Folks, With all the input and help from you guys, we have narrowed our search down to 4 folks we are trying to locate from the 40′s classes.

If any of you know anything at all about these folks, please let me know. Thanks, Gary

Class of 1941:

Thelma Medlang – She was from the Kelvin Little Prairie community

Irene Nelson – She was listed a number of times in some of the archived Turtle Mountain Star papers.

Class of 1943:

Mary Murray – She was related to Roy & George Murray. I Think her sister was married to Roy Kuhl who lived in Grand Forks & Dunseith

Class of 1944:

Lona Lund (Swan?) – Someone mentioned she was married to a Swan. Not sure of the spelling.

From Wendy Strietzel (Daughter of Dorothy Eurich 75): 

Gary,

Thanks for the e-mail today.  I was so surprised to open it up and see my last name there as I scrolled down.  I showed it to my folks (Art and Dorothy Eurich Strietzel) and my dad was surprised as well.  I heard about my great-aunt Cynthia but had never seen a picture of her. It was nice to finally put a face to the name.  Thank Dick for me as well.

Take care,

Wendy Strietzel

From Florence Hiatt Dahl (50):

Do you remember getting chicken pox as a child?I couldn’t.   But I remember going to Aunt Margies for dinner–oops, I forgot it’s supper back there.  And she haId the most wonderful popcorn balls AND I could eat as many as  I wanted, and I did……….The next morning I awoke with mumps andI just knew it was those popcorn balls.  But no memory of chicken poz.  So when some friends told me they were having the vacination for shingles, why bother.. Did you know that after you have c. p. you carry THE virus in your body from then on? This a painful rash on the torso on one side of the body only.  Wrong…..It can be in your scalp, face, ears and a eye.  And it can strike as early as the early fifties.  Why am I writing this?  The first week in May, My right eye felt funny, then a film covered  it………..I had shingles.  I won’t go into all the medical terms, but puttin it simple,  talk to your doctor, get a prescripion and get the vacination.  I wish I had.  I,m just getting over it….Four months”””””

Thank you Florence for this wonderful advice. I know shingles can be very painful. Believe me, I am going to take your advice. Thank you, Gary

Clipping from the Bottineau Courant provided by Neola Kofoid Garbe: 

Allen Houle – Dunseith High School class of 1967