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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May
Vol. 2, Is. 2 July
27, 2012
From the
Editor
With much trepidation I
start this editorial addressing a very recent event which is the culmination of
several that weigh heavy on my heart and leads me to express my deepest concern
for one wonderful
Nothing tugs at my heart
strings more than seeing a parent go through the pain of losing a child. A loss of such magnitude is so hard for one
to comprehend that hasn’t experienced the event themselves. Most recently, I think of our dear friend
When my Dad passed away in
1991, my cousin Earl May’s wife Mary brought my Aunt
Annie May down from
Now let me address our good
friend Cotton. Cotton and Olin lost
their son, Nickey Don, 6 days short of his 30th birthday in 1980. She then lost Olin in 1993. On August 31, 2002, she married James W.
Mathis and started to rebuild her life.
Marrying James was most certainly a positive move and certainly added meaning
to their senior years. Then tragically,
less than a year ago they found her daughter, Tanda, deceased in her home. Just last month she lost her sister Vera
(Muse) Miller and this week she lost her dear James. Oh, how sad.
My good friend Steve Cyrier, who I discussed in this editorial last
week, has a phrase he uses to a great extent--“It’s all wrong.” Well this series of events is simply “all
wrong.” Such a similar scenario as my
Aunt Annie May faced--one that only the really strong can endure. Cotton is strong and she will continue
on. She comes from “good stock.” Her Dad and Mother were two of my Dad’s
favorites. Cotton, please know that you
are in our prayers and that God will be with you in this time of grief and in
the weeks and months to come.
mlm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Malynda
(Ankney)
Austilene
(Turner) Borum, Class of 1962
Roxie
(Cooper) Collins, Class of 1956
Charles
Curtis, Class of 1965
Gary
Wax
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
God’s Wife
Leo Buscaglia was a speech-language pathologist in
Author and lecturer Leo
Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the
most caring child.
The five winners were:
A
four-year-old child, whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman, who had
recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the
little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just
sat there.
When his mother asked him
what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy just said, “Nothing, I just
helped him cry.”
****
Teacher Debbie Moon’s first
graders were discussing a picture of a family.
One little boy in the picture had a different hair color than the other
members of the family.
One of her students
suggested that he was adopted.
A little girl said, “I know
all about adoption; I was adopted.”
“What does it mean to be
adopted?” asked another child.
“It means,” said the girl,
“that you grew in your mommy’s heart instead of her tummy!”
****
On my way home one day, I
stopped to watch a Little League baseball game that was being played in a park
near my home. As I sat down behind the
bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was.
“We’re behind 14 to
nothing,” he answered with a smile.
“Really,” I said. “I have to say you don’t look very
discouraged.”
“Discouraged?” the boy asked
with a puzzled look on his face. “Why
should we be discouraged? We haven’t
been up to bat yet.”
****
Whenever I’m disappointed
with my spot in life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott. Jamie was trying out for a part in the school
play. His mother told me that he’d set his
heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen.
On the day the parts were
awarded, I went with her to collect him after school.
Jamie rushed up to her, eyes
shining with pride and excitement.
“Guess what, Mom,” he shouted, and then said those words that will
remain a lesson to me. “I’ve been chosen
to clap and cheer.”
****
An eye witness account from
A little boy, about 10 years
old, was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering
through the window, and shivering with cold.
A lady approached the young
boy and said, “My, but you’re in such deep thought staring in that window!”
“I was asking God to give me
a pair of shoes,” was the boy’s reply.
The lady took him by the
hand, went into the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of
socks for the boy. She then asked if he
could give her a basin of water and a towel.
He quickly brought them to her.
She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing
her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with the towel.
By this time, the clerk had
returned with the socks. Placing a pair
upon the boy’s feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes. She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and
gave them to him. She patted him on the
head and said, “No doubt, you will be more comfortable now.”
As she turned to go, the
astonished kid caught her by the hand, and looking up
into her face, with tears in his eyes, asked her:
“Are you God’s wife?”
Hope this put a smile on
your face. Sure did mine!
********
Return to Makin Island (
If you haven’t seen this, be
sure you are sitting down and have Kleenex at hand. This is one of those gestures for which there
are few words.
Turn on the sound, run in full screen (left click the little box at the
lower right of the You Tube screen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=C6f_FvZpm3g
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that Wanda
Jackson had set up at the photo sharing website, picturetrail.com for the
Roosevelt Alumni: http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni. She had posted many pictures from past
reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about
them. We thought you might find these
interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.
Interesting
Tidbits
Experiencing a Phenomenon
Click on the link below,
enlarge to full screen, and scroll down to view the pictures and read the
descriptions. A very
interesting experience that one would never think of happening.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/new-pacific-island.shtml
********
How the West Really Looked
These are truly amazing
photos of the west in the 19th century. Look at the last photo in the series of
News
Hot Weather
and Fires
So
much of the country is suffering from a devastating drought and southwest
Across
much of the country the farmers are suffering from drought so that there is
going to be a limited corn and soybean crop.
