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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 3, Is. 4 Aug.
9, 2013
From the
Editor
I’m sure you’ve heard of “A
Rainy Night in
As many of you who are
Facebook friends know, we eat out more than we should and on Mondays after Ryan
Newman finishes in the top 10 in the Saturday night or Sunday NASCAR Sprint Cup
Race, we go to Outback for the free Bloomin’ Onion compliments of Ryan. We have a favorite waiter at the Potomac
Millis location that treats our family like we are “Rock Stars.” He takes good care of us and with our tip we
always take good care of him. Last night
when he left, he ran out the door and handed us his email address indicating
that he might be “moving on” and wanted to keep in contact with us. He’s a bright young man and has much greater
potential that being a waiter at Outback.
Whether he’s moving on to another restaurant or into a totally new
career, we wish him the very best.
Before you think I was
negative referencing the fact that he was a waiter at Outback, let me say that
our daughter, Karen, after finishing her college degree worked in two different
restaurants, managed one--and made very good money in tips for some three years. Having a
daughter depend mainly on tips for survival we quickly observed the importance
of being as generous as possible with tips before signing the ticket.
Now to the
“meat” of this editorial. I see drastic differences in how people tip
in different parts of this great country.
I see two reasons for that.
First, the low “tippers” never
had a child trying to make it waiting tables or second, they unfortunately
don’t understand that the bulk of the waiter or waitress’ salary is actually in
tips. Most receive minimum wage for
their toil. Based on our experience
following Karen’s “journey through the industry” we have decided that a good
job deserves a 15 to 20 percent tip--usually we’re on the high side and an
excellent job deserves a little more.
Trust me if you are a return patron, your “tip rate” definitely makes a
difference in the level of service you’ll receive. However, if the service is sub-par, our tip
definitely decreases proportionately.
Such “generosity” has little impact on future visits because if service
was that bad, most likely you will not return anyway. Another factor we pay close attention to is
if you’ve received a “break” on your bill, you should tip on what the full bill
should have been. Should the restaurant
“comp” your meal because of an issue in the kitchen,
you shouldn’t “short” the waiter/waitress on the tip as that most likely had
nothing to do with her/him. Our “Outback
waiter” seldom charges for soft drinks or tea—just rings in ice water. Therefore, we include the cost of drinks
before calculating our tips.
In summary, that’s my “take”
on the tipping process, “Not a sermon, just a thought” and obviously, you have the option to
agree or disagree.
mlm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Charles
Curtis, Class of 1965
Wayne
Rickerd, Class of 1945
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
The Greatest Generation
This piece written by Capt.
Stephen R. Ellison should make each one of us thankful for those who served in
WWII as well as any other time.
Unfortunately, they are not appreciated as they should be.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/americainuniform/2012/02/soon-to-be-gone.html
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
From the website LMAO
Me: God, can I ask You a
question?
God: Sure.
Me: Promise You won't get mad
God: I promise.
Me: Why did you let so much stuff happen
to me today?
God: What do you mean?
Me: Well, I woke up late.
God: Yes.
Me: My car took forever to start
God: Okay.
Me: At lunch they made my sandwich wrong
& I had to wait
God: Huummm
Me: On the way home, my phone went DEAD,
just as I picked up a call
God: All right.
Me: And on top of it all off, when I got
home ~I just wanted to soak my feet in my new foot massager & relax. BUT it
wouldn't work!!! Nothing went right today!
Why did you do that?
God: Let me see, the death angel was at
your bed this morning & I had to send one of My Angels to battle him for
your life. I let you sleep through that
Me: (humbled):
OH
GOD: I didn't let your car start because
there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on
the road.
Me: (ashamed)
God: The first person who made your
sandwich today was sick & I didn't want you to catch what they have, I knew
you couldn't afford to miss work.
Me: (embarrassed): Okay
God: Your phone went dead because the
person that was calling was going to give false witness about what you said on
that call, I didn't even let you talk to them so you would be covered.
Me (softly): I see God.
God: Oh and that foot massager, it had a
shortage that was going to throw out all of the power in your house
tonight. didn't
think you wanted to be in the dark.
Me: I'm Sorry God.
God: Don't be sorry, just learn to Trust
Me.... in all things--the Good & the bad.
Me: I will trust You.
God: And don't doubt that My plan for your day is Always Better than your plan.
Me: I won't God. And let me just tell you God, Thank You for
Everything today.
God: You're welcome child. It was just another day being your God and I
Love looking after My Children...
Hello Alumni:
With just two months to go
before our 2013 Roosevelt Alumni Reunion, you should have Friday, September 27th
& Saturday, the 28th marked on your calendars as the weekend for visiting
with old friends and classmates. Please
fill out the registration form and mail to the address shown on the form. Also, I
would like to ask everyone who receives this notice via email (Roosevelt News
East Coast Edition) to help get the word out to all our classmates and friends
who do not have an email address.
Look forward to seeing you
all at the 2013 reunion.
Dan Hayslip
********
Note:
In an effort to cut costs the registration form will not be mailed
out. Please let all of your friends who
may not be on the
2013 ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL
Friday,
September 27, 2013
·
6:30-9:00pm: Mixer at the
Saturday, September 28, 2013 -
·
8:30-12pm: Registration,
Refreshments
·
11:30-1:30: Concession lunch available
·
1:00-1:30: Alumni Business Meeting
1. Financial Review
·
2. Election of President
·
2:00-4:00: Fund-Raising Auction
5:00-6:30:
Evening Meal, Catered by Klein’s Catering Service (BBQ) $15.00 per person in advance/$20.00 at
the door (if available).
