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"MEMORIES OF BAKER" a pictoral and narrative scrapbook of the building and its grounds

Created on: 11/18/09 05:19 PM Views: 1573 Replies: 86
"MEMORIES OF BAKER" a pictoral and narrative scrapbook of the building and its grounds
Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:19 PM

This chat forum has been established to collect pictures and memories of the building and its grounds.  No matter what happens to the bricks and mortar, we LIONS will all have our memories of Baker High School, its hallways, auditorium, cafeteria, track and game fields and classrooms.  Should it come down, we will always remember it in our heart.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:22 PM

I WILL NOT THINK OF A BUILDING  - Anonymous
 
I will not think of a building. I will treasure relationships I made and lost to time.  I will cherish friends I found again after time elapsed for generations. I will keep close to my heart friends I've loved through births and a family's passing days and to those I still hold so close to me.  
 
I will not think of a structure made of bricks, mortar and wood. I will smile at the thought of that first hand I held in dimly lit halls of knowledge.
 
I will not be remorse for a field of overgrown vines and asphalt paths that no one can tread.  I will feel blessed that I once took that path each day with a friend who lives only in my heart and is no longer of this earth.  For those moments cannot be lost in dirt or clay.
 
I will not recall the hurried dash to a classroom which no longer holds a desk or paper or chalk.  I will be thankful I was shown the true meaning of knowledge which moved me up the path of life's unexpected hazards and miraculous rewards.
 
I will not be sad that the brightest shine on a floor no longer shimmers in the light of day.  I will jump for joy each time I need to lose a pound or ten or twenty and be thankful I was urged to touch my palms to the ground and taught to throw a ball so that I might play with my grandchilden in the hopes of only two points.
 
I will not grieve for a stage with velveteen curtains in shreds or chairs that will no longer be full of cheering and happy audiences. I will be proud to know those who went on to bigger stages and arenas and whose faces shone under bright lights and voices spoke playwright's words that made men cry and... think. 
 
I will not cry for a house of mankind which in it gathered future teachers, nurses, doctors, soldiers who served and died, pastors spreading the word of love and forgiveness, mothers, fathers, and babes so innocent. I will rejoice that we all worshipped, lived, loved, laughed and cried together.
 
I will not be disheartened when I know that the bricks which formed "my" building will fall to the ground and be stacked in a lifeless pile.  I will rejoice that those building blocks will live anew and generate fresh memories with the laughter and tears they absorbed for so many years.  I will think of a building reborn in another time and place.   For, I know this building was named BAKER and the sound of that word cannot be taken from my tongue and when I feel the need to remember the friends, the love, the comraderie, the structure....I will just say the word and it will make me proud.
 

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:54 PM

Linda,

What a great pictoral of BHS.  Thanks so much for your time and effort.  If you saw the inside today, it would break you heart.  Have a wonderful day and hope you are feeling better.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:01 PM

Linda,

You Do have away with Words. WOW

That is All Glenn and I can say!!!!

Thank you! Putting all our feelings together is such a Perfect matter.

 

Mahola

Jeanne and Glenn

 

LOVE AND MISS ALL THE "LION FAMILY"
JEANNE

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:06 PM

Jeanne and Roy......Thank you, but didn't do it for praise. Did it because I have made so many new relationships and friends that I never could have imagined.  I hope everyone will participate and add their photos of Baker and share fond memories. 

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:09 PM

Linda, that brought tears to my eyes and a warm loving feeling to my heart.  Thank you so much.  Every word you said I feel too.  How blessed we are to have these memories and to have you to have put them in words.  Thank you my friend.

Charlotte Scarborough

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:23 PM
Linda,

WOW....I became misty eyed remembering all the friendships and fun, also sad at the lost of our Grand Lady....You put into words what I think many feel in their hearts. Thanks for the putting this together for us so we may once again have a walk down memory lane...how wonderful. Thank you so much!

 

Kathy 70

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:28 PM

Charlotte and Kathy.....we have our friendships which we can cherish....the building was a sense of pride.   But, trying to remember my locker combination in less than five minutes was brutal.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:31 PM

I see the "Wolfe House" in this picture. Named after Coach Ed Wolfe.

It is the little white building in the courtyard.

Great pictures. Thanks for posting these.

