August 13, 2025 • 10 mins
A bunch of Terry Meiners' childhood neighbors visited him at WHAS Radio to spotlight their 50th reunion for their Durrett High School class.
They haven't changed a bit since they were kids running through the Audubon Park adjacent neighborhood.
Sheila Dye, Janet Meyers-Coke, Ken Mudd, and John Straub remain connected to their Durrett High School classmates. Their reunion is September 27 at the IBEW hall on Preston Highway.
The high point of their 4 year term at Durrett? Some crazy Karen BOMBED THE BUILDING!
More details are in Terry's interview with the Durrett grads.
They haven't changed a bit since they were kids running through the Audubon Park adjacent neighborhood.
Sheila Dye, Janet Meyers-Coke, Ken Mudd, and John Straub remain connected to their Durrett High School classmates. Their reunion is September 27 at the IBEW hall on Preston Highway.
The high point of their 4 year term at Durrett? Some crazy Karen BOMBED THE BUILDING!
More details are in Terry's interview with the Durrett grads.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're what. There's radio eight forty wh s Terry Miners here.
I have friends from my neighborhood, my growing up neighborhood
here because they're all getting ready to celebrate a big,
big class reunion at their high school. Dura ken Mud,
I've spent a lot of time with as a teenager.
It's good to see you, sir, You.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Too, sir, Good to catch up.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Now, Wait a minute. You worked for LG and E
for like forty years.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I did about thirty five years or so, and I
was half half hr and half in the law department.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, and then once you left, they said, let's leave
this building. That's right, Mud decided. Once Mud leaves, we
just we can't stay here anymore. All out. Good at
see again, brother too, man, you too? Is doctor Sadlow
listening to us too?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Doctor Sadlow is supposed to be listening. And he said
to ask you if you're going to cross several lanes
of I sixty five and then jump to bob Wa fish.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I know exactly where this is going, Yeah, to get
into the State Fair for free free.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
There you go. It starts there, so there you go.
You got a plan.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You know what, let's try it again. I'm gonna be
limping across I sixty five. That's brilliant. We did do that.
We were a video that. We were complete idiots. Also,
Greg Burke lived on the other side of the exposed
center by the bowling Alley. Used to be there. We
would go to his house and he had a ladder
chained up to the fence and we would go up
(01:24):
the ladder and climb down the other side and go
to the state Fair for free. That's right, I've stole
money from the state.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
How we lived through that, We.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Made it somehow. Hi, Janet Myers Coke.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good to see you, my try monors to see you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We were at Saint Stephen Martyr together for eight years.
Oh that's so awesome. We had a great run.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thought with the nuns, didn't we.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
There were some good ones.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
There were some good ones.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
There were I remember. I just got a few beatings.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I got a few beatings.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I just remember the ones to stay away from. The
one who told me I had to write Terrence down
is my name? And I went home from school. She's
like fourth grade. That's sister Mary was that who that
was mine was in the sixth grade. And anyway, she said,
your name is Terrence, and she said Terry is not
a saint's name. And I'm like what? And so I
went home crying to my mother and she said, look,
(02:13):
last year Tina had to write Christina, just do it.
Make it easy. I surrendered right away. Sheela die also
in the studio. Good to see you, neighbor, to see you.
I was your paper boy, wasn't I you were?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Good morning and night.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That's right. But we bring the papers. And I was
careful to not hit the door, the bottom door and
wake people at five in the morning, because sometimes guys
would do that. Weren't you a paper boy too?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
What about you, John Straw? No, I wasn't a paper boy.
I slip in, oh man, that was smart. People would
call our house in the morning because we had a
couple of routes, tell Greg to get up, I want
my paper.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I still have dreams when I'm getting those calls.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But remember what we could do when someone said let's
go to the movies or something. You'd say, oh, okay.
Then you'd go collect somebody's house and you get some money,
and then you'd have money in your pocket to go
to the movies.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Absolutely, absolutely, dollar ten for the full circulation.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
There's still a few people on my route who got
out without paying me, and I still want to go
back and knock on the norse. You still owe me
eight dollars. I don't know. Well, congratulations to all of
you for running through the decades to get to the
big five of That's right, we just celebrated ours too.
(03:34):
But you guys at Durat High School? Were they the devils?
The demon des Durrett deanon demons? Could you imagine naming
a school mascot like that?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I mean, what is Duke the Blue Devils?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That's one of the only references like that. That's that's remaining.
And then I'm looking at that card you have, Janet.
