Shirley Anderson Doan:
Request from Warren Anderson (65): Rolette, ND.
Gary—my sister, Shirley (Anderson) Doan asked to get on the daily blog. She graduated from Dunseith High in 1961 with Florence Sime. Her E-mail is:
Yakama, WA 98902
Thank You, “65” Warren, keep up the joyful work!!!!!
Warren, It’s always a pleasure seeing your name in my in box. It’s been awhile. Shirley told me that she was in the process of getting email when I talked to her back when I was putting class lists together. I have added her our distribution list and have updated all of my files with her email address.
Shirley, I have you listed with the class of 60. If that is wrong, please let me know. Gary.
Reply from Bonnie SmithKohler: Mountain Iron, MN.
WHAT A HANDSOME COUPLE THAT WAYNE AND ROSEMARY SMITH ARE. WE ATTENDED THAT PARTY AND HAD A GOOD TIME WITH THEM AND THEIR FAMILY.
LOVE FROM YOUR MINNESOTA COUSINS!!!!!
Reply from Kenny Nerpel (65): Rugby, ND
Gary,
Somewhere in the the deep recesses of my mind I recall bits and pieces of the story that Larry Hackman related in the last message(622). I don’t know if I was at the same “dusk to dawner”, or if I just heard it through the grapevine, but I do know that there was a shadowy figure in the Dunseith area at the time that went by the nickname of the “big iron”. Could it be possible that this incident is how he acquired that moniker.
I’m also wondering if Larry remembers the time that he got an ear pierced in a classroom in good old Dunseith High. Or maybe it was grade school. I’m not real sure of the time period, but back then a frequent activity to pass the time while ignoring the instructors was the making and flying of all types of paper airplanes. I don’t know who the guilty party was, but someone fashioned a paper airplane with a stickpin glued into the tip. I just remember turning around and looking up from the schoolwork I was engrossed in and there was Larry struggling to remove a stickpin from an earlobe.
Some of the members of the class of ’65 got an early start “eating any damn thing”. I remember that water glasses filled with raw eggs were pretty much a staple after trips to Perth and Mylo for dances. The Balute that was consumed at the reunion is rumored among those living in the Philippines to have aphrodisiac qualities, but a good friend of mine said that he ate five of them and only two worked so I wouldn’t put much stock in that belief. I’m sure the consumption of the raw eggs was based on similar rumors.
Kenny
Kenny, it’s always a pleasure seeing your name in my in box too. You have good recall of the past with some good stories. I will always remember you being on my right with all of our formations in Basic Training. If I remember right, you were on the bottom bunk and I was on the top throughout our basic training. I will never forget those days. I turned 21 in basic too. Following basic, we went our separate ways, but both ended up Viet Nam. Gary
Reply to yesterday’s Blog
From Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND.
Hi Gary,
Hurray for Florence!!!
This was a very comical/interesting newsletter. Great pictures of you, Bernadette, and Gee.
Neola
