Subject: RE: PE Again
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:11:55 -0500
From: "Byrkit, David -FWDC.CON"
To: "Dave Sanderson"; ALL

Dave:

Did Fogelberg really direct the Bradley band? I remember when he had the Woodruff band and Pekin stole him about the same time they stole Dawdy from us (as I remember, and I could be real wrong on this one). Did Fogelberg direct at Bradley and Pekin (or Woodruff, depending on the time frame)? I played briefly in the Bradley band my sophomore year, but I don't remember the band director's name. I don't think he was old enough to be Fogelberg. Also, I should have known Fogelburg at that point because he had directed our Midstate Eight band just a year or two before that.

If you remember Lawerance Fogelburg you must get a tear in your eye when you hear Dan Fogelberg sing "Leader of the Band". When we arrived in New York in 1975 Don Imus (WNBC) gave Dan Fogelberg heavy play. That and Jim Jensen anchoring WCBS 6:00 News made me feel right at home.

I made a big deal out of Chet Walker in an e-mail the other day; however, Chuck Orsborne was quoted in the Journal Star a few weeks ago calling Bobby Joe Mason the best player he ever coached (I hope got this one right--you know short term memory can be worse than long term!). Oh, Sully's doesn't have pictures of Bobby Joe or Barney Cable, Shellie, etc. etc. etc..

David C. Byrkit MCSE + I, MCT
ph. (260) 451-6219/(309) 637-1283
cell (309) 453-4663
e-mail david.byrkit@itt.com

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Subject: Re: PE Again

I remember TV and radio announcers Jack Brickhouse doing Bear games, Dizzy Dean with weekend baseball, Red Grange with weekend football, Chick Hearn with Bradley basketball, Harry Carey with St. Louis Billiken basketball and Cardinal baseball and Howard Cosell doing boxing.

I remember going to a lot of Bradley basketball games and seeing such notables as Elgin Baylor, Lenny Wilkins, Stan Albeck, Bob Ferry, Bobby Joe Mason (Globetrotter fame), and Chet the Jet. Who can forget the leader of the Bradley band, Lawerance Fogelberg.

I remember car pooling to PHS. Lee Swardinski's dad's cigars first thing in the morning on a cool crisp day and Larry Norton driving the green Falcon and being broadsided only a couple of blocks from school. Jim Collier took the hit while sitting next to the right rear passenger door. Thank God no one was hurt.

Football practice was a memorable event. Wind sprints, doing the hills, two a days, doing laps, no water during practice and never taking your helmet off during practice. What wonderful team spirit and companionship we had, however.

My past forty years in a nutshell: went to Michigan State, the Army (Viet Nam), lived and worked in San Francisco, Omaha, Arlington, Texas, Annapolis/Washington, DC, Saudi Arabia, Greenville, SC, Palatine/Chicago, and now Simonton/Houston, Texas.

I have been married to Beverley for sixteen years and between us we have six kids, ten grandchildren (the eleventh due in December), three dogs, twelve horses (the thirteenth due in May), a goat, a sheep, and a wild parakeet who has adopted our barn as her home.

My avocation is raising, training and showing Paso Fino horses. We have been fortunate enough to win several World and National titles with these animals.

Sorry I will not be able to attend the reunion but have a wedding shower to attend for my daughter who will be married in October.

I do plan on making it to the fiftieth, however.

Sincerely,

Dave Sanderson