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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 2, Is. 48 June
14, 2013
From the
Editor
Well
you never get too old to be shocked.
Tuesday was Democratic Primary Election Day in
Admittedly,
this was not expected to be a highly contested election, but come on people
stand up and exercise your privilege to vote.
You ask, “Well, did you vote?”
No, but for good reason. Anyone
in
My
point in this discussion is that voting is not only a privilege, but a
responsibility. We all (certainly I)
like to complain about our elected officials and in order to do that, you
should have at least taken the time to support the candidate of your choice by
voting. Who knows, your vote may be the
one the made a difference.
Above
this, the work involved in putting on an election is basically static
regardless of the turnout. The guys over
at the election office have to do exactly the same preparation and cleanup
after a small election as a large one and the cost is essentially the
same. This is such a waste of our tax
dollars when so few show up. I so admire
the work that the “guys” at the election office do. I don’t know what they make, but I know that
they are overworked and fear that they are underpaid.
Yes,
Tuesday we witnessed a prime example of “Suppose You Held an Election and
Nobody Came!”
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Content
Contributors for the Week
Gaynelle
Gray
Wayne
Rickerd, Class of 1945
Kate
(Roberts)
Gary
Wax
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
A Final Toast for the Doolittle Raiders
The following article on CNN
in April is very interesting and a real tribute to these World War II soldiers.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/14/opinion/greene-doolittle-raiders
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Frank, Sammy, Dean, and Johnny
Some of my older friend's
will enjoy this. Look how young Johnny
Carson looks! This truly is a rare clip
to enjoy as we’ll probably
never see their likes again.
This performance was filmed in June, 1965 at the Kiel Opera
House in
from the opera house that evening and the 'Rat Pack' was supposed
to be playing in
This is supposed to be the
ONLY time that Johnny Carson sang in
public. Quincy Jones was there, conducting
the Count Basie band;
he is visible in the background.
This Performance is bound to make your day!
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/embed/VPH0-g25Vl8?rel=0
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Why I Live in Tornado Alley
Since the recent terrible
tornado outbreak in our state, many of our friends and relatives from around
the country are asking us on Facebook and on the phone, “How can you live
there?” and to that I must say…
There are natural disasters
almost everywhere you might live.
Being in the path of storms
is the price we pay for living in the friendliest, most generous, kindest place
in the world. Yes, we have disasters,
but within moments there are neighbors, and friends, and strangers who become
friends lining up to help. They give
money, the clothes off their backs, and their labor. They open up their homes. They pass out food. They travel across the state to go to the aid
of hurting people.
We don’t have to have a
tornado or a building blown up by terrorists to bring out the love in our
state. When you stand in line at the
market, people chat. When you stop to
admire someone’s garden, she is likely to invite you to the back yard to see
more and you leave with some cuttings to plant in your own garden. The neighbors on your street have a block
party and everyone brings food and sits around laughing. If you are out to dinner and there are storm
warnings, you can call a neighbor who will brave the weather to go check on
your dog.
There are churches
practically on every corner here and the people who attend them live their
faith. In some places, the busiest
traffic day of the week is Sunday. There
is a church in our community that is offering free breakfast and lunch to kids
all summer long because they know many will be hungry without the free lunch
program at school. Many churches partner
with a school and weed their lawns, paint the playground equipment, fix lunches
for and give little gifts to encourage the teachers, monitor tests, donate
school supplies, and help out any way they can.
I need to see the different
cultures living together yet maintaining their own heritage. I need to hear the town names like Gotebo and Bug Tussle and Hooker and know that when I drive
through there may be a dog taking its nap on the highway because it lays there
everyday and I can darn well drive around it!
I need to know that when the school has a “pet show” in the parking lot
someone is likely to trailer in a horse for their entry.
I need to know when the
State Fair is in town and heart the stories of friends from our church who go
there to minister to the carnies, taking them blankets
and bottles of shampoo. I need to hear
the drawl of someone who asks me if I want to take the “buggy” he is finished
with at the grocery store and tell me they are “fixing” to move a “humongous”
load of hay.
We have lived here more than
thirty-five years and we raised our sons here.
