Class of 1967 50th Class Reunion
Posted by LeaRea Parrill Espe (’67):
Class of 1967 50th Class Reunion August 4-5
We finalized our plans and are looking forward to seeing everyone
Friday evening : Social at Dale’s Lounge
Saturday Morning: 9-11 AM Commerical Club sponsored breakfast at Dunseith Elementary
11:15 AM Meet near Dunseith Nursing Home to line up for Parade Noon Parade (Jim Berube is getting a trailer for our float) 12 – 2 PM Meet at Sr. Citizen’s/American Legion for Pie Social after parade (Social goes until 2)
3:00 PM Meet at High School to tour the school 5:00 PM Meet at W’eel Turtle for a picture
6;00 PM Meet at Dale’s Lounge for a short program 6:30 PM Supper at Dale’s
PLEASE NOTE: If you get this message please reply to me or Patti immediately so we know that you have received it. We need a ballpark figure for the supper and also want to know how many will be available to ride on the float. All are welcome.
INFO: A full schedule of Dunseith Days is on Facebook. You would not believe all the fun events planned starting on Sunday, July 30 with a fishing derby at Lake Shutte and going until Sunday, August 6 with a kid’s golf tournament with many, many events each day of the week. Starion Bank is having a community picnic on Thursday at 5:30. North Central Electric is having a customer appreciation meal from 4-6PM on Friday.
We announced the reunion earlier and announced the date to coincide with Dunseith Days as soon as we knew it. We have waited until the events were set so we could fit our meeting times into the overall schedule. Patti Metcalfe Woods, Mary Helen Anderson Millang, Jim Berube and I have met several times to try to figure out how to make contacts with all who were part of our class. K. Flynn Richard, Beverly Azure, and Roger Counts have joined us for the last couple of meetings. We have all been brainstorming how to contact each one . A reminder here that everyone is welcome whether you graduated or not.
San Haven aerial videos
Posted by Karen Loeb Mhyre (’70)’ Snohomish, WA.
I subscribe to this ND blog (of sorts) and found this story of interest!
Karen Loeb Mhyre
Snohomish, WA
Drone Footage Captured At This Abandoned North Dakota Facility Is Truly Sad
http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/north-dakota/abandoned-facility-drone-footage-nd/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=north-dakota&utm_campaign=newsletter?utm_medium=email&utm_source=north-dakota&utm_campaign=newsletter
One Mountain Experience
Posting from Vickie Metcalfe (’70): Bottineau, ND
http://www.sidneyherald.com/news/schools/matthew-house-receives-help-from-county/article_2b71b9a4-6e58-11e7-96d0-fb0af487d021.html
Matthew House
I first rented and lived in a furnished 3 room basement apartment of this building in Montana.
At the time,there was no where else to rent due to an exploding oil boom.
Later, I moved up in the world to the second floor. A couple years later I moved into another apt.
Finally purchased my first home which friends helped to renovate.
The owner of that first apt. an elderly land lady.
Annie a kind and generous person and her cat Putt lived down the hall, in the other basement apartment
Everyone shared the washing machine and dryer in a furnace room.
There were no egress windows, the main door was always unlocked and open.
If I locked my door I used a skeleton key. On the inside, I did use a safety chain!
Whenever a Chinook came, the icy flat roof melted.
Brown water soon dripped and seeped though 2 floors of insulation down to the apts to the basement.
The ever resourceful elderly land lady in winter months leaned a ladder against the back of the building to the top of the entrance.
She’d drag up another on top of the entrance, climb up to top of the roof finally, crawling to shovel off heavy snow.
In my apt. a shower head hung just a wee bit above my head in the middle of the bathroom ceiling_ in front of the toilet stool .
This was surrounded by pull around plastic shower curtain. Water would drain into a drain in the middle of the floor.
The floor drain and bathroom was home to all sorts of water bugs and crickets.
After a few crunches and squisheys at night, it was better to always leave the light on or wear shoes!
My roots were of hardy wholesome stock of the hills.
(The first month before pay day, I lived on 1 jar of Peanut butter, 1 gal. of milk and bread)
I learned alot from my landlady;
About survival and the people and history of the rural lower Yellowstone area.
How as a newly wed, her first husband was mangled and died in a farm horse run away.
And how she found domestic work through the Great depression and WWII rationing.
During those years, I also had many opportunities to further education.
I along with others attended several workshops. One was Domestic Violence.
I finally understood, battered people and why they stay,
continue to be battered emotionally and physically…(Stockholm Syndrome).
I attended conferences with Community people; spark plugs, like Father Ned, the Carranza ladies
from St. Matthew’s Catholic Parish, and others who later formed the Domestic Violence Coalition.
The coalition had volunteers who worked to find, & write grants,
( I believe Annie had willed her little estate for a higher purpose)
A company donated an expensive small experimental state of the art environmentally friendly furnace.
Since leaving, the area I read today, that building has been spifted up by community people.
(new windows, roof was put on, and ramps and deck).
Living and working in Montana was a unique rewarding learning experience!
I learned good and dark sides about humans.
But, I discovered I was blessed.
During that time my parents were both alive and I was able to tell each of them.
“Thank you for many things I took for granted.”
vickie m.
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Blog (618) posted on November 10, 2009
Posted on November 10, 2009
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Previously posted two days ago
From Susan Brew Roussin (59): Rolla, ND.
