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 Carolyn Niebruegge May                      Michael L. May

Vol. 3, Is. 28                                                                                      Jan. 24, 2014

 

 

From the Editor

 

Monday morning renovations are off to a slow and sudden stop.  We’re having 5+ inches of snow forecast for tomorrow and the contractor has an addition that’s not completely under roof--not a good thing with the potential of snow coming.  The contractor and one worker came in at 8:00 a.m. and did light sanding in the bathroom and put on another coat of mud, then headed to help the other 3 crew members to get the addition under roof prior to the snow.  We are sorry that they had to cut our day short, but totally understand and would be very upset if we were in the position of the other homeowners and they were working inside at someone else’s house while ours was getting wet inside.  He told us this morning that he was going to ask the painter that we’re getting to do our bedroom and office to come paint the bath on Friday.  We’re not too disappointed over that as it will give us a chance to see his work before finalizing the bedroom and office contract.  I’m sure he’s good or Jim would not recommend him, so I have no concerns. 

 

I was surprised at 7:05 am this morning (Monday) with the doorbell ringing.  When I went to the door I found a tractor trailer backed into the driveway with our cabinets for all three baths.  The materials are certainly starting to fill the garage up.  I think that since Jim is hiring a painter that he’s going to start on some of the tile in the shower tomorrow--probably around the entrance so he can have the glass people come to measure for the glass panel and door.  I doubt that we will be ready for the counter top people to come in to measure for the counter tops until the first part of next week.  I’m just totally at a loss for how fast the rest of this will come together.  Only time will tell.

 

The scheduling changes have me at a loss knowing where to turn today and what to do with the free time that I didn’t know I would have.  We have 2 vans in the shop that we’ll have to pick up at the end of the day and return to service.  It seems that there’s always “something else” to do and usually these things happen at the end of the day causing a longer work day than we would like.

 

I guess we’ll use the free time to “breathe a little” and refocus for the remainder of the week. 

 

mlm

 

 

 

Content Contributors for the Week

 

Linda (Phillips) Goodson, Class of 1966

Geary McDowell

 

All those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”

 

Thank you all!

 

 

 

Remembering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thoughts from the Squirrel Lair

 

Angelic Performance

 

No Need to Say Good-Bye by the Poppy Girls.  The performance is just a prelude to the ending!

 

http://www.godvine.com/This-Performance-Was-Angelic-But-Wait-Til-You-See-What-Happens-at-the-End--4418.html

 

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Top 10 Predictions for 2014

 

With all the problems the world is facing, it can be unsettling to the mind.
Today, I share with you ten predictions that are true!

1. The Bible will still have all the answers.

2. Prayer will still be the most powerful thing on Earth.

3. The Holy Spirit will still move.

4. God will still honor the praises of His people.

5. There will still be God-anointed preaching.

6. There will still be singing of praise to God.

7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.

8. There will still be room at the Cross.

9. Jesus will still love you.

10. Jesus will still save the lost when they come to Him.

Isn't it great to remember who is really in control, and that; "the Word of the Lord endures forever." (1 Peter 1:25)

I hope you found this encouraging!!!  Sometimes we need the reminder of just WHO is really in control.

MAY 2014 BE YOUR BEST YEAR YET.

Good friends are rare jewels of life;
Difficult to find and impossible to replace...
Have a great day and a better tomorrow!

 

 

 

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 “Cooperton Valley” Picture Trail site has been renewed for all to enjoy.  Thanks to Karen (Johnson) Mason for funding this site for the coming year.  This site has many pictures from past Cooperton School reunions.  We hope that you will find these photos interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past (or if you have and wondered where it went).  Go to http://www.picturetrail.com/coopertonvalley to visit the site.

 

 

 

Interesting Tidbits

 

You Won’t Believe What Started This Fire

 

This is a must watch video as you all have in your house what started this fire.  We all should take a lesson from this video and be sure we aren’t the next casualty.

 

http://themotherlist.com/fire-safety-video-must-watch/

 

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Amazing Tales of the SR-71 Blackbird Plane

 

This video was produced to celebrate Lockheed's 100th anniversary.

 

Buzz Carpenter, a former SR-71 pilot offers some very interesting facts and tales, never heard of before, about the Blackbird.  He recounts the aircraft’s power and majesty.

 

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/sr71jetplane1

 

 

 

News

 

Roosevelt Senior Citizens

 

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, Jan. 28:  Pork Chop, Macaroni & Cheese, Salad Bar, Dessert

 

Thursday, Jan. 30:  Nachos Supreme, Rice, Mexican Corn, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert

 

 

 

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:

 

January 24 – Lloyd Newton, Class of 1951
January 24 – Ann (Baden) Thurmond
January 25 – Kelsey Franks
January 25 – Clifton Webb, Class of 1956
January 25 – Anna Matteson

January 26 – Tom Johnson
January 27 – Mickey Reeves
January 28 – Mandy (Cole) Carter
January 28 – Alexandria Smith
January 28 – Cale Garrison
January 28 – Paul Merkey
January 30 – Mike May, Class of 1965
January 30 – Sherrie Gibbons Webb, Class of 1983

 

Happy Anniversary To:

 

January 24 – Buck & Louann Cook
January 27 – Anita & Tom Copeland
January 28 – Rich & Rhonda Ainslie

 

 

 

Humor

 

Singing in Church 

 

A minister decided to do something a little different one Sunday morning.  He said 'Today, in church, I am going to say a single word and you are going to help me preach.

 

Whatever single word I say, I want you to sing whatever hymn that comes to

your mind.'  The pastor shouted out 'CROSS.'

 

Immediately the congregation started singing in unison, 'THE OLD RUGGED

CROSS.'

 

The pastor hollered out 'GRACE.'  The congregation began to sing 'AMAZING

GRACE, how sweet the sound.'

 

The pastor said 'POWER.'  The congregation sang 'THERE IS POWER IN THE

BLOOD.'

 

The Pastor said 'SEX.'  The congregation fell into total silence.

 

Everyone was in shock.  They all nervously began to look around at each other afraid to say anything.

 

Then all of a sudden, way from in the back of the church, a little old 77 year old grandmother stood up and began to sing 'PRECIOUS MEMORIES.' 

 

Gotta Love Little Old Ladies.

 

Laugh... it burns calories.

 

 

 

Food for Thought

 

Preventing (Terrorist) School Violence

 

This is a very thought provoking.  It was a presentation given in May, 2010.  Given the school violence since then, it gives us even more to think about.


"How many kids have been killed by school fire in all of North America in the past 50 years?  Zero.  Not one single kid has been killed by school fire anywhere in North America in the past half a century.  Now, how many kids have been killed by school violence?"

So began an extraordinary daylong seminar presented by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, a Pulitzer Prize nominated author, West Point psychology professor, and without a doubt the world's foremost expert on human aggression and violence.  The event, hosted by the California Peace Officers Association, was held in the auditorium of a very large community church about 30 miles from San Francisco, and was attended by more than 250 police officers from around the region.

Grossman's talk spanned myriad topics of vital importance to law enforcement, such as the use of autogenic breathing, surviving gunshot wounds, dealing with survivor guilt following a gun battle, and others.

But violence among and against children was how the day began, and so I'll focus on that issue here.

"In 1999," Grossman said, "school violence claimed what at the time was an all time record number of kids' lives.  In that year there were 35 dead and a quarter of a million serious injuries due to violence in the school.  How many killed by fire that year?  Zero.  But we hear people say, 'That's the year Columbine happened, that's an anomaly.'  Well, in 2004 we had a new all time record - 48 dead in the schools from violence.  How many killed by fire that year?  Zero.  Let's assign some grades.  Put your teacher hat on and give out some grades.  What kind of grade do you give the firefighter for keeping kids safe?  An 'A,' right?

 

Reluctantly, the cops give the firefighters an 'A,' right?  Danged firefighters, they sleep 'till they're hungry and eat 'till they're tired.  What grade do we get for keeping the kids safe from violence?  Needs improvement, right?"

"Why can't we be like little Johnny Firefighter?" Grossman asked as he prowled the stage.  "He's our A+ student!"  He paused, briefly, and answered with a voice that blew through the hall like thunder, "Denial, denial, denial!"

