Five Porstmouth guys at Breakfast here in Columbus Yesterday 2011 11 17

Five Portsmouth guys met at Upper Arlingon's Chef-Nette for breakfast yesterday morning.

Nelson smiled a little in the second pic.

We will exclude the OHSAA Director if he pulls another fast one on us like paying the bills and the tips at the chef-Nette Yesterday.  Before he left after a little over an hour, he told us that he wants to know when he might make it again.  He told me that his secretary, Molly, makes his schedule and he tries hard to keep up.  He truly enjoys his job and its myriad duties.

The popular director told us a few interesting stories as did each person at the breakfast.  Dick Hansgen has visited most every continent except Australia and one other in his work.  Dick has had Portsmouth reminders in various ports as a Navy guy in the fifties.  Nelson and Frank Hunter and Jack Plymale and a few other Portsmouth guys were in the same Ohio state fraternity.

I am trying to awake my steel trap mind (although it has been at the bottom of the salty ocean for a while) of all the good stories.  Portsmouth streets, neighborhoods, schools, people, etc.  Dr. Ross related, when somebody  mentioned Portsmouth Notre Dame, that it is now the smallest school in attendance in Ohio, with only twenty-five graduates, if my poor hearing has not failed me again.  I believe he said that there are 717 football teams and 800 some basketball teams.  Lucasville Valley plays here at Westerville Central tonight in the Regional finals and I may attend.

We took Frank Hunter's and Blaine Bierley's names in vain as they were not there to defend themselves.  I just talked with Smoky Gibson's wife, Alice,who told me that he has good and bad days but was just not up to it and, in fact, has not been out of the house all week.  I was unable to get Nita this afternoon to find out about our friend, Flip Spriggs.

SamKat aka Sam Kegley