Lincoln Northeast High School

Nadine Turner Jordan

Well, I'm back after a great trip to Colorado. We were lucky to spend a night with Karen (Jackson) and Paul True on our way to Beaver Creek. Was good to see them again. Now Tom will know one guy at the reunion. Stepped out of my comfort zone a few times - egged on by my seven year old twin grandchildren. Rode on a Swing Shot, which is a large rigid swing, with two people facing forward and two backwards, that is pulled up and back like a pendulum, and then released over a 1300 foot valley below. Yikes, what was I thinking. Rode an Alpine slide (like a racing sled on tracks) around the mountain in Glenwood Springs, CO. For those of you who are curious, you can see both of these on youtube by typing Glenwood Springs or Glenwood Caverns. It is pictures of someone else doing the same thing. The swing shot video gives me the willies all over again. Also went on a 1 1/2 hour horseback ride through a valley and mesa near Eagle CO. Who says we are too old to try new things.

Dan, I can't help but think the officer was supposed to land on his left side so people would NOT know he was an officer instead of knowing that he was an officer. Did I read that right?

Marjean my mom used to make sloppy joes with mushroom soup. Was that not the real thing? I remember a lot of your random thoughts.

Charlene, my sister was telling me that the State Fair is moving next year. How sad. You must make quilts. I bet they are beautiful. I did go through the Quilt Museum when I was in Lincoln earlier this year.

Is it just something in my memory or did this really happen. I remember being at a play off basketball game when Jan Wall shot a basket from mid court to win the game. Everyone was so excited and started rusing down to the basketball floor. The band started playing the Star Spangled Banner to calm everyone down. Did that happen!!!!

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Dan Michaelson

Hi Nadine, Actually the CPO is an enlisted man, He pledges to fall and land on his left side, covering up his rate and rating so that passersby will think it is a commissioned officer lying there.

Nadine Turner Jordan

Okay,I got it now, Dan.

I posted some pictures of Tom and me on the Swing Shot ride, Alpine slide, and horseback riding on my Classmate Profile site. Also one of me, Karen (Jackson) and Paul True, who we were lucky enough to spend one night with on our way to Beaver Creek. We hadn't seen each other for probably 20 years, but it was like yesterday.

Nadine Turner Jordan

Me again. This is a cute website full of more fun memories.

http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm

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Archie Tautfest

I’ve been rereading the messages from the last 6 months.
There have been a lot of comments about how well the Lincoln School District did in educating us and how well the class of 59 writes.
I think you all are correct. Lincoln School District did a great job. And if you don’t think so, you just have to read the messages that we of the class of 59 have written.
Although, because of modesty one of our classmates would never “toot” their own horn, I’ll do it for them. They have started a BLOG to showcase their writings.
If you want to read some, “ … Good Stuff…” go to:
Grandmasprosenpoetry.blogspot.com
If you like what she’s written let her know through the class message board or send her a private message.

Charlene Shriner Neely

Archie,

You are so right. There are so many memories here expressed well enough to appear in publication somewhere.

Nadine's blog is great. Thank you for getting the word out on it. I especially liked the piece about her Mother's hands.

Marjean Larson Gingrich

Please don't forget that I would like to collect a respectable amount of money to make a gift to the Lincoln Public Schools Foundation. If you write a check, keep it for tax time, as this is a tax-deductible contribution. I will write a press release to be sent to the Lincoln paper to announce our gift. Right now, I have pledges of %100.00. See you all soon. Marjean

Norma Nagler Harwood

As the time is approaching, I just want to say to all of you who are attending the reunion - HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME and I will be thinking of you all!

Nadine Turner Jordan

Well, toot! toot! I thought when I agreed to let Archie tell about my blog, he was also going to tell about his. Archie is the one who told me how to start a blog, and all of you can too. Just go to "blogspot.com" which is a free Google service and you can start your own.

Archie has written several short stories about a diner/coffee house based on the picture Nighthawk. He is very good at setting the scene and making you feel a part of his story. His blog site is mylifeofwritings.blogspot.com Check it out, you will enjoy it.

Nadine Turner Jordan

All of these memories have made me hungry for a Kings hamburger and especially their onion rings. Is the Pantry on 2548 S. 48th Street owned by the former Kings people and do they serve the same food? Thanks for anyone's help.

