Folks,
Our website is clean of all the infected malware and is back on line.
Once I got most all the malware deleted the site needed a lot of restoration. Amy Schalesky, Audrey Hanson Aitchison’s daughter, came to our rescue. She has the sight looking better than ever before.
Thank you so very much Amy. As I told before, we do not solicit your services for nothing.
Gary
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Happy Birthday to my sister Jean (Nicholas – 66) Miller today, 9/11.
From Ellen Graff Myrick (’58): Grandforks, ND
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Happy Birthday Jerome Allard (DHS ’58): Zimmerman, MN 
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Happy birthay Cecelia Berube Reynolds (DHS ’65): Minot, ND
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Happy Birthday Connie Zorn Landsverk: Bottineau, ND 
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Orvin’s brother, Leland Hagen (’50) is in the hospital
Message from his wife Betty: BRYAN, TX
Dear Family & Friends,
Just a note to let you know that Leland is in the hospital with an acute case of diverticulitis. He’s been there since Sept. 4th. He is having a lot of side effects that is causing a lot of pain and anxiety. Not sure when he will come home, so if you will, please hold your e-mails until later.
Thanks,
Betty
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Mrs. Conroy
Reply from Lola Mecalfe Vanorny (’68): Dunseith, ND
Dick! you said it all!!- she was the epitome of a genuine educator- !!- i think everyone loved her!!-
I saw the wrath– of a disrespectful- ornery kid!!_ and everyone cringed!!- But a more loving and caring person- was never born!!-
I think i told the story before about — when she sent me down to the basement lavatory in the grade school — all cement!- to clean the big bowl- !! or maybe it was something to do with plaster of paris — anyhow i got it all nice and clean and shiny and set it on the radiator- and craaaaash!!!!!!!!!– it splintered into a million pieces after falling off the radiator– !!I was traumatized!!!_ and screamed bloody murder!!!_ Mrs COnroy was there in seconds- !!- and took me in her arms and said — “You are such a good girl”!!!—
and then i remember staying with her and Mr COnroy with Martha Lamb to make sure we got to a program in a storm- !!– I marveled at her cute house- all knick knacks– and we had popcorn- and then i got Don’s pajama top and Martha got one of Colleens nightgowns– !!– what a comfy pajama dress i had!!-LOL!!!_ such good memories- !!!–I think we played a card game but i am not sure what it was- just a comfy loving home!!- It felt like i was at our home!!!
Mrs Conroy could read minds i am sure- !! and she knew your heart!!- –LOLA
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Mrs. Conroy memories
reply from LeaRae Parrill Espe (’67): Bottineau, ND
Thank you, Dick Johnson,for sparking some memories. I too loved the activities we did that year.
I have told that story many times about the multiplication tables and the bean bag. I remember you didn’t want to be caught “holding the bag” so it was an incentive to get the tables memorized as quickly as possible. If you gave the wrong answer it would get fired back at you and the next time you were ready!
Mrs. Conroy also had us do a health booklet from A to Z. I believe she told us she didn’t use it every year. Anyway, Charlene Pearson Woods ’67 brought a copy of her sister Sharon’s that had been used four years before (?). A few of my favorites
” B” is for bathing each day in a tub, followed at once by a brisk body rub. ( And she demonstrated with a towel)
” C” is for cough, cousin of sneeze, cover them both with a handkerchief please.
“U” is for underwear, spotlessly clean, change them as often as if they were seen.
We also got to take the mattress off the sick bed and use it for a tumbling mat on cold winter days. Remember doing the duck waddle all around the room? We didn’t have physical education separately, but she sure worked it into the curriculum! We also got to paint plaster of Paris items for our parents as gifts.(ART) . Penmanship was practiced by copying a poem on a nice white wide lined paper and then we drew a picture depicting the poem,s meaning to us. For music she asked Sharon Zorn or Philemen Westeman to play the piano. We invited the third grade in to sit in our desks with us and we belted out all the old favorites especially patriotic songs like “You’re a Grand Old Flag”, “America” and “America, the beautiful” plus fun ones like “She’ll be comin’ around the mountain” and lots more.
