If anyone else has memories to share please send them to us. Please be sure in the subject
line of your e-mail to show "UPDATE WEBSITE".
That lets me know it is legitimate (and not a SPAM) since I delete anything I am not sure of,
to protect my computer against viruses.

This was sent by Kenneth Ross!

I just noticed some of the grade schools in Cushing during the 1950's and
thought, before I get so old and senile, I should write and validate my sixth
graduation from Wilson elementary school.

I remember the red brick school was in the 1100 block of East Cherry Street,
one block south of Broadway.  Across from the school the U.S. Government was
building steel homes which never caught on in this country.  We would walk to
school and there was a little grocery store in the 1200 block of East Broadway
where we would stop and get penny candy (when we could afford it).  In the lot
just east of the store was a sunken lot where we roughhoused after school.
The toughest kids on the block at that time were Gene Privett (who lived in the
1200 block of East Cherry Street), and Troy Retherford who lived in the 1400
block of East Oak Street.  I remember Troy was a small for his age but he had
more courage than most.  We marveled at him being able to climb to the top of
a telephone pole and sit there without holding on.  
I lived in the 1400 block of East Walnut Street and John and Ronnie Rowden
lived in the 1400 block of East Maple Street.  Their father, Joe, was the police
chief and their mother, Pansy, was a nurse at the hospital.  Ironically, John
Rowden and I worked as special agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms but our paths never crossed during the 25 years I was there.
  On the North side of Walnut was Main Street where Kelly Burden and his
brothers spent most of their time with their grandparents, the Ryans.  The Burdens
actually lived one mile east and one half mile north of town where Kelly's
father was a rancher.
nbsp;
Golly, I guess I should capture these memories for my bio before they flee
never more to return.
 
Oh, I attended Cushing schools until my last semester and, after my mother
had a stroke, I went to live with my school teacher brother in Arizona where I
graduated high school.  I later graduated from Oklahoma State.
 
Sincerely,
 
Kenneth D. Ross
P.S. It is obvious that I have too much time on my hands, huh?

---

---

When requesting your name be put
under your grade school, tell me what year you graduated!