"THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA"

There is no place like Nebraska,
Dear old Nebraska U
Where the girls are the fairest -
The boys are the squarest
Of any old school that I knew.
There is no place like Nebraska,
Where they're all true blue.
We'll all stick together
In all kinds of weather,
At dear old Nebraska U.

- going to Barneston on Saturday nights to watch a free -- outdoor still -- movie with a one-cent package of life-savers in my shirt pocket,

- going to Finks Park west of Wymore to swim on Sunday afternoon,

- getting together with the gang (neighborhood farm families) for a pot-luck supper on Friday evenings,

- delivering May baskets in the neighborhood on May 1st and hoping that Allie Dillow didn't catch me and kiss me on the mouth (I'm poisoned!),

- going to Christian Endeavor on Sunday evenings at Liberty Congregational Church,

- playing touch-football on Sunday afternoons with Brother Bob and Bill and Earl Price,

- going to Grandma (Hiles) and Grandpa Mouser's house in Blue Springs after church for Sunday dinner and eating some of Grandma's famous roast beef and brown gravy,

- cutting sunflowers and cockleburs in August,

- cutting wood or shucking corn in the winter months when school was out on Saturdays,

- snowball fights in the winter,

- going to the bluffs to swim ala nude,

- New Hope elementary school,

- and riding bikes to high school uphill both ways,

- forever going out to the pasture to round-up the cows for milking,

- harnessing the work horses -- Dick and Diamond, Fannie and Major,

- playing with Sport the dog,

- watching the cows playing 'Doctor' with one of the cows (maybe a bull) riding on the cow's back to the 'hospital' (wink),

- having homemade ice cream with the gang,

- scraps with Brother Bob and teasing sister Joy Ann,

- Saturday night beans (Bang-Bang),

- and of course a Saturday night bath, whether you needed it or not,

- going off to Peru to college,

- then military service for 41 months,

- and back to University of Nebraska, Lincoln