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05/01/21 04:59 PM #384    

Young Do Kim (1984)

I believe I set a record at SAHS for achieving 0.0 GPA for 2 consecutive semesters(quarters?).

05/02/21 07:50 AM #385    

Tad Clark (1984)

Young Do Kim...I remember you...don't know if you remember me.I spent two or so weeks in the 121st hospital in my junior year...I had a nervous breakdown and came out a zombie.My senior year,which we both are class of 84.I achieved a gpa of 1.95 at graduation.How is because I skipped morning classes and only went to afternoon classes.I only needed those classes to get out of school.Anyway if you want add me on Facebook if I don't have you as a friend yet...I am Tad Clark on that site.I am done...except I would never wanted my life to be different I enjoyed my four years in Korea.You all take care and bright blessings and blessed be.

05/02/21 10:28 AM #386    

Young Do Kim (1984)

Hello Tad I hope all is well. Lost my phone and forgot my damn password to Facebook and have no access. I need to create a new page and when I do I will send a request.

My first taste of nude/ strip show was at Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon. The stripper was not completely nude but wore a sheer semi-transparent dress but at 15 it was "wow"!!!

05/02/21 01:09 PM #387    

 

James Schindler (1964)

So happy to see the postings from students of the ' 60s, and beyond. I attended during SAHS' first three years of existence. You would think that over the passing years I would have made at least one reunion, but sadly could only enjoy pictures. Almost made the last one but then a granddaughter decided to have a wedding that weekend. I am determined to make this one. At age 75, oh well...... Thank you all for your comments. Write on!

Jim Schindler '64 (1960-1962) St. Louis, Missouri

05/02/21 04:52 PM #388    

Keith Hodges (1967)

We have had a recent explosion in forum posts.

The message forum is an ongoing dialogue between classmates. There are no items, topics, subtopics, tho you may wish to visit our political post preferences at http://www.sahs-reunion.com/Politics-and-the-Forum.htm .

Clicking on the "Post Response" button sends your post to EVERYONE (thousands) and most get a notification email.

Consider instead of a forum message sending a private email message by clicking on the classmates name on the forum post or from the classmates profile.
 

05/02/21 07:27 PM #389    

Rory Gardner (1971)

Hello Susan:

A shout out from another Class of '71 Alumnus. Hard to believe it has been 50 years.

Rory Gardner 

05/02/21 10:32 PM #390    

 

Michael Purtymun (1991)

Hello all. Given the latest contributions, I feel quite the youngster posting right now, but I also feel at home doing so if only because I'll wager I'm equally nostalgic. Or intoxicated. Or both. I wasn't the 0.0GPA kid like Young Do, but I know I have a helluva lot more in common with him the overacheivers I cross paths with at work. Nor am I military like a lot of you, and as much as I appreciate your service, I appreciate more our shared touchstone. I honestly hope that every SAHS graduate has had a chance to experience a bit of success; and that success came from a lesson learned, or sterngth realized, during your time stationed with your family in Korea, because it was such a unique existence.

I can firmly say that if I hadn't been part of the SAHS family when I was, I wouldn't be here today. I would have been bullied to death, either directly or via suicide, by dumb children who didn't know what the world was. But every kid at SAHS, and I would say every kid at any DoDDS school, knew the world was a bigger place than just some small CONUS schoolyard. And we had these wonderfully human teachers who guided us as they could, and always gave us the grace to be complete f-up's when we deserved to be.

SAHS was probably my first adult relationship. Or at least the first model of one.

 

 

 

05/03/21 07:25 AM #391    

Vivian Pollack (Zaiger) (1971)

Vivian Pollack (Zaiger) 71

 Hi, I can't beieve it has been 50 years! The best four years of my life were at SAHS! I enjoy reading all the posts.
 

05/03/21 09:40 PM #392    

Young Do Kim (1984)

I really appreciated the fact that SAHS students' IQ were, in general, about close to .6 standard deviation above the general population (IQ of about 110, high enough to graduate from an average university), although my iq was 65, bringing the overall average down. The extrapolation is based purely on my observation but I am confident that I am about 99% correct. As I look at the professions selected by my peers and the level of achievement in their chosen vocation, I am more than certain that I am correct with margin of error of 2 points. In another words, we, as a group, were as smart as an average Ashkenazi Jew.

05/03/21 10:10 PM #393    

Young Do Kim (1984)

I remember my dad kicking me out of the house at 4:00 in the morning because I had snuck out to go drinking with my buddies at midnight. I knew I was screwed, when I saw that the living room lights were on as I approached the house. When I approached my bedroom window, it was locked. I rang the doorbell, my dad opened the door and yanked me into the house. My dad was berating me with his favorite adjectives..."you insolent, conniving, defiant son of a b____(no offense to mom), pack up your s____and get out of the house he yelled. I obeyed his orders and packed a few items and left the house not knowing where I would stay. It was February and as you all know, it was cold as hell. Thank God for my Korean girlfriend who snuck me in to her house every night for following 3 months until I was permitted to move back in. I saw my girlfriend 4 years later when I was deployed to Korea as a corporal with 25th Infantry Division on Team Spirit Joint Exercise and have not talked to her since but I am so grateful to her for taking me in. I hope she is happily married to a loving man.

05/03/21 10:42 PM #394    

Young Do Kim (1984)

Keith, Thank you for this website.

05/03/21 10:52 PM #395    

Young Do Kim (1984)

Michael, appreciate your post. As I said before, you guys are so politically correct, it is boring. Get it off your chest.

05/03/21 11:02 PM #396    

Young Do Kim (1984)

Always had high expectations for Mark Kimitsuka and Han Sang Bae. 4.0 GPA always.

