AH.....the summer of 1960.....
June 2, 1960: graduation at Will Rogers Memorial
Coliseum. Freedom! Elation! Sadness, as you looked around at friends
you hoped you'd see again, but knew deep down this might be your
last encounter.
In this section, we'll share our memories and
revive those feelings that may have been tucked away safely for 48
years. How did YOU spend the summer of 1960? Whether you were
tooling around town in a VW bug, or bouncing all over Europe on an
Italian motor scooter, the summer after you graduated has to be one
of the most memorable seasons of your life.
Maybe you started a career right away, or maybe
you were packing for college. Maybe you had known for years just
where you'd go to school, and you had already picked out your major
and there would be no stopping you. You even knew just what kind of
person you would marry. Or maybe not. As John Lennon would later
say, "life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."
Here's how we're going to share our memories.
First, click on the pawprint to register. It's
quick and easy, and will keep us all on the right track. There will
be many opportunities along the way for you to fill out forms or
surveys, and by registering once, you won't have to provide so much
information each time.
After you register, come back to this page and
tell us about your summer of '60.
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The left side of this page contains the form you
need to fill out to tell us about the summer of '60. In this column,
read what others have written (alphabetically by first name).
Carolyn W. Morris Dorman
My father got transferred to Houston effective that summer, so we spent the first part of the summer cleaning out, getting my college clothes separated so we did not take them to Houston,packing up, and moving to Houston . My two sisters were still in high school/grade school. I then went up to Colorado College in Colorado Springs for four years ----My father got transferred again after two years and the family then lived in Denver. Therefore, my hometown for graduation purposes was Denver ---not Ft Worth.
Carrol Payne Nokes
I attended TCU to take freshman English both summer semesters to get credit before I entered San Angelo College in September. I passed and was so thrilled. Also that summer I visited SAC and fell in love with San Angelo and the school. I met a boy named John Neal that summer so I was even more excited about starting the fall term!
Clifford Shive
I was a lifeguard, first at Forrest Park pool and then at the Berry Bowl pool.
David 'Smiley' Irvin
Can you believe, I just don't remember.
I did have an old '49 Oldsmobile that me and W.C. White cut off the top and the front fenders and welded the lights to the radiator.
It was a blast to have and we peeked all we could, doing no harm and seeing nothing but we felt so brave.
Loved having sprinkler fights on Worth HIlls Golf Course.
Great times.
Don Bobo
Spent my summer after graduation in hard labor roofing houses with my uncle in Fort Worth (never work for a relative). Remember falling off 2 roofs, fortunately they were single stories, carrying 80 lb shingle stacks up long ladders, my tennis shoes melting into the roof on those hot afternoons, and with my working hours being 4 am-2 pm. Tough work but made good money to then head to Topeka, Kansas to attend college. My parents moved there during my junior year and I lived alone in our FW home during my senior year at Paschal.
Gary Davis Campbell
Camping trip to Red River, NM, with Roger Brown. Met with Dave Stegall, Kay Harris and Bill Adams there, who invited us into warm cabins. Otherwise slept on cold hard ground. Damaged my car while doing stunts on top of the Pass, and managed to get back to Wichita Falls before car broke down. Called my parents, who said "See you when you get here". So Roger and I learned to be resourceful bums while getting the car repaired. I remember sleeping in the back of a pickup at a car dealership and at the firehouse.
Gary Giles
June 12, Summer of 1960 I met my wife to be ... Linda Sullivan of Van TX. She and her family came to visit her aunt who happened to go to Church where we attended. Linda stayed for a week & we went out every night that week.
I worked for the TX highway dept striping the highways all summer. I would drive to Van (240 mile round trip) as often as possible in order to see Linda. I saved what I could to go to school at Arlington State starting in the fall majoring in Electrical Engineering. I think I made $1.15 an hour that summer. I thought I had found the love of my life....& I was right.
