• May publication ....

Music Memories

The 2008 monthly columns center on music, a powerful key to recalling long-past personal experiences, feelings, and events. Any subject with a musical tie that is remotely related to our 1956-1960 John R. Rogers High School tenure is fair game for an article. Indeed, 2008 is an exact 50 years after our 1958 sophomore year. That year, AM station, KNEW, on 790, featured DJ personalities including the four Bobs and Frantic Frank. Recordings were mechanical grooves in vinyl, often rotating at 45 RPM. We could purchase these at the Music Box in the Paulsen Building. Some top-ten songs dealt with teen-aged deaths, but most were love songs. Almost all popular music targeted teens. Sometimes this music was considered to be garbage by some adults, but it is easily found on the air today. Mr. Bob Foster directed the Rogers Band. We also had a chorus, an orchestra, and a choir. There are other kinds of musical tie-ins to our generation. Look them in two new MusicMems articles, monthly, at http://rogers60.com, through December, 2008. The Pieces of Eight navigation button accesses this series as well as previous series.

• Loretta Rose Merewether

Mike L. Merewether contributed this picture of his wife -- our classmate -- Loretta, holding a husky pup at Denali National Park last July. Loretta did not age with the rest of us!

• In Remembrance: Lewis Sabo

Read Wyatt Newman's tribute to biology teacher, Mr. Lewis Sabo. See the growing list of departed mates in Passings.

• 45th Reunion Web Gallery

Art Blum's pictures from the 45th reunion are in. The untitled set is here. After you click a picture on the rogers60-45th page, the center thumbnail is the current picture. Click the image above or below it to move to the previous or next picture, respectively.

• Gary Dinsmore's Grand Sweep of North America ...

Read Gary's journal of his and Judy's motor home odyssey. It is updated weekly.

• Crew Roster ....

EMail Mateys

The EMail button at page top left is live. Use it to display a roster of names and mail links to your classmates.

• Use the Pieces of Eight button to access all essays and recollections, including First Mates essays.

Three picture-capturing hints for Windows users:

1. Copy any picture by selecting it with your mouse, copying it to the clipboard (use Ctrl+c), and then pasting it into a paint program, such as mspaint (Use Ctrl + v).  Note, a click causes any thumbnail picture to jump to its full-sized version. Carry out the procedure on that target.
2. Netscape users may right-click, then select "Save Image As..."
3. Internet Explorer users may right-click a picture, then select "Save Picture As ..."

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