No blog yesterday.

For the record, I did not get a blog posted yesterday.

Gary

  Happy Birthday Cecelia Berube Reynolds (DHS ’65): Minot, ND

 

     Happy Birthday Connie Zorn Landsverk: Bottineau, ND

 

To Lee Stickland:
From Ken Striker:  Dayton, OH.

Sorry to read of your recent bouts with your health, but happy you are at a place satisfactory to your needs.  Many thanks for making the Striker family connections. If there are other Striker cousins out there, I would be happy to hear from you

Ken Striker in Dayton Ohio

 

Norway
Posting/pictures from Dick Johnson (’68):  Dunseith, ND

Gary and Friends,

Everyone who knows me knows I’m a old car nut from long ago.

This seems to be something I acquired myself but maybe there is a genetic connection that helps explain the attraction I have to old cars.  First,  the farm where my grandfather was born in Norway isn’t a quaint little log cabin on a mountainside as I thought it might be.

It’s a farm on the edge of town where a guy repairs and junks out cars.

Just a couple miles down the road lives another of my third cousins who invited us to his home for a meal and visit. He runs a automotive repair shop on his farm and is a collector of Ford Mustangs and is building a

’32 Ford roadster.  His name is Geir Haugen and his wife is Line–(pronounced Gare and Lena Haugen). They are quite progressive and have traveled extensively including many trips to the US including this past April when they were in Charlotte NC for the 50th anniversary gathering of Mustang fans from all over the world.  I find this amazing that Geir can accomplish all he does while having only one leg.  He was only in his 20s when he was diagnosed with cancer in his hip and had to have his leg and part of his pelvis removed.  It doesn’t slow him down a bit and he was planning more car builds as we were visiting.  In his Mustang collection,  he even has one Shelby which is the top of the line. All of the cars are top quality restorations that he did himself.

He also does some racing so some of the cars are supercharged and/or turbo charged.  All this with one leg.  Here are a few pictures taken at Geir and Line’s.  They are family and seemed like we had known them forever even though we just met. Thanks Gary!

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Blog (153) posted on July 7, 2008

From Richard Slyter (56): 

I want to thank everyone who sent their best wishes and prayers while I was in the hospital.  I am home now and planning to stay here, no more helicopter rides like that one.  Family and friends are the greatest thing in the world when stuff like a heart attack happen and I could not have gotten through it without all of you on my side.  So thank you again many many times over. So very happy to hear that Tim had his surgery and is doing well so far.  I can now add my prayers to his list too.  Hang in there Tim, it’s gotta get better. For Ele’s sake please send me lots of email and phone calls so I don’t drive her nuttier than she is over the next few weeks and so she don’t drive me insane.  Thank you again.

From Kathy Casavant Ellingson (74):

I was just wondering, Joanne never mentioned about Tim getting a kidney, so is it true news that he got a kidney or not.  It would be shameful to have stories going around. Thanks to the dear Lord for doing miracles like he always does.  Thanks Kathy

Reply from Joanne Hill Evans (74): 

Gary,

Yes ~ I apologize for leaving that out.  We are just so excited about the wonderfully news with his heart, as we have been dealing with that for so long.  Tim did receive a kidney, also, from the same donor.  They did not remove his kidneys, they simply place the new kidney on the lower left side of his abdomen.

Today (Sunday) they had him sitting up in a chair for about a half-hour and he ate his first ‘meal’ ~ some raspberry ice.  He is very aware of all that is going on around him and what is being said. The heart transplant doctor stopped today and said his surgery went exactly as they wanted.  Tim is doing very well and his coloring is better than I have seen in a long time.  Laurie is coping extremely well and is so wonderful for Tim.  Our blessings are many.  Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.

Joanne (Hill) Evans

From Doyle Abrahamson (68): 

Tell Tim I hope for a quick and early recovery.

Doyle Abrahamson

 

From Lynn Halvorson Otto (75): 

Hi Gary, our continued prayers go out to Tim and Laurie for the long road to recovery.  We pray for them and their family.  Also prayers to Richard Slyter for his recovery.  My Mom, Dorothy Halvorson was so pleased to hear of Tim’s surgery success.  She said she has been praying for him for a long time and will continue to do so.

Lynn Halvorson Otto

 

From Bev Morinville Azure (72): 

YAHOO   I  just got  home  from Grand Forks and  read  the news  about  Tim   I  am  so excited and   thankful  that  things  have  gone  so well. Tim and  Laurie  what a  blessing we  have  all  had this past  year . If you need anything   let  me  me   love you   guys   Bev and  Clarence

From Bonnie Awalt Houle (56):  

Gary,

In answer to Dick Johnson, The pictures of Marshall and Lloyd were taken about 1954-55.  They were taken before I graduated in 1956.

Keith and I were remembering a time when we first moved to Minneapolis.  We received a call from Johnny Hill about a son of his that was ill at the University of Minnesota.  They needed blood and were asking people from N. Dak to come down and donate if they could.  Keith went down and donated blood.  Was it Tim that was sick at that time.  Early 1960’s.

I also remember visiting with Betty Counts Poitra when she was at the University of Minnesota having treatments for Cancer.  Tootie Evenson Dostaler and I went down to see Betty. That was in the early to mid 1960’s.

Bonnie Awalt Houle 1956

 

From Bev Morinville Azure (72):

Gary , Duane Kavlie  lives in  Rolette , Roselle (Duanes  daughter) is married to Duane  (chip) Tooke,  Her  Sister  Pauline  and I  were  roomates  and lived in Fargo for a  time.  Bev Azure   From Dick Johnson (68):  Gary and Friends, There has been great news from Tim and Richard on their respective recoveries! Joanne said this has been her best July 4th ever and I say, “ditto”! I think the rest is all downhill from here and they will be back to health soon! Something that comes to mind when I think of high school is cruising around town at night. I remember driving around for hours without ever leaving the city limits! One time Joe Fontaine’s mother said he could use her car but not to leave town! He got in big trouble the next day when she saw that he had put on over 70 miles! Well, he never left the city limits—fact! She wouldn’t believe him and told him, “no more car”! I always had my own car and my main problem was money for gas, as nobody cared how many miles I put on my own car. We cruised around and kept trying to find a good station on the old AM radio. KFYR from Bismarck was pretty good, but about 8:30 every night they turned up the power on KOMA, Oklahoma City and we could hear ‘our kind’ of music! I think the girls in our class were the ones that told me about this station and when it would be on the air. They rode around with me just about as often as my buddies did! The usual girl crew was Paulette LaCroix, Randi Mongeon, and Toni Morinville, with an extra now and then. They just loved to cruise in my car! When we graduated, the class prophecy said I would be the chauffeur  for the Playboy  Bunnies in Chicago!  That didn’t happen–nuts! But we did have a lot of great times just cruising Main and having a good time, even with nothing to do, in old Dunseith! Thanks Gary! Dick   From Mona Dionne Johnson (48): Gary:  Attached is a picture of Floyd (59) & Ann Pritchard’s Wedding. Wedding was in Tucson. Mona (Dionne) Johnson  (48)