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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 1, Is. 5 August
19, 2011
From the
Editor
We
find ourselves putting the finishing touches on Issue 5 of the newsletter. I must admit that we feel it is a little
short in content this week. As I
explained in an earlier issue, we can’t “make up” news, we can only publish
it. So, please think about what is going
on in your family that is interesting or important to you--odds are you have
former classmates that would also like to know about what’s happening in your
life. Send it to us. We’d love to share your good times with all of
our mutual friends. There are almost 350
of you receiving the newsletter. Out of
that many, there has to be news of interest.
Take a minute and send us something good.
For
the last three weeks Carolyn has been working feverishly to move the
information in the 2007 Roosevelt High School Directory booklet that Wanda had
published to a searchable Excel spreadsheet that can be placed online for all
to use. We know that the information
Carolyn has transferred contains several entries that are either incorrect or
need updating. In addition, there is
certainly missing data. First of all, if you have issue with your
address or email being published please let us know as soon as possible by
emailing us at mmay@234enterprises.com
and we will remove that information from your entry. Your name and the year you graduated will
remain as that is public information. We
will notify you when the information is available online. At that time please assist us in cleaning up
this data by checking your information (or information of family members or
close friends) to assure its accuracy and let us know if it isn’t so we can
correct it. Also, if you notice someone
missing, let us know about that as well.
We don’t know the source that Wanda used for putting the 2007
publication together and obviously can’t verify its accuracy--so, at this
point, you are our best source of authority.
Keep an eye out for the notice that the information is online and help us
make it as accurate as possible by giving it a critical review.
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Content
Contributors for the Week
Dan
Hayslip
Linda
Jackson
Carolyn
Martin
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
A Guide to Roughrider
Tighten those seat belts one more time. You’re in for some thought provoking
reading. This is no joke—I am trying to
be semi-serious in what I present
here, although I believe you will crack a smile or two while reading it. After the Roosevelt High School Reunion in
2009, I became very distraught when, after returning home, I read
The 10 Rules of Engagement:
Rule 1: Image is
everything. Above all you want your
classmates to think you’ve been successful in life. There are several things you can do to help
demonstrate your success. First of all,
don’t show up in your 1972 Volkswagen.
Rent a new Cadillac Escalade--preferably black, but white pearl will
work. I know this is a considerable
outlay just to impress your friends, but look at it this way, at the next
reunion, the president may be reading your name as one of the alums who has
passed on since the last reunion. Bottom
line, you have to strike while the iron is hot and as the old commercial goes,
“You never have a second chance to make a first impression.” Secondly, dress is important. This is no time for a suit--you’ll look like
a “Geek.” Short’s and a golf shirt are
appropriate. It’s usually hot this time
of year in
Rule 2: Slowly work the crowd. In other words, quietly “move through” the masses to see if you recognize anyone. Hopefully, you’ll recognize someone. If not, you may be at the wrong reunion. If you’re lucky and do see someone you know, start with them. “Working a crowd” is a lot like easing into a swimming pool of cold water. Do it gradually. Don’t talk to all the people you know before starting to apply the rules that I’m laying out here. Too many rejections in a row might make you wish you’d just stayed home and not bothered to come at all.
Rule 3: Remember, you always have the option to ask one of the people you know (assuming you’re at the right reunion) if they know who the person is on the other side of the room. Now this approach can be tricky. Be very careful in how you describe the person you’re curious about. DO say, “Do you know the attractive lady on the other side of the room” (whether she’s attractive or not)—DO NOT say, “Who’s the homely lady in the tacky dress on the other side of the room.” That person could be a relative of the friend assisting you thus resulting in a potentially embarrassing situation.
Rule 4: Don’t just pick anybody to test the rules on. Pick someone that, based on their appearance and dress, you think might be interesting to meet even if you find that you don’t know them at all. Remember back when you were in school, you chose the people that you wanted to be around. Surely, over the years, you haven’t forgotten about having an option to choose.
Rule 5: Once you’ve made your selection, always start with light conversation, like “Gosh there’s a lot of people here—some I recognize and some I don’t. Unfortunately, you fall in the latter category.” At this point, introduce yourself and ask if they would kindly refresh your memory as to whom they are—full well knowing that you may or may not know them. However, regardless, if you’ve chosen well, the connection may still prove to be worthwhile. I believe that most will respond positively and you’ll be “off and running” anxiously waiting to test my rules on another unsuspecting participant.
Rule 6: Attempting to talk to more females than males is ok and quite honestly I would expect no less. However, first, observe if the female you’re thinking about zeroing in on is being accompanied by a “Big Ole Boy.” If she is, it might be prudent to regroup and make an alternative selection.
Rule 7: Now should there be a few males there that you’re curious about, it’s most certainly alright to make contact with them. Just spread out your selections between males and females. It’s a lot like selecting what you’re going to have for dinner—steak every night is boring. Rotate your diet—beef one night, then pork, then chicken (maybe or maybe back to beef). Surely you get my point--variety is good.