It looks like there's a big, gigantic devil on a
big lucifer on the or was that a real.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Logo gymnasium building? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Wow, that must have been intimidating. You didn't need nuns
to scare you. They would just say, we'll go put
you at the feet of the devil out there if
you don't.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Behave the collector's items nowadays?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, So who was the best student of the
four of you? Is that you Sheila, No, not me.
What did you all give the commencement address? Because you
were all excellent students. I mean he's a big time
collaborated together. Yeah, well it's time to call out everybody
from your class and bring him home, right Exactly? How
(04:35):
did it go in terms of trying to reach people?
Was it an impossible task?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Been a task?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Social media has been wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah. That does help, doesn't it. It does because you
can go look right away and like when you two
walked in here and I'm like, I know you girls
from my neighbor right away you could tell. And so
Facebook's really been helpful with that stuff. Yes, because you
figure out where somewhere ancestry dot com believe it or not,
does that work? I don't know. I've tried that one before.
But you already kept up with guys like Ken Munn.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We've kept up with a lot of them over the years. Yes, yeah,
which has been great. And we have monthly dinners. We
haven't done that for a few years, and that's nice.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Mister Straub, what about you, You're still connected to some
high school friends. I am well.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
As Janet was saying, we meet once a month. We
met last night and there were about thirty four of us,
and so we meet once a month and to see everybody.
And I just not I just didn't realize that I
went to school with so many old people.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
What happened to Durhat High School? Did the census drop
so much they decided to close it? Do you guys
remember what they said about it?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I think it was the expansion of the airport, so
they said we need to close down dirt because of
the airport. So it was closed down for about ten years.
I think Glean's Academy did some work.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There FI, Yeah, and then suddenly then it became Male
High School. The airport decided they weren't going to encroach
on Preston Highway. I guess, well that is interesting, so
that had to be sad. When did they close your
high school?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I believe it was eighty one.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I want to think at eighty one about six more
classes after you.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
All right, so you're celebrating your big fifty?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Is?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
What do people need to do? Are they contacting somebody somewhere?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
They are they? We have an email address that they
can send their questions to. It is Durhat HS one
nine seven five at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That makes sense. I'm glad that was available for you.
Durat HS nineteen seventy five at Gmail. And so what
do we had when we're going dancing? We're going to
go out and have a.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Barbecue dinner, any theme music. We're going to have lots
of food and snacks and drinks, lots of camaraderie to
see each other memberdia tables. I mean, we're gonna have
a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What's the photo op sessions? Of course? What's the biggest
thing that happened during your your four years at Durreat
High School that a big star visit? Did you know we.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Had a we had a bombing there?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
The bombing yeah what yes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
We had bombing there before the bombing was cool. We
had a mother and then too chill, they bombed the
corner of the of the of the high school and
then we all showed up and sent us all home.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I have no idea what you're talking about our freshman year.
I was telling doctor Sadlow about that a couple of
months ago at dinner, and he didn't know about it.
But yeah, some lady got mad. Different versions of the story,
but apparently they did something to her kids. She didn't
think it was right, so they went over. They put
a couple of sticks down and white under the building.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I was coming home from delivering my newspapers and I
noticed a car sitting at the Papa level apartments there
and the hood was up. And it turns out that's
where they stole the battery and ignited at the blast
and blew it up. So we got a day off school.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Dude, that's some Louisville history. I was completely unaware of.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Wow, it was.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And then you know, the structural engineers and all that
came in and we got to go back the next day.
We were hoping to get at least a week.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Out of it.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
No, And you've say, you've seen what they've done with
that facility with Male High School. I mean it's a palace.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
We haven't been inside of it, but the outside of mice.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I mean they've really done a great job with that expansion.
And you know, the sports facilities, all.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That stuff, money, good coaches, they just turned everything around.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's how that works works. Did you guys win state
championships and anything? Do you know anybody remember I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Remember that our senior year football. We brought in coach
Bob Redmon and he turned it around. And it was
the first year I think we went six and four
and one something like that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And he went on to coach Mail, right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
He went on to coach Mail. But it was the
first year we had a winning record. Good old Bob Redman.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
The preacher, that big boy, you boy somebody, Yeah, yeah,
he's a good man. He's a good man, no doubt
about to keep up with him.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But he turned the football program around.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
All right, when's this event happening for people?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It is Saturday, September twenties seven, twenty twenty five, from
six to ten pm at the IBUW Union Hall on
Preston Highway. It's where do pre liquors used to be
on Preston of course, right and behind that you gotta
attach a liquor store too.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, you kids, was you were in high school, you
wouldn't know where liquor was available, Terry, No, No, we'd
go down to coke station. Yeah. That was so shocking,
wasn't it. When we all turned twenty one and had
our first step. Oh my gosh, it's different than I
thought it was gonna taste.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Is this what it tastes like so that was in
the Boone Farms day.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah. If I ever find the guy that started Boone's Farm,
I'm going to smack him upside of head. Great, see
all of you. Sheila died, janameers Coke and also Ken
Mudd and John Straub Durhat High School's class of nineteen
seventy five. And here's the email address again for more information,
durat HS nineteen seventy five at gmail dot com. Great,
(09:55):
see all of you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Thanks Terry assass
You're what. There's radio eight forty wh s Terry Miners here.
