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03/12/13 05:02 PM

#3712

Milan Jackson

Fred Livings daughter wanted to join so she registered as Fred. No, Fred did pass away in 1978. She will be joining us as a guest soon.

03/12/13 05:47 PM

#3713

Milan Jackson

I think Bill's sister is Linda.

03/12/13 09:41 PM

#3714

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

Thank you for all the birthday wishes.

Suzi

03/13/13 11:13 AM

#3715

Helen Nicolaysen (Thompson)

Carol McCauley is experiencing major health issues, which I'm not sure she wants to be published, therefore we'll honor and respect their privacy, however she is beginning to push forward with the healing process. Also, their family is experiencing major serious health issues! They're requesting continued prayers for them and their family! Prayers do get answered!

03/14/13 02:32 PM

#3716

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Helen: I have to go look up their photos in the yearbook. Then my prayers will be said for Carol and Alan.

Suzi: So......stitches are out...........and ..........everything is going.......how?

Love to all, Linda

03/16/13 03:09 PM

#3717

Marvin Theobald

By now all of you should have received the 2013 Mini-Reunion invitations and the announcement of the 50th Reunion scheduled for Aug 16, 2014 at Bloomington Country Club. The Planning Committee has put a lot of effort into evaluating the options for a special event for the 50th. It will include reception snacks, a nice buffet dinner, DJ music and dance from start to finish. We are counting on all of you to make every effort to be there so we can all celebrate, reminisce and share the experiences of the 50 years that have passed since we crossed that graduation stage at BHS.

The following people have actively participated in the Planning Committee. They have all volunteered in the hope of making this an event to remember. They deserve your thanks and appreciation (not to suggest that it has been all hard work because we have not had a lot of fun in the process).

Linda Bristow-Elias Rich Crusius Suzi Denton-Merritt Emmalyn Dickinson Mary Eisenburg-Mullins Ed Evans Sharon Green-Leipold Madelon Henderson-Newsom Pam Hohnstreiter-Zweng Dave Holt Clayton James Steve Jetton Jack Keefe Judy McLean-Wilder Mike Mink Jim Pierce Marvin Theobald Carol Trenary-Logsdon Judy Winquist-Neal

03/16/13 03:24 PM

#3718

Marvin Theobald

On a sad note - As a result of the Mini-Reunion mailing, the wife of Mike Daniels called me to let me know he passed away 2/8/2011. She said he had tried about 5 years ago to find out where we were having our 45th reunion but could not get any information. He called BHS and they were of no help. She received our mailing last year and thought how sad it was that we finally found him and he had died without making it to one of our events (Milan Jackson found him last year in his diligent efforts to locate our missing classmates).

Milam - Is it possible that you could locate an obituary from a local Collinsville, IL paper to post for us? I did not really want to bother Mike's wife with that request, but, I can if you prefer. Thanks.

03/16/13 05:53 PM

#3719

Milan Jackson

This isn't much of an obituary but it's all I can find for now. It's from the Funeral Home:

Michael D. Daniels

Michael Dean Daniels, 64, of Collinsville, IL., died at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 at Meridian Village in Glen Carbon, IL. Visitation will be from 4:00-8:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 13th, 2011 at the Herbert A. Kassly Funeral Home in Collinsville, IL. and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Monday, February 14th, 2011 at Good Sheperd Lutheran Church in Collinsville, IL. Funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, February 14th, 2011 at Good Sheperd Lutheran Church in Collinsville, IL. Interment will be at St. John Cemetery in Collinsville, IL. Memorials may be made to Variety Children's Charity or Heartlink Hospice.

03/16/13 06:14 PM

#3720

Milan Jackson

I have a note in the works for Belleville News-Democrat who carried Mike's obituary. I am hoping they will help us.

03/16/13 10:40 PM

#3721

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Hi everyone!

I'm wondering if we're going to have a really harsh summer or not. It is 87 here today!

Love to all, Linda

03/17/13 12:48 PM

#3722

Helen Nicolaysen (Thompson)

This is only a suggestion, however maybe the Class of 64 Planning Committee might consider including BHS Business Office with copies of all future dates for Mini Runions and Class Reunions for those whom might call the High School Office seeking contact information! Just a thought......but could help people such as Mike Daniels in the future! Some of us are beginning to see signs of CRS, don't ya' know!

03/19/13 06:03 PM

#3723

Ed Stanfield

Good Idea, helen..

I am on the homewaqrd leg of my trip.. stayin in Texarkana tonite..

