Lee Greiner HHS Class of 1969 Shares Memories

The Singing
ChurchWomen
To Present Concert
In Ada April 26
The Singing ChurchWomen of Oklahoma is a 375 voice women’s
choir comprised of volunteer, professional, church-vocational and
lay musicians from churches all over the state of Oklahoma who
come together to present the gospel of Christ through the avenue
of music. The ministry of the choir has reached across the state of
Oklahoma and around the world since its beginning in 1989. During their concert season, the group, which is split into two groups
by I-35, presents concerts all of the state of Oklahoma as well as
other locations, when the opportunity arises. In November, 2011,
God opened the door for the group to travel to Joplin, Missouri,
where they had the opportunity to assist tornado victims in cleanup efforts as well as presented a concert for the City of Joplin. In
the past the group has also participated in mission/concert trips to
Brazil, Romania & Hungary, Salt Lake City, Utah and Glorieta,
New Mexico.
On the evening of Thursday, April 26th at 7 p.m. in the Hallie
Four ladies from First Baptist Church, Holdenville, Jo Ellen Jennings, Jane Carroll, Jeanne Brown Ford Fine Arts Center on the East Central University camSmith and Edie Wichert, are members of the Singing ChurchWomen of Oklahoma. The pus in Ada, the entire group will be presenting their final concert
group will be presenting a concert on Thursday, April 26th at 7 p.m. in the Hallie Brown of the season. The concert is open to the public and is admission
is free.
Ford Fine Arts Center in Ada, Oklahoma. See related article.
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VOLUME 11, NUMBER 18 HUGHES COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 1 SECTION 50¢ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
Lee Greiner HHS Class of 1969 Shares Memories
On a recent visit to Holdenville we asked our friend Lee Greiner to write about
some of his Holdenville memories, which we are sharing with you today. He has
some great memories and we know our readers are going to
enjoy them. Although Lee did not actually graduate from
Holdenville, we are claiming him as one of our own!
My name is Lee Greiner. I was born in 1951 in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. 1951 was filled with many memorable
events. A truce was reached in Korea, General Douglas
MacArthur was fired by President Truman, the U.S. Presidency was limited to two terms, the hydrogen bomb was
tested in the Pacific, and a full color TV broadcast was
made from the Empire State Building. Humphrey Bogart
won an Academy Award and the New York Yankees were
world champions in baseball. The average yearly income
in 1951 was $3,515, the cost of a loaf of bread was $.16,
the Dow Jones average was 257 and life expectancy was
68.2 years. The post-war economy was booming and the
soldiers of World War II were making families.
HOLDENVILLE
In late 1957 my family moved to Holdenville. My dad,
Verlin Greiner, was the county supervisor for Farmer’s
Home Administration. My mother, Betty Greiner, was a
stay at home mom when we moved to Holdenville. However, a few years after our move to Holdenville, my mother
was employed by the Holdenville Daily News. My younger brother, David is one
year younger than me, my sister Cathy is two years younger and my sister Colleen
is six years younger. My parents loved us very much and did their best to raise us
according to Biblical principles taught by “Our Dear Heavenly Father” as my dad
would say in his prayers.
Holdenville holds a special place in my heart. In 1957, Holdenville was a town of
less than 5,000 people. Holdenville was the largest county seat to date that my dad
had worked as the Farmers Home Administration County
Supervisor. The formative years of my life, from 1957
through 1965 were spent in Holdenville. The values instilled
in me by my parents and supported by the community in
Holdenville were priceless. As I stroll down memory lane,
in my mind’s eye I can see all of the wonderful businesses
on or near “the DRAG” on Main and Hinkley: Amos Drug,
Sanford Drug, Reavus Drug, Bevo’s, OTASCO, Dolton
Hardware, Haskett’s Mens Wear, Sharp’s, Penny’s, Larry’s
Red Bud, Piggly Wiggly, Dairy Queen, Whit’s Drive-In,
(Ode)Burton’s IGA, The Queen Bee, Grande Theater, Anthony’s, Cooks Barber Shop.
Park View Elementary School
When we first moved to Holdenville, we rented a house
on South Hinkley Street, not far from the fair grounds. My
brother, David, and I attended Park View Elementary, entering the school at mid-term in January, 1958. I was in the
second grade. The principal, Jim Jones, really made our
family feel welcomed at Park View. Mrs. Kinerly was my
teacher and I remember liking her a lot. Several friendships
were developed while at Park View. Some of the classmates
that I remember at Park View Elementary were Chris Bruner, Lonny Crumbliss, Hal Epperly, Paul Griggs, Denise Holeman, Montie Low,
Gary Maxwell, Jerry Young, Phillis Scroggins, Sherry Winningham and Jo Dawna
Welch.
It was at this time that sports, especially baseball and soon football, became a
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SHOWN ABOVE ARE MEMBERS OF THE “LIZARDS” a flag football team that played together at OSU in 1970 and 1971. Their team had several
players with Holdenville connections. Dave Callison, Tom Callison, Jim Langdon, Jerry Harwell and Randy Clenney all graduated from Holdenville High
School. They were a very good team, finishing as All-University Co-Champions in 1970. The Lizards try to get together every two years for a reunion.
This picture was at the last Lizard Reunion in the fall of 2010, held at the the home of Lee and Sharon Greiner in Oklahoma City. The only people not
pictured that were on the team are Randy Clenney, Galen Hayden and Jo Land (Joe died in 2007). The Lizards are planning another reunion this year.