Rule 8: Always be cautious before walking up to someone that you think you know and calling them by name. This can have a bad ending. I walked up to a lady two reunions ago that I was sure had to be Leah Bynum, so I said, “Aren’t you Leah Bynum?” to which she responded, “No, I’m your cousin!” Embarrassing.
Rule 9: If there’s one of these many rules that you should pay careful attention to--it’s Rule 9. In this rule I will detail how to strike up a conversation with that “Hotty” that you so wished to hook up with back in high school, but who wouldn’t give you the time of day. Number one on your list of what to do is remove your name tag. Odds are if she paid no attention to you in school, it’s doubtful that she has had you in the back of her mind all these years. However, this is no time to take chances--remove that name tag. Next, boldly walk up to her and announce, “Hey, (insert her name here) gosh you were so hot as a teenager and by golly I see that you’re just as hot today. Odds are, since as I mentioned earlier, she hasn’t thought of you even once over the years, she’ll most likely say, “Gee I’m sorry, I don’t think I recognize you.” Here’s your chance to get in front of this scenario and ask, “Well, who do you think I am?” What ever her response, as long as she names one of the popular guys from way back when--that’s who you are! If she comes back with a less than pristine choice, one of the less popular guys, you immediately say, “No, sorry, I’m Junior Curtis (everybody liked Junior--he was a jock). At this point you should see her crack a smile and you’ll know you’re on your way. Oh, by the way, you should have previously checked around to be sure that Junior isn’t there before assuming his identity. If he is, you should have already moved on to the next best alias before answering.
Rule 10: I show my
selfishness with this rule. For many
years during my career at USDA I served on Official Committees for
Intercollegiate Meats Judging Contests all over the
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Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Watch
this space for news on the upcoming Roosevelt High School Reunion which will be
September 30 and October 1. We will be
bringing you updates on the plans for the
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Message
from the President:
August
16, 2011
Hello Alumni:
With six weeks left until
our 2011 reunion, I hope you have made your plans and will be able to attend the
reunion seeing and visiting with your classmates and old friends. Many have already sent in their
reservation forms and purchased their meal tickets. I know that many,
many more Alumni will be attending and bring their families, so please send in your reservation forms today
in order for the committee to have a good headcount as they make plans for
Friday and Saturday, September 30 and October 1.
At this point, I am excited
about the numbers coming in and expect a large turn out at our
reunion. Also, I have received two reservations from Alumni that have
never been back to a reunion since graduating in the 60's. I do believe
they will see what they have missed all these years.
See you soon,
Dan Hayslip
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Reservations for the 2011
Roosevelt High School Reunion have been received from the following: Those in red are new this week.
Class of 1945:
Joyce (Clark)
Henson and Alex Cedillo & Annette Williams
Class of 1946:
Emily (Martin) Bennight and Welsey
Class of 1947: Bobbi (Alford) Buckner
Class of 1948:
Cotton (Muse) Mathis and
James; Richard McConnell
Class of 1949:
Bob Sheets
Class of 1951:
Class of 1953:
Tom Alford; Shirley (Webb)
Cook and Dober; Evelyn Walters; L. D. Sheets and Oweeda;
Class of 1955:
Beverly Gray and Don Taylor
Class of 1956: Rose (Chance) Anderson; Dwight
Peterson; Buck Cook
Class of 1957:
Jim Law and Alice; Johnny
Block; Walter Farrar
Class of 1958:
Merle Jones and Kathy
Falconer; Ronald Hebensperger and Janet;
Class of 1959:
Jerry Alford; Norwood
Pollard; Gene Janes and Janice; Mike Berridge; Dale Tufford;
Dale Cain; Jackie Davis; Dolores (Eaton) Earley
Class of 1960:
Henry Graves and Delois
Class of 1961:
Paula (Miller) Block; Linda (Muldowney) Dills and Robert;
Jim Hebensperger
Class of 1962:
Joe Mac Ankney;
Howard (Rex) LaFever and Mary; Dan Hayslip and Susan;
Bill and Jean Ann (Schrader) Lyde; Ronnie Collmer; Freddie Johnson and Joan; Austilene (Turner) Borum
Class of 1963:
Johnny Alford; Karen (
Class of 1964:
Bonnie (Pollard) Phillips and
John; Jerry Hayslip
Class of 1965:
Michael May and Carolyn
Class of
1966: Malynda (Ankney) Adams and Donald
Class of
1968:
Class of
1972: Jenny Loveless and Paul
Class of
1975: David Jackson
Class of
1977: Gayla (Cook) Miller
Class of
1979: Pam (Stroud)
Class of
1988: Mijo Chard and
Linda Melton
Guests: Brenda (Stroud) Wilhite;
Clithia (Stroud) Kilbourne
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that
Local News
Linda Jackson
sent the following article:
Stormy
August 13, 2011, was a lucky day for Stormy Jackson
and Cody Vanzant. Family and friends gathered
to celebrate their wedding day at the ballroom at 
OK, was honored to give the beautiful bride away and
her granny, Teresa Jennings Tuck, made the bride's and groom's cakes. The rustic theme of the wedding
decor was carried out with natural elements. Traditional music
received a "thumbs down" vote from Stormy, so in lieu of the bridal
march a “little pardner” by the name of
The
honeymoon cruise included the Bahamas and upon their return they will make
their home in New Mexico while Cody is stationed there..
