Long ago on independence square (St. Louis, Columbia: purchasing, health, best)

[dmouse]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Very nice tribute, Casey

In another small world, I believe Doug married one of my RJH classmates and she became (or was already) a singer in their band

She might be the short-haired lady seen to the left near the end of the video

As The Classmen, "Graduation Goodbye" was one of their hits and I believe at the time it was the most-mentioned local band in the area. Casey, can you confirm any of this? Mouse?

My feeble old memory says you are correct about the band and song.

[CaseyMO]

Originally Posted by CatHerder

Or that there was ultimately nothing superior about the Raytown School District. As I recall, Truman High School was the better school in a number of regards.

I must be a tad older as there was no Truman High when I went to William Chrisman. In my day, Raytown controlled the acumen when it came to football. Coach Chitwood was a great coach, unfortunately.

[CaseyMO]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Very nice tribute, Casey

In another small world, I believe Doug married one of my RJH classmates and she became (or was already) a singer in their band

She might be the short-haired lady seen to the left near the end of the video

As The Classmen, "Graduation Goodbye" was one of their hits and I believe at the time it was the most-mentioned local band in the area. Casey, can you confirm any of this? Mouse?

Sorry, but I am no help on this one. I remember the name of the band and I know the names of the brothers who were in the band, but that is it. I did not even know they had a female in the band.

[CatHerder]

Hey there, Dallas, as I recall, you lived on one side of 51st St. and I lived on the other. We moved in the mid-'60s to that same area off of Noland Rd. that KC annexed from Indep. in the early '60s.

"Normal" is a matter of opinion .

Yes, graduated from M.U.'s journalism school, along with the rest of the peak of the Baby Boomer demographic, into a job market in which publications were folding right and left.

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Ha No harm, Herder Just joshin' you and a poster-to be-named-later. Glad to see you back As I recall you and I lived close to one another but I went to RSHS. A result of RHS overcrowding and under expansion All that was over and back to normal by the time you got there

You're Mizzou J-School?

M I Z

[CatHerder]

Coach Chitwood was still there when I was a h.s. student in the early to mid-'70s but I don't recall our teams being any kind of powerhouse by then. I attended home games as part of the marching band and that's mostly what I remember. #bandnerd

Originally Posted by CaseyMO

I must be a tad older as there was no Truman High when I went to William Chrisman. In my day, Raytown controlled the acumen when it came to football. Coach Chitwood was a great coach, unfortunately.

[CaseyMO]

Originally Posted by CatHerder

Coach Chitwood was still there when I was a h.s. student in the early to mid-'70s but I don't recall our teams being any kind of powerhouse by then. I attended home games as part of the marching band and that's mostly what I remember. #bandnerd

I don't have time today, but I will pull out my old yearbooks and see how Chrisman did in football for school years ending in 1960 - 1963. If my memory is good, which it probably isn't, I don't believe we won any games over Raytown during those years. Proof of correctness forthcoming.

[CaseyMO]

Originally Posted by CaseyMO

I don't have time today, but I will pull out my old yearbooks and see how Chrisman did in football for school years ending in 1960 - 1963. If my memory is good, which it probably isn't, I don't believe we won any games over Raytown during those years. Proof of correctness forthcoming.

1959: Raytown - 18 Chrisman - 7
1960: Raytown - 7 Chrisman - 7
1961: Raytown - 18 Chrisman - 6
1962: The two teams did not play each other
The previous year may have been the last year for the Pony Express League or it may have been reorganized to move some teams to a different league.

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by CatHerder

Coach Chitwood was still there when I was a h.s. student in the early to mid-'70s but I don't recall our teams being any kind of powerhouse by then. I attended home games as part of the marching band and that's mostly what I remember. #bandnerd

I can't think of good teams in the 70s Their best decade was the 60s The 66-67 team featured Don Poppelwell, who went on to be a consensus All-American at Colorado, back when CU was really good.

My first game was one where our poster Casey was at Chrisman, their star, Mike Maddox, suffered both broken ankles. National powerhouse, Jeff City, used to routinely come to RHS and kick tail. At one point JC had something like a 71 game win streak, which may have been a record Columbia Hickman beat them in 1966 "71 and Jays are done" Yes, JC was also Jays

Coach's wife, Bessie, was my ninth grade English teacher. Their son, Phil, himself a football star, died in a firefight in Vietnam around 1966-67. As was star Cary Smith, about the same era as Phil, in a helicopter crash again during a firefight I believe both were officers, not surprising given their tutelage by Coach and upbringing in Raytown

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by CaseyMO

1959: Raytown - 18 Chrisman - 7
1960: Raytown - 7 Chrisman - 7
1961: Raytown - 18 Chrisman - 6
1962: The two teams did not play each other
The previous year may have been the last year for the Pony Express League or it may have been reorganized to move some teams to a different league.

1962 was around the time both Independence and Raytown schools split and a new conference was formed, not sure if it was the Suburban 8 which it was when I was at RSHS and for a long time thereafter

[CaseyMO]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

My first game was one where our poster Casey was at Chrisman, their star, Mike Maddox, suffered both broken ankles.

I was at that game. Mike Mattox was 6'10" or something like that and was built well. He was a star basketball player at William Chrisman and graduated in 1962 before going to Oregon State to play basketball. He was a running back that was not easy to bring down. The night he broke his ankle, about 9 or 10 players were piling on trying to get him down. That was ugly.