TJ Class of '68     NEWSLETTER                                                           04/26/09
 

Looks like this edition will be short and sweet.  If you want more to read, then you'll have to contribute. 

MAIL CALL

from Carolyn Bigler Hebert TJ '58 (wife of biology teacher, Al Hebert)
We are just now getting to our hurricane Ike repairs. We didn’t have the extent you had but we did have a separation of the sheetrock, the tiles, paneling, the windows and more inside our house. There are still outside damages to be taken care of. The fence is up but not completed. The storage sheds are repaired and have new roofs but still need new windows. Princess and I are moving out so Alfred can get the damages done without us being here. The Pecan trees are beginning to bloom and pollinate and I have a severe allergy to them. While Princess and I are in Tyler I will be house shopping. Alfred and I are still planning our move. Ike just delayed us and the insurance fighting us delayed us even more. 

My allergy doctor in Houston said when we evacuated I should not have returned. She said I am living in a cesspool for my allergies. Last year at this time I was extremely ill with an upper respiratory infection.  

Alfred will learn how much help I am to him with his computer. He just had to have the main hard drive formatted and I had to get it up and going for him again. I am the computer nerd in the family. I have been computing since 1986 and building websites since 1999. 

Be sure to check out the website for the Graduate Museum . They have decided to reconsider renovating the building and are working to get a benefactor. They are also negotiating for a safe place to store things should anything have to be removed from the building. And too, if that becomes necessary the information will be given to me so I can post it in the website. The people who want to remove their donations until the renovation is complete will then be able to do so. 

All I had to build this site was one newspaper article and the pictures from Alfred’s yearbook and class reunion photos. I did a lot of research on the internet and came up with the rest of the articles. And I created graphics for the site and edited photos. Check it out please. 

http://graduatemuseum.com  

We will be going to California the end of July for the National Senior Games to be held in Redwood City in August. That’s just outside of San Francisco . And boy howdy is that a l o n g trip by car. But, we have to travel by car to take that racing bike of Alfred’s. He has a computer on that too. It’s called a Power Tap.  

Eventually, I will be adding more pages to the Florence Coleman section of my website. JK Petteway gave me his dance scrapbook and it is loaded with newspaper articles and photos. Melanie said she will send me more photos too when time permits. She is my sister’s aunt by marriage.
http://moonlightflower.org
 

from Paula Iles Restrepo TJ '69
Yes, even I, Class of '69, missed the NEWSLETTER, too!  You are such a newsy writer, so much of that down-home Port Arthur communication.  It feels so familiar.  Remember, I've been gone since 1970.  Things up here in Dallas are all in bloom with Spring!  It's my favorite time here, if any of you guys ever get up to Big D, if you like gardening, RUN DO NOT WALK to The Dallas Arboretum on White Rock Lake.  It  is a world class botanical garden owned by the City of Dallas, and it's a mult-million dollar operation all year round, with 2 big festivals in Spring in Fall.  Several decent restaurants overlooking the lake.  It is truly an oasis in the middle of the city!  You can easily spend several hours there, watch the sailboats on the lake, feel the breeze, have a tasty lunch, tour the DeGoyer mansion.  Fountains, live music.  We are members but single admission is about $8 for adults plus $5 parking.  Oh and senior discounts but I think you have to be 62 or 65.  Remember, McDonald's gives free soda fountain drinks to over 55's now.   

My main reason for writing is to give Carol Oubre a big thumbs up on the Boomers Song Titles.  My husband and I (both '69 grads -- he's from Minneapolis) were LOL.  Especially Willie Nelson's On the Commode Again.  After a few colonoscopies for both of us, we can sure relate to that song!  We're still trying to keep up with our only child, our 14 year old daughter in 7th grade Victoria.  I'll try to get a photo of us to you guys soon!   

