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I've been enjoying my
daughter and son-in-law's home building in
Lumberton
but can't go there often enough because of the high gas prices! I am
really enjoying the spring weather and watching the leaves pop out over night on
the trees. Spring has definitely sprung!
MAIL CALL
from
Patti Farley D'Amico
in Alexandria, LA
I have been very quiet and not sent news or pictures,
etc. I did however, want to let you know that I enjoy the e-mails.
from
Mike Soileau
in Atlanta, TX
I
was emailing back and forth with one of our old classmates, thanks again to you
and Mike for helping us keep in touch, and just thought I would share my email
part of a conversation.. This isn't pointing fingers, but I see my poor
Dad who is in and out of the hospital and the doctors telling him it is because
of his smoking. He does not seem to be able to quit or does not want to.
I'm just saying this cause I love you guys and gals out there. We need to
be as smart as we can to try to enjoy a healthy life. I'm on a diet right
now .. haha;.. on and off of course,.. but like our parents use to say when they
would whip us, "This is for your own good," or "This is gonna hurt you more
than it will hurt me"..yea.. (oh God Forbid in this day and age!!). Thank
God I got a loving whipping or would probably be in prison or something.
Anyway, the point is, if you're a smoker or dipper .. (yep, if it feels good or
tastes good ... IT AIN'T GOOD FER YA!!) ... Dang, where did all that
come from? .. I guess my dad being in the hospital today and all because of
smoking ... pulled it out of me.
On a lighter touch.. I love
this weather and have been catching some good fish.
God Bless ya all
See below the short email
that started my sermon :)
Happy Easter. Sad to
hear about
Wayne Ransonette ... too many of us passing too soon
. I don't know if you still smoke, but as I glanced through the memorial
of our deceased classmates, I remember too well many of them were smokers.
I tried myself but never took up the habit.
Ya' know it was the cool
thing back then and was encouraged by so many ads and even our government handed
out free cigarettes in World War II. Did not mean to get off on a soap box
.. I hope you and yours had a very Happy Easter.. the eggs and all. :)
from
Rose Flohr Daigle
in Seabrook
Thought I would forward the link below for any of the bikers or want-to-be
bikers. I am sure most have already heard about it....the first ever in this
area. I live about 5 min from this site..needless to say I don't think I
will be in town that weekend (ha, ha)
(281)326-1474 hme #
April 10-13, 2008
http://www.bayarearally.com/
from
Liz Hall in Lubbock
I will not be able to attend the reunion and I regret
that. My husband and I have had a trip to Scotland planned for some time.
We leave on July 31 and return on Aug 13. We will spend two days in
Edinburgh
and attend the Military Tattoo, then off to the west coast for a three day
cruise of the lochs on a wooden boat that carries only six couples. You
can check it out at
www.themajesticline.co.uk. Then up north for some golf
and home. I really like hearing from everyone and appreciate all the work
you on the newsletter. I just emailed
Jane Lippincott to
share my colon cancer story with her since I read her husband was diagnosed with
it. Can't wait to see the reunion report in a newsletter.
from
Loretta LaLonde Myers in League City
"Because you published
Linda Clause's phone
number on the last newsletter, I did call her and we had a nice chat. She seems
to be doing well and I tried to convince her to be at the 40 year reunion (she
said she may). Glynn and I were in Port
Arthur last weekend for the all-Bishop Byrne reunion and
we stayed with our classmate
Tommy Romero and his
wife Linda. Linda is from the PNG class of '67 and she and I met in cosmetology
school together.
from
Tommy Thompson
in Conroe
Sheila and I just got back from Vegas, I had to go on
business (ConExpo). Great place, but I'm getting to old to enjoy it like I did
when I was younger. We got in late last night and tonight we are baby sitting
our 1 yr old grand-daughter. If I wasn't worn out from Vegas, I am now.
I spoke with
Larry's Speake's
family and they are still planning to come to the reunion. I can't wait for
everyone to meet them. At Dad and Mom's Memorial Service, I was blessed with the
attendance of 3 people who are very special to me,
Fred McCarty, Webb Draughon,
and
Gary Hammond. I've
tried, but I will never be able to make them understand what it meant to me.
Well, I guess I will see everyone in August.
PS. I think I may have
James Hubert
coming. If anyone wants to help apply the pressure, email me and I will
give you his email address.
