I’ve just counted 393 classmates of mine in the East Wind, our annual, who graduated with me in 1964 (I’m the 394th) from East Mecklenburg High School on Monroe (where I practiced law from 1971 until I retired at 62 in 2008) Road in Charlotte, NC. My count could be off because I made it at 7:30AM this morning, July 25, 2022 while listening to Rep Adam Kinzinger, Rep-Illinois being interviewed on Morning Joe discussing whether the Jan 6 committee should subpoena Ginni Thomas (damn right, IMHO).
If you’re reading this (bless your little pea pickin’ heart [remember whose line that was?]) from my website, tomcaldwell.org, if you’ll read the intro to TOM’S RAMBLINGS, you’ll learn probably more than you need or want to know about me, but to save you that step, I’ll tell you that I started first grade, no kindergarten, at Oakhurst School, grades 1-12, also on Monroe Rd, in the Oakhurst community, 3-4 miles closer to downtown Charlotte than East Meck when we were living in an old frame house which the folks rented from Mr. Neal Craig on Sharon Amity Rd, only a couple of hundred yards beyond the RR tracks as you’re going from Monroe Rd toward Cotswold. I’ve written about the house and yard as our sports venue in MY SPORTING LIFE, where I’ve also told about my 4 year older bro Bill and the gang of his peers that he let me hang out with.
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