Marjean Larson Gingrich

I continue to be amazed at what wonderful writers my classmates have turned out to be, especially given what the high schools and colleges are turning out these days.

We have done a great job of recreating memories of our youth, and it recently occurred to me that there were some things that had their 15 minutes and then sort of vanished: i.e. Strontium 90 and the John Birch Society.
Any more "has beens" that you can remember.

Richard Spearman

Nadine -

The Pantry on South 48th is not owned by the same family (Larry Price) that opened Kings and the Pantry in Bethany. Haven't been there for a long time but they used to have some of the same menu items.

Amigo's, a fast-food Mexican restaurant that may not be a national chain, offers "King's Classics" on their alternate menu. They serve King's hamburgers, onion rings, thick malts, etc. King's menu may not be offered at all Amigo's locations, though.

You might also like to know that Braeda's Fresh Express Cafe, owned by the Everett (think Runza) family, has the original recipe for Miller and Paine's cinnamon rolls. They are baked fresh daily and the cafe is open for breakfast.

Marjean Larson Gingrich

Don't ever let anyone tell you that the LNE class of 19 59 is not the best class ever. When I read the message forum (everyday), I realize that people in this class know everything and know how to write about it.

Nadine Turner Jordan

Are you saying we are just a bunch of "know-it-alls"? I tell my husband that all the time, but sadly he doesn't always agree that I am right.

Carol Geerdes Kossack

Just one week from tomorrow is our reunion! Just wanted to let all of you know that during the tour of Northeast on Saturday morning, the little "store" in the school will be open. They sell T-shirts, sweatshirts, baseball caps, etc. - really nice keepsakes! The Associate Principal Rick Collura will be our tour guide. The school has really changed and most of the construction is complete - it is really beautiful. Also, the photo of our class will be at 8 PM on Friday night. Looking forward to seeing all of you,
Carol

Charles Hawkins

The Don and Millies places here in Omaha come as close to the old Kings menu as I have found and if you look around their they are using some of the pictures from Bethany Kings. I know because I found myself in a couple of them. See if the one in Lincoln does this.


Chuck Hawkins

Mary Robinson Marx

Goodness and Wow! You all have been busy since I last logged on to the chat forum. We just had a family wedding among other summer activities so I have not been keeping up. Norma...nice to see you here. Wish you were coming. I remember a wonderful slumber party in your upstairs loft. What a great room!

I loved Kings burgers and onions rings as well. My mouth is watering right now just thinking about them. I can remember driving back and forth between the Northeast Kings and the South Street Kings where we would find kids from Lincoln High and Southeast High.

This is a total digression but I got to thinking about something I remember happening while growing up in the Huntington area. I bring it up not only because it is a true story but wondering if any other girls had similar encounters. The first time the incident happened was while Louise and I were walking to Felicity Blum’s house for her birthday party. We were early elementary age. A man in a car drove by us and slowed down. We noticed that he was scratching himself. Being the “smart-alecky” little girls we were we hollered “Scratchy!” to him and he drove off. It was a few years later when we were in fourth grade that we had another encounter with him. We were pulling a red wagon down to the lumber mill just north of our house on Knox wanting to get some lumber for a clubhouse we were making. We had gotten several yards into the big field when a car pulled up with the man scratching himself. We hollered “Scratchy!” again and he drove his car around to the west side street of the field and got out with what we thought looked like a gun. We were so scared that we left the wagon and ran lickety-split back to my house and told my mother about it. She walked down with us to get our wagon and by then the guy was gone. I remember one more incident when I was walking home from Northeast alone on Adams Street when a man in a car pulled up and slowed with the same scratchy motions. I walked off quickly and fortunately Adams was busy enough that other cars came by and he left. You all may really laugh about this but it was many years into my adulthood before I thought about this again and that is when it dawned on me what really was happening. We were fortunate that nothing more took place. When I read about these young girls getting kidnapped and worse it makes me think about “scratchy.”

Well, I am looking forward to seeing those who show up next week. I know we will miss the ones who won't be there.

