I didn't have a NEWSLETTER for the last update because of lack of news from the classmates. I need to hear from you if you want one for the next update in two weeks. I know you can do it.
MAIL CALL
from Joel Levy in Houston
Every reunion you and your fabulous committee outdo yourselves. Judi was raving about all the amazing details that you all took care of. Everything was planned and carried out to perfection.
We owe so much to you to continue to keep our great circle of friends, our classmates, together. We are indebted to you and Mike for your tireless and continuous work on the newsletter. The weekend was just excellent. I really appreciated the volume level of the music so that we who wanted to visit could converse. I could not, of course, get enough of the boudin balls! You cannot get anything like them in Houston that I know of. Would love to have the recipe.
Ah, the time passed all too quickly Friday night and Saturday night. I pray that we all remain healthy to be able to reunite in five years, and beyond. Many many thanks!
(My sweet friend....thanks for your uplifting words. It is worth the work when the classmates appreciate it and have such a great time reminiscing with their “old” friends. Stay in touch.)
from Diane Dupre in Groves
My best friend lives in Wisconsin. She graduated from TJ in 1966. If you hear any news of their 50th reunion to be held in 2016, please let me know, so I can tell her. Her name is Nona Hoffpauir.
(I remember Nona. Please send me her e-mail address and I will pass it along to Fred Schneider. He is the webmaster of the '66 website. That way she will be able to keep up with the goings-on with her classmates.)
from Cheryl Jones in Vidor
Now, I'm so sorry I haven't been to all of the reunions. There were so many there that I had to ask who they were, and so many others that I missed.
Thank you for including Jerry Nicholson's name on the honor roll of those passed. I'm going to try and find his brother, Danny. He needs to know how sorry I am.
There is so much to give thanks to you and the committees for...
And for those of you, (you know who you are), who made it a point to come up to me and give me a hug, you'll never know what that meant to me!
And like I told you, I don't know what genius came up with the breakfast idea, but it was WONDERFUL! Many many kudos for that one, as well.
Please let me know of the next mini-reunion, too.
(I will get contact info from Mike Lawson about Danny Nicholson. They are cousins. I also think that Jan Russell might have his e-mail address. They stay in contact.)
NEWS FROM THE HOMEFRONT
I am excited to be watching POSTSEASON baseball. My Boston Red Sox are in it and have their first game of a 5 game series starting Friday, Oct. 4th against the Tampa Bay Rays. My other favorite, NY YANKEES, are out for the season. The only thing about POSTSEASON baseball is that in a month's time....baseball is OVER until Spring Training. Murphy is friends with one of the Boston's ace pitchers' dad and they spend time together getting ready for deer season. They went up to Wiergate (near Newton) today to put out corn for the deer. Murphy comes home with all the gossip of the baseball team. Music to my ears!
Dad had a CAT scan, echo cardiogram, and ultrasound of the carotid arteries yesterday. The doctor ordered them after he had the small stroke that caused damage in his right eye. Dad OFFICIALLY turned 97 ½ last Sunday.
My sister, Gerry, is doing great. Her mood swings are so much less often now. Her dementia symptoms are slowing down, also. Yea. She just went with her daughter and son-in-law to New Orleans for the weekend. The pictures they took showed her having a great time. The last time she went was a disaster. She couldn't be around all the noise and crowd. I am happy for her.
Our family is growing. We have had two great-nephews born two weeks apart. One is on Murphy's side and the other is my Godson's first child. They are so cute. It always makes me want another grandchild, which AIN'T HAPPENING! So, I guess I'll just have to keep spoiling my two granddaughters.
Murphy's cardiology exam went well and he said come back in six months. He is riding his bike around the neighborhood seven miles a day. His urologist says that his prostate cancer PSA numbers are going back down now that he has continued to take the female hormones. (He is not happy with all the things that go on with being ONE OF US! Welcome to our world!)
Glad we live “up NORTH” here in Lumberton. We have not had a problem with mosquitoes lately like Orange county and Southeast Jefferson county have been complaining about since we have had so much rainy weather lately. I am looking forward to the Canadian cool front they are telling us we will be getting this weekend. One other good thing is that it is steering the tropical weather system, Karen, away from us.
FLOODING in Colorado
I haven't heard from any of our Colorado classmates since the awful flooding that inundated Colorado. I hope they all were out of harm's way. Let me hear from you.
SUPPORT
from Christine Smith Hood
Would you believe I fell at my son's house? I broke my ankle in three places and had to have surgery on it. I can't walk on it for two months. I have been getting rehab.
(Christine is also suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease).
1711 Tallowood Lane
Nederland, TX77627
(409)724-7622
preston_hood@hotmail.com
from Brett Christoffel
(an update on Robert McClintock)
I spoke with Robert tonight and he is in great spirits. I asked if I could post something on his Facebook page and he said "sure". If you don't know me, I met Robert in 1999 in G-town and we have been friends ever since. Turns out Robert was faced with a decision recently on what to do about the cancer spread throughout his body. Defined as terminal, Robert had seen throughout his entire life, friends and family get ill, allow doctors to poison and sicken them further, then watch almost all of them wither and die. Estimates range from $250-500K is what a patient is worth to the cancer industry before it kills them. Just look at todays serious advancements in technologies from air & space to consumer electronics, and yet somehow cancer is just too magical and elusive to be figured out. As it turns out, it is not mystical at all, over the past 100 years dozens of solutions to the cancer issue have been presented and dismissed by what we esteem as "modern medicine" and yet many work, and thousands are still being set free from the cancer condition today. Google Kris Carr, Dr. Max Gerson, Dr. Burzynski, Hoxsey, and the list of holistic solutions goes on and on. It boils down to this, an acidic environment within the body supports disease and an alkaline one cannot.
Before making his decision Robert watched a documentary on YouTube called: Dying to have known, it investigates the Gerson Therapy and you might find it useful too. And after further research he decided to take on his disease head on, at the Hippocrates Institute in Florida, where he is staying and working with them for the next three plus weeks. I know he has his cell phone but does not keep it on, and this was the first time in 4 weeks I know it has been on. He knows his friends and family love him and are concerned for his well being. Kindly raise Robert up in your prayers and encourage others to also. Robert is committed to moving beyond this condition and hanging out with us for many many more years. If I can answer a question, feel free to contact me and be well!
Robert McClintock
3140 27th St.
Port Arthur, TX 77642
for cards with words or support
(512)554-5314 cell for text messages
robtmcclintock@gmail.com
CONDOLENCES
Sadly, another classmate has passed away.
CLARENCE BERTRAND
April 18, 1949 – September 29, 2013
Please keep his family in your prayers and show them your support.
Verna Bertrand
8129 Honeywood Trail
Apt. #1481
Port Arthur, TX 77642
Stay in touch and contact a classmate,
Linda DeCuir McFadden
www.tjhs1968.com
lindadmcfadden@yahoo.com