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LOCATING FACULTY MEMBERS
from
Fred McCarty
in Kingwood
I just read the latest Newsletter and as usual really enjoyed it. When
George Collins,
Joel Levy,
David Salter
and I had dinner in February we reminisced about
TJ
Basketball. We wondered if
Coach Wayne Williams
was still around, and we thought it would be great to see him. Please add him to
the list of Faculty to be invited to the Reunion,
if you have or can locate his address information.
Well, I was
hoping to get responses from some of you about the whereabouts of our former
faculty members. NOPE. Not a one of you. (Susan
Hatfield did tell me a few weeks ago that
Dr. McBee still
lived on Lakeshore in PA.) I really don't have the time to check on the
information without help. I would LOVE to hear from you about this
concern. It would be wonderful to have some of our former advisors and
mentors to join in on our fun. Let me hear from you.
(Jayne Smith, Doris Crisp, Lionel
Rowland, Hugh LeBaron, and Nancy McClain are on my
current e-mail list. I hope they contact me with some of their former
co-worker's info.)
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REUNION
NEWS
The committee chose our two
winners in the raffle drawing for the
EARLY BIRD INTERNET
special. Those two classmates will be revealed at the reunion.
Postcards are going out to those that we haven't heard from. Don't throw
them away if you don't think you will join us. You might change your mind
at a later date and you will need the information. We apologize if we send
you one and you have
already contacted
us. Things happen. :-(
We have "thrown around" the
idea of giving
cash or gift cards (maybe VISA check cards, etc.) out
for contest
or door prizes.
But, we would need contributions from some of you that might own a company that
could
DONATE cards
for this cause. What do you think? Let me know.
Linda Gothia
is again heading up the decorations for the reunion. I think that our
class has the most beautiful reunions of ALL of the classes. We hear such
wonderful comments from our classmates AND classmates attending from other
years. Prepare to be dazzled. Many of us have NOT and probably WILL
not ever get to Hawaii, so this is as
good as it gets!!! Guys, be on the lookout for a good looking Hawaiian
shirt to dazzle us. I know that Raymond Belz went to Hawaii to get his! Lucky thing!
Don't forget to bring your
CAMERAS
to the reunion. (Have your name on it somewhere. I left mine at a previous
reunion and Carl Guidry '67 found it and graciously returned it to me
the following week because of the label I had on it. Whew!). We
hope to have an area set up for Elementary school photos. We are also
working on having a backdrop for "couple" pictures. We will try to set
aside an area for impromtu groups who would like to gather and take snapshots.
Also, we want you to take
loads of photos to
send us for the website. Can't wait to see you there.
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PROUD TO BE A TEXAN
Look at
Texas
on a world map. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast,
and the Red River, and the Rio Grande
is as much a part of you as anything ever will be. As soon as anyone
anywhere in the world looks at it, they know what that shape is. It's TEXAS. Texas is the Alamo.
Texas is 183
men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for
freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead
to fight and die for the cause of freedom. We send our kinds
to schools named William B. Travis, James Bowie, and Crockett. Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Texas
is huge forests of piney woods like the Davy Crockett
National Forest.
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the
Big Bend. Texas
is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.
Texas
is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas. Texas is the shiny
skycrapers in Houston and Dallas. Texas
is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico. Texas
is the Fort Worth stockyards, the Ballpark in Arlington and the Reliant Stadium. Texas is larger-than-life
legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Gene
Autry, Audie Murphy, Tommy Lee Jones, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom
Landry, Jimmy Johnson, Nolan Ryan, George H. W. Bush, LBJ, and Babe Zaharias
Didrikson. Texas is NASA, DELL, COMPAQ. Texas is huge herds of
cattle and miles of crops. Texas
is home to the most amazing sunsets of gold over an empty field. Texas is hundreds of deer
running around neighborhoods and fields. Texas is a place where towns and cities shut
down to watch the local high school football game on Friday nights. To drive
across Texas is to drive 1/4 the way across the
United States. Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and
rivers, mountains, prairies, and modern cities. If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't
need it. By federal law, Texas
is the only state in the U.S.
that can fly it's flag at the same height as the U.S. flad because it is the only
state that was a Republic before it became a state. Thank
God for Texas!!!
