April 21, 2007


Oh, no, oh, no, the years pass by in droves

First a shot of a forty-year-old photo (taken by my mom) of me and several of the other boys in the spring 1967 L.V. Stockard Jr. High production of If Boys Wore the Skirts. (That’s me in the polka dot shirt.)

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Second, a shot of a photo of the same vintage and source of me, wiping cold cream (applied with elan by Anna Marie) from my face after the production.

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And finally (aren’t you relieved?) of a shot of a not-quite-as-old photo of me in the infamous double-breasted jacket which Sheila wanted to expose you to a while back.

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Such vanity indeed!

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8 Responses to “Oh, no, oh, no, the years pass by in droves”

  1. Sheila Ryan on April 21st, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    Lindsay Anderson and I are just itchin’ to post our comments, but we’re going to rein in our desires just for a bit.

  2. Cooper on April 22nd, 2007 at 10:00 am

    Perhaps Ms Ryan will grace us with a photo of herself as school headmistress in the L.V. Stockard production of the following spring. I heerd about that.

  3. Sheila Ryan on April 22nd, 2007 at 10:22 am

    Ms Ryan wishes she had such a photo.

    However, somewhere amongst the detritus there may be some choice records of dance recitals. If any turn up, it is possible they will be posted.

  4. Cooper on April 22nd, 2007 at 10:42 am

    Dance recitals indeed! Such a photo would require posting.

    My acting skills were deemed so significant by my junior high English teacher that my role in If Boys Wore the Skirts was confined to a line or two, accompanied by standing around in crowd scenes a la the photo. The following year, when Sheila played headmistress in our shockingly successful follow-up to If Boys, I was entirely offstage. Director? Property manager? Some such.

    Cindy loves the fact that I, as a first-grader in a private school, performed (in a choral performance with other students) in black face. I was quite blond as a small child and had to have hair-darkening as well.

  5. Sheila Ryan on April 22nd, 2007 at 10:59 am

    A friend who in the early-to-mid-1950s attended a racially integrated high school in Port Arthur, Texas recalls school-sponsored minstrel shows wherein white students corked themselves up and . . . I don’t know . . . sang Stephen Foster songs?

  6. Deron Bauman on April 22nd, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    “Cindy loves the fact that I, as a first-grader in a private school, performed (in a choral performance with other students) in black face. I was quite blond as a small child and had to have hair-darkening as well.”

    !!!

    I wish you had pictures of that!

  7. Cindy Scroggins on April 23rd, 2007 at 9:57 am

    Cindy does love that fact.

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