WASHBURN ICHABODS
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@JayHawkFanToo Yes, he went to Washburn.
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Washburn F5 Tornado, 1966.
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@wrwlumpy You forgot my wife, my 2 sisters and my nephew as grads. And me, my 2 sisters and nephew from Topeka. JK Good job and always look forward to your opponent info posts. Especially the first one.
BTW, my nephew majored in something like sports communications and used to travel with some of the Washburn teams. But he bleeds crimson/blue. He helped a couple times with the Washburn/KU game and always had to restrain himself.
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@wrwlumpy Legend said that Burnett’s Mound SW of Topeka would protect it from tornado’s. But that sucker ignored legend and roared right over the top of the mound and straight through the heart of town. Fortunately none of my family and relatives were hurt although several suffered damage to homes.
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You guys forgot our famous poster!@jayballer54
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Needed a capitol pic @wrwlumpy ! They shined up the old place.
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Holy cow! Coleman Hawkins is from Kansas? Sweet.
I knew about Annette Being. She was the Grace Kelly of her generation of actresses and I have always hated Warren Beatty for taking her out of circulation to make his babies BEFORE she got to do a few really great films.
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The pictures of the 1966 twister really take me back.
My great aunt and uncle lived in Topeka and the twister missed them. But I remember driving to help them run errands a few weeks after the twister and I vividly remember vividly driving down a street that looked just like the one on the right in the aerial view. It was an insane experience. I remember everything on both sides of the street was obliterated and just a few blocks away one direction everything was okay. I looked the other way and I couldn’t see the end of the devastation. If I recall correctly it was two mile wide swatch and the twister skipped couple of time leaving stretches completely intact. Seeing that turned my brother and me into “storm chasers” before there was a name for the activity. When he got old enough to drive, we chased the squal lines looking for funnels. Pretty fool hardy in retrospect. That twister was also what made me take meteorology my freshman year and meet the professor at KU that created the first man made model of twister cloud, if I recall correctly.
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Oh, and my dad played basketball for the Ichabods his freshman year in the late 1930s, before he transferred to KU. He tried to play at KU but wasn’t good enough. So then he transferred his last two seasons to KSU (its a dark family secret) to get an ag degree to come home and help run his father’s business. But then the war swept him up. The rest is another story.
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@DanR she’s lookin good!
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@jaybate-1.0 was that Prof Eagleman? I had him for a meteorology class… I think he was pretty well known in the weird weather world. (well before the other www.)
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Cant recall his name now but that sounds right.
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@JayHawkFanToo Ya could definetly do with out Fred. Thank goodness, haven’t seen or heard to much about him in the News lately. It’s sad that I have the destinction of living in the same city, - -but on to the game, CAN’T WAIT. - - -ROCK CHALK AL DAY LONG BABY
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@wrwlumpy I will never forget that Tornado. We were getting medicine at Walgreens for my niece when this happened. - - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@Crimsonorblue22 Why thank you for thinking of me JK. But seriously, I never will forget the reporter standing on Burnett’s mound describing the Tornado as it was approaching, then later they came out with a big tabloid, and showed the reporter all encased in mud from the tornado. It practically took Washburn off the map. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@wrwlumpy I really appreciate your contributions to this site. Any chance you could share your talents on the football site? A few of us are following the football team. We certainly need some inspiration about now. RCJH
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Bring on the “Itchy Butts!”
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@jayballer54 said:
Ya could definetly do with out Fred. Thank goodness, haven’t seen or heard to much about him in the News lately.
Fred last made the news in 2014 when his hate-filled soul was sucked into the bowels of hell. (although supposedly he’d had a change of heart in his final months and his own church excommunicated him.)
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@DanR Fred died in 2014.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. 1954
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Air Combat Museum - Forbes Field
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@wrwlumpy Those tornado pics are not a comforting sight being from the Joplin area.
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@DanR Ya I knew he had passed, didn’t realize it had been that long - - still see protesters here and there from time to time. I think one of the biggest things that chap my rear is them having the kids hold those signs, Those kids had NO IDEA what they meant all they know is mommy and Daddy told them to hold the signs and repeat what mommy and daddy did. - -Felt really bad for the kids. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Any else notice Phelps is wearing a KSU jacket, goat ropers
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@kjayhawks LOL, hadn’t noticed - -but figures - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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More often than not, he wore KU gear so let’s not throw stones. I know that neither KU nor KSU or any one with an iota of common decency would claim him. Let’s not give him any more ink, he now has to account to a higher authority.
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@JayHawkFanToo …uh, maybe a “lower” authority…things could be gettin’ toasty or downright warm…
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The higher authority decides if he reports to the lower authority…LOL.
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@JayHawkFanToo Yep!
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@JayHawkFanToo As a side point, I dont need Phelps in order to throw stones at KSU’s fans–as their antics earns them the honor all on their own…lol, welcome to the ralster-spin-zone…
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Ksu beat Pitt by 13 pts
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Indeed. However, I would not use Phelps to attack anyone. For years I have heard about it from people all over the country and it has been a source of embarrassment, both as a Kansan and as someone with human decency, that he made his residence in Topeka, Kansas.
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@JayHawkFanToo Agreed. Yes…that short-list of “Kansas” to those not from the MidWest: Dorothy. Toto. Tornadoes. Phelps. Some instance about KS schools and evolution, also seems to come up fairly regularly…all to the embarassment of Kansas folk.
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@ralster and the lowest ranked governor!
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You are right; I have heard every possible Dorothy-Toto-tornado-Wizzard of Oz joke there is. On the other hand, the Jayhawks logo is widely recognized and respected.
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@JayHawkFanToo What I like is how often, when someone finds out I’m from Kansas, they will ask, “Oh, do you know . . . ?” as if there are about 150 of us!
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@mayjay When i was in NC a few years back people were asking me about wild indians lol
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@kjayhawks When we moved to KC in the mid-60s, I thought it was a cowboy/Indians frontier town. I was 10.
In 1973, I was a senior at Shawnee Mission East. My Latin teacher was a new arrival who grew up in and had never been outside of NYC. Never had a car, etc. He told us he came to the airport and asked where he could catch a bus to the Indian Mission. No Wikipedia then!
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@mayjay Thats great but yes its funny some of the things a guy heres when traveling or seeing travelers. Its crazy to thing how much riskier it was to travel even when i was a kid, although we never went anywhere but colorado and nebraska to see family had a nice road map lol and had to ask for directions at gas stations.
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Chipman on playing KU for final time
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Yep should be a good game between the Jayhawks and the Washburn ichabods
