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Senior Senior

The

Good Old

Days

by Shae Lynn Suttle

With the sun setting on March 2, 1942, Occasionally, he’s grabbing a graduate from in May. His picture is
the world was blessed with a new soul cheeseburger and a Diet Coke from the displayed in the hallway of Idalou High
- a beautiful, brown-haired baby boy Dixie Dog. Smacking away, he often School, in the 1960 frame. Soon enough,
with sky-blue eyes, looking up into the reminisces about “The Good Old Days,” my peers and I will have a frame of our
space around him. This baby boy’s name when you could buy a corndog and a own.
was Edward Don Foreman, and lucky Coke for just 50 cents.
for me, he would eventually become my Other times, his white
grandfather. Chevrolet pick-up
slides by as he scans
As of today, my Grandpa is 75 years the premises of our
old. An average day for him begins farms. It was when I
with making my Momma Jo a bowl of was accompanying him
oatmeal. After kissing her goodbye, on one of these drives
he drives to the barn to feed the cows that I discovered my
and gather eggs from the chickens. love for agriculture –
From there on, no one really knows the same love that had
how he spends the rest of his day until planted his cotton fields
suppertime. many years before and
mended miles and
miles of fence.
Over the course of my
short life, I have had
the opportunity to raise market steers, After graduation, I plan to attend Texas
breeding heifers, and commercial steers, Tech University - another tradition
with Grandpa advising along the way. started by Grandpa. In 1973, a young
I am proud to say that I am a third man with a goofy smile in a black and
generation FFA and 4-H member, a red cap and gown strode across the
tradition that began with him. stage after receiving a Bachelor’s Degree
in Agricultural Education and a Master’s
Grandpa comes from a harder Degree in Special Education. Grandpa’s
generation: early mornings feeding dedication and hard work has inspired
the hogs, hoeing the fields, tending the me to go into the agricultural industry
garden … everyday, farm-life chores. also.
These tasks were completed before and
after school – the same school that I will Of course, he couldn’t have done it all

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