I have friends from my neighborhood, my growing up neighborhood
here because they're all getting ready to celebrate a big,
big class reunion at their high school. Dura ken Mud,
I've spent a lot of time with as a teenager.
It's good to see you, sir, You.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Too, sir, Good to catch up.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Now, Wait a minute. You worked for LG and E
for like forty years.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I did about thirty five years or so, and I
was half half hr and half in the law department.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, and then once you left, they said, let's leave
this building. That's right, Mud decided. Once Mud leaves, we
just we can't stay here anymore. All out. Good at
see again, brother too, man, you too? Is doctor Sadlow
listening to us too?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Doctor Sadlow is supposed to be listening. And he said
to ask you if you're going to cross several lanes
of I sixty five and then jump to bob Wa fish.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I know exactly where this is going, Yeah, to get
into the State Fair for free free.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
There you go. It starts there, so there you go.
You got a plan.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You know what, let's try it again. I'm gonna be
limping across I sixty five. That's brilliant. We did do that.
We were a video that. We were complete idiots. Also,
Greg Burke lived on the other side of the exposed
center by the bowling Alley. Used to be there. We
would go to his house and he had a ladder
chained up to the fence and we would go up
(01:24):
the ladder and climb down the other side and go
to the state Fair for free. That's right, I've stole
money from the state.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
How we lived through that, We.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Made it somehow. Hi, Janet Myers Coke.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good to see you, my try monors to see you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We were at Saint Stephen Martyr together for eight years.
Oh that's so awesome. We had a great run.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Thought with the nuns, didn't we.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
There were some good ones.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
There were some good ones.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
There were I remember. I just got a few beatings.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I got a few beatings.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I just remember the ones to stay away from. The
one who told me I had to write Terrence down
is my name? And I went home from school. She's
like fourth grade. That's sister Mary was that who that
was mine was in the sixth grade. And anyway, she said,
your name is Terrence, and she said Terry is not
a saint's name. And I'm like what? And so I
went home crying to my mother and she said, look,
(02:13):
last year Tina had to write Christina, just do it.
Make it easy. I surrendered right away. Sheela die also
in the studio. Good to see you, neighbor, to see you.
I was your paper boy, wasn't I you were?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Good morning and night.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That's right. But we bring the papers. And I was
careful to not hit the door, the bottom door and
wake people at five in the morning, because sometimes guys
would do that. Weren't you a paper boy too?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
What about you, John Straw? No, I wasn't a paper boy.
I slip in, oh man, that was smart. People would
call our house in the morning because we had a
couple of routes, tell Greg to get up, I want
my paper.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I still have dreams when I'm getting those calls.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But remember what we could do when someone said let's
go to the movies or something. You'd say, oh, okay.
Then you'd go collect somebody's house and you get some money,
and then you'd have money in your pocket to go
to the movies.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Absolutely, absolutely, dollar ten for the full circulation.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
There's still a few people on my route who got
out without paying me, and I still want to go
back and knock on the norse. You still owe me
eight dollars. I don't know. Well, congratulations to all of
you for running through the decades to get to the
big five of That's right, we just celebrated ours too.
(03:34):
But you guys at Durat High School? Were they the devils?
The demon des Durrett deanon demons? Could you imagine naming
a school mascot like that?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I mean, what is Duke the Blue Devils?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That's one of the only references like that. That's that's remaining.
And then I'm looking at that card you have, Janet.
It looks like there's a big, gigantic devil on a
big lucifer on the or was that a real.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Logo gymnasium building? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Wow, that must have been intimidating. You didn't need nuns
to scare you. They would just say, we'll go put
you at the feet of the devil out there if
you don't.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Behave the collector's items nowadays?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, So who was the best student of the
four of you? Is that you Sheila, No, not me.
What did you all give the commencement address? Because you
were all excellent students. I mean he's a big time
collaborated together. Yeah, well it's time to call out everybody
from your class and bring him home, right Exactly? How
(04:35):
did it go in terms of trying to reach people?