Grossman commanded, "Look up at the ceiling!  See all those sprinklers up there?  They're hard to spot - they're painted black - but they're there.  While you're looking, look at the material the ceiling is made of.  You know that that stuff was selected because it's fire-retardant.  Now look over there above the door - you see that fire exit sign?  That's not just any fire exit sign - that's a 'battery-backup-when-the-world-ends-it-will-still-be-lit' fire exit sign."

Walking from the stage toward a nearby fire exit and exterior wall, Grossman slammed the palm of his hand against the wall and exclaimed, "Look at these wall boards!  They were chosen because they're what?  Fireproof or fire retardant.  There is not one stinking thing in this room that will burn!"

Pointing around the room as he spoke, Grossman continued, "But you've still got those fire sprinklers, those fire exit signs, fire hydrants outside, and fire trucks nearby!  Are these fire guys crazy?  Are these fire guys paranoid?  No!  This fire guy is our A+ student!  Because this fire guy has redundant, overlapping layers of protection, not a single kid has been killed by school fire in the last 50 years!

"But you try to prepare for violence - the thing much more likely to kill our kids in schools, the thing hundreds of times more likely to kill our kids in schools - and people think you're paranoid.  They think you're crazy -- but then they're in denial."

The challenge for law enforcement agencies and officers, then, is to overcome not only the attacks taking place in schools, but to first overcome the denial in the minds of mayors, city councils, school administrators, and parents.  Grossman said that agencies and officers, although facing an uphill slog against the denial of the general public, must diligently work toward increasing understanding among the sheep that the wolves are coming for their children.  Police officers must train and drill with teachers, not only so responding officers are intimately familiar with the facilities, but so that teachers know what they can do in the event of an attack.

"Come with me to the library at Columbine High School," Grossman said.  "The teacher in the library at Columbine High School spent her professional lifetime preparing for a fire, and we can all agree if there had been a fire in that library, that teacher would have instinctively, reflexively known what to do.

"But the thing most likely to kill her kids - the thing hundreds of times more likely to kill her kids, the teacher didn't have a clue what to do.  She should have put those kids in the librarian's office but she didn't know that.  So she did the worst thing possible - she tried to secure her kids in an un-securable location.  She told the kids to hide in the library - a library that has plate glass windows for walls.  It's an aquarium, it's a fish bowl.  She told the kids to hide in a fishbowl.  What did those killers see?  They saw targets.  They saw fish in a fish bowl."

Grossman said that if the school administrators at Columbine had spent a fraction of the money they'd spent preparing for fire doing lock down drills and talking with local law enforcers about the violent dangers they face, the outcome that day may have been different.

Rhetorically he asked the assembled cops, "If somebody had spent five minutes telling that teacher what to do, do you think lives would have been saved at Columbine?"

"Never call an unarmed man 'security'," Grossman said.  "Call him 'run-like-hell-when-the-man-with-the-gun-shows-up' but never call an unarmed man security.

"Imagine if someone said, 'I want a trained fire professional on site.  I want a fire hat, I want a fire uniform, I want a fire badge.  But!  No fire extinguishers in this building.  No fire hoses.  The hat, the badge, the uniform - that will keep us safe - but we have no need for fire extinguishers.'  Well, that would be insane.  It is equally insane, delusional, legally liable, to say, 'I want a trained security professional on site.  I want a security hat, I want a security uniform, and I want a security badge, but I don't want a gun.'  It's not the hat, the uniform, or the badge. It's the tools in the hands of a trained professional that keeps us safe.

"Our problem is not money," said Grossman. "It is denial."  Grossman said (and most cops agree) that many of the most important things we can do to protect our kids would cost us nothing or next-to-nothing.

Let's contemplate the following outline and summary of Dave Grossman's "Five D's."

1. Denial - Denial is the enemy and it has no survival value.

2. Deter - Put police officers in schools, because with just one officer assigned to a school, the probability of a mass murder in that school drops to almost zero. 

3. Detect - We're talking about plain old fashioned police work here.  The ultimate achievement for law enforcement is the crime that didn't happen, so giving teachers and administrators regular access to cops is paramount.

