This is in respose to my fellow RAF Lakenheath American HS talking
about being a boarder (dorm student at the Heath) nothing to do but
play cards (lol) and eat the AFEX food yeah weren't those the days I
remember when I broke my leg. I was 3rd in EUROPE for Dodds boys in
the TRIPLE Jump Germany was 1st and 2nd in 1980. With my broke leg I
use to hate crutches so I hopped all over the base boy was I a sight.
Hopping on the shuttle bus going back to MILDENHALL!!! Gratis Diversa
Una Viva to all my fellow LANCERS,FALCULTY AND STAFF

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:00:15 -0700 (PDT), sparek >
wrote:

>This is in respose to my fellow RAF Lakenheath American HS talking
>about being a boarder (dorm student at the Heath) nothing to do but
>play cards (lol) and eat the AFEX food yeah weren't those the days I
>remember when I broke my leg. I was 3rd in EUROPE for Dodds boys in
>the TRIPLE Jump Germany was 1st and 2nd in 1980. With my broke leg I
>use to hate crutches so I hopped all over the base boy was I a sight.
>Hopping on the shuttle bus going back to MILDENHALL!!! Gratis Diversa
>Una Viva to all my fellow LANCERS,FALCULTY AND STAFF

The dorms were very short lived, but the DH and I were definitely dorm
students - I think we ruined dorms for the following classes (closed
early 70s, I think). TPTB must have figured, "We need to get these
kids out of our hair after school!" I was at Greenham Common AFB,
which probably had the longest bus ride of the 5 day students (5 1/2
hours each way). The ultimately built high schools at various bases
around the country - at the time we were there, there were only two
American high schools: Lakenheath and Central (Bushey).

There's a high school reunion coming up of pretty much all the classes
of the 60s, 70s and 80s at Greenville NC in Sept. The DH and I are
going if only to get revenge on one of our classmates who cleaned our
clocks at cards the last time we saw him.

See "my" classmates' website (which also gives you some idea of what
the dorm students' days were like - I became very skilled at hearts!):

http://lakenheath1960s.homestead.com/dayroomyears.html

OB: AFEX, for the uninitiated, was "Armed Forceds EXchange" which was
tasked with feeding us and a more gawdawful assortment of meals were
never served to defenseless military brats. Thursday lunch was
generally piling a bunch of leftovers into a vat, plopping it on
noodles and calling it "Chinese Surprise."

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

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