Jess Hosmer
Memories from Leland Stickland (64): Dickinson, ND
Kay Hosmer John, I think that YOUR families’ home was on one corner of the block and we Sticklands’ lived on the other?
Kay, I remember YOUR Mother quite distinctly. SHE was the 5th grade teacher of the class of 1964.
Her youthfulness, intensity and sincerity offered fine personal traits that could be safely emulated.
One day, I was asked to pronoun the word fatigue with great resolve I replied “fatty goo”.
DOUBT IT !!!
Egg-on-the-face, again, yet, surely, and uncounted eggs yet to arrive.
As Y’all no , I am slow to learn/understand very fast, quick or not at all. I pulled a similar stunt with the
word debris. Certainly, we all know that debris is pronounced debris. I attempted to say that
word as sounding “deb ris”. Strike two (2). Deb-re’. A long E, with the em fah sis on the second syllable.
I did my best to keep any reference to RE out of my lexicon. RE is reserved for ‘PETE and RE PETE’
or do it over again, as in REDO DO DUE DEW.
I do fondly recall that at least once/more times, I was kindly asked to copy 5000 words;after school
using with a dull, short, 3″ inches long, pencil with no eraser. All correct spelling was required; NO erasure
attempts were accepted in this written iteration. Get a new page and start over.
The meaningless, non-sequitur format and content of this pointless story only served as an expectant
appetizer before the evening meal when I arrived home, late,t o face my Father, Robert.
This PRIVILEGE of imitating a BARD was reserved for a chosen few.
I was 10 years old while in the 5th grade and ONLY weighed 192. I now live in the banana belt of ND.
There is a great concentration for ranching in this country. I often say:: With the way I can/could gain
weight it is a good thing I was/am not a HEREFORD or I would have been long gone, on the one (1) way
trip to Sioux City, IA..
YES, I REMEMBER JESSLYN SEL(T)ZER FROM TOWNER, ND
Kay, I hope the above written recall when in YOUR MOTHER’s class is not received as disconcerting.
I remember feeling an excitement each day in class. Positive intentions and quality of personal
worth cannot be a production. YOUR MOM surely had each of these motivating traits.
KAY YOUR MOM’s teaching US in the 5th grade helped ME a lot in preparation for the future !
LEE s
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Class of 63 – 50th reunion
Reply from Sharon Peterson Harmsen: Bismarck, ND
Gary, you did get everyone right who was at our reunion. Lorenzo Anderson did attend the reunion but he was not present at the time the group shots were taken. He came later and hopefully there are some pictures of he amongst our group somewhere.
Thanks for being so patient. Darlene has other photos to send you and will send a few at a time.
Sharon
Sharon,I wasn’t sure with a couple of the folks. Glad I guessed right. For those of you that want to save this picture, it is inclusive of the names listed above the photo.Darlene, please do send us more photo’s.Gary
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Joke of the day
Posted by Larry Hackman (’66): Bismarck, ND
Morris Schwartz is on his deathbed, knows the end is near, is with his nurse, his wife, his daughter and 2 sons.
“So”, he says to them:
“Bernie, I want you to take the Beverly Hills houses.”
“Sybil, take the apartments over in Los Angeles Plaza.”
“Hymie, I want you to take the offices over in City Center.”
“Sarah, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings downtown.”
The nurse is just blown away by all this, and as Morris slips away, she says , “Mrs. Schwartz, your husband must have been such a hard working man to have accumulated all this property”.
Sarah replies, “Property? … the schmuck has a paper route!”