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Comments: Pocket? It's a wedding ring. Tell him to check his nose.
Comments: Hey, John, did you ask the guy if he looked in his pocket?
Comments: I'm a member of two metal detecting clubs and today got an email from the president of the Tomball club. A 45 yr. old guy lost his wedding band Sunday at a soccer field in The Woodlands and was seeking help in recovering it. He contacted the club and they got me involved since I live closest to the site. So I spoke with the hapless ring loser. He's been married two years and of course wants it back. He could go out and buy a replacement, but it's not the same and would cost far more at today's gold prices. He described the ring as being a plain 14k band with no inscriptions. He says it is a "Comfort Fit" style with rolled edges (but I've never heard that description before). I've enlisted a team of 4 other guys with detectors to join me early Thursday morning and attempt to cover the dimensions of a soccer field. Should be challenging. We shall see if the conclusion is Treasure Island or Mission Impossible ...
Comments: In just 15 minutes Survivor: South Pacific begins a new season! After a long, slow summer my life again has PURPOSE! I'll go out on a limb here and predict that "Coach", my mentor and role model, will emerge as the victor at the end. You heard it here first.
Comments: Had one of those "small world" moments yesterday. Had to have a secondary cataract removed, and while waiting with the others having the same procedure, I struck up a conversation with a 93-year-old lady. Turns out she lived in the Cedar Crest subdivision of Oak Cliff years ago. Her oldest daughter graduated from Adamson, but her youngest graduated from SOC (she thinks in '67 - Linda McNeese?). She was delighted to find someone from the old neighborhood and reminisced quite a bit. The laser surgery took 2 minutes and it was like a miracle again. I can see!
Comments: If any one would like to help us build a Habitat house this Fall, you can sign up at the following link. The house will be in south Ft. Worth and the dates are Oct 22, 29 and Nov 5,12. The group on the web site is Southlake Boulevard Presbyterian Church. If you like to hit things with a hammer, here's your chance. Standard union wages apply during the week. http://trinitygroupsandsponsors.volunteerhub.com/SignIn.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fEvents%2fBrowse.aspx
Comments:  Never Forget !!!!!!!!!!!
Comments: Lynell, Thank you for posting this great photo! Isn't it just now, ten years later, that we are starting to realize how good we had things before 9/11? Like when John F. Kennedy was shot, the November after we graduated --something was lost in all of us, and we value each other all the more...
Comments: Remembering.
Comments: Ginger, Hospice is wonderful. I am so glad that they have accepted your mom and will help her now stay pain free. Hopsice helps all family members during this process. May your mother live through out her days in peace and contentment and I pray for your peace, strength and contentment too.
Comments: Two more Socites tied the knot in matrimony today. Danny Willard left us a note on Facebook that Danny Kaumeyer (class of 64) and Pam Orr-Soules (class of 65) were married today. Congratulations to Pam and Danny. I know several of you in this class know them both and share in their happiness today.
Comments: Well..Jim/Jimmy...I don't remember what the prize was, but my my mother always had us go to all the revival services..and 'Pack the Pews'.. Grace Temple Baptist, then Hillcrest Baptist Church. Mary Gene was a good friend always and such a good picture of her in the Eaglette uniform. I liked her dad and her mom, too. Thanks for sharing.. I'm here to report that my mother, Dorothy Virginia Hearn, was put on Hospice last night after the second hospital stay. She is at the Vista Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Ctr. in Lewisville. There was a sigh of relief by people, including 'on my mother's face', when it was decided that she will be cared for at the nursing home. Ginger Hearn
Comments: Okay, Ginger Hearn -- (And Others are Welcome to Read!) This memory of Mary Gene Florence is especially for you -- I remember you with much joy from Harold Budd, although we were not in the same classes, and we did not know each other well. But, one day at Boude Storey, Mary Gene said, "Ginger Hearn is needing people to come to a youth revival at her church and she will win a big prize if she has the most visitors!" Of course, we all wanted to help, so Mary Gene invited 12 people and we all showed up at your church!! You were amazed, and you were very appreciative. And, I remember thinking, "Now, THIS is how friendship should work!!" Obviously, Mary Gene valued your friendship very much, and would do anything for a friend! With Fond Memories, Jim
Comments: Jim(my), thank you for the walk down memory lane with your touching and sweet story. Mary Gene was a lovely person and would adore you remembering her is such a wonderful way. She and I were also friends at Cliff Temple before Boude Storey. I loved seeing her obit pictures. She had such beautiful white hair. You are so right...she was very smart....that is one sure thing we did NOT have in common!
Comments:  Those of you who know, will know, and words are not necessary.
Comments: My Fellow SOCites, I spent an hour last night looking at the 1961 SOC Den and reliving so many good memories with all of you! I will miss Mary Gene Florence very much because she "polished me up" at such an early age and made me a better human... If you want to say, "Hi", please feel free to email me
Comments: Jim Stegall, whom we knew as Jimmy back at Storey and our first year at SOC, has written a lovely tribute to our Mary Gene Florence. It's on the Guest Column page. Thanks a million, Jimmy -- er, Jim! I remember you, and so do plenty of others in this group.
