Wednesday, April 27, 2005
To heck with free pizza
How many classmates remember all the food at the Edgewater ten years ago? How many remember that much of the pizza was donated?
While an unfortunate but generous soul, suffering from manic depression, was busy buying up First Avenue in Sandpoint (real estate was inordinately cheaper then), he ran into a couple of our illustrious classmates. After learning we were having a reunion, he decided to contribute his fair share by supplying "all the pizza we could eat."
He apparently paid for the pizza but had to give the commercial property back to the owners when it was discovered he was in the manic stage.
Well, this year it's looking even more exciting as Salvador with his sexual fantasies, Ted with his desires to blow up all new Sandpoint developments, and Strings Turinsky with his courtesy may just join in on our fun.
I always knew we members of the Class of 1965 had good kharma! Stay tuned.
--- Marianne
While an unfortunate but generous soul, suffering from manic depression, was busy buying up First Avenue in Sandpoint (real estate was inordinately cheaper then), he ran into a couple of our illustrious classmates. After learning we were having a reunion, he decided to contribute his fair share by supplying "all the pizza we could eat."
He apparently paid for the pizza but had to give the commercial property back to the owners when it was discovered he was in the manic stage.
Well, this year it's looking even more exciting as Salvador with his sexual fantasies, Ted with his desires to blow up all new Sandpoint developments, and Strings Turinsky with his courtesy may just join in on our fun.
I always knew we members of the Class of 1965 had good kharma! Stay tuned.
--- Marianne
Sunday, April 24, 2005
On the go
Mike Parkins has been in Washington, D.C. this week. I learned that while checking my email in Chicago last Sunday morning. I don't know what Mike was up to, but I was accompanying my mother to her sister's funeral in Kalamazoo. The entire experience turned out to be complete immersion into my Irish Catholic roots.
Anyway, I'm back. Judy Chronic Dabrowski had wanted to get together the week before, so we'll probably do that this week and finally get some prices out to classmates. We're planning to go to the Elks (restaurant is known as Hooties), eat some lunch, do some yakking and nail down prices and a tentative menu.
So, stay tuned. You may be hearing some definite stuff by this time next week.
Mike Rosenberger went through a little scare with his heart a few weeks ago. He's looking and feeling good, however, because he went to the doctor in time to get the problem under control.
It's turning into that beautiful spring time in North Idaho where bright reds, yellows, and blues of tulips, hyacinths and daffodils and soft pastels of blossoming fruit trees are providing a gorgeous contrast to the fast-growing deep green grass. Of course, the dandelions are doing their thing too.
The Sandpoint area continues to experience virtually split-second transformations as new restaurants are being readied for summer openings. A second Starbuck's will soon keep the folks in Ponderay primed. The land developers are fast at it, with the digging, the pounding and the painting of a myriad of new structures popping up throughout the community.
We locals are hoping we recognize the place by the time all you visitors show up in late July.
Have a great Sunday. Marianne
Anyway, I'm back. Judy Chronic Dabrowski had wanted to get together the week before, so we'll probably do that this week and finally get some prices out to classmates. We're planning to go to the Elks (restaurant is known as Hooties), eat some lunch, do some yakking and nail down prices and a tentative menu.
So, stay tuned. You may be hearing some definite stuff by this time next week.
Mike Rosenberger went through a little scare with his heart a few weeks ago. He's looking and feeling good, however, because he went to the doctor in time to get the problem under control.
It's turning into that beautiful spring time in North Idaho where bright reds, yellows, and blues of tulips, hyacinths and daffodils and soft pastels of blossoming fruit trees are providing a gorgeous contrast to the fast-growing deep green grass. Of course, the dandelions are doing their thing too.
The Sandpoint area continues to experience virtually split-second transformations as new restaurants are being readied for summer openings. A second Starbuck's will soon keep the folks in Ponderay primed. The land developers are fast at it, with the digging, the pounding and the painting of a myriad of new structures popping up throughout the community.
We locals are hoping we recognize the place by the time all you visitors show up in late July.
