Thanks Harry, A little tardy on your answer though......you can stay after school, clap erasers, and clean the blackboard.

Name: Sharon Stowe () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 18:38:22
E-Mail: stowe37@aol.com
Maiden: Ritch
Class: 72
Message: Bob Jensen you are correct! That sure didn't take you long. Jolly Ollie Orange started out as 'Injin' Orange but needed to be more 'politically correct' even before there was that phrase....
There was also, Choo-Choo Cherry, Freckle Face Strawberry, & Rootin'Tootin' Raspberry. ss

Name: Dennis R Romanoski () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 18:34:13
E-Mail: rome812@cs.com
Class: 1968
City and State: Middletown, Delaware
Message: hello california, although i did not graduate from hawthorne high, i accidently found your site while surfing....(no pun intended), and think it's a very cool website.....i have been trying to find the exact location of the wilson's (aka beach boys) childhood home in hawthorne...there seems to be some conflicting information on where it was.....i heard if fell prey to a freeway.....can anyone help with some accurate info????? thanks, and your web site is a very cool idea.....hope you all don't mind an ex drummer from the east coast jumpin' in for awhile.....remember EAST COAST GIRLS ARE HIP dennis romanoski
Hey Dennis, The Wilsons lived on the corner of 119th and Kornblum. That piece of real estate now has become part of the 105 FWY. The picture above (from an album and BTW, thanks Walline for the picture) is the actual Wilson front yard with Dennis Wilson mowing the lawn and Brian Wilson washing the Pontiac (parked on 119th St with Kornblum in the background). The other picture was taken a little over a year ago, from the corner of 119th St and Doty, and shows that the street no longer goes through to Kornblum.

Name: Sharon MacDonald () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 18:25:54
E-Mail: rmac@genevaonline.com
Maiden: Badger
Class: 63
City and State: Burlington, Wisconsin
Message: In the 60's we were mixing Funny Face Drink Mix with water to quench our thirst. The fruity characters had names like Goofy Grape, Silly Strawberry (to name a couple). There were plastic drinking mugs in the design of each flavor character and these are quite collectible. Funny Face Drink Mix was taken off the market because it was sweetened with cyclamates which was "found to cause cancer in Canadian laboratory mice...." Later they admitted that the amount of cyclamates fed to the mice was not in proportion to their weight, but cyclamates were gone and I had a bouncy, sugar crazed toddler on my hands.

Name: Bob Jensen () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 17:57:59
E-Mail: robertjensen@satco-inc.com
Maiden: funnyfaceisfuntodrink,askemforfunnyfacedrinks
Class: 71
City and State: Greater Los Angeles
Message: Hi Sharon Ritch Stowe. Could the drink your sister is talking about be Funny Face Drinks? Like Loudmouth Lime, Goofy Grape, and Orange Orange?

Name: Jack Risner () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 17:14:22
E-Mail: rencaj@netscape.net
Class: 74
City and State: Hailey, Id
Message: John, It has been your vision, focus and hard work that has made this the very special place it is, and will remain. Thanks for the direction and focus. Sorry for any inconvience. PEACE
Hey Jack, No need for apologies....Thanks

Name: Don Di Tomasso () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 17:02:30
E-Mail: dond@ix.netcom.com
Class: 75
City and State: Torrance, CA
Message: John Baker, you must know! Who is Yamma Ramma? A new cape crusader wearing a scarlet cape and gold tights?
I have no idea who she is. Anyone else have a clue?

Name: Paco () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 16:34:48
Message: Does anyone remember "Marge" the bus driver? She took me to kindergarten every day. Then later we raced, my bike with the risers and 10in goose neck, down 135th st. and her in her bus. I got to know Mr.Manion pretty well...

Name: Paco Goldberg () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 16:27:51
E-Mail: doo4usc@aol.com
Class: 61
Message: Beanie Boy, Hairtoe, Hairy, Narud the Crude, Big Daddy Doo Doo, Doo Doo, and Paco. Whew!!

Name: Sharon Stowe () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 15:59:29
E-Mail: stowe37@aol.com
Maiden: Ritch
Class: 72
City and State: El Segundo, CA
Message: My sister, Sheila reminded me of a trivia: What was Pillsbury's answer to KoolAid in the mid-sixties?

