Fred G Cleaver
03-15-2003, 05:25 AM
is going to be much much better than my last one
Mayfeild TV Stiudo
TV Annocner Its Monday Morning March 17th 2003 its 8:00 A.M.
Today on Mayfield Life and times we got a guest who has lived in this town all but 4 years of his life Let me intorduce Theodre Cleaver to the show
Beaver: Call me Beaver
Host: Ok Beaver lets see you were born in Mayfeild Hospital June 1949 right
Beaver yes Sir thats right
Host: you were the second of two sons were you not
Beaver: yes i was sir
Host: any Speacial memiors of the days before school
Beaver: i dont know if i can remember back that far
Host: well think back whats the furterest you can remember
Beaver: Lets See I cant remembut ber any thing before i went to school
Host: well ok then start with school
Beaver: well i went to Grant Ave Grammer school starting in kindergraden i think it was August of 1954
Host: Go on
Fades to Grant Ave Grammer School
Miss Sanders the Kindergraden Teacher is asking the class there first names
Miss Sanders Whats your name
Beaver Well my name is Beaver
Miss Sanders No i mean your Real name
Beaver Huh
Miss Sanders The name that your mother gave you when you were born
Beaver its Theodr
Miss Sanders you mean Theodore
Beaver: Yeah thats it
Back to the the TV Studio
Host Where did you get the name Beaver from
Beaver well i was told that when i was a baby my brother wally coudlnt prononce Theodore what he said didnt sound to good so i got the nickname Beaver
Host: did you have any freinds in school
Beaver: yes lots my Best Freind was Larry Mondello
Host: did you meet Larry at school
Beaver: No i dont think so see he was born just 3 weeks before me in the same hospital
Host oh i see
Beaver well Larry had his problems and most of them rubbed off on me
Host: care to Explain Beaver
Beaver Well Larry had an abuvise Father who hit him alot
Fade to September 1954
June comes to school to pick up beaver and see Larry's Father drag him in the car with larry screaming and cring
Mr Mondello: Larry your going to get it when i get you home
Larry Dad please
Mr Mondello Shut up
June gets out of her car and greets Beaver
June what was that all about
Beaver Gee i dont know Mom
June come on get in the car
Beaver Why was Mr Mondello hitting Larry like that
June i dont know and i hope he had a good reason
Back to the TV studio
Host WoW some story for it coming out of the 50's
Beaver Yeah i know
Host what ever happened to Larry
Beaver will in 1960 his mother left his Father and took him somewhere that i dont know and i aint seen or heard from him since
Host oh so you lost your best freind
Beaver well before larry left we met this new boy named Gilbert Bates
Host oh yeah i know him he is the one that ran a stop light and pulled out right in front of me he is lucky i didnt kill him
Beaver yeah he told me about that but he said he had the green light
Host well tell us what happened when you met Gilbert
Beaver well when he moved in he told me a bunch of wild stories like his dad working for the FBI and his Brother Pitching for the ST Louis Cardnials
Host go on
Beaver when my Dad told me that those stories couldnt be true i confronted Gilbert about them we fought for the first time
Host ok
Beaver i had other School Chums but no as good of a freind as Larry and Gilbert
Host Beaver Tell us about your Home life
Beaver Well my mother Worried alot but my dad Had alot of confidence in me
Host what did your Father do for a living
Beaver well i didnt even know untill i was about 14
Host yes
Beaver he worked as an enginerr
Host when did you start becoming involed with girls in a romantic sense
Beaver well in 8th grade i was going to go to the Gradation dance with this girl but she went with someone else i didnt get back involed with girls untill the 10th grade dance me and Richard Rickover Went with Penny Woods and Violet Rutherford Richard took Violet and i took Penny durning the dance me and Richard changed parnters and thats when i fell in love with Violet and i guess Richard did with penny and we have both been with the same girls ever since
Host intersting
Beaver well before my Gradution in June of 1967 i decided i wasnt going to college at least not just yet i decided to join the Marines
Host well we need to take a break we will be right back
Host wow what an intersting Story is it all true Beaver
Beaver yes
Stage manger were back in 3 2 1
Host Welcome back to Mayfeild Life and Times Today our guest is Theodore Cleaver
Beaver Thank you
Host you were just saying before break about Joining the Marines now what made you decide to do that
Beaver Well there was a War Going on and i would be the fourth Cleaver in a war my Great Grad dad was in the Spainsh American War My Grand Dad was in World War 1 and my dad was in World War 2 So i felt i had to join since Wally didnt
Host how did Your Paranets feel about this
Beaver Mom Was Crying and Dad was Yelling
Fade back to Cleaver House June 1967
Ward Beaver You cant Join the Marines
Beaver Why not Dad
Ward I dont think you can handle how rough it is
Beaver thats the first time you felt i couldnt do somthing
June (sobbing) Well what about Violet
