Remmick-Hubert Special Page - Lodi Union High School, Class of 1960-Newsletter

Vol. 8: 17 July  Page Two

Project 1: Since all of us have / are passing the mark of 60 years old,  what words of wisdom would you like to bequeath to your children, or grandchildren, or a young person you know?

In a message dated 6/26/02 8:27:15 PM, buscons@msn.com writes

<< Words of wisdom to my children: When mom asked you to do something that only you can do, do it now, do not put it off because of your procrastination, what you asked for might not be available later.

I am looking forward to my reunion of my 1956 grammar school. I went to Empire Grammar School for 8 years, the same one my dad went to. I moved to Lodi, but my other classmates went on to Downey and granduated. At their graduation, they got together and decided to have a reunion of the 1956 grammar school class. It is July 20th--hum-- that day is familar. So, I am quite excited now because it is less than a month away.

Marjorie Garrison

A rule I have tried to live by:  "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you." And with this thought always in tow,  I find it easier to make decisions about family, friends and strangers.

Judy A. Remmick-Hubert

In a message dated 7/8/02 7:45:32 AM, eaa@fidnet.com writes:

<<#1:  What wisdom would I pass onto our children? Keep in mind that the government that gives you everything can take away everything. When you were in school and some of the students only got D's and C's and other that got A's. How would you like it if we were to be fair and give some the grade points from the A student to the D and C Students so they would not feel so bad? That would be fair, Right? Keep this in mind when you vote. And don't forget to VOTE.

Clyde Ehrhardt >>

Project 2: Tell us your favorite movie:

(1) before High School;

(2) during High School,

(3) college / 60s,

(4) 70s to present and why.

If you don't know the year, don't worry about it, just let us know what your favorite movie is.....

In a message dated 7/8/02 7:45:32 AM, eaa@fidnet.com writes:

#2 Some of my favorite movies include: Patton, Bullett, It's a wonderful life, The Great escape. That is all that comes to mind at this time.

Clyde Ehrhardt >>

Judy A. Remmick-Hubert's favorite movies:

• (1) before High School:  It was actually reruns I remember first : (1) Bambi [1942]; and (2) Snow White [1937] because it made me want to be a cartoonist and work for Disney someday so I could help create all those marvelous characters for children...;  the others were (3) Lassie Come Home  with Elizabeth Tayler and Roddy McDowall 1943]; (4) National Velvet... with, again, Elizabeth Tayler and Roddey McDowall plus Mickey Rooney,  because I was always eager to see animals stories, and (5) "OUR GANG" series.  At the time I didn't realize they were reruns. For a long time I thought Elizabeth, Roddy, Rooney and the kids in Our Gang were our age.  The movie in 1951 which made me so scared that I had to get up and go out to the lobby on the excuse to get some candy was "THE THING"...I can close my eyes and remember the men standing on this huge circle of ice where the UFO had landed.....  And,  I wondered:  What would we humans here on earth really do if something like that really happen? [The remake  in 1982 with ex-Mickey Mouser  Curt Russel was pretty good, too.]  All the western movies with Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy [Bill Boyd], Gene Autry and Roy Rogers..... kept me seated and entertained in the front row with my candy and coke.  There were the silly movies about a jackass who talked...  What was his name,  oh yes,  "Francis The Talking Mule with Donald O'Conor....  The serial [another set of reruns] "Flash Gordon" which made me wonder how one person could always be so dumb and get into so many life threatening situations.   I always thought the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies were far too stupid.....   I loved just about every movie with James Stewart.  I still watch every Christmas Eve morning the Jimmy Stewart movie₁  where he looses his job and an angel comes down to help show him what life would have been like without him..... Having a senior moment.  Can't think of the name.  Anyway,  love that movie.   Always thought Bud Abbot and Lou Costello were halarious.  Often times I try to repeat their act as to: "Who's on first, What's on second. I Don't Know is on third..." I was far too young to understand or appreciate Marlon Brando's acting in  STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE  [1951] In fact,  I was so bored I left my seat and went out to get a coke and I saw my first mouse captured in a Coca-Cola bottle that had been delivered to this very lobby and just discovered by one of the persons behind the counter....  Another memory that echos in my head is  the voice of the young boy, Brandon deWilde, calling to Alan Ladd, "Come back Shane!" who was leaving the homesteaders who desperately still need him.  In 1953  I was too young to understand why a man would leave this family.... 1950 there was the movie FATHER OF THE BRIDE with Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor, which I borrowed from Block Buster  and watched before each of my son's were married.  I laugh s harder ,now....  1952 was the year Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly were in HIGH NOON.  We were still in the world where the good guy was good and the bad guy was still all bad and dirty.  1954 was CAIN MUTINY with Humnpghry Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred McMurray, who didn't have the guts to tell the truth about this crazy captain in the court martial.      
• (2) during High School:   COURT MARTIAL OF BILLY  MITCHELL staring Gary Cooper was shown in 1955. I  had read Mitchell's book God is My Co-Pilot before I had seen the movie. For a while I bothered my parents about learning how to fly but they just shook their heads. The one I liked least was Jail House Rock with Elvis Presely[ 1956]  which I saw six times. I  mentioned this story in my story about music. In 1960 came the movie ELMER GANTRY with Burt Lanctaser and Jean Simmons.  I thought Lancaster could have chosen in real life to be an evangelist just like the character and  life for him would have ended up the same as it did in the movie..... He was that believable to me....  John Wayne was a man who played manly characters. I never thought Wayne's acting made him  popular but playing himself did work in all of his American roles as the good guy over the bad guy, especially if he was fighting the Japanese in the SANDS OF IWO JIMA [1949] or the Indians in THE SEARCHER [1956] or marrying Marie O'Hara in THE QUIET MAN [1952] In the same year was  MISTER ROBERTS, which  is another favorite.  I loved it when Jack Lemon banged on the door and entered the captain's , James Cagney's, office saying something that Henry Fonda would have said, if he hadn't left the ship and gotten himself killed on a battleship... There is the CAL graduate, who turned actor. His name is  Gregory Peck who was the perfect Captain chasing "MOBY DICK" in 1956, which was one of the books that were required reading in English, as he was later as a lawyer in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD which ended up being required reading for others.  For awhile I almost did not forgive Peck for making his son in the YEARLING  kill that young deer who ate all their corn back in 1946. There was always something between Errol Flynn and I, although,  he never knew it.  Always felt there was something in his eyes that drew me in hook, line and sinker.  It was as though he knew a secret which some day he'd like to share it and we'd all be pleasantly surprised and give him great praise for whatever it was..... I remember him most in the movie THE SUN ALSO RISES [1957].  Also, in this movie was another one of my favorite actors, Tyrone Power, Jr. who was later in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION [1957] which if you remember was a court room drama. Power was the alleged killer defended by Charles Laughton and his wife was done other than Marlene Dietrich.  Can't forget the crooner and actor Bing Crosby who  in real life was said to have beaten his kids on the weekends and acted the good parish Irish priest or saved his old war buddies Inn in WHITE CHRISTMAS in the unreal world.  Then there is old Blue Eyes Paul Newman whom I walked by several times down at the race track near  Monterey.  He is short. We looked at each about eye level.  He was surrounded by all these beautiful women who hoped some producer would notice them and get them a part with old Blue Eyes. The two of his I like best were THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS [1959] and THE STING [1973]  No matter where a person travels in Europe there is always an old movie with Marilyn Monroe on television.  My Dad had the calendar where she is standing over the street vent with the skirt of her dressing blowing up in the air seen in the THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH. .  My favorite of her was in SOME LIKE IT HOT in 1959 with Tony Curtis , who was too pretty to be a guy, and Jack Lemon, who I watched for years at the Crosby Golf Tournament [AT&T] hoping he'd make the cut before he was too old and couldn't play anymore.  He always had a joke and a smile while he played. I was greatly disappointed when I discovered Alan Ladd was so short they had to dig a trenches for the actresses so he'd look taller.  I was  more than disappointed, I felt betrayed,  when I discovered the handsome Rock Hudson had been gay since his days in the navy.... and, of course, sad that he was dying of AIDs.  In the old days, I  had thought Hudson and Doris Day  would have been the perfect marriage....  I've seen Doris Day shopping at Safeway in Carmel By The Sea. Evidently, she's recovered from her money loss  and loves her dogs. Another actor I really liked was Joseph Cotton.  He could be so romantic and in another movie be so full of evil....  Most gals my age didn't notice him in our youth,  but I thought he was a super actor.   
