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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 3, Is. 12 Oct.
4, 2013
From the
Editor
If you didn’t make the 2013
Roosevelt High School Reunion, first of all, shame on you and secondly let me
fill you in on what you missed. First, a
big THANK YOU goes out to President Dan Hayslip and his “extended Roosevelt Family”
for the job they did this year. I hesitate
to single out ones of that “family”--actually, they are all mostly related, but
would be VERY negligent if I didn’t mention the countless hours that I know
Carolyn Martin put into making this a success--pre-registration, organizing the
snacks for the mixer, food for the lunch, fix up, clean up, and gosh knows how
much more. I know that she also had
assistance from sisters Lou Ann Cook, Danny Lou Cole,
and niece
Putting the reunion on from
a distance, as Dan, does is quite a challenge.
Again, without his “Roosevelt Family” it would be near impossible. The turnout, in my opinion was quite
good--approximately 75 registered at the “Mixer” on Friday and 175 registered
for Saturday. Obviously, there were most
certainly ones who came that bypassed registration. There were a few comments
about not sending out registration forms.
That decision was “all about money.”
Mailings are very expensive and a large portion of those mailed are
returned because of “out-of-date addresses resulting in a total waste on those
misaddressed mailings. Secondly, the
reunion is ALWAYS every 2 years, the last weekend in September. Write it down. Attendees were asked for updated addresses,
emails, and phone numbers. Still yet,
some only wrote down their name. If you
are in question if we have a correct email and/or phone number for you, please
send them to me at mmay@234enterprises.com
or call me at 703-850-5234. Emails and
phone calls are without question the economical way to make contact.
There are always a few good
stories that come out of each reunion. I
think one of the best this year was the one about the Alford brothers making
their way down to Roosevelt from the Hannah House in
I hope that we can raise the
auction to a whole new level next time--more and better items with more Alumni
entering into the bidding. It is an
excellent fund raiser and made almost a $1,000 of clear profit. I think I would be remiss to not mention one
of our alumni who not only contributed a very nice item for the auction, but is
always extremely generous in the many, many items he buys. I don’t personally know Johnnie
Hebensperger’s wife, but do know that she is a very nice person since she lets
Johnnie bring home all the “wares” that he purchases. I consider Johnnie one of “the last of the
big spenders.” Who else would bid on and
purchase 2 dozen cookies for $7.00 and then when Brad Davis found another dozen
of the same cookies--spent $9.00 for the last dozen? Additionally, I do think we owe Brad Davis a
big “Thank You” for his auctioneering.
Who else do you know that could effortlessly entice some of us to
willingly raise our own bid. Nice job Brad! With your “technique” you most certainly had
to make a few extra bucks for the Alumni.
I hope that each of you in
attendance were able to connect with old friends that you had not seen in quite
some time. I know that I was. I saw at lease 5 friends that I hadn’t seen
since High School. See you there again
on the last weekend in September, 2015!
mlm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Charles
Curtis, Class of 1965
Geary
McDowell
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
Editor’s
Note: I am again challenging each of you to think
back on fond memories of
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Old Guy and A Bucket Of
Shrimp
This is a true story. Hope you appreciate it and want to pass
it along.
It happened every Friday
evening, almost without fail, when the sun resembled a giant orange and was
starting to dip into the blue ocean.
Old Ed came strolling along
the beach to his favorite pier. Clutched
in his bony hand was a bucket of shrimp.
Ed walks out to the end of the pier, where it seems he almost has the
world to himself. The glow of the sun is
a golden bronze now.
Everybody's gone, except for
a few joggers on the beach. Standing out
on the end of the pier, Ed is alone with his thoughts...and his bucket of
shrimp.
Before long, however, he is
no longer alone. Up in the sky a
thousand white dots come screeching and squawking, winging their way toward
that lanky frame standing there on the end of the pier.
Before long, dozens of seagulls
have enveloped him, their wings fluttering and flapping wildly. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry
birds. As he does, if you listen
closely, you can hear him say with a smile, 'Thank you. Thank you.'
In a few short minutes the
bucket is empty. But Ed doesn't
leave.
He stands there lost in
thought, as though transported to another time and place.
When he finally turns around
and begins to walk back toward the beach, a few of the birds hop along the pier
with him until he gets to the stairs, and then they, too, fly away. And old Ed quietly makes his way down to the
end of the beach and on home.
