Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on K one, the one you Trusty, Hi, you're on TV. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: Here we go and let's see. We have our good
Speaker 1: friend David in here today. David read Out is here
Speaker 1: and you've got a class reunion, probably one of the
Speaker 1: coolest year reunion ever, fifty year reunion at Sooner High School.
Speaker 1: This is going to be fun. Tell us about David.
Speaker 2: Well, what we're doing is it's a two day deal
Speaker 2: May sixteenth and seventeenth. On sixteenth, we're having a reception
Speaker 2: that night at Hillcrest for the class. Yeah, and then
Speaker 2: on Saturday, what we're doing is we're opening Saturday up
Speaker 2: to the entire Sooner High graduating classes from sixty eight
Speaker 2: through eighty two.
Speaker 3: My goodness sake, you're going to have a ton of people.
Speaker 2: We're hoping, so we're really hoping that we have a
Speaker 2: big turnout. We're going to have the old high School,
Speaker 2: which is now Madison Junior Highways Sooner. It's going to
Speaker 2: be opened from ten thirty to twelve for tours. Anybody
Speaker 2: that wants to relive the days of hanging out in
Speaker 2: the hallways and all that good stuff.
Speaker 4: It'll be open for that.
Speaker 2: And then from one to three, we're going to have
Speaker 2: a party at the park at Sooner Park, we reserved
Speaker 2: the bandshell, the big pavilion.
Speaker 4: We're going to have a group a band called Scrubs.
Speaker 2: That was back in our high school days when we
Speaker 2: were at Sooner and they're still together and they're going
Speaker 2: to perform. We're going to do a concert at the
Speaker 2: banshell from one to three. We're going to have food
Speaker 2: trucks there so you can get your food there. We're
Speaker 2: going to have Sooner Junior Golf Course will be open
Speaker 2: for a private event for any graduating Sooner High Lime
Speaker 2: as well, So bring your lawn chairs, your blankets, whatever.
Speaker 2: We're hoping that the weather holds out for us, and
Speaker 2: we're really really excited and it's all free of charge.
Speaker 2: Everything on Saturday is free of charge. We will have
Speaker 2: a donation bucket. If we get some donations, we may
Speaker 2: make a gift to the city or one of the deals.
Speaker 2: But it's there's no obligation there, just coming have a
Speaker 2: good time.
Speaker 1: So this is a it's so good you have to
Speaker 1: have two days. So it's May sixteenth, and May seventeenth.
Speaker 1: This is going to bring in a lot of people,
Speaker 1: maybe some folks that probably haven't been here for a while.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing I'm really excited about and
Speaker 2: working this. We have alumni that have not been to
Speaker 2: any of our reunions that are very excited about coming.
Speaker 4: So we're really really.
Speaker 2: Excited to have everybody show up and just catch up.
Speaker 2: It's been a long time since a lot of us
Speaker 2: have been together, so be a good time.
Speaker 1: My goodness sakes, this is really something else. We were
Speaker 1: kind of comparing notes and the more David kept talking
Speaker 1: about this fifty year reunion for a sooner class of
Speaker 1: seventy five. More, I'm taking notes for my fifty year.
Speaker 1: It's coming up here in just a little bit. Really
Speaker 1: know how to do this. This is gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. And it sounds like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: very casual but yet very very cordial, very fun, very organized,
Speaker 1: but also kind.
Speaker 3: Of free as well, kind of free care free.
Speaker 4: Well, and that's the thing we tried to do.
Speaker 2: We didn't want it to be a stuffy dress up
Speaker 2: big dinners and all that stuff. We just wanted it
Speaker 2: to be a lighthearted, casual get together and come and go.
Speaker 2: Not a big expense to to just show up and
Speaker 2: see some old classmates. You know, we're gonna have our principal,
Speaker 2: Dale Smith is coming. He's almost ninety five, lives in
Speaker 2: Branson and he's coming. Coach Beer Schmidt, that was superintendent here,
Speaker 2: he's going to be in attendance as well. So they're
Speaker 2: both excited to see some of the old people that
Speaker 2: gave him all trouble back in the day and all
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 4: But we're excited they were able to make it as well.
Speaker 1: Now, do folks need to check in or you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a drop a line let you know they're coming
Speaker 1: so you can kind of account for things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you haven't contact us on Facebook, we have
Speaker 2: a Facebook page Bartisville Sooner Classes seventy five Facebook page.
Speaker 2: Check in there and let us don't you coming, just
Speaker 2: so we can get a head count for that. It's
Speaker 2: we just want to make sure we have enough food.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: The other thing we do have just you know, Oklahoma
Speaker 2: in May, we do have a backup plan for inclement
Speaker 2: weather if if we do get rained out on Saturday,
Speaker 2: we are going to have the event at Sooner High
Speaker 2: School all at Madison Junior Highs.