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CRAWFISH (aka
Crayfish) SEASON
Legend has it that crawfish
are descendants of the Maine lobster. After the
Acadians (now called Cajuns) were exiled in the 1700s from Nova Scotia, the lobsters yearned for the
Cajuns so much that they set off cross the country to find them. This journey,
over land and sea, was so long and treacherous that the lobsters began to shrink
in size. By the time they found the Cajuns in
Louisiana
, they had shrunk so much that they hardly looked like lobsters anymore. A great
festival was held up their arrival, and this smaller lobster was renamed
crawfish.
(Courtesy of
"whatscookingamerica.net")
AND back by popular demand
(MINE, that is):
(turn the volume
down a
tee
little bit if you are in the work space)
http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/mycfboil.htm
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NEWS FROM THE HOMEFRONT
Shhh. Don't tell
anyone but, knock on wood, all has been well lately with the parents here.
Mom and Dad spent Easter weekend at my brother's in Friendswood. They had
a great time visiting with grandkids and great-grandkids living in that area.
My brother-in-law came home from his 35-day hospital stay and is doing "okay".
He has been depressed since the stroke and is working with home health on lots
of areas. My sister is really going around in circles with all the changes
that have to be made due to this situation. Due to some blood test
irregularities,
she was forced to get off of her bipolar medicine
until later. This has certainly made life very stressful for all involved.
Please keep them in your prayers.
Teddy Landry
Gerry DeCuir Landry
150 Blueberry
Bridge City, TX 77611
(They could use your prayers
and encouraging words.)
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SUPPORT NEEDED
from
Shelley Dettman
concerning her mom
Mother is having surgery on Monday (Mar. 24). Prayers will be greatly
appreciated. I have been busy taking care of her and working during the
week. I have not sent my money in for the reunion yet. I will send
it in as soon as things calm down.
sdettman@pngisd.org
678 Meadowgreen
Port Neches,
TX 77651
(409)727-1804
from
Mr. Lionel Rowland
(history teacher)
GREAT REPORT!!!!!
Shaaron and I met with the doctor at MD Anderson (actually the doctor's
assistant) to get the results of the latest Pet-scan . She characterized
it as a "very good report." The areas of concern that showed up in the
last Pet-scan on the lungs and liver are gone. Also, the area on the spine
has decreased significantly. Finally, the tumor in the esophagus has
decreased by almost two-thirds. We will begin another round of chemo with
one treatment every other week. Doing great, feeling good. We are
excited and praising God for the good report.
llrowland@sbcglobal.net
2430 11th St.
Port Neches,
TX 77651
from
Laurie Landry Bromley (my niece.... my "other
daughter") in Round Rock
Nanny,
Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers that I land a job I am interviewing
for on Monday, March 31. It is with FIRST CARE on 183 (NORTH) near my
house - 5 minutes.. I NEED IT.. badly.. .I am about to lose my health insurance
and am needing a steady job as it has been since October since I
was laid off from Dell. Please pray that I say the right words for the interview
and that it is a perfect fit with the manager and my personality. The pay will
be a little less then what I was making with Dell, but it will get me back on my
feet. Any sort of positive thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
lbromley1@gmail.com
(My niece has been going
through a whole lot of changes and traumas in her life for the last year.
To top it off, her dad is my brother-in-law who I have been talking about that
had a stroke in February. I know that she would enjoy some encouraging
words and CERTAINLY your PRAYERS!!!)
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CONDOLENCES
Death
of our beloved classmate:
Wayne Paul
Ransonette
July 20, 1948 -
March 19, 2008
Send condolences to:
Sheree Will
260 Yeager
Vidor, TX 77662
or
Harold "Red" Ransonette
1050 Stacewood
Beaumont, TX 77706
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After re-reading and editing
my NEWSLETTER, I realized that I have really given you a lot to think about and
also to respond to. I hope that you have a paper and pencil handy when you
read it so that you can take information down and jot reminders to yourself.
I would appreciate it. Please send in grandchildren pics and memories for
the I REMEMBER WHEN. Show your support for all mentioned when you can find
the time. Military pics would also be appreciated. Tell us if you
have family members for us to pray for and send encouraging words.
Stay in touch and contact an "old" classmate,
Linda DeCuir McFadden
lindasuemcfadden@sbcglobal.net
www.tjhs1968.com
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