His Excellent Work Continues

     Good California friend Gerald Manriquez, SHS-57, continues collecting and providing Boone area "old news" of various sorts. Lists of BHS/BSH and Boone Junior College grads from "way back" to more recent years is one monumental enclosure. But there are others as well........class reunion memories, many years of complete yearbooks of the three schools, miscellaneous Little League, basketball and football information.
     Now, Jerry has come up with a list of Boone grads who served in World War I.........probably 100 names or more. Its in recognition of the fact that Thursday was the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into that war.
     This entire project is absolutely amazing and if you have computer access and have never taken a look, shame on you. Here is how to obtain access......
http://boonesacheart/manriquez.net.
     Good watching.
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     Kids today don't know how easy they have it.When I was young, I had to walk all the way across the room, through shag carpet, to change the TV channel.
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     An edition or two back, Gary Knox had talked about his days at Jordan High School. We didn't have room to provide all that material so we'll finish up today. This also adds to what we had mentioned recently about Jimmy Archer and Boone baseball legends.
     Gary wrote, "when I was a freshman, we played Gilbert twice. Jerry McNertney was the catcher for Gilbert. Our coach got upset because he was tipping our bats with his mitt. They easily beat us, by the way. Even though Jerry was born in Boone (as the Korner had mentioned), I am pretty certain he played high school ball at Gilbert. I have no idea if he played summer ball in Boone."
     Editor's note: Gary played at Jordan K-9 but then in his 10-12 days, it was United Community High. McNertney, of course, is one of just two Boone-born individuals who became Major League baseball players.
     Gary continued later with another email. He wrote, "I just talked to Jerry Judge and he corrected me. He said that Jerry McNertney umpired our games our freshmen year at Gilbert. He was not the catcher. Jerry was born in 1936 and I was born in 1940 so he would have graduated from Gilbert H.S. when I was an eighth grader. Jerry also told me that Jerry McNertney had a younger brother. I had kept the BNR clipping of the game, and discovered in the box score that there was a McNertney catching that game. It would have been Jerry's younger brother so I actually played against Jerry's brother, not Jerry."
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     Remember when mom would say that famous, "keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about."
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     Lauren Taylor, BHS-69, informed us of the recent death of classmate Rich Dickeson, BHS-69. His parents were Lyle and Betty and he had a long career with the UP railroad.
     BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS: Stephan Ward Patterson, 70, Guthrie Center. Boone area survivor is a daughter,  Lisa King, of Ogden.
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