Lodge 88, Houston Homecoming

and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. Doesn’t that feel good, just to go back and say, “Yeah, I remember that.”

I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on.

And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.

Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. Candy cigarettes.

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Coffee shops with table-side jukeboxes. Blackjack, Clove, and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Yukon 2601). Or, some of us remember when there were just four numbers with no word prefix at all. And, nearly everyone had a party line. Peashooters.

Hi-fi’s and 45 RPM records. 78 RPM records!

S&H Green Stamps. Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do you remember a time when deci-

Sunday June 4, 2023 • SPJST Lodge 88, Houston Hall • Submitted by Dorothy Pflughaupt

Czech Connections

Rotary Club Houston hosted Simon Basler, right, of Southern Moravia. District Five Director Bradley Stavinoha was honored to show Simon around Fort Worth and presented Simon with an SPJST challenge coin.

sions were made by going ‘eeny-meenyminey-moe’?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, ‘Do Over!’

‘Race issue’ meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.

It wasn’t odd to have two or three

‘Best Friends.’

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.

Saturday morning cartoons were’'t 30-minute commercials for action figures.

‘Oly-oly-oxen-free’ made perfect sense.

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.

War was a card game.

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!

—Author Unknown —SPJST—

Lodge 142, Houston Members Enjoy Night of Baseball

Thank you to SPJST District Five Youth for a great night of baseball on Saturday, May 13, 2023, at Constellation Field in Sugarland, Texas. It was a little rainy, but the Space Cowboys won the game 7 to 5 over the El Paso Chihuahuas!

—Pat Schleider, FAC

Lodge 142, Houston: May - the month of graduations!

Debra Ngo and Kerry Herrington of Lodge 142, Houston have three grandchildren graduating with some awesome honors!

Autumn Ngo

At the age of 21, granddaughter Autumn Ngo graduated with a master’s degree in data science from Texas Tech University. If this is not awesome enough, Autumn had a 4.0 GPA.

Autumn plans to go to Asia with her church on a missionary trip this summer. After she returns from her trip, she will reside in Dallas and begin a new job.

Autumn is the daughter of Jennifer Lewis.

Ryder Butera

Grandson Ryder Butera graduated from Travis High School in Richmond, Texas. Ryder received a scholarship and has committed to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs on its gymnastics team and his education at Air Force Academy.

Ryder is the son of Jennifer Lewis.

Debra and Kerry are very proud that Ryder will be representing our country and serving in the Air Force.

Ashley Maul

Granddaughter Ashley Maul, age 17, graduated from Texas Connections Academy of Houston. Out of 960-plus students, Ashley ranked 10th in her class.

Ashley received a full four-year scholarship for academics and gymnastics at Penn State University this fall.

Ashley is the daughter of Lisa and Roger Maul.

All three of these young graduates are members of Lodge 142, Houston. They were very active in the lodge’s youth club and participated in the Leaders-in-Training (LIT) program at SPJST summer camp.

Autumn, Ryder, and Ashley, all of us at Lodge 142, Houston are so proud of you!

Pat Schleider

Fraternal Activities Coordinator —SPJST—