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A WHS Class of '68 site. Reunion pics posted. Stop in and keep us posted. Has there been a year quite like '68 in America since?
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By the time we got to the 40th anniversary of Woodstock...
“...wherever you look, over the past 40 years, nationalism and capitalism have triumphed,” and that “most of us who had the good fortune to be part of the ’60s are plain discouraged.” Still, “smiling…
Started by John Dingledy Aug. 31, 2009.
Dissed by the Bitch Daniels
http://www.indy.com/posts/daniels-to-butler-grads- baby boomers: "As a group, we have been self-centered, self-absorbed, self-indulgent and all too often just plain selfish," Gov. Mitch Daniels said…
Started by John Dingledy May. 10, 2009.
Old is in.
Since it appears that nobody is ever going to be able to afford to retire, we’re moving into an era in which having your car fixed or your tonsils removed by a 75-year-old will need to seem normal.…
Started by John Dingledy Feb. 28, 2009.
Say It Isn't So
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11rich.h Bernie Madoff, at least, can still revive what remains of our deadened capacity for outrage, so can those who pulled off Washington’s Ponzi schemes.…
Started by John Dingledy Jan. 12, 2009.
Politics of Hate
None of the pundits imagined that Richard Nixon, the sweaty, shifty-eyed loser to JFK in 1960, could take the GOP nomination. "It simply couldn't be Nixon," writes Rick Perlstein, whose sprawling,…
Started by John Dingledy Jan. 7, 2009.
I’ve got a new year’s resolution and a new slogan for the country. 2 Replies
Stop Being Stupid By BOB HERBERT Op-Ed Columnist, New York TimesPublished: December 26, 2008 @ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/opinion/27herber resolution may be difficult, but it’s essential. Amer…
Started by John Dingledy. Last reply by John Dingledy Jan. 1, 2009.
For the sake of argument
http://www.deramos.org/2008/09/glossing-over-histo Democrats were in power during the Vietnam War, and the Republicans were in charge at that war's end. Today, the Republicans were in power for both…
Started by John Dingledy Dec. 28, 2008.
Aging boomers fuel 'brain fitness' explosion
Teenagers cramming for tests and people worried about "senior moments" can now turn to an explosion of brain-assisting video games, such as Nintendo's Brain Age; puzzles that are said to ward off d…
Started by John Dingledy Sep. 26, 2008.
Neither regrets his actions
In 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos finished one-three in 200 meters and lifted black-gloved fists to highlight civil rights. Now they bicker about whose idea it was and what happened in the race…
Started by John Dingledy Aug. 11, 2008.
Great Weekend! 20 Replies
Wow! What a reunion, and to think I almost didn’t go. To those of you that didn’t make it, you missed a wonderful time. Dennis Dickos and his crew did an absolutely brilliant job. Thanks Dennis. In m…
Started by Mike Vogel. Last reply by Mike Vogel Aug. 3, 2008.
There was more to 1968 than hippies and festivals
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/ writer complained that 1968 was a vile year because it had saddled us ever since with "horrid anti-authoritarianism." Because life's so much less ho…
Started by John Dingledy Jun. 22, 2008.
1968: The Year That Changed Everything
http://www.newsweek.com/id/69637 The 1968 election is four decades old, and yet we're still rehashing that moment—that era—in the 2008 contest. Why do we come back to it? And why won't it leave us a…
Started by John Dingledy Jun. 17, 2008.
Annus Horribilis: Esquire in 1968
http://www.esquire.com/features/page-75/1968-0608 up!Marked by two assassinations and an escalation in Vietnam, 1968 was a brutal and historic year. We just did our best to sort it all out. A look a…
Started by John Dingledy Jun. 15, 2008.
May 1968: 40 Years Later
Six City Journal authors recall a spring that shook the world. http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_sprin drugs, and rock and roll were strong options, but they were just that—optional. In my cohort…
Started by John Dingledy Jun. 14, 2008.
Troubles that US faces today were on RFK's mind in '68
By Peter S. Canellos/Boston Globe Staff / June 5, 2008 http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/20 it's tempting now, on the 40th anniversary of Kennedy's murder, to compare the traumas of 1968 to…
Started by John Dingledy Jun. 5, 2008.
Oops
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, May 24 (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama empathized with rival Hillary Clinton on Saturday for the firestorm she ignited by referring to the 1968 a…
Started by John Dingledy May. 25, 2008.
Indiana Wants Who? 1 Reply
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/articl been 40 years since Indiana’s delegates helped decide a Democratic presidential nominee – when Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and favorite son Gov.…
Started by John Dingledy. Last reply by John Dingledy Apr. 1, 2008.
That Was the Week that Was
March 31, 1968, was the beginning of one of the worst weeks in American history. From works by historians like Goodwin, Taylor Branch and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., it is possible to reconstruct the inn…
Started by John Dingledy Mar. 31, 2008.
The King of Reading
Then there is Art Garfunkel, who is not running for President but who has nonetheless provided the world with a list: the Garfunkel Library, a chronological index of the thousand and twenty-three b…
Started by John Dingledy Mar. 2, 2008.
1968: The Year that Changed Everything
The story of 1968 demonstrates that the truly brave presidential candidate will be he, or she, who finally acknowledges the '60s have everything, not nothing, to do with us. From Newsweek: The Boomer…
Started by John Dingledy Feb. 26, 2008.
