CURRENT EVENTS
Just like Mr. Coleman's Class
December, 2008
From LHS59.org's Editorial Committee:
Elaine, Helen, Judy, Gary, Tillie, Mike, Joe, Karen,
Darrell, Hazel, Tack, Phil, Jack, Barb, Dave, & Dave
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Click for a Special Present (Here)
HEY to the MAJOR AND MINOR '59'ER'S of Lancaster High School...
Did you notice the NEW greeting? Susi Thomas Hilty suggested that one, so let's have your feedback about it. Shall we be Majors and Minors or Purple and Golden's, or, please add your suggestion?
A pleasant surprise came at the number of Major and Minor 59'ers who responded to the first Current Events page and it was all so positive too. Just a reminder that this is the place YOU can communicate with your friends and get everyone involved with a topic of interest to you. My filing system is a bit in disarray right now, but it will improve and then I promise I will read all that you have sent. Following is the very short list of rules, so you see this page is wide open for your use.
Those rules are:
- All your submissions need to be received by Tillie at tilliephilo@sbcglobal.net before the 25th of each month to be considered for the new post on the following 1st of the month. It will be necessary to use the most current articles with consideration given to the amount of space available. Should you have a question about your submission not being posted, please contact Tillie. This is not a collection, but a monthly occurrence for our edification (sounds like Grace....right???).
- .Anything is welcomed since one person can't make the material always interesting, so send your "whatevers" to be shared, knowing your ideas are always welcomed. We will avoid the discussion of politics and religion, and the tenor of the page will always be upbeat and positive.
Let me make a suggestion for your calendar. If you use a computer calendar into which you can put a note on December 1st to check the NEW CURRENT EVENTS for the Major and Minor 59'ers, and then ask that to repeat on each month's 1st, you will be a part of 'the informed group'. Should you have to put this reminder on the ol'calendar on the wall/fridge/desk, then remember to carry it over when 2009 gets here. We want you to be a part of this fun and frivolity.
To that famous DISCLAIMER: I will put 'IT' in here after making it as informed a decision as possible (this may be the best use for the halfzheimer's excuse), and then will accept NO more responsibility for it. Please feel free to let me know how to make this page better; send your notes and news to help inform, or if I have offended you, or if there is some other errors that would spin Miss Griffith in her grave, please let me know.
Let's Have Some FUN !!!!!
Your Secret Current Events Editor
(Hint: She has always been on permanent, super secret, double probation for causing trouble clear back to 1955. Some say even before.)
You guessed it. It's Tillie!!!
An acorn was just a crazy nut, like me, but look at it now
From: Tillie (Bowers) McCarty
Hey, remember that 31 classmates we had missing or not contacted last month? During this month of efforts by many people we have reduced that number by 5 and are down to 6 missing and 20 uncontacted. Keep up the good work!!! The most difficult part of this search is reaching the sister who tells me that our classmate, Michael Yorks, passed away seven years ago. Michael was in Seattle. WA. working for Boeing Aircraft when he contracted cancer and passed away out there, and off our radar. We send our condolences to Michael's family.
We have had contact with Loretta Nelson Bost, Linda Reynolds Perry, David Kachel, and Shirlee Harmon Duncan's sister-in-law who just lost her husband.
Sue Duncan told me when she gets all pulled back together that she will talk to Shirlee for us.
Darrell Nichols was close to Pat Congrove's last address that we have, but discovered that Pat no longer lives there, and the neighbor had no forwarding address.
Carolyn Meir Haynes is going to be traveling close to Nancy McKinstry, so we will look forward to Carolyn's report from her trip.
A big THANK YOU goes to many of you whom I didn't list, so you know that we all have worked quite hard at finding our friends, and will continue working.
Missing as of 12/1/08:
Wilma Brown
Shirlee Harmon Duncan
Jerry Huffman
Sandra Lemon
Nick Reed
Dave Weaver
Not Contacted to Date
The following have not been contacted as of 12/1/08, so you can help:
Carol Barnes Dover
Nancy Behrens Tillinghast
Kenneth Bodamer
Jim Butts
Pat Congrove Mader
Barbara Dupler Federer
Mike Evans
Judy Dyer Flowers
Sally Gang Henneberger
Paul Hoffman
Janet Jackson Rutter
Sharon Lendman
Nancy McKinstry Sterzinar - We know she is in Kissemee, Fl, but no contact information.
Larry Robert Miller
Ronald Miller
Elaine Nutter Warren
Bill Thomas
Bill Townsend
Melvin Watrous
Ben Watters
The ol'Farmer sez…………
"Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance."
? ? ? Which classmate(s) do you think will be at the 50th Reunion, August 21 & 22, 2009, as their first Reunion since June 5, 1959. Send your answer(s) to tilliephilo@sbcglobal.net then watch for your candidate answers to be listed right here next month if they pass muster. The Winner will be announced at the Reunion. Maybe multiple Winners.
Now it is YOUR turn to challenge someone who has never attended a Reunion......
From Susan Youst......
"Hello, fellow 59's,
I can't believe it's been fifty years since high school!