Name: Walter Holt () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 15:56:24
E-Mail: walter_holt_hhs66@hotmail.com
Class: 66
City and State: Mission Viejo, CA
Message: Soooo Sorry JB & fellow Cougars...Will keep it short, sweet & to the subject. (good thing ole JB wasn't a nun at ST. Joe's or my knuckles would be smartin for days).
Walter, No need to apologize....

Name: Elizabeth Estrada () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 15:08:40
E-Mail: elizabeth@casaestrada.com
Class: 69
City and State: Redondo Beach, CA
Message: My sister, Linda had a couple of nicknames. Olive Oil, because of her skinny legs, which BTW are still gorgeous and can burn up the dance floor, which may explain her other, 'hotter' nickname, Enchilada Estrada. My friends tried calling me Lizzy for awhile but my mother would answer the phone and tell them she didn't have a daughter by that name. So, Elizabeth it is. Does anyone remember the name of the short cut to the beach that was a bumpy dirt road from Aviation to Rosecrans at Sepulveda? It was a funny name but for the life of me I can't remember. xoxoxo

Name: Delia Garza () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 13:48:12
E-Mail: delia.garza@usa.net
Maiden: Yawnick
Class: 86
City and State: Huntington Beach, CA
Message: Had to join the nickname discussion.... I will share the few which didn't psychologically scar me for life....
I was Let's Make a Deeeelia, Dill Pickles (Pickles for short) , Dills, What's the Deeeelia. I was also given 2 by teachers. Greg Goode was my teacher for a while at HHS and he always said, "Hey! It's no big Deeeeelia" . That one got shortned to "No Big" as he passed me between classes. At Dana, Mr Johnson who always seemed to give us nicknames used my last name. He would pretend to yawn real big and loud and then yell "ick!" and I knew he was talking to me....
I think any name you give to a child will find an embarrassing nick name no matter how normal it sounds. So my boyfriend, Robert Hardy, and I have decided that when we get married and have kids we will just give them silly names to begin with. We are still working on the perfect boy name but the girl will be Laurel Ann Hardy. The other kids probably won't get the humor but their parents and grandparents should....
Now THAT'S FUNNY!!! And for a boy, "Paar D. Hardy"

Name: Walter Holt () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 12:29:47
E-Mail: walter_holt_hhs66@hotmail.com
Class: 66
City and State: Mission Viejo, CA
Message: Larry Biller.... If you are answering the Question regarding Who was the featured artist with Joe Cocker on “With A Little Help From My Friends” (Actually there are two famous artists). Leon Russell was not featured on that song or Album. However you are partially correct in Leon Russell working with Joe Cocker. He was not part of Cockers original Band, “The Grease Band”(which was actually Cockers Third band) formed in late 1968 and included: Chris Stainton(piano), Henry McCulloch(guitar), Kenny Slade(drums) Tommy Eyre(organ) & later included Bassist Alan Spinner & drummer Bruce Rowlands. Joe Cocker & Leon Russell met at Woodstock 69 (which I was fortunate enough to meet both there covering the event for RCA) & along with Denny Cordell formed the 43 person ensemble for the Madd Dogs & Englishmen Tour in 1970 giving the Troupe its primary musical direction along with playing keyboards. Leon Russell has been one of the major influences for shaping Rock & Roll writing, playing with & arranging music with practically everyone from Jerry Lee Lewis, Herb Alpert, The Beatles, Ike & Tina Turner, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan & too many others to mention...Thanks for bringing him up Larry. Jack (meoff) Risner your cronology on Leon Russell is correct. I hope I didn’t prattle too much fellow Cougars...Anyone know the answer to the question? (There are two to chose from). Also I would like to give Jerry Miles Kudos on his answer for the “Iron Butterfly”, they were the first band ever to receive Platinum Records in 1968 however not the ones to receive them at Madison Square Gardens which was the “Cream”. Yamma Honey Dont go gettin those twinkle toes too Burn’t.
Hey guys, We're eating up a lotta bandwidth here. Lots and LOTS of people don't care what the answer is, so please email these long answers to each other. That's why there's a space for your email addresses.....YOUKNOWWHEREYOUADDTHOSERUNTOGETHER.COMS Hey, I get off the subject too, but let's try to keep it HHS and Hawthorne, or keep it short. Thanks Cougs.....