Sid

 

Sid Welch

 
RE: "MEMORIES OF BAKER" a pictoral and narrative scrapbook of the building and its grounds
Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:36 PM

Here is a clipping of BVHS first football game.  This is the preview of the game against Newnan.  Over 8000 attended the game.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:43 PM

WE lost this one and haven't scored any point  yet.  We went all the way to Brunswick, Ga for this game.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:47 PM

Sid, the Wolfe House?  What was that?  Maybe before my time, ha ha.

Charlotte Scarborough

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:49 PM

Linda, you're doing better than I am.  No way could I remember my locker combination.

You go girl!

Charlotte Scarborough

 
RE: "MEMORIES OF BAKER" a pictoral and narrative scrapbook of the building and its grounds
Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 01:52 PM

Thanks LINDA....what a great way for all of us to remember the actual School itself....people memories and memories of paticular events are always great but i think you have brought to our attention an important thing we sometimes forgit, and that is the actual physical structure we called "Our School"....i along with a lot of other people will never forgit that building no matter what happens to it....Baker Village School was the very first school I ever attended.  I was fortunate enough to have started school there in the first grade.  I dont count kindergarten i went to in Baker Village cause it just didnt seem like school to me.  I remember crossing Benning Drive every morning on the way to Kindergarten with Mike Rowland and Steve Trammel and watching Roy and some others on their way up Benning Drive going to the first grade in a REAL school!!!...Man i couldnt wait until I got to keep going up Benning Drive to the REAL school.  My first classroom was the first room on the left when you went in the far left front door..(what we used to call the Junior wing)...My teacher's name was Miss Smith and I couldnt wait to git in MY school....I dont think i ever thought about graduating from Baker when I was in the first grade, all i was thinking about was getting back to MY school the next day and waiting for my big brother Billy who was in "high school" and getting to ride home with him when i got out of school at his lunch time.  Aint nuffin like gettin to hang out wiff your big brother and gettin to ride home with him in his car......i wished i could ride in his car just one more time.....

i got so many memories of the old building i dont know where to start.....but i'll let some others share their memories of that wonderful building first and then chime in with some of mine...

what a great way to remember that amazing structure we called "OUR SCHOOL"

Rodney Wolfinger '69

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:00 PM

Charlotte,

Roy and the gang might remember better than myself, but Coach Ed Wolfe was the coach during the 50's. That little house was used as a classroom as late as 1961/62 if my memory serves me right. It was not a fun place during the winter, per my older Lion friends.

Sid

Sid Welch

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:04 PM

 If you have ever seen the movie Hoosiers, that makes you think about the old Baker High School where I went to watch Basketball Games with my father. The atmosphere, Coach Ball, The 66 team, one loss, Milton Caffey, Tommy Richardson, Tom Bryant, Ed Miller and of course Mike Stokes. Stokes made a half court shot at Jordan to win a big game. The players would come out from tunnel by the stage and it was so exciting as a kid to watch when Bill Denny was a guard, Billy Waldrop and others. Those memories will never be erased.

 But Roy nothing will beat the freshman center, how many gyms have railroad tracks running through the middle. Square dances and no darn windows. That was a fun time with Coach Charlie Smith. Loved those days.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:13 PM

Larry,

Billy Wadrop and his wife, Jane live down in Tallahassee, but they make it up to Columbus and Atlanta on occasion. I had lunch with them in Kennesaw a while back. Billy looks like he can still play. I remember Billy Denny [The Gun] myself. If I have to pick one person from Baker to take the last shot to win a game, I am going with Terry Howard, Class of 65. Let me hear some opinions on that subject. :) We used to play basketball in Terry's back yard with his brother Rick, Mike Stokes, John Flores, Tommy Bryant, Mr. Howard, Gary George and myself. Needless to say, Gary and I were second stringers.

Sid

 

Sid Welch

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:16 PM

I will give you Terry howars. what a sweet shot, but the best boy's club shot, The gunner Lamar Taylor, he could tear up the nets.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:17 PM

I cannot write, Sorry Terry , Terry Howard. I saw him playing church ball  a few years back. still making those now 3 pointers.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:24 PM

Larry,

You are right. T-Bone Taylor had a smooth shot. I will also give credit to Mr. Calvin Burgamy. I saw Calvin one night at the boy's club when he could not miss. Those were the days. You could always stand in the Gym door next to the canteen and get a nice flow of air from the big fan. I tend to rant a bit about the old club, but those times with Mr. Turgeon and the gang are a major part of my life.

