Now you all probably remember Hugh Allen Jones, one of the Grainola 5 sometimes 6, but his older brother Glenn conjures up a memory or two. I should not leave out the fact that in spite of the looks of the brothers (Bruce, Hugh Allen and Glenn) those sisters were pretty dog-gone good looking. Oh well, back to Glenn.
He was a little older than me and in fact he was Larry (my brother's age I believe) or maybe a year younger. Either way, he was known to be an incredibly hard worker but not by me. What I remember is he was ornery to beat the band. I think he was worse than Hugh Allen, but that is another story.
Ok, here is my most memorable thing about Glenn. First you have to know we did not have air conditioning in the school, so we had to keep the windows open, especially the bathrooms due to the smell and heat. Well, for some reason Glenn decided that he was in a hunting mode and saw a skunk by the school. In fact, it was right outside the boy's bathroom. Now I will have to say I did not see the perpetrator, but it was widely known that Glenn shot that skunk. I don't know how long that smell lasted but it had to be weeks. You could not open those windows for a long, long time. Once you smelled it, there was no way of getting that out of your nose. The only thing I can remember being even close to that bad was when Pat Conwell took the shell off of a rotten egg and tossed it up in the air only to fall on my sister's head (Debbie Schaefer of Perry, OK these days) when she stepped out of the hay barn.
One last thing about Glenn, he was smarter that about anyone I knew except maybe, Jimmy Heath (another Grainola Grubber and one of the 5 sometimes 6). He was also quick witted, and you could say a smart aleck, but I won't go there.
So, what do you learn in the Osage?
- memories get better with age
- stories are worth writing down
- living in the Osage is like no other