I seldom get to PA anymore.  My only sibling remaining in the Golden Triangle is my sister, Anne Iles, class of '78 and Hussar Bugle Sergeant (whoo hoo) I got suspended from Hussars in my senior year with 3 others for "being subversive" translated too many demerits.  I cried and hugged Dorothy Day and blubbered "I'm sorry" at the Hussar Reunion after blowing my lips out on the bugle marching in that parade under the direction of my little sister Anne.  Dot was gracious and said "Now we'll have none of that, you call me for lunch next time you're in town."   I had the best of intentions, but I never did call her.  I still would like to.  Did she come to the reunion last summer?   

Do any of you watch Frasier reruns?  Remember when his and Niles' plumbers were the 2 brothers who terrorized them in high school?  As one of the plumber guys said about his memories of putting Niles' underwear up on the goal post in P.E. "Those were some crazy days weren't they?"  I love that show, have most of the episodes memorized. 

Not sure what inspired me to write so much this evening, but maybe it can fill in some of your space if you are short again next time.  I really enjoy your website.  I grew up down the street from Betty Sue Ratley, and she was a good friend of my younger brother Robert Iles, class of '70 and a Texan, again, upstanding never suspended from Texans or anything like MOI!  I have such guilt about that!  Oh how I wish I had aspired to National Honor Society and other such high places.  But Hussars really was fun, that ole counter culture wave just grabbed some of us!  Like the plumber says "Those were some crazy days, weren't they?" 

I will be in Lumberton for my nephew's wedding on May 23rd, looking majorly forward to it.  He was 4 at my own and only  wedding in 1991.  How the time flies.   

A Big D HOWDY to Linda and Mike and thanks for something I look forward to every month!

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NEWS FROM THE HOMEFRONT

Well, it happened!  My mom has decided that she IS definitely going stir-crazy and needs to move!  So, they are heading to an apartment complex on HWY 347 near the old K-Mart (behind a flower nursery) called Carriage Park Apts.  They will live right next door to their dear friends, Dennis O'Quinn's parents.  They have known them since the early '50's.  Couldn't talk mom out of moving.  Sure hope that their health holds up to be by themselves AGAIN!  We'll see.  Please keep them in your prayers.  They will move in the last week of May.  Dad turned 93 April 22.  I brought them to Kinder to the casino.  They enjoyed the outing. 

Murphy and I are doing fine here in Lumberton.  He is still working shift work as a RELIEF operator at the TEPPCO gas pipeline right past the prison complexes on the way to Beaumont.  The couple who bought our home in BC are busy remodeling and really sprucing up the yard.  Murphy hates gardening and flower beds and had gone "low-maintenance" there.  Funny, but our yard here has LOTS of flower beds to tend to.  He is not laughing, though. 

The two granddaughters are really growing.  The oldest is nearing completion of KDG. and the youngest is in Pre-K.  She is doing well since her kidney surgery last September.  She is still on blood pressure medicine but not as large of a dose twice a day.  She is a hoot.  Always into some kind of devilment! 

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CAKE ANYONE?

contributed by Katherine Van Slyke

Magic.  Click open the cake you like and there is the recipe.

