SusanPassLivingston
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Clarkston - 2007/12/16 22:08
I just found out recently that before Shamrock, the people in my area went to Clarkston Highschool. That was news to me. How many people knew that? I was also told that before Rehoboth existed , there was another school on that site in front of where Rehoboth is today also named Rehoboth. If anyone has pictures of Pearidge during that time..I sure would like to see them posted. Larry Grizzle was telling me about it this weekend. He mother, brother and sister all died for different reasons last year around christmas and he would have been in the first graduating class of Shamrock but I am not sure that he ever went there himself, he was just telling me about it. Please keep him in your prayers. He is having a hard time with the holidays this year and he remembers some of you even though most of you are younger than he is. I know he remembers Rusty Wilson, Danny Clark and The Strykers ( I dont know if I spelled that name right). His mother used to babysite my daughter and I had sent her a christmas card only to find out this bad news about his family.
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/16 22:23
Susan...the first graduating class went to Clarkston...they were waiting on Shamrock to be completed....I forget the year...I want to think 69 or 70....sorry to hear about the Grizzles...does he have a brother named Rick...I remember him...anyways...my thoughts and prayers will be with them.
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/16 22:32
SHS was born with grades 8-10 in August or September of 1967. Just about every freshman and sophomore had been at either Druid Hills or Clarkston the year before. Subbies, of course, had come mainly from Laurel Ridge, Rehobeth, and McLendon.
We spent the first several months housed on the lower level of Clarkston HS while the new school was being finished. That was a real blast. NOT! We finally moved to the new campus in January, 1968, and it seemed like a pretty cool place to be. For a while, anyway. 
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SusanPassLivingston
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/16 23:04
He had a brother named Jimmy and a sister named Martha. Martha and his mother died last February and Jimmy died the previous November. Its really sad
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SusanPassLivingston
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/16 23:07
Rick,,did you know the Grizzles? Maybe I should tell Larry about this site. He is very depressed with the holidays and all this year. His brother, mother and sister all died this past year.
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/16 23:31
No, except I have a vague memory of a Mitch Grizzle. I can almost see a face to go with the name. Not sure if he was in my class ('71) or another. Might he have been related to the others you've mentioned?
I can understand Larry being depressed. Sounds like he's had an awful year!
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/17 01:16
Rick I was a "subby" then and was trying to remember the other day if we moved after Thanksgiving or Christmas. Wasn't that a pantload of fun? I think I even bought a ticket or two to the elevator, though I never really saw it.
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/17 08:56
Hey, Lew. I'm remembering the move as being right after the Christmas holidays in order to allow those two weeks for the finishing touches and the move. But I won't be too stunned to learn that it really was just after Thanksgiving as you've suggested. My memory ain't what it used to be!
In either case, it was almost exactly 40 years ago. Wow, some of us are getting old! Has anyone mentioned that maybe we should have a birthday party for SHS?
I know for sure that most of us were more than ready to leave Clarkston. No doubt they were ready to be rid of us, too. Hopefully we thanked all the CHS folks back then for letting us crowd them out of part of their school while we waited for ours.
Of course, there was still a lot to be done over a period of years to bring the new campus to the way most of us remember it. Among the facilities yet to come (or to be greatly improved) were the athletic fields and the rear classroom building.
Who remembers other improvements to the buildings and grounds? I'm almost certain that the gym was pretty much finished when we moved in , but somebody correct me on that if you remember differently.
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/17 09:22
Hey Rick...your memory is pretty good from 40 years ago...except vor the gym...I played basketball in 10th and 11th grades...our second and third years at SHS... I definitely remember going back to Clarkston(the OLD school) to practice everyday...and what a dump that gym was...Don
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/17 09:28
Hey, Don. You're right about that! Now I'm remembering, too, that the gym was NOT ready when we moved in. In fact, didn't Coach Brookins also take the guys to Columbia HS for some of the practices, at least for a while?
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DonJones
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/17 09:42
your memory is better now...yes we did go to Columbia...
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/17 11:00
Before Shamrock opened, half the kids in our neighborhood (Springbrook) went to Clarkston and the other half went to Druid Hills. It was your choice, because you had to provide your own transportation.
One of the items in my memorabilia file is the floor plan of SHS when I started as a sub in 1969. Had Susie been rolled down the back steps in a barrel, she'd have stopped on the athletic field. The front hallway stopped just past the assistant principal's office. All doorways led to the outside, except the back hall to the locker room stairs.
We shared lockers. It took a lot less time to get to class then. When were the rooms divided in half with plywood partitions?
Dances and assemblies were held in the "cafetorium", so if you went to that dance with the Celestial Volumptuous Bananas in 1970, it was NOT held in the gym...
An area that later became a courtyard was open during the first years -- when they added the hall along the side of the gym they closed off the view from the rooms on the left side of the central hallway.
It's an interesting floorplan -- shows locker numbers and restrooms...all that 40-year-old memory stuff! 
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/17 13:37
Susan,
I was just wondering if you are refering to Noveen Grizzle? She was a sweet little lady that kept children from time to time in her home. She and her daughter (I do believe was named Martha), moved away from the area years ago when Martha bought a home.
If so, she kept my daughter, Danielle for about a year or so until she started at Discovery Pointe in Snellville. Do you think this is the same Ms. Grizzle?
She also worked in the nursery at Rehobeth Baptist Church.
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SusanPassLivingston
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/17 14:10
Yes, and I dont think I knew you. She watched my daughter from 1982 to who knows when. I got a divorce during that time. She died in Feb this year four weeks after Martha died. Its was sad to hear about. Jimmy , Martha's brother died the previous November. Jimmy and MArtha died in bed. Mrs. Grizzle was 90 and she died of pneumonia after Martha but she didnt eat for atleast two days after Martha died. Noveen's sister had died last year too. Poor Larry is so depressed this season. Please keep him in your prayers. I am not sure if I remember Danielle. How old is she now. My daughter is 27 now and she loved Mrs. Grizzle like we all did. She did keep the nursey also. I went to Rehoboth Presbyterian as a child. Do you remember me? Did you know my brother, David Pass? Were you part of the Wilson clan..or another family in the area? I grew up off Hudson Woods Trail.
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Re:Clarkston - 2007/12/17 14:36
Susan, 
You look very familiar to me. I knew some of the Wilson's but I believe I am a little younger. I graduated in Susie's class. My daughter, Danielle is 22 years old. She loved Ms. Grizzle, and I sure did too!! She took excellent care of my little girl, and I could go to work and not worry! After she and Martha moved, I stayed in touch from time to time and even drove out to get her on one ocassion and took her to church to see her old friends she worked with in the nursery. I am so sad to know she is gone. Danielle will be sad too! She learned alot from Ms. Grizzle.
I grew up off Valley Brook Rd. on Lowrance Dr. Didn't have any family in the area to speak of other than my mother. I will keep the Grizzle's in my prayers! Have a great day!!!!
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