Hey fellow classmates,

I'm looking for historical info to post on our site.  My main interest is how or who came up with the the name "Cavalier's", our school colors, our newspaper name "The Cavalcade", our motto, and any other news worthy tid bits of info to post on this site...   Jerry

Jerry!  Garnet here.

Although we students DID get to vote on these things; I believe the faculty had pretty well selected most things.  I remember that Coaches Merricks & La Fontaine lobbied each class for Cavaliers, Md State Flag colors (Scarlet,Gold,White,Black) & the Univ of Texas fight song melody.  Coach Merricks seemed to be real fond of Coach Darrell Royale & the I formation. I always presumed the Music Dept folks has settled on the fight song lyrics & the Alma Mater. I wasn't in that dept at all.  Perhaps those students were given more than one suggestion or were invited tweak to the suggestions. Regardless, I'd have to say they were ALL Great suggestions. Children of the free.  Hope to see you at the 45th brother.

Garnet,

I appreciate your informative reply and sorry for the delayed response.  Anyways I certainly have hopes that others amongst us would state their knowlege or ideas about our class history or just share their thoughts.   I will continue to add or post various things on our website that will embraces our class history.   Again thanks and hope to see you at the 45th.   

Hi Jerry, the following are two post-high school events, but could be a nice add-on to our history.

Either in 1968 or 1969, many of us were called up for our draft physical at Fort Holabird (AKA Dundalk).  It was the first time I saw many of our classmates there, guys of course. And I think we have a few (perhaps humorous, perhaps serious) stories to tell. 

Many of us attended the University of Maryland at College Park.  The four years after our 1966 graduation were pretty tumultuous, and again, I suspect there are lots of memories that many of us could relate to. 

How can we set up a discussion forum/chat box for these two topics on this alumni site or is the chat we are on now the place to do this? 

  regards

garland 

Good topics, we will see if there is a way to set up a chat area on the site.

Phil

Hi Garland,

 I'm not real familiar with how the Forum process works for this website, but I changed the menu option to "Class History Forum".  Let's see if your questions/comments get any additional feedback regarding your questions above.