Remembering…. Do any of the older classmates from Dunseith remember early days when Paster Lovaas lived near the school house in town. He had a son named Danny. Danny worked for a while at the Peace Garden with my step-grandpa (Jerry Demo). I must have been in first grade, the teacher was Eunice Larson, if I recall rightly. We thought it was a good idea if we got these two people together. I don’t know how it actually happened, but we felt like match makers, when they did get married. Does anyone know where are they now. Have a great day. Thanks much, Gary and all who keep the past alive in our thoughts and prayers. “Daddy” Jerry was the gardener at the Peace Garden in the late 40’s.
Folks, I just had a very nice visit with Eunice. She and Dan are living in Arkansas. It’s a small world. Eunice was born and raised in the Turtle mountains south of Lake Metigoshe. I knew her brother Ledolph Larson very well. Ledolph and Edna lived on the lake road a few miles south of Lake Metigoshe. Eunice and I knew many of the same hills folks. She said she taught school in Dunseith for two years. She and Danny got married in 1951. Susan, she remembers you and your family. Shirley Olson Warcup, she remembers you too. She also remembers Don and Bernice Johnson. She said they knew Art Rude really well and would have visited him had they known he was living in Dunseith, when they were back in the area last summer. Shirley and Susan, I told Eunice that I would forward their email address to you. I have Eunice/Dan’s email address for those of you that would like to contact them. Gary
Daniel & Eunice (Larson) Lovass
5 Mansfield Dr
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Bella Vista, AR 72714-5100
(479) 855-2911
Virgil Rude: Minot, ND
Folks, I received a very pleasant call from Virgil Rude several hours ago. Many of you folks remember Virgil from the National Guard, The Minot Schools, Bottineau, and the Turtle Mountains. Virgil is recovering well from the stroke he had several months ago. He said he drove for the first time yesterday and it went well. Geri, Virgil’s wife was surprised when a friend of hers mentioned she had heard of Virgil’s stroke from her daughter who lives in Fargo. Her daughter had seen it posted on our daily blog. Virgil did not know the daughters name, but thought it was Darcy or something like that. Virgil, Eunice Larson Lovass (listed above) also mentioned knowing your folks, Alfred & Viola (Bjornseth) Rude. She also knew Albert & Gladys (Bjornseth) Rude, LaVerne and Glen’s folks.
San Haven Memories
From Lloyd Awalt (44): Bottineau, ND
Hi Gary, me again talking about the San. No one has mentioned that they had there own farm. They milked cows morning and night, 40 at a setting. They had hogs, sheep, chickens. They planted all there crops potatoes, corn, beans, peas. Every thing there wasn’t much shipped in. More was shipped in after the farm closed Cliff Magnusson was the drayman for the san. I worked with Brenda Hoffman’s dad when he had the bakery, Eva Trafford was in charge of the kitchen. I worked out off the kitchen. Lloyd Awalt
Reply from Erling Lansverk (44): Portage, WI
Hi Gary and Everyone!
After listening to the Halloween pranks perpetrated by some of my fellow North Dakotans, I have been thinking that perhaps I should not have praised the populace to that degree. gracious, Dick Johnson, I am surprised at the length some of you went to cause havoc and mischief about the neighborhood. You see, We of the older generation never engaged in such antics, instead it was bobbing for apples and dancing to skip to my Lou. Of course, its possible that you may not believe that.As a matter of fact, I could be having some doubts myself Lloyd Awalt, you probably remember, since we were classmates, at any rate my father Gunder Landsverk and your Dad were great friends, and worked together on several projects through the years, My Dad always said that John Awalt is a hevk of a nice guy and great hard worker. I knew he meant it, and my Dad was no slouch when it came to hard work. Sorry I missed you in 2007. We could have gotten together and exchanged lies. Just kidding. I do remember you and your father quite well. Brenda, I am sorry about not noticing you trying to run us down but had i known about you, I would have gotten out and unhooked the horses , its a funny thing though, , the buggy was not equipped with seat belts. It was a great ride all the same. Next time we will wait for you Brenda, I promise.
On a more serious note, I am very concerne about my cousins my cousin Sharon (Landsverk)) Beckman tells me that 5 of her 6 brothers have cancer Could this have anything to do with the defoelegent that was sprayed in the fifties in that area. The landsverk farm has a lot of water surrounding it and perhaps this defoelegent may have gotten into the ground water, but then so have others near there. I know that many of the veterans I talk to who were in viet Nam either have cancer or know someone who has due to the defoelegent Agent Orange. i hope that some research has been done in this area, since I notice so many cancer deaths in the turtle Mountains. I wonder what they were trying to do or why did they do it. meanwhile, those poor guys along with others have to go through hell just because of “some experiment” ?
Erling Landsverk
Erling, When Virgil Rude called me today, he mentioned that Elwood Landsverk, Sharon’s brother, had visited him when he was in the Minot hospital. I’m wondering if Elwood is one of her brothers with cancer? Gary
Fort Hood Shootings
Reply from Aggie Casavant (69): Fort Mill, SC
To Susan Malaterre Johnson
Thanks for taking the time to give Capt.John Gaffeney of Williston,N.Dak the mention that he deserves. That incident was horrific and unbeleivably sad. I was happy that the guy who did it,did not go out like the martyr I’m sure he thought he was going to go out as…I’m confident that they will find alot of worms in that can that he busted wide open. My heart and prayers go out to the families of Ft.Hood,and military families across America. God Bless You Susan and Take Care….Ms. Aggie
Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND
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