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and friends. You may post items about your accomplishments and your
families. You may also request prayers or news of the passing of our
classmates. The items will be posted with the most recent first and remain
on the bulletin board for a month, until no longer relevant or when the
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Hi Bill,
I don't know if you remember me but I
was in your class also. My name is Marian Tuminello
Phillips. My cousin Sandy Catanese Roberts sent this message
to me, and I would like to hear from you also about our
class of 1957. I was at the last reunion but I don't
remember seeing you.
Anyway I thought I would let you
know that my Dad is 99 yrs old and is still hanging in
there. My Mom died 4 yrs ago and she was 94. My Dad is at
Live Oak and doing as best as he can. We hope he can make
the 100 marker, and I believe he will. Also I have 3
daughters and one of them lives in
Dallas, but she and her husband and twins moved to
Chicago, Il about 1 month ago, and I really miss them
already. I will be going there in June for the twins 3rd
birthday.
When I retired from Bellsouth in
2002 I was diagnosed with Parkinson, but I am doing okay as
long as I take my medicine. It was a big shock to me when I
was diagnosed, but I am leaving it in God's hand and I will
be strong until it takes over but until then I will live a
happy life and try not to worry about it. I was blessed with
3 daughters that are always there when I need them.
Life is great, and I hope to stay
around for a long time. Also I have being seeing a friend
that is younger than I, but he says that age is no object
and that I look good for my age. So you see there is hope
for all of us. (Ha, Ha!)
My prayers are with Sandra and Jean
and may God bless them.
Marian Tuminello Phillips
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from Jerry
Crenshaw--Monday, April 7, 2008
Bill I
received your e-mail concerning Jean Lasiter and had been
keeping her on our prayer list since the reunion. I was not
aware of Sandra Haddad’s medical concerns. I have not received
any information about her medical problems. Like so many of us
we all have special memories of Jean and Sandra. I was in love
with Jean and Jo in the 2nd or 3rd grade.
I had my mother buy them a
Christmas present. It was a coin purse with their names
on it. I know they would never remember that but I remember it
as if it was yesterday. Sandra was very special to me in high
school. I remember the wonderful day’s that we had at her house
and swimming in their pound. She was a special person to me.
Every reunion I would ask about her and would look forward to
seeing her. I was always disappointed when she was not there. I
have been very busy with Julie’s folks the last two months and
have spent a lot of time in Shreveport . Her Father passed away
last week and we are still trying to recover from his passing.
The good news
for all of us that have accepted Jesus Christ is that we will
all reunite one day with our savior.
Jerry and
Julie Crenshaw
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Please see the note
below from Mary Ann Leon Heim. She has a good point. We need to share the
information about those who are ill, but we need to share information
about our good fortune as well. I would like to see the Web Bulletin Board
full of news like Mary Ann's below. Please take some time to send me news
of your lives, your good times as well as bad.
Maybe I shall tell you
the story about my 26th triathlon in Galveston on March 29--a 550-yard,
open-water swim in 69-degree water without a wet suit, a 12.5-mile bike,
and a 3.1-mile run in 2:05:02. I won second in the 65-69 age bracket
because no other geezers in the 900 other participants were in my age
group. I learned an important lesson: If you are an old guy and a slow
swimmer in a wave that begins before the 29 and under women, you had
better get out of the way because they will run over you in the water.
Let me hear from you.
--Note from Mary Ann Leon Heim
Bill, I really
appreciate you keeping up with our classmates. I am sorry to hear about
Sandra and Jean Lasiter. They are in my prayers. Those of us who are
healthy are very blessed. On a good news note I would
like to share that we have a new addition to our family. My
great-granddaughter was born March 28th. Her name is Carleigh Ann. This
is my daughter Karen's daughter, Leslie's, child. All are
fine. Sometimes we need to hear that there is some good news in this
world. All of us have had times when we think everything has a negative
spin, but we pray that GOD gives us the strength to accept the bad with
the good. Please share this information with all and know that we will
NOT FORGET those who are suffering. Thank you again for all you are
doing.
Mary Ann Leon Heim
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from Sandra McKinnon
Loridans--Sunday, April 6, 2008
Bill, I echo Mary
Ann’s sentiments. When I received the news about Sandra Haddad, it
brought back memories of our days in Miss Hazel’s School of Dance. One
day, Miss Hazel called Sandra H’s name and Sandra corrected her and said
her name was pronounced “Sondra.” I immediately took issue with her
because my name was also Sandra and I was just plain ole Sandra! This
upset Sandra H but as we progressed through school, she also became
Sandra. We had many good times throughout our school days. I’ve had
her in my thoughts and prayers ever since I heard the news. I also
remember many wonderful experiences with Jean, Jo and Jerry; especially in
Brownies and Girl Scouts. God always gives us that strength we need when
we ask for it. I pray that the rest of Sandra and Jean’s journey through
this life will be a peaceful one. Jo and Jerry, you are also in my
prayers.