Sid

 

Sid Welch

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:30 PM

Thanks Sid! 

Charlotte Scarborough

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:38 PM

LARRY....i remember going to basketball games in the "old gym" too...sitting on them old wooden bleachers and not being able to hear your own voice when everyone was hollering was sooooo cool for a little guy.   Coach Smith was our freshman basketball coach my freshman year (65-66) and a lot of people might not remember this but the game you are talking about (the one loss the varsity had) was in the state championship game and it was the ONLY game any team came out on the short end that whole year. Our freshman team with Kenny Stevens and Don Crow and Roger Bannister and Bobby Graham and Mike Chickini went undefeated that year and won the Bi-City 9th grade championship and the Junior Varsity went undefeated also and won their championship.  The Varsity lost to a team from the Augusta area I think...i cant remember the name of the school but i do remember they had a guy named Barry Timmerman who scored an unheard of 44 points in that game!...i was at that game...it was sad to watch but what a great year to be associated with such a great group of guys....our 9th grade games always started real early like 4 or 4:30 and the only people we ever had at our games besides the cheerleader was Coach Smith's wife and my Daddy...lol....I remember my 9th grade year was the first year of the "new" gym and Coach Ball's last year at Baker...he would be on "shoe patrol" everyday at lunch time in the new gym to make sure no one walked on the new floor with "street shoes" on....lol...lo and behold on your butt if you cut a corner and touched the new floor with street shoes on...i remember one paticular game we played at home and it was the first home game for all the teams....Coach Ball had gotten the Varsity brand new uniforms for that year...as usual, when the varsity got new uniforms, they handed down their old ones to the B-Team and so on down the line to us 9th graders....well Coach Smith just happened to get the "wrong" uniforms out for us and we got dressed and headed out of the locker room and i remember Bobby Graham was right in front of me walking out and next thing i know somebody grabbed me and Bobby by our shirts and said.."Where in da hell do yall think yall are going?!!!"...seems that Coach Ball was coming out of his office the same time we were coming out of the locker room and he saw we had on "HIS" uniforms and put a stop to that real quick like....lol....i was so damned scared i thought i was gonna pee in my jockstrap....lol

another little note on that season....Kenny Stevens can back me up on this one....next to beating the Giants (Ronnie Chambers team i might add, lol) in the National Little League Championship, hitting the two winning free throws with 3 seconds left in the game in the Bi-City 9th grade championship was the highlight of my short but fun athletic career.  One just cant explain the feeling of having your friends and teammates hoist you up on their shoulders after you helped win a championship....Pure Ecstasy!!

i also remember that shot Mike Stokes made at Jordan High to win that game at the buzzer!!!...I almost fell outta the stands jumping up and down when he did that!!!....i remember on the front page of the paper the next day they took a picture of him shooting a ball from about the same spot with little dashes put in the picuture to show the flight of the ball to the basket....what a great time

Rodney Wolfinger '69

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:50 PM

LARRY and SID....i'm with you guys on who i would want to take that last shot...Terry Howard, T-Bone or Calvin wouldnt hurt my feelings one bit if they had the ball, but if i could add a couple to those i would have to add Brian Hartford, that guy could do it all, and Benny Brock has to be on the list also....and old Kenny Stevens was "lights out" in crunch time also....i remember Benny Brock couldnt run, couldnt jump, couldnt play defense and never got to start a game, but i remember sitting in the stands watching the varsity play and when we were gettin the shots off the old "Bubba Ball Shuffle" but they just werent falling...(i think i could go out and run that offense today..lol) Coach Ball would grab Benny by the jersey and push his ol' clumsy butt toward the scorer's table and holler.."Get in there for so and so and "MAKE THAT DAMN SHOT"...which he usually did....Benny wasnt "afraid to shoot the ball" as we used to say....lol....

Rodney Wolfinger '69

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 02:51 PM

I love these memories...guys with nicknames like T-Bone....and a house, in the middle courtyard of Baker, named after a coach.  What drew my interest even more was Larry mentioning the Freshman Center.  I have never figured that one out.  Saw it in my 1965 Galaxie and the Students that went there.  Larry, tell us more...was it a seperate building at Baker or somewhere else and why was it featured in the Eddy annuals?

