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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May
Vol. 2, Is. 46 May
31, 2013
From the
Editor
Last Thursday night upon
hearing from two different friends in
You see, although I have not
lived in the
Little did I know at the
time that there was a much stronger relationship between Johnny and our family. You see, Johnny was one of my Mother’s (Gayle
(Carpenter) May) First Graders when she taught at
The last time that I took
Mother to the Roosevelt High School Reunion prior to the time she passed away
in 2001, Johnny again, walked up, put his arm around her and again asked, if he
could sit his 300 pound plus frame on her lap (No, I didn’t have a scale and am
guessing what he weighed at the time—if I’m heavy, I do apologize). By then, my Mother’s Parkinson’s Disease had
left her without the ability to speak, so she just giggled that little giggle
that so many may remember.
At the last Roosevelt High
School Reunion, I saw Carolyn over visiting with Johnny and Paula. She motioned me over to show me an extremely
generous donation that Johnny had given her to help defray some of our costs
associated with the putting out the “Roosevelt News – East Coast Edition” each
week. I tried to give it back to Johnny
and tell him that such a large amount was not necessary and he shoved it back
insisting that I take it. Following his
gesture, he said, “Mike that’s for your Mother and how kind she was to
me.” He most certainly touched my heart
with that comment.
I know that throughout the
years he and my Mother continued to share that bond that had begun a few years
before I was born. I trust that already
he and Mom have run into each other and if so, I can assure you that he has
again asked if he can sit on her lap. In
fact, if they’ve met up, I’m sure that not only has he asked, but she has
obliged. Johnny thank you for loving my
Mother and giving her a laugh so many times throughout the years with that
repeating question. Now when I can’t,
please give her a hug for me and tell her how much I miss her and bemoan the
fact that she wasn’t able to live long enough to see her Great
Grandbabies. Tell her that they’re
beautiful and one of the two little girls looks a lot like her. Please RIP Johnny Max Block and God be with
Paula and their children and grandchildren as they face the coming years
without Johnny.
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Content
Contributors for the Week
Gaynelle
Gray
Dan
Hayslip, Class of 1962
Kate
(Roberts)
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank you all!
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Putting Up the Flag
Watch and listen to this and
be thankful we can do just what he says.
Too many Americans take this privilege for granted.
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The Protective Mother
This just proves that a
mother will protect her young regardless of the size of the attacker. Amazing that something as small as a squirrel
could fight off the larger dog.
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.
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
The “
Hello Alumni:
With the summer months upon
us, I wanted to send out this reminder that the 2013 Roosevelt Alumni Reunion
is just around the corner. You should
have Friday, September 27th & Saturday, the 28th marked on your calendars
as the weekend chosen by the alumni at the last reunion to hold this year’s. I hope you are ready for a weekend full of
fun visiting with old friends and classmates.
The Alumni Committee is
currently planning the activities for the weekend so watch for additional
information around mid-summer. As you
may be aware, there have been questions concerning the alumni association’s use
of the grade school as the location for future reunions. I want to assure everyone that the 2013
Reunion will be held at your home town of
I would like to ask everyone
who receives this notice via email to help get the word out to all our
classmates and friends who do not have an email address. Please contact all your friends via
telephone, Facebook, twitter etc. Also,
I would like to encourage everyone to go to www.classreports.org and register as
alumni of
Finally, regarding the
reunion, if you have any suggestions or events you would like considered,
please contact any member of the committee as soon as possible or send an email
to danhayslip@sbcglobal.net. You
can also post your suggestion at classreports.org.
Looking forward to seeing
you all soon and I am excited about getting our own website up and
running. If someone has old class
pictures they would like to scan in and send to me, I will get them uploaded to
the website. Hope this will be the best
reunion yet.
Dan Hayslip
214-796-3131
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All alumni from
This Class-Based Reunion Website features dynamic
changing content daily. Stop in to view current Class News. Exchange opinions and stay up to date with the
Message Board. View the Featured Alumni Biography of the day. Send a birthday greeting to a class member
listed in the Upcoming Birthdays panel. Reunion Announcements, Book and Movie
Reviews, Favorite Recipes and Featured Links will keep one checking in
regularly to see what's new.
Class of 1962 member Dan Hayslip has volunteered to
serve as Class Administrator for this all alumni database. Dan would like to invite all Alumni to stop in
and fill out a profile so they can be reached regarding the next Class Reunion. Once you see everything that you can do at
this website, I’m sure each individual class will want to establish their own
for the year they graduate. All that is
needed is one person to volunteer as Class Administrator.
This Class-Based Reunion Website is hosted by
Classreport.org. For a refreshing change
from the large commercial alumni directories, Classreport.org provides non-commercial
class reunion websites for every graduating class of every high school, and
extends full access to all class members without regard to financial ability. Classreport.org has no advertising, no
pop-ups, no spam, and no registrations fees. Classreport.org pledges to never sell names
and addresses to third parties and to let the website be administered
exclusively by Roosevelt High School Alumni. Other alumni classes from
INSTRUCTIONS TO REGISTER AT WWW.CLASSREPORTS.ORG
1. Go to www.classreports.org
2. Right click on
3. Right click on “CLICK HERE TO REGISTER”
4. Right click on the first letter of your last
name at the time of graduation.