A Cake That's Fit For A Queen
Amaretto Italian Sour Cream Cake
Amazing Tropical Fruit Cake
Apple and Nut Cake
Apple Cake
Apple Cake
Apple Sauce Cake
Applesauce Fruitcake
Apricot Nectar Pound Cake
Baby Cheescakes Baby Cheesecakes
Banana Cake
Barron Family Cheesecake
Baumtorte (Tree Cake)
Becky's Pumpkin Cupcakes
Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake
Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake
Broken Angel Cake With Chocolate Chips
Candied Fruit Cake
Carmel Coffee Cake
Carrot Cake with Hot Glaze
Carrot-Pineapple Cake
Cherry Cake
Cherry Cake Sauce
Cherry Cheesecake Cups
Cherry-Pineapple Dump Cake
Chocolate Angel Food
Chocolate Browny Cake
Chocolate Chip Muffins
Chocolate Cookie Sheet Cake
Chocolate ?clair Cake
Chocolate Ice Box Dessert
Chocolate Logs
Chocolate Lovers Heaven Triple Threat Chocolate Di
Chocolate Sheet Cake
Chocolate welington fudge pudding
Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cake
Christmas Cake
Christmas choclate cake
Christmas Mixed Glace Fruit Loaf
Christmas-Comes-But-Once-A-Year-Chocolate Cake
Cinnamon Morning Delight
Coca-Cola Cake
Coconut Cake
Cookie Pizza
Cream Cheese Icing
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Cream Puff Cake
Creamy Chocolate Cupcakes
Creamy Chocolate Layered Cake
Decadent Chocolate Cake
Decadent Fudge Cake
Deluxe Chocolate Marshmallow Bars
Dream Cake
Dreamcicle Cake
Drizzle Cake
Earthquake Cake
Easy Cocoa Snack Cake
Easy Coconut Cake
?clair Cake
Edie Ching's Cherry Cheesecake
Eggnog Cake
Extra Moist Coconut Cakes
Festive Pumpkin Gingerbread
Flower Garden Cake
Fruit Cake
Fruit Cocktail Cake
German Chocolate Upside-Down Cake
Golden Bacardi Rum Cake
Gooey Butter Cake
Gum drop cake
Heavenly Pecan Cake
Hedge Hog Cake
Holiday Cake
Holiday Poke Cake
Holiday Rum Cake
Honey Bun Cake
Honey Cake
Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
Hummingbird Cake
Ice-Cream Chocolate Roll
Jewish Apple Cake
Johnny Appleseed Cake
Lemon Cake
Lemon Poppyseed Cakes
Lemon Pound Cake
Linda's Yule Log
Mama's Homemade Banana Cake
Mandy's Cake
Microwave Scottish Pudding
Mini Fruitcakes
Miniature Cheesecakes
Mississippi Fudge Cake
Mississippi Mud
Mock Lemon Meringue Cake
Neiman Marcus Cake
No Bake Fruit Cake
Norwegian Gold Cake
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake
Old Fashion Pound Cake
Old Fashioned Light Fruitcake
Orange Date-Nut Cake
Orange Slice Cake
Oreo Cheesecake
Peanut-Topped Devil's Food
Pecan Icing
Pennsylvania Dutch Pastry
Pineapple Heaven
Plum-Nut Cake
Pound Cake Pound Cake
Pumpkin Cake Roll
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pumpkin log
Pumpkin Nut Roll
Pumpkin Pie Cake
Pumpkin Roll
Queen's Cake
Red Velvet Cake
Reese`s white cake
Reese's Brownie Cupcakes
Refrigerator Chocolate Cheesecake
Russian Tea Cakes
Russian Teacakes
Santa's Breakfast Cake
Self-Filled Cupcakes
Shirley's Chocolate Sheet Cake
Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Sour Cream Pound Cake
Southern Apple Cake
Swedish Nut Cake
Tiny Christmas Fruitcakes
Toll House Carrot Cake
Triple Chocolate Torte
Turtle Bars
Turtle Cake
Warcake
Watergate Cake
White Christmas Loaf
World War I Cake
World War II Cake

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Cajun Recipes (and more)

contributed by Carla Hass
Over 4500 Cajun Recipes
This site is a keeper.....please pass on!!!
http://www.cajun-recipes.com/index.htm

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SUPPORT

from Stephen Simonton and wife, Betty Hebert '67
Betty went to
Houston for a checkup yesterday and found to be cancer free. She will go back in July for a checkup and then another cat scan towards the end of the year. I will be going to Dr. Susan Coulter for my heart problems at ST. LUKES in Houston May 4th.
wolfen49@sbcglobal.net

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CONDOLENCES

Harold Schkade
(death of his 26 year old daughter, Ashley) 

2710 McBride Dr
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Pt. Neches, TX 77651
shagshws@swbell.net

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That is it!  Boy, I am thankful for the contributions of those TJ alumni that didn't graduate with us.  Otherwise, this NEWSLETTER would have really been small.  Don't forget to contact those mentioned in the SUPPORT and CONDOLENCE sections.   

                                                Keep in touch,
                                                Linda DeCuir McFadden
                                               
lindasuemcfadden@sbcglobal.net
                                               
www.tjhs1968.com

 
 
 
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