Columbus Elementary School of Oklahoma City (Especially the 60's-70's)

Kind of interesting to recall, that while I remember Fire Drills, and maybe one or two weather drills, (all of which went without indicent) we never had DUCK AND COVER nuclear drills. I am guessing they had stopped those in the early 60's . . perhaps a few years before my classmates started Kindergarten in Ms. Burns class in fall of '64. . .

But alas, I certianly remember this sign. . it always seemed a bit like a faded memory than anything else. I recently bought on off of Ebay that came all the way from Brooklyn. It sets withing reach of my computer, and at times it creates moments of idle reflection, and a veague sense of dread.

The thing that always went unsaid was the with regards to nuclear strikes, they would have been a disaster. The numbers of people demanding to get in would have rapidly overrun the capacity of the public schools as effective shelters. . .and those emergency crackers certainly would not have sustained anyone. . . the old water drums? Empty. . . Thank goodness we never had to find out!

Creepy sign:

Wesley here again: (I note this as all the different mods posts show under the same name/Title.)

If no one objects, I would like to delve a bit deeper into the movie "Stand by me." First by looking at how the movie covers the end of the boys friendships. For me, this seems like the seminal end of the story, even though it is not the final scene. (in the movie)

You may recall the movie largely leaves you with the idea that the boys walked all night back to town, reached the town in the early morning before labor day, said their goodbyes, and the writer and Chris go seperate ways. It plays out like this:

Chris and the writer have just entered town, and said their goodbyes before Junior High starts in a very few days. Chris has confessed his fear, that he will "never get out of this town" and the writer tells him his future is not set. They say goodbye and Chris walks of on a different path. (which is a dirt road that apparently does not go anywhere)

However the book tells a differnt ending. In it, hee also explains how the older boys took their revenge on the The writer and Chris. . Chris literally had bones broken, while the writer received a broken nose and was knocked unconcious.

We find out that Vern, was killed in an apartment fire in 1966, in the Bronx. He and aparently several guests were all drunk and passed out when Vern's cigarette started the fire.

Teddy would die in a tragic car crash in Harlow. Several of his friends were with him and were also killed. They were apparenty drinking and smoking ma*****na.

The story of Chris is largely unchanged. He was killed in 1971 in a Portland restaurant. Chris was not an Attorney at the time (but was in pre-law) and King notes the man who killed him had been released from. . get this, SHANKSHAW PRISON a week before.

He does explain that he had seen former Bully, Ace Merril again some years later. He describes it and the final ending this way:

"The '52 Ford had become a '77 Ford Station wagon. A faded bumper-sticker said REAGAN/BUSH 1980. His hair was mowed into a crewcut and he'd gotten fat. The sharp, handsome features I remembered were buried in an avalancehe of flesh. I had left the kids with Dad long enought to go downtown and get the paper. I was standing on the corner of Main and Carbine and he glanced at me as I waited in to cross. There was no sign of recoginition on the face of this thirty-two-year man who had broken my nose in another dimention of time.

I watched him wheel the Ford wagon into the dirt parking lot besides the Mellow Tiger, get out, hitch at his pants, and walk inside. I could imagine the brief wedge of country-western as he opened the door, the brief sour whiff of Knick and Gansett on draft, the welcoming shouts of the other regulars as he closed the door and placed his large ass on the same stool which he had probably held him up for at least three hours every day of his live -except Sundays -since he was twenty one.

I thought: So that's what Ace is now.

I looked to the left, and beyond the mill I could see the Castle River not so wide not but a little clearner, still flowing under the bridge between Castle Rock and Harlow. The trestle upsteam is gone, but the river is still around. So am I." >THE END< EXCERP 1983 (c) Steven King.

The same book also offers the story, "Rita Hayworth and the Shankshaw Redemption" The book lists the story THE BODY, in the CONTENTS SECTION under "THE FALL FROM INNOCENCE."