Speaker 4: I apologize for that.
Speaker 3: What an easy slip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, back in our day, we had all our dances
Speaker 2: and stuff are in the gym, and this is where
Speaker 2: Scrubs perform was in the gym, and they've allowed us
Speaker 2: to have this event in the gym. In case of
Speaker 2: inclement weather, the food trucks will be allowed to park
Speaker 2: in the parking lot. We're going to have the cafeteria
Speaker 2: open for you to be able to eat in the
Speaker 2: cafeteria as well. But we're really hopeful the weather cooperates
Speaker 2: and we can do at all the park.
Speaker 1: My goodness sake, this is going to be one. This
Speaker 1: is putting on the dog. I'm telling you, this is
Speaker 1: really going to be good. We're excited now the Saturday
Speaker 1: one sixty eight to.
Speaker 3: Eighties two eighty two.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's when that was the last year Sooner High
Speaker 2: School and they combined the schools back together.
Speaker 3: Man, that's gonna be a lot of people.
Speaker 2: We're hoping. You know, it's hard in today's world to
Speaker 2: reach out. I don't we don't know how many people
Speaker 2: are around. We've had, you know, close by from those classes.
Speaker 2: But that is why we appreciate y'all letting us get
Speaker 2: on board and talk about this as well, to get
Speaker 2: out to him this way. We do have Facebook that
Speaker 2: everybody communicates today, but we thought this might be a
Speaker 2: really good way to communicate that as well.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I tried to tell my son, who was born in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight that, yeah, you're in childhood of the seventies.
Speaker 1: He says, really, I don't remember. The eighties got a foggy.
Speaker 1: Nineties are pretty cool. And now my grandkids way back
Speaker 1: last century. You graduated way back last century. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: but our cars were cooler, that's exactly right, and the
Speaker 1: grandma's or pretty and the music was really good. And
Speaker 1: the music they're still playing it on the radio today.
Speaker 3: That's how cool that music is.
Speaker 1: And they said, they'll they'll say, well, yeah, they do
Speaker 1: play that on some of the radio stations.
Speaker 3: A lot of that, a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, you know, you didn't cost you an
Speaker 1: arm and a leg in the seventies to really do much.
Speaker 1: Your gasoline up until it got stupid, was probably about
Speaker 1: thirty five thirty eight cents a gallon if that. And
Speaker 1: when it hit a dollar gallons outraging.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, when we had the embargo and I got
Speaker 2: up there, it's crazy, like, oh my god, how can
Speaker 2: we afford this?
Speaker 5: Oh, but just hanging out with friends sometimes, you know,
Speaker 5: all it was is just cruising downtown, maybe cruising the drag,
Speaker 5: maybe going to your favorite place to get a hamburger exactly,
Speaker 5: grab a pizza, and just have.
Speaker 3: Conversation, listen to music. And we didn't have to we
Speaker 3: didn't have to set the world on fire.
Speaker 4: That's exactly right.
Speaker 3: Man, And you get to relive those days with your
Speaker 3: favorite in the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's we're really excited about that.
Speaker 3: I would I would. I would love to be able to.
Speaker 1: Have that kind of inexperience because that you're what you're
Speaker 1: offering right there. For the folks who qualified for that
Speaker 1: is it's once in a lifetime, folks. Not everybody can
Speaker 1: say that they were able to go back to a
Speaker 1: reunion to hear a band that played live when they
Speaker 1: were kids.
Speaker 2: That's that's what we're thinking too. When we found out
Speaker 2: they were doing this with a man, we've we've got it.
Speaker 2: And actually one of one of the members of the
Speaker 2: band is the older brother of one of our classmates
Speaker 2: as well, So we had we had it. But hook,
Speaker 2: we had a hook in there too, but we understand
Speaker 2: they've done that for another class as well, not at
Speaker 2: the park and stuff.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so anyway, we think it'll be a lot
Speaker 4: of fun.
Speaker 3: Well, you know that the Sooner Park is just so beautiful.
Speaker 1: You got a lot of shade there, you got a
Speaker 1: lot of cool green grass, and especially out there by
Speaker 1: the band show, you got a lot of the shade
Speaker 1: from the sun.
Speaker 3: So this is going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Now, the first part will be out at the country club, right,
Speaker 1: and what goes on out there.
