’ Wilson ’71, Patricia McCarroll Wood
’59 and Hansi-Barbara Younkin ’64.
You’ve Been in Germany Too Long If . . .
You REALLY think AFN (Armed
Forces Network) is quality entertainment.
You realize that Ausfahrt (the exit
sign on the Autobahn) isn't the biggest
city in Germany.
You reach for the Jaegermeister instead of Pepto Bismol.
Sunday morning isn't complete
without a ten-kilometer walk in the
woods.
You buy a new wool sweater for the
4th of July picnic. (It has snowed in July)
You remember when the D-Mark
was 4 to 1, 3 to 1, 2 to 1.
American beer tastes like mineral
water.
You don't know anyone who doesn't
own a VCR and belong to a tape club.
You think that a line at the bank with
only 20 people is great.
You think ANY line with only 20
people is great.
You think it is natural to pass Army
tanks on the highway.
Sunshine actually becomes a topic
of conversation.
You play "guess what town the
driver in front of you is from” based on
the letters on his license plate. (Plates
have abbreviations of cities, one to three
letters, the smaller the city or area the
more letters.)
You stop looking for appliances with
dual voltage because you have all of
them already.
–THANKS TO TONY TEDESCO FOR THE
LIST AND THE EXPLANATIONS.
Vol. XiV, No. 1
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The Gathering of LUCKY Eagles
Register
electronically
by mail
Mail form to
Ron Burgess
1840 E. Barnett Rd., Suite B
by phone
Log on www.nurnbergeagles.com
and fill out the Registration Form
there and submit it electronically.
Call in the information on this
form to Ron.
Medford, OR 97540
Whichever method you use, to complete your registration, you must call 1-800-888-2940
(ask for Ron or Marge) and give your credit card information. This registration form will
reserve you only after it is secured with the necessary credit card information.
Air Transportation
Fill out all that applies
Departure City: ___________________
Contact Information:
Departure Date: (MM/DD/YYYY)_________________
Name: _________________________________________
If you require airline tickets please provide name as it
appears on your ID
Preferred Departure Time: (hh; mm; am/pm) _________
Address:_______________________________________
City:
_______________________________________
State:
___________________Zip: ________________
Telephone: ________________
Return Date:
(MM/DD/YYYY)
____________________
Preferred Airline: _____________________________
Frequent Flyer Number: _______________
Class of service: _____________
Will you use upgrade certificates? Yes No
Best time to call: ______________
Preferred Seating: ____________________________
Email Address: _______________
Meal Preference: _____________________________
Fax No. ____________________
Special Needs: _______________________________
Hotel Accommodations
Arrival Date:(MM/DD/YYYY) ____________________
Check Out Date:
______06/23/2002_____
Change this date if checking out later.
Number of people: _______
Bed Preference:
King Size
Smoking Preference:
Car Rental Information
Preferred Car Rental Agency: ______________________
Preferred Customer Number: __________________
Car Size:
2 Queen Size
Non-Smoking
Smoking
Special Needs:(i.e., handicap accessible)_______________
Preferred Room Floor:___________
Preferred “neighbor”: _____________________________
(if I can arrange for you to be next/across from a classmate)
Compact
Mid-Size
Full-Size
Additional Questions or Comments
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
Go to www.nurnbergeagles.com
for updates on
The Gathering of LUCKY Eagles
Didn’t find your best buddies on
the list of who’s coming on page 6?
Give ’em a call or send an e-mail.
The list of who’s coming will be updated on the website weekly.
Information on the Headliner
Shows at the hotels will be
posted on the website as soon
as it becomes available.
The Strip at Night
Got Questions?
About what’s going down? -contact your class or era rep.
About hotel rooms, flights, car
Gathering of LUCKY Eagles
rental, shows? -- call or e-mail
Flamingo Hilton
Ron Burgess ([email protected]).
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
June 20-23, 2002
About registration fee or if having
difficulties? -- contact Terry
Jorgensen ([email protected]).
This could be you across the street from
the Flamingo Hilton.
This could be you relaxing
at the Flamingo swimming
pool.
Feeling
Lucky?
Watch out
for onearmed
bandits.

Trichter, Vol 14, No 1, Spring 2002.pmd

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