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Party wine

Pine Ridge Chenin Blanc-Viognier ($10) Califorina

One of the dilemmas during holiday wine season is trying to decide what to spend. It’s one thing if it’s just immediate family for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, but start adding guests and the wine bill goes up accordingly. And that takes a lot of fun out of the holidays, which should be about enjoyment and not spending money. Fortunately, there is great wine no matter how much you want to spend:

• Not much money: Pine Ridge Chenin Blanc-Viognier ($10) is a white blend from California that is one of the best cheap wines in the world, with just a touch of sweetness and lots of white fruit. Planeta La Segreta Rosso ($10) is a red blend from Sicily that’s made for food — a little earthy and with some cherry fruit.

• A little more money, but still not a lot: Spy Valley Riesling ($18) is a New Zealand white that is about as close to a perfect turkey wine as possible — a dry wine with layers of flavor that range from petrol on the nose (a classic riesling characteristic) to citrus and tropical in the front and middle. Bonny Doon’s Clos de Gilroy ($18) is a dark and spicy red blend from California that still has enough red fruit to appeal to everyone.

• Not cheap: Hedges Red Mountain ($25), a Washington state red blend, is one of the best wines I’ve tasted this year, rich and deep and with lots of quality black fruit. Cornerstone Cellars Chardonnay ($35) is an Oregon wine made in more of a California style, rich and oaky with lots of green apple fruit.

—Jeff Siegel

Thanksgiving leftovers

Welcome to our fourth annual Thanksgiving leftovers extravaganza, because the world does not need yet another recipe for the holidays. Instead, let’s clean out that refrigerator:

• Turkey and dressing egg rolls. Who says egg rolls need to be Asian? Combine leftover turkey and dressing in grocery store egg roll wrappers and bake or deep fry according to package directions. Use leftover gravy for the dipping sauce.

• Turkey jambalaya. You can make this with leftover rice, which is even easier. Sauté some onions, celery and bell pepper in a little olive oil until the vegetables are tender. Add chopped garlic and, if you’re feeling adventurous, a finely diced jalapeño, and sauté briefly. Then add sliced smoked sausage and the leftover turkey. Mix carefully, add a couple of cups of cooked rice, mix again, and heat until warmed through.

• Turkey pot pie. The simple way is to buy two frozen pie shells, add a can of cream of mushroom soup along with leftover turkey and whatever other vegetables are in the refrigerator, and bake for 40 minutes in a 400-degree oven. Less simple, but not difficult, is Jacques Pepin’s chicken pot pie (substituting turkey, of course) in “Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home.”

Ask the wine guy

What wine goes best with turkey?

The traditional answer is pinot noir, but any light red will work. This is also a good time to serve sweet whites.

—Jeff Siegel

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Where were you?

Adamson

High School alumni recall the day that changed the nation — by Rachel Stone

Ask any Baby Boomer where he or she was on Nov. 22, 1963. They always know, and usually, they remember being in school.

Which class, which teacher, how they learned the president had been shot. For students at Adamson High School, this was not just a national tragedy; it was a neighborhood one.

Oak Cliff beat cop J.D. Tippit was shot and killed less than two blocks from the school. And police captured presumed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at a teenage hangout, the Texas Theatre.

Adamson High School graduate Lon Oakley Jr. was a junior at the time of the assassination. He was a class officer, a cheerleader and one of the most popular kids in school. The Oak Cliff native, who now lives in San Antonio, recently wrote and published a book, “Two Deaths and an Arrest … A Collection of Historical Accounts and Memoirs,” about the day of the assassination. The story that follows comes from recollections in that book as well as the Advocate’s own interviews.

Principal T.W. Meek came over the public address system. “I regret to inform you that our president has died.”

That’s how ’64 Adamson graduate Shirley McCann Gee remembers the announcement. Gee recalls the morning of Nov. 22 as a typical Friday. A friend’s dad drove them to school. She had a lot to look forward to. It was her young nephew’s birthday, and his party was the next day. The following week was short for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Meek’s announcement also informed Adamson students that they would not be changing classes and that everyone should stay put. They later found out that it was because the school was what we might now call “on lockdown” as police searched nearby for the assassin.

“Those of us in the choir room were alerted that there were police running through the parking lot across the street,” recalls Jean Wilson Meyer, a ’64 Adamson grad. “We watched as that scenario played

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out. Later, we found out they were searching for Lee Harvey Oswald.”

Dan Eddy, another ’64 grad, remembers that he was in Marilyn Morgan’s French class when Mr. Meeks made his announcement.

“Ms. Morgan began to weep,” he recalls. “The girls also began to cry, and the boys were angry.”

Before the principal’s announcement, news about the shooting had made its way through the school by word of mouth. Bob Johnston, a 1959 Adamson grad who taught journalism, speech and English at his alma mater in the ’60s, recalls that a student stopped by his classroom after lunch and asked, “Did you hear the President was shot?” Johnston thought the student was joking at first.

Declan Hoffmann, who taught biology at Adamson, had a similar experience. A student whizzed by his classroom and said, “Mr. Hoffman, President Kennedy was shot.” Hoffman directed his class to keep quiet, and he

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sneaked them into the film/projection room to watch the live newscast.

“We were watching history as it happened,” Hoffmann says. “Then I remember hearing police cars and sirens … but not really realizing what was happening so close to our doors.”

Dottie Hollis was a sophomore at Adamson in the fall of ’63. She had wanted to skip school and ride the bus Downtown to watch the motorcade. But her biology teacher, Ralph Martin, had announced a major test that Friday, and he warned specifically against missing class in favor of the presidential happenings. “There would be no excused absences or make-up test,” Hollis recalls.

She heard rumors of the shooting just after lunch, and she was in Carolyn Creel’s German class when Meeks came over the PA.

“Tears were shed by most, and a heavy, somber feeling by all,” Hollis recalls.

Dale White had graduated from Adamson in May ’63 and accepted a job in the Mercantile Bank Building on Main Street. He was able to pop his head out of his office window to see the President and the First Lady in her pink Chanel suit.