Pictured are: (l to r) Jim Schnorrenberg, Tracy Eschbach, Jim Scott, Lee Greiner, Dave Callison, Tom Callison, Jim Langdon and Jerry Harwell.
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Recently I tried to decide if I should sign up for a Medicare supplement
policy or sign up for an on-line kindergarten class. It was a bit of a
surprise to receive applications for both.
To start kindergarten over would give me another chance at a blue
ribbon in the Little Olympics. However, if I fell and broke a hip, then I
would need the Medicare supplement. It is a tough choice and I don’t
want to rush the decision.
—CC—
My friend Jim Hudson of Perryton, Texas writes some great articles
and last week was no exception . . .
As I was watching a special about the end of the Shuttle Program, one
thought ran through my mind – the reason that decisions should be made
after long and careful deliberation is that some of those decisions can hang
round a very long time.
The Shuttle is a perfect example why that advice should be heeded.
Rules, once set in concrete, have a way of gaining an immortal life.
People may come and go, but the rule lives on.
In this example, remember the last Space Shuttle launch. You would
have seen that there were two external solid fuel tanks attached to each
side of the Shuttle. On closer inspection you might think they were a little
too long and not big enough around for the job.
The engineers designed them that way for a good reason. The exterior
booster rockets were manufactured by Thiokol in the factory in Utah. To
move the finished booster rockets from the plant to the launch pad they
have to travel by railroad.
That rail line runs through the mountains. At one pointed the track goes
through a tunnel and the booster rockets had to be made to fit through the
tunnel.
The tunnel was designed to fit the gauge of a single railroad track. So
the tunnel is slightly wider than 4 feet, 8-1/2 inches.
Who came up with that odd number, you ask? All American railroad
tracks are that size because that is the standard railroad gauge in England.
The first railroads in this country were built by English contractors.
Why did the English build them like that, you ask? That was the size
used for tramways that preceded the railroads. They used all the same
jigs and tools that were used to build wagons and kept the same wheel
spacing.
Why did the wagons have that strange wheel spacing, you ask? It was
the size of the ruts in old, long distance English roads. If the wheels were
spaced either narrower or wider, the axles would break.
Who built those roads with that wheel spacing, you ask? Those old, long
distance roads in England and the rest of Europe were built by Imperial
Rome for their legions over 2,000 years ago. They have been used ever
since.
Why were the ruts at such an odd spacing, you ask? The ruts wee
originally made by Roman war chariots. Everyone else had to match
those ruts or risk destroying their wagons. All the Roman war chariots
were made to precise specifications so that they would all be standard
throughout the Roman army.
The Romans got the design for their war chariots from the Middle East.
Long before the Birth of Christ, the craftsmen who designed war chariots
found that the ideal wheel width matched the width of the back ends of
the two warhorses pulling the chariot. The wheels were out of the ground
disturbed by the horses’ hooves, yet narrow enough to prevent breakage.
That width was set in stone as 4 feet, 8-1/2 inches. That is why the
space Shuttle’s booster rockets were the size they were.
The next time you make a decision, or let the government make a
decision for you, remember that the major design feature of what is the
world’s most advanced transportation system was determined over four
thousand years ago by the width of a horse’s behind.
Some rules live forever!
—CC—
I love history and recently one of the most fascinating history lessons
I have ever read was sent to me.
Learn History From a $1 Bill
On the rear of the One Dollar bill, you will see two circles. Together,
they comprise the Great Seal of the United States. The First Continental
Congress requested that Benjamin Franklin and a group of men come up
with a Seal. It took them four years to accomplish this task and another
two years to get it approved. If you look at the left-hand circle, you will see a Pyramid.
Notice the face is lighted, and the western side is dark. This country
was just beginning. We had not begun to explore the west or decided
what we could do for Western Civilization. The Pyramid is uncapped,
again signifying that we were not even close to being finished. Inside the
Capstone you have the all-seeing eye, an ancient symbol for divinity. It
was Franklin ‘s belief that one man couldn’t do it alone, but a group of
men, with the help of God, could do anything. ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’
is on this currency.
The Latin above the pyramid, ANNUIT COEPTIS, means, ‘God has
favored our undertaking.’
The Latin below the pyramid, NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, means, ‘a
new order has begun.’ At the base of the pyramid is the Roman numeral
for 1776. (MDCCLXXVI)
If you look at the right-hand circle, and check it carefully, you will learn
that it is on every National Cemetery in the United States. It is also on
the Parade of Flags Walkway at the Bushnell, Florida National Cemetery,
and is the centerpiece of most heroes’ monuments. Slightly modified, it
is the seal of the President of the United States, and it is always visible
whenever he speaks, yet very few people know what the symbols mean.
The Bald Eagle was selected as a symbol for victory for two reasons:
First, he is not afraid of a storm; he is strong, and he is smart enough to
soar above it. Secondly, he wears no material crown. We had just broken
from the King of England.
Also, notice the shield is unsupported. This country can now stand on its
own.
At the top of that shield there is a white bar signifying congress, a
unifying factor. We were coming together as one nation.
In the Eagle’s beak you will read, ’ E PLURIBUS UNUM’ meaning,
‘from many - one.’ Above the Eagle, we have the thirteen stars, representing
the thirteen original colonies, and any clouds of misunderstanding rolling
away. Again, we were coming together as one.
Notice what the Eagle holds in his talons. He holds an olive branch and
arrows. This country wants peace, but we will never be afraid to fight to
preserve peace. The Eagle always wants to face the olive branch, but in time of war, his gaze turns toward the
arrows.
