Happy birthday to the Neameyer Twins (DHS ’72)
Loraine Neameyer Haas: St. John, ND
Loretta Neameyer Wall: Bottineau, ND
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Early Dusnseith Ladies
Face Book capture from Iris Wolvert: Willow City, ND
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Awalt/Anderson Picture posted yesterday
Reply from Vickie Metcalfe (’70): Bottineau, ND
Gary,
Re: the photo of the Anderson girls and Bill and Mary.
I believe that was taken in 1923.
A son was born to William and Rose Metcalfe in July 1923.
As a young boy Cliff was rather disappointed his name.
Where did he get it?.
Clifford asked his father where his name came from.
He was told, his fathers friend, William David Awalt asked
William Metcalfe to name the boy after him.
His father said said to Bill Awalt, my oldest son is William,
but David shall be the seventh son’s middle name.
Bill and and Mary Metcalfe were married in September 1923 in Canada.
Johnny Awalt and Gertrude Anderson went along and were their attendants.
At that 1923 celebration of the wedding, neighbor and friend, Frank Poitra played the fiddle..
Years later, Bill and Mary celebrated 50 years of marriage at their farm home.
Their children, many of their grandchildren, as well as many of Bill and Mary’s
siblings and their children and neighbors were there.
Bill and Mary’s girls Eleanor, Alice, Bertha, Lorraine, and daughter- in- law’s Bernice
(Johnson) Metcalfe and Lise’ (Rousseau) Metcalfe cooked, served and hosted a wonderful meal.
I would not be surprised if Aunt Mary kept her hand in the cooking too!
Throughout the day, Johnny and Gertrude Awalt sat close in the yard with Bill and Mary.
The music flowed with many Metcalfe’s playing guitar, banjo and singing.
And, friend, of their youth, Frank Poitra played sweet fiddle once again for them.
It was a wonderful sunshine day with friends of Gold celebrating a 50th anniversary.
Vickie
GERTRUDE ANDERSON, MARY METCALFE, BILL METCALFE, NEALY ANDERSON
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Blog posted on February 22, 2008
Message from Colette Hosmer (64):
Hi Gary,
It’s true, I’ll be on your side of the planet in a couple of days. I’ll definitely send word from China…..and maybe a photo or two if I think you guys might be interested. I’ll only be there for a month this time but, if I’m lucky, I’ll get one of the commissions I’m working on and will be able to make another trip before the year is out.
By the way, Diane’s report of her trip to Santa Fe was accurate but she left something out — that she was a great hit — my friends and family thought she was totally amazing. I always love an opportunity to show off my ND relatives.
Bev,
Speaking of amazing…you go girl!
I do have a website where you can find some images of previous artwork (although it desperately needs to be updated). Thanks for asking.
Colette
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Diane Larson Sjol’s (70) Reply to Bev Morinville Azure (72):
some fabulous work. One memory I have of that big old white school
house is being too afraid to go down those rickety metal stairs. I
was in the fourth grade in Mrs. Conroy’s class and we had a fire drill.
The ENTIRE school was outside coaxing me to come down the stairs.
The stairs would wobble and I was a bit on the chubby side and just
KNEW I was a gonner. Don’t know if I ever did make it down those stairs. Diane
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Message from Shirley LaRocque Wendt (59):
HI GARY, I HAVE BEEN ENJOYING ALL THE MEMORIES ALSO. I WAS LISTENING TO WINTERGRASS ON ON OUR KING 5 NEWS CHANEL, THEY DO SOUND GREAT. THOSE OLD PICTURES THAT WERE SHOWN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, ROY,ERNEST,RALPH, IKE AND FRANK WERE MY GREAT UNCLES ON MY MOTHERS SIDE. YES UNCLE FRANK COULD REALLY PLAY THAT FIDDLE. THANKS AGain SHIRLEY(LAROCQUE)WENDT SEATTLE, WA
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Paulette LaCroix Chisholm (68) – Memory with a Question:
I remember going to Kelvin’s one night when I was a girl and watching a large crowd dancing. After one song a hush came over the crowd. With respect the crowd receded allowing these older gentleman in new bib overalls and sunburned shiny faces to step forward. In silence the men formed a circle. When the new music began they did some sort of, physically demanding stomp, clog, or dance. I was in awe and remember tearing up. Does anyone know anything about this? It was one of those moving and vivid childhood memories that has stuck in my mind.
P. LaCroix Chisholm 68
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Mel Kuhn (70) – Question with a memory:
Howdy Gary,
I was just wondering, after the talk of plays, if anyone can remember the name of the play that the class of 70 put on? I know it had something to do with a Genie. I remember this because I was one of the prop guys and we thought that a dry fire extinguisher would work great to simulate the puff of smoke for when the Genie appeared. Well after a few puffs with the fire extinguisher the whole stage and everyone on it was covered with about an inch of nice fine white powder. The audience got a good laugh and I think the first front rows were a little dusty also. I know I hid behind the couch with the Genie and my trusty fire extinguisher and maybe got a little heavy with my trigger finger. I’m thinking the Genie might have been Randy Flynn.
Mel Kuhn[70]
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Janice Leonard Workman (56) – Memories:
Hi Gary, I remember when we would walk out to Lake Shooty, by way of the gravel pit, to swim all afternoon and hope we wouldn’t have to walk home. Sometimes we could talk Frank Flynn into taking us out in his old pickup. One summer Don Johnson was the life guard and he and the bigger boys built a raft. The boys would take it out so far that we younger kids couldn’t swim to it, or sometimes they would let us on and then throw us off. We would walk up towards the San and pick berries, filling our bathing caps and eating as we went. When we were too young to know better, we thought Lover’s Lane was spooky. Another great pasttime during the summer was to ride our bikes up to the San and then see how far we could coast down the hill. At that time there were two hills, the big hill and then a smaller hill that could get us past Craig’s Corner (?). Our goal was to coast as far as Morgan’s lumberyard. Another great pastime was to “Run the Barrels.” At Lamoreaux’s garage, across from our café, there were 3 or 4 rows of oil barrels laid on their sides. We would run these barrels several times a day and have to jump the places where barrels had been removed. What a challenge! One summer Bonnie and I walked to the cemetery 3 or 4 times, usually a Saturday, pray over the tombstones, and have our lunch. It sounds stupid now but we thought we had done our good deed for the week.
Janice Leonard Workman
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Dick Johnson (68) – Memories:
Gary and friends
Dave Wugler asked about the years of the parades. I think the
other pictures we have of the parades put the first in 1976 and
the second {K.C.s 1930 Ford Model A is restored] is in about
1982.Not sure could be 1989, we had another big parade.
Leland said it was his back and not his leg that broke. Time
has clouded my memory on the event. I do remember the agony and
Russell Fauske being there to help. There were several out
there that day. Anybody else remember? I believe another time
while skiing in the road ditch behind a car, Robert Berube ran
into a culvert and broke HIS leg. Berubes is this right? Thanks
Gary!!
Dick Johnson
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Picture from Glen Williams (52):
This Cat was shot outside of Mapleton ND. Mapleton is close to Fargo ND about
15 miles west. More Big cats have been spotted in the Casselton area as well as
South of Moorhead MN by the Red River.