Beaver you know how i feel about her there isnt a day that goes by that i dont think about her
June well your just going to leave her here with us Crying and worring
Beaver this is somthing i got to do
Violet comes over and her and Beaver go up to his room
Back to the TV studio
Host Wow that must have been tough to leave your parnets and the girl you love
Beaver well somthing happened that night
Host what
Beaver well Frederick was conceived
Host Really
Beaver Yes Really
Host you didnt know it at first at least
Beaver right and i went on in the marines
Fade to August 1967 Paris Island SC Marine Corp Recruit Depot
A Man in uniform walks into the barricks and says my name is Gunnery Srgt Jones your Senior Drill Insroctor
Jones: you will speak only when spoken too and the first and last words that come out of you maggots mouth will be sir do you get me
all at once Sir Yes Sir
Back to the TV Studio
Host Well Beaver was boot camp rough
Beaver ofcourse it was i would be lying to you if i said it wasnt
Host well what happened after boot camp
Beaver well i came home for a few weeks and learned Violet was pregent and i went ahead and married her and then i shipped out from the peace of mayfeild to the hell of Nam
I Spent Four Long Years over there and i know i killed some pepole but it had to be done i got back in the spring of 1972 to my wife and son i went to college and became a enginerr like my father he had done retired by then
Host well whats next
Beaver by 1980 everything was going right then my aunt martha died she was my favorite aunt then violet father died then her mother
then the most important man in my life had a massive heartattack in march of 1983 Dad had died the early 80's was a rough time for me but as the rest of the decade was alright i moved back in with mom and we lived together but in 1990 my son fredrick joined the marines and ended up in dersert stromhe got back safe Thank the Good Lord for that everything was going so smooth untill two more deaths hit me hard first in 1999 my brother wally was driving back from LA he took his wife and grandchildern to watch the dodgers play well its about a 200 mile drive from LA back to mayfeild he must have dosed off he ran off the road and wreked killing Wally and badly injuring Julie but as hard as that was late last year the woman that i knew my whole life passed away my mother was dead now i was the only Living member of the Ward June Cleaver Family
Well thats about it
Host yeah we are out of time tune in next week when we have another Mayfeild Resident on Life and Times Mayfeild
The End
Mayfeild TV Stiudo
TV Annocner Its Monday Morning March 17th 2003 its 8:00 A.M.
Today on Mayfield Life and times we got a guest who has lived in this town all but 4 years of his life Let me intorduce Theodre Cleaver to the show
Beaver: Call me Beaver
Host: Ok Beaver lets see you were born in Mayfeild Hospital June 1949 right
Beaver yes Sir thats right
Host: you were the second of two sons were you not
Beaver: yes i was sir
Host: any Speacial memiors of the days before school
Beaver: i dont know if i can remember back that far
Host: well think back whats the furterest you can remember
Beaver: Lets See I cant remembut ber any thing before i went to school
Host: well ok then start with school
Beaver: well i went to Grant Ave Grammer school starting in kindergraden i think it was August of 1954
Host: Go on
Fades to Grant Ave Grammer School
Miss Sanders the Kindergraden Teacher is asking the class there first names
Miss Sanders Whats your name
Beaver Well my name is Beaver
Miss Sanders No i mean your Real name
Beaver Huh
Miss Sanders The name that your mother gave you when you were born
Beaver its Theodr
Miss Sanders you mean Theodore
Beaver: Yeah thats it
Back to the the TV Studio
Host Where did you get the name Beaver from
Beaver well i was told that when i was a baby my brother wally coudlnt prononce Theodore what he said didnt sound to good so i got the nickname Beaver
Host: did you have any freinds in school
Beaver: yes lots my Best Freind was Larry Mondello
Host: did you meet Larry at school
Beaver: No i dont think so see he was born just 3 weeks before me in the same hospital
Host oh i see
Beaver well Larry had his problems and most of them rubbed off on me
Host: care to Explain Beaver
Beaver Well Larry had an abuvise Father who hit him alot
Fade to September 1954
June comes to school to pick up beaver and see Larry's Father drag him in the car with larry screaming and cring
Mr Mondello: Larry your going to get it when i get you home
Larry Dad please
Mr Mondello Shut up
June gets out of her car and greets Beaver
June what was that all about
Beaver Gee i dont know Mom
June come on get in the car
Beaver Why was Mr Mondello hitting Larry like that
June i dont know and i hope he had a good reason
Back to the TV studio
Host WoW some story for it coming out of the 50's
Beaver Yeah i know
Host what ever happened to Larry
Beaver will in 1960 his mother left his Father and took him somewhere that i dont know and i aint seen or heard from him since
Host oh so you lost your best freind