05/03/21 11:21 PM #397    

Young Do Kim (1984)

Think it and it will be!!!! The constraint is you!!! You want millions, it shall be. Visualize...although you will be disappointed...money brings its own sets of problems.

05/04/21 08:51 AM #398    

Sherron "Sam" Dix (Lawson) (1961)

Let's watch our language, please. I'm no prude but I'd appreciate it. And while we're at it, leave off the politics and crude social commentary. We're better than that. Thanks,

Sam

05/04/21 09:17 AM #399    

Tad Clark (1984)

Young do Kim...I am doing ok..I live in east tennessee.. Knoxville.I have lived here since fall 1992...My father passed in 1995..fall...my mom passed in 2010 in the winter.I have a girlfriend and we have been together for ten years.

05/04/21 10:23 AM #400    

Young Do Kim (1984)

Got ya Sherron. My apologies.

05/04/21 12:45 PM #401    

David Baldwin (1961)

Hey there, Sam.... Lyn....

So great to see your post... Lyn's too.  I keep in pretty close contact with Ted (Green) and occasionally with Sue (Scott) Weinsheimer.  Ted has a summer place here in Maine and we are able to get together once in a while to relive our days in Korea. 

If either of you (Sam and/or Lyn) have my e-mail, please drop me a note...

David (Baldwin) idan 3113, WB5NKJ

 

05/04/21 03:20 PM #402    

Lyn Shaw (1962)

Dave and Sam...

I'd love to be in touch. I think I still have Sam's. contact info...maybe even phone number, which would be fabulous,   Suer and I see or talk to eachother whenever I'm ibn D.C,.I did see Ted once when Cindy lived in Alexandria, VA and haved talked to Don Herring a couple of times. Kel Keller and I kept up for a little over 60 years until last February.  We're all of us such a crew, no?

I hope you're all well (Sam. give me best to George!)..

Lyn

05/04/21 03:28 PM #403    

Young Do Kim (1984)

Remember those coveted Member's Only jackets? I wanted one but could not afford to buy one, especially the leather one which went for 160 bucks. When I was discharged from military, I returned to Georgia and enrolled at a local state university. My mother at the time was pursuing her masters at ubiquitous Central Michigan University at now defunct Ft. McPherson. There, my mother met a lady doing the same and they eventually became best friends. One day my mother asked if I could do her a favor and take her best friend's daughter, who had just come from Korea to attend collge, on a campus tour. I obliged and boy did I make a right decision. She was very attractive yet somewhat aloof. I started taking her out on dates and finally snuck her out of bedroom window at 3 in the morning with intent to elope. After hearing the news, her father flew in from Korea to meet with me. I asked for his blessing to marry his daughter. Although hesitant at first, he relented. He spent a few days in Georgia and walked his daughter down the aisle. During our dinner before his departure, he revealed that he manufactured Member's Only jackets out of his 2 garment factories in Korea and sold them to the Jews in New York's Garment District. Go figure! Out of curiosity I asked how much he was getting for each piece of leather version of Member's Only jacket. He replied...16 bucks. I guess it was heaven's way of saying " there you go now you can have as many Member's Jackets as you want". Life has been really interesting. Although, my marriage only lasted 6 years, I have a beautiful and smart daughter, who recently designed the production set for my favorite group Foreigner (so popular during my time at SAHS) for their world tour promotion video(pre-covid).

05/05/21 09:12 AM #404    

Jarvis Levelle Brown (1983)

I Remember when Tad Clark, got introduced for the Warrios Football Game. He ran out Like the movie "Rudy".  Classic:) 

I hear, "Hooker Hill" still looks like "Hooker Hill"!" Long time show time $10's, cheap, cheap"

05/05/21 10:33 AM #405    

Young Do Kim (1984)

SAHS and 8th Army community definitely was stratified based on father's rank. Although I belonged to the rank and file, there were some military royalties in school that received some extra attention from teachers and staff and community in general. Those kids whose fathers were LTC or above resided in plush South Post. The embassy kids resided in plush compound of their own. The kids whose parents were Majors or below and senior enlisted resided in RGH and in a compound on other side of Han River. The kids whose parents were civil servants GS/WG resided in Namsan, Itaewon and other areas within 5 mile radius of the Main Post. Segregation...

05/05/21 07:59 PM #406    

Young Do Kim (1984)

Unable to delete messages hence this post.

05/05/21 09:04 PM #407    

Young Do Kim (1984)

Unable to delete hence this post.

05/06/21 10:34 AM #408    

Katherine Alfsen (1980)

SAHS and 8th Army community definitely was stratified based on father's rank. Although I belonged to the rank and file, there were some military royalties in school that received some extra attention from teachers and staff and community in general. Those kids whose fathers were LTC or above resided in plush South Post. The embassy kids resided in plush compound of their own. The kids whose parents were Majors or below and senior enlisted resided in RGH and in a compound on other side of Han River. The kids whose parents were civil servants GS/WG resided in Namsan, Itaewon and other areas within 5 mile radius of the Main Post. Segregation...

I was one of the "Embassy Housing" dwellers from '77 - '80 and while the houses were pretty good, one tends to forget there were no buses for us.  My brother and I were on our own getting to school every day.  I recall there being a downhill slope after riding past the golf course (on the left after the gate), it being snowy/icy and watching my brother slide down that incline when he lost control and hit the pavement. No bike helmet requirements back then  Ha ha  

I tried to locate my house on Google Maps and it looks like that Area has changed a LOT!  The golf course is gone and the hosptial is a shopping area now.

Lastly, here were NO academic advantages to being from the "plush" areas...I was one or two places from the GPA bottom of my class when I gradtuated in 1980.  I receoved no special attention from any teachers.  In fact I would categorize more as a "sink or swim" approach than anything else.

 

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