5. Right click on “CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME”
6. You must input an email address in order to
register but you may click “NO” to not have that address displayed to
others. If you do not have an email
address, you can go to yahoo.com or any other email server and create one for free. Be sure and remember it and the password you
create as you will need that to login in the future by just going to your 2009
class page.
7. Once you have everything input, click on
register and then on “EDIT MY PROFILE”.
This should take you to where you can input all your contact
information, a picture, slide show, website, anything you like. Many people include their high school picture
and some also add a recent picture also.
Classreports always defaults to No, in response to allowing your address
or email to be viewed by others so be sure and check yes if you want that
information available to others. Your
phone number will never be available to anyone but the class administrator.
8. Be sure and page down and include your birth
date and information on spouse and children.
Please be sure and include a short bio as it serves to make the website
much more interesting.
9. Once your profile is input, click on submit
data and you can go to the class page to view all the information on the reunion
as it is updated.
Interesting
Tidbits
Editor’s Note:
We received the following from Geary McDowell. Good reading and we all should take his
advice.
Reading Carolyn’s comments
about the
That got me to thinking, as
I was still recouping from the two day outbreak. I used to be back to normal in a day after an
all-nighter or several hours of monitoring or chasing storms; it takes a little
longer now in my old age. I had spent
over 13 hours on Sunday and over 12 on Monday.
As you know, others probably do not; I have been involved in some way with
severe weather studies or experiences since growing up in
I remember coming home from
teaching on May 3, 1999, and it seemed like forever while watching the most
massive tornado I have ever seen on video or in person, and I have seen
hundreds in person. I finally became a
HAM in 2006 due to my interest in severe weather. Then on May 4, 2007, watching video of
I do not fear tornadoes or
severe storms, but I do have great respect for them. I preach preparedness all the time, no matter
the time of year as you have often read on my Facebook wall. Yet, no matter how much destruction one has
seen with their eyeballs on it or by video, you never get use to what a major
storm can do in such a short time.
Hurricanes we can see coming for days or weeks. A tornado, it CAN be on you in an
instant. We have a good idea now where
they will occur (within reason) and about when, but that is still not an exact
science. Warning times have increased
greatly. But people must listen. The people of
We learn from each storm we
experience. I have seen larger than
softball, about small cantaloupe hail twice, been in the storm that dropped
it. Wished I had had a camera! I was just thankful to survive it! I have seen in person hundreds of tornadoes
on the
Sorry for getting carried
away ol’ friend, but you know my passion for severe weather and keeping people
safe while we learn from each storm.
Even with the massive destruction, it is wonderful to see people
prepared and taking action to survive such a major storm.
Geary
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Walking the
Path of the Tornado
The
link below is to an article on CNN written by CNN reporter, John D.
Sutter. It is rather long but he gives a
very interesting and thought provoking “take” on the tornado and the impact of
its aftermath. It is well worth the time
it takes to read.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/05/us/sutter-walk-oklahoma/
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Cicadas
I
just had to add a follow up to the article I did last week on the 17 year
Cicadas. Those Cicadas are even more
prevalent this week. Each morning we
wake up to the “noise” of the mating song of the male Cicadas and each morning
it is louder than the day before. They
have been everywhere this week. Each day
Mike dumps many out of the skimmers of the swimming pool. Our six-year-old granddaughter, Paige, and
her friends delighted in catching them over the Memorial Day weekend. She had containers to put them in. Amazing all the little girls were enthralled
with this activity while the boys shied away.
The Cicadas have been out about 2 weeks and they say they will be around
6 to 8 weeks so guess we have several more weeks to go.
News
The Roosevelt Senior Citizens closed
for the summer after serving the meal on Thursday, May 30. They will reopen on Tuesday, September 3.
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:
June 5 – Tyler Mahoney
Happy Anniversary To:
June 2 – Bill & Jean Ann
(Schrader) Lyde, Class of 1962
Humor
Is it my time yet?
A 54 year old woman had a
heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table
she had a near death experience.
Seeing God she
asked, "Is my time up?"
God said, "No, you
have another 43 years, 2 months and 8 days to live."
Upon recovery, the woman
decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift, liposuction, breast
implants and a tummy tuck.
She even had someone come in
and change her hair color and brighten her teeth! Since she had so much
more time to live, she figured she might as well make the most of it.
After her last operation,
she was released from the hospital. While crossing the street on her
way home, she was killed by an ambulance.
Arriving in front of God,
she demanded, "I thought you said I had another 43 years? Why
didn't you pull me from out of the path of the ambulance?"
God replied: "I
didn't recognize you."
Food for
Thought
Voting without
Even though this video is
almost a year old, the same thing continues to go on. Everyone should listen to what Rand Paul has
to say. However, it makes too much sense
for Washington politics.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/svGDZOW-brA?rel=0
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Michigan Congressman’s Evaluation of Obamacare
This should be a must
“listen” for every American. If you
aren’t concerned about Obamacare, you should be after listening to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=G44NCvNDLfc
Obituaries
Johnny
Block, 73, Class of 1957
http://www.rayandmarthas.com/CurrentObituary.aspx?did=a1c41f8a-001e-4152-a5c4-63bbc4bc55c0
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Peoples
Cooperative Funeral
http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/who-we-are/history
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=2176228
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?=cr&CRid=99577&CScn=Springhill+Cemetery&CScntry=4&CSst=38&
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98525
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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=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99439
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