Reply from Randy Kelly (’69): St. Paul, MN.
Hi Gary,
Was going thru your blog and saw my name and face. Thank you. I must say I have not seen that prom picture in over 45 years. Oh to be young again.
Thank you also for the open invitation to visit you in Cebu. I hope to be able to do that sometime in the future. I love to travel and meet people. You are very kind.
Thanks again for all that you do to make so many people happy. My best to your family.
Warmly,
Randy
Gary’s reply
Thank you so much Randy for the nice compliment. This I believe is the picture you are referring too with you and Toni Morinville in 1968. This was over 47 years ago.
Yes, we’d love to have you and anyone else interested in visiting this part of the world visit us. Our daughter is here now with our Granddaughter. They got round trip tickets from Seattle to Cebu for less than $900 total with Korean airlines. Jan-Mar is Low season for travel to the Philippines.
Folks, Randy’s mother was a Fauske, Sister to Elwood and Lydia LaCroix. Elwood and Eleanore recently celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary.
Randy, I googled some of your accomplishments and pasted them below. You are to be commended. It’s not many small rural towns like Dunseith that can say they have had an alumnus that served on a United States Presidents personal staff and for three years too.
1968 DHS Prom: Toni Morinville and Randy Kelly.
Post-mayoral activities
In late 2006, Kelly was named Deputy Associate Administrator for Intergovernmental Relations for the Environmental Protection Agency by President Bush. At the EPA, his duties included managing relations with governors, state legislators, mayors, county executives and other state and local officials, as well as working with the national associations representing these officials. In the position, he also served as the liaison to the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.[2] He remained in this position until early 2009.
Betty Hackman Schmidt (’68) had a Heart attack
Message from Larry Hackman (’66): Bismarck, ND
Betty (Hackman ) Schmidt, my sister of the Dunseith High School Class of 1968 had a heart attack (the widow Maker) last Thursday 10/29/15.
She is in the intensive care unit of the Phoenix AZ. Hospital.
All prayers are needed and are appreciated.
Larry
Yesterday’s veterans
Posting from Dale Pritchard (’63): Leesville, LA
Real Life Heroes: Many people today don’t have any idea who these men are / were and that’s a pity. The movie stars of “our” day were real life heroes. The list is lengthy so I’ll send it in three parts to keep it short each time. One-third of the list as follows:
PART 1
GEORGE GOBEL: Comedian, Army Air Corps, taught fighter pilots
JAMES STEWART: US Army Air Corps; Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General
ERNEST BORGNINE: US Navy Gunners Mate; destroyer USS Lamberton; 10 years active duty; discharged 1941; re-enlisted after Pearl Harbor
ED McMAHON: US Marines fighter pilot (flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well)
TELLY SAVALAS: US Army
WALTER MATTHAU: US Army Air Corps; B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer
STEVE FORREST: US Army; wounded at Battle of the Bulge
JONATHAN WINTERS: USMC; Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (Anti-aircraft gunner, Battle of Okinawa)
PAUL NEWMAN: US Navy Rear seat gunner/radioman, torpedoed bombers off USS Bunker Hill
KIRK DOUGLAS: US Navy Sub-chaser in the Pacific; Wounded in action and medically discharged
ROBERT MITCHUM: US Army
DALE ROBERTSON: US Army Tank Commander in North Africa under Patton; Wounded twice; received battlefield commission
HENRY FONDA: US Navy Destroyer USS Satterlee
LEE MARVIN: US Marines Sniper; Wounded in action on Saipan, Buried in Arlington National Cemetery Sec 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis
ROD STEIGER: US Navy; was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid
TONY CURTIS: US Navy Sub tender USS Proteus; In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan
LARRY STORCH: US Navy Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis
FORREST TUCKER: US Army; Enlisted as a private, rose to the rank of Lieutenant
ROBERT MONTGOMERY: US Navy
GEORGE KENNEDY: US Army; Enlisted after Pearl Harbor, stayed in sixteen years
MICKEY ROONEY: US Army under Patton; received Bronze Star
DENVER PYLE: US Navy; wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal; medically discharged
More to come:
Dale Pritchard
Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND
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Blog (378) posted on February 23 , 2009
02/23/2009
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Olivine O. Allard’s Funeral notice:
OLIVINE O. ALLARD, 90, Bottineau, died Friday in a Bottineau nursing home. Funeral Wednesday, 10 a.m., St. Mark’s Catholic Church, Bottineau. Visitation Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau
Reply from Tom Hagen (51):
Hi, Gary, just a quick reply to you about Wetheralt School. I had the
3 summer months when we were first married and it was really hot and rainy that summer (55) When it got too hot we would have school in the shade beside the school. We swept the room every day (mostly the kids did it ) and used compound (reddish material to hold down the dust) which had fallen off the kids legs who had walked to school in the muddy roads. Isn’t that right???? Tom Anderson kids, Bud Anderson kids, Obert Medlang, Susie Knox, Strong kids, Larry Metcalfe, Larry Hall, Eva Eurich, (Hope I didn’t leave anybody out) That summer I took a bunch of the kids to see Gone With the Wind , now can’t remember who !!!We love E-mail letters, Love Tom and Dot Reply/Pictures from Dick Johnson (68):
Gary and Friends,Rod Hiatt’s picture of a pine marten is neat! The sightings of the
little animals have been increasing over the last couple of years. I saw one about 3-4 years ago and had no idea what crossed the road in front of me. Some college researchers set up cameras in the hills around here and were able to photograph several in the wild. They baited an area in front of motion detector operated cameras and got some nice pictures. Last summer I saw one get hit by a car on Highway 3 by Rose Lake, north of Dunseith. It wasn’t physically damaged and I picked it up and froze it and sent it back to the Game and Fish Department in Bismarck, with my son-in-law who works there. They didn’t have any specimens, alive or dead, to necropsy (autopsy) and study so were very interested in getting one. They are bigger than a large squirrel but smaller than a small racoon. They kind of resemble a fox with their ears and face. I’ll attach some pictures from the motion cameras and one of the one I found. Thanks Gary! Dick
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