It did also strike me that King took the opportunity to offer a brief quip regarding the President at the time. . .Just seemed a cheap shot. But still a great story.

Wesley Horton here:

Lately, a comment from the movie "Stand by me," comes to mind. . The author notes, near the end of the movie:

“It happens sometimes, friends come in and out of your life, like busboys in a restaurant.”

Sadly for so many of the people I contacted years ago, when I started this page, that seems to describe those innocent friendships from so long ago.

And, yes, I get it. . . people finish school, start careers, get married and start families. Perhaps I was a bit nieve thinking there would have been a bit more interest.

It amazes me that I still get about 4-10 notifications that someone has visited the site, but most don't bother to post. I am still amazed that several years back, a woman who did not even attend Columbus, co-opted the other Columbus page which I had started as a business page (and allowed some things that a regular page did not). Heaven knows, I have never made a penny off of the page, and I remain a bit nonplussed as to her motive. But after some offline discussion, she finally closed the page. There was certainly some unique information on that version, that was forever lost because of her.

Yet, it seems that current times are catching up with the page. . people are not using facebook as they did in years past. The responses garnered from my few meager posts have been few.

I am certainly not thinking of closing this page, although I cannot think of any way to increase participation. . . and face it, the number of people who attended Columbus Elementry are pretty limited.

So forgive me for stepping back a bit. I think this moment from the flim captures it best:

SILLY QUESTION. . . The dreaded discipline!

Back when I attended Columbus ('64-70) we of course had morning, Lunch and Afternoon recesses. It seems the morning and aftrenoon recesses were 15 minutes, and Lunch was any time you had after you finished lunch and they blew the whistle to line up to go back in.

Usually recess at that time everyone was free to roam the entire fenced lot from the South side (with the swings, monkey bars, teather ball polls, and ball diamond) not to mention basically down to the creek and around back to where the pavement ended.

I rememeber the occasional kid getting pushed into the creek. . .But often the "duty teacher" was usually pretty busy with the whistle when kids were getting out of hand. I seem to remember the punishment for getting whistled at more than once was to be forced to sit on the little fence around the kindergarten yard. Was it that way when you were there? Sit on the fence?

I remember getting sent to the office once for behavior but Mr. Geis, just made me sit in the office. . no swats. But then a couple of teachers did give swats (always out in the hall for misbehavior)

What were your experiances (please offer roughly the year if you remember)

I am just curious, How many of my fellow students can name all their teachers at Columbus? Mine were:

Kindergarten. . . 64-65. . . . . Ruth Burns
1st Grade. . . . . . 65-66. . . . . Sharon Howland
2nd Grade. . . . . 66-67 . . . . .Velma Petree (Summer of love)
3rd Grade . . . . . 67-68. . . . . Lorilee Hollis
4th Grade. . . . . .68-69. . . . . .Francis Claypool
5th Grade. . . . . .69-70. . . . . Clara McCormick
6th Grade. . . . . .70-71. . . . . .Troyce Houchin

As the years move on, I can only offer a few memories of the teachers. .

Ruth Burns. . . Sweet woman with the patience of a saint. She even showed up at my mothers funeral in 1987.

Sharon Howland. . .I honestly can't remember much about her. Regardeing that first grade year, I remember one kid named Kenny who threw up in the hallway after lunch, and we had to stand there waiting in line (smelling it and getting sick ourselves) until we could go back in the room after the lunch recess. . .Her room was on the basement floor,

Velma Petree. . another woman who deserves sainthood for putting up with us. We had a halloween show on stage that year, and also IIRC one for thankgiving.

Lorilee Hollis. . She was the only one of two living teachers remaining alive when I started this page. I reached out and she was happy to help. I lost touch with her and presume she passed.

Francis Claypool. . She was working a masters at Central State while my mother was working on her bachelors (both in education) I ended up making many trips to CSU and participating in tests Mrs. Claypool was learning to perform. She was a kind and caring woman.

