Class of '53 Classmates that are gone but not forgotten...

AGUILAR, SAM
ALLINGHAM,       PAT
ARMAS, PAUL
ARNOLD,  DONNA
BEAUCAIRE,  ARLENE
BECKSTROM,  ERIC
BOLLINGER,  BOB
BOWER,  MARTHA
BROWN, CRYSTAL
BROWN, CURRY
BURMEISTER, GAIL
BURT, WALTER
CAMPBELL, ROBERT
CARPENTER, JAMES
CLARK, PATTY FRANZ
CLARK, ROBERT  COLLINS, CHARLES "CHUCK"
COLLINS, GEORGIA
COOPER, PHYLLIS CARPENTER
DASNEY, SHARON
DAVIS, MARILYN
DAY, JAMES
DE GROOT, MARLENE JOYCE
DENKEWITZ, JACK
DUARTE, VIVIAN
EASTIN, JEANNIE
ELLIOTT, KATHLEEN
ELLIS, DON
EVANS, WALTER
FRANKLIN, MYRTLE
FULKS, VALERIE
GENTRY, THOMAS
GOODELL, HARRY
GREGORY, LARRY
GRAY, CHARLEEN
GROOM, DONALD
GUSSETTE, ROBERT
HALL, JAMES
HAMILTON, JEAN ROBERTA
HAMILTON, PATRICIA
HAMILTON, ROBERT
HARTMANN, RONALD
HARVEY, TOM
HARWICK, CLYDE
HIGHTOWER, NEIL
HOLMES, LOIS JEAN
JELINEK, GEORGE
JEREMY, JOHN
JESSEN, EILEEN
JESSEN, TOM
JEWELL, PATRICIA     LOU
KENDALL, ART
KIRCHGESTNER, MARGOT
KLINGER, RICHARD
LANGDON, ANN
LARSEN, KEITH
LEWIS, TOMMY
LORENZINI, RAY
LOWRY, LANDON
LUTES, GERALDINE
MACHADO, RAY
MATHEWS, THOMAS
MATZINGER, MARTA
MC CAUGHNA, DAN
MC CLANAHAN, ARLENE WILSON
MC COY, CHARLES
MUSCAT, JOHNNY
NIENDORFF, CHARLENE GRAY
NISSEN, BEVERLY
NOWA, HAROLD
OSTERGAARD, DEWARD JERRY
PARKER, PHIL
PASLEY, LAREE
PELOS, BUDDY
PURBAUGH, GLEN
PURBAUGH, JIM
ROBERTS, DONNA
ROENNE, EVELYN
ROSS, CAROL
ROTH, CHRISTINE
SHARP, PEGGY
SHOOK, JOHN
SIDEBOTHAM, ROBERT
SMITH, WILLIAM IVAN
SPANN, MARJORIE
SPERL, DAVID
STICH, ROBERT
STOLTZE, JEAN
SWANSON, JOHN     TOWN, DICK
USSERY, GLORIA
VANCE, ETHELMAE
VINING, RICHARD
WATENPAUGH, JOHN
WILLEY, MYRNA
WOEHLER, WALLACE
WILSON,ARLEEN
WRIGHT, JACK
YORK, JANICE
ZATINSKI, MELVIN



 

'53      

OUR PAGE

1953

MONROVIA, ARCADIA, DUARTE

HIGH SCHOOL

Issue 136, November 15, 2008

1953                 2008

KATHI PHELPS HENRY

EDITOR

E MAIL: writekathi@juno.com

SNAILMAIL: PO BOX 1162

Sierra Madre, CA 91025

TELEPHONE:  (626) 355-7892

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happy thanksgiving

  We want to express our concern for California MAD classmates that may be impacted by the Montecito/Santa Barbara fire.  Stay Safe! 

       I guess everyone has wonderful thanksgiving memories or traditions.  Those that are lucky and blessed can still celebrate with their children, spouses, grandchildren and even great grandchildren.  Some of you guys may even be able to include some "great-greats!"

 

         Others find the holiday a "drag" for any number of valid reasons.  There can be sadness because of the loss of a spouse, a friend or a family member; perhaps you never married or divorced and never remarried; maybe you are far away from family and friends; could be the economic climate has gotten you down or the election didn't please you.  What ever the reason, Our Page, 1953 wants to encourage you to put a "smile on your face for the whole human race" this season and do someone, anyone, a kindness.  It could be worse classmates.  Or as an acquaintance of mine recently put it, "I'm thankful…I'm above the grass!"

 

         Have any of you reading this issue got a special way you celebrate thanksgiving?  Let your editor know.

