Granby High Comets
If you grew up in Ocean View, you likely attended Granby High. Who didn't get their Etienne Aigner™ sandals, bags and Bass Weejuns™ at Hofheimer's? Guys wore Gant™ button down collars and khakis; girls-- hip-stitched pleated skirts, cardigans, circle-collared blouses, often sporting the "gold" circle pin in the middle, were as indistinguishable as Norfolk Catholic High uniforms: plaid hip-stitches, cardigans, white circle-collared blouses (no pins allowed). Unfortunately for our pocketbooks, the Seattle Grunge 'look' was a few decades away.

1960 Wrestling Team

Front Row(L-R): Chuck Aeschliman, Bobby Schultz, Jimmy (Cappy) Puma, Ricky Brahm, Ross Hazelwood, Jim Epperly & Richard Barnes. 2nd Row: Fred Powell, Wayne Simons, Bobby Leffew, John Jordan, Charles Callahan and dear Coach Billy Martin (he'd accepted his 21st state championship trophy in 1970 when we lost count) 3rd: Joe Bowling, Bill Radford, Wes Foster, Andre Rivermonte,  Ken Perry & Steve Glover Ahhh, the athletic hunks of GHS still hold a special spot: Jack Dunn, Tommy Leffew, Doc Twiford, Gus Vassos, Robert Sims, Kenny Banner, Joe Boone, Steve Harrison, David Lindjhem, Tommy Williams, Richard Carey, Jr. Montoya, Buddy Duke, Ronnie Ripley, Butch Miller,  Mike Harrison, Brad Lowery, Manny Nofplot, Danny Dunn, Bill Lackland, Keith Dyer, Andy McGee, Puddy Sturtevant, Garry Mackey, Richard Coreno, Buddy Watson, Ronnie Hill, Fred Snell, Jerry Baum, David McCauley
but we salivate, er, we mean digress.

"We gotta' nip this thing in the bud..."

AKP & TDT
Alpha Kappa Pi and Tau Delta Tau

Back: Durwood Zedd and whoa, whozat with the Granby salute?
Nansemond, Layfayette, or Monticello?
We'll have better luck with the Front (L-R):
Dunno' extreme left but then there's Martha Moody of Riverview; Sally King - a Bayview class act; Maureen Thomas (a fluke we caught her on Regis & Kathy Lee because we just do news: she was discussing her foundation for women undergoing chemo, helping with everything from wigs to self-esteem-- that's just like ya', Mo); her best bud Linda Caprio, now teaching school (her brother Joey provided this photo); Bobbie Hand (RK's "big sis" after Linda Swale); flanked by two girls I don't remember, 2nd from right is Linda Shelton.

Calleran, another rare appearance...

but many fun faces here!
Top: Vickie Coulter, AKP/Linda Cyr, sister Ange's best pal/RK, always the tallest/Nancy Nusbaum/Carol Kipper, Maecenean/Betty Hazelette-not voted 'Best All Around" for nuthin!/Janell Baldwin/Linda Stancil, Maecenean & OV archiver/Fran Day/Carolyn Francis. 2nd: Carol Powel/Susie Vislocky, AKP/Diane Halprin/ Marilyn Gowin/Phyliss Kasov/Sandy Abrams/Lynda Etheridge/Legh Edmonds, AKP/Marsha Nicholson, AKP. Front: Linda Rawlings/Barb Killifer, 'nuther of Ange's pals/JoAnne Forster, miss ya' kid-where are ya?/Barbara Isrow/Linda Swale, AKP, "big sis" & Spit neighbor/Sandy Coston, AKP/Jendy Willett/Dona Haney/Pam Barrett, AKP.

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Granby Street was named for John Manners, Marquis of Granby (1721-1770) hero of the Seven Years' War.

In 1993 Norfolk Catholic (built in 1949) moved from Granby Street (next door to DePaul Hospital) to their current Princess Anne Rd, Virginia Beach home.

In 1946, the Shriners sponsored the first Oyster Bowl parade and football game, to aid crippled children. Granby High Comets whooped Clifton New Jersey High, 6-0. The last Oyster Bowl game was played in 1995.

One fun memory-- when Mr. John W. Brown caught Patsy (Watson) Reed & R K skipping class; gone downtown to see Paul Newman in Harper, had colas & an eyeful of the guys at Jimmy Barnes' Drug Store which was piping out Petula Clark's "Downtown"-- a vital enough reason to cut classes: but in Mr. Brown's office, he'd call parents with his gravelly voice-- "We gotta' nip this thing in the bud". Actually Mr. Brown hardly protected us altogether from some stony & loose ends but we'll never forget him for trying.

Another  recollection is when we AKP members walked into Mason's Restaurant over the Granby Bridge; and sat-- and only then discovered out of all these GHS Comet coeds, not one of us had two nickels to rub together, on us. Mason's in 1939 was known as Eastern Shore Seafood Restaurant, later became the home of Simply Divine, later Hurricane's and today-- Tabb's where now they're making waves with their fried oysters. Go by and see Cammie --she'll hook you right up!

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November 1960, four days before the election, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy visited Granby High,arriving at Norfolk Municipal Airport in his private plane, "The Caroline," then by motorcade, standing in a bright red convertible from which he addressed on the athletic field, more than 12,000 including Jack Dunn, Cecilia and R K.

Senator John F. Kennedy said,

"Can you tell me what Thomas Jefferson has in common with Richard Milhous Nixon? A contemporary once said of Jefferson that he was a young man of 32 who could plot an eclipse, survey a field, plan an edifice, break a horse, play a violin, and dance a minuet. What on earth has he got in common with Richard Milhous Nixon? The light is in the window. Massachusetts and Virginia both went wrong in the last eight years. But the people of Virginia have begun to look to the future. I believe that the past will not control the future. The future will control itself. No citizen can live in this section of Virginia without realizing there is a world of danger and opportunity surrounding us. You must believe that the United States must go forward. You cannot possibly put your confidence in Democratic Senators and Democratic Congressmen and suddenly put in reverse and elect a Republican President. What sense does that make in the sixties? I come to you in these last four days. I come back where it all began, and I ask Virginia to give me her vote. We do not intend to devalue the dollar from its present rate. We will defend its value and its soundness. We will place less reliance on the high interest rate policy - which has been a major contribution to our current rate of business failure, the highest since the great depression."

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