They don’t remember any place else, although they were born in
I wasn’t born in
For I know the plans that I
have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give
you a future and a hope. Then you will
call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will
listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
In GOD We Trust
Michael J. Smith
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 “
Interesting
Tidbits
Satellite
Images of
This
is very interesting to see the satellite images of the area of
http://kfor.com/interactive-moore-tornado-before-and-after-images/
News
New
Sign
A new sign has been erected at the Old
Grade School Building in
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The Roosevelt Senior Citizens center is
closed for the summer. They will reopen
on Tuesday, Sept. 3 for lunch.
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 14 – Lori (Lile) Bagley
June 14 – Susan Neyers
June 14 – Wendell O’Neal, Class of 1974
June 15 – Stephanie Cain
June 17 – Katie (Lanig)
June 17 – Tommy Franks
June 17 – Sandra Hackney
Smith
June 19 – Marilyn Scott
Happy Anniversary To:
June
19 – Frank & Gayle Lyde, Class of 1959
Humor
$5.37
$5.37! That’s what the kid behind the counter at
Taco Bell said to me.
I dug into my pocket and
pulled out some lint and two dimes and something that used to be a Jolly
Rancher. Having already handed the kid a
five-spot, I started to head back out to the truck to grab some change when the
kid with the Elmo hairdo said the hardest thing anyone has ever said to
me. He said, “It’s OK. I’ll just give you the senior citizen
discount.”
I turned to see who he was
talking to and then heard the sound of change hitting the counter in front of
me. “Only $4.68,” he said cheerfully.
I stood there
stupefied. I am 56, not even 60
yet? A mere child! Senior citizen?
I took my burrito and walked
out to the truck wondering what was wrong with Elmo. Was he blind?
As I sat in the truck, my blood began to boil. Old? Me!!
I’ll show him, I
thought. I opened the door and headed
back inside. I strode to the counter,
and there he was waiting with a smile.
Before I could say a word,
he held up something and jingled it in front of me, like I could be that easily
distracted! What am I now? A toddler?
“Dude! Can’t get too
far without your car keys, eh?”
I stared with utter disdain at the keys. I began to rationalize in my mind!
“Leaving keys behind hardly
makes a man elderly! It could happen to
anyone!”
I turned and headed back to
the truck. I slipped the key into the
ignition, but it wouldn’t turn. What
now? I check my keys and tried
another. Still
nothing.
That’s when I noticed the
purple beads hanging from my rear view mirror.
I had no purple beads hanging from my rear view mirror.
Then, a few other objects
came into focus: The car seat in the back
seat. Happy Meal toys spread all over
the floorboard. A
partially eaten doughnut on the dashboard. Faster than you can say ginkbo
bitoba, I flew out of the alien vehicle.
Moments later I was speeding
out of the parking lot, relieved to finally be leaving this nightmarish stop in
my life. That is when I felt it, deep in
the bowels of my stomach, hunger! My
stomach growled and churned, and I reached to grab my burrito, only it was
nowhere to be found.
I swung the truck around,
gathered my courage, and strode back into the restaurant one final time. There Elmo stood, draped in youth and black
nail polish. All I could think was,
“What is the world coming to?”
All I could say was, “Did I leave my food and drink in here?’ At this point I was ready to ask a Boy Scout
to help me back to my vehicle, and then go straight home and apply for Social
Security benefits.
Elmo had no clue. I walked back out to the truck, and suddenly
a young lad came up and tugged on my jeans to get my attention. He was holding up a drink and a bag. His mother explained, “I think you left this
in my truck by mistake.”
I took the food and drink
from the little boy and sheepishly apologized.
She offered these kind
words, “It’s OK. My grandfather does
stuff like this all the time.”
All of this is to explain
how I got a ticket doing 85 in a 40 mph zone.
Yesss, I was racing some punk kid in a Toyota Prius. And no, I
told the officer, I’m not too old to be driving this fast.
As I walked in the front
door, my wife met me halfway down the hall.
I handed her a bag of cold food and a $300 speeding ticket. I promptly sat in my rocking chair and
covered up my legs with a blankey.
The good news was that I had
successfully found my way home.
Pass this on to the other
“seniors” on your list (so they can have fun laughing, too).
P.S. Save the earth…It’s the only planet with
chocolate!!!
Oh, did I send this to you
already? Sorry, I hope you liked it
again for the first time, like I did.
From the Email
“Bag”
June
6, 2013
Mike really enjoyed what you
wrote about Marvin Miller. Some things I
didn't know. He was a nice man for sure.
Now that's a great thing for a
Becky (Bynum) Tannery,
Class of 1965
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June
7, 2013
Another
great edition. Thank You.
