Newark High School

Charles Price

Gosh guys and gals, Boy am I johnny (actually Chuck) come lately. I was in Nerk for my wife's 40th reunion and visiting with my in-laws. Bummer I didn't know about this website until late Saturday (8/15) night. So I misses the 68ers at the Grill, though I was there as a dutiful spouse of a 69er. My wife is the former Barbara Pricer of WCLT family fame. Now she is Barbara Price. I think she married me just so she wouldn't have to change her name much. She wasn't into the hyphenated thing Pricer-Price has a certain ring though!

Out of touch for so long but a lot of my crowd has posted, and I look forward to getting to know those other 68ers that I was too shy to know at NHS. Good to catch up a little through these posts. I put a very brief summary and a few pics in my profile if anyone is interested.

I will definitely try to make the 45th reunion if not seeing folks before. My email is cprice@pol.net and Barbara and I are living in Reno. The Reno-Tahoe area is a beautiful place to visit if anyone is in the area... Home phone is 775-786-2569.

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Roger McDonald

Malcolm's report on our Spokane mini-reunion, including Paul Miller, was accurate in all respects. It started our two weeks in the Northwest on a very high note. I only regret we really did not have the time to do more than scratch the surface of our memories and present concerns. Of course, our meeting and the concurrent main event in Newark would probably have never come off had it not been for this website. Brava, Ms. Dunlap!

Malcolm Montgomery

Hear! Hear! (Or is it Here! Here!?) In any event, thank you, Peggy! (clink!)

Gary Berry

Hi everyone,

Is anyone coming to Newark over the holidays? Just checking. Hope alll is well

Mary Ellen Jackson Guiler

For all band members. I was reading the Advocate on-line and saw that Mr. James Morgan suddenly passed away 12/20/09, from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 69. You can go to the funeral home site and sign the guest book. So sad for the family, especially at the Christmas. He was a great guy!

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Peggy Gartner Dunlap

Hello Everyone,
I have gotten back about 20 bounce backs (e-mails that are no longer correct). So please keep your e-mail updated so you will receive messages about the website. So sorry to not have pictures on yet, I cannot believe where the time goes. I will try to get moving on this.
I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful New Year!! Take care and God Bless.
Peg

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Mike Kelley

First I would like to thank Peg for all of the work you and everyone involved in all our class of 1968 reunions have done. GREAT JOB!!!!!!! Hey dose everyone remember these places to go to dance or hangout? Grotto, Armory, Pirates Cove in Granville above the old Granville Pizza,Sugar Shack downtown NEWARK, Alcatraze east Newark, Castaways in Dougway west Newark, there was a place on Buckeye Ave., Oak Valley Swimming Pool and YMCA Swimming Pool both had outdoor dances in the summer.Also used to go out to Fulton School or CYO dances at ST.Francis. Lot of us remember Gym Jams at the YMCA. Of course the NHS dance after the games. The bands our own from Newark, The Penltons with Dave Pound and Terry Worth,of course Sticks and Stones. The Dantees, Sir Timothy and the Royals who later became the OHIO EXPRESS,The Fifth Order from Columbus,the Continetial from Lancaster just to name a few. Did you watch Dance Party with Jarry Razor on Ch. 4 you might have seen me or Auggie Boychan, Vickie Bennidict and even Garry Berry on there. Places we also use to go Valley and Heath Drive-In Movies, Pizza Villa or M&S Pizza, A&W and Steward root beer stands of course Frisches.
It didn't get any better than this, never a dull moment. There was always the POOL HALL for a little 8 ball. I remember the night of our graduation alot of us ended up at the TIKI BAR, NOW EMPTY NEXT TO THE BIKE TRAILS Off OF Cherry Valley road.

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Dave Froberg

Mike... you want to stroll down memory lane? Go to Facebook's "Central Ohio's Rock & Roll Scrapbook" page. You'll probably get high just looking at it. LOL!