All of this means that not only will the farmers suffer but those of us
not relying on farming for our living will also feel the effects because food
prices will certainly increase because of the limited supplies.
I
guess you just don’t ever take the farmer out of the farm girl as I think of
and pray for the farmers everywhere each day.
Let each of us remember these farmers in our prayers. cnm
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:
July 28 – Chris Pena
July 28 – LaDonna Turner
July 28 – Laverne Ford
July 28 – Gilbert Alonzo
July 30 – Chase Brannon Jackson
July 30 – Samantha Reeves
July 31 – Polly (Swanson) Bredy
July 31 – Stacey (Miller) Bartel
July 31 – Betty L. (Mrs. Allen)
August 1 – Leah (Bynum) Bobrovicz, Class of 1967
August 1 – Jill (Bynum)
Smith, Class of 1973
August 1 – Chanan Davis
August 2 – Stanna (Brewer)
Lee, Class of 1963
Happy
Anniversary To:
July 28 – Will &
Christel Funkhouser
July 28 – Bruce & Dianne (
Humor
New Lyrics
Some of the artists of the
60’s are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby
boomers. 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 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
Liver
The Commodores---
Once, Twice, Three Times to
the Bathroom
Marvin Gaye---
Heard It Through
the Grape Nuts
Procol Harem---
A Whiter Shade of Hair
Leo Sayer---
You Make Me Feel Like
Napping
The Temptations---
Papa’s Got
a Kidney Stone
Abba---
Denture Queen
Tony Orlando---
Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You 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
From the Email
“Bag”
July
25, 2012
Mike and Carolyn,
First, let me personally
thank you for keeping the Roosevelt News going. I love my sister but she
fails to get the news to us on a regular basis. We love
Barbara (Miller) Pederson,
Class of 1966
********
July
25, 2012
Thanks, Mike, you are doing
a great service of connecting people who have lost touch--very important.
Your "news"
continues to improve as you add new features--the videos are so interesting.
Peace,
Jim Harvey
(Editor’s
Note: We are happy to connect anyone who
wishes to connect with someone else. We
do not share email addresses or mail addresses unless someone requests that we
send them to someone else.)
Political
Fodder
Father to Daughter Talk
This accurately, gently but
perfectly, explains the difference in thinking between people with opposite
outlooks. Very simple so that ANYONE can
understand.
A young woman was about to
finish her first year of college. Like
so many others her age, she considered herself to be very liberal, and among
other liberal ideals, she was very much in favor of higher taxes to support
more government programs, in other words; redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that
her father was a rather staunch conservative, a feeling she openly
expressed. Based on the lectures that
she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt
that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he
thought should be his.
One day she was challenging
her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more
government programs. The self-professed
objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be truth and she indicated so
to her father. He responded by asking
how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered
rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to
maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was
constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other
people she knew. She didn’t even have
time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many college friends because she
spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then
asked, “How is your friend Audrey doing?”
She replied, “Audrey is
barely getting by. All she takes are
easy classes, she never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her
is a blast. She’s always invited to all
the parties and lots of times she doesn’t even show up for classes because
she’s too hung over.”
Her wise father asked his
daughter, “Why don’t you go to the Dean’s office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off
your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and
certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.”
The daughter, visibly
shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily fired back, “That’s a crazy idea;
how would that be fair! I’ve worked
really hard for my grades! I’ve invested
a lot of time and a lot of hard work!
Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!”
The father slowly smiled,
winked and said gently, “Welcome to the
conservative side of the fence.”
If you ever wondered what
side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If a conservative doesn’t
like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a
liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a
vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat. If a
liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative is
down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal, wonders who is going to take care
of him.
If a conservative doesn’t
like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a conservative is a
non-believer, he doesn’t go to church. A
liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced.
If a conservative decides he
needs health care, he goes about shopping for it or may choose a job that
provides it. A liberal demands that the
rest of us pay for his.
If a conservative reads
this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh. A liberal will delete it because he’s
offended.
********
Why Mitt is Unlikable
A lot is being said in the
media about Mitt Romney not be “likable” or that he doesn’t “relate well” to
people. Frankly, we struggled to
understand why. So after much research,
we have come up with a Top Ten List to explain this “unlikability.”
Top Ten Reasons to Dislike
Mitt Romney:
My goodness, it’s a strange
world, isn’t it?
Obituaries
James
Mathis, 83,
http://www.rayandmarthas.com/CurrentObituary.aspx?did=b763a4ca-54b1-4431-9719-6f9f117dd3bb
http://www.legacy.com/funerals/greenwood-fortworth/obituary.aspx?n=del-alan-franks&pid=158749743
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