Clara McCormick. I believe this was the year they tried to teach us some modicum of spanish. I also had a brought a small octupus (that I bought on a summer trip to Rehobeth Beach, Deleware) to class for show and tell. . .and somebody stole it! Also that Mrs. McCormick was related to the farm equipment company. Oh and the endless playing of the Ray Stevens Song, "Everything is Beautiful" in the mornings. I think this was the year Leroy Leftwich and I got sent out into the hall for making noise in class.

Troyce Houchin: My first man as a teacher. He too, was eager to help out. -But confessed when I spoke with him that he did not remember much about Columbus as he only taught there one year before moving to another school. He did have a halloween party at his house and dressed as a monster in his attic and threw a styrofoam wig head from his attic to start things off. He also was famous for having me take a bite out of a bar of soap for saying "Screwball" in class. Tasted horrible but he let me go to the bathroom and spit it out and rinse my mouth.

Good times to be sure.

-Wesley Horton

I was doing a strange bit of research this morning and reminded of a CD, I purchased some years back, called TEE VEE Toons Commercials. A few, that brought back memories, and I suspect most of you could sing the whole thing as well as I could after hearing the first few notes: (Not all songs listed here)

-Candy-Coated Popcorn, Peanuts and a Prize 5:30
-I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke 6:03
-It’s the Real Thing 7:05
-Things Go Better with Coke 8:10
-Come Alive 8:45
-San Francisco Treat 10:54
-The Dog Kids Love to Bite 11:35
-Hawaiian Punch 12:40
-It’s Slinky 14:38
-Meet the Sw***er 15:37
-Oh Fab, I’m Glad 16:37
-Stronger than Dirt 17:14
-My Dog’s Better than Your Dog 19:30
-Dr. Evil (Meow mix) 20:24
-When You say Bud 22:17
-Here’s to Good Friends 23:20
-If You’ve got the time 24:19
-There's Just one Schlitz 26:25
-C**t 45 Malt 27:13
-Kent 30:38
-Tastes Good, like a Cigarette should 31:30
-You can take Salem out of the Country, BUT* 32:13
-Marlboro Song 33:17
-Like Father, Like Son 32:50
-See the U.S.A. in your Cheverolet! 34:35
-You can trust your car to the man who wears the Star 35:40
-Pick one up and Smoke it Sometime 36:34
-Hey Big Spender (Muriel ci**rs) 37:34
-A Little Dab’ll Do Ya 38:48
-Plop, Plop Fizz, fizz 44:50

Enjoy,
Wesley Horton. .

IF you are interested the whole CD is online free now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ix3YgglrPU

Just an interesting note. . .there is an ad circulating about Columbus Alumni Tee shirts. . .

It has come to my attention that they are being offered. The shirt uses a photo that I believe I have the copyright for, and sent them a note about it. (It may be someone else in the groups photo however -please let me know if that is your photo so we can give the correct person credit.)

While not officially approved, if anyone wants to purchase one, please feel free, I don't forsee any legal action against them. . Just an interesting situation.

Regards-
Wesley Horton
Columbus Elementry 1965-1971

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Just a reminder. . the end for the Columbus elementry school was pretty ugly, given that it gave many of us, a great childhood -Not to mention sometimes lifelong friends. Abandonded Oklhaoma captured some great pictures of how the old girl ended:

Columbus Elementary School | 40+ Photos | Abandoned Oklahoma On that fateful day, police cars and ambulances pulled up to Columbus Elementary as frightened bystanders watched in horror the events unfolding. Doris J.

Incidentally, I would let everyone know that Troyce Houchin who taught 6th grade 1971-72 before moving to another school had passed 19 Jan 2019. His obituary is here:

https://www.atokafuneralhome.com/obituary/troyce-houchin

Rest in peace sir.

