Frindships with good Portsmouth people... Jack Plymale

Sam, for some reason, supposedly involving religeon , a lot of us were never particularly friendly with the guys from Central catholic when we were in high school. We called them" The fish eaters." among other nasty things. When I went into the Navy in 1945, I was sent to Denison Univ. for some early college work but it was a regular navy division and of all people, my assigned roomate was Dick Diehl, captain of central catholic Titans in 1944. By all odds one of the nicest, kindest. smartest people anybody ever knew. If he ever did a shoddy thing I never heard of it. After the war at OSU I was rush chairman of our fraternity and we rushed and was favored by Rod Kinskey who was captain of the titan football team in 1943. Rodney was little more worldly than Dick but the same kind of very bright, very thoughtful, very considerate people. How lucky I was that my stupidity did not deprive me of their friendship. They both returned to Portsmouth after the war. Rod's family owned the ideal milk Co. which they latter sold and Dick worked for and rose to the top postion in Ohio stove foundry. Rodney married a classmate and buddy of mine. Jeanne Dougherty, had 9 kids. They took their share from the sale of Ideal and went to Sheridan, Wyoming and bought another dairy, parlayed that into an empire of 118 convenience stores all of which they latter sold to Krogers. I hadn't seen or heard from Rod in years and found him today on facebook. There has not been a change in decency and kindness in other of them in all that time. I hope nobody ever said Portsmouth wasn't a good place to be raised. Jack P