Beaver well before larry left we met this new boy named Gilbert Bates
Host oh yeah i know him he is the one that ran a stop light and pulled out right in front of me he is lucky i didnt kill him
Beaver yeah he told me about that but he said he had the green light
Host well tell us what happened when you met Gilbert
Beaver well when he moved in he told me a bunch of wild stories like his dad working for the FBI and his Brother Pitching for the ST Louis Cardnials
Host go on
Beaver when my Dad told me that those stories couldnt be true i confronted Gilbert about them we fought for the first time
Host ok
Beaver i had other School Chums but no as good of a freind as Larry and Gilbert
Host Beaver Tell us about your Home life
Beaver Well my mother Worried alot but my dad Had alot of confidence in me
Host what did your Father do for a living
Beaver well i didnt even know untill i was about 14
Host yes
Beaver he worked as an enginerr
Host when did you start becoming involed with girls in a romantic sense
Beaver well in 8th grade i was going to go to the Gradation dance with this girl but she went with someone else i didnt get back involed with girls untill the 10th grade dance me and Richard Rickover Went with Penny Woods and Violet Rutherford Richard took Violet and i took Penny durning the dance me and Richard changed parnters and thats when i fell in love with Violet and i guess Richard did with penny and we have both been with the same girls ever since
Host intersting
Beaver well before my Gradution in June of 1967 i decided i wasnt going to college at least not just yet i decided to join the Marines
Host well we need to take a break we will be right back
Host wow what an intersting Story is it all true Beaver
Beaver yes
Stage manger were back in 3 2 1
Host Welcome back to Mayfeild Life and Times Today our guest is Theodore Cleaver
Beaver Thank you
Host you were just saying before break about Joining the Marines now what made you decide to do that
Beaver Well there was a War Going on and i would be the fourth Cleaver in a war my Great Grad dad was in the Spainsh American War My Grand Dad was in World War 1 and my dad was in World War 2 So i felt i had to join since Wally didnt
Host how did Your Paranets feel about this
Beaver Mom Was Crying and Dad was Yelling
Fade back to Cleaver House June 1967
Ward Beaver You cant Join the Marines
Beaver Why not Dad
Ward I dont think you can handle how rough it is
Beaver thats the first time you felt i couldnt do somthing
June (sobbing) Well what about Violet
Beaver you know how i feel about her there isnt a day that goes by that i dont think about her
June well your just going to leave her here with us Crying and worring
Beaver this is somthing i got to do
Violet comes over and her and Beaver go up to his room
Back to the TV studio
Host Wow that must have been tough to leave your parnets and the girl you love
Beaver well somthing happened that night
Host what
Beaver well Frederick was conceived
Host Really
Beaver Yes Really
Host you didnt know it at first at least
Beaver right and i went on in the marines
Fade to August 1967 Paris Island SC Marine Corp Recruit Depot
A Man in uniform walks into the barricks and says my name is Gunnery Srgt Jones your Senior Drill Insroctor
Jones: you will speak only when spoken too and the first and last words that come out of you maggots mouth will be sir do you get me
all at once Sir Yes Sir
Back to the TV Studio
Host Well Beaver was boot camp rough
Beaver ofcourse it was i would be lying to you if i said it wasnt
Host well what happened after boot camp
Beaver well i came home for a few weeks and learned Violet was pregent and i went ahead and married her and then i shipped out from the peace of mayfeild to the hell of Nam
I Spent Four Long Years over there and i know i killed some pepole but it had to be done i got back in the spring of 1972 to my wife and son i went to college and became a enginerr like my father he had done retired by then
Host well whats next
Beaver by 1980 everything was going right then my aunt martha died she was my favorite aunt then violet father died then her mother
then the most important man in my life had a massive heartattack in march of 1983 Dad had died the early 80's was a rough time for me but as the rest of the decade was alright i moved back in with mom and we lived together but in 1990 my son fredrick joined the marines and ended up in dersert stromhe got back safe Thank the Good Lord for that everything was going so smooth untill two more deaths hit me hard first in 1999 my brother wally was driving back from LA he took his wife and grandchildern to watch the dodgers play well its about a 200 mile drive from LA back to mayfeild he must have dosed off he ran off the road and wreked killing Wally and badly injuring Julie but as hard as that was late last year the woman that i knew my whole life passed away my mother was dead now i was the only Living member of the Ward June Cleaver Family
Well thats about it
Host yeah we are out of time tune in next week when we have another Mayfeild Resident on Life and Times Mayfeild
The End