The "Catch All" Page

From time to time, various items, photos, and articles are sent to this website which don't exactly fit into any of the established Menu Categories.  If you don't find something anywhere else, it will probably be on this page. 

 
 
   We receive photos...
   

Don Arant, Tech 1961, sent this photo of Elvis along with the comment that "Elvis liked feet".  ?

Posted 8/28/2010

 

 


Elaine Brademeyer McAdams, Tech 1957, sent this photo of the Fairgrounds from the Commercial Appeal archives in 1953.

Posted 8/28/2010

   
 

 

Dave French, Tech 1969, sent these photos of Tennessee License plates from 1905-1959.

Posted 8/28/2010

 

1905 - 1919



 

1920 - 1929

1930 - 1939

1940 - 1949

1950 - 1959

   


Maureen Thoni White sent these photos taken when Dave French, Tech 1969, visited from Georgia.  That's Dave and his Memphis family on the right. 
(Dave is "into" Tennessee license plates). 
Posted 8/29/2010
                                                                                                                     

 

 

 

 
   

FOUND!!!  1968 Tech Ladies Ring -Posted 11/12/2009


This 1968 Tech ladies ring was found in 1999 by a student on the campus of El Segundo High School, El Segundo, California.  The student turned the ring over to Student Activities at the California school.  They had no success in locating the owner, so they sent the ring to Robin Dean at the Pyramid Academy in the old Tech Building in Memphis.  Robin tried to locate the owner thru various Tech records and finally in September of 2009, she found our website and contacted us to help.  We are now the 3rd party to have the ring.

Ordinarily we wouldn't mention that the ring has initials inside, but they happen to be initials that fit ONLY ONE STUDENT in the class of 1968.  We believe that the ring belongs to MARY E. WRIGHT.  But we have not been able to locate Mary or anyone who knows her after 1968. 

If anyone has any information about Mary - perhaps a married name, the names of children or a relative, please contact Gene Gill <gene.gill@verizon.net>, Dave French <Retired2007@gmail.com>, or Rob Jolly <Actingrob@aol.com>

   

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Mary E. Wright '68

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Letter from El Segundo High

   
   
 

 

 

September 2009 - Carolyn Elliott writes: 
"Jimmy Crosthwait ...works as artist, washboard player, and puppeteer.  He's an eccentric type, well-known in the Mid-south for his Pink Palace puppet shows. 
 Although he didn't graduate from Tech, he was a student in 1961-62.  He recently designed and played a percussion art work at a memorial concert for another local legend and bandmate, musician and producer Jim Dickinson".

   

Jimmy Crosthwait will play his "16 Gauge John Cage Cymballic Gongs" at a Jim Dickinson tribute Monday at the Levitt Shell.
   

 Jim Crosthwait - 1961

Jim Crosthwait - around 2009

Jimmy Crosthwait on stage at the Levitt Shell, Sep 2009