They say the number 13 is an unlucky number. This is almost a worldwide belief. You will almost never see a
room numbered 13, or any hotels or motels with a 13th floor. But think about this:
America, which relies on God (not a number) to direct and lead, boldly chose:
13 original colonies,
13 signers of the Declaration of Independence,
13 stripes on our flag,
13 steps on the pyramid,
13 letters in ‘Annuit Coeptis’,
13 letters in ’ E Pluribus Unum,’
13 stars above the eagle,
13 bars on that shield,
13 leaves on the olive branch,
13 fruits, and if you look closely,
13 arrows.
And finally, notice the arrangement of the 13 stars in the right-hand circle. You will see that they are arranged
as a Star of David. This was ordered by George Washington who, when he asked Haym Solomon, a wealthy
Philadelphia Jew, what he would like as a personal reward for his services to the Continental Army. Solomon
said he wanted nothing for himself, but he would like something for his people. The Star of David was the
result. Few people know it was Solomon who saved the Army through his financial contributions …then died
a pauper. Haym Solomon gave $25 million to save the Continental Army, money that was sorely needed to
help realize America’s –our- freedom and independence from England.
The next time I take a dollar out of my wallet it will have an entirely different meaning to me.
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defining element of my life. On
the playground during recess
periods at Park View Elementary we played a lot of baseball
and I really enjoyed it.. My dad
was not a sports enthusiast so he
did not really introduce me to
sports. But on the playground,
I discovered that baseball was a
lot of fun and I was pretty good
at it.
Central Elementary School
My dad bought a house at
509 North Creek the summer
of 1960. I believe this is the
first house that my dad had ever
owned. The previous houses
that we had lived in had been
rent houses. Now my dad had a
house that he could call his own.
This meant that my brother (David), sister (Cathy) and I would
be attending a new elementary
school in the fall of 1960, Central Elementary School. I began
4th grade at Central School. My
teachers at Central were Mrs.
Turner, Mrs. Cummings and
Mrs. Adams. The principal was
Mrs. Hillis, who also taught music. I remember that all of these
teachers were very good teachers who demanded a lot from
their students.
At Central School I made
several life-long friends. Dave
and Tom Callison had moved to
Holdenville in 1959. Dave was
in the 5th grade and Tom was
in the 6th grade in 1960. They
were both the fastest runners in
their class, and I was the fastest runner in the 4th grade. The
“Little Olympics” was a track
meet held in the spring featuring
competition among the four elementary schools in Holdenville:
Central, Park View, Diamond
and Capitol Heights. Dave, Tom
and I were all able to capture the
awards in the sprinting events at
the “Little Olympics”.
Scouting also became a part
of my life in 1960. I developed
a close friendship with Butch
Smith and Tommy Wilbanks because of the Cub Scout pack that
I joined. Butch and Tommy were
also in my class at Central and
were very good athletes as well.
Another close friend of mine
at Central was Wally Haskett.
Wally’s dad owned Haskett’s
Men’s Wear on Main Street in
Holdenville. Many times after
school, I would spend hours at
Wally Haskett’s house playing
basketball or football or reading
comic books or watching TV.
Wally was a great friend who
was destined for success. He
later went to OU and became a
very successful dentist. Other
classmates that I remember from
Central Elementary School were
Don Aguirre, Roy Frank Crane,
Lynn Foster, Dorya Huser, Leland Lynch, Roger McCoin,
Mona Morgan, Laquita Muse,
Billy Rogers, Wayne Simonds
and Linda Willis.
Mrs. Hillis, the principal at
Central, was also the basketball
coach. During my elementary
years at Central we never had a
very good basketball team. Most
of the better basketball players
about my age attended Capitol
Hill and Diamond. Mrs. Hillis
was a great lady and a wonderful
music teacher, but she was not
much of a basketball coach. All
of the boys would get very frustrated when Mrs. Hillis forced
us to shoot our free throws underhanded (Rick Barry style)
because she thought we were
too small to shoot them onehanded from the foul line. One
of the guys on the team at Central was Keith Kernek. Keith
was a grade ahead of me but we
became very close friends. We
would spend the night at each
other’s house frequently. Keith
had an older brother, George,
and an older sister, Anne. George
had been an outstanding athlete at Holdenville high school
in the middle 1950’s and went
on to star on the University of
Oklahoma basketball and baseball teams. He would later be a
first baseman for the St. Louis
Cardinals. Keith was not very
athletic and did not play high
school sports, but he continually had to deal with the comparisons to George. However,
it did not seem to bother Keith.
Keith and I were young ushers
at his sister’s (Anne) wedding. I
have very fond memories of the
Kernek family.
Baseball
Prior to 1960 I had played
very little baseball – and never
on an organized team. However,
that changed in the spring of
1960. I was “drafted” by coach
Joe Berry Winningham in the
pre-season organizational draft
of the Holdenville little league
teams. First Baptist Church
sponsored the team that Joe
Berry coached and that would
be my first baseball team. Joe
Berry was a recovering alchoholic who was very involved in
youth baseball in Holdenville.
A man about 45 to 50 years of
age, Joe Berry attended school
as a boy at Spaulding. Joe Berry
claimed that a classmate of his
at Spaulding was Dizzy Dean,
who, as Joe Berry would tell us,
“would only show up at school
on game days”. Joe Berry
played baseball with Dizzy and
learned the game from the “oldtimers”. Joe Berry was a great
baseball coach and my family
sort of adopted him as though
he were part of our family. I
played for Joe Berry every year
of my baseball experience in
Holdenville. He taught me just
about everything I know about
baseball.