(Added by Wesley Horton)

Obituary for Troyce Edward Houchin at Atoka Funeral Home In Loving Memory Of Troyce Edward Houchin 80 Years 0 Months 6 Days Troyce Edward Houchin, 80 years old passed away on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at his home. He was born on January 13, 1939 to Idis Lester and Maudie Mae Houchin in Lane, Oklahoma. He served in the

Remind anyone of a teacher we "may" have known in years past? Either at Jackson Junior high or Columbus? (Posted by Wesley)

Well, If anyone is curious, here are some of the events that happened nationally and in Oklahoma city around us, while we were in Kindergarden in 1964-65 School year:

HOW THE WORLD CHANGED WHILE WE WERE IN KINDERGARTEN -And we were too young to notice or understand

1964 Jun 19 Opening night, Cinema 70 Drive-in (Showing: “It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.”)

1964 Jun 24 Opening night, Hillcrest Drive-in, OKC (“How the West Was won”)

1964 July 02, President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law. “Abolishing racial segregation in the United States.”

1964 July 23 The First Arby’s opens in Boardman, Ohio.

1964 Aug 22 A few songs of Note From the Billboard Hot 100:

Where Did Our Love Go? #1
Everybody Loves Somebody #2
A Hard Day’s Night #3
Wishin’ and Hopin’ #9
Rag Doll -4 Seasons #11
The Little old Lady from Pasadena #13
I Get Around -Beach Boys #15
GTO -Ronnie & The Daytona’s #28
Dang Me #34
The Girl From Ipanema #36
Maybelline #39
Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah #59
Dancing in The Street #68

1964 Aug 2-4 The Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks one gun boat while two others leave the engagement.

1964 Aug 04 Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner. The bodies of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney who were murdered in June in Neshoba County Mississippi, are found buried in an earthen dam. (Mississippi is burning story)

1964 Aug 07 The Gulf of Tonkin resolution is passed giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on US forces.

1964 Aug 27 Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins has its world premiere in Los Angeles.

1964 Aug 28 Philadelphia 1964 Race riot. Leads to 341 injuries and 774 arrests.

1964 Aug 31, Started school at Columbus Elementary Kindergarten. First Day of Class. Teacher: Ruth Burns, Oklahoma city.

1964 Sept 21 The North American XB-70 Valkyrie makes its first fight in Palmdale, California.

1964 Sept (undated) Oklahoma State Fair premiers the new Monorail and the Norick Arrena.

1964 Sept 26 Gilligan’s Island premiers on CBS.

1964 Sept 27 The Warren Commission report is published.

1964 Oct 15 Craig Breedlove’s jet powered car Spirit of America goes out of control on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and leaves skid marks 5.79 miles long.

1964 Oct 31 Campaigning at Madison Square Garden in New York City, President Lyndon Johnson pledges the creation of the “Great Society.”

1964 Nov 03 Beverly’s restaurant opens at 2829 SW 29th.

1964 Nov 03 Incumbent President Lyndon Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60% of the popular vote.

1964 Nov 08 The Earnest Gann movie “Fate is the Hunter” debuts this date. Apparently, Gann was very unhappy with the effort.

1964 Nov 19 The United States Department of Defense announces the closing of 95 military bases including the Brooklyn Navy yard, the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Fort Jay, New York.

1964 Nov 28 United States National Security Council members (including Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk and Maxwell Taylor) agree to recommend a plan for a two-step escalation of bombing in North Vietnam to President Johnson.

1964 Dec 06 A one hour stop motion animated special, “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” broadcast for the first time on NBC. It becomes a Christmas tradition despite moving to CBS in 1973.

1964 Dec 10 Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.

1964 Dec 11 Sam Cooke (33) African American singer-songwriter is shot and killed by a hotel manager at the Hacienda motel at 91ST and South Figueroa in South central in Los Angeles, California. The hotel manager Bertha Franklin said she shot Cooke in Self-defense.

1964 Dec 14 Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (379 US 241) The Supreme Court rules that in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishments providing public accommodations must refrain from racial discrimination.

