I am enjoying your daily e-mails.  It certainly is a good way to connect with many people.

I talked to Emerson (Charles) Murry recently and he is living in Bismarck.  He has had an interesting career in law, legislature, National Guard and is now enjoying retirement and his family.

Yesterday morning I chatted with Dorothy Schneider.  She had mentioned that you had contacted her.  As we were talking, Dorothy asked if there was anyway that she could get copies of your e-mail news.  I told her that I could print out the ones that come daily and forward them to her (via snail mail since she does not have a computer).  Is there anyway that you could send her the past ones…and I will forward the ones I have received in the past and future.   Guess even though it has been many years since we all lived in Dunseith,  that is really our roots and we are always interested in news of people and events.  I always like to know what has happened to friends and acquaintances.

I usually log on each morning to check my e-mails and it is always interesting to read yours.

As a result of your e-mails, I had a conversation with Art Rude who was a friend and classmate of my brother, Henry.

Always fun to connect!

Keep up the e-mails, Gary.

Blanche Wicks Schley

Hello Blanche,

It is wonderful to hear from you and hear that you have been able to connect with some folks from the past.  I am so glad that you are enjoying the daily blogs too.  Yes, I had a very nice visit with Dorothy Schneider, also from your class of 42.  She is living in El Sobrante, California.  It is so nice of you to volunteer to send her these daily messages via regular mail.  That is quite an undertaking. A number of our folks have been printing these messages out and mailing them to their parents and others that do not have email. I was talking to one of our alumni a while back and she said that her son takes his computer over to her house and they sit down and go over these daily messages together. She said they normally spend the whole afternoon reviewing these messages.  Since December 26th, with the exception of several days when my internet connection was down, I have sent out a group message every day. That’s about 260 days. I started numbering them on February 2nd. With that volume and multiple pages with each days message, I don’t think I’d be able to print all those out and send to Dorothy.  I really appreciate her interest though. It is with the interest of all you folks with all that you send, that has made this a success.  I’m just the messenger, kind of like the in-between guy. If Dorothy or anyone else is interested, I can set them up with a free hotmail email account. With that account they could view these messages from any computer hooked up to the internet. Most public libraries, schools, etc have computers for public use that they can use.  They can even go to a friends house and use their computer too. There are always folks around to assist them logging on to view their email messages.  All they need to know is there email address and pass word.  I have set several hotmail accounts up for our folks.

I have pasted, below, a picture of the class of 38.  Your brother, Henry Wicks, is standing in the back row to the left. I recognize Henry (Hank) Salmonson standing just in front of Henry in the middle row. Hank is still living on his farm up in my old neck of the woods, in the Ackworth community. Hank lives 2 miles east of the  Ackworth cemetery.  I also recognize Maxine Radley Hiatt in the center of the first row. Her husband Willie recently passed away.  Maxine is currently living at the Oak Manner apartments in Bottineau.

Thank you so much for this reply Blanche.

Gary