WHAT'S THE BUZZ?

Posted on: Oct 03, 2019 at 12:00 AM

Bill,
Looks like I will be chasing the Big Boy Locomotive from Coffeyville to KC and through Topeka. Tuesday, November 19 I will be overnight in Topeka. I would like to take you and your wife out to dinner. Let me know if you want to, and if so, if there is a Courtyard close by.
770/861-8456. johnsull51@att.net. We barely had time to say hello at the reunion. I had committee duties. So glad you and your wife came. Regards, Haywood

Happy Happy Birthday ???? to you!!

Posted on: Oct 21, 2019 at 6:01 PM

Good seeing you at the reunion. I looked at sophomore yearbook and remembered we used fake names. I went with Irving and you used Gilbert (unless that was your name) . Who else was in on that plan? My mom was so pissed, she crossed it out and wrote Paul on the yearbook page. Also remembered you were our kicker. That was a tough job. Take care.

Skip, good seeing you at the SMS tour. When I got home I realized I have a CD made from a tape of one of our Rubber Band rehearsals. If you want, message me through the message center with your address and I'll send you a copy. Rock on!

I was at that Canned Heat concert. Can't remember who played with them, but lead guitarist Henry Vestine had a wall of Fender cabinets. They were loud and Bob Hite bounced around the stage. I guess you could say he was boogieing. Al Wilson was still alive. Goin up the Country.

Posted on: Sep 14, 2019 at 5:22 PM

Posted on: Sep 24, 2019 at 2:55 PM

I thought I’d move to your profile ??. It’s good to hear from you - I should have made it to the reunion - so many I would have liked to see - especially you! I’m hoping since Maggie lives in KC we will find a way to get together and spend some time. Memories that pop up when I think of you are varied - the spaghetti dinner we cooked before the dance, voodoo dolls (what???) spoons at the pool, your terrific family and sheltie (name escapes me) - (oh and the pet turtle from the roadside). Slumber parties, and the purple pen who is all over my nallwood yearbook ??. Do you remember erasing some people’s pictures in it? I laugh every time I see it.
Let’s get together - we are in south Overland Park now - would love to see you.

Posted on: Mar 25, 2019 at 4:58 PM

Hello Chris - I have thought of you many times over the years.
It was hard growing up - but it has been fun.
The photo is of my wife and I on the Sea of Galilee last May when the USA opened the embassy in Jerusalem.

Ray was a really solid friend. 51 years ago 9/21/68 we entered a car rally called Confucious Says. Very complicated trick questions necessary to find clues to the directions. I think we started near Independence about 3 and drove all over KCMO till late at night. Ray was the navigator and was doing most of the work. At one point he's leaning out the back of my TR3 and looking at a billboard of Len Dawson selling something, an important clue. Trouble was we were going the wrong way on a one way highway. We finally got to the party destination in South Missouri to find Paul Long and Skip Coons playing pool and drinking 5% beer. Somehow we took 2nd place and got a nice trophy (see attached). He let me keep it even though he did most of the work. Another fond memory was double dating to the Starlight to see John Davidson in Camelot or something. He with my coworker Susie from Zales Ward Parkway and me with his coworker Susan from Ranchmart. Wish he could be here. A great guy and fellow Drinking Buddy.

Posted on: Sep 15, 2019 at 10:49 AM

See you this coming week

Barry was my housemate at KU second semester of Freshman year.  This was the Spring Semester of 1970, when some real funky stuff went down, such as the Student Union fire, and Kent State murders.

Our house was a very, very funky house, and there were no cats in the yard. 1017 Delaware, accross from the real old baseball field, and the the Stokley Van Camp Pork and Bean Factory. The house leaned to the right, and it was haunted. I think the only way it continued to stay up was because the termites were holding hands.

Every day was a party.  I hardly remember going to class, but I had my best semester GPA when I lived with Barry. He was an easy guy to get along with, very nice and a good friend.

I got to see him last summer when he visited Glen Stinson. Still a real good guy. We had a couple of brews, some dinner, and told some old stories which made us all laugh.

Rest in pease friend.  I hope you find succor for your pain.

I hope you are coming to the reunion and joining us on the museum tour!! Will be wonderful to see you ??

Pleased you joined the website. We have a fun weekend of festivities planned. Hope you will make it.