Judith (Judy) McLean (Wilder)

Hi All,

I was down to see Sue last Monday and she was looking great!!  She had a couple little set backs again the week before and had to go to Springfield for some tests but looks like they've got them under control.  Still no date for going home but they are starting to make preparations at the house for when she does get to go home.  She said that Ann Bailen had been to see her the day before and so between the two of us we got her caught up on what all of the forum people have been saying and doing.  She is very excited about getting home so she can get on the computer again.  I was talking with Patty Lehr at church yesterday and she said she and Ken had been to see Sue on Tuesday so Sue had a big week for visitors.  On June 5th Sue and Mike celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary. It was not necessarily the way she wanted to celebrate but thank God they were both still here to celebrate it!!!!  Keep the prayers coming and hopefully we will have Sue home real soon!!! 

Judy

Milan Jackson

 I sure am looking forward to seeing Sue back in the site. We need her!

Milan Jackson

 There is a planned gathering on August 6, 2011 at Gill Street Restaurant at 7pm.

Milan Jackson

 Happy Birthday Jane Rebmann Smith !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Terry (Max) Maxwell

I've been kind of busy and haven't been on this site much lately (not a very good excuse, huh).  I just went back and read the last 3 pages to catch up.  Glad to hear that Sue is doing better... thanks for the updates.  BTW Jack, x = 5.291 in entry #1357.  Just in case you didn't get the answer from Jetton.  Have a great summer everyone. 

Jack Habich

Thanks, Max. If you’re correct, you would have been a better resource than Jetton in HS. Without remembering the formula, my primitive off- the-top-of- my- head calculation was 5. Let’s see if Jetton can still verify the extra .291.

Rodney (Rod) Hayes

Jack,

I'm a little concerned about that last entry.  You say you were a few years ahead of the times, then you SMOKED MARY JANE, then began to lose interest in Math.

Milan,  I love that picture of Sandy's.  I don't think that was on your profile the last time.  I workded at that Sandy's one summer.  In that short 3 or 4 month period, I really met some characters, that generated some pretty funny and odd stories.

Milan Jackson

 I have over 150 pictures posted in my profile in the '63 site. I've been asked to post many more in here so I started yesterday adding to them. I'm trying to add the new ones at the top so you won't have to look through all of the old ones first. Obviously I love local history. 

Jack Habich

Rod, you might be on to something that I missed during self examination.  Had I stayed away  from smoking the aforementioned Mary Jane at such a young age, I might have been more capable of thinking my way through the math problems.  Wonder if Mary Jane smoked Mary Jane?  Don't believe she excelled in HS like she did in the 3rd grade either.

I also worked at Sandy's for a short time one summer.  Hated it.  Worked the front window.  That was before the idiot-proof little pictures on the cash registers, back when you could actually have the burgers "your way".  People came up ordering 6 or 8 burgers, 2 with pickles, one of mayo, 3 with cheese but no ketchup and so on.  There were impatient people in line behind them.  I frequently got the orders screwed up. 

Rodney (Rod) Hayes

Well Jack,

If she didn't, she should have.  Even if your math wasn't that great, you seem to have had a successful carrer, and I know for sure your reflexes and reaction time was never slowed down.  I think maybe Jetton was the downfall of your math problems.  You mean you didn't love it at Sandy's when it was 15 min. to closing time and two bus loads of kids rolled in.  Or when some looney tune came back to the window and told YOU that YOU gave him the wrong thing, when in fact, he got exactly what he ordered.  I'll give you a story on the side about this guy who worked there and he absolutely drove the owner and the customers crazy.  He was quite a character.

Milan Jackson

 Just to let you know, Susie Buckler Carnahan's daughter, Kristi Buckler, passed away today. God bless that family. Susie was a member of the class of '63 and '64. Kristi's father, Steve Devary, was from the class of '63. 

Ed Stanfield

Malinda has completed her second course of chemo. she had a series of 12 treatments beginning in January and ending earlier this month. A c/t scan has confirmed that the tumor in the liver is stable, having neither grown or shrunk since the last scan. It was her choice to either stay on chemo or take a break until the tumor begins to grow again. It doesn't seem to matter much what one does, and so she elected to take the break.

The break will last for at least 3 months when she has another c/t scan. last year it lasted 6 months.

This course of chemo was fairly uneventful. She had minimal side effects, unlike last time when she wound up in the hospital with critically low potassium levels and had difficulty with eating. She also developed periphreal neurapathy that has become permanent. Her hands and feet are both numb and painful. In addition the numbness is spreading and now almost reaches her knees.

This time around she got a different drug cocktail and the major side effect was hair loss, but she has 3 beautiful wigs she can wear... she still works part time but leaves in the afternoon for a long nap.

GET A COLONOSCOPY!

Milan Jackson

 Happy Birthday Helen Nicholaysen Thompson !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack Habich

 Although I did not know her, I was saddened to hear about the passing of Kristi Buckler. As part of the DeVary-Winger-Habich trio from grade school into HS, I knew her father and his family well. Consequently, I got to know Susie and offer my heartfelt condolences for the loss of her daughter at such a young age.

