Sarah DuPuy Rapp,

Thanks for chipping in on some P'Town human interest history.  The things I have heard about Sarah and John Rapp speak of great people with a wonderful love for one another.   Jim speaks of you two with reverence.  He once told me he used to walk home from McKinley Grade School with you two.

Sam

Mound park was where I met Lemon Elliott.while playing tennis. and Lawrence Daniels was in our wedding and was a very good friend of Johnny' s ..later when we met his wife we all became good friends. she lives in Boca stil// Johnny called him LD. he was a great guy. played ball at E Ky. my husband rarely cussed. and never took the Lord's name in vain.

Sarah DuPuy Rapp




From: Sam Kegley

To: Jack Plymale

Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 4:50:07 AM

Subject: Re: Cursing and cursers



Yeah, it wasn't unique to Mabert Roaders, Mound Parkers or even P'Town,

Jack. I obtained the bad habit, probably while at the park. When I was 16,

I believe, the Clark twins and Jim Smith and I hiked up to Two Mile Hill. I

sat on a cliff there and uttered all of the curse words I could think of and

then I asked God to take them from me. He did until I became Director of

Quality Control for the Denison Hydraulics Co. (Abex Coprporation) in

Central Ohio. QC is more like refereeing than playing ball, as in my

metallurgy job. When uncontrollable things happened I began uttering a few

expletives, but I left God out of them.



Joe Hedrick worked as a purchasing agent at Goodyear Atomic Corp. in

Piketon while I worked there.

Somehow, I didn't know of Joe as a Trojan or I would have had some

conversations with him.



Thanks again, Mr. Plymale!

----- Original Message -----

From: "Jack Plymale"

To: "Sam Kegley"

Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 19:35

Subject: Cursing and cursers





> First Sam, When I turned the computer on there was an indication of a

> message from you that I immediately lost for some strange reason. Had

> to do with Daniels and that I knew him. If you still have it, send it

> again please. The other reason for this note was my suggestion in the

> last comunique, that some of the mound park urchins might have handled

> colorful language from time to time. That probably was inappropriate

> and I apologize. We did have some world class cussers at Garfield. One

> that always sticks in my mind is Joe Hedrick. Joe was one of the many

> all-around athletes who went to Garfield. He was also a golden glover,

> starting guard on our 1943 team, tried to play basketball but didn't

> play well, but was an outstanding diver from the one and 3 meter

> boards Dove in exibition quite often at Dreamland. Our football coach

> in 1943 was Houston Elder. When something didn't go the way Joe wanted

> it to go, he would cuss a blue streak. Elders's reaction was always

> the same,,,,,,,,"Watch your rhetoric Hedrick" Like a lot of guys, Joe

> was reformed by a wife he adored. He and Joe Luchi married sisters.

> Luchi got Billie and Hedrick got Eloise. Both,drop dead gorgeous and

> an older sister the same.I still hear from Billie every now and again.

> Jack P.