The Last Batch of Ankeney Chargers
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
The last trio of former Ankeney Chargers are three individuals whom I didn’t know all that well during school, but who all are fine individuals who share the bond with me of having attended a half-dozen years of school together. Even if none of us were that particularly close in school, I certainly knew them all well enough – and more importantly had a great time socializing with at the Beavercreek High School 20-year reunion on Saturday, July 17, 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Those with razor sharp memories might recall my mention of “Billy O. Crop” in a long-ago posting detailing entries in my 
For about two solid years, I had an ongoing crush on Amy Lupini. Of all of the crushes I had had up to that point, Amy was the one that lasted the longest, and one of the many I never landed. Even still, I completely cherish the friendship that I had with her during my fifth and sixth grade years (in which she is seen in the class photo at right). There is no way that I could possibly have felt rejected, considering I never had the guts to tell her how I felt or put forth a request that she ‘go with’ me. So I stood by and idly watched as she went with Jason Painter in the fifth grade and my best friend Eric Welch in the sixth. Sigh. The love lessons we learned in grade school… 
For those of you who may have been concerned – and I know there are many of you – that I was not going to reach an acceptable quota (whatever that may be) of ‘reunions’ with old friends whom I hadn’t seen in five or more years, you obviously had forgotten that this was the 20th anniversary of my graduation from Beavercreek High School. So on Saturday, July 17, 2010 – less than a week after returning from Florida – I headed out for my third high school class reunion being held at the Holiday Inn in Beavercreek. 
Among the former Ankeney Chargers whom I ran into at the Beavercreek High School 20-year reunion on Saturday, July 17, 2010, were two very lovely ladies whom I actually didn’t know too well during my time at Ankeney. April Jones (seen at left duirng a shy moment during ninth grade) was an absolutely adorable girl who went through Junior High with me, but whom I didn’t really get to know too well until high school. She was lumped into a group of gals that ran in circles with a group of gals with whom I ran in circles. Make sense? In short, we were all part of the ‘hood’ squad for a while in high school.