What a trip this has been... I got to Alabama to learn that my uncle's 87th birthday was tehe next day... great party.. saw all my cousins, on to Birmingham to spend the night with my best man, also one of Malinda's pall bearers. Then on to Tyler for the most incredible reunion I can ever imagine anyone ever having... After that to see the widow of our pastor from the '70's in the Hill Country of Texas, and now sadly, I am on my way home... but the mantra is now "NEXT YEAR IN HOUSTON!"

03/19/13 06:49 PM

#3724

Regina (Sue) Petersen (Koppenhoefer)

Ed, It sounds like you had a wonderful trip! Good for you!

03/19/13 11:27 PM

#3725

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Ed:

Good trips can be good for the body, mind, and spirit! Glad to see you're enjoying yourself!

Linda

03/20/13 12:31 PM

#3726

Julie Hart

ed - you were only 40 minutes from me when you were in tyler. glad you had a fun trip.

dislocated my shoulder in yoga in nov., then a week later dislocated it again IN MY SLEEP! takes real talent to do that! ended up with a large rotator cuff tear (or maybe it was torn and that's why it dislocated so easily) wasn't getting full use of my arm back so had surgery feb. 14th. have had zero pain and started PT last week. keep your fingers crossed i get back to yoga.

am i the only one who doesn't want dancing at the reunion? can't remember if people actually dance or not. but i do know it's hard to hear over it.

03/21/13 01:01 AM

#3727

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Julie:

I tried to contact you but I didn't have current info on you. Please email me at eliasli@sbcglobal.net.

Linda Bristow Elias

03/21/13 06:40 PM

#3728

Victor Jackson

Puns for Educated Minds

1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .

3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum
Blownapart.

8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to
the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

17. A backward poet writes inverse.

18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your
count that votes.

19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris , you'd be in Seine .

21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The
stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed
per passenger.'

22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says
'Dam!'

23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the
craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have
your kayak and heat it too.

24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other
says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'

25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root
canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that
at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

03/23/13 11:27 AM

#3729

Gerald (Jerry) Plummer

Victor, someone has been reading too much Stephan Pastis.

03/23/13 10:13 PM

#3730

Ed Stanfield

I am home! It was a magnificient trip, both emotionally and physocilogically. I need to develop some memories that do not include Malinda, and this was one. I spent the eening with my uncle on his 87th birthday, then joined freinds from my Houston days... first time we had all been together since 1963 and it was wonderful... went to Lago Vista to visit a family friend, then 3 days to get home... I did return to my Texas roots via a pair of very nice boots and a black hat.. had one in HS... everyone thought I grew up on a ranch and knew John Wayne..I thought y'all all knew Al Capone...

03/24/13 12:34 PM

#3731

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

Ed, glad you had a safe trip. Building memories are wonderful because they are like a good book with many chapters. You take care.

Suz

03/25/13 11:12 PM

#3732

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Has anyone spoken to Alan and Carol? I guess we keep praying!

Linda

03/26/13 01:32 PM

#3733

Helen Nicolaysen (Thompson)

Carol is now home and slowly recovering from health problems, but still needs our continued prayers and support. Also, Carol, Alan and family continue to struggle with health problems! Your continued prayers are working, but please keep praying for all of them!

03/27/13 06:26 PM

#3734

Michael (Mike) Franks

Linda, tell me what you know about Alamogordo, NM.

Is it a safe place to live?

Would live there?

Crime?

Retirement?

Cost of living?

Thanks Mike

03/27/13 11:51 PM

#3735

Linda Bristow (Elias)

Mike:

Alamogordo, NM is an hour and a half from El Paso. (about 92 miles) It is home to Holloman Air Force Base. It is a very quiet place that has a problem with middle school and high school students getting into trouble. They have had 15 years of kids meeting at homes after schools before parents get home from work. They keep passing around STDs. Then these SAME kids work in fast food places in town on the Main St. strip! Yuk!

The main strip is US54. They have added a beltline route to keep traffic off of Main Street when people head to the mountains for the weekends to Cloudcroft or Ruidoso. It is still just a little dusty place that patronizes people who pass through and Holloman. Also, there is a large school for the blind.

If I died............I wouldn't even want to be buried there, much less live there. Is this for you or someone you know?

I might know of alternatives that you haven't thought of. Feel free to contact me at eliasli@sbcglobal.net.

Linda

03/28/13 08:05 AM

#3736

Michael (Mike) Franks

Linda, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I've been thinking of spending time in NM, but the places that I have checked out all seem to have the same problems with poverty, crime, and ethnic speration. Maybe it's not what I'm looking for. It appears to be a place where people don't have a lot to do, and where trouble brews.

Thanks Mike

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