Name: Betty East () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 12:25:44
E-Mail: bettye@amgen.com
Maiden: Wright
Class: 74
City and State: Thousand Oaks, CA
Message: Speaking of nicknames, I work with a women named Sugar. She has a sister named Candy. Their maiden name was Cane. I know what their parents were smoking...hmmmmm
I knew a girl named Betty Kant. She married a guy named Aegus; divorced him and married an Asian fellow named Wan. Her name was Betty Kant Aegus Wan OK, I'll stop now.

Name: Jack Risner () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 11:07:37
E-Mail: rencaj@netscape.net
Class: 74
City and State: hailey, Id
Message: Joe Cocker's piano player for Mad Dogs And Englishman was Leon Russell who went on to do Leon Russell and the Shelter People. He also had a couple of albums with Mark Benno (sp?) called Asylum Choir and Asylum Choir II with songs like Sweet Home Chicago and When You Wish Upon A Fag (referencing the British term for a cigarette). Leon wrote Delta Lady that was a hit for Cocker and Russell. Is that right Walter? Let us know. Nicknames- with a name like Jack and MY personality and looks? Mr. Meoff, wackaman, scamper, JackSh#*, Jackie Gleason, poindexter, JackO, Jackson, slippy, slip kid, Craze. Then I got licensed in radiologic technology and picked up X-Ray, Rays, Rayman, Gamma Man, exposure dude, glow-er, Rads, Rems and shooter. You know they are all good for a laugh. I think I am proudest of X-Ray because most places I have worked when they paged X-Ray through the hospital, they were looking for me and not just someone from the department. And I can still remember telling a group of friends I was going into the X-ray field and Bill Caldwell looking at me and deadpanning, " So what now? Do we call you Gamma Man or something?" and everyone just cracking up. The one that I remember cracking my dad up was Don Dixon calling my house and asking for Mr. Meoff. Dad just looked at me started laughing, handed me the phone and walked off. Life and times, times and life. Gotta love it! PEACE
Family show here boys and girls....

Name: Sharon MacDonald () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 10:04:36
E-Mail: rmac@genevaonline.com
Maiden: Badger
Class: 63
City and State: Burlington, Wisconsin
Message: Judy, you mean you actually "dust" the volume control on you tv! If it wasn't for the universal remote from the cable company, I'm not sure we could turn our tv on, never mind adjust the volume......
We have found that if you don't move any of the knicknacks, etc. on the furniture, then you don't notice the dust quite so much. Once we thought about hiring a cleaning person, but then we decided it would be too much work to get ready for someone to come and clean. Our final decision is that life is too short to spend it all cleaning, so we only clean when absolutely necessary (if the Pope decides to visit, if we lose the remote, if my loafers stick to the kitchen floor, if we lose the cat, or if we can't find the computers).
With Prom Night on the horizon, Later!

Name: Larry Biller () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 06:35:50
E-Mail: lbiller49@yahoo.com
Class: 67
City and State: Portland,Oregon
Message: Walter Holt: Leon Russell was part of Joe Cocker's original group and later formed Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

Name: Blake Withell () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 00:05:41
E-Mail: withells@idirect.com
Class: 67
City and State: Toronto Canada
Message: Re: Jim Cherry's comment on nicknames.
My Inlaws have a neighbor with the last name Cherry. His name is Don. His rules are. If someone makes fun of your name or your mother you pull their hockey sweater over their head and send them to the locker room. He is Don Cherry ex the coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins in their Stanley Cup Year.
You can make fun of a guy's jacket but not his family. He is currently host of Hockey Night in Canada. A great guy. Blake

Name: Mary Wells () on Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 00:03:49
E-Mail: lwells@gte.net
Maiden: Fee
Class: 61
City and State: Brea,Ca
Message: Susie O'Gorman please e-mail. I must have the wrong e-mail address for you.