I am retired after forty years as a nurse. I worked in med/surg/, ortho, ER, OR, OB office, and an Internal med office. My favorite was OR, which was about half my nursing career. I am a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur since 1977. I live in Cincinnati in a community of five. We are in Westwood, which, needless to say, is on the west side.
I am currently a full time volunteer for Power Inspires Progress. It is a job training program for hard to employ, inner city people. Many of them are recovering addicts, or felons, some have never worked in their lives. We teach them to handle. prepare, and serve food, by running a pizza parlor and a catering business. They are tutored in math and reading, and are expected to work on their GED if they don't have it. There are also in services about getting along with your co-workers, anger management, etc.
I am still fighting my lifelong battle with weight. Sometimes I do better than others. I have been lucky to travel to Belgium for a month to attend a meeting. Was also able to see a bit of London and Scotland while I was there.
My brother, Roy, lives in Canal Winchester with his family.
Am really looking forward to our reunion and seeing all of you.
Blessings,
Susan Youst"
Christmas With Louise
As a joke, my brother used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them. What they say about Santa checking the list twice must be true because every Christmas morning, although Jay's kids' stockings were overflowed, his poor pantyhose hung sadly empty.
One year I decided to make his dream come true. I put on sunglasses and went in search of an inflatable love doll. They don't sell those things at Wall-Mart. I had to go to an adult bookstore downtown.
If you've never been in an X-rated store, don't go. You'll only confuse yourself. I was there an hour saying things like, "What does this do? You're kidding me! Who would buy that?" Finally, I made it to the inflatable doll section.
I wanted to buy a standard, uncomplicated doll that could also substitute as a passenger in my truck so I could use the car pool lane during rush hour.
Finding what I wanted was difficult. Love Dolls come in many different models. The top of the line, according to the side of the box, could do things I'd only seen in a book on animal husbandry. I settled for Lovable Louise. She was at the bottom of the price scale. To call Louise a doll took a huge leap of imagination.
On Christmas Eve and with the help of an old bicycle pump, Louise came to life.
My sister-in-law was in on the plan and let me in during the wee morning hours. Long after Santa had come and gone, I filled the dangling pantyhose with Louise's pliant legs and bottom. I also ate some cookies and drank what remained of a glass of milk on a nearby tray. I went home, and giggled for a couple of hours.
The next morning my brother called to say that Santa had been to his house and left a present that had made him VERY happy but had left the dog confused. She would bark, start to walk away, then come back and bark some more.
We all agreed that Louise should remain in her panty hose so the rest of the family could admire her when they came over for the traditional Christmas dinner. My grandmother noticed Louise the moment she walked in the door. "What the hell is that?" she asked.
My brother quickly explained, "It's a doll."
"Who would play with something like that?" Granny snapped.
I had several candidates in mind, but kept my mouth shut.
"Where are her clothes?" Granny continued.
"Boy, that turkey sure smells nice Gran" Jay said, to steer her into the dining room.
But Granny was relentless. "Why doesn't she have any teeth?"
Again, I could have answered, but why would I? It was Christmas and no one wanted to ride in the back of the ambulance saying, "Hang on Granny, hang on!"
My grandfather, a delightful old man with poor eyesight, sidled up to me and said, "Hey, who's the naked gal by the fireplace?"
I told him she was Jay's friend.
A few minutes later I noticed Grandpa by the mantel, talking to Louise. Not just talking, but actually flirting. It was then that we realized this might be Grandpa's last Christmas at home.
The dinner went well. We made the usual small talk about who had died, who was dying, and who should be killed, when suddenly Louise made a noise like my father in the bathroom in the morning. Then she lurched from the panty hose, flew around the room twice, and fell in a heap in front of the sofa.
The cat screamed. I passed cranberry sauce through my nose, and Grandpa ran across the room, fell to his knees, and began administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. My brother fell back over his chair and wet his pants.
Granny threw down her napkin, stomped out of the room, and sat in the car.
It was indeed a Christmas to treasure and remember.
Later in my brother's garage, we conducted a thorough examination to decide the cause of Louise's collapse. We discovered that Louise had suffered from a hot ember to the back of her right thigh.
Fortunately, thanks to a wonder drug called duct tape, we restored her to perfect health..........
Now on another subject, let's all go to: /earlyhist.htm and then scroll down to 1950 where you will see a photo of South School, Grade 3. This picture was submitted by Mike Preston who was able to identify some of the folks, and then Carolyn McCrery and Linda Haynes jumped onto the project and you see that just about all are named. Wouldn't it be nice to have all our pictures so well identified, even the newspaper pictures since it is difficult to read the names.
NAME THAT KID CONTEST
The LHS59 website is sponsoring a contest that will run through the Reunion August 22, 2009, when all in attendance will have had a chance to identify as many as possible in all of the pictures on the website. Begin with the kids on: /earlyhist.htm
Yes, and there will be a prize for the person who submits the most correct IDs
So, you will need to submit an easily read page, or 2, identifying the picture, and using the terms 'front row', 'second row', etc, and ending with 'back row'. Then ID as many in the photos as you can.
