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] Date Posted: 09:48:50 07/21/09 Tue Just thought I would let you know I have officially Retired after 34 years working for the Arkansas Army National Guard, of which 22 years was working full time for the Guards. It has been quite a journey, Kuwait and IRAQ that is. Hopefully my health will hold up so I can enjoy my retirement. Does anyone know when our next reunion is? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Richie Arnold [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 10:30:13 07/21/09 Tue Congratulations, Jerry, and thanks for your service to our country. I wish you a healthy and happy retirement. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jerry Pederson [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 10:00:38 07/24/09 Fri Thanks Richie, good to here from you. Yes I will enjoy my retirement, call me some time if your in the area. Maybee we can get together and talk about old times. Cell # 870-577-7055. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Richie Arnold [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 09:36:04 07/27/09 Mon Jerry, I'll do that. We don't get to Harrison much anymore which I regret. I talked with John and Trish yesterday and agreed that we need to come up soon. Maybe Fall. Enjoy you're retirement! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: greg carlton [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:24:43 07/22/09 Wed "Memories, like the echos of my mind." Jerry (Ped), I can remember about 45 years ago when you and I would eat together most of the time in the Central Elementary cafeteria. We would usually order hamburgers and fries, but they wouldn't give us ketchup--for some reason-- to put on our fries. They only gave us a dollop of mustard on our trays. So we adapted and developed a taste for fries dipped in mustard the whole year. I remember the time you ate 16 sandwiches before a track meet at Forest Heights--you were always fast--and I remember somebody telling me (maybe you) that you didn't do so good because you had a stomach ache. I could reveal alot more, but that would cost money. Don't worry about your health. You worked for 34 years with the guard. I believe you will be retired, at least from the guard, for the next 40 years given your good genetics you're saintly mother has given you. Congratulations on your retirement. I'm glad you survived the recent travails of being a miliary man. Hey, now you can play golf everyday and become a pro golfer. I know at our last renunion you did quite well at the Country Club here. Good luck, and I imagine our next reunion will be our 40th in 2013, unless I hear different. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jerry Pederson [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 10:16:52 07/24/09 Fri Thanks Greg, good to here from you. I remember the cafeteria at Central, man that was a long time ago. I remember the sandwiches, couldn't remember how many though, not a good idea before track meet. As far as playing golf, yeah I play a little but by no means am I any good at it, I just enjoy a good challenge, as far as our last reunion as I recall Danny, Jackie, and Darrel were the reason our team did so good. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Kevin McCorkindale [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:44:42 07/27/09 Mon Wow--a flurry of posting activity after a long and deafening silence! This is good. So first it was Bill Lovell retiring before the age of 50, and now Jerry Ped retiring at 53 (or 54). Who is next? Greg, a fact check is in order here. I cannot remember what I ate for dinner last night, but my memory of events which occurred in my childhood is as fresh on my mind as if those events happened this morning (except for those I have chosen to forget, which are many). In that connection, someone correct me if I am wrong, but when we were in elementary school, I do not believe we had the hamburger (and I use that term liberally here) option. I do not believe that option became available until junior high. Am I wrong? And why wouldn't the cafeteria serve us ketchup (or catsup, if you will)with our french fries? Was it too expensive at $1.00 a jug? And changing the subject, Matt told me that Bryce Molder, who is currently playing some great golf on the PGA tour, is the son of Barry Molder. Can anyone confirm this? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Richie Poe [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 07:22:43 07/30/09 Thu Kevin, that is Barry Molder's son. He was born in Harrison and the family moved to Tulsa soon after. I think Barry lives in Conway now, Bryce went to college at Georgia Tech, made first team all-america all four years of college and was expected to be the next Tiger, just took him a few more years to get rolling, I guess. It's been fun to watch him this year. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Richie Arnold [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 08:24:35 08/03/09 Mon Kevin, Bryce is indeed Barry's son. I had an opportunity to sit with Barry at a Conway HS football a couple of years back and catch up on old times. It was interesting hearing his perspective on Wild Bill. He said that he and the other coaches "scouted " us and that our tendency was to run Jackie to the side of the field that Bill was on! When they told him, he just laughed it off. I played golf with Robert Abney (Valley Springs) yesterday (he's a judge in Des Arc). He mentioned Rob and then asked if I knew where you were. I told him Plano area. Is that right? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Kevin McCorkindale [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 08:40:41 08/04/09 Tue Yes, Richie, my wife and I live in Plano, which is a Dallas suburb. Robert Abney and I got to know each other when we played American Legion baseball in high school. I have not seen him since 1981, when our paths crossed one day in Little Rock. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Kathy Voise Edwards [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:53:00 08/05/09 Wed I just checked in again after a few weeks away. Wow, what memories. I was friends with Robert Abney in high school. Some of the Valley Springs kids worked at our restaurant. Good to hear he's doing well. I also worked with Barry Molder when I was at Superior Bank a few years back and his son was just starting to be successful on the golf tour. I wasn't in Harrison for the early years, but I have some fond memories of the pranks of Greg, Richie, Kevin and some of the rest of the gang. Last year when I was in Florida, our small school celebrated Sadie Hawkins Day, so I dug through my old pictures and found some great pictures of Jackie, Greg, Kevin, and a few others in appropriate Dogpatch attire. I'm looking forward to the next reunion. I think I'll get to make that one! Thanks to all of you who have gotten in touch with me since I moved back to AR. Kathy [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Becky Stobaugh Waldo [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 02:35:35 07/23/09 Thu Congrats Jerry! Thank you for serving this country and protecting our freedom. I am so proud of anyone that can stay with a job like that for that long. My Dad was in WW2, Invasion of Normandy, Omaha Beach where he served for 6 years. He came home from there and served 37 years in the State Police. He enjoyed several years of retirement before he passed away. I know we all "feel" older but as Dad always said "when it is your time it is your time". I truly believe that after all he saw, and I am sure you did also. You have fun during your retirement and enjoy life. You deserve it! I think you picked a good time to retire with the country in the mess it is in. Blessings my friend! Oh I do remember eating french fries and mustard Greg! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jerry Pederson [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 10:27:33 07/24/09 Fri Becky, thanks for the kind words, and your welcome. I would have to agree with you on the mess this country is currently in. I will enjoy my retirement, thanks. May you and your family continue to enjoy the freedom we have here in the good old USA. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: James Green [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:01:04 07/29/09 Wed Congrats Jerry, no more Army PT for me. Jim Green [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |