forty65, vol. i, no. 5, 20 june 2005      www.TJclassof1965.com

 TJ

 class

  of

 1965

reunion website updates

If you haven’t visited our class website lately, check it out. Charles Douglass has added a “More Recent Photos” section you won’t want to miss.

Also, if you’ve had problems reaching the website in the past, you’ll be glad to know we’ve relocated to new web “home” where we are getting much better performance.

more reunion committee members

Sandra Scordo remembers that a favorite activity of hers our sophomore and junior years was managing the JV hockey team. As part of her duties, she quartered oranges during her 6^th period PE class – a convenient excuse not to dress out in one of those stinky old gym suits the girls wore.  

Wayne Blake came to our 20^th reunion at TJ on his way from his wedding reception to his honeymoon. His wife Linda took the detour in stride – and they will celebrate their twentieth anniversary (somewhere other than TJ’s back field) this coming August 10.

Billy and Kitty Bayliss, veterans of our 10^th and 20^th reunions, are also helping with this one, Billy as a classmate, and Kitty as a long-term honorary classmate (she’s a full member of the TJ class of 1966).

old news of the weird 

Courtenay Welton ( Alexandria , VA ) recalls taking a summer-school civics class at TJ in 1964 – and says that students in that class did some creative but peculiar things, such as eating carrots on cue. Were you one of them? What strange things do you recall?

Butch Blanton (King William, VA) and Richard Alston (back in Richmond after a couple of years in the Caribbean) brought frogs to school the last day of class our senior year – and released them in various places inside the school. If you encountered one of those frogs somewhere in the building, let us know where.

And several people remember an English class in which a fellow student (who was reading a scene from Shakespeare) leaped up onto – the teacher’s desk? the windowsill? The story varies. Does anyone know who the student was? the teacher? the play? the character and scene? exactly where (or why) he leaped? Let us know!

the tebahoes question

Lynne Rachal Chambers ( Richmond ) writes, “Oh, I remember Tebahoes! I was president our senior year of the girls’ athletic letter club – TEnnis, BAsketball, field HOckey, and Softball. Miss Todd was our sponsor (and we shared the same birthday). Linda King and I tied for most varsity letters earned – 12.”

more things to let us know

• Where were you in the summer of 1964, and what you were doing there?

• What did you do at TJ that was goofy or surprising or a little bit weird? What have you done since that surprised yourself – or that might surprise your classmates or teachers? (Tattoos, anyone?) 

• Are you currently involved in the arts – literary, visual, musical, dramatic – either professionally or as a hobby? Let us know.