Through little league baseball in Holdenville, I developed
many friendships. Mike Albertson, Paul Griggs, Hal Epperly,
John Stirman, Don McCarn,
Kenneth Byerly, Vincent Harjo,
Butch Smith, Jack Turner, Harold Brown, Jackie Stripling,
Dave Callison, John Alford and
Mike “Duke” Snider were my
teammates and I played ball
with most of these guys every
year in Holdenville. Joe Berry
would coach us to many wins
during the little league years.
Each year an “All-Star” team
was chosen from the rosters of
the teams in Holdenville and we
would enter tournaments held
around the state. Joe Berry and
Ornie Mayfield, a local postman and baseball coach, would
coach us in several tournament
championships in towns like
Seminole, Shawnee and Chandler. Holdenville was a baseball town and this group of
boys would later win state high
school championships in baseball for Holdenville during their
high school years.
Stroupe Park
During the summers I was
either in the public swimming
pool (about one block from our
house in Stroupe Park) or on the
ball field – similar to the movie
“Sandlot”. Life was simple and
a lot of fun. My parents would
always purchase a family “season ticket” at the public swimming pool. My mom would
swim with us quite often, but my
dad would hardly ever go to the
swimming pool since he never
learned to swim. I can only re-
member seeing my dad in the
swimming pool one time. My
brother, David was a very good
diver. He was a bit of a dare
devil, many times doing something a little “over the edge”. He
even chipped his tooth, hitting it
on the bottom of the pool after a
dive. Ball tag was a favorite at
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DOWN MEMORY LANE — THE YEAR WAS 1969 — BOYS DOUBLE QUARTET — Front Row: Roger Cantrell,
Roy Crane, John Stirman, Pat Wilkerson, Ted McGeisey. Second Row: Alfred Brown, Wally Haskett, and Ron
Hunter.
DOWN MEMORY LANE — THE YEAR WAS 1969 — GIRLS DOUBLE QUARTET —Front Row: Kathy Crumley,
Caren Hayes, Kathy Kernek. Second Row: Dorya Huser, Carol Sherry. Third Row: Jean Cantrell, Judy York, and
Rhonda Sexton.
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Service Saturday For Theta Baxter
Theta Mae Hemingway-Baxter, Whitehouse, Texas, formerly of Holdenville, Oklahoma passed away at Oakbrook Health Center
in Whitehouse, Texas at age 87
following a lengthy battle with
cancer.
Theta was born on October
21, 1924, in Atwood, Oklahoma to the late Harbert and Lola
McKinzie, and went home to be
with the Lord on Monday, April
16, 2012.
She was preceded in death
by her parents; her husband
and the love of her life, Gerald Hemingway; her brother,
Everette McKinzie; her sister,
DeEtta McKinzie Baxter; her
granddaughter, Amy Hemingway; and her second husband,
C. W. Baxter.
She grew up in the Atwood area and lived all
of her life in Oklahoma before moving to Texas
in 2005 to be near her daughter. While living
in Holdenville she attended First Baptist Church
and faithfully attended Oakbrook Church in
Whitehouse.
She was a wonderful mother, grandmother
and great-grandmother. She loved to quilt and
made a special quilt for each of her children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She also
enjoyed embroidery work, reading, spending
time with her family.
Theta is survived by her
daughter and husband, Judy
and John Beam of Whitehouse,
Texas; son and wife, Jerry and
Diana Hemingway of Elk City;
grandchildren, Kim and husband Dannie Frazier, Keith
Beam, Lyneese Hemingway
Wright, Aaron Hemingway and
wife Jenny; great-grandchildren,
Matt, Kenzie, Skylar, Kaden,
Jack, Lily, Dillon, and Dakota.
Sister-in-law, Margaret McKinzie of Pauls Valley and numerous nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be grandsons.
The family will be at the funeral home on Friday evening. Graveside services for Mrs. Baxter
will be Saturday, April 21st, at 2:00 at the Allen
Cemetery under the direction of Hudson-Phillips
Funeral Home. Rev. John Beam officiating.
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Iva Shirley Ford passed away on Monday, April 9, 2012, in Eufaula, Oklahoma.
Shirley was the daughter of J. W. and Velta (Ladd) Pickett, born on July 11, 1941, in Calvin, Oklahoma. She was
brought up and attended schools in Calvin and Holdenville. She was married to Ed ‘Sonny’ Ford, who preceded her in death. She lived her entire life in Oklahoma, both in
Oklahoma City and in Holdenville. She worked for the Holdenville Hospital housekeeping department for ten years. She loved her home, and her favorite pastime was staying home and watching TV.
She is preceded in death by her parents, J. W. and Velta Pickett; her husband, Sonny Ford; one sister, Lucille Doyle
and one brother, Monroe Pickett.
She is survived by her daughter, Pam Maxie, and granddaughter Amanda Thompson, both of Oklahoma City; two
sisters, Virginia Jones of Holdenville and Sue White of Midwest City; one brother, Larry Pickett and wife Paula, of
Holdenville; nieces and nephews, other relatives, and many friends. Graveside services were held and Shirley was laid to rest in the Calvin Cemetery on Friday, April 13th, at 2:00 p.m.
with Rev. Dane Robinson officiating.
Services were under direction of Fisher Funeral Home of Holdenville. www.fisherfh.net
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Nathan Alexander Good, 20, thew Evan Good and his wife
lifelong Seminole resident died Amberly of Moore, Oklahoma
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 in Sem- and Jeffrey Speers and his wife
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His parents Glenn and Laura
Good of Seminole, Oklahoma,
survive Nathan. His grandmother Cuba Coates of Seminole,
Oklahoma, grandmother Naomi Good of Wichita, Kansas,
grandfather Arden Good and his
wife Maxine of Albuquerque,
New Mexico, two brothers Mat-
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ry Coates, Sr preceded him in
death.
