from
Cherlyn Hebert in
Houston
We sure did
miss you. Glad things are nearing normalcy and
allowing you to get back in the groove with us.
from
Dennis O'Quinn
in
Anahuac
We are starting to finally see a
light at the end of the tunnel at our
house, just about completed with the kitchen just have a
little painting and molding left to complete and the
house and yard should be completed. All that is
left is repairs on the pool and I'm not going to do any
of that work, let contractors have it.
from
Sharon Lewis Forrest in
Houston
My husband, Jim, had
triple bypass surgery . He had been
getting out of breath easily and tired a lot for a
while. I hounded him until he went for a
stress test. The rest is history. He is
doing very well and on the road to recovery. Just want
to remind everybody to listen to their bodies! I am so
grateful that Jim got this taken care of before a
heart attack
occurred.
UPDATE
from
Sharon
Lewis Forrest
Didn't figure I'd need to send
another update this soon, but my husband, Jim, had
triple bypass surgery on March 27.
He's been feeling tired lately and easily out of
breath for a while. The changes have been gradual,
so he just figured it was a symptom of getting older
- I mean, he graduated in '64 for goodness sake!
Anyway, he finally told his cardiologist how he was
feeling. After a
heart catherization and triple bypass,
he is on the
road
to recovery. He spent several days in
the hospital and is now home. Throughout the whole
experience, we've been surrounded by family and
friends. The team at
Memorial Hermann Heart
and Vascular Institute is amazing! We're now
concentrating on his recovery and the next 40
years!!
(new
e-mail for
Sharon)
jsforrest68@yahoo.com
from
Cindy Duplantis Roberts
in Horseshoe Bay,
TX
I was so sorry not to be able to attend the reunion last
August. We had some
family business
that came up suddenly at that time and it kept us from
being able to attend. I have checked the website
and it looked like it was a major success and more fun
than the law allows.
from
Danny Landry
in LaBelle and Austin area
I was glad to
hear that you have started to do the newsletter again,
not to say that Mike didn't do a GREAT job but we can't
mess with the ORIGINAL. I read the current newsletter
with great interest. You asked how our house in Labelle
went through Ike. We had no water inside, but the water
from the HILLEBRANDT BAYOU came within two hundred yards
from our house. A lot of our neighbors lost everything.
The only damage we had was the wind blew off our
fireplace extension on our roof. I have been asked my
many of my friends in Labelle if I was moving to the
Austin
areaa to escape the hurricanes.
Well , here is proof that you can't run from the
weather. On March 25 th, we had a COLD front blow in
from the west with severe weather and a HAILSTORM. News
reports say that in caused 160 million dollars in
damage. Since I couldn't get both vehicles in the garage
, my truck got a few dings in the hood and roof. Next
time I will be riding it out at the covered car wash. An
interesting fact is that the THREE worst HAILSTORMS in
the
Austin
area have all been on March 25th.
from
Frank Piletere,
TJ '65
pilf@chevron.com
I keep up with your 1968 class TJ web page as my late
wife
Betty
Sue Ratley
was a member. I was really impressed with the
memorial section and your recent 40 year reunion photos.
As I graduated from TJ in 65 and had some of the same
teachers a you did (i.e. Jayne Smith, Tommye Hogue and
Lionel Rowland), would like to know if you could provide
me with e-mail addresses of these teachers.
Thank you
for all your hard work on this great site.
(I do have Mr. Rowland and Ms. Smith's addresses.
BUT, I lost spreadsheet on all the faculty in the
flood. IF I happen to have sent
you
a list,
please send it to me.)
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2009
(contributed by
Ernie Castaneda Bullion)
YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2009
when....
1. You accidentally enter your password on the
microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in
years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your
family of four.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to
you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with
friends and family is that they don't have
e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell
phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the
groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the
bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you
didn't have the first 20 or 30
or 40 years of your life, makes you panic and turn
around and go back to get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on
line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12 You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going
to
forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this
list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there
wasn't a #9 on this list.
AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself.
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SONGS AND ARTISTS OF
THE 60's
(contributed
by
Carole Oubre)
Some of the artists of the 60's are revisiting their
hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby booners.
They include:
Bobby Darin-
Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash.
Herman's Hermits-
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker.
Ringo
Starr-
I Get By With a Little Help From My Depends.
The
Bee Gees-
How Can You Mend a Broken Hip.
Roberta Flack-
The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face.
Johnny
Nash-
I Can't See Clearly Now.
Paul
Simon-
Fifty Ways to Lose Your Lover.
The
Commodores-
Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom.
Marvin
Gaye-
I Heard it Through the Grape Nuts.
Procol
Harem-
A Whiter Shade of Hair.
Leo
Sayer-
You Made Me Feel Like Napping.
The
Temptations-
Papa's Got a Kidney Stone.
Tony
Orlando-
Knock 3 Times on the Ceiling If You Want to Hear Me
Fall.
Helen
Reddy-
I am Woman, Hear Me Snore.
Leslie
Gore-
It's My Procedure, and I'll Cry If I Want To.
and last but not least:
Willie
Nelson-
On the Commode Again.
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NEW E-MAIL ADDRESSES
Six classmates contacted me in the
last two weeks to tell me that they had new e-mail
addresses. THANKS, thanks, thanks! That is
the only way that Mike and I can keep you in the loop.
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ON THE HOMEFRONT
Well, the last of the furniture we
ordered arrived this week. I have been busy
unpacking hurricane boxes seeing if I could salvage and
CLEAN some whatnots to put on bookcases, etc. It
just makes it feel more like home having familiar items
around you.
The newness has worn off and the
adrenaline has wained. Mom is now "bored" at the
Rose House. It sure isn't because the activity
director hasn't made plans for the residents. It
is because Mom doesn't have any cooking to do. It
used to take up all morning for her to cook at her other
"homes" and then she was tired and rested the rest of
the day. We'll see what transpires with this.
I sure hope she doesn't decide to move AGAIN! She
has just a few items and furniture left. I hope we
don't have to start looking for a small rent house
AGAIN! I'll keep you posted. Keep them in
your prayers AND ME, too! I don't think I have
enough stamina to do this again. I am just getting
in my own place!
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SUPPORT
I do hope you contacted the
classmates and family mentioned in my last NEWSLETTER.
If you can't remember whom to write to, check back on my
last one. Mike keeps them all on the website.
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CONDOLENCES
Anna
Mae DeVine
(secretary
to the principal)
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I am out of here! I am
preparing the Easter lunch here in
Lumberton at
our "new" home. I hope you all have a wonderful spring
weekend and blessings to all during this joyous
occasion!
PS
Mike, I don't tell you enough how much I appreciate all
you do for the website by keeping it going. You
know that if something happened to you, it would shut
down. I
sure don't know how to run
one. I can just type!!! I am TECHNICALLY
CHALLENGED in a big, big way! Thanks big guy!
Linda, I think you tell me too much how you appreciate
me. It is
I who doesn't tell you enough how much
I
appreciate all
YOU
do for the website. Again it's so good to have you back.
Oh and thanks for the jinks you just put on me!