Happy Birthday Holly Myer Wheeler (’68): Casper, WY

Reply to  Randy Kelly and Toni Morinville Prom photo
From Dewy Morinville (’72):  Dunseith, ND

I remember when Toni (my oldest sister) and randy Kelly went out.
Also remember when dr Kitt the magician would come to the old show hall. He would hypnotize randy would sing.   Let me tell you about the birds and the bees. He did a good job never knew if randy was hypnotize or not but he did a good job. Back then the boys had grease back hair. Brylcream was big back then a little dab will do yah. White tee shirts with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in one sleeve. Leather jackets. Oh the good old day.
The girls with saddle shoes bobby socks and the can cans.  Oh the hairdos . My three older sisters playing with paper dolls. Listening to 45 records on the little flip top record player. Playing jacks then I would step on one of those jacks and yell at them to pick them up when there done. One Christmas the girls each receive a little sewing machine about the size of a shoe box that really worked. They were neat.    Thanks for the memories
Dewy Morinville

Rosie Hackman
Question from Marlys Hiatt (’71):  Dunseith, ND

Every time I see Larry Hackman’s name on the blog I always think of my 3rd grade classmate Rosie Hackman. Larry is that your sister?  If so, what happened to her?  Where is she now?  I don’t seem to remember her much after the 3rd grade.  I’m thinking her family moved.

Third grade is the first year I rode the bus to Dunseith to go to school.  I attended the Ackworth country school for 1st and 2nd grade.  Rosie was my first friend at school.  I had been the only one in my grade when I attended Ackworth school.  I remember Rosie had the prettiest red coat I had ever seen.  The next time I needed a coat the only coat I wanted to have was one exactly like Rosie’s.

I was also very shy at that time and it was quit an adjustment to go from a 1 room country school house to the town school.  When it came to reading in front of the class, I was too shy to read out loud.  The teacher thought I couldn’t read and sent a note home to my parents that I had to go to summer school to learn how to read.  This puzzled my parents but they didn’t question the teacher and managed to bring me into town every day to summer school.  After a few days another note was sent home from the summer school teacher.  This time the teacher wondered why I was in summer school, I could read just fine.  After a meeting between my parents and the teacher, it was decided I would continue to attend summer school to help with my shyness, which it did.

Marlys Hiatt

Canada’s new defence minister
Posting from Vickie Metcalfe (’70): d Bottineau, ND

>>> Gary and friends,

>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/harjit-sajjan-badass-

>>> canada-defence-minister-1.3304931

>>> I am watching Canada.

>>> They have been a great ally of the USA.

>>>

>>> As a kid, our  parents took us through the  summer on Saturday

>>> nights to Boisevain, Manitoba to the shows.

My parents welcomed Saturday nights north of the border which continued to thrive; long  after Dunseith stopped  the Saturday nights stores open.

…………….Time and Things changed  Dunseith.

Gone were the Saturday nights of  my parents taking cream to Minnie Alvin’s  and eggs to Hannah at the Red Owl

or Hosmer store.

>>> While we girls went to a show, Dad and mom would shop at Co-op.

>>> It was  quite different, because we did not go to Dunseith or

>>> Bottineau any more, as often as we went to Canada Being shy,  we

>>> †hree girls did not mingle .

>>>

>>> After mom learned to knit the winter of 1963-64  in Marysville, WA,

>>> she’d drive N. to Canada for Wool.

>>> I inherited  the beautiful wool sweater she knit for my Dad. After

>>> dad’s passing I contacted  my former grades 7 and 8 teacher, Mrs.

>>> Anna Foss who lined Dad’s sweater for me .

>>>

>>> Mom also drove us to Lake William and Adam Lake for mid week picnics

>>> on hot summer days; especially after the Church of the Bretheran

>>> Lake aka School Section became littered with broken bottles  and was

>>> deemed unsafe.  Mind you though we never went anywhere during haying

>>> season except to the hayfield.

>>> Two  of my grandfathers were born in Canada.

>>> Grandpa Robert E. Lamb and GrandpaW. Metcalfe came to US  from

>>> Ontario as young men Mom who kept connections going, also had a

>>> cousin on the Lamb side who served in WWII; she continued

>>> correspondence with  Ontario cousins until her passing..

>>>

>>> I hope Canada  will continue to  thrive as a good neighbor and ally;

My  long term  bucket list is a wish to ride the Canadian rail from Brandon to Prince Edward Island; and N. to Hudson Bay.

>>> Later,  Vickie

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