I remember Alan as one of the funniest kids around. He lived on Barnsdale St, just a couple of blocks from where I grew up on Aylesboro. Playing basketball at one of the local hoops and Alan would have a steady stream of humorous chatter. He had a riff about teachers at Linden as Harlem Globetrotters, as in "Sweetwater Sekey." At Allderdice,we took a speech class together senior year. Who would've been the teacher? I don't remember her name, only that she was pedantic about the mechanics of English diction. One speech we had to write and recite was, like, a "how-to." Alan's was on the moves of professional wrestling (Bruno Sammartino, the Crusher were the rage). One point in his speech was what to do if your opponent had you on the mat in some kind of painful hold. Alan lay on the auditorium stage and told us, "You have to slam you hand on the mat and utter the third back vowel sound: 'augh'!" His mockery of both wrestling and the teacher was sooo funny!
David Slavkin
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Joel Wingard
I remember Alan as one of the funniest kids around. He lived on Barnsdale St, just a couple of blocks from where I grew up on Aylesboro. Playing basketball at one of the local hoops and Alan would have a steady stream of humorous chatter. He had a riff about teachers at Linden as Harlem Globetrotters, as in "Sweetwater Sekey." At Allderdice,we took a speech class together senior year. Who would've been the teacher? I don't remember her name, only that she was pedantic about the mechanics of English diction. One speech we had to write and recite was, like, a "how-to." Alan's was on the moves of professional wrestling (Bruno Sammartino, the Crusher were the rage). One point in his speech was what to do if your opponent had you on the mat in some kind of painful hold. Alan lay on the auditorium stage and told us, "You have to slam you hand on the mat and utter the third back vowel sound: 'augh'!" His mockery of both wrestling and the teacher was sooo funny!