Happy Birthday Jan Hosmer Cobb (DHS ’60): Wilsonville, OR
Happy Birthday Pam Fassett Faust (DHS ’65):Lilburn, GA
Email address change
For Bill Hosmer (’48): Tucson, AZ
Gary, My new email address is: ftrpilothoz@ Thank you, for your steadfast
diligence in maintaining this dynamic Blog alive and ongoing. Bill Hosmer
History memories
From Gary Metcalfe (’57): Forsyth, MO
Hello to all….Hope you have made some wonderful, soft Thanksgiving memories!!
Past History: John and Lucy Gillies had more than their share of beautiful daughters, seven I believe.
Dunseith had a diverse culture and the Syrians were one part that contributed lots to the good of the area. If there ever was a trophy for Mr. Dunseith Casey’s name should be on it. Lois Lilleby said it, “Casey and Margy were the best.” Forty years of handing out treats to a bunch of kids should be hard to beat.
I am pretty sure Casey had something to say when Bernie Knox started his car beside the store one day. Someone had put a potato in the exhaust pipe, a shoe box falling on the floor anything like this would make an old infantry man run for cover. Both he and George Albert were WW1 vets.
The old bowling alley next door to Casey’s was an education for this writer. Old Logan Buchanen a,nd Ade Egbert telling tales of old times, Bertha Myer and Mert Hoopman cleaned me out, but I surely learned to play Smear! But, I was making good money, 10 cents a line, setting pins. The League bowlers enjoyed a target which in my mind was the pin setter. Joe Evans, Ernie Fugere, Don Tooke were lethal with a bowling ball. This was a time when no self respecting outsider ventured into Dunseith after dark. But Fats Kireby, Leland Simek, Don Newburger and a couple more seemed to get in to bowl and get safely out of town. Bruce Poeppel had that old pin ball machine in the bowling alley all figured out.
We loved the dances, fist fights, smokers, music that was Dunseith. House parties were mostly in the hills. As Dick Morgan said, “what more could you ask for?”
Reverand Ramquist had a big job on his hands when he tried to reform this little town, he died in a canoe accident out west after leaving Dunseith.
W.P. Campbell was another man that left a big mark. He could stand alone for what he thought was right and let the chips fall where they may. It is in the history book what he did for a child who had lost his family in the 30’s.
Gary Metcalfe
American Indian Movement
Posted by Bernice Belgarde (’72): Bemidji, MN
American Indian Movement(AIM), organization of the Native American civil-rights
movement, founded in 1968. Its purpose is to encourage self-determination among
Native Americans and to establish international recognition of their treaty rights.
In 1972, members of AIM briefly took over the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in Washington, D.C. They complained that the government had created the
tribal councils on reservations in 1934 as a way of perpetuating paternalistic
control over Native American development.
In 1973, about 200 Sioux, led by members of AIM, seized the tiny village of
Wounded Knee, S.Dak., site of the last great massacre of Native Americans by the
U.S. cavalry (1890). Among their demands was a review of more than 300 treaties
between the Native Americans and the federal government that AIM alleged were
broken.
Wounded Knee was occupied for 70 days before the militants surrendered. The
leaders were subsequently brought to trial, but the case was dismissed on grounds
of misconduct by the prosecution. AIM also sponsored talks resulting in the 1977
International Treaty Conference with the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0803678.html
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia
University Press. All rights reserved.
Posted by Brenda Hoffman (’68): Greenville, SC
This information is from the American Red Cross.
Holiday Mail for Heroes Program Overview
The holiday season is just around the corner and it’s time again to start thinking about being part of the 2011 American Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes. For a fifth year, American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes are partnering to ensure all Americans have an opportunity to send a touch of home this holiday season to members of our U.S. military, veterans and their families, many of whom will be far away from home this holiday season.
Starting this fall and throughout the holiday season, the Red Cross is working with Pitney Bowes, a mail stream technology company, to collect and distribute holiday cards to American service members, veterans and their families in the United States and around the world.
The process is very simple and takes no time at all – All you need is a pen and piece of paper to share your appreciation for the sacrifices members of the U.S. Armed Forces make to protect our freedoms The Holiday Mail for Heroes mail box is open and ready to receive for your cards. Please send all mail to:
Holiday Mail For Heroes
P.O. Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456
Sending a “touch of home” to American men and women who serve our country is the perfect way to express your appreciation and support during the holiday season
Our Holiday Mail for Heroes YouTube playlist features videos capturing last year’s successes.
Card Guidelines:
Every card received will be screened for hazardous materials by Pitney Bowes and then reviewed by Red Cross volunteers working around the country.
Please observe the following guidelines to ensure a quick reviewing process:
- All cards being sent in for 2011 Holiday Mail For Heroes program should be postmarked no later than Friday, December 9, 2011.
- Ensure that all cards are signed.
- Use generic salutations such as “Dear Service Member.” Cards addressed to specific individuals can not be delivered through this program.
- Only cards are being accepted. Do not send letters.
- Do not include email or home addresses on the cards, as the program is not meant to foster pen pal relationships.
- Do not include inserts of any kind, including photos, as these items will be removed during the reviewing process.
- We encourage participants to mail as many cards as they are comfortable sending. If you are mailing a large quantity, please bundle the cards and place them in large mailing envelopes or use a flat rate box from the post office. Each card does not need its own envelope, as cards will be removed from all envelopes before distribution.
- Please refrain from sending holiday cards with glitter. Many of these cards will be delivered to military and veterans medical facilities and the glitter could interfere with a patient’s recovery.