The photos are all on the Early History page of the LHS59.org and will be provided at the Reunion as well for you to a have reference, but remember, this is a CONTEST, so you won't want to share too much information with your classmates.
Since we have several months to get you all the specifics, like the PRIZE, we will just encourage you now to get started with your paper and pencil.
GOOD LUCK to everyone!!!!!
CLICK ON EACH IMAGE AND YOU WILL GO
DIRECTLY TO MRS. CLAUS' COOKBOOK.....
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OLD FRIENDS.........
Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over the years, they had shared all kinds of activities and adventures.
Lately, their activities had been limited to meeting a few times a week to play cards.
One day, they were playing cards when one looked at the other and said, "Now don't get mad at me... I know we've been friends for a long time... but I just can't think of your name! I've thought and thought, but I can't remember it. Please tell me what your name is."
Her friend glared at her. For at least three minutes she just stared and glared at her.
Finally she said, "How soon do you need to know?"
This spot will be reserved each month for a question, or activity, that might have been asked, or assigned, by different teachers we all had. We started with.......
Charles Kessler asking:
QUESTION: Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
OK, the first question from the 8th grade graduation test, circa 1895, was asked and we got one answer, just 1. Mike Campbell submitted the following answer which is correct.... Hydrologic Cycle. No one else came close...
“The process by which the water of the ocean returns to rivers is called the Hydrologic Cycle where water evaporates from the ocean and from elsewhere on Earth to form clouds and ultimately to form precipitation (as rain and snow) which subsequently falls to the Earth. Much of the precipitation sinks through the soil at the surface and recharges the water table at varying depths in the subsurface. Some water at the surface flows overland directly to creeks and rivers, especially during floods. The water in the subsurface is known as ground water and flows in porous or fractured media of rocks consisting of sands, sandstones, limestone) and much of it flows from higher elevations toward lower elevation requiring 100s to 1,000s of years to make to trip to creeks and rivers. Rivers and creeks only flow during summertime because the ground water from below provides the water to the creeks and rivers, which in turn returns the surface water to the ocean completing the Hydrologic Cycle in a continuous loop that has been maintained since the Earth first received water from comets over a period of billions of years.”
Pearl Waugh asks:
QUESTION for December....... Define verse, stanza and paragraph.
Please send your answer to tilliephilo@sbcglobal.net so we can all be edified next month.
One of the most interesting parts of the LHS59 Home page is the "Special Interest" section where a wealth of links are available to transport you back to 1959, as well as a real-time view of Lancaster through Google Earth.
A young man goes into the Job Center in Jacksonville, Florida and sees a card advertising for a Gynecologist's Assistant.
Interested, he goes to learn more - 'Can you give me some more details?' he asks the clerk.
The clerk pulls up the file and says, 'The job entails getting the ladies ready for the gynecologist. You have to help them out of their underwear, lay them down and carefully wash their private regions, then apply shaving foam and gently shave off the hair, then rub in soothing oils so that they're ready for the gynecologist's examination.
There's an annual salary of $45,000, but you're going to have to go to Oxford, Mississippi. That's about 620 miles from here.'
'Oh, is that where the job is?'
'No sir - that's where the end of the line is right now.'
Do YOU have an alternate address such as a winter/summer home? If so, we would love to add that to the address pages in the website. Take a peek at what it looks like /mailinglist.htm, and then submit your information to one of the Editorial Committee members: /edcom.htm
LOOKING AHEAD
"The best Christmas is when you already have everything you want before the packages are opened." Isn't that the truth? When our families are with us and we're all healthy and happy, what more could we desire ? And it describes so many of us, who have all the 'stuff' we can ever use."
- Barb Ike
LOOKING BACK
30 YEARS AGO - Julia Brown Farmer's parents
Local businessman M.H. Brown and his wife, Helen, established a $40,000 scholarship for Ohio State University agricultural students.
George Lambert and the Lancaster Amateur Radio Club: Click (Here)
Club website: http://www.k8qik.org
Newspaper Article link: Click (Here)
Some Interesting Links:
Link to NASA: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
Link to Christmas beauty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diP3vaUZ5zE
Link to Classmate Comments webpage: /Comments.htm It is here that you can update or add your autobiography so we can know the latest that is going on with you.
Please help Tillie:
I have misplaced Janet Williams Delong's Florida address.
Can someone help me?
Also, remember to update any of your vital information; home address, telephone number and e-mail address by sending the new information to any Editorial Committee member: /edcom.htm
This is the best way I've ever heard it explained.....
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, 'My son, the battle is between 'two wolves' inside us all.
'One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.'
'The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.'
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, 'Which wolf wins?'
The old Cherokee simply replied, 'The one you feed.'
A Special Re-Treat for Christmas.
For those of you with sound, Click (here).
Santa Claus
Gotcha!!!
Now get on with your work!!!
Nine Months later.... Wake Up Santa!!!!!
And lastly, the front fell off...(Click here).
That's all for now. I will be updating this page as new material comes in.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my dear friends.
- Tillie
