DHS Class of 1966 50^th Class Reunion Banquet
Posted by Larry Hackman (’66): Bismarck, ND

 Birchwood @ Lake Metigoshe
Date:  Friday,  July 22, 2016
Socializing (Happy Hour) 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Banquet dinner:  6:30 PM

MENU:

10 oz. sirloin steak, or grilled halibut, or chicken cordon bleu, or chicken stuffed w/wild rice.

Above order includes baked potato, salad, and bread.

All for $25.00 which includes tax and tip. Pay at the door with cash or credit card.

You may bring quests.

I just need a head count. Please call me Larry Hackman at 701-258-7961 or email me  lmhackman@bis.midco.net   or reply to Gary on the blog and he and I will try together to keep a running headcount that Gary will post.

Gary’s comments

We, the DHS class of 65, had our 50^th class reunion at the Birchwood last July. Great food and great service. The Birchwood Owners  family, the Pritchard’s, have Dunseith roots too. Kim Pritchard Zahn is the owner. Her dad is Floyd Pritchard. Floyd was raised by the Eurich Family. Winifred Pritchard Eurich was his Aunt.

Pam Pritchard Smith, Kim’s sister, took time out of her busy schedule to be our personal server at our 50^th class reunion.  What an honor to finely meet her in person too and Kim also. Great folks. The DHS class of 66 will most certainly have a wonderful reunion at the Lake Metigoshe Birchwood.

Reply from Neola Kofoid Garbe:  Bottineau & Minot, ND

Hi Gary,

Thanks to Dale Brien for identifying the couple in the picture.

I didn’t realize it’s been 7 years since I had breast cancer/treatments.  All is still well.

My dad also enjoyed eating raw onions/onion sandwiches.  Maybe your dad/my dad were related????? LOL  It’s always fun to see a picture/read information about Angus.  What a wonderful gentleman!

Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe:  Bottineau & Minot, ND

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Blog (441) posted on April 28, 2009

Computer files lost: Folks On Monday I took my computer in to have it updated. In the process they wiped out my whole hard drive loosing all the files. I had many of them backed up, but it’s a real pain to recover. The latest email addresses in my address book I had saved were from February. For those of you that have sent requests for folks to be added in the past several months, please send that info to me again. I have recovered a lot of the requests from the past several months, but I know I’m missing a few. I was able to restore some of the pictures, but I’m not sure just how many I lost. Most all the pictures can be retrieved from the daily email messages that I have saved so they are not totally lost. I had too many eggs in one basket. I was afraid something like this could happen, so I had an extra hard drive added to my computer for backing up these files. In the process of adding this auxiliary hard drive they wiped out everything I had planned on backing up to this disk. It’s a real empty feeling when something like this happens. I had over 3,000 pictures saved on this hard drive, 1,500 of which were Dunseith pictures, with no back ups. I was able to save some, but it’s a pain going back through the restored files, sorting through all the corrupt files to find those that are good. For now I an concentrating on getting my email files and distribution lists back in order. Gary Reply/Qestion from Jan Bergan Evans (66): MONTICELLO, MN Hi Gary Got the e-mail about Barbara Trent Thanks I was in ND this week-end and went to see Sylvia Bergan She was sleeping and the nurse says she gets real upset when you wake her so I just left a note. But they say she might not know me anyway. She is very frail. What I would like to know is, where was Kelvin ND and Kelvin Luthern Church. I keep seeing that and no one seems to know. I am suppose to have the Olson relatives buried in Kelvin Luth. I’m am wandering where the records might have gone??? Jan: Vance (deceased) & Doreen Bailey have most all of the Rolette county Cemetery information with the names of all that are buried in them. I had that info if I did not loose it with my computer crash. Doreen, can you send us that info again please? Folks, is there another Kelvin, ND other than the one located north of Dunseith? Folks, Jan mentions Barbara Trent Riehm. Barbara’s mother was Julia Bergan Trent. The Trent’s were very well known in the Bottineau and surrounding areas. Julia Trent was a sister to Jan Bergan’s Grandfather, Clayton’s dad. Sylvia, the lady she visited mentioned in her message, was married to Oscar who was also a brother to Julia and Jan’s Grandfather. Sylvia I believe is 97 years old. Again with Neola Kofoid Garbe’s connections, we made contact with Barbara Trent. She is living in San Diego, CA. Reply from Bill Hosmer (48): Tucson, AZ & Lake Metigoshe, ND Gary,, My long time friend Lloyd Awalt might have missed one building just north of the Deeter home. That being Billie Wright’s grocery store. Later, it was Joe Morinville’s, if my brain hasn’t gone AWOL altogether. Bill Hosmer Question from Marge Longie Wilcox (56): Vancouver, WA Gary, Does anyone know what has ever happened to Eileen Erickson?I haven’t heard anything from her for a long time. Message/Picture from Dick Johnson (68): Dunseith, ND Gary and Friends,There should be many of our readers who remember the snow that came on June 3, 1943. My grandmother took this picture in the yard at the farm to show what things looked like. As you can see, the poplar trees had their leaves and the hardwoods were starting to leaf. This is probably the snow that Art Fugere (Debbie and Diane’s grandpa) told me about many years ago, when I was working at Lamoureux Brothers garage. He said they were done seeding crops and thought summer had arrived and then got hit by snow. He said it was weird! Some old timers said they had seen snow here in the hills, in every month of the year. I have never seen snow here in June, July , or August–but every other month, several times over! On Labor Day weekend in either ’64 or ’65, we were plowing under stubble and had a heck of a snow. The snow would cover the black dirt we turned over so it was kind of hard to see where you were going when you came back around. I remember Dad and I lit small straw piles on fire and stood close to warm up a bit as they burned. No cabs and heaters in those days. If your gloves got wet or your hands got cold you could always reach ahead and grab onto the exhaust pipe for a couple seconds and heat things up. I remember how sometimes my gloves got a little too hot and would steam and smoke We wore all the clothes we could find and still suffered! And to think we called that ‘the good old days’! Thanks Gary! Dick Reply to picture from Don Lamoueux (75): Bethel, MN I believe the unknown picture in my Great Grandfather John Bedard. Don Lamoueux (75) Reply to picture from Louise Pigeon Horsman (43): Bothell, WA That looks like John Bedard. If it is , he is the father of Georgette, Rene, Albert and Lucein Bedard. I’m not positive. John Bedard