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Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

David Cordell

Bobby F.

Eileen Sullivan Milvenan's mother passed away last month.

Hull Barbee

Thanks for all the birthday wishes ......... I survived another year and hoping for 20 more for all of us 😀😀😀

Steve Keene

Hollis

I was a little pissed that you had me listed under urine.  That yellow pale is cirrhosis not weewee.

Terry,

I hesitated rsvping to your get together because I did not know the schedule of my participation in events leading up to my daughter Madison's wedding on Oct. 3, 2020.  I had to shorten a trip I took towards Seattle a couple of days ago and drove home because my leg swole up like a balloon.  I went to the emergency room thinking I had a blood clot.  Turns out I had scratched my leg on some brush in the Wild West and got a bacterial infection with a giant red hot spot that extended through a large bruise on my leg.  My platelet count was low and I have a compromised immune system due to my cirrhosis.  They gave me an antibiotic IV and watched me for a day.  I am now on antibiotic pills, but have to stay off my leg until the swelling is completely gone.  I also have to keep it elevated.  I am still up in the air on whether I can attend, but I always enjoy the gathering of friends at your beautiful home.  Please don't tempt me with the promise of all that good food,   I am trying to diet to keep up with my new squeeze.  Cordell says I should have gone to a med facility in Cody, Wy. where the problem got too big to ignore.  However, after entering the log cabin med facility and spying the bone saws, I decided that driving back to Texas was not out of the question.

Bob Fleming

David, thank you for the update on Orinne Sullivan.  I'm having a little bit of a nostalgia trip here in Houston and have been re-reading my mother's personal story that she wrote shortly bfore here death.  Eileen's mother is mentioned and her respect for the woman is evident.  I will pass the word to my sister.

Terry, Terry and I were discussing the trip to Austin last night.  We will let you know shortly.  Meanwhile, I can say this to my classmates.  It's a treat just to make the drive, look at the stars, and just walk into Terry's home.

Hollis, I will look up that interview with Isabel Wilkerson.

Best wishes.

Wayne Gary

Lamplighter classmates

I have this plate form my days at The Lamplighter School. I know there are several other alums that were in the same class. K:1956-57.  1St grade 1957-58

Wayne Gary

Randy Green, David

I remember you from both Indian Guides and Spring Valley Elem. I was in Mr Boze's 6the grade class. I saw a old post where David had a picture from the class with You and Cathy Akin.  I found the picture in the Old Photos and I am the 2nd from right on the next to back row.

Jan Alexander

Steveo, said,"Oh well, forgive my rant.  Life is good.  Nobody tells me what to do or what to think except the liberals on these forums. 

Yes, we liberal casserole gals care about you.

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Wayne:  

I coveth that Lamplighter plate!!!  Remember the plates with a circle of animals printed around the school logo in the middle?  Chi Chi the monkey, I think the barn cat was named Miss Kelly, and the peacock.  My mom didn't save any of those the several plates we had.  Dang.

Several years ago I contacted the school through Hockaday asking if they had archival photos of the old days. Never received any response.  Would love to see photos of the barn and the mountain my father designed.

Such happy  days at that extraordinary school.  I had some wonderful teachers at Heights, but first grade there was a real shock after Lamplighter's love and care and creativity. I was there for two years, 57-58 and 58-59 and carpooled with the Jones girls, Randy and Kevyn sometimes. 

Wayne Gary

Hollis,

I remember the barn and my parents gave them some bantum chickens we had in our back yard until they got too noisy. We lived at the corner of Turner Way and Hughes 2 bolcks away from the school.  I think it was in 1 st grade when for my B'day we had a man with a horse/pony drawn wagon pick up the class and go to our house for a party.  I might stop by Lamplighter and see if they have any pictures of the old school.

I was in K and 1st grade there because I have a Nov 19,1951  B'day and with 2 older brothers my parents did not want me to wait until I was 6 on sept 1st to start to school so I was 4 when I started kindergarten and 5 when I started 1st grade.

Jan Alexander

Anywho, Steveo , GET WELL quickly, you smug , sanctimonious, holier-than-thou , priggish, right winger ; so you can get back to your hot , bubbly, steamy self.

Your casserole liberals are thinking about you.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Is that you, Jan, cooking at a chili cook-off?  Or flipping burgers?  You look like you are intent on getting the fare just right for the customer!  Experience from your yrs. at Burger Chef?

I'll bet you are a good and experienced chef, ready to give Julia Child a challenge in the kitchen, should she ever return to Earth with angelic wings on her back!  Hey!  Never say never!

David Cordell

We're at an age when we should make sure that we have wills and make family members know what our wishes are with regard to the end of life.

I mentioned to Martha that I wanted to be cremated.

She made an appointment for Tuesday.

Jan Alexander

Janalu-huli .... yes.. I am back to flipping burgers.

David Cordell

Jan, where are you living now??

Wayne Gary

David,

If you give your body to UT Southwestern Med School they will do the cremation for free.  Your family will get your cremains after about yr. That would be your last teaching to students.

David Cordell

Wayne,

I'm afraid they would reject my body, ahem, not that that has ever happened before!!!

Jan Alexander

Wayne Gary

David,

You never know.  They took my 90 yr dad who died of prostate cancer.  You look a lot healther than my dad. If you sign up now they will find some use for you no matter how bad you get.

David Cordell

David Cordell

An Old Golfer was hitting his ball from near a water hazard and his club fell into the water.

 

When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, "Why are you crying?"

 

The golfer replied that his club had fallen into the water and he needed the club to have a chance to win the tournament and supplement his meager pension.

 

The Lord went down into the water and reappeared with a golden club.

 

"Is this your club?" the Lord asked.

 

The golfer replied, "No."

 

The Lord again went down and came up with a silver club.

 

"Is this your club?" the Lord asked.

 

Again, the golfer replied, "No."

 

The Lord went down again and came up with an old iron club. "Is this your club?" the Lord asked.

 

The golfer replied, "Yes, that’s it!"

 

The Lord was pleased with the golfer's honesty and gave him all three clubs to keep, and the golfer won his tournament and went home happy.

 

Sometime later, the golfer was walking with his wife along the water hazard, and she fell into the lake.

 

When he cried out, the Lord again appeared and asked him, "Why are you crying?"

 

"Oh, Lord, my woman has fallen into the water!"

 

The Lord went into the water and reappeared with Kate Upton.  "Is this your woman?" the Lord asked.

 

 

"Yes," cried the golfer.

 

The Lord was furious. "You lied! That is an untruth!"

 

The golfer replied, "Oh, forgive me Lord. It is a misunderstanding. You see, if I had said 'No' to Kate Upton, you would have come up with Jennifer Anniston. Then if I said 'No' to her, you would have come up with my woman. Had I then said 'Yes,' you would have given me all three. And Lord, I am an old man not able to take care of all three women in a way that they deserve... so that's why I said 'Yes' to Kate Upton.

 

And God was pleased.

 

The moral of this story is:

 

If a golfer ever tells a lie, it is for a good and honorable reason and only out of consideration for others.

Wayne Gary

Steve,

When you get better I will be glad to come down and toast you with a bottle of bubbly Sparkling Non Alcohol Grape Coctail Juice.

Steve Keene

Wayne,

Thanks.  I will not tell any aggie jokes when you come.

Wayne Gary

Last night I was talking to my wife of 25yrs. She said before we met she would not marry an Aggie or a salesman.  She ended up marring me, and Aggie and industrial pump salesman.