1964 Dec 22 The first flight of an SR-71 aircraft takes place on this day piloted by Bob Gilliland. It reaches a top speed of Mach 3.4 during testing.

1965 Unspecified The infamous Pei Plan the Central Business District General Neighborhood Renewal Plan. For the renewal of Downtown passes. It is a failure when implemented.

1965 (Undated) The CDC 6600 (The worlds first "Supercomputer) is introduced and has a clock speed of 10 MHz and cranked out an impressive 10 Million Instructions Per Second. (About the same performance as a 68020 Motorola processor in 1988, by 1993 that performance could be had from an i486 processor.

1965 Jan 04 President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his Great Society in his State of the Union Address.

1965 Jan 19 The uncrewed Gemini II is launched on a suborbital test of systems.

1965 Jan 20 Petula Clark, “Downtown” charts #1 This week.

1965 Feb 08. Fire devastates Jarman Junior high in Midwest City.
-Also, this day, an article, “Big Chain store Expansion planned” about TG&Y at 74th and Penn.

1965 Feb 15 Nat King Cole dies this day. (of Lung Cancer.)

1965 Feb 18 In Marion Alabama state troopers clubbed protestors and fatally shot 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson who was protecting his mother. This was the beginning of the Civil rights march.

1965 Feb 21 Malcom X is assassinated in Manhattan. The murder was apparently carried out by the Nation of Islam gunman Talmadge Hayer (Who was beaten by a crowd before police arrived.) One other gunman was identified as Norman 3X Butler.
They were convicted but later exonerated and sued the City of New York for 40 Million dollars.

1965 Feb 25 “Congratulations to Shakey’s on its grand opening” at 4727 NW 39th OKC posted in the Daily Oklahoman.

1965 Mar 07 “Bloody Sunday” This was the Selma to Montgomery march where some 200 Alabama State Troopers clash with 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. No one was killed that day. The march was predicated on the right vote for blacks. This was actually the first march and the confrontation occurred on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Troopers beat Amelia Boynton unconscious and the event was publicized. The third march was escorted by the Alabama National Guard under federal control, The FBI and federal marshals (the segregationist governor George Wallace refused to protect the marchers) Activist James Reeb (A unitarian Minister from Boston) had been murdered. Ultimately the violence against the marchers caused a national outcry leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Aug 6, 1985.

1965 Mar 08 Some 3,500 US Marines arrive in South Vietnam becoming the first American Combat troops in Vietnam.

1965 Mar 15 President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his “We shall overcome” speech.

1965 Mar 16 Police clash with 600 marchers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Montgomery, Alabama.

1965 Mar 17 In response to the Mar 07 events in Selma, Alabama president Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis of The Voting Rights Act of 1965 It passes the Senate on May 26, The House on July 20, and is signed on August 06.

1965 Mar 21 Martin Luther King leads 3,200 Civil rights activists on the third march from Selma Alabama to the Capitol in Montgomery.

1965 Mar 23, First crewed Gemini Space launch, Gemini III. Gemini used the Atlas Missile as a launch vehicle and was 75 feet in height, 10 feet in diameter. (Producing roughly 165,000 pounds of thrust.)

1965 Mar 30 Funeral services are held for Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo who was shot dead by four Klansmen as she drove marchers back to Selma at night after the Civil rights march.

1965 March undated, "The Negro Family, the Case for national Action" report By Daniel Patrick Moynihan is issued. Where he argues that the Black Single-mother family as caused not by a lack of Jobs but by a destructive vein in Ghetto culture which could be traced to Slavery times and continued discrimination in the American south under Jim Crow. At the time it was sharply attacked by the black and civil rights leaders as examples of white patronizing, cultural bias or racism. At various times the report has been condemned or dismissed by the NAACP, and other civil rights groups and leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Black economist Walter E. Williams and Thomas Sowell have praised the report on several occasions. Sociologist Stephen Steinberg argued in 2011 that the report was condemned “because it threatened to derail the Black liberation movement.”