Name: Don Di Tomasso () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 23:05:05
E-Mail: dond@ix.netcom.com
Maiden: N/A
Class: 75
City and State: Torrance, CA
Message: Yea...who is Yamma Ramma? Is he responsible for the power outages in Northern California?
Bob Poorman. Your name is not bad. You are not living "down" to your name. At least your last name is not Cocker, Organ, Finger, Sore, Meats, Butts, Meatbat, Bunghole, Clam, Belcher, Hooker, Murder, Dip, Trick, or Bush ...

Name: Jim Cherry () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 20:48:45
E-Mail: jndcherry@hawaii.rr.com
Class: 64
City and State: Kona, Hawaii
Message: I saw the banter about nicknames. I got hung with a good one. About my sophmore year my friends started calling me Poppa. My brother Tom Cherry , HHS 61 was known as Buster. Poppa and Buster Cherry.
Aloha from Hawaii,
Jim Cherry

Name: RAMMA LAMMA and YAMMA LAMMA () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 20:36:05
E-Mail: offtomexico@winter.com
Maiden: DING DONG
Class: veryverymucholongago
Message: Bobbie Boo and Walter Honey -- the two of us are off for Mexico for a couple of weeks. Doubt we'll get much 50's-60's music down there, but brother! Are we ready for some heat (no, no, we mean from sun)! Now you two boys keep practicing that dancin and stay true blue, won't you? We'll TRY!! Aren't all you snow bunnies jealous!!?? We're takin' our bikinis (and our coverups -- go ahead John John -- it's a "gimmie" -- we're waiting for an elephant or hippo comment from you -- well go on!). We'll be all tan and that's alotta tan! See you in a couple weeks. RammaLamma and YammaLamma
I'll be listening for a report from Greenpeace on a couple of beached whales in Baja, then I'll know you two are OK.

Name: Judy DeGrazia Blomsterberg () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 18:34:01
E-Mail: JUDYWUDY@att.net
Maiden: tommy'stune
Class: 64
City and State: Torrance, CA
Message: Hey John boy.. thanks for the TOMMY EDWARDS TUNE... but I really--really-love "The Morning Side of the Mountain"... and you know how I get when I don't get my Tommy fix. So, by special request... pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase... or I'll be right over at your house with my bull horn again. Tilly Noodleman.. (the squeaky wheel gets the grease)
The squeaky wheel also gets replaced.

Name: Walter Holt () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 16:54:00
Class: 66
City and State: Mission Viejo, CA
Message: Bill Jensen... You are correct on both questions. #1 is Joe Cocker & #2 is the Cream for Wheels of Fire. How about this: In 1968 Joe Cocker Recorded his First UK & US hit single, a remake of The Beatles “With a Little Help From My Friends”. The Original Recording featured another famous Recording Artist. Who is that Recording Artist & what Group did he later form?... Now as for the Nicknames, the one I was tagged with the most was Wallygator & the 2nd was Walnut. Two that I remember from HHS.. Donetta Johnson HHS 65 was called Donut & Another with the last name Meadows(I dont remember the first name) was Clover Meadows.(may have been her real name).... Cougars Cougars Bo Boo-ugars Banana fanna fo Fo Foo-ugars Fee Fi Mo Moo-ugars ...Cougars

Name: Bob Poorman () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 16:43:07
Class: '77
City and State: Wayzata, MN
Message: While I really sympathize with all the name calling everyone lived through growing up imagine growing up a Poorman! After all these years the name is STILL with me. Nuff said?
From Sharon Ritch to Robert Poorman; we have'm all here in Cougartown.

Name: Carl Rilling () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 15:00:05
E-Mail: cycleist@earthlink.net
Class: 1959
City and State: Orygun City, Orygun
Message: Again Ctown has put together 2 friends from Anza to Dana to HHS in touch. With the help from Sonja Laird Lindroth '62 HHS I was able to find my friend, her brother Harley M. Laird HHS '59. I was able to talk to him by phone Sunday Past. We last saw each other at Ft. Ord winter of 1964. Harley had moved around alot after the service. He is alive and well living and working in Santa Monica. He is not on line. Anyone needing his snail mail or telephone number let me know. Thanks John Baker. Without the information on this site I would have never found Harley or his sister Sonja. Sonja, is a Prof and is listed in the 2000 HHS Alumni Directory..
Great stuff Carl, That always makes my day when old friends are reunited. Thanks for the positive story.

