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  • Sue 11:11 PM on July 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    I’m All In 

    You guys have kept me jumpin’ these last couple of days. A few more updates are on the web – all great pictures and interesting life stories. Don’t miss the picture of Louise Stott Jankowski’s Purple Beast!

    New since last post are Bill Quinn, Mary Sheehan Shearin, Jim O’Connor, Lola Durrant Smitt, Louise Stott Jankowski, and Liz Butler Marren. WHEW Marathon Web Work!

    This will probably be the last post till the Reunion. I will be “on the road” starting tomorrow morning until I reach Chicago on Monday. My wonderful 84-year-old mother thinks she still has dial-up at her place, but she hasn’t used her computer for several years now, so who knows. I have my laptop with me, but I need to hook to internet somewhere to post. Not gonna worry about it.

    SEE YOU ALL ON FRIDAY!!!

     

    • Louise Stott Jankowski 5:56 AM on July 20, 2009 Permalink

      Great website to browse. thanks for all your work with this. Loved reading what everyone is up to now. Best part— we are all elders!

  • Sue 7:24 AM on July 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    It’s Thursday 

    I knew this was what would happen. Everybody’s a procrastinator – including me. So what does that mean? Most of the people that I have been begging to send in their updates – have done it in the last two days.

    The website is looking the way I envisioned it lately though. Tuesday and Wednesday I got Mike Glynn, Mary Corley Smith, Patti Duffy Poirier, Joan Challingsworth Goliak, Madelon Healy Pearlman, Tom Lyons, John Dunne, Melody McCormick DeLaMar , and Betty Ashe Ronksley updated.

    Sorry though, Pat (Urbut), Patti didn’t send in any pictures yet. Pat mentioned in an email:
    ” I went on my first sort of date with Patti and Celeste Wantroba (from the class ahead of us) and Larry Bonnevier. She probably does not even remember. We went to Ryan’s Drug Store at 87th and Ashland to Scotty’s fountain in the back and had cokes.”

    Today I’ll be working on Jim O’Connor, Bill Quinn, Mary Sheehan Shearin, and Lola Durrant Smitt – and any others that trickle in …..

     

  • Sue 8:09 AM on July 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Tuesday’s Headlines 

    Impassioned pleas still work too. Yesterday I got Mary Corley Smith’s and Betty Ashe Ronksley’s update information for the web. Great pictures from both. Those are up already. This morning I heard from Patti Duffy Poirier and Mike Glynn. Those will get put up later today.

    You guys just wanted to stress out my last couple days before I leave Huh??? How many more can get in before Saturday?

     

  • Sue 3:14 PM on July 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Quick Update 

    We are continuing to dicker with Toby’s on getting us the best deal for the money. We are hoping to get at least an hour or hour and a half of open bar and then go to cash bar after dinner. Check the blog for updates.

    Mike Shaughnessy has submitted his update for the website. There is a great picture of Mike and some of his family, and a few paragraphs of info on what Mike is doing now. Unfortunately, Mike will not be attending, but he does say he will raise a glass or two that night in a toast.

    He also mentions this in his update:
    “Question for the class: does anyone else remember a day in late spring of ’59 when a group of St. E alums celebrating their 50th stopped outside of our classroom? I “think” I recall that scene and hearing Marilou Gannon and some of the other girls commenting on how strange it would be to come back after 50 years.”

    Anyone else remember that???

     

  • Sue 7:31 AM on June 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Toby’s Squeeze Play 

    Just a little update for those of you following what is happening to get us ready for this Big Event. We found out yesterday that the actual cost of the food/tip is a bit more than we were lead to expect. Seems there is some new county or local tax being added to each meal starting July 1st which brings the total tax up to a whopping 9%.

    That is going to eat into what we thought we had available for flowers, a cake, little prizes, etc. The committee is discussing now how to handle the cash bar tab. More updates as they become available. All thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.

     

  • Sue 9:12 PM on June 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    A Head’s Up 

    Okay all of you who are attending the Big Event on the 24th. Here is a head’s up if you are checking in on the blog regularly like you should be to get the most up to the minute news ….

    Start absorbing all the 50′s trivia that you can. It will put you at the “head of the class” on Reunion night.

    ‘Nuff said.

