To the Editor:
I am working on my family history and two of the best years of my life were spent at 636th Radar Station in Condon, Oregon in the years 1968-1970. Back when your great paper was the “Condon Globe Times.” Many articles from then fill my scrapbook.
I am feeling nostalgivc and wanted to write and let you know how much I loved your little town and my time at Condon High School. It was with such sadness that I had to leave before my Senior year when the base closed.
I don’t know how many of my friends are still in Condon, but if you don’t mind I would like to say hello to them and reminisce a little. Who can forget Mr. Schad’s history class and Mrs. Furniss marking up our copy at the Devil’s Crier? Cheering in the stands as Grant Weatherford made touchdown after touchdown, or laughing when Rodney Tombleson portrayed Caleb in the very fine production of “Ghosts Go West?” Judy Jaeger and I sat in Spanish and wished we were somewhere else. Kay Rene Reed and I would ride bikes from the base to town or even further to her house. The pep rallies with Dawn and Robin and all the other cheer leaders. Going to Homecoming with John Hardie in his grain truck. I really didn’t mind, John, it was fun. Bill Romine and Dollie Urie and I in Algebra. Did we really pass? Pattie Burns and I never getting pins in bowling because we were so bad. Jordan and Mary K. in Journalism class. The Devil’s Crier was never as good as it was our Junior year. Mary K. remember Cora Apple? So many wonderful memories and people that I miss and I didn’t mean to leave out a lot of you…. I remember all 32 of the Junior Class.
It's been, what 54 years, and your little town never leaves my mind and heart. Fourth of July in the Park and staring up from the football field watching the fireworks, Murray’s Drug Store where I bought my 16 Magazine and Jolly Ranchers, the theatre, the library, the Shoe String Drive-In and the base itself.
Well, I just wanted to let you know that I miss everyone still and to say “hi” if anyone from the class of ’71 is still around. Keep up your good work as a local newspaper and know that your town, while allowing the US Air Force to spend time there, left a indelible memory with so many of us.
Sincerely,
Terri Vasecka Atwood Clancy, Montana
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