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physician adviser
to TV shows. I
never said 'no.'
"Football season
was the icing for
me as I would wait
eagerly for the bell
at 3:30 to go to
the field behind
the school and watch Terry O'Neil
run through and over everyone with
massive Bob Black in front of him.
There was also an end named Dick
Behm, who ran the end-around play
with great success. Friday nights
meant Maria's Pizzeria on Puritan,
where the entire school went for the
best pizza around. Twelve guys
would order a cheese and pepperoni
and fight over it. Collecting the
money was another story as everyone
dispersed from table to table. There
were guys in red silk Raja jackets,
royal blue DeMolay jackets, girls in
BBG jackets, Marcus AZA jackets,
Normans, Cupid's Bow people,
Gottlieb BBG girls, Delmonico's,
dominos — you really needed a
score card.
"If I could be like Emily Gibbs in
Thornton Wilder's Our Town and go
back to relive one day at Mumford, I
would choose April 3, 1956 — my
16th birthday. That was the first
warm spring day in Detroit when
winter ends and all the cars come
out with tops down to ride around.
We had a new Bel Air hardtop in
dark green and white, which I talked
my father into ordering with dual
exhausts. I swiped the car that day as
I had my license and spent the after-
noon driving girls around and cruis-
ing Woodward (another story).
"The Totem Pole [restaurant] was
in full swing and for 69 cents,
Pocahontas sandwiches were avail-
able. I remember how happy I was
that day when my parents took all of
us to Carl's [Chop House] and than
got me something I had wanted for
a long time — a portable Zenith
radio with the antenna in the han-
dle. Strangely, Emily Gibbs chose
that same day to come back and
relive, but she did not have to give a
speech in Mr. Simon's class that day,
or look at Susan Blondy and try to
figure out how to ask her for a date.
"The finest moment in my
Mumford career was to occur after
our principal gave me my diploma
on a cold day in February 1958. I
went on to receive a degree in edu-
cation and while waiting for place-
ment, I was a substitute teacher in
Detroit. In 1961, I walked into my