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Roger McDonald

Mike K's encyclopedic survey prompted a little piece of verbal trivia to dislodge in my cranium the other night: A few weeks ago I stumbled upon the word "jimjams" which apparently means the DTs or the "jitters." Was this generally known to the youth of Newark? I had always thought that the old "Gym Jams" was just cute alliteration for packing people onto a basketball court, but perhaps some old hipster slipped one by the censors, not to mention this daft young nerd. I never minded being socially out of it, but etymological cluelessness is another matter entirely. If any of you local 68ers know the history, please enlighten me.

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Dave Froberg

All I remember is they were held at the YMCA on Church St and there was one for Jr High and one for Sr High.

The first one I attended was in the summer of '61. (Boy am I old!)

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Peggy Gartner Dunlap

Hello Everyone,
Just wanted to drop a line and say Hello!! Please say thank you to Donetta for working very hard and getting photographs on this website. We are still working on putting all the pictures on from past reunions, please have patience, we are slow, but improving.
Please be thinking about getting together if you are in town this summer. Use the message forum to stay in touch with everyone.
Also, please remind anyone you see or might know who doesn't have their profile on the website, to get them moving and put their profile on. I know I have some very dear friends..right here in Newark!! I cannot get them to put their profile on.
It sure is a great way to stay in touch.
God Bless Everyone and Please Stay in Touch!
Peg

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Mike Kelley

Hey Peg, any time this year is fine with me. Let me know.

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Dave Froberg

I hope we can come up with a date soon. I've already got three trips scheduled for Newark. My ex-wife came down with cancer, so I will be bringing her up to see the family before she has surgery. That will be in early May. My 31 year old son joined the US Army and will be finishing AIT in July, so I will be bringing him and his family up to visit before he heads for his first duty station. So that will be sometime in mid-July. And I told all my friends from '67 I would come up for their party and that is Aug. 7. So just set a date, one more time won't make that much difference. LOL!

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Jane Michener Heston

I know I will be in Newark for a family reunion July 10 and leaving July 12, just don't know when I'm arriving. Daughter in PA expecting my 2nd grand-son June 9th so I will be going there whenever I'm needed then driving to OH. Hope to see some of you while I'm in town.  

Jan Carol Burch Campbell

THANKS, DONETTA, FOR THE PICTURES, AND ONCE AGAIN PEG, THANKS FOR THIS WONDERFUL WEB SITE. I'M AVAILABLE FOR A GET TOGETHER ANYTIME EXCEPT JUNE 12-SON GETTING MARRIED. I WORK JULY 3, SO THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR ME. MAYBE WE COULD SHARE TIME WITH THE CLASS OF 67 AND ASK THE CLASS OF 69 TO COME TOO ON AUGUST 7TH. JUST A THOUGHT SINCE CLASS OF '67 ALREADY HAS THEIR DATE SET UP. WHAT DOES EVERYONE THINK ABOUT THAT?  KEEP ME INORMED. JAN

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Dave Froberg

That sure sounds good to me... save me a drive up.  '67 is meeting at the Grill on Aug 7

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Roger McDonald

More on the possible etymology of "Gym Jams" . . . (See posts #133, 135-36)  I was watching an old British sitcom on PBS the other evening and one of the characters referred to his pajamas as his "jimjams" (jymjams? gymjams?)  This leaves three possibilites for the name for the old dances at the YMCA:  (1) An athletic facility packed with teen bodies; (2) A concentration of jittery, perhaps alcohol-crazed youth; or (3) An esoteric nod to English sleepwear by an unknown mid-Ohio Anglophile.  I'm leaning toward (3), but more research will be necessary. 

On a more somber note, it was very disheartening to hear that the Natoma has closed after 88 years.  It was hard enough to cajole my wife to get in the car for the nine-hour haul from Brooklyn; now my inability to dangle the promised reward of a "Baby Beef" may be fatal. 

