Dr. Toomey was the one with the large class---I didn't have to do ROTC[the draft ended 21 days before I had to sign up for the Sslective Service]---PE classes was what I did---If I had did ROTC, I may be retired now :-(
I remember that I voted for the 1st time at 18 years old [Nixon vs McCarthy]
There was something about the student union being attacked/burnt before I made it to CMSU in the fall of 1972, the name change had just happened, change from CMSC to CMSU [college vs university]
Cool that the people carry on with things like being there for the football games. My uncle still makes it out for the basketball games high school and CMSU. He talks about some of the 10/12" bluegills he catches, not sure if he fishes Pertal Springs [sorry for the mis spells]
My cousin took my wife and me to Hero's---pretty good, the BBQ sounds like a cool place, I might try it in the next few months if we get up KC way.
I even got use the train noise, I was only 1 block north of the tracks.
Remember the Coo Koo [can't spell] on hwy 13? Quick food joint.
The XXX movie, I almost forgot---
I remember seeing B-52, I still have not seen the B-2 even tho poeple here talk about seeing them.
I see alot of A-10's flying around here at the lake, they do some neat fly-bys out here by the Camdenton airstrip.
good to remember these things---thanks for spurring the thoughts!
We had fun at the Springfield car show 2 weeks ago---neat crusin

 

ahh the Lake.....

My girlfriend has a cabin on the 7 mile marker, we've been down to that carshow quite a few times. Was going to try to trailer my old 53 down there once, but its now in Mississippi.

Back to Warrensburg----I had Dr Toomey for 1 day......heard he was he//, so i dropped his class and picked up someone else....they called him Dr Death. I believe he is the one that developed brain cancer and was forced to retire......not 100% sure but I think it might have been him.
I also fish at Hazel Hill, the 500+ acre park north of town, its got a 72 acre lake, not too bad for a little fishing i just need a flat bottom boat.
Its going to take some getting used to that train this year. Im a good 1/2 mile away but still will be easily heard. Theres some new townhouses in the 300 block of Ming Street where im living, on the west side of washington street, south of the railroad tracks.

 

hey Dennis, good to hear from you, its been a while.

Im betting that the Star theater was on the south side of West PIne Street.....its now called The Star Bar....bigtime hangout for, unfortunately, the rough african american crowd, lots of gang-related activity there from inner KC sometimes....the upstairs of that place is creepy....

Keep the stories coming......ill have to snap a couple pics of the town for you guys when i get back to school....i cant download pics onto this computer but i can on mine which is in my appt now.

Where did you guys work while in school? Dennis, i wanna hear more about the streaking/panty raids....do tell

 

I worked the summer months at the osage beach state hwy maintenance building---it was cheap to go to CMSU---gas was .25 to .59 range during my stay there 1972 thru 1976---started to run out of the money I saved---CB radio, 8 track music and beer, pizza, peanut butter, I think I must have ate 3000 slices of bread and PB. My schooling cost around $1200 that was with a small $150 art scholarship [room and board was at my my grandma's] I was lucky there---I know I missed out a lot of goings on by not livin on campus and the friendships---oh well [most likely would have gotten in some touble too]
Toomey would be fairly old now---hard teacher, but think he was one that enjoyed his work, sorry to hear about his health.
I remember the Star, saw King Kong [original] back in 1962 at the at the Star
had he upper balcony---across the street from Hero's?
The Salvage was a neat place to shop [at least that is what I remember]
Do you show your truck? We have a 78 TA and are trying to get it ready to show, crusin is fun, the strip at Bagnel Dam was always fun.
The streakers were limited at CMSU as I remember [if caught you were kick out of school] I saw guy come running down thu the student union, glad I had already ate. Hundreds [coed too] at MU and SMSU were filmed on the news reports.
how do you find the photos that we put in this web site---I guess I forgot---
Do you have yours where we can view?

 

I started at CMSU in the Fall of ’70. I think the fees were around $100/term (3 terms per year instead of semesters). I think housing was around $280/term including clean sheets every week and meals. No air conditioning in Foster-Knox, no phones in rooms, most guys did not have TV in their rooms. You went to the lobby to watch TV. You would get a ring on your room’s buzzer from the switchboard in the lobby if you had a phone call. Then you had to go looking for a phone that was ringing in one of the small lobbies. Each dorm had an old lady for a “house mother” and a GA (graduate Assistant) and 2 RAs on each floor. I got paid $65/monthly as an RA.
If you had a computer class, you would keypunch cards, keep them in order and turn them into the school to be run in the IBM360. Then you’d pick up your program the next day and heaven help you if you created a “continuous loop” in your program. You’d get yelled at when the computer assistant gave you your foot high pile of paper.
Lots of old memories.

 

WOW---I remember the IBM, don't even think about droping the cards, I did see a guy drop his down the stairs---the building just north of the admin building and a bit to the west before the old library. It was a big program.
The Cal-Comp ploter was fun when it was working.
The old buildings Dr.Case, Dr. Waisner were in just north of Grenstad
I heard that they put a bridge crosswalk over 13 for the dorms to campus---
what was the story about the student union being damaged? or didn't happen?