Mary Ann, I’m not old
enough to be a great-grandmother!! I remember when Leslie was born. How
time does fly!
Congratulations. Bet
Bill could figure out how to post a photo?
Does anyone live in
Vancouver, B.C.? We leave on Wednesday to attend the Global Convention
of Democrats Abroad there. I’m a candidate for a seat on the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) and also running for an Obama Delegate spot at
the August Convention. When I return from Vancouver, I will go to
Grand Rapids, Michigan to see oldest grandson, Christian, graduate from
college with a degree in Bio-Medicine. Anyone living near there?
Cheers to all of you,
Sandra McKinnon Loridans
P.S. Bill, I bet you
didn’t mind being run over in that water!
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from Sandra Haddad
Robertson, Sunday, April 6, 2008
Thanks Bill for sending
this note and Tell Mary Ann thanks also, she has a good point/ The Best
news I know is Christ is Risen and is there for us each day to teach us
the way to the Father. Amen. Love to All-I have a wonderful husband to
care for me daily, pray for Bill also. And as we cannot make church Our
Priest and Lay People bring us the Communion and taped services. My Sister
cleans house and helps with meals as well as friends and neighbors. I
am some and help with dishes and try to help in small ways. Good to hear
your good news also and everyone else’s -- Love to all of you, Sandra
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Now that I am semi-retired,
maybe I send some info for the website. Tonight 9 of us are having dinner
together and then attending the Shreveport Little Theatre production of
"Dearly Departed." Our own Betty Baker has a role in the play so we
thought it would be fun to support her. I'll send you an update on the
event.
On February 23, 29 Indians met
for the first Supper Club outing. We dined at the Crescent Landing in
Shreveport. The catfish, chicken, shrimp, and all the trimmings were
delicious. We took time to really visit with each other. After dinner we
asked each person to share what has happened in their life in the past 50
years. Everyone has had their challenges, however, we were all blessed to
be able to share time together.
Our next get together has not been
finalized but will probably be in May or June since we plan to meet once
every quarter. I send out an email message and we have a phone committee
(Mary Ruth Frank) to touch base with those not hooked up to cyber world.
If anyone would like to get the email, please let me know. My email is
pberry1@bellsouth.net or
call me at 318/549-2093.
Pat Berry |
February 3, 2008
On Feb. 3, 1959,
Buddy Holly,
Ritchie Valens and J. P. "The
Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash near
Clear Lake, Iowa. Ironically,
Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on the plane to
Richardson because Richardson had a fever. Ten years later,
Don McLean wrote "American
Pie," lamenting the tragic plane crash as "The Day the
Music Died." The song is full of multi-layered symbolism. I
think it speaks volumes to those of us who grew up with rock 'n
roll in the 50s and the upheavals we witnessed in the following
decades.
I mourn Holly, Valens and
Richardson on this day 49 years after their deaths. I think,
indeed, the music died on this day and left America vulnerable
to the "British Invasion" of the
Beatles, the Rolling Stones and all that went wrong with
music after the fifties. I invite you to remember Holly, Valens
and Richardson by watching a performance of McLean "American
Pie" at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHkT2YfqHE4.
For an interpretation of "American
Pie," see
www.fiftiesweb.com/amerpie-htm,
and for further details see
www.fiftiesweb.com/crash.htm.
Rock 'n Roll forever,
Bill Shaw
Freelance Writer
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Friday, January 11, 2008
It's
the birthdays of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers
of our country, and
William James, the first American psychologist. Here are
a couple of their thoughts.
Hamilton said, "The
sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old
parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a
sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the
divinity itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal
power."
James said, "Common
sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at
different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense,
dancing."
Your old classmate,
Bill Shaw
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January 1, 2008
My old classmates:
Happy New Year to you all!
We have had a banner year with
our 50th class reunion and had a chance to renew our
friendships. However, some of our classmates have passed away in
2007; some are on the threshold of death.
However you celebrate and
whatever resolutions you make, please resolve to stay in touch
and perpetuate our friendships.