Speaker 2: Just a little it's just a little reception. It's just
Speaker 2: and it's just for the class of seventy five. It's
Speaker 2: not open to the others. It's just we're just going
Speaker 2: to have, you know, our durors and just kind of
Speaker 2: hang out and visit and try to catch up. We
Speaker 2: just wanted to a place where we could just sit
Speaker 2: and catch up about things. And that's really all amounts to.
Speaker 2: It's it's very casual.
Speaker 3: You know something.
Speaker 1: I'm taking a look at you and you're you say
Speaker 1: that you graduated from high school fifty years ago, and.
Speaker 3: I'd be about ready to call FIBs on.
Speaker 1: But it's amazing, just how young people graduated in the
Speaker 1: year nineteen seventy five book.
Speaker 4: These days they look younger as I'm young time.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Now you were telling me that back
Speaker 1: in the day, Sooner High School had different classes of
Speaker 1: competition for whatever sport it was.
Speaker 3: It was kind of mixed between three A and four A.
Speaker 2: Well, Sooner we had the two high schools back then,
Speaker 2: Sooner and then College High, and uh, just the different
Speaker 2: sports had different enrollment requirements for their classifications. We Sooner
Speaker 2: was always three A and so College High was three
Speaker 2: A and some and four A and some. So we
Speaker 2: always had our crosstown rivalries anyway, we would play kind
Speaker 2: of like bedlam, if you will. But then there was
Speaker 2: some sports we were in the same conference as well,
Speaker 2: and then others we weren't.
Speaker 4: So that's the way that worked out. Wow, back in
Speaker 4: the day.
Speaker 3: Kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd think that, you know, two schools the same
Speaker 1: town would be just all at parody, but you know,
Speaker 1: things are the way things are.
Speaker 4: No, that's it exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But why I tell you why. It must have
Speaker 1: been something for football.
Speaker 4: Oh it was. It was pretty pretty heated.
Speaker 3: We'll leave it there.
Speaker 4: We'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine that.
Speaker 1: Oh man nine fifty six, and we have David Read
Speaker 1: out here, and we've got the fifty year reunion coming
Speaker 1: up for Sooner High class of seventy five. The reception
Speaker 1: will be May sixteenth out at the country Club for
Speaker 1: the year the graduating class with seventy five, but all
Speaker 1: years we'll be out there at Sooner Park the following
Speaker 1: day from one until three. Band at the band show,
Speaker 1: food trucks and a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bring blankets, lawn chairs, and just have a just
Speaker 2: enjoyable afternoon. That's our that's our plan. Just enjoy some
Speaker 2: of the old classic great music of the day.
Speaker 4: That's the whole plan.
Speaker 1: You know, something as easy as this sounds, I know
Speaker 1: that it took a lot of work.
Speaker 3: But it sounds like show up, have fun, go home. Yeh.
Speaker 1: But I know it took a lot of work. So
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, you know your team putting this together.
Speaker 3: God, I love you.
Speaker 2: No, it is great. I do have one little side note.
Speaker 2: One of our classmates, his name's Jim Pimberton. IM gonna
Speaker 2: throw his name out there. He got his radio career
Speaker 2: started at KWN back in the seventies and with Mingle
Speaker 2: and all those guys, and he always worked the night
Speaker 2: shift and some of us there's good buddies. We'd steak
Speaker 2: in the radio station at night and do his thing.
Speaker 2: And but Jim has gone from that and it's been
Speaker 2: a national DJ all over the United States big time,
Speaker 2: and he got his start right here. And the radio
Speaker 2: station has a lot of fond memories to a lot
Speaker 2: of us.
Speaker 3: I did not know that.
Speaker 1: See, folks, the more you know, tune it in every
Speaker 1: We've got a little something here. You don't have to
Speaker 1: go some college, you know, you just need to hang
Speaker 1: out here at the radio station. Well, I want to
Speaker 1: thank you for coming in today and issuing the invite
Speaker 1: to your classmates and to the others at the former
Speaker 1: Sooner Hand School.
Speaker 4: Thanks a ton for having us. We appreciate this being
Speaker 4: able to do this.
Speaker 1: You know, it's always our pleasure. And this is what
Speaker 1: we do here at our community connection. We connect right
Speaker 1: here with the community and make sure everybody who needs
Speaker 1: to know something that gets the chance to spread the
Speaker 1: word so others can't find out what's going on. I
Speaker 1: imagine there are a couple of folks here in town
Speaker 1: who might have just heard this for the first time.
Speaker 1: Others have probably known it for a year. But I
Speaker 1: know how this goes. But David, have fun, will you.
Speaker 2: Well that's our plan is to have fun and we
Speaker 2: appreciate it and hope anybody can make it, makes it
Speaker 2: out there for it, and
Speaker 3: You kids be home before curfew, all right, thank you,