Have a great Sunday. Marianne
Monday, April 11, 2005
J Paul and Judy
Heard more from J. Paul Munson this morning, regarding teaching, tractors and biking. Paul says he'd like to head up a biking activity during the reunion. As an avid biker myself, I may join him and his wife.
Judy Turnbull Collett also wrote from Virginia, so I can take her off the "missing students" list.
On another note, you may be interested to note that last week's announcement of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction had a Sandpoint twist. Pulitzer Prize winner, Marilynne (Sommers) Robinson, author of Gilead and her earlier novel Housekeeping, grew up in Sandpoint. She's four years older than we are, and she eventually graduated from Coeur d'Alene.
Her family and the Ross Halls were good friends, so when the movie version of Housekeeping premiered at the Panida Theater back in the 1980s, Dann Hall presented her with a bouquet of flowers.
Guess that's all for now. Hope everyone has a good week.
Judy Turnbull Collett also wrote from Virginia, so I can take her off the "missing students" list.
On another note, you may be interested to note that last week's announcement of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction had a Sandpoint twist. Pulitzer Prize winner, Marilynne (Sommers) Robinson, author of Gilead and her earlier novel Housekeeping, grew up in Sandpoint. She's four years older than we are, and she eventually graduated from Coeur d'Alene.
Her family and the Ross Halls were good friends, so when the movie version of Housekeeping premiered at the Panida Theater back in the 1980s, Dann Hall presented her with a bouquet of flowers.
Guess that's all for now. Hope everyone has a good week.
Monday, April 04, 2005
J Paul checks in
I heard from J. Paul Munson this morning. He told me he'd tried to post some stuff on the blog. Unless I haven't been paying attention, I haven't seen it. With that in mind, I'll repeat the basic procedure for posting your own entries on the blog.
Go to www.shs1965.blogspot.com. When you get there, click on the little orange and white icon in the upper left corner.
That gets you into a page that asks for your username and password in the upper right corner.
Type shs1965 for the username and straley as the password. Once you've typed in straley, your computer should remember that.
Next, click "sign in."
That gets you to a page where you'll see "Ruthann" and "shs1965." Click on shs1965.
Click on "compose a new post," and that will get you to what I'm typing on right now. It has a long thin box with the word "title" and a bigger box. The long, thin box is for your posting title, and the bigger box is for whatever you wish to write. You can write at length in here, adjust your font size, color and style. Your title is a standard font that cannot be changed.
When you're all finished writing and want to get a general but not completely accurate look at how your posting may look, go to the extreme right and hit "preview." If you're satisfied and don't need to make any changes, click on "Publish." It will take a minute or so; then you can view your posting as it appears on the blog.
If you don't like what you see or see some mistakes, go up to the left corner and repeat the above procedure------except to click on your posting title for editing rather than composing a new message.
You can post as often or as much as you like. Hope to see a few classmates make the plunge; once you succeed, you'll see how easy it is.
AND if all does not work, send what you want to have posted to me, and I'll see that it gets on the blog.
Go to www.shs1965.blogspot.com. When you get there, click on the little orange and white icon in the upper left corner.
That gets you into a page that asks for your username and password in the upper right corner.
Type shs1965 for the username and straley as the password. Once you've typed in straley, your computer should remember that.
Next, click "sign in."
That gets you to a page where you'll see "Ruthann" and "shs1965." Click on shs1965.
Click on "compose a new post," and that will get you to what I'm typing on right now. It has a long thin box with the word "title" and a bigger box. The long, thin box is for your posting title, and the bigger box is for whatever you wish to write. You can write at length in here, adjust your font size, color and style. Your title is a standard font that cannot be changed.
When you're all finished writing and want to get a general but not completely accurate look at how your posting may look, go to the extreme right and hit "preview." If you're satisfied and don't need to make any changes, click on "Publish." It will take a minute or so; then you can view your posting as it appears on the blog.
If you don't like what you see or see some mistakes, go up to the left corner and repeat the above procedure------except to click on your posting title for editing rather than composing a new message.
You can post as often or as much as you like. Hope to see a few classmates make the plunge; once you succeed, you'll see how easy it is.
AND if all does not work, send what you want to have posted to me, and I'll see that it gets on the blog.
