I remember Keith Brooker on a Trojan basketball team back in the forties.
He was a good one and you had to be to make the Trojan teams. Some good
players didn't make it but could have played on lesser teams, with fewer
boys to compete againstm in the county.
Many of our school yard players at Highland school would have benefitted by
capable formal coaching which many high schools had then and now. Keith
seemed a quiet fellow, a few years older than me, but I didn't know him
personaly. By the tone of his emails, he has his head on straight. Go
Trojans!
You are wise beyond your young years Jack.
I hope you also remember the Gilmer twins. Bob and Bill were excellent
friends and mentors of mine. They were from your Eighth Street
neighborhood. Each was extremely bright, particularly in electonics. They
worked as engineers for Portsmouth radio stations early on, and Bob was a
supervisor in the Instrument Maintenance Department of Goodyear Atomic for
years. Bob died just recently and Bill, last I knew, still lives in
California.
In another email, Carolyn Lynch (Rowson) recently mentioned that Eddie Hill,
another important and quiet mentor to me, is still living there in
Portsmouth. I hope another, Howard Rase, who operated the Sohio Station at
Hutchins and Seventeenth with his father, is also still among the living. A
little of me dies when any of these wise elders, such as our mutual friend,
Clark Rapalee, passes this life.
God made nothing more interesting than people and our P'Town had, and has,
many of the very best!
I hope that you and Keith don't mind that I copy and paste much of your
stuff in my SamKat blog- www.skegley.blogspot.com.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack H Plymale"
To: "Sam Kegley"
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:57 AM
Subject: Fwd: Emails from you.......]
> Sam, I've forwarded stuff I have received from Keith before. He is an
> old frat bro from OSU but more importantly an old eighth street
> Portsmouth guy. Freshman at PHS when I was a senior. I haven't seen
> him in 60 years, but you can see that a bunch of friendships stand the
> test of time. He is retired and living in Dallas now.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Keith & Pat Brooker
> Date: Apr 29, 2009 7:48 AM
> Subject: Emails from you.......]
> To:
>
>
>
>
> -----
>
>
> I wake up in the morning ,
> And can hardly wait to see
> If I've received a mailing,
> Addressed from you to me.
>
> I get my 'puter running
> And much to my delight,
> Your poems, jokes and other things
> Come quickly into sight.
>
> Please keep those emails coming,
> They are so enjoyable you see
> Funny things, friendly things
> Those things you mail to me.
>
> But most of all the fun of it,
> Is knowing that they came.
> From you, my friend,
> The one I need not name.
>
>
>
> This is a test of the
> Emergency Friendship System
> Forward it (and to me too I hope)
>
>
> .....a Friend does most
> Or all of these..
>
> (A)ccepts you as you are
> (B)elieves in 'you'
> (C)alls you just to say 'HI'
> (D)oesn't give up on you
>
> (E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
> (F)orgives your mistakes
> (G)ives unconditionally
> (H)elps you
> (I)nvites you over
>
> (J)ust 'be' with you
> (K)eeps you close at heart
> (L)oves you for who you are
> ( M)akes a difference in your life
>
> (N)ever Judges
> (O)ffers support
> (P)icks you up
> (Q)uiets your fears
> (R)aises your spirits
>
> (S)ays nice things about you
> (T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
> (U)nderstands y ou
> (V)alues you
>
> (W)alks beside you
> (X)-plains thing you don't understand
> (Y)ells when you won't listen and
> (Z)aps you back to reality
>
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