 

         Our page, 1953, is a short one again, I'm sorry to tell you.  Marilyn Nollac Spears sent me some very funny, age-appropriate bumper stickers that I hope too many of you haven't already seen on the internet.  Some are a bit risqué, others will make you smile as they did me.  Marilyn also has a unique Thanksgiving tradition.  First, here is her response when I thanked her for sending me the bumper sticker series.  It includes her tradition each year at this time.

 

From Marilyn Nollac Spears:  mnspears@msn.com 

 

Dear Kathi,

Yes, Our Traditional Thanksgiving is in Baja.  The turkey is always done by the men in an oil turkey cooker.  They sit around drinking a beer and they do the watching.  That leaves the oven for all the other things.  It is a wonderful time.  No fancy silverware or fancy stuff, but it is FAMILY.

Hugs and Adios, Marilyn

 

Ed. Comment:  Thanks a bunch Marilyn for saving our page from oblivion this month!  Wow…the guys do the cooking in an "oil turkey cooker."  That sound pretty "cool" though I suspect it is just the opposite in temperature!

 

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. New AARP Bumper Stickers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

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EMAILS FROM CLASSMATES

Open Road Race Update, Ely Nevada

 

Kathi,            Final "Race Report" for 2008. Bob Cope was 1st. place in his class! His son, Paul was 2nd. in his class! Again, we didn't do too well, 14th. out of 22 cars in our class. We were 3 seconds early with an average speed of 150.098 mph for 90 miles. We clocked a top speed of 168mph. We need to get our act together -----the car will go faster, I just need to make it go faster (push harder on the pedal!!!)     " Shrugs "  J.R.

Ed. Comment:  I received this from Joe Rayle.  He and 1953 classmate Bob Cope are still the speedy ones in our class!  No "Shruggs" Joe...instead a big Hugg!  Keep up the good RACING fun!!!

 

 

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Ed. Comment:  This email came from Cheryl Bryant '53 Sears in response to my request for Thanksgiving traditions.  Our Page, 1953 remembers fondly 1953 Yell Leader, Chuck Collins.  Thanks for your note, Cheryl! 

 

Hi Kathi, 

Thanks again for a fun column.  I enjoyed reading about Marilyn Nollac's Thanksgiving.  We too have enjoyed many Holidays in Mexico.  Only difference is that Bill cooks a mean Turkey on our Weber.  Our home is on the Colorado River below Mexicali.   We built it with Chuck Collins in the 60's.  Many fun time's there and many beers were consumed.
          Hugs, Cheryl Bryant Sears

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Ed. Comment:  Got this email from Carolyn Snyder Jordan.  My apology Carolyn, I did forget!  Hope by now that insurance has come through!

 

 

FROM CAROLYN SNYDER JORDAN:

 

Dear Kathi:

   Just read your latest edition  and feel the urgency to respond.

   Admittedly Lubbock Texas is in the panhandle, about 700 miles from Houston, but it still is in Texas - so there is another Texan from our class at MAD.  I can't believe you forgot!!! 

    By the way - at the same time Galveston and Houston were getting their storm, we had one in Lubbock that dropped some 8 inches of rain in just a few hours.  As a result, we set a hundred year record for the most water in a short period of time.  My basement was flooded, so I too am standing in line for time with the insurance adjusters - but with considerably less damage than those further south.

    All else is going well - church included.  As always, Carolyn

 

Thought For This Issue

Ed. Comment:  Mirth Kiehl Meyer was the editor of our MAD Wildcat newspaper! Underlining mine.

 

A Garden Heart Call...

 

THE LESSON OF THE FORSAKEN PLANTS...  

 

This morning I looked out my bedroom window which faces the neighbor's side yard, a desolate strip of dirt and weeds that is never tended in any way. On the dirt are two half whiskey barrels, each holding a huge bird of paradise plant.  For years the plants were neglected and not watered, so eventually I adjusted my sprinklers to reach them, just to keep them green. Of course, the flowers stopped appearing a long time ago because the plants became root bound and not fed. 

 

But this morning, as I drew the drapes and looked out, I was shocked to see a huge bird of paradise flower!  Its brilliant blue and orange petals pointed at me as if sent straight from heaven's florist!  This amazingly beautiful flower reminded me that God's power can raise beauty from ashes.

                                                            - Mirth Meyer

 

"Do not be anxious for anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."

 

                                             -  From the Bible (Phillippians 4:6)

 

 

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Thanks for Reading Our Page, 1953

Kathi Phelps Henry