Folks,
I have nothing to post today other than several picture pasted below and of course blog 194 previously posted on 8/17/2008.
Gary
Cebu City Lights Condominiums
This picture was taken from the Cebu Marco Polo Plaza Hotel.
Art Hagen and Rose live on the 8th floor of tower 2, 2nd from the right.
Sunday morning breakfast at the Cebu Marco Polo
Gary and Bernadette Stokes with Hans Hauri, Philippines Marco Polo GM
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Blog (194) posted on August 17, 2008
Folks, To enable better delivery of these daily messages, I have acquired another email address from Yahoo. I have been having delivery problems with Globlines and Hotmail limits the number of folks I can send messages to in a 24 hour period. That left Gmail. Larger Gmail group messages are often times a pain to send. Often times they will sit in the out box for a long time before being sent. Hopefully I will have better luck with Yahoo. We will see. My email addresses are
I consider Hotmail as my primary account, but you can use any one of the four addresses when sending messages to me. Using Outlook express, messages sent to any of these addresses are all displayed on the same page. In fact I have to go into the properties of each message to find out which address each message was sent to. Note the ph on the end of the Yahoo address. Gary
Reply from Joan Wurgler Salmonson (61):
Thanks Gary,
Happy to hear you got my message. Hope I didn’t mess things up too terribly. Which e-mail address do you suggest using when forwarding messages to you?
Today (Friday) was the Special Memorial Service for Hope Bedard. We send our condolences to her family, Gayl, class of ’56; Lynn ’58; Twins-Nicole & Nik ’61 and Triplets James, Jean & Juay ’62. Their family will be missed but we hope they will continue to
keep in touch and come back for visits.
Thanks again,
Joan
Latest update for Deb Morinville’s stroke from Bev Morinville Azure (72):
Gary, everyone first of all would love to tell u all thank you for your prayers and personal e mails to me. Deb wasn’t doing very good yesterday and Kenny just about called me to come to Montana. But today she made a remarkable turn around and is doing better. Kenny and I have been talking each day but yesterday ..cause I was gone . But the minute i walked into the house today called and Kenny said she was better so he put the phone to her ear and I told her we were all praying for her and that u all are asking about her and praying for her. told her all about your e mails etc. and when I told her so long, I will talk to u tomorrow and kenny took the phone from her ear she grabbed it with her good hand and put it to her heart. So I am sure she is trying to tell us she is there and I know she heard me. thank u all will keep u informed sorry I thinking I …..rattled on just so excited. Garys thanks for all u do Bev
GOD BLESS YOU …………BEV
Sybil Johnson’s Reply to forwarding her Axel Johnson messages:
Gary, that would be great. Augie and the rest of the family would really like to see them. “Pa” was a great guy. I remember how he would get down on the floor with not only my kids but all of his grandkids and play with them. Then there were times when I would put my kids down for a nap and there was “Pa”, sitting on the bed and feeding them cookies dunked in his coffee.
Neola, that’s a great picture of you. I would recognize you anywhere.
If I may, would like to give an up date on Beckie(my daughter). She is back
in the hospital. They found that she was accumulating blood clots and air
pockets. They have her on blood thinners and will be there for a few days.
Take care everyone!
Sybil
Updated reports for Ann Pritchard (Lung Transplant) posted by her daughter Pam:
Saturday, August 16 10:55AM
Posted 8 hours ago
Once again everything went well overnight. They removed 4 liters of fluid yesterday and today, that’s a little over a gallon. In other words she lost about 9 pounds of water weight. The chest x-ray was about the same today as yesterday. She is still tolerating the ventilator well. Today her heart was beating a little out of sync and a bit fast. They were not too concerned about it, they said many people are fine with slightly irregular beats. They eventually got it back into a strong, normal but slower beat.
Dr. Peters gave us a little insight into their plan for next week. Assuming all is well this weekend, they want to remove her breathing tube early next week and replace it with a tracheostomy tube. This has many advantages over the normal breathing tube; it’s a shorter less obstructive route to the lungs, the tube is actually shorter and easier to manage, it will be more comfortable for her, it will allow them to slowly wean her off the ventilator, and it will allow her to be much less sedated. While they are doing this he thinks that the surgeon will use a scope to go inside the chest wall, through the spot where the chest tube is now, to examine the outside of the new lung. They think that a portion of the fluid we see on the chest x-ray may actually be clotting/puss/blood on the outside of the lung. If it is there he will remove it and that will allow the lower part of the new lung to work more easily.
This blog entry wraps up my time here in Rochester, I am very happy to have seen Grandma make such great improvements over the past 9 days. Gina is coming in this evening and will be here with Grandpa and Grandma through next week.
Question from Sharon Zorn Gerdes (62):
Gary, would you by any chance know if Ben Grossman is still alive and what he did after leaving Dunseith? I recall him vividly, and some of the teachers I have difficulty remembering. I recall Mrs Conroy and a few others. I love the messages you are receiving, what wonderful memories. Sharon
Sharon, Mr. Grossman died in 1996. I have pasted, below, the deceased Dunseith teachers that I have in my files. Gary
| 1 | Conroy | Edward | Born February 11, 1907 – Died October 17, 1972 | Deceased Teacher | ||
| 2 | Conroy | Florence | Born April 7, 1908 – Died August 5, 1986 | Deceased Teacher | ||
| 3 | Grossman | Benjamin | Born August 30,1920 – Died February 25, 1996 | Deceased Teacher | ||
| 4 | Jerstad | Lincoln | Born May 15, 1922 – Died August 8, 2007 | FARGO, ND 58103 | (701) 235-8211 | Deceased Teacher |
| 5 | Hepper | Eugene | Born May 1, 1937 – December 15, 1991 | Deceased Teacher | ||
| 6 | Jury | Robert | Born July 4, 1936 – Died December 20, 1998 | Deceased Teacher | ||
| 7 | Shurr | Buelah | Born March 3, 2003 – Died July 19, 1967 | Deceased Teacher | ||
Pictures/Message from Dick Johnson (68):
Gary and Friends,
The other night I ran across some pictures I took in 1968. We had a bad
storm with hail, that completely wiped out our crops! And if that wasn’t
bad enough, it then rained several inches and flooded all our hay ground
and flattened that too! I remember driving up highway 3 and coming over
the last hill before we turned east toward the farm, only to see the
entire flat south of Kelvin under water! I had my camera along and took
these pictures. What appears to be a lake is actually the big hay meadow
that Art Seim and Cliff Metcalfe owned, and of course were planning to
hay! Our crops were pounded right into the ground! The water had gone
over the roads in several places and left floating debris everywhere. It
was a mess and a very defeating feeling when we looked at all our hard
work that was basically for nothing! I remember Dad and Duane Fugere and
I went to see the damage. Duane said something that has stuck with me
for 40 years. He said, “Playing poker isn’t gambling, this is gambling”!
Dick
PS- The storm was in 68 but I had the film developed in March 69.
Photo provided by Neola Kofoid Garbe:
Bernard & Betty Kavi Family – 1972