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 03:03 PM

Rodney,

Your memory is great. I remember that picture in the paper. Unfortunately for Mr. Stokes, he suffered the embarrassment of a lifetime when we were all playing half ball on Springfield where he lived and his mother came out of the house and yelled in front of me, Terry Howard, Rick Howard, John [the mouth] Flores, Tommy Bryant, and Gary George those famous words to Mike, which were "Mike, cartoonies are on". It was a Saturday morning and Mrs. Stokes always worried that Mike might get hurt so she wanted him to come in and watch cartoons. He was forever known after that as "Mike Cartoonies are on Stokes". Needless to say, Flores had a field day with that one. All Mike could say was "ah maw".

Sid

Sid Welch

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 03:21 PM

SID.....lolololol....knowing Flores, i know he had a good time with that one.....

yall remember in the library at Baker how they had those funny long wooden stick like things Ms Owens used to put the newspapers in everyday?...i wished i knew what they were called but they were like kinda split three ways and she would kinda weave the papers in theire at the edge and then hang them on that thing on the wall....well i would go in there every morning to read the sports section of the newspaper and it wouldnt take too long before me and some other "heathen" would have the newspapers out of those sticks and we would be "sword fighting"...lol.....you know you were in for a bad day when Ms Owen  would grab you by the shirt and march you across the hall to Mr. Strealdorfs office for "punishment"....lol

SID...another thing I remember 'bout Stokes was his grandaddy was blind but he always came to every kinda game Mike ever played and his Mama would set beside his Grandaddy and tell him pitch by pitch and play by play of what was going on...and his Granddaddy would sit there and holler encouragement and cheer just like he could see all the action....

Rodney Wolfinger '69

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 03:31 PM

SID....speaking of playing "half ball"...for those of you wimmens out there that dont have a clue as to what we are talkin 'bout, half ball was a baseball game we used to play using half of a rubber ball (these were reddish hollow balls, i think they might have been handballs or sumpin like that)...well anyways, we would cut them in half, for whatever reason, and use a stick or a broomstick as a bat....played a lot of half ball at the Boys Club gym and Springfield and 30th Ave and Clover Lane, right Sid...anyways, one day at Baker me and Bobby Graham and Donald Adkins got hold of a broom stick and decided we were gonna play half ball in the gym....Well Coach Henry Gresham had came from Central by then to take Coach Ball's place and he walks in the gym and sees us and proceeds to march all of us out of the gym door and out that iron gate going out back toward the track and stops us out back and says..."Yall boys see that field way down dare on da udder side of dat dare track"...(he actually talked like that...lol) of course we didnt answer, we just nodded, and he says "Welp boys dat dare is what day call a baseball field and next time yall git da hankering to play baseball yall can take yalls skinny little dumba$$es down dat a'way", now git da hell outta here!!!"

Rodney Wolfinger '69

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 05:28 PM

Sid, Rod, Larry,

You guys stirred up some great memories for me about the good ole days at Baker and the boys' club.  Sid, you are right about Terry Howard and Larmar Taylor.  Dem boys could play.  Concerning Stokes shot, it was at the free throw line at the other end of the court.  He got the rebound and got to the line and threw the ball and of course, it stripped the net.  That kept the 30-0 streak going.  I was on Jr. Varsity and we had beat Jordan in the earlier game.  Hope you guys remember when Benny Brock had sunk a couple of long shots from the baseline and was hot as a pistol.  He got the ball and dribbled a few times and was called for traveling.  Benny had had several bad calls on him  earlier and he threw the ball at the ref and was ejected from the game.  If yall recall, the game was in overtime when Stokes made that shot.  Tommy Bryant sank the shot that sent the game into overtime.  Never forget it.

Sorry, did not mean to rant on. 

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:10 PM

HEY GUYS,

REMEMBER THE NEXT DAY WAS DECLARED "MIKE STOKES DAY" AFTER THAT HALF COURT SHOT!

RODNEY, I REMEMBER THE J.V. GAME TOO!!!!!

JUST WANTED TO ADD MY 2 CENTS WORTH IN.

JEANNE

 

LOVE AND MISS ALL THE "LION FAMILY"
JEANNE

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:11 PM

ROY....you aint rantin one bit...that stuff is great stuff, even if you did leave out the fact that the Freshman team beat Jordan that day also to keep our record like 25 or 26 and 0!!....i still remember that jump shot Bryant hit with like 2 seconds to go...if i remember correctly Stokes had actually drove the baseline toward the basket to try and shoot but he had like 3 LintHeads on him and all he could do was pass the ball back out to Bryant and Tommy hit a jump shot from right, beside the foul line....GREAT STUFF!!...i also remember Benny scoring like 31 points in a game that year also...

