Evanston Township High School
Class of 1970
Bill Hoover
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Happy Birthday Doug.
I'm heading up to the Island in Red Gut Bay this month.
The best of memories!
Your friend,
Bill
Happy Birthday Ben! We share the same School Memories, especially that lone defeat against Oak Park our Senior year. Yea but beating New Trier in our last game was great solace and a lasting memory.
Your friend, Bill
Nancy was one of those people you met in high school for the first time with whom you connected and hung out with in the Senior Lounge. She seemed to have a perpetual smile and a great laugh. She was part our West Hall/Boltwood group (Polly, Joe, Jenny and others) whose memory lingers with me to this day. The older we get the more friends pass on. A sobering experience for those of us still here. Nancy and my other friends (Tony, Kit, Art, ...) are missed and I hope to see them again someday.
Art was my oldest friend. Our families lived across Michigan Ave. at Greenleaf in SE Evanston from each other in the early 1950s. Our moms put us in a tandem stroller from before we could walk. Life in our neighborhood was classic in the traditional sense. Playing with pals in the alley, staying out until the streelights came on. We attended Lincoln School together until my family moved north to Dempster Street for my 5th and 6th grade years. 7th and 8th grade at Nichols JHS and then on to ETHS. I played football and ran track. Art played tennis. Different paths but we never grew apart. We maintained constant communication across the miles and years up until cancer took him. Art was a trusted friend, always willing to talk about his trials, his family and the events of the day. He was a good listener too. I miss him. We'll see each other again in Heaven someday.
We were so young, full of life, joy and hope. Ready to go our separate ways as we celebrated that summer our years together as athletes, students and friends. Hearing the news of Tony’s death, attending his funeral and dreaming about him thereafter are experiences still fresh in my mind. Of all the good ones that die young, he was among the best. I am sure he has received his reward in Heaven and I look forward to seeing him again.