Finally, speaking of esoteric, and for all of you T.E. Dickerson alums, much cogitation has led me to conclude that Camus' The Fall was one of his assigned novels.  (See post #5.)   Please add it to your lists. 

David Richards

That's too bad about the Natoma - I was planning to take my Dad there (as an alternative to the food at Kendal) during our visit in June. Anyone have other local suggestions? Steak, martini, and bleu cheese - three of my favorite food groups! 

Steve Lawrence

The 7th should be good for me. I'm with my son (almost 7' 1" now) at a BB tournament in late July in Orlando. Then up to Ohio so I should be in Newark then. I'm surprised my parents didn't mention the Natoma, but they don't get out much any more.

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Jane Michener Heston

I'm presently in PA for the birth of by grand-son and once he arrives I'll be here a few more weeks and then heading to OH. Should be in OH 20th of June or close to it - will be staying in good old Newark until July 12th. So if anyone is around I'd love to get together with you. My family is having a reunion July 10th at my mother's. All my siblings are making the trip to OH also. Should be some gathering, now with great-children (for my mother not me).

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Steve Carlson

Thought I would update the local restaurant news. Supposedly Mr Mason who runs the Grill on 21st is working on reopening the Natomna. I would think he has his hands full running his other businesses. Owns Skyline Chilli, The Grill at 21st, The consession at the Works Museum. He is also in the process of opening The Chop Shop in the Buckeye Lake area. He says this opportunity is (the Natoma) too good to pass up. He plans to make it a high end steak and seafood restaurant. Damons is about the only good steak place now. More important news is the return of Frisch's to Newark or at least nearby in Heath. Somewhere on Hebron Road.  Maybe they will bring back the Drive-In movies.

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Gale Cady Williams

Hi, everyone,

I think the new version of the Natoma will be a good one; the new owner promises top-level steaks and he has proven in his management of The Grill on 21st that he knows how to run a top-notch steak-and-beer house.

I am teaching in Coshocton two days a week and tutoring the rest of the week this summer. I love teaching college (once I came to the realization that older and returning students are, in many cases, exactly the same sort of students they were 20 years ago and have not changed any of their study habits) and the feeling of being of service to people who really need it. 

My husband has a job interview this week so hopefully, come Aug. 7 if everyone gets together then, we may have something to celebrate.

Because people on the forum are talking about the Natoma closing -- on another sad note, do you all know that they are tearing down Newark High School? It is being rebuilt but it will not resemble the old school we all attended. There is a link on the district's website so you can see what is being torn down and what is going to be remodeled and/or added on to.
http://www.newarkcityschools.org/index.aspx

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Roger McDonald

Thanks, Gail, for the architecture link.  Whenever a college chum dropped by Newark back in the day, they thought a high school campus was pretty cool.  I guess I thought so too.  But my teardown tears have been reserved for Cherry Valley Elementary.  Prior to its demolition, I snuck in and took photos of all my old classrooms, grades 1 through 6, even squeezing into a tiny first-grade desk for a shot that I sent off to my first grade teacher, Marjorie Andrews, still kicking on Granville Road in Newark.  Teachers do appreciate expressions of gratitude, as fruits of their labors are very hard to discern.  (This last from personal experience.) 

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Dave Froberg

Looks like there will be a number of folks at the Grill on Aug. 7. Class of '67 is having a get-together and Terry Lohrman of '69 says a few of that class will be there too. We don't have an official date, so I'm planning on being there for the Aug. 7 deal. Hope to see some of you there.

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Peggy Gartner Dunlap

Hi Everyone,

Ok, so where has the summer gone??  It is flying way to fast.  I have to go back to work on Monday-Yikes.  I think August 7 sounds good to me... so hope to see some 1968 people there.  Spread the word.  

We keep adding classmates everyday to the website.  Keep spreading the word to anyone and everyone.

Take care everyone and please stay in touch.

Peggy