The family received friends
and family on Friday, April 13,
2012 at the Swearingen Funeral
Home Chapel from 6 to 8 P.M.
A graveside service for the
family was held at 10:00 A.M.,
Saturday, April 14, 2012 at Little Cemetery, following was a
Memorial Service held at 12:00
P.M. (Noon) on Saturday at
the United Methodist Church
at 300 N. Gulf St. in Holdenville, Oklahoma. Pastors
Larry Holder and Charles Rettig
officiated at the services.
Memorial donations may be
made to the “Old School Society.” Send % Strother Schools
36085 EW 1140 Seminole,
Oklahoma 74868. Please designate funds to go to the “ Food
for kids program” in Nathan’s
name.
Funeral service arrangements
were under the direction of
Swearingen Funeral Home in
Seminole, Oklahoma.
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Bernice Rives
Funeral service for Bernice
Scott Rives, 93 of Tulsa, Oklahoma is scheduled for 1:00 PM on
Monday, April 23rd, at the Barnard United Methodist Church
in Holdenville, Oklahoma. Services are under the direction of
Hudson Phillips Funeral Home.
She died on Monday, April
16, 2012, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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the pool; along with diving off
of the famed “high rocks” and
playing on the spinning top in
the 5 ft. water. Ball tag is strictly
prohibited now, the spinning
top has been removed and the
“high rocks” have been sealed
off to any access. I guess a lot of
“fun” has been eliminated over
the years in the name of safety.
Lot’s of other great events occurred in Stroup Park. You could
always see the “old guys” playing croquet on the permanent
croquet course with the iron
wickets. All of my little league
baseball practices were held in
Stroupe Park. It was also a good
place to look for crawdads after
a rain. The cement ditch running through the park was a
great place to catch crawdads,
among other things, if the water
was flowing. The railroad tracks
wind around one side of Stroupe
Park, and I liked to put pennies
on the track for the train to flatten out. On my 11th birthday my
parents had surprise birthday
party for me in Stroupe Park.
All my friends were there and
the cake seemed to taste a little
sweeter in the park. I actually
hit my first golf ball in Stroupe
Park. Someone gave me an old
wooden driver that I took to the
park. Stroupe Park was converted to a driving range that
afternoon as I hit the same two
golf balls over and over again
since they were the only golf
balls that I owned. One of the
best things about Stroupe Park
was that it was only half a block
from my house – a kid’s dream
come true.
Baseball on the Radio
Through baseball I became
very good friends with Mike
Albertson. Mike was a big Cardinal baseball fan. The year
1961 made me, and many boys
like me, big Yankee fans. I actually had become a Yankee fan in
1960, but 1961 brought a lot of
excitement to Yankee fans. The
home run race in Major League
baseball became a fascination to
most baseball fans. Roger Maris
and Mickey Mantle captivated
the baseball world that summer as Maris hit 61 homers and
Mantle finished with 54. Maris
broke Babe Ruth’s record but
an asterisk was put on Maris’
record because his 61 homers
was accomplished in 6 more
games than Ruth’s record. The
’61 Yankees: Clete Boyer, Tony
Kubek, Bobby Richardson,
Moose Skowren, Yogi Berra,
Elston Howard, Mickey Mantle,
Roger Maris, Whitey Ford. The
’61 Cardinals: Ken Boyer, Dick
Groate, Bill White, Julian Javier,
Tim McCarver, Curt Flood, Bob
Gibson, Stan “The Man” Musial. The afternoons were spent
playing whiffle ball, Indian ball
or baseball – depending on how
many players we could get to
show up. Mike would always
be the Cardinals and he would
go through the roster each time
he batted. I would always be
the Yankees and I would do the
same with the Yankee roster.
Every kid had a favorite team
and they knew the names (and
sometimes stats) of each player
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Lee Greiner HHS Class of 1969 Shares Memories
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on their team’s roster. My afternoons were filled with playing
baseball and the evenings were
spent listening to the Cardinal
games on the radio at the home
of Reverend Richard Turner.
Jack and John Wayne Turner,
Mike Albertson and I would
spend many evenings on the
front porch of Reverend Richard Turner’s home listening to
Harry Cary and Jack Buck call
the Cardinal baseball game
on the radio (yes, the radio
since there was only one game
shown weekly on television in
1961).
I would consider Reverend
Turner a hero in my life. He
was a man of very little means,
but a man with a very big heart.
He exemplified what the Bible
teaches about loving his fellow
man and giving to the needs of
those who needed help. In my
mind, Reverend Turner was a
giant of a man. He was also a
very big Cardinal fan. I cherish those memories of sitting
on the Turner porch and listening to the Cardinal baseball
games.
The Candy Bowl
The “Candy Bowl” really
introduced me to football
in 1962. The Cub Scouts in
Holdenville were divided into
two teams, the Boomers and
the Sooners. A football game,
the Candy Bowl, pitted the
Boomers against the Sooners.
This was the first exposure to
football for all of the 10 and
11 year old boys in Holdenville since Holdenville did not
offer youth football leagues.
My brother, David, and I were
members of the Boomers. I do
not know how the Cub Scout
dens were divided. Most of the
guys in my den were placed
on the Sooners. However, the
Boomers proved to be the better team. Mike Albertson and
Harold Brown were on my
team and we proved to be too
much for the Sooners to handle. Harold was our fullback, I
was the running back and Mike
was the quarterback, although
he never got to throw a pass.