·
7:00-10:00: Entertainment
We ask that you make every attempt to make your
reservations in advance in order to help the committee plan this event. Reservation form and payment must be received
by September 10, 2013 to guarantee meal tickets will be available at
registration.
Motels
and Bed & Breakfasts Available in
Detach and return with payment to:
2013
Alumni Name Class
of
Spouse, Friend, or Relative’s Name, also attending
Address City State ___ Zip
Email
address
Phone
number
Number
to attend Friday Mixer **Donations
accepted**
Number to attend Saturday night meal @ $15.00 each =
TOTAL
*********
Entertainment
Entertainment for Saturday
night has been lined up. Ricky
Rodrigues, a singer who has opened for stars like Crystal Gayle, Pam Tillis,
the World Famous Platters, Eli Young Band, Blake
Shelton, Merle Haggard and more will perform.
He will sing songs from the 60’s to the current date and has a show to
go with it. This will be a great evening
of entertainment to cap off the reunion.
Reservations for
The following have
registered to attend the Roosevelt High School Reunion, September 27 and
28. Send your reservation in and join
these to have a great time visiting with old friends.
Class of 1951: Betty (Block) Broadus,
Class of 1953: Evelyn (Lanterman) Walters, Tom
Alford
Class of 1956: Buck Cook
Class of 1958:
Class of 1959:
Jerry Alford and Lenora,
Class of 1962: Dan Hayslip
Class of 1964:
Bonnie (Pollard) Phillips and
John
Class of 1988:
Michael Chard and Linda
Melton
Guests: Carolyn Martin
********
2011 NEWSFLASH
The 2011 Roosevelt High
School Class Reunion was held on September 30 and October 1, 2011, in
If anyone need more
information or has questions about the reunion, please call Dan Hayslip at
972-938-3703 or 214-796-3131 or email him at danhayslip@sbcgloal.net
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
How to Get to Mars
This is a very cool
video. Almost unbelievable
how far we have come in space exploration. Just a shame the
http://www.youtube.com/embed/XRCIzZHpFtY?rel=0
********
Wasp Spray as Personal Defense
There have been emails
circulating suggesting using wasp spray rather than pepper spray for self
defense. Finding this interesting, I did
some research on the idea and found that it really is not a good idea, in fact, it probably is illegal to use wasp spray for
that purpose so thought I would share with our readers. cnm
The following link gives the
content of emails that have circulated about using wasp spray rather than
pepper spray for self defense. Read it.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/wasp_spray.htm
Now go to the link below
which is provided by Oklahoma Personal Defense, The Myth of Wasp Spray.
http://oklahomapersonaldefense.com/waspspraymyth.html
After reading both, I think
you will agree that it is best to stay with the pepper spray.
News
The
Roosevelt Senior Citizens center is closed for the summer. They will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 3 for
lunch.
********
Class of ’73
40th
The Roosevelt Class of '73
is having a 40th class reunion August 17-18 at
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:
August 10 – Matt Alonzo
August 10 – Tanya Henson
August 10 – Michelle
(Neuwirth) McCormack
August 11 – Shawn Ragsdale
August 11 – Jesse Alonzo, Class of 1984
August 11 – Greg Ragsdale
August 14 – James Calvery
August 14 – Ralph Farrar,
Class of 1962
August 15 – Ronnie Hebensperger, Class of 1958
August 15 – Bryan Garrison
August 15 – Rachel Stutzman
August 16 – Linda (Lawson)
Mitchell, Class of 1965
Happy
Anniversary To:
August 10 – Trapper
& Dierra (Davis) Heglin
August 11 – Frank &
Shirley Lucus
August 11 – Steve & Debbie Boyd
August 12 – Scott & Cheryl Neyers
August 13 – Cody &
Stormy (
August 14 – John & Judy Krehbiel
August 14 – Ken & Betty Heskett
Humor
Here is old age at its best…
Russ and Fred, two friends, met in the park every day to feed the pigeons,
watch the squirrels and discuss world problems.
One day Russ didn't show up. Fred didn't
think much about it and figured maybe he had a cold or something. But after Russ hadn't shown up for a week
or so, Fred really got worried.
However, since the only time they ever got together was at the park,
Fred didn't know where Russ lived, so he was unable to find out what had
happened to him.
A month had passed, and Fred figured he had seen the last of Russ, but one day,
Fred approached the park and--lo and behold!--there sat Russ!
Fred was very excited and happy to see him and told him so. Then he said, 'For crying out loud Russ, what
in the world happened to you?'
Russ replied, 'I have been in jail.'
'Jail!' cried Fred. What in the world for?'
'Well,' Russ said, 'you know Sue, that cute little blonde waitress at the
coffee shop where I sometimes go?'
'Yeah,' said Fred, 'I
remember her. What about her?
'Well, the little
gold-digging witch figured I was rich and she filed rape charges against me;
and, at 89 years old, I was so proud that when I got into court, I pleaded
'guilty'.
'The judge gave me 30 days for perjury.'
Food for
Thought
Read this article. It certainly makes one stop and think.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty873.htm
Obituaries
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
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99399&CScn=Hobart+Rose&CScntry=4&CSst=38
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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