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CRANK UP THE VOLUME FOR THE SOUNDTRACK OF '68 (& Other music of our lives)
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Blog Posts
Bored? Check out Wabash Apache Network
Here @ http://wabashapaches.ning.com/
Dave Norris, WHS '66 has a great blog going here with 82 Members currently, many of whom are of the Class of '68. Check it out! It has more activity than this rather moribund one, where I'll keep… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on January 27, 2010 at 4:49pm
I am Waiting
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
Of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on January 6, 2010 at 7:41pm
Rest in Peace Ronnie, USM 1968-71
NOBLESVILLE -- Ronald M. Shaffer, 59, Noblesville, died Oct. 23, 2009, at Riverwalk Village, Noblesville. Mr. Shaffer was formerly employed by Mike's Little Italy restaurant in Wabash, Ind.
He was born June 26, 1950, in South Bend, Ind., the son of Roscoe and Gertrude Gonder Shaffer. His father s… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on November 10, 2009 at 2:30pm
Boomers crash the party!
There's no buzzkill quite like getting a friend request on Facebook from Mommy and Daddy dearest. Not to mention the philosophical quandaries that result: Do I accept? If I accept, do they go on limited profile? If they're on limited profile, what do they get to see? Will they… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on July 9, 2009 at 10:00am
The way to be around for our 80th Reunion--we're young yet
Middle-age and older adults should be doing anaerobic exercise - high-intensity wind sprints rather than standard, long, slow cardio. Anaerobic sprinting types of exercise - running, cycling, swimming, cross country skiing - is shown by medical researchers to make the body pro… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on May 2, 2009 at 4:00pm
Everyone's Gone to the Face: We're Not Cool and We Don't Care
Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies
For what began with college students has found its fullest, richest expression with us, the middle-aged. Here are 10 reasons Facebook is for old fogies:
http://www.time.c… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on March 19, 2009 at 11:00am
In 1968, there was art everywhere and there were artists on the streets and crashing on the floor,
and there was new music, new poetry, new enthusiasm for secondhand clothes, street theater, and lots of love, not exactly free, but love anyway. There was also a recession and a stupid war started by pudgy-faced white men.… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on February 28, 2009 at 12:00am
Visiting Apache 68 May Be Good For Your Brain Health
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/does-the-internet-boost-your-brainpower/
Many people search the Internet for health information. Now new… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on January 8, 2009 at 12:00am
Bobby Schaaf In-Country
From the Oral History of classmate Bobby Schaaf (deceased) given May 6, 1985, for the Wabash Carnegie Public Library Oral History Project, http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/indiana/toh.html
I was born September 17, 1949.… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on December 26, 2008 at 10:19am
Merry Christmas!!
Posted by Dave Spangler on December 24, 2008 at 8:04pm — 1 Comment
It was 40 Years Ago Today (well, on Sat. it will be)
Listen Live Here at:
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Beatles/The+White+Album On November 22nd, 1968 the Beatles released a double album of eclectic music with no title or artwork & a plain white cover. It b… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on November 17, 2008 at 2:30pm
401K is now 201K
Sheryl Crow lyrics come to mind here:
“If it makes you happy, then why the hell you so sad?”
On the other hand, this article from today’s St. Pete Times about the GM Retirees having a rough go of it these days, doesn’t exactly make me ooze w… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on November 13, 2008 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments
A Portrait of the Ladies
Early second wavers protest Miss America in 1968
AP Photo
What Was Feminism?
The media went hysterical over Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and Republican nominee for vice president. She may have appeared to the public as an independent, capable professional woman, but to a par… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on September 27, 2008 at 8:30pm
In the Name of, uh, Mrs. Jones?
Current mood: amused
Category: Writing and Poetry
Boomer Mantra
In the name of:
Howdy Doody, Buffalos Bob and Springfield, Hopalong (not to mention Neal, with an "A") Cassidy, Our Miss Frances,
In the name of:
Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Superstar,
In the name of:
Larry, Curle… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on August 15, 2008 at 11:00am — 1 Comment
You may remember Author CN Hetzner from the WHS Class of '65
http://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-C-N-Hetzner/dp/1559211849/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216406751&sr=8-2
From Kirkus Reviews:
In the… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on July 18, 2008 at 2:30pm
What I Learned from Bobby Kennedy
June 5, 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Sen. Kennedy's assassination.
http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cruz/06.04.08/news-0823.html
Comment by John Dingledy
Certainly a capitalist… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on June 5, 2008 at 8:00am
Taps
God bless those who selflessly served in all wars. Perhaps some day we'll get it right without the terrible fight. See post on Bobby Schaaf's 'Nam which contains his oral history of his disturbing experiences and the video post 'Nam.… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on May 26, 2008 at 7:24am
Window Peeping: Links to Other Class of 68 Reunion Websites
Curious about other Class of 68 websites throughout the country? Click links to window peep. My fave so far is: Champaign (IL) HS http://www.central-centennialclassof68.com/3/miscellaneous4.htm
… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on March 12, 2008 at 10:30am
Visual Arts: Recalling class of '68's 'Good Girls'
Artist Marilyn Lysohir remembers all the girls from her 1968 senior class. "I decided to focus only on the girls in the class because it was 1968 and girls didn't get a lot of attention back then," says the former baton twirler. "It was a time when girls were restrained and had fewer options," she recalls. "Even in basketball… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on February 24, 2008 at 5:30pm
Not Quite What I Was Planning
Time reports in their Books section in this week's issue on a new book, "Not Quite What I Was Planning" (Perennial; 225 pages) in which people sum up their life story in six words:
"Revenge is living well without you."--Joyce Carol Oates
"Well, I thought it was funny."--Steven Colbert
"Came, saw, con… Continue
Posted by John Dingledy on February 22, 2008 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments
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