If you were sitting there on
the pier with your fishing line in the water, Ed might seem like 'a funny old
duck,' as my dad used to say. Or, 'a guy who's a sandwich shy of a picnic,' as my kids might say. To onlookers, he's just another old codger,
lost in his own weird world, feeding the seagulls with a bucket full of
shrimp.
To the onlooker, rituals can
look either very strange or very empty.
They can seem altogether unimportant ....may be even a lot of
nonsense.
Old folks often do strange
things, at least in the eyes of Boomers and Busters.
Most of them would probably
write Old Ed off, down there in
His full name:
Eddie Rickenbacker. He was a famous hero
back in World War II. On one of his
flying missions across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. Miraculously, all of the men survived,
crawled out of their plane, and climbed into a life raft.
Captain Rickenbacker and his
crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. They fought the sun. They fought sharks. Most of all, they fought hunger. By the eighth day their rations ran out. No food.
No water. They were hundreds of
miles from land and no one knew where they were.
They needed a miracle. That afternoon they had a simple devotional
service and prayed for a miracle. They
tried to nap. Eddie leaned back and
pulled his military cap over his nose.
Time dragged. All he could hear
was the slap of the waves against the raft.
Suddenly, Eddie felt
something land on the top of his cap. It
was a seagull!
Old Ed would later describe
how he sat perfectly still, planning his next move. With a flash of his hand and a squawk from
the gull, he managed to grab it and wring its neck. He tore the feathers off, and he and his
starving crew made a meal - a very slight meal for eight men - of it. Then they used the intestines for bait. With it, they caught fish, which gave them
food and more bait.......and the cycle continued. With that simple survival technique, they
were able to endure the rigors of the sea until they were found and rescued
(after 24 days at sea).
Eddie Rickenbacker lived
many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first
life-saving seagull. And he never
stopped saying, 'Thank you.' That's why
almost every Friday night he would walk to the end of the pier with a bucket
full of shrimp and a heart full of gratitude.
Reference:
(Max Lucado, "In The
Eye of the Storm",pp..221, 225-226)
PS: Eddie started Eastern
Airlines. Before WW1 he was race car
driver. In WW1 he was a pilot and
The Roosevelt School Reunion
was a great success. Approximately 75
came to the mixer on Friday night, Sept. 27.
A lot of good visiting and light refreshments were enjoyed by all who
came.
Alumni began arriving shortly
after 8 a.m. on Saturday morning and continued to come in throughout the
day. Over 175 attended on Saturday. Everyone enjoyed visiting with friends from
earlier days. In some cases friends met
up again for the first time since leaving high school. A tasty lunch was available at noon. Klein’s BBQ served the evening meal.
The business meeting was
held after lunch. Dan Hayslip and Pam
(Stroud) Jackson were elected co-presidents for the next term. After the business meeting, a fund raising
auction was held. Everyone had a good time bidding against each other for that “prized”
item to take home. The auction raised
just under $1000 which will help cover the expenses of the reunion
The evening entertainment
was provided by Ricky Rodrigues, a singer from
The attendees from Friday
night and Saturday are listed below:
Class of 1943: Gerry (Chance) Ankney,
Class of 1945:
Wanda Adkins, Midge (Cooper)
Stillson, Joyce Hensen
Class of 1946: Mable (Block) Blackwood, Wanda
(Tufford)
Class of 1948:
Class of 1949: Norine (Goodin) Jackson &
Willie, Bob Sheets & Anita,
Class of 1951:
Betty (Block) Broadus,
Class of 1952: Nelson Davis
Class of 1953:
Tom Alford, L. D. Sheets,
Oweeda Sheets, Phyllis (Cook)
Stockton & Randall, Evelyn (Lanterman) Walters & Paula Taylor
Class of 1954: Wilma (Phillips) Blevins, Judy
(Johnson)
Class of 1955: Beverly (Gray) Franks & Don
Taylor, Elbert McNutt, Kenneth Scott & LaVern
Class of 1956: Buck Cook, Frank Meier & Jo,
Charles Pollard, Don Riggs & Dale, Marge (Rickerd) Salhus, Donna Williams
Class of 1957: Correnna (Underwood) Allen,
Darrel Cooper & Dovie, Walter Farrar, Jim Law & Alice, Nancy (Davis)
McNutt, Albert Perkins, Curtis Scott
Class of 1958: Lou Ann (Hester) Cook, Merle