If you are down on this
New Year's Eve or a bit pessimistic about your personal
future and the future of the world, I recommend a reading of the
poem below, "The Darkling Thrush," a poem Hardy purported wrote
on the last night of the 20th century. You might also read the
first chapter of the
Gospel of John and remember that the light shines on in
the darkness, and the darkness has never conquered it.
My sincere best wishes for 2008.
Bill Shaw
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I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
At once a voice arose among
In a full-hearted evensong
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
So little cause for carolings
Was written on terrestrial things
That I could think there trembled through
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Here is a change in ordering the FPHS
Director: mail $5 check made out to FPHS Class of '57, c/o Pat
Sanders Johnson, 9065 Mansfield Road, Shreveport, LA 71118.
Not many blog readers or responders. I
posted another entry this morning. Rember you can reply and write about
anything or suggest topics you would like to explore. Blog instructions
are on the home page of this Web site. I would like to see more dialog.
Your old classmate,
Bill Shaw |
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Because of the length of the
e-mail recipients, I had to divide the FPHS addresses into two
distribution lists, A-M (FPHS57Dir) and N-Z (FPHS57Dir2) with
one exception: Gary Reaves somehow ended up in the FPHS57Dir
list.) If you do not see an e-mail address in the distribution
list in your e-mail, it most likely is in the other distribution
list. For example, Worth Roberts sent me a message today about
Jerry Lasiter-Hampton's address. It was not in the recipients of
his list, but I have it in the A-M list, so Worth did not see
her address. I hope all this is clear. If you think, however, I
have left someone out, or if you have an updated address, please
send it to me.
If you want to develop
distribution lists as I have to all classmates for whom we have
valid address, then, you would be restricted by the maximum
number of recipients your e-mail server will allow in a
distribution list, which is usually 100, and develop two lists
as I have and send out duplicate e-mails to each list. (The
second list will not work as CC; I have already tried that.)
If you want a copy of the entire
distribution list, sent me an e-mail request. You will most
likely have to enter the addresses individually as I did.
I have had no visitors to the
blog yet. I posted a comment on
Jenny Jones and
Shakespeare yesterday. To read the blog or comment on the
entry, go to our Web and scroll down to and click on the blog
link.
If you find these e-mails
troublesome and want to be removed from the distribution list,
please let me know.
Your old classmate,
Bill Shaw
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
I have added a blog to our class Web site.
(Blog stands for Weblog.)
You can access it at
http://blog.fairparkclassor57.net
or go to our Web
at
www.fairparkclassof57.net
and click on the link to the blog.
Here's how the blog works. I post comments on the blog, and you can
access those comments. There is only one blog entry now. When you access
the blog, you can read it and send a comment to me for posting by
clicking on the date of the blog entry. The comment comes to me, and I
read
it and post it for other visitors of the blog to read. If you click
the "Subscribe" button and enter your e-mail address, you will receive an
e-mail every time I post a comment of my own or comments from others;
it's like a list-serve list. If you don't want your e-mail cluttered up
with blog notices, remember, you don't have to subscribe to comment.
If you do subscribe and get tired of being notified with each posting,
you can unsubscribe at any time.
I may make a second posting today or tomorrow about our famous (or
infamous) English teacher
Jenny Jones. We can then see what our
classmates remember about their experiences in her class or in the classes
of
other FPHS English teachers.
If you have subjects or memories you would like to blog about, sent
them to me, and we shall explore them.
So, access, read, enjoy, participate or not in FPHS blogging.
Your old classmate,
Bill Shaw |
September
23, 2007
Dear Mary Ann, Bill
and Pat, First of all, I want to thank all of you, and the entire
Reunion Committee, for the smashing success of our 50th
Class Reunion. I had a ball! I am only sorry that some of our
classmates missed the occasion.
Bill, I am very
grateful to you for your efforts to keep us electronically in touch. I
think the Website is a great idea and I am sure it will keep us
closer. One of the regrets that I had after the Reunion ended was not
being able to spend time talking and sharing with everybody that I
wanted to during the short period we had together. I really wanted to
know more about what has happened in the lives of many of my classmates
in the last 50 (still sounds unreal) years , i.e. family, profession,
travels, places lived, political interest, personal experiences they
would share, etc. Obviously, time did not permit this. I know that
some of us may have personal Websites but many do not. What do you
think about featuring our classmates (perhaps alphabetically) on the
website with “whatever” information they would share. Jimmy Stockard
sends me the ’54 FPHS “bulletins” and they started doing this after
their last reunion.
Again, thanks and
hugs to all for a wonderful event.
Sandra McKinnon
Loridans
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