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Wednesday June 20, 2012

Going To High School

Special insert from 10th Grade Memories

I just got an email from (Pranger) Don Kingfield that reminded me of another incident that happened during one of our basketball games in 10^th grade (I think it was when we were sophomores) It was one of the most exciting and funniest things we ever did. Chuck Jons and Ronny Barlett were both players at that time and Sammy Long was our coach.

We had an out-of-town game in Harlan, Iowa. I remember I went as a second string substitute and played on the junior varsity team. Some of the others that I remember that were basketball players were Paul Laughin Don Kingfield (he was the only sophomore that played varsity, as I recall) There were also other Sac City students attending the game one in particular was Dave McCauley.

I recall this happened before our game started, I think there was another game that had to finish before we were to play. The gym was located in the Harlan high school building and for some reason the door that gave us access to all of the classrooms in the building was left unlocked. Dave McCauley and I (not sure who else was with us, I think Paul Laughin) started exploring the different areas of the classrooms. We came to a room that all the dramatic arts props were kept for past plays. After rummaging around in the room we discovered an old mummy case propped up against the wall.

We got our heads together and decided we would play a trick on some of the Varsity players. So we put one of the students that was with us in the mummy case and closed the cover (I think it was Paul). We told him that we were going down to where the basketball games were played to bring the other unsuspecting players, who were watching the other game, up to show them what we had found.

I remember that two of the players we brought up were Chuck Jons and Ronny Barlett.

We tried to be as unsuspecting as we could as we lead these guys through the hallways and up to the third floor where the prop room was located.

As we searched through the room eventually we came to this strange looking mummy case. One of us started to open the case when it popped open, with Paul’s help and you have never in your life seen two more surprised people in your life as Chuck and Ronny. (Note: keep in mind that Ronny had steel brace on his leg from polio that he had when he was a young boy. He was able to play basketball even with this brace. He was out the door of the prop room faster than anyone I could ever imagine, running faster than Chuck even with the steel brace. Once we caught up to them and explained what we had done things worked out all right. This event made the “Sentinel” (Our section of the Sac Sun Newspaper for school stuff) We got a talking to from the principal, Mr. Rutherford and that was the only consequence as I recall. It was very funny as we looked back on it.

Thank you so much Don for reminding me about that memory