Name: Sharon Stowe () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 14:18:06
E-Mail: stowe37@aol.com
Maiden: Ritch
Class: 72
City and State: El Segundo
Message: If we are still talking names, here's one for you. My exhusband went to Lutheran Northwestern in MN several years ago (long story) with a guy named Peter Lust. He is a pastor now. What were his parents thinking? I guess they weren't.
ss

Name: Anita Young () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 12:47:12
E-Mail: youngun39@yahoo.com
Maiden: Aceves
Class: 1978
City and State: Newberg, ORaGun
Message: Hey Keith: Glad to see you are alive and well and happy in Blue Hawaii again! Yeah, Kim Virgin was in my modern dance and ceramics classes at HHS in our junior and senior year,along with Eileen Holihan. Kim and Brian Perry used to pull the weirdest practical jokes on me in ceramics like shutting the power off on the wheel while I was throwing a pot, etc. Wish I knew how to get in touch with either one of them....but yeah, boy, the stuff I used to hear people say to Kim about her last name! Can't go into it in here, that's for sure!

Name: Judy DeGrazia Blomsterberg () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 12:16:26
E-Mail: JUDYWUDY@att.net
Maiden: Tommyonmymind.....
Class: 64
City and State: Torrance, CA
Message: John boy.. what a trip down memory lane, to hear TRANSISTER SISTER again.. God, I haven't thought of that song since it left the charts.. (where does he get um) But you "never, never" put my favorite, TOMMY EDWARDS on your hyperlinks..and you know I'd die without him.. or...better still...if I don't hear him soon, I'll just make every song at PROM NITE a Tommy tune.. and change the name from "ONE SUMMER NIGHT" to "AN EVENING WITH TOMMY"... (no pressure here) Now, I'm home today..doing my housework..(which consists of loading the dish washer and dusting the TV volume button) so call me and we'll talk. One last thing.. who is Ramma Lamma Ding Dong anyway?? and is there a Dip Da Di Da Dip out there too. I'm getting ready for our DOO WOP concert again John (bully) Rout! Tilly Noodleman with rubber gloves on.

Name: JIM SLOEY () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 12:10:42
E-Mail: 4WEEKSONTHEROADANDIAMGOINGTOMAKEITHOMETONIGHT.COM
Class: 66/84
City and State: REDONDO BEACH, CA
Message: Hey Danny, That was quite an experience not to mention the border stop in Detroit. Or the Legionaires we were going to thump in Harrisburg, or the word huh?, and the Stein and Berg awards. I am not sure I would do it again, ok let's go! Jerry I was not using the word Queer in the sexual sense! That never crossed my mind. Gee now I think you have really confused the issue. And Seinfeld was wrong!!! But just to set the record straight my friend Jerry Miles is not light in the loafers, a fluff, a girly man etc. etc. He is just a little strange, sometimes. {See 1976 picture at 10 year reunion--not enclosed as promised). Think the Ravens will win the Super Bowl Jerry?
Sloey

Name: Bill Jensen () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 11:42:35
E-Mail: william.jensen@trw.com
Class: 63
City and State: Hawthorne
Message: Walter, Joe Cocker is the artist that recorded "I'll Cry Inside" in 1964. On November 2, 1968 CREAM was presented with platinum discs for "Wheels Of Fire".

Name: Yamma Lamma () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 11:02:43
Maiden: Ding Dong
Message: Walter Honey -- I love it when you sing to me! Yourpoetryinmotionat PROM NITE 2001!

Name: Walter Holt () on Monday, January 22, 2001 at 10:55:57
E-Mail: walter_holt_hhs66@hotmail.com
Class: 66
City and State: Mission Viejo, CA
Message: Jerry Miles ....You are correct on question #1. It is the old Madd Dogs & Englishman, Joe Cocker. As to Question #2 No it Not The Iron Butterfly ...