When we were going to throw,
Harold would take a pitch from
Mike and throw the passes because he was about a foot taller
than Mike and he could throw
the football much further than
Mike. I was able to have success running the football and
I scored a touchdown in the
game. The local newspaper,
the Holdenville Daily News,
covered the game and said that
“Lee Greiner …….”. Football
was now in my blood. My football team was able to defeat the
team that included a number of
my close friends. Little did I
know, this game was a precursor to several games in which
I would be involved in the future.
Rodeo
While my interest and involvement with sports was
growing in the early 1960’s, my
brother, David, was becoming
more interested with horses.
David was also involved with
baseball and football but not to
the extent as me. He had many
other talents and interests.
His friend, Dean Bowen, also
lived on Creek Street about
two blocks from our house. I
remember Dean’s older sister,
Kay, was a star on the girl’s
high school basketball team
in 1964. The Bowen’s also
had some land in the country.
They raised peanuts and ran
some horses on their property.
David loved those horses. He
talked my dad into buying him
a young horse and Mr. Bowen
taught Dean and David how
to “break” the horse so that he
could be ridden. David named
his horse “Lightning”. Lightning consumed much of my
brother’s free time. The Bowens had another older horse
named “Pinto’. I was able to
ride Pinto quite a bit. We would
pile about three kids on Pinto
when we would go to the local
rodeo in Holdenville because
everyone on horseback had free
admission to the rodeo. We all
looked forward to the “greased
pig” contest during the rodeo.
A greased pig was let loose in
the rodeo arena and the kid that
could catch the pig would win a
prize. I never was able to catch
that pig, but we all had a great
time trying to get our hands on
him! David actually entered
some local youth rodeos in
Holdenville and Seminole. He
was pretty good too. He won
first prize in a Brahma bull calf
riding contest. Our mother was
pretty upset when she learned
that he had entered the rodeo
without her knowledge. David
did a pretty good job of keep-
ing my parents on their toes.
He was especially drawn to our
neighbor, Elgin Stamps.
Neighbors
Elouise Stamps lived nextdoor to us on Creek street. Her
parents also lived with her un-
til their death in the middle
1960’s. Elgin, her brother,
worked and lived in Oklahoma City during the week, but
stayed in Holdenville on weekends. My family became pretty
close to the Stamps, especially
Elgin and Elouise. Elgin called
me the “number one son” and
would always be available to
throw the football or baseball
with me and many times would
shoot hoops with me on the
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DOWN MEMORY LANE — THE YEAR WAS 1969 — DOUBLE DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE — Phyllis Scroggins,
Brenda Stanfield, and Laquita Muse display their talents while acting a scene from Macbeth.
DOWN MEMORY LANE — THE YEAR WAS 1969 — SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS —Neil Brown, President; Mike Albertson, Vice President; Roxanne Cummings, Reporter; Jack Turner, Secretary-Treasurer; and Mrs. Betty Webb,
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Lee Greiner HHS Class of 1969 Shares Memories
Our families were very close.
Our other next door neighbors were Chester and Vera
Gray. Chester worked at the water treatment plant just outside
Holdenville. The Grays always
grew a garden each year and
were very successful growing
vegatables along with some
pretty flowers. Chester always
maintained his automobiles meticulously and always kept them
clean. Whenever it was time for
Chester to sell one of his vehicles, there was a line of people
wanting to buy his old car because they knew it had been
well maintained and was in perfect condition. Vera knew that I
was devastated when my family
moved away from Holdenville
in December of 1965, so she
sent me a copy of the 1969 Wolverine High School yearbook.
That 1969 class would have
been my graduating class had
I stayed in Holdenville through
high school. The Gray’s were
wonderful neighbors; typical of
the kind of people that lived in
Holdenville in the ‘60’s.
First Baptist Church
If I could not be found on the
ball field, on basketball court, at
the swimming pool, or in school,
I was probably at the First Baptist Church. I am very thankful
that my parents were very involved at the church. Becaues
they were involved, the kids in
our family were also very involved. Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night
we attended the First Baptist
Church services. If, I remember
correctly, the church had three
pastors while we lived in Holdenville: Dan Rainbolt, Richard
Roundtree and John Fleming.
The two music ministers/youth
pastors that were on staff during
the 1960’s were Roger Copeland and Tim Sumners. All of
these men had a positive influence on my life. One of the Sunday School teachers that also
influenced my values was Lee
Weathered. Mr. Weathered operated a hardware store on main
street, Weathereds Hardware.
At that time Holdenville had
three hardware stores: Weathereds, Dolton’s and OTASCO.
My brother, sisters and I always
attended Vacation Bible School
DOWN MEMORY LANE—THE YEAR WAS 1969—Mrs. Epperley, Mrs. Hamilton, and at the church during the sumMrs. Cook wisecracking about a teacher’s grade book.
mers. It was really a great way
to spend the morning before
heading to the swimming pool
in the afternoon. Some of my
friends who also attended First
Baptist church were Dave Callison, Butch Smith, Keith Kernek,
Neil Brown, Tommy and Sherry
Winningham and John and Bobby Lucas. Some of the prominent families of the community
who attended the church were
the Burtons (Burton’s IGA),
Hobgoods (Hobgood’s Funeral
Home), Cooks (Cooks Barber
Shop). Dewey Bankston was
the custodian of the church. The
first fish that I ever caught was
caught from Mr. Bankston’s
pond located on his farm.