     

  • Sue 7:54 AM on June 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    3rd Grade Teacher 

    In the last Newsletter I mentioned the 3rd Grade Class picture sent in by Cathy Riordan Full and asked who the lay teacher was. I got the following response by email from Pat Urbut

    “The 3rd grade teacher was Mrs. Cusack. She used to favor you girls. She hated the lazy good for nothing boys. She would have the students with 100′s in spelling tests stand up for recognition and mention how many weeks in a row that Mary Eberhart, Dorothy Koch, Cathy Riordan, Maryann S. and others received 100′s and say nothing about myself and any other boys. I can’t forget her. Pat”

    It must be Mary Ellen Eberhardt that you are mentioning Pat, as I am pretty sure I had Sister Malcolm for 3rd grade. I don’t remember having a lay teacher at all.

     

  • Sue 5:55 PM on June 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Mystery Solved 

    Today one of the great mysteries of the 1984 Reunion picture has been solved. All this time we have had one unidentified woman in the picture and Betty Ashe Ronksley and Lourdes Morris Garrick have set us straight. When Betty sent in her RSVP yesterday she mentioned that the header picture on her personal page for 1984 was the wrong picture. I asked her to look at the “unidentified woman” and lo and behold this is what she had to say,

    “Yep, that’s me sitting behind that cute Rich DeFay and next to MaryEllen Moran. Unfortunately, I’m not able to identify the female you thought was me. :) ”

    After looking more closely, and going through who was left that might have been there, I thought it might be Lourdes. Sho’ nuff. It is Lourdes. Pictures have all been updated to be on the correct pages.

    Another Update came in and is posted – John Knipper has sent in a picture and a little summary of the last 25 years.

     

  • Sue 3:25 PM on June 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Newsletter Proves Caustic Better Than Polite 

    Now I know for sure – beating up on people in the Newsletter works better than being nice. Tom B. tried to tell me that a couple of months ago. “Get tough” he told me, but I wanted to be the sweet, shy person that everyone remembers (HA!). But today within minutes of the Newsletter being delivered to inboxes, I had two emails, another ticket purchased, and a few hours later, an RSVP and a donation.

    Now that’s more like it!

    Jim O’Connor emailed because I spelled his last name incorrectly (UGH – hate to admit that one), Lourdes emailed with a suggestion for a competition at the Reunion. I know Pat Urbut doesn’t want to waste time with “silly games” as he emailed a week or so ago, but this one sounds like a good one. Betty Ashe Ronksley RSVP’d to let us know that she will be unable to attend, but sent a donation for the website.

    Good work for the day. Still have about half the classmates to open their email yet.

     

  • Sue 12:37 PM on June 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    More Nostalgia 

    Today I am working on a project that was initiated by a package that arrived yesterday from Cathy Riordan Full. She has come up with three years worth (Grades 4 thru 6) of Art Appreciation project books – remember those old black and white marbled Whitefield Composition books? I am going to scan them in and create a slideshow for the site. Should be done in a couple of days.

    After perusing the material, it made me reflect a bit on the unbelievable excellence of the education we got back then for our parents hard-earned $1/month payment to St. Ethelreda.

    A couple years back I wrote a column about the Slumming Down of America (Can be read here) following the footsteps of the Dumbing Down of America. It was prompted by being appalled daily at the lack of education evident in the business world here in the Wild West. Don’t know if my classmates in Arizona have felt the same way, but Nevada is truly a barbaric redneck stronghold. (Marianne, where you are doesn’t count. You are surrounded by academia and where Jim Fee is in Portland I never noticed the same depth of ignorance when I lived there because Portland is too much a metropolis.)

    I come close to strangling strangers in grocery stores and restaurants when I hear the common use of double negatives that bombards my ears from every quarter and have bitten my tongue bloody to keep from making some acerbic retort that the poor slobs wouldn’t understand anyway.

    I think I miss the midwest.

     

    • Jimbo 1:45 PM on June 15, 2009 Permalink

      Sue,
      Good thought. I honestly believe that people with reading, writing and language skills like ours were lumped together in the last election under the the pejorative term, intellectual elitists. Ya know there ain’t many elitist liberals in Crawford, Texas. Its the 1 gallon head in the ten gallon hat phenomenon. Basic educational skills are sadly lacking.

    • Sue 7:39 PM on June 16, 2009 Permalink

      Here is a good example of the corporate irresponsibility that feeds the dumbing of America. Today I was watching some TV and a Smith’s Grocery ad came on with their hype about lowering prices yadda yadda and then they had cameos of “regular customers” touting the greatness of Smith’s. The one that made my head snap up (I was multi-tasking) was a young woman with straggly hair who proclaimed proudly that “Me and my family save lots of money by shopping Smith’s”.

      How can you expect people to have an appreciation for education when the corporate giants (Smith’s is part of Kroger) pander to the lowest levels. Appalling!

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