(Pollard) Jones,
Class of 1959: Jerry Alford, Amelia (Graves)
Ausmus & Valorie, Betty (Armstrong) Barnes & James, Mike Berridge,
Jackie D. Davis, Yvette (Nash) Stills Davis, Lee Griffee, Gene Janes, Gayle
Lyde & Frank, Betty (Gaidaroff) Morgan &
Class of 1960: Joel Cook, Jimmie Johnson &
Carolyn, Henry Graves, Ray Hackney, Martin Mahoney, Jerri (Edmondson) Menz, Joe
Nash
Class of 1961: Deanna (Miller) Cook, Gaylon
Hayslip
Class of 1962: Joe Mac Ankney, Austilene (Turner)
Borum, Ronnie Collmer, Freddie Johnson & Joan, Sam McNeill & Doug, Mary
Ann Stoup
Class of 1963: Johnny Alord, Karen Denton &
Tommy, Stanna (Brewer) Lee, Sandra (Pitts) Phillips, Ted Schrader & Sharon
& Alice Legare-Martinek
Class of 1964: Jerry Hayslip, Thomas
Hebensperger, Bonnie (Pollard) Phillips & John, Larry Phillips, Carl Turner
& Gail
Class of 1965: Michael May & Carolyn, Bobby
Miller
Class of 1966: Malynda (Ankney) Adams, Ralph
Goodin, Andy Goodson, Craig Goodson,
Class of 1967: Samatha Beeson, Billie Boren
Class of 1969: Glenda (
Class of 1971: Glen Brazil, Phil Collmer, John
Hebensperger & Allene, Lou (
Class of 1972: Brenda (Howard) Haynie, Jennie (
Class of 1973: Shirley (Collmer) Funkhouser
& Stan, Phillip R. Liles
Class of 1974: Brad Davis
Class of 1975: David Jackson
Class of 1977: Gayla (Cook) Miller, Emma
(Alonzo) Shandor, Johnny Starcher
Class of 1979: Esther (Alonzo) Ervin, Pam
(Stroud) Jackson, Sabrina (Stoup) Vincent
Class of 1981: Donnie Peterson
Class of 1985: Mitch Mahoney, Robert Wiser
Class of 1988: Michael Chard
Class of 1991: Glenda (
Class of 1992: Karey Phillips
Teachers: J. R. Howard & Joann
Others: Danny Lou Cole, Dobber Cook, Carolyn Martin,
Brenda Wilhite, Mark & LaDonna Turner, Cliff & Lisa Pool, Robert
Stucks, Heather Tute, Dallas Lamb, Devine Cook, Patty Burroughs
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
The “
Interesting
Tidbits
Ford’s B-24 Bomber Plant
This was BEFORE
Henry Ford was determined that he could mass produce bombers just as he had
done with cars. He built the Willow Run
assembly plant and proved it. It
was the world's largest building under one roof.
Even then FORD HAD A BETTER IDEA!
This film will absolutely blow
you away - one B-24 every 55 minutes.
ADOLF HITLER HAD NO IDEA THE
OF THIS KIND OF THING.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNKlpOlfNT0
News
The
Roosevelt Senior Citizens has reopened from the summer break. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00
p.m. Lunch for Seniors
is $4 and for the younger generation is $5.
The
menu for next week is as follows:
Tuesday,
October 8: Hamburger Steak, Mashed
Potatoes/Gravy, Sweet Peas, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
October 10: Potato Bar,
Chili/Broccoli/Ham/Cheese, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
********
The Kiowa County Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m.,
Tuesday, October 8 in the Jake Slaner Room at the Jane Phelan Library in
********
Fall Festival
The Southern Kiowa Chamber
will sponsor its 4th Annual Fall Festival on Saturday, October 12 from
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in downtown Snyder.
The Festival will include a car show and cruise, outhouse races, live
music, carnival and kids events, vendors booths with
foods, craft, jewelry, etc., and the General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute
Traveling Road Show. The car show
registration will be between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. with judging from 11 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. and awards will be made at 3 p.m.
A cruise will follow at 4 p.m.
The outhouse registration begins at 11 a.m. at the main stage south of
Becker Funeral Home. Preliminary
outhouse races begin at 11:45 and the final race will be at 3:30. Live music will be on the main stage
throughout the day. Carnival rides will
be located south of the Bank of the
Vendor booths will be
located along
********
Yes, the
time for the Roosevelt Haunted House is just around the corner. Begin planning now to have an evening of fun
there. The Haunted House will be at a
new location this year, the Kimray place northeast of
********
The Kiowa
County Historical Society is pleased to announce the first annual Kiowa County
Historical Essay Competition. This
contest is intended to encourage High School students in
There will
be First, Second,
First
through
The rules
are as follows:
1.