Was it an impossible task?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Been a task?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Social media has been wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah. That does help, doesn't it. It does because you
can go look right away and like when you two
walked in here and I'm like, I know you girls
from my neighbor right away you could tell. And so
Facebook's really been helpful with that stuff. Yes, because you
figure out where somewhere ancestry dot com believe it or not,
does that work? I don't know. I've tried that one before.
But you already kept up with guys like Ken Munn.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We've kept up with a lot of them over the years. Yes, yeah,
which has been great. And we have monthly dinners. We
haven't done that for a few years, and that's nice.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Mister Straub, what about you, You're still connected to some
high school friends. I am well.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
As Janet was saying, we meet once a month. We
met last night and there were about thirty four of us,
and so we meet once a month and to see everybody.
And I just not I just didn't realize that I
went to school with so many old people.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
What happened to Durhat High School? Did the census drop
so much they decided to close it? Do you guys
remember what they said about it?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I think it was the expansion of the airport, so
they said we need to close down dirt because of
the airport. So it was closed down for about ten years.
I think Glean's Academy did some work.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There FI, Yeah, and then suddenly then it became Male
High School. The airport decided they weren't going to encroach
on Preston Highway. I guess, well that is interesting, so
that had to be sad. When did they close your
high school?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I believe it was eighty one.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I want to think at eighty one about six more
classes after you.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
All right, so you're celebrating your big fifty?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Is?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
What do people need to do? Are they contacting somebody somewhere?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
They are they? We have an email address that they
can send their questions to. It is Durhat HS one
nine seven five at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That makes sense. I'm glad that was available for you.
Durat HS nineteen seventy five at Gmail. And so what
do we had when we're going dancing? We're going to
go out and have a.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Barbecue dinner, any theme music. We're going to have lots
of food and snacks and drinks, lots of camaraderie to
see each other memberdia tables. I mean, we're gonna have
a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What's the photo op sessions? Of course? What's the biggest
thing that happened during your your four years at Durreat
High School that a big star visit? Did you know we.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Had a we had a bombing there?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
The bombing yeah what yes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
We had bombing there before the bombing was cool. We
had a mother and then too chill, they bombed the
corner of the of the of the high school and
then we all showed up and sent us all home.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I have no idea what you're talking about our freshman year.
I was telling doctor Sadlow about that a couple of
months ago at dinner, and he didn't know about it.
But yeah, some lady got mad. Different versions of the story,
but apparently they did something to her kids. She didn't
think it was right, so they went over. They put
a couple of sticks down and white under the building.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I was coming home from delivering my newspapers and I
noticed a car sitting at the Papa level apartments there
and the hood was up. And it turns out that's
where they stole the battery and ignited at the blast
and blew it up. So we got a day off school.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Dude, that's some Louisville history. I was completely unaware of.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Wow, it was.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And then you know, the structural engineers and all that
came in and we got to go back the next day.
We were hoping to get at least a week.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Out of it.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
No, And you've say, you've seen what they've done with
that facility with Male High School. I mean it's a palace.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
We haven't been inside of it, but the outside of mice.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I mean they've really done a great job with that expansion.
And you know, the sports facilities, all.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That stuff, money, good coaches, they just turned everything around.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's how that works works. Did you guys win state
championships and anything? Do you know anybody remember I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Remember that our senior year football. We brought in coach
Bob Redmon and he turned it around. And it was
the first year I think we went six and four
and one something like that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And he went on to coach Mail, right.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
He went on to coach Mail. But it was the
first year we had a winning record. Good old Bob Redman.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
The preacher, that big boy, you boy somebody, Yeah, yeah,
he's a good man. He's a good man, no doubt
about to keep up with him.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But he turned the football program around.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
All right, when's this event happening for people?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It is Saturday, September twenties seven, twenty twenty five, from
six to ten pm at the IBUW Union Hall on
Preston Highway. It's where do pre liquors used to be
on Preston of course, right and behind that you gotta
attach a liquor store too.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, you kids, was you were in high school, you
wouldn't know where liquor was available, Terry, No, No, we'd
go down to coke station. Yeah. That was so shocking,
wasn't it. When we all turned twenty one and had
our first step. Oh my gosh, it's different than I
thought it was gonna taste.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Is this what it tastes like so that was in
the Boone Farms day.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah. If I ever find the guy that started Boone's Farm,
I'm going to smack him upside of head. Great, see
all of you. Sheila died, janameers Coke and also Ken
Mudd and John Straub Durhat High School's class of nineteen
seventy five. And here's the email address again for more information,
durat HS nineteen seventy five at gmail dot com. Great,
(09:55):
see all of you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Thanks Terry assass
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