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Jim Cejka

Suppose they gave a bunch of hype, and a Super Bowl came?

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Jim......Weather in your neck of the woods not what we expected - locals told us the coldest in 20 years. First walk on the beach, I wore my ski jacket with the hood up! Slight improvement next days, but marginal. But I really enjoyed the local flora, including some kind of tree with beautifully shiny leaves. Driving on the bridges looking down at the sweetgrass, we saw why you are called "low country". Took us a while to get used to being addressed as "Y'all", and wondered how long one lives there before beginning to use it. 

All very interesting and fun, but we left early, thus avoiding driving in the predicted freezing rain in Michigan on Wednesday. Nearing home, enjoying the sun sparkling on this morning's fresh snowfall, I asked Karsten, "What's your favorite part of a trip - planning and anticipating, or coming home?"  For him, the former - for me the latter. 

Happy to be home in time to watch the game. But, how much less exciting it is when it isn't the Packers!

Jim Cejka

Sorry about that Nancy. We Southerners here do work in a week or two of “cold” (30ish temps) each year so that we can commiserate with the northern folk that we suffer a winter too.

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Sorry, Jim, but "30-ish" is not cold. Teens are cold. Single digits are very cold. Below zero is frigid.

Jeanne Zinser (Gottschalk)

Nancy, I totally agree! It was in the 40s today, and people were running about without coats/jackets, and some were wearing shorts. Ah, winter in the Northlands!

Jim Cejka

Hey y'all, it's winter when the temp outside is anything lower/cooler that a mint julep. 

William Nelson

As a late associate of mine from Florida used to say, "The Souther, the better!"

Tom Burger

Just curious... Am I the only Custer '62 grad that is still working full-time? 

Jim Cejka

Tom, you may be one of the few that is "working full-time" at a job, but I'd bet that there's a lot of your fellow grads that will tell you that they are now working harder, i.e., more busy, than whenever they were gainfully employed.

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

When I walked out the door to take my trash out the other night here in LA, the coldness of the 42° air took my breath away! (It must be true that your blood gets "thinner" the more years you spend in a warmer climate.)  But to show the goofiness of the weather, just 2 days earlier it was 80° for my grandson's outdoor birthday party, the apple tree was full of blossoms, and the air was fragrant with Spring flowers — it was warm enough to smell them. And then, Whammo! 42°!

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Bless. you, Terri. Only in California could 42 degrees elicit "whammo". 😘

Jim Cejka

Nancy, want to try again? Temps in the 70s pushing 80. (And no forcast of snow or ice on the way.)

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

Tom, I reitred from full time teaching in 2011, but have been doing some part-time work ever since. For me, it's healthy to keep up my skills. I subbed for elementary school for 6 years, and have been Zoom tutoring for the past 4. Those little students keep me up to date on the latest technology, and have allowed me to discover and enjoy some new children's authors. You MAY be the only one working full time, but I wonder if there are others still working part time?

Jim Cejka

Edisonites - a question - 

Did we have a school mascot when we were at Edison? Seems like every school has one now, no matter what grade. What were we - the "bulbs", the "watts", the "carbon filiments?" 

Is a puzzlement.

Kenneth Pallaske

Hi, Gar(r)y,

You mean to say it took you all these years to score a hole-in-one on a putt putt course? Congratulations. 

I've lived in Michigan since 1967. I am a Packer fan all the way, even to this day. However, I do wish Rogers would stop all of the drama. On another football note: The Detroit Lions suck. I did feel bad for Matthew Stafford, a premiere QB suffering an agonizing career with these losers. So happy to see him traded, resulting in a Super Bowl ring.

Wayne Reineck

I enjoyed the video but I only recognized Willie Nelson and a couple others. I was going to complain because Dolly Parton wasn't in the video. Then they segued into the best song that she ever wrote. And then they ended it with her. I'm glad that I wasn't too quick to voice my opinion. However there were a few country/western songs that snuck onto WOKY (920) and WRIT (1340) in our days.

