No Blog Tomorrow.
Bernadette and I are invited to a Birthday dinner tomorrow evening for a good friend of ours, so I won’t be posting a blog.
Gary
Happy Birthday Warren Anderson (’65): Rolette, ND
Dawn Gregory Allard
Reply from Muzette Berube Fiander (’74): MELBOURNE, FL
Hi Gary,
So saddened to hear of my classmate Dawn Gregory Allard’s (’74) battle with breast cancer. My thoughts and prayers are with you Dawn – be strong!
Muzette Berube Fiander (’74)
Thanks Gary,
Muzette
Dawn Gregory Allard’s Benefit
Reply from Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND
Hi Gary,
I was going to scan/send Dawn’s benefit notice from the Courant, but see Rod Hiatt beat me to it. Great! I took 10 packages, or so, if caramels to Pride Dairy for the auction. Actually, I’m apartment bound, so my next door neighbor, Linda Meyer, took the caramels to Pride Dairy. I hope the benefit raises BIG BUCKS!!
I don’t know Scott Charrier, but it’s sad to hear anyone has cancer. I hope his benefit goes very well, too.
Wally has picked up my Vista 7 and has everything hooked up–except my laser printer and my inkjet printer won’t work. He can’t locate the disk for my scanner (Epsom V4550, or something), so that isn’t working as of now, either. He’s been working on getting programs added/figuring it out/etc. for a couple of days now. He has a Vista 7, but I’m guessing mine has newer features than his does.
Neola
Dennis Dubois (’63) Memories
From Lee Stickland (’64): Dickinson, ND
As well as Dennis Dubois being an exceptional basketball player, he is demonstrating his appreciation for great art. He is also, reportedly, a golfer of extraordinary pursuit and accomplishment. He and I had a ping pong tournament when in high school. He says he won and I owe him $200. I failed to keep the score card so have no valid reference thus the $200 is floating in the clouds or buried in the concrete of his most successful construction company. Lee
Scott Charrier
Reply form Dennis Dubois (’63): Minneapolis, MN
In regards to Scott Charrier posting. I had stage 3 esophageal cancer 7 years ago. My staging was T3N1M0, I’m sure you’ll recognize this. I had 5FU and Cisplatin chem combo,along with 28 radiation treatments, then I had surgery (Ivor Lewis procedure) at Mayo. Dr. Mark Allen, the head Thoracic Surgeon did the surgery. I believe this will be the protocol that you will receive, as I just visited with some new esophageal cancer patients at Mayo and that is still the protocol that is being used. If you have any questions, feel free to call me at 763-755-4144. I made it and I know you can too. I hope to hear from you.
1965 Basketball March Madness in Belcourt
Posted by Les Halvorson (Teacher): Bottineau, ND
hi Gary,
now that our college march madness is over thought I would send you the teams that made up the March madness in Belcourt in 1965. Still have plenty of snow around here..see you in July….Les
Thank you Les for sharing this with us. I know this will bring back many good memories to a lot of our readers.
Folks, please see the attachment for the complete listing of all of the local Rolette County High Schools and others. I pasted Dunseith’s below. The whole list is just too big for posting in the body of this email message.
Gary
Picture from Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND
Joke of the Day
Posted by Cecile Carbonneau Marchand (’51): Clearwater, FL
Just a little joke from Florida. North Dakota just seems to stay with us no matter where we are. I really enjoy your Blog. Keep it up
A young guy from North Dakota moves to Florida and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?” The kid says “Yeah. I was a vacuum salesman back in North Dakota .”
Well, the boss was unsure, but he liked the kid and figured he’d give him a shot, so he gave him the job.
“You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did.”
His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down to the sales floor.
“How many customers bought something from you today son?”
The kid frowns and looks at the floor and mutters, “One”.
The boss says “Just one?!!?
Our sales people average sales to 20 to 30 customers a day.
That will have to change, and soon, if you’d like to continue your employment here. We have very strict standards for our sales force here in Florida .
One sale a day might have been acceptable in North Dakota , but you’re not on the farm anymore, son.”
The kid took his beating, but continued to look at his shoes, so the boss felt kinda bad for chewing him out on his first day.
He asked (semi-sarcastically), “So, how much was your one sale for?”
The kid looks up at his boss and says “$101,237.65″.
The boss, astonished, says $101,237.65?!? What the heck did you sell?”
The kid says, “Well, first, I sold him some new fish hooks.
Then I sold him a new fishing rod to go with his new hooks.
Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft.
Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that Ford 4×4 Expedition.”
The boss said “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and a TRUCK!?”
The kid said “No, the guy came in here to buy tampons for his wife, and I said, ‘Dude, your weekend’s shot, you should go fishing………
