I Am OLD!

I was browsing some of my old pictures tonight and ran across these old pictures from "Junior High School" - more commonly known today as Middle School. They were taken in June 1960 - probably the last days of 9th grade and about a month before my older sister got married. It is funny, I can still remember some of the names without even thinking about it and haven't seem most of them in years and years and then more years (almost 50!) We were at Runnels Junior High School in Big Spring, Tx. My father was stationed there at Webb AFB and I was 14 years old.

In this picture I see Mary Thornton (Schulke) standing on the edge, Judy Engle and Linda Manning.
I had a notebook zipper binder just like the one in this picture. Check out the radiators, the wooden window that open and the blackboard.
This picture can still gives me the willies. This was Miss Drake, our PE teacher. She and I DID NOT like each other and I can still feel my stomach tighten upon looking at her picture. I was so happy to leave junior high and go to high school to get away from her and then found out that she had received a transfer and she was going to! I had to deal with her for a couple more years. Not a happy memory!
Amazing how I felt pretty grown up at the time and now I look at these pictures and we are all so young! Children!
In the front right is Anita Horne Vaughn - my best friend in 9th, 10 and 11th grades. She and I got into so much trouble together and had a blast doing it! We are still in touch today and have gotten together a couple of times. Also - Cheryl Wittington (?) on the left and then maybe Janie Barber Stroud and Judy Engle, back right. I can't eve say that I have wonderful memories. It was so long ago.....I think I have forgotten all but about 4%!