Moynihan interviewed in 2001 with PBS noted:
“My view is we have stumbled onto a major social change with the circumstances of a post-modern society. It was not long ago in this past century that an anthropologist working in London -a very famous man at the time Malinowski -postulated what he called the first rule of anthropology: that in all known societies, all male children have an acknowledge male parent. That’s what we found out everywhere. . .and well maybe it’s not true anymore. Human societies change.”

The wiki article goes on to note, “By the time of that interview, rates of the number of children born to single mothers had gone up in the white and Hispanic working classes as well.” In November 2016, the Current Population Survey of the United Census Bureau reported that 69 percent of children under the age of 18 lived with two parents, which was a decline from 88 percent in 1960, while the percentage of U.S. Children under 18 living with one parent increased from 9 percent (8 percent with mothers, 1 percent with fathers) to 27 percent (23 percent with mothers, 4 percent with fathers.)

1965 Mar Undated The first African American Playmate, model Jennifer Jackson.

1965 Apr 03 The first space nuclear power reactor SNAP-10A is launched from the United States from Vandenburg AFB it operated for 43 days and remains in high Earth orbit.

1965 April 07 until Nov 1, 1966 The movie, “The Sound of Music” opens at the Tower Theatre.

1965 Apr 09 In Houston, the Astrodome opens.

1965 Apr 09 Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover of Time magazine.

1965 Apr 14 the In Cold Blood killers, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb Kansas are executed by hanging in Kansas state Penitentiary for men in Lansing Kansas.

1965 Apr 17 The first SDS march against the Vietnam War draws 25,000 protestors to Washington DC

1965 Apr 25 Sixteen-year-old sniper Micheal Clark kills three and would others, shooting at cars from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Orcutt, California. Clark kills himself as the police rush the hilltop.

1965 May 02 Newspaper Article Work to start on Tiffany House Apartments in OKC. (They are located on NW Expressway.

1965 Jun 03, Gemini IV Launch First use of extravehicular activity.
1965 May 05 Forty men burn their draft carts at the University of California, Berkeley.

1965 May 07 The U.S. Steele freighter SS Cedarville collides with the SS Topdalsfjore and sinks near the Mackinac Bridge killing 25 of those on board. 10 are rescued from the Cedarville, the 3rd largest ship to sink after its sister the SS Carl D. Bradley (sank 1958) and the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

1965 May 21 The largest "teach-in" to date begins at Berkeley California attended by 30,000.

1965 Jun 03 Gemini IV astronaut Ed White makes the first U.S. spacewalk.

1965 Jun 19, “Club fined $500 as Open Saloon” about a raid on Chandelle Club, in the new Northwest OKC United Founders tower. The restaurant rotates allowing diners to see the entire OKC skyline in the course of one hour. (Oklahoman)

1965 Jun 25 A US Air Force C135-A bound for Okinawa crashes after takeoff at MCAS El Toro in Orange County, California killing all 85 on board.

1965 Jun 28 The DeFao family moves from Brooklyn to 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island. The murder of all but one of the DeFeo’s nine years later on 13 Nov 1974 by oldest son Ronnie “Butch” DeFeo and subsequent claims of a haunting at the address by the Lutz family would lead to the Amityville Horror franchise.

1965 July 03 Tom Jones song, “What’s new Pussycat” charts #3 This week. -Note to Eddie Steele. . the movie company DID NOT give everyone who saw this movie and “Pussycat, Pussycat, I love you” One hundred dollars.

1965 July 13, 1965: The Environmental Science Services Administration is created, the weather bureau is part of it.

1965 July 20 Bob Dylan’s influential “Like a Rolling stone” is released by Columbia Records.

1965 Jul 28 President Lyndon Johnson announces his order to increase the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 and double the number of men drafted per month from 17,000 to 35,000.

1965 Jul 30 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

1965 Aug 06 Voting rights Act signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson

We actually started our summer vacation on May 27, 1965