My parents closest friends,
Orvis and Pat McMahan were
members of the First Baptist
Church. Our families spent a lot
of time together. Orvis had a job
similar to my dad’s. He was the
county supervisor for Soil Conservation with the Federal Department of Agriculture. Their
daughter, Gail, was a close
friend of my sister. Orvis, an
avid OU fan, took me to my first
college football game. I saw OU
play Kansas when Bobby Warmack and Jim Grisham were
stars for OU.
Junior High School / High
DOWN MEMORY LANE—THE YEAR WAS 1969—Brenda Byerly, Sandy Hughey,
School
Gay Sylvester, and Sherry Winningham working diligently on the Rotary Calculator.
Where were you when John F.
Would you believe posing for the camera?
Continued from Page B-1
basketball goal in their drive
way. David, the “number two
son”, could always be found
next to Elgin when Elgin was
working on some project in his
yard or working on his house. I
sometimes wondered why Elgin
would put up with David getting
in his way, but Elgin appeared
to enjoy David being around
all the time and “helping” him
with work projects. Many Saturday evenings were spent by
my family in the Stamp’s home.
We would pop popcorn and
watch the Lennon sisters on the
Lawrence Welk show. When
bad weather would blow in and
the tornado siren would sound,
my family would always head
next door to the storm cellar in
the Stamp’s back yard. In my
mind’s eye, I can still see the jars
of vegetables and fruit that Elouise and her mother had canned
and stored in the storm cellar.
Kennedy was shot on Novenber
23, 1963. I was in 7th grade math
class at the junior high school located in the former Capitol Hill
elementary school. Mr. Charley
Durgee was my math teacher. I
remember our class taking a moment of silence when it was announced the President Kennedy
had been shot.
What could 35 cents buy you
in 1963? Well, at Whit’s DriveIn, located close to the junior
high school, 35 cents could
buy a hamburger and a coke for
lunch. I spent many lunch periods a Whit’s Drive-In. One of
my favorite teachers in junior
high was Rozanne Turner who
taught English. The principal of
the junior high school was C.T.
Bronaugh. In the eighth grade I
served as class president and in
May, 1965 I graduated from junior high and in the fall of 1965
attended 9th grade at Holdenville
high school.
My time at Holdenville high
school was brief, only one semester. Judd Porter was the Freshman football & basketball coach
and I developed a pretty close
relationship with Coach Porter.
We had a pretty good football
team and we finished second in
the Five Star Conference. The
high school football team was
coached by Don Farris and the
basketball team was coached by
Charlie Self. I remember that one
of my favorite teachers durin my
freshman year was Tim Rusher
who taught physical science.
In December, 1965 my dad
was offered the county supervisor position at Pauls Valley, the
county seat of Garvin county.
This was a promotion for my
dad so he accepted the offer. As I
look back, it was a good move for
our family. But at the time, I felt
it was a very dark day when we
moved away from Holdenville.
Holdenville was home and I
hated leaving my friends. To me,
Holdenville was a special place
with great people who held great
values. I believe the community
of Holdenville is responsible for
making me the person that I am
today. I will be eternally thankful for the opportunity to have
lived in Holdenville and to have
called myself a Wolverine, even
though it was a relatively short
period of my life.
Other memories:
Bevo’s (where the boys are)
– snooker, pin-ball and cokes.
Some guys lost a little money
playing snooker there, but not
me, I wasn’t good enough to
play with those guys.
Cherry phosphates at Sanford
Drug; 75-cent haircuts at Cooks
Barber shop; Listening to Bob
Barry and Jack Ogle broadcast
the OU football games as I delivered the Holdenvill Daily news
on Saturday afternoon.
Going to the High School
football games when I was in
grade school: I remember Jackie
Stafford’s 100 yard kick-off return against Hugo, Bill Callison
(the last Wolverine to not wear a
face mask), Mike Stripling, Rick
McCoin, Jerry and Jim Moeller
winning a State Championship.
American Legion Baseball
- Jack McClure (from Asher)
hitting home runs for the Holdenville American Legion team;
chasing and returning foul balls
for a free snow cone.
Reavus Drug, Bevo’s, Safeway,
OTASCO, Dolton Hardware,
Haskett’s Mens Wear, Sharp’s,
Penny’s, Larry’s Red Bud, Piggly Wiggly, Dairy Queen, Whit’s
Drive-In, (Ode)Burton’s IGA,
The Queen Bee, Grande Theater
– yeah, Holdenville was a special place!
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lot of the Methodist Church. The donations, which are matched by
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registered 16 boys in our unit, so we are hoping for a good turnout
for the event. work all done and the check
written many days before the
deadline. Thank you, Chuck!
March 30 - April 1, we went to
Camp Simpson, south of Waupanaka for the Arbuckle Area
Council’s Spring Camporee. It
was an exceptionally well organized event with competitions
in knot tying, square lashing,
orienteering, first aid, fire building, tomahawk tossing, tent inspection, dutch oven cooking,
team tactics, and much much
more. 11 of our Scouts participated. We had a great time, and
the Este Chottee patrol even
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the Isotope Transport challenge.
Patrick Cowart has talked about
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such a Camporee for Canadian
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We received a generous gift to
purchase 3 new shirts for Scouts
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ones. We appreciate the help
very much. The old shirts will
be handed down to younger boys
as they out-grow theirs in turn.