• (3) college / 60s:  After seeing PSYCHO [1960] with Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins,  even, now, when I'm taking a shower, my thoughts return to the scene where Janet was taking her shower....  Lemon and my distant cousin , Lee Remick, were in the movie  WINE AND ROSES [1962].  After my older son was born in 1962 and my second son in 1968, I was too busy raising boys to follow movies as I had earlier.  I do recall a night in 1962  seeing the cartoon, ROAD RUNNER shown with the newly released movie:  GONE WITH THE WIND. I barely made it through that movie.  I was breast feeding my older son at the time and I was leaking milk and my protection was poor...  Few women were protected from the sly smile of Steve McQueen in Bullitt [1968] and the men loved the car chase.   I always thought the other girls liked Steve McQueen because he was the kind a girl should never marry but always fell madly in love.  It was earlier in 1958 when television brought us this bad boy to us in "Wanted: Dead or Alive." Of course, there was Miss beautiful violet eyed Elisabeth Taylor who suddenly was older than us [remember I thought she was our age because of Reruns] and was all grown up in ..... BUTTERFIELD 8, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF then RAINTREE COUNTY.....  The book Raintree  was very long, very good and   isn't often remembered. It was about a white woman discovering she was carrying blood of a black nanny.  After the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , I read everything written by Tennessee Williams...  Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER  [1957] still makes me cry....  I'm an old romantic at heart....  To shake me out of a romantic mood was Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear in 1962.  This thriller kept me on the edge of my seat as Mitchum as an ex-convict tried to get to gain revenge toward the lawyer Gregory Peck....
• (4) 70s to present and why:  In 1972 my husband handed me a book titled The Godfather and a half year later I was watching Al Pacino in Francis Ford Coppola's movie THE GODFATHER.  Every person in this movie seem to be just as the author of the book described. [Garry met Coppola in one of his cases which was about Coppola's movie crew having torn up a warehouse for one of his movies....]  I was never a fan of Woody Allen but his lampoon EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK) was funny and arrived for all of us to see.  The scene of the sperm [Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds and Louise Lasser] all in a row was so funny I had tears rolling down my cheeks.  1973 was the year AMERICAN GRAFFITI was shown at the big silver screen.  Everything about the movie reminded me of my youth in Lodi.  I don't recall anyone taking the rear axel and wheels off a police car, however, I thought  everything else was true. Later,  I met someone who lived in the valley and said the scene with the police car really happen.  He didn't go into names and details but just smiled like he was there.....  1975 saw JAWS.  Every time I look into the ocean water I expect to see a shark's fin...  And that's not something I should be thinking since we sail nearly weekend around the SF bay.   1977 I thought George C. Scott played Ernest Hemingway exactly as I always imagine Hemingway was in real life.   Although the story line drifted, Scott didn't with his "macho gruff drunken" style.  1982 I took my younger son to see STAR WARS on the day it was released. Movies would never be the same after George Lucas took us through this adventure that was the modern Flash Gorden.... In 1982  there was was another of Meryl Streeps great performances in SOPHIE'S CHOICE.  The theme of this movie was unforgettable.  How could a mother chose between her children?  Great acting and great music was seen and heard in the movie AMADEUS [1984].  Tom Hulce played Mozart with such flare and the woman who played his wife was marvelous as was F. Murray Abraham who was so envious of Mozart.  Garry and I visited Mozart's birth place in Sulzburg in 1991.  See photograph. These days, if I do see a movie I like,  I don't remember the name and all these new actors and actresses who make such huge splashes but don't last long enough for me to remember their names either.....  So  what can I say.  Someone else is going to have to add to this part of this question.  Just last night we went and saw the movie₂ about the guy who lost his memory and had been some kind of spy.....  Only we didn't get to see the end because the projector,  or whatever it is they use, now,  stopped and burned up the film so they'd have to cut and splice so we received a RAd. which means,  I know, now, as ReAdmission....  Maybe,  when we go back,  I'll pay more attention to the title and the name of the young actor who is quite good.  He was in the movie about the young janitor who was a math genius and the funny guy who lives in SF ... Robert Williams..... Is it Robert....?  No, that doesn't sound right.   You know, the  actor who was a disk jockey in the movie  which was showing the time period of the Vietnam War...  It was.... I remember, now, it was "GOOD MORNING , VIETNAM".  Wait a minute. Another flash of memory. It was Robin Williams.  I remember Mel Gibson in the first movie Australia sent to us.  It was about a court martial.  Gibson did a great job with the PATRIOT...  Finally someone made a movie about our own history that didn't put me to sleep. Mel Gibson lead the armies as an actor playing the role of Wallace, Scottish hero,  and as director with extraorindary results  in BRAVE HEART.   Course,  I didn't like the historical liberty Gibson took about Robert The Bruce, an ancestor of mine.  One of these days I might write and ask him why he distorted history about Robert The Bruce who was to be a hero just like Wallace.  Both of their statues are outside of the old castle in Edinburg, Scotland.  Before this movie,  most people walked right pass not knowing who Wallace or Robert The Bruce was. Now, everyone stops and get's their photo taken in front of Walace's statue.  In ROB ROY there was Ivan Nelson as the cattle thief turned into a hero, and, there was that little guy, the bastard, who was so good with the sword and played the part so well, I still dislike him. Now days, I often turn to the Classic channel which shows many of these old and recent movies. Garry always watches the old war movies or the cops and robbers and falls asleep before the movie turns to the chase scenes when everyone get's killed. One particular war movie Garry always stays awake to see a certain scene is THE BRIDGES OF TOKO-RI [1954] because in one of the scenes has a ship, the  US Lyete,