Essays
must be no less than two single-spaced machine-written pages. No maximum length is specified.
2.
The
font shall be Times New Roman, the size of the font
shall be eleven. There shall be a
one-inch margin top and bottom and on both sides.
3.
Quotes
and passages from other published works are allowed, but must be correctly
attributed, set off in italic, and properly footnoted.
4.
Plagiarism
will cause rejection of the submission.
All essays will be subject to checking through accredited sites that
identify incidences of plagiarism.
5.
Essays
must be the original work of the student.
Submissions of original drafts may be submitted to others for comment,
but any major changes made by those others will not be allowed. In case of suspicion, the student may be
subjected to questions by the judges.
6.
Spelling
errors in the age of Spell Check are inconceivable. However, the student should edit the document
before submission to ensure the wrong word (i.e. for-four) which spell check
will not catch, should be corrected before submission.
The judging
criteria are as follows:
1.
Originality
- All things being equal, choosing a subject that has not been extensively
explored by other writers will be given extra consideration.
2.
Composition
- The essay should flow properly, tell the story in a
coherent manner, and without the addition of “filler” included to meet minimum
page count.
3.
Grammar
- Properly composed sentences and paragraphs.
4.
Punctuation.
5.
Historical
accuracy.
SUGGESTIONS:
1.
People
- Some current and former
2.
Events
- An event can be life-changing or as simple as the memory of a particular
picnic or town fair. Attempt to pick an
event that has not been covered extensively by other writers.
3.
Places
- An example would be the numerous schools which have closed down in
4.
Historical
Trends -
There are
many resources available to students when researching their chosen
subject. The
Submissions
will be forwarded to the Kiowa County Historical Society no later than October
21, 2013. Electronic submissions are
encouraged.
E-mail:
kiowacomuseum@cableone.net
Regular
mail:
Celecia
Stoup
(580)
726-6202
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:
October 6 – Elizabeth (Boydston)
Miller, Class of 1969
October 6 – Bonnie (Smith)
Pickett
October 7 –
October 7 – Donnie Cain
October 7 – Pam Morris
October 9 – Lisa (Wiser)
Lanini, Class of 1990
October 10 – Beverly Lile, Class of 1975
October 10 – Alexa Ellis
October 10 – Katie Thurmond
October 10 – Joyce Clark Henson, Class of 1945
Happy
Anniversary To:
October 8 – Brian and Leah (Bynum)
Bobrovicz, Class of 1967
Humor
Getting Old
A sweet old lady is asked to say Grace at a gathering of "Seniors at Home" caregivers, and she brought down the house about 90 seconds into her prayer. Enjoy!
Food for
Thought
Leave it to Maxine
Leave it to Maxine to come
up with a solution for the mess that
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my
back porch and filled it with seed. What
a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking
advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the
table, and next to the barbecue.
Then came the poop.
It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the
table--everywhere!
Then some of the birds turned mean. They
would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own
pocket.
And others birds were boisterous and loud.
They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day
and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.
After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. So I took down the bird feeder and in three
days the birds were gone. I cleaned up
their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.
Soon, the back yard was like it used to be--quiet, serene, and no one demanding
their
rights to a free meal.
Now let's see. Our government gives out
free food, subsidized housing, free medical care and free education, and allows
anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.
Then the illegal's came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for
free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6
hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child's second grade class
is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.
Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'press one ' to hear my bank
talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than 'Old Glory' are
squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free
liberties.
Just my opinion, but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird
feeder.
If you agree, pass it on; if not, just continue cleaning up the poop.
Obituaries
Nadine
(Meekins) Blocker, 88,
http://www.caruth-hale.com/sitemaker/sites/CARUTH1/obit.cgi?user=1098781Blocker
Pauline
(King) Myers, 72, Hobart, Class of 1958
http://rayandmarthas.com/CurrentObituary.aspx?did=e95e9ae9-bbd2-4b17-9774-bec9789cf013
Cecil
Perkins, 77, Weatherford OK, Class of 1954
http://lockstonefuneralhome.com/obituarydetails.aspx?did=13094bf7-2ff4-48af-8e35-5fa6a939190e
Gigi
(Joyce) Smith, 61,
Bobby
Joe Stevenson, 61,
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=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=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99439
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