Comments: I haven't been on campus at NT since 1980! And the last time I drove north on I-35 has been at least 15 years. It seems like we are always going east or south. I would like to see the new stadium. I just hope the Mean Green will be able to fill it! I'm so glad it's football season again.
Comments: Please pray for all the unfortunate people being impacted by the wildfires, and for all the firefighters working so hard. if you're near my office and want to drop off supplies (water, Gatorade, pollution-type masks, energy bars, etc., I will be delivering them to the firefighters over the next few days.
Comments: Oh my! Sharon, Have you been to Denton lately? Whoa! The campus of UNT is unbelievable now. One can no longer drive much on campus. I think Bruce Hall N&S is still there, but turned into a Music dorm of sorts. The duplex Terry and I lived in on Sycamore is now campus. The apartment we lived in on Hickory was still there last April, but the apartments that the Vessels and Terry and I lived in our last years there are now sports stadiums.....It is just amazing....It is Future Shock for me. BTW both Terry and Ben Morris were both elected Distinguished Alumni. Terry 2008 and Ben 2011. I have been back to see the campus when I attended their award celebrations. Terry and Margaret and Ben are attending a football game this month in the new stadium. I will be out of town and will miss that.
Comments: Sharon, why would you want to go to Denton? I'm not there!
Comments: Happy Birthday to my roomie, Pat Vessels, and many more. Do you want to take a trip to Denton and see if there is anything left that we remember? Hope you have a wonderful birthday.
Comments: First Piggly Wiggly...Sept. 6, 1916 at 79 Jefferson St..Memphis, Tn. Google.. Piggly Wiggly...About Us..It has a picture of the first store and Clarence.... There are 2 left..here. The one on Madison 'changed names' this year..to Cash Saver.. The 2 left...one on Elvis Presley Blvd. and the other on S. Perkins.. The one on Jefferson..must have 'gone away' a long time ago... 
Comments: I lived in Detroit until 1957. We had an icebox and an iceman. We also had a milkman who came pre-dawn and put the milk in a little door on the side of the house that we could access from a little door inside. Sometimes in winter the milk would quickly freeze and there would be a column of frozen milk -- cream, actually, since it was on top -- protruding several inches straight up. We had a full attic and basement, including a coal cellar. A coal truck pulled up beside the house, put a chute in a basement window and filled the room almost to the ceiling with coal that my Dad would have to shovel into the furnace every few hours, around the clock. As soon as he could, Papa got the furnace converted to gas -- so no more shoveling coal -- but we were never able to get all the coal stains off the walls. We also had a fruit cellar, a tiny room under the stairs with cedar walls and lots of shelves full of wonderful stuff my Mom canned. We had a Fuller Brush man, too, who always brought little treats for us kids.
Comments: We never had milk or bread delivery, but I do remember the iceman. My family actually had a refrigerator, but some of our neighbors in east Dallas (before moving to OC in 1956) had ice boxes. The iceman usually came twice a week during the summer and all of us kids would stand at the back of his truck and he would use an ice pick and knock off a piece for everyone of us. Boy, that would have come in handy this summer. I remember those men were really muscular because they had to pick up what was probably a fifty pound block of ice with a huge pair of tongs and carry it on their backs to the customer's ice box. I also remember walking to the store with my mom and if we had too many sacks, we just pushed the cart home and then I would take it back. Of course, the store was only two blocks away.
Comments: Sigh......just when you thought it was safe to peek out from under the bed.......leftnellgarrettitis rears its ugly head.....sigh.
Comments: I remember how my grandmother and also my mother used to call the corner grocer store and order their groceries. I also remember my mother sending me over to Mr. Sledge's Grocery Store. It was a small, white house on Barbot Street in Oak Cliff. I would buy small items like milk and bread and then walk home. No one ever seemed to worry about my safety. I doubt if it even crossed their minds especially since we never bothered to lock our doors when we left home. I have often wished our local stores would have a delivery services like the Manor Man, the Metzgers Milk Man and the Fuller Brush Man... My brother and I loved the Manor Bread Man. We would run to the door and greet him with our mother. He had all the best cinnamon rolls, cookies at eye level for the kids to point to and say "We want this one, we want this one." Our mother then had to make the big decisions as to which ones to choose.
Comments: Well, crud. Double posted. Grrrr...
Comments: Camille and Diane, so nice to hear from both of you. Before we had a car, we walked to the grocery store (there were few watermelons at the Garrett house.) I remember that Piggly Wiggly on Kiest and thought the name was hilarious. Camille, I have a feeling Karl would have thought it was funny, too. He was a great guy, and y'all were a wonderful SOC couple.
Comments: Camille and Diane, so nice to hear from both of you. Before we had a car, we walked to the grocery store (there were few watermelons at the Garrett house.) I remember that Piggly Wiggly on Kiest and thought the name was hilarious. Camille, I have a feeling Karl would have thought it was funny, too. He was a great guy, and y'all were a wonderful SOC couple. |
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