  

  US Lyete

  which was one of the ships his father served during the Korean War.  He was on the USS Colorado in WW II. His mother is going back for this year's reunion this fall.  Couple weeks ago we were visiting her in Seattle and she showed me some of their newsletters.  I didn't realize how much action the Colorado had.  Garry's Dad was even part of the search for the missing Amelia Earhart who never arrived at Howland Island.... [1937] The Colorado missed the bombing of Pearl Harbor because he had just sailed back to Seattle to be overhauled.... Garry's parents knew many of the men who went down in Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941..... This morning I watched WW I movie with Georg Peppard, James Mason and Ursula Andress in THE BLUE MAX as I was copying some of this new into my web site.  A lighter note. When Garry and I decided to remodel our house, I found a copy of Cary Grant's MR BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAMHOUSE [1948] and made Garry watch the movie... some of the movie lines are running jokes between my husband and I, now. There is one scene  where Cary grant is looking at one of the huge bills and looks at his wife who replies, "Well,  it started with just five flagstones...."  I don't recommend remodeling and remaining in the house during that time period.  Since I'm a grandmother,  I get to see kid's movies, again.  I was disappointed in HARRY POTTER movie.  But my elder granddaughter wasn't.  So, I bought the DVD [another new invention] of Harry Potter and we've watched it a zillion times.  Each time I watch it,  the movie gets better and better. Last weekend my husband, myself, our younger son and his older daughter [she's the elder granddaughter] watched SHRIEK.  A cartoon showing a slice of every movie made.  It is great. When the weekend was over we had watched it three times and some parts more than ten times.  I hope I haven't bored all of you with the slices of my life and the movies I've selected.

  • 1.  IT'S  A WONDERFUL LIFE which was made in 1946.
  • 2. BOURNE IDENTITY with Matt Dameon [2002]

Project 3:  Tell us about your hobby /hobbies?  Or , what is the  "stuff" you like to do doing the day that doesn't have to do with work [what you do to pay for your hobby / hobbies].

#3 My hobbies has become one of my business. Photography, You don't want to know what I spend on this hobbie. As long as I do not go digital, our cost are under control.

My other hobbie is wood working and working on my Massy Ferguson T.O.-35 Tractor.

I am starting to raise some Grapes, Apples and Peaches. The Lodi Farmer in me is alive and well.

Good to hear from you. Keep in touch and Happy birthday to all The BIG 60!!!

Regards

Clyde Ehrhardt >>

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