Up-coming events will be
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the annual car-wash (held in
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May 12. The Car-wash is our
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the year. The money from that
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HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—APRIL 18, 2012—PAGE B-5
HHS Basketball Seniors Honored
BRIAN, KOLBY, AND NANCY GILES
FRONT: MARIA AND MARIE
BACK: BROWNIE, TRE’, AND NAN HARJO
DONNIE AND JAKE ASBURY, ANGIE LONG,
RACHEL ASBURY BRUNER, AND GARY ASBURY
TAYLOR ADKINS, TAMMIE, AND TRYSTA
RANDY, COLLIN, AND NANCY MEADORS
ROBIN AND RAYMOND LACEY, ASHLEY LACEY,
BRIAN AND SHANNON IKER
PICTURES COURTESY OF CARRIE MCFARLAND
from
Dayna’s Desk
Bill saw Kelly Smith and
daughter Kasey Jones at the
Dynamic store Saturday and had
a good visit. Kasey and Dane are
lifelong friends and also graduated
together. She and her husband Joe
live in Tulsa and we really miss
seeing her smiling face on a regular
basis. Both Kelly and Kasey have
been a blessing to so many and the
world could use a lot more people
like them!
—DD—
Linda Burton Gibbs was by the
office recently and she is excited
about the upcoming alumni reunion.
It will be June 30th in the HHS
cafeteria. We know the classes of
1952 and 1962 are planning special
gatherings and we will keep our
readers informed about the details.
The reunion is a special time
and we hope everyone that is able
will make plans to attend.
—DD—
I was gone Friday, but Colleene
Lovelace Shores came by the
office. Bill and Dane were both
there and told me they had a great
time visiting. And said she was so
much fun. We all hope she makes
our office one of her regular stops!
I sure hate it I missed her.
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from
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Colleene lives in Seminole
and just recently lost her husband,
Coty. They were not only husband
and wife, but also best friends.
One of the great stories she
shared Friday was about her and
Gert when they were both in high
school. At that time Colleene
was attending Butner school and
Gert was at Yeager. They played
each other in a basketball game
and Butner defeated Yeager 1211. Colleene scored all 12 points
for Butner. Colleene said over 60
years later when Gert would see
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about the time when Colleene and
Velma Berryman were playing golf.
Velma was ready to tee off when
Collene noticed a bird flying in the
distance. Velma then hit the ball
and it went sailing through the air.
You guessed it, the ball knocked the
bird out of the air! The final result
was one damaged golf ball and one
dead bird! I have known of several
golfers that made a hole-in-one, but
Velma is the only one I ever knew
that knocked a bird out of the air!
Bill told Colleene about
how much he thought of Velma’s
husband Louis. They both served
in the 45th Division. One year Bill
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said he had known him for many
years, but during that time they
became really good friends. All of
those that served with Louis knew
he would always help them any
way he could.
—DD—
The reason I wasn’t in the
office Friday was because my
mother, Beth Leewright and I went
to Oklahoma City to see our good
friend Rhonda Carter Struna and
her precious new baby, Andrew
Joseph. Andrew was born seven
weeks early and is still in the Mercy
Hospital. He is doing very well and
may get to come home later this
week.
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Mobile Screening Offered April 21
The J.D. McCarty Center has started
a new program to reach more families in
Oklahoma. Instead of families traveling
to the Norman center for some services,
center employees will come to them.
The center’s new mobile screening
program will give families an opportunity to meet with a screening team to determine if their child with special needs
qualifies for inpatient evaluation and rehabilitative services at the center, which
specializes in the care and treatment of
children with developmental disabilities.
The screenings are free.
Typically, a family must travel to
Norman for a screening. Now, the mobile
program will bring that service to them,
along with information about the center’s
other services. The mobile program kicks
off April 21 in Holdenville.
“We want to create opportunities for
more of Oklahoma’s children with special needs to be reached and served by
the staff of the J.D. McCarty Center,”
said Vicki Kuestersteffen, director and
CEO.
The first stop for the program is Holdenville. Screenings will be conducted by
appointment from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April
21 at the Holdenville High School auditorium.
The screenings will consist of interviews with parents and their children
about the child’s medical, social and
behavioral history. The screening team
members are a nurse, social worker and
psychological clinician from the center.
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—DD—
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services and a coordinator of the mobile
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The free mobile screening is also
part of the Holdenville Public Schools’
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and evaluate children from 3 to 21 years
old who are in need of early childhood
intervention or special education and
related services. Child Find is a federally established, comprehensive system
designed to ensure that each child is educated toward his or her maximum potential.
Holdenville was selected by the McCarty Center as a mobile screening site
because it’s located in Hughes County,
which is one of the counties identified
as being underserved by the center. Employees looked at places that have not
received center services within the last
year. The majority of those counties are
along the state’s borders.
Kuestersteffen said plans are to do
the mobile screenings two to four times
a year to help reach families in the targeted counties. It also gives employees
the opportunity to talk with families
about center programs that can benefit
them where they live, such as the teletherapy program that uses interactive
video to provide therapeutic and followup services to children.
The mobile screening program was
proposed two years ago by the center’s
administrators as a way to serve more
children. A team of employees then
worked to develop the program.
Kuestersteffen said she believes the
mobile program will help the center
build relationships with more families
and connect them to services and programs that will benefit their children.
“It was important enough to the center’s leaders to invest the time into this
program,” she said. “Hopefully, the impact will be as great as all of us anticipate that it will be.”
Info box:
What: The McCarty Center’s free
mobile screening program
When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 21 at the
Holdenville High School auditorium,
112 E. 9th Street
Registration: The free screenings will
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Case No. PB-2012-27
In the Matter of the Estate of DOROTHY
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