Milan Jackson

Milan Jackson

 Happy Birthday Gene Zoll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Victor Jackson

My curfew was the street lights. My parents called my name not my Phone. I played outside with friends, not online. If I didn't eat what was cooked for dinner, then I didn't eat. Sanitizer didn't exist, but you COULD get your mouth washed out with soap. I rode a bike without a helmet, getting dirty was ok, and most of the neighbors LOVED YOU as much as your parents did. Re-post if you grew up like this!

Milan Jackson

 I grew up exactly like that, Vic. :)

Judy Tynan (Danielson)

Me too!!!  I am amazed how my grandchildren are being raised, so involved in everything and connected.   My, what would they do without their I Phones!!!!!!

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

Vic, Judy and all those who want a little nostalgia, I hear you, but what about us? I know we wish our kids and grandkids could have had the same simplicity and open range we had. The reality is we aren't exactly like our parents were either. All the technological gizmos have changed all of us...and I like to think for the betterment of our lives. I spend hours on the Internet doing research in art history, I can call my friends in Russia for pennies as opposed to dollars per minute, and just look at this Web site as another example of how amazingly we have changed. I really like what we have become. In fact my motto for decades has been "don't look backwards, look to the future". As much as I love history, I love the present.

Has anyone seen Woody Allen's movie, "Midnight in Paris"? It really addresses this idea beautifully. I highly recommend it.

I am really sad to hear about Susie losing her daughter. Like, Jack, I never met her but I had a wonderful time talking with Susie at our last reunion and she was so full of love and caring. This is about the hardest thing imaginable. My sincere condolences to Susie.

Milan Jackson

 Happy Birthday Le Ann Gehrke !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Helen Nicolaysen (Thompson)

 Thank you Milan, for remembering Birthdays of those who have passed.  What a kind gesture!

I too was raised with the stern rules of having required hours to be home, etc., however kids will be kids and we've all admitted our onery memories.  Yes, Mel you are so right about loving the sources of communications we have brought into our futures.  Without these modern luxuries, we wouldn't be able to keep up with one another as easily.  When my folks retired and wintered in Texas, we weren't able to contact them for 3 months at a time, or when someone we knew was in the military, we had no way of communicating with them while over seas defending our country. Now their children can view them on their laptops, which is wonderful, however it has become a throw away society, which is sad!  Buildings in Europe are 100's of years old, yet we tear our buildings and homes down after 50 years in the US.  We have EVERYTHING at our fingertips and now we expect things to happen NOW.  When it doesn't react immediately, we get frustrated.  Our kids talk to each other via texting and sitting in their homes rather than calling each other on the phone to give friendships a personal touch!  What will the now generation talk about when they're our age?  No one can beat the good old days, but you're right that we've become our parents, set in our ways and trying to keep discipline in our families yet expecting much success from our children and grandchildren.  Change IS GOOD, but it's sometimes difficult to accept change as we grow older! Even though we expect change to better everything, we don't think things should change to be different from how we grew up??? What a subject to debate about!  Wouldn't it be fun to have an old fashion debate about this subject like the days when we were in Speech Class? I believe our HS Speech Teacher was Mr.Wilson or am I remembering right? 

Milan Jackson

 Don't forget the party on August 6th at Gill Street!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rodney (Rod) Hayes

I didn't know Susie, only to see her in school.  I did know Steve however, and it is such a very sad and trying time for a Parent to have to see their Children or Grand-Children pass before them.  Hopefully, this difficult time will pass and the future will hold happier times for them.

Ed, it was good to hear that things are at least on even keel for the time being.  Sorry to hear about the side effects.  I know all about that hair thing.  But now she can go from blonde to red-head to brunette in an instant.  Not just anyone can put on an outfit and then match their hair to it.  I read about a new procedure that is coming, but unfortunately, it does not include the Liver.  But, at least it shows us that research is constantly going forward.  Just keep the faith.

Mel, do you remember when the masses of kids would gather at Oakland School every night to ride bikes, play baseball, basketball, or whatever might be going on.  But when the light began to dim, it was time to go to DeMents, get your sugar high and then head home.  I know it was the past, but it was really a great time.  The present is wonderful, and I hope the future is even better, but for those of us in that Baby-Boomer Era, as a whole, the Past is still hard to beat.  Being a kid may have a lot to do with that thinking though.

Jack, did you see where we may not get to see a really good race horse in Animal Kingdom again.  When he broke from the gate at the Belmont, it was determined that there was some careless riding, (as put by the Racing Comm.), on the part of Rajiv Maragh, who only got a 7 day suspension.  Anyway, Isn't he Perfect hit Mucho Macho Man, with another horse involved and caused the heels to click and a small frac or line in the leg of Animal Kingdom.  Of course, they say he will be alright in a couple weeks.  They always say that because of $$$.   But he is still  an animal, and when he gets in that gate again, his reactions could be very mixed.  We'll see. 

Milan Jackson

 Happy Birthday John Purkey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!