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Dan Michaelson

There is a Don and Millie's here in Lincoln, way south on 56th Street. They do have many items that were on the old King's menu. There are also pictures on their walls of persons at the old "Northeast" King's. Another place where the hamburgers are similar to King's is Runza, which are all over the place. The closest one to Northeast is at 56th and Holdrege. The Amigo's/Kings classic restaurants are a local chain with corporate offices here in Lincoln. Their menu also includes cheese frenchies. University place has one of these restaurants, located at 48th and Leighton. I guess we here in Lincoln take these places for granted. I know I did miss them when I was away in the Navy for 20 years.

Sandra Sommer Sheldon

Wow! I should have been reading this a long time ago – it took most of one evening to get through. I’m amazed at the great poetry and the details that you all remember! Here are a few more memories that haven’t been recorded by someone else:

I saw the date of 1953 recently referenced as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, and that would have been when we were in 5th or 6th grade at Huntington. Mary Robinson was in my class and we were all invited to walk the 2 blocks to her house to watch it on television. What a treat, as most of us did not have TV at home.

Probably in the late 50’s, a friend from Lincoln High and I went to the Elvis Presley concert at the Coliseum on the UNL campus. The tickets were $10 each for seats that were so high in the balcony that we could barely see Elvis when he finally came on stage, after what must have been two hours of intro entertainment. We rode home after 11 pm on the city bus, then walked two blocks with no fears or worries! The next day in Mrs. Short’s gym class there were some girls who had been to the concert and were in the screaming bunch down in front of the stage.

When I was in college, I had a date for a football game, and my escort commented on every play. It occurred to me that I had never actually watched a football game before, and had no idea about the strategy or rules of the game! I had been to every home LNE game and a few out of town with the band; and we went to a lot of the UNL games with a 50 cent ticket for the Knothole club to sit in the bleachers under the north goal-post. We stopped by Gold’s to get a red feather with the white “N” sticker, ate popcorn and candy apples, and that was the excitement of football for me.

The Charles Starkweather murders are not easily forgotten. I remember coming home after school to a distraught mother who was so glad to see us, since no one knew where he would go next, and people were staying off the streets. The radio announcers cautioned people to keep their garage doors closed and to not answer the door. When I was a student at York College, we held several devotionals at the women’s prison at York, and Caril Fugate was there. She appeared very distant and non-participating; and the counselor who was with us noted that she was unresponsive and cold to any gesture of concern or conversation. I saw an interview with her when she was finally released and she actually cried when she talked about the murders of her family and how much of her youth she had missed. She said “Nebraska” had not been good to her, and she was moving to a different state. I often wonder what happened to her after that.

Looking forward to this weekend in Lincoln!

Nadine Turner Jordan

We have just spent the weekend with Tom's distant cousins from Germany. Gisela, Klaus (early 60's) and son Frank (34) stayed with us two nights and we had an open house on Sunday with about 30+ relatives stopping by. Frank speaks English quite well, Klaus understands and speaks some English, and Gisela knows only a few words. We got along great inspite of any language barrier. It was as much fun as I had anticipated.

Now the next weekend I have been anticipating is less than a week away. Unbelievable. See you all soon.

Nadine Turner Jordan

My brother-in-law saw this in the paper about a week ago but just told me yesterday. Fortunately, it wasn't me. But how wierd is it that there was another Nadine Turner!!! Only those with really uncommon first names would probably understand.

"Turner, Nadine Mary Louise. Nadine Turner, 59 of Plymouth MN, passed away suddenly Sept. 4, 2009 of a heart attack . . . She was known as Grandma Deanie and was the heart of her family."

Nadine Turner Jordan

Check out this link. It contains precious photographs of newborn babies and the photographer is from NEBRAKSA.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32795587/from/ET/?beginSlide=1

Vern Good

I left Lincoln over forty years ago with the top down on my convertible, a case of beer and a carton of Winston cigarettes.

Returning today for our fifty year reunion in a gutless rental car, with a six pack of bottled water and two packs of Freedent chewing gum. Do I know how to live or what?

Gary Palmer, wherever you are dude, I'm thinking of you #34 and starting to tear up. Wish you were here.

Vern

Winona Beckman Walbridge

The first night of our reunion was fantastic! Jan Monk, you worked so hard to get there, and I want you to know how proud we all are of you. You have more fortitude than all of us put together. It did our hearts good to know that we meant so much to you. See you Saturday.