4. Delay - Various simple mechanisms can be used by teachers and cops to put time and distance between the killers and the kids.

     a. Ensure that the school/classroom have just a single point of entry. Simply locking the back door helps create a hard target.

     b. Conduct your active shooter drills within (and in partnership with) the schools in your city so teachers know how to respond, and know what it looks like when you do your response.

5. Destroy - Police officers and agencies should consider the following:

     a. Carry off duty.  No one would tell a firefighter who has a fire extinguisher in his trunk that he's crazy or paranoid.

     b. Equip every cop in America with a patrol rifle.  One chief of police, upon getting rifles for all his officers once said, "If an active killer strikes in my town, the response time will be measured in feet per second."

     c. Put smoke grenades in the trunk of every cop car in America.  Any infantryman who needs to attack across open terrain or perform a rescue under fire deploys a smoke grenade.  A fire extinguisher will do a decent job in some cases, but a smoke grenade is designed to perform the function.

     d. Have a "go-to-war bag" filled with lots of loaded magazines and supplies for tactical combat casualty care.

     e. Use helicopters.  Somewhere in your county you probably have one or more of the following: medivac, media, private, national guard, coast guard rotors.

     f. Employ the crew-served, continuous-feed, weapon you already have available to you (a firehouse) by integrating the fire service into your active shooter training.  It is virtually impossible for a killer to put well-placed shots on target while also being blasted with water at 300 pounds per square inch.

     g. Armed citizens can help.  Think United 93.  Whatever your personal take on gun control, it is all but certain that a killer set on killing is more likely to attack a target where the citizens are unarmed, rather than one where they are likely to encounter an armed citizen response.

Today we must not only prepare for juvenile mass murder, something that had never happened in human history until only recently, but we also must prepare for the external threat.  Islamist fanatics have slaughtered children in their own religion - they have killed wantonly, mercilessly, and without regard for repercussion or regret of any kind. What do you think they'd think of killing our kids?

"Eight years ago they came and killed 3,000 of our citizens.  Do we know what they're going to do next?  No!  But one thing they've done in every country they've messed with is killing kids in schools," Grossman said.

The latest al Qaeda charter states that "children are noble targets" and Osama bin Laden himself has said that "Russia is a preview for what we will do to America."

What happened in Russia that we need to be concerned with in this context?  In the town of Beslan on September 1, 2004 - the very day on which children across that country merrily make their return to school after the long summer break - radical Islamist terrorists from Chechnya took more than 1,000 teachers, mothers, and children hostage.  When the three-day siege was over, more than 300 hostages had been killed, more than half of whom were children.

"If I could tackle every American and make them read one book to help them understand the terrorist's plan, it would be Terror at Beslan by John Giduck. Beslan was just a dress rehearsal for what they're planning to do to the United States," he said.

As a country and as a culture, the level of protection Americans afford our kids against violence is nothing near what we do to protect them from fire.  Grossman is correct: Denial is the enemy.  We must prepare for violence like the firefighter prepares for fire.  And we must do that today.

 

http://www.policeone.com/active-shooter/articles/2058168-Active-shooters-in-schools-The-enemy-is-denial/

 

 

 

Obituaries

 

Useful Links:

 

Becker Funeral Home of Snyder, OK

http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder

 

Peoples Cooperative Funeral Home of Lone Wolf, OK

http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/who-we-are/history

 

Ray and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart, Mt. View, and Carnegie, OK

http://rayandmarthas.com/

 

Roosevelt Cemetery Layout

http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm

 

Roosevelt Cemetery Markers (Picture Trail)

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery

 

Centerville Cemetery (west of Mt. Park) on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2176228

 

Cooperton Green Valley Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98552&CScn=Green+Valley+Cemetery&CScntry=4&CSst=38&CScnty=2165&

 

Cooperton Spring Hill Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?=cr&CRid=99577&CScn=Springhill+Cemetery&CScntry=4&CSst=38&

 

Gotebo Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98525

 

Hobart Rose Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99399&CScn=Hobart+Rose&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Hobart Resurrection (Catholic) Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2246374&CScn=Resurrection&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Mountain Park Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99042&CScn=Mountain+Park&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Roosevelt Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Saddle Mountain KCA Intertribal Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99439

 

Snyder Fairlawn Cemetery on Find A Grave

 

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