 

yea there is now a bridge over 13 where you cross to get to Ellis and Diemer (east side of campus). They tore down the PHillips/Osbourne dorms last year, they had been abandoned for a long time now, theres just a grass patch there now.....we got caught once last year breaking into them...got into some trouble with housing over that!
The Star Bar is across the road from Heros
The new library on campus is the largest in the state of Missouri--go to www.cmsu.edu and find pics of it...it lies west across 13 from Foster/Knox appts. Ward Edwards is now the business school....all my classes are in there.
We dont show our old red truck, even though it is in show condition, except we still need to buy the bias ply tires for the original wheels--120 bucks each--ouch! We mostly have it for personal enjoyment and cruising around in, it sits in the garage 99% of the time under a cover. Ill get around to showing it one day.

Illl have to wait until August to get pics uploaded, im living in Mississippi this summer and dont have access to them, but i can upload some of them in August when i get back into Warrensburg.
Im originally from Fulton, Missouri but my family moved to Tupelo, MS a year and a half ago---BIG change especially half way thru college....ouch!
Ill keep ya'll posted

 

Rockpick--youd be interested in the buildings on campus--theyre all constructed of Warrensburg Sandstone, mined a few miles outside of town

 

I just stumbled across this thread...just wanted to chime in that I'm from the great state of MO as well. Live in a small town called Linn about 25 miles east of Jefferson City on HWY 50. Lived here all my life except for 4 years while attending University of MO - Rolla and 2 years working in St. Charles (stinkin' traffic ). I currently work at the Callaway Nuclear Plant...20 miles as the crow flies, 60 miles by highway.

dennisinmo...I noticed you worked there. What did you do? I'm a consultant for the IT department.

 

Sorry man... totally missed this response as the Missouri project has been REALLY DRAGGING along. Long story short, I should've already been over there and should be about half-way through this project. As it stands, I'll be lucky to be there by AUGUST. The attorneys are really dragging this one out.

As for the buildings, yeah, that'd be cool. It's always been interesting to me to look at the buildings in a region and see where the building materials originated (which is typically a quarry on the outskirts of a town).

Bowling Green, Kentucky, for example, has oodles of buildings built with Ste. Genevieve Limestone (a local favorite)... it's really nice stuff.

RP

 

fordmantpw, I was at Callaway in 2004 working on the STARS DCS project which is now dead. I also worked on the feedwater valve replacement project. I work for an engineering co in KC (actually OP,KS).
Ah yes, Linn. I had a friend from there when I was in CMSU. Her dad was the head of the electronics dept at Linn Tech Inst. Now it's called something else and has grown. I've always wondered how my friend and her folks are. Their name is Anderson. They were really nice people.

 

Lots of my friends dads work out at the Nuke Plant....I used to be able to see it off my back porch in Fulton way off in the distance. We took a couple field trips out there during elementary/middle school. Id hate to have to change the lights on top of the cooling tower...

I miss Fulton alot....I love being with my family here in MS but cant wait to get back to mid-MO!

 

Hey that's right... Your not a Missourian anymore... I don't think your allowed to post in this section anymore now.

J/K with ya bro.

 

PSS-MAG
Sorry we have not made it to Candy's---maybe soon, I think it's next week end.
I work with Scotty S. who said he worked with you at Ramey's---he said to say hey to you.

the talk about Calaway power plant [UE] brought back my time at Marley Cooling Tower Co. in Mission KS---I worked on our sales dwgs for Union Electric, but Marley didn't get the contract [ie 1976]
The three mile island incident happened about the time I left in 1979.
My brother worked at Calaway as a electrican earlier 1980's

We went to KC last week, 25 years of marriage, got to watch the Arca and Craftsman trucks practice at the Kansas raceway---wow
saw some neat Ford trucks setting around all pretty-up
Cabela's was neat too! Got Rickey Craven's autograph, he even shock my hand,
Nice Irish pub [W J McBride's] next to the hotel we stayed at [the drivers and crews were there, we got lucky getting the last room at the Hampton]---
We had a great lunch at the Martin City Jack Stack smokehouse, wow
Stopped at my aunt and uncle in Warrensburg---alot of changes there and up in KC---
be good

 

Thats alright.. I've only made a few drive threws and waved to old friends, I haven't had time to get out and shoot the breeze with any of the guys at Candy's yet either. Let me know when you'll be there and I'll be sure to stop by and introduce myself.

If you work with Scotty then the last I knew he was at the old Electovert plant South of Camdenton. (I think the name has changed but I can't remember to what.) Yea we went to school together and worked at Ramey's together during our senior year. (That was where I was working when I got my TA!) LOL I could tell some stories on him BUT.. I won't, because I'm sure that he could tell some stories on me too. I'm not sure what the statue of limitations are on some of our stories. So we'd better wait another 10 -20 years before we start telling them.

We had our 10 year reunion last year I don't know if he went. I was out of town but from what I have heard I didn't miss much. Tell him I said hey back.

Have you been watching the General Discusion section on here? Urban Cowboy recently bought a 78. He's going to build a Smokey & Bandit out of it. Right now it is primer but does have 3 gold snow flake rims and one silver. It has the 6.6L, automatic. Later today I'll try to find that thread and bump it to the top. He needs some help with the cruise control and a few other things that I do not have, don't know about and is not in my Chiltons. Maybe you could help him.