Joye Johnson
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June
7, 2013
The
other man that worked for the coop was Johnny Baxter not
James
Barnes
Editor’s
note: James thanks for correcting
me. After getting your message it
occurred to me that
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June
8, 2013
Editor’s note:
Had an email from Roosevelt Mayor
Nolan says that his
understanding is that since the alumni has done the remodeling work that the
alumni has the top priority of choosing any dates that they want to use the
building over any other group or person that wanted to rent the building.
All the alumni have to do is tell the city what dates they want to use the
building. He says that it is usually not
used except to park cars under the awning during a storm.
The only issues he sees are
who gets the money for the rent (the City Council voted to charge $50 dollars
rent) and who do people contact to rent the building. He feels that since the city pays the bills
the rent should go to the city. He believes it is probably most logical
that the city should be contacted if someone wants to rent the building. He states that all rent for the senior
citizens center has gone to the city since he has been director and that has
only been a total of $250 so far this year and that does not even cover the cost
of the electricity.
He also commented that when
the alumni wanted to do more work on the building they should let the city know
so that they would not rent the building during the period they were
working. A simple phone call to the city
clerk should get the job done.
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June
12, 2013
Okay, after all the tests
have been finalized the doctors have decided Phil’s growth that did not react
to chemo and radiation is Cancer after all. Just really
stubborn. Yes, the Cancer and Phil. :)
Geary McDowell
I met with the doctor that
did my surgery last Friday. He said the
growth he removed was a Squamous Cell Carcinoma just
like the one they removed a couple of years ago but for some reason this one
was immune to radiation as well as the chemo they used but it was very much
still alive. The radiation and chemo
hadn’t done anything to it except maybe shrink it just a small amount. He said it was embedded in the parotid gland
(the one that makes saliva) and it was lying against the facial nerve that
controls all of the movement of my face on the right side. He had to be extremely careful in cutting it
out of there. He had me make all kinds
of faces just to be sure everything still worked. He cut out a big part
of the gland but couldn’t get all of the cancer. I’ve got enough gland
left to still make spit. Maybe it won’t
come back, but he said it probability will. It could be six months or two years, no one
knows. He will recommend PET scans, etc.
every six months to keep a check on it. He
said one of the main problems is the lack of options that exist to deal with
it. They don’t want to operate again if
it comes back because of my heart. I’m
probably not a candidate for Siber Knife because I’ve
already had radiation and Siber Knife is just 360
degrees of radiation attacking the growth from all directions, and the
traditional tools haven’t worked. He did
make a point of saying “it’s not a death sentence yet” so I thought that was
encouraging, especially the “YET” part (lol). Another main problem he identified is having to live with the thing not knowing when it will
come back. He said we’d just have to see
how it presents itself to know how to try and deal with it when that happens.
I’m pretty sure the reason
the Lord let this happen is so you wouldn’t take me off your prayer list. He knows I need a lot of that and for more
than just this cancer. The most likely future scenario is when it finally comes
back to get me I’ll have gotten so old they’ll be wanting to try out a bunch of
new fangled stuff that they haven’t even thought of yet.
At any rate, that is the
story. They can’t all have fairy tale
endings but this “ain’t over ‘till it’s over” - and
it ain’t over yet! Just keep those thoughts and prayers going up
folks.
If I missed anyone on the
mailing list please feel free to share. It
was not intentional.
Love ya
all, don’t get discouraged!
Phil
Food for
Thought
All in the Family
The
The sale of these properties
will fetch billions of dollars and a handsome 6% commission to the company
handling the sales. That company belongs
to a man named Richard Blum. Who is
Richard Blum you ask?
Why the husband of Senator
Dianne Feinstein, that's who. What a
bunch of crooks we have running this country!
Senator Feinstein and her
husband, Richard Blum, stand to make a fortune. His firm, C.R. I., is the sole real estate
company offering these properties for sale. Of course, C.R.I. will be making a 6%
commission on the sale of each and every one of these postal properties.
All of these properties that
are being sold are all fully paid for. They
were purchased with
Well, the Post Office is.
How does a powerful U.S.
Senator from
A powerful United States
Senator's husband is standing by, all ready to make millions from a
No one in the mainstream
media is even raising an eyebrow over his 6% commission on the sale of hundreds
of millions of dollar's worth of quasi-public assets.
True on Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/blum.asp
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Ray
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