Glynnene LePhiew Snyder
I went to Houston to work before starting at The University of Houston. I had spent most of my summers in Houston since I had been 10 years old helping my sister Yvonne teach twirling for the Parks and Recreation Dept., and I was the assistant director of her Houston Spinnerettes Twirling Team. Although I had always taught twirling during the summers, that summer I worked doing filing for the then Las Vegas Motor Hotel, which was new and considered really nice....pre-Astrodome, but I just HATED filing! I got to go on trips with the Spinnerettes and went to twirling camp at Sam Houston State to prepare for my being a twirler for the U of H Band, but, otherwise, I was basically totally BORED compared to my fun summers I usually had had. I was really anxious to get my freshman year started with sorority rush and practicing with the band.
Jim Shelton
Worked at Williamson-Dickie unloading box cars and doing inventory; played a lot of tennis; went to summer rush parties; dated Nancy Jones.
Kenneth Wayne Godfrey
The best part was going to band camp at Arlington State College where I met and made many friends. Steve Lewis and I started our freshman year that fall thanks to Lionel Edmondson (class of 59) who encouraged us to go to ASC and join the Rebel and ROTC bands. Steve and I double dated a lot that summer too (poor girls). He graduated, I didn't (sorry student), but did years later at Tarleton State. Sad to say, Steve passed away several years ago...
Linda Kaye Barnes Floyd
Getting ready to attend North Texas. I also worked at Monnig's where my dad was the manager of the basement. And I spent time with my future husband, Roger. We had been a blind date the previous Nov. 16.
Mackilee Bennett Martin
I worked at the telephone company across from "The Cellar" (remember The Cellar). A co-worker introduced me to Tom and the rest is history.
Marcy Horn Orr
Nothing extraordinary
..just "summer stuff" and getting ready to go to North Texas State University. In the fall, I, Beverly Atkinson and Pru Howard roomed together.
Pat G. Pinckard
Going to summer school at TCU.
In addition I was an independent delivery contractor for the Star Telegram. (paper boy)
Patrick George
Shortly after graduation I took a short vacation that summer of '60 with my family to Red River, NM. Then I enrolled in summer classes at TCU. As I recall, I took both halves of freshman English that summer. For the next three years I took as many semester hours as possible in both regular and summer semesters so that I graduated in May 1963 with a B.A. (philosophy major / history minor). I also began working on the electrical crew of the maintenance department at TCU. It was a busy summer indeed.
Robert M. Chamberlain
I didn't graduate with the Pascal class of '60. My family moved in the summer 1959 to Ponca City, Oklahoma and I graduated there. I really missed my friends at Pascal. In the summer of 1960, I worked as a mechanic at the Conoco refinery in Ponca City. It was unbelievably hot that summer and even hotter at the refinery. The job paid well, so I worked there every summer while I attended Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. I finished graduate school at Missouri U, was briefly an Army officer, and the following 37 working years have been in medical research. I am currently a Professor at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. My wife, Pam, and I live in Wimberley, Texas
Sharon Franklin Hutchison
About a week after graduation, I became the proud owner of a 1936 Ford, known as The Blue Bomb. It looked something like a Volkswagen on steroids! The running board saved the day when one of my passengers lost a contact lens in a gravel parking lot where we had gone to play miniature golf. Another favorite destination was Carlson's on University. I had great fun putting the Bomb in neutral at the top of Park Hill and coasting down to Carlson's, where we drank lots of "Rosies." (Wish I had the recipe!) I kept trying to re-create Rosies but never quite got it. I drove all the way across town frequently to get 19 cent tacos, but gas was cheap...I recall a gas war that summer when the regular price of 25 cents a gallon got down to 19! When it came time for school to start, I accompanied Lynda Painter and her parents to Austin to get her settled in at UT, then I took off in the Bomb to North Texas in Denton...
William 'Bill' Andrew Buckingham
I worked that summer as a grounds keeper on the TCU campus (mowing, watering, etc) to save up 'spending money' for my first full year at North Texas State University in Denton. I moved into a dorm there (scary), and started my Freshman year as a full time on campus student. What happened after that is another story........
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