Many of you who came in from country school after 4th grade missed out on the fun, but I am sure you have your own memories.
Mrs. Conroy’s granddaughter, Erin Conroy Boettcher, has recently moved back to Bottineau and has opened a law office here in the same building that once housed Dr.Sveen’s dental office. She also purchased some of the apartments from the Kornkven’s and has Oak Manor and maybe others. It was fun to visit with her about her grandma and grandpa. She is Don Conroy’s daughter.
LeaRae
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Congresswoman Duckworth’s comments
Reply from Vickie Metcalfe (’70): Bottineau, ND
I appreciate Keith Pladson’s posting Congresswoman Duckworth’s comments.
I recalled what my dad said,
“After one battle many wounded sailors formed a queue at a station to get help.”
But, looking around saw others with worse conditions.
They’d give up places in line to others and never report injuries.
Returning state side, those Veterans continue to serve.
They honor the fallen at funerals, man suicide hotlines, provide much needed
Transportation services, display flags on Memorial Day etc..
Why?
Because they saw too many other’s who made the ultimate sacrifice…….
Thanks.
Vickie
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Trying to locate Kathy Barnes & Eunice Hanson Moyer
Request from Doreen Larson Moran (BHS ’61): Usk, WA & Hazelton, ND
Hi – I got a nice letter from Arvilla Hobbs. She is at 50 2nd Ln SE Pick
City ND 58545
She asked if I knew where Eunice or Kathy are. In the 1984 Bottineau High
School I see that Eunice Hanson Moyer is at
914 Woodbury Miles City MT 59301 As classmates can you verify this?
Was Kathy Barnes (sp)? from Dunseith? Can you verify any of this
information? I will send Arvilla a letter. She mentions Dave Shelver.
Ha – we know we can find him. ha
She is working with son Scott at the Conoco Convenience Station in Pick
City. She said this was the year for Metigoshe people to stop and say hi.
Any information you have will be much appreciated. Thanks Doreen Larson
Moran BHS Class ’61
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Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND
Linda Joy Martinez (Counts)
(January 13, 1953 – September 5, 2013)
Linda Martinez, age 60 of Bismarck formerly Dunseith, died Thursday, September 5, 2013 in a Bismarck hospital. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 10:00 A.M. in the St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Dunseith. Cremation will take place after the service. A wake will be held on Tuesday beginning at 4:00 P.M. with a prayer service at 8:00 P.M. in the Church.
Linda Martinez, a daughter of Walter and Patrica (McCloud) Counts, was born on January 13, 1953 in Bottineau. She attended school in Dunseith and later received her GED. She then attended the Turtle Mountain Community College. On January 15, 1971 she was married to Louis Martinez. In 1975 they moved to Grafton where she worked at the Grafton State School. In 1976 they returned to Dunseith where she worked at San Haven until it closed in 1988. They then moved to Bismarck where she received her nursing Degree from the University of Mary in Bismarck. Linda began working as a traveling nurse until ill health forced her to retire.
She loved to cook , play cards and bingo and go to the casino. Linda enjoyed joking, laughing and especially family get-togethers.
Linda passed away on Thursday, September 5, 2013 in a Bismarck hospital.
She is survived by her husband, Louis Martinez of Bismarck; sons, Wayne (Twlia) Martinez, Blaine (Rochelle) Martinez, Jory (Lindsey) Martinez all of Bismarck and Luke (Kayla) Martinez of Laramie, WY; daughters, Trisha Martinez, Latisha (James Dionne) Martinez, Aleta Martinez and Elaine Martinez all of Bismarck; brothers, Roger (Mary Rose) counts, Richard (Renee) counts, both of Dunseith; sister, Leona Counts of Ft. Totten, ND 22 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild; many nieces and nephews.
Linda was preceded in death by her parents, sister, Diana L’Esperance; brothers, Garry M, Counts, Roland , Warren (Buzzy), Dennis (Duff), and Sidney Counts.
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