Remember, "Please Mr. Custer?"

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Hi Gordon "Allen", 

Looking at your last post and judging by the very large blank space at the end of it, I suspect you had the same experience as did I. I had posted a response to Jim welcoming us back to his improved weather conditions. As I said, we're "livin' the dream.." ,  to which I added a photo of us up to our eyeballs in snow - with Karsten on the snowplow and me wrestling with the shovel. Thought I was just terribly funny. Well, the photo was too large, and didn't work. I'm not tech-savvy enough to minimize it,  so no one in the warm climes had a chance to laugh at us in our misery.

Jim Cejka

So, Nancy, Al - thaaaaaaat's what that was. . . 

When I post pictures I click on the little box next to "Source" at the top of the write a message page. That opens an Image box for you to chose what file (pic) you want all of us to see. You can click "Choose File" to go through and find your picture. Choose your pic file and then you enter the width and height you want it. Put in some numbers, e.g., 300, 500, not much bigger than 500 actually. It doesn't say what units that's in, maybe "Garry's" or something, doesn't matter. You can put in whatever, experiment with the numbers. Then click on "Upload" and ta-da, your pic comes up, you can see how it fits, and go back and redo the numbers until you like it. You can make yourselves, your friends, or your scenery tall and skinny, or short and . . .not skinny, as you like. The just hit "Submit" at the bottom of this thing and you're on. 

It's magic.

Jim Cejka

Nancy, a memento from your friends down south.

Gordon "Allen" Mitchell

Trying again. It has been 88 or so all week here in Orlando. I have a backyard weather station (hobby). Here's a report 

Barbara Blair (Brenzel)

Could be all during the same day!!

Barb

William Nelson

I just noticed in Recent Passings, the note about the death of Barbara Rank. In that article, it mentions she married Judy Rank's brother, Doug Rank. I knew Judy Rank and I knew her brother, Don Rank. As I read that, I thought my memory must be going bad, because I was sure it was Don; not Doug. There was a link to her obituary after the article that confirmed my memory. It mentions her late husband Don. They were somehow related to a local Dodge/Plymouth and, later, Buick dealer, Rank & Son, but I don't remember the exact relationship. Don and Judy were both good folks, but I never saw either of them again after high school. I didn't know Barbara.

Mitchell Heinrichs

Hi William you are correct , Judy and Don where brother and sister ,Don was a 61 grad in the band. Barb and Judy were good friends and after graduation Barb married Don. He worked at Miller and retired up to Door Co. . Don passed a few years ago of lung cancer . They were both heavy smokers , Barb chose not to have amputations du to cerculatory problems. I would see them  from time to time but they were stay at home folk. They are missed. 

William Nelson

Thank you, Mitchell,

Although I knew both of them, we weren't close friends. We had different interests, but Don and I were in a couple of classes together, and I only knew Judy through him. We were in Miss Sherwood's speech class together for one semester and I believe I heard the Rank & Son Dodge connection during one of the interviews we had to do. When I checked the yearbook, I couldn't find him, but then discovered he graduated from summer school. I graduated in January, 1961, but had several friends on the stage crew who graduated in '62. Our neighbor back then, Ken Rabas, was also a '62 graduate. We still see him nearly every year when we're up there visiting our families. My brother-in-law died last week, so we're headed to Hudson, WI on Thursday. Don't like traveling so much anymore, especially this time of year, but want to be with the family. Hope the weather cooperates.

Mitchell Heinrichs

Hi William Have a nice trip it should be good timeing as we recieved 5inches Sunday but the band of snow was limited to our town and only 20 miles north and south wonderful . I know I remember some very slight association with Rank and Son dealership but a distant relatiive . We had several partys at the Golden Lion hotel on Hwy 41 next to the old star light theater another relation of Barbs. We had some good times.