Birthdays and
Anniversaries
We
have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from
Wanda’s files. We are sure we are
missing some. Please send us the
birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as
complete as list as possible. We are
going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please
send us the information so we have it for the news next year. In addition, should any of the birthdays we
list be wrong, also please let us know.
Happy Birthday
To:
August 19 – Merle Wilks
August 20 – Krista Chain
August 21 – Barbara Kimray
August 23 – Weldon Johnson -- 86 yrs old
August
24 – Oren Baden
August 24 – Karla Jackson, Class of 1969
August 25 – Kelcie Howard
August 25 – Paul Files, Class of 1988
Humor
The Perfect Man
A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going
by. He gets into the taxi, and the
cabbie says, “Perfect timing. You’re
just like Frank.”
Passenger: “Who?”
Cabbie: “Frank Feldman. He’s a guy who did everything right all the
time. Like my coming along when you
needed a cab, things happen like that to Frank Feldman every single time.”
Passenger: “There are always a few clouds over
everybody.”
Cabbie: “Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand Slam at
tennis. He could golf with the
pros. He sang like an opera baritone and
danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy.”
Passenger: “Sounds
like he was something really special.”
Cabbie:
“There’s more. He had a memory
like a computer. He remembered
everybody’s birthday. He knew all about
wine, which foods to order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me.
I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks
outs. But Frank Feldman, he could do
everything right.”
Passenger:
“Wow. Some guy then.”
Cabbie: “He
always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in
them. But Frank, he never made a
mistake, and he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good. He would never answer her back even if she
was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly
polished, too. He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank
Feldman.”
Passenger: “An
amazing fellow. How did you meet him?”
Cabbie: “Well,
I never actually met Frank. He
died. I’m married to his widow.”
From the Email
“Bag”
August 11. 2011
Hi Mike and Carolyn,
Once again I enjoyed reading the Roosevelt News and
comments. A big thanks to you and
Carolyn for the work you two are doing for all of us that are Roughriders. I especially enjoyed your memories of Nash's
Dept. Store. I also have great memories
of that old store and what it held for a kid wanting to play in and around the
store building. I was right there
playing on those tires getting as dirty as I possibly could. My brother and I spent some time in the
basement where my dad kept lots of tires.
We loved to go down there and prowl around. We would have to sneak because our dad didn't
want us down there. He figured we would
find a way to get hurt, plus my granddad, Ira B., would get so mad at us for
playing in the tires then going upstairs to play on the furniture. You can imagine what that did to the
furniture. We were always in trouble
about something. We surely had a lot of
fun. Thanks for sharing your memories,
brought back quite a few for me.
Judy (Nash) Williams
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August
11. 2011
Another newsletter well
done. I had to chuckle on many of your trivia
remembrances. I, too, am a trivia person. Although I did
not remember the toilet seat color, I did know where the bathroom
was. I think I was in every inch of that store. I used to
go with Johnny Nash all the time. He loved to scare me in the dark basement. My
mother worked there for several years. I loved the place and Mom and
Dad Nash were such characters. Little short Mom and tall lanky
Dad. I never called them anything but Mom and Dad--got that from
Johnny--was so much fun to go to their house on
Jennifer Moore
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August
14, 2011
Mike,
Thanks for adding me to the
Roosevelt News – East Coast Edition. Mike Berridge
made reference to this but I didn’t ask him how to get on the e-mail
list. As of today, I have not sent in our reservations for the reunion
but it is on my list of “to do things” for the upcoming week.
I enjoyed reading the back
issues of the “News” and especially the tribute to Johnnie Sears. Dealing
with me during my first year was probably one of the most trying years she
had. I was not happy about going to school and leaving my mother, so I
cried each and every day of my first grade year. What patience she had.
It
looks like you and your wife have got a great start in continuing the Roosevelt
News. I could relate to Carolyn’s article regarding the changes in
writing. I used to do a church newsletter where I typed the news, (I did
have an electric typewriter), had to cut a stencil and THEN print the
newsletter on a manual mimeograph machine (the kind you crank it out one copy
at a time). Wow, have times changed.
Look
forward to seeing you at the reunion.
Betty Gaidaroff Morgan
Obituaries
Mary
C. Odom Parson, 78 (Redd Conrad’s aunt)
http://pharostribune.com/obituaries/x1555803351/Mary-C-Odom-Parson
Earnest
Cozart, 89 (Former Snyder merchant)
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/sitemaker/sites/becker0/obit.cgi?user=437106Cozart
The following
obituary is for one with ties to Roosevelt who died after Wanda.
Melba
Vaught Smith, 86 (Former Roosevelt Resident and sister of Walter Vaught)
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/oklahoman/obituary.aspx?n=melba-smith&pid=148620666&fhid=4441
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99399&CScn=Hobart+Rose&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2246374&CScn=Resurrection&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99042&CScn=Mountain+Park&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98391&CScn=fairlawn&CScntry=4&CSst=38
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