Rodney Wolfinger '69

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:15 PM

let me see if i can be politically correct on this next memory of our school building...lol.....does anyone remember those 2 little rooms upstairs on each side of the stage in the auditorium?...they were little bitty rooms that pretty much served no purpose....well i mean no purpose as far as school was concerned...lol....what they did do was afford us a place to slip off with a person of the opposite sex for some extra "study" time...hehehehe....the subject I liked to go up there and study was usually Anatomy...lol

Rodney Wolfinger '69

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:23 PM

Lord have mercy...what memories.  Names, scores made in the last seconds of a game and probably who sat where on the bleachers.  I can't remember where I put my reading glasses....oh, there they are...on my head!!!!

I remember being in Beta Tri-Hi-Y.  Miss Skinner was the sponsor.  She didn't attend a couple of the crucial meetings.  One was when we had the project to repaint the numbers on the parking lot spaces in the lot next to the senior wing.  Well, you don't just hand a big bucket of yellow paint to a bunch of girls who are obviously not artists.  We really messed that project up royally.  Some numbers were huge and some you couldn't hardly read.  The next day, the crews were out there cleaning them off the asphalt.  Skinner was so miffed but she wasn't there the day we were out there with the brushes.  We could have used Kelly Carney Villoch back then.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:28 PM

Rodney...the only rooms I remember were in the front of the building in the Auditorium.  That's where Ms. Appino taught Drama and Speech when the class would let her. Those rooms were pretty small and the seating was raked like a theater.  What did you find a broom closet? Probably had "Private" on the door.

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:31 PM

Rodney - shame on you!!!

 

Linda, cute story.  I remember Miss Skinner well, she actually told me one day that I would do much better in her class if I would stop smooching with Randy Phillips before class.  Well, I made an A so that theory went out the window.  I liked her though.  She and Mrs. Starling and Maj. Blumhagen were my favorite teachers.

Charlotte Scarborough

 
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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:36 PM

ahhhhhhhhh School building memories!!!....gotta luv um...i remember before I started high school, i think i was in the 7th grade at Eddy, my Uncle Richard Reis was the band director at Baker that year.  Well everyday when we was walking or riding or bikes home we would stop by the band room there beside the auditorium to see my Uncle Richard...one day some guy in the band comes up to us and tries to run us out of the band room cause "we werent in da band" as he put it...well being the little snot-nosed smart a$$ that i was my reply was..."I can stay here if I want cause my Uncle is da boss!!"...well a couple more guys walk up and were about 2 seconds from physically throwing us out when from out of no where this big booming voice says.."LEAVE MY NEPHEW ALONE!!"  i know those 3 guys had bruises on their chests for a few days cause their chins hit pretty hard....lol.....on the days we walked back and forth to school, we would wait on my Uncle Richard so we could ride the rest of the way home with him...they lived across the street from us on Winston Road across the street from Mr. Leivendorfer....anyways, he would let us play around with this neat board he had that he made out the routines for each weeks football halftime show....it was pretty cool, it was marked off like a football field and had these little toy lookin things that represented each band member and he would work out which way each one went....cool stuff when you are a little kid....My Uncle Richard actually went to Florida State with Burt Reynolds for all you Seminoles fans...he was a great guy, he passed away many years ago but you couldnt have a better Uncle...speaking of the Freshman Center....my cousin, Uncle Richard's oldest son, Mike Reis, went to the Freshman Center...

Rodney Wolfinger '69

 
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RE: "MEMORIES OF BAKER" a pictoral and narrative scrapbook of the building and its grounds
Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:40 PM

LINDA....i had speech class up in that room at the back of the auditorium too....my teacher's name was Miss Thompson...all i remember bout her was she was "out sick" more days than she was there...lol

and LINDA....you are probably like most females, they wouldnt admit it if they did know about those little rooms over the top of the stage.....hehehehehehe......right J_ _ _ _ _??....lol

Rodney Wolfinger '69

 
RE: "MEMORIES OF BAKER" a pictoral and narrative scrapbook of the building and its grounds
Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:42 PM

And so is anybody gonna tell me what the Freshman Center was and where it was and why it was in the Eddy Annual instead of the Baker Annual? I'm still confused.  

 
 
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