William F. Moga

sheesh fred . . .

you sound a little cranky there . . . maybe you should eat more prunes . . .then you could go on face-book and do on-line stool analysis . . . . which is pretty much what that whole thing seems to be anyway . . . 

gimme a call on that rotary dial phone of yours  & we can talk about it . . . 

Fred Thomas

Bill,

I finally traded in my old black Ohio Bell rotary land line telephone and Edison 1 number and got one of those new fangled cell phones.  My seven year old grandson showed me how to compose text messages.  It's a lot of fun but I keep getting mysterious letters sent to me.  Luckily I was a cryptographer in the military so I can decipher these puzzles.

LMFAO  =  Looky Moga Fred Always Outfront

LOL  =  Left Out Liberals

U R A POS  =  Upstanding Reasonable And Perfectly Outstanding Senior

How am I doing so far, Bill?

Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)

I am so very sad.....RIP Mike, HS days neighbor, classmate and friend!

Bruce McKelvey (McKelvey)

So sorry to hear about the passing of Mike...I wish I had gotten to know Mike better in High School.  I am so thankfull for our get-to-gathers that we all have now..the passing of another really brings to the forefront how important it is that we all spend time with everyone as often as we can. THAT BEING SAID... THE LOCATION OF THE THIRD MEETING OF "GERIATRIC SILLINESS" will be anounced in a couple of days....THIS WILL BE A BIG ONE !!!!!

Robert (Mike) Kelley

Amen, Ellen. A great guy with a funny sense of humor.

Also a St. Chris alum.

He will be missed.

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

what mike passed away?

OK, HERE IT IS SEPT.24, AT BEACHCLIFF TAVERN, AT 6 P.M. ON A SAT. WHERE HOPEFULLY YOU WILL ALL COME AND SEE THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS,INCLUDING BRUCE. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHO'S COMMING, SO I CAN HAVE A HEAD COUNT.WE NEED ALL YOU RRHS63 TO COME TO  THIS WE HAVE SO MUCH FUN. IT WILL BE POSTED ON THE HOME PAGE SOON-COME JOIN US "YOUNG" PEOPLE, WE CAN PARTY WITH THE BEST OF THEM.NANCY

William F. Moga

well i was really looking forward to another round of busting fred's 'nads . . . but the passing of mike johnson cuts too deeply . . . mike and i went through the st. chris experience together and were close friends during those innocent years . . . for as long as i knew him, mike was a warm, kind and gentle spirit . . . with enough good humor and huck finn schoolboy mischief added in to make him a joy to be with . . . sleep well my friend . . . 

back at you later, fred . . .   

l

Fred Thomas

R.I.P.  Mike Johnson. 

Bruce McKelvey (McKelvey)

HERE IT IS !!!! Just to expand on Nancy's message. Saturday night,Sept.24 @ 6:00. Place: THE BEACHCLIFF TAVERN,19245 Detroit Rd.,Rocky River. Phone:440-333-4686 (for John Dawson that would be Edison 34686) Website:beachclifftavern.com..(Check it out)..Looks like a nice place...menu looks good. Nancy Westerfield and Linda Manas ate there the other night and said it was good food!There is suppossed to be ample parking for all. LETS MAKE THIS ONE A "BARN BURNER" ...tell everyone you can,rattle the bushes,make phone calls! As always..this is the highlight of the year for me ..."hangin wit my homies".....Also...there will be a BEACHCLIFF TAVERN PRACTICE RUN @ HERBS on Tue,Sept. 20th @ 6:30 pm for those that can make it. Thats the day I arrive from Phoenix...sure hope my plane gets there on time!   Hey Moga and Thomas...you guy's should be there in person so ya can duke it out! I'd pay good money to watch that!

Fred Thomas

"We need to jump start the economy."

Rest assured The Metaphorically Challenged-in-Chief will bring out his jumper cables again.  However I learned when I was 16 that after you jump start a car a few times, it was a good idea to look elsewhere for the problem.  So if I was The Golfer-in-Chief's speechwriter I would have the following downloaded to his teleprompter:

"We have tried jump starting the economy several times and it didn't work.  So I directed the Treasury Secretary to buy a battery and check the alternator.  Joe Biden is behind the wheel and Ben Bernanke is driving the tow truck.  If that doesn't get the car out of the ditch we will all get behind it and push.  So don't worry we will do all that after I play a couple rounds of golf and get back from Martha's Vineyard. "

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

ok gang, we need prayers for phyllis again, the damm cancer is back.her blood count is bad,she gets daily injections for that, plus back on chemo again. she is close to being put back into the hospital again. i met phyl in the 7th grade,we have been friends over the years,she went to my wedding,i went to hers.we went to each others kids wedding,our husbands played golf and we went to alot of picnics at her house.this really upsets me.please add her to your prayers,as i know you all love her too.linda and i are going to take her kfc tommorrow and visit with her,and bring some laughter of the good times we shared,i'm sure many of your names will come in our laughter-only good things. thanks guys-love you all,nancy

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

now don't forget to let me know if you can make on sept.24,so i can have a head count. thanks,guys

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

john, i think of you often, my prayers are with you,i know you will be ok in the long run,you can't get a good guy done from rrhs,glad you might make it in sept., it wouldn't be the same without your stories,hang in there.

Bruce McKelvey (McKelvey)

A picture of my best friend and wife Marsha in San Diego August 2011. Thankyou for all your prayers for Marsha. She is on oral chemo and for now,have arrested the tumors in her right lung. And to Phyllis..you hang in there..our prayers to make you better...

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

bruce and marsha look great,know her and phyllis will beat this thing.

linda and i had supper with phyl and tim last nt., she looks good ,she has broncotics and tim has the same,but we visited for about 4 hours. was very relaxing on her back porch, her grandkids live next door (the best medicine ever), and were with us most of the time-all so darn cute.  we are getting together next week at linda's, which is in my apt. complex. she plans on being there on the 20 and 24,so were happy about that. so all of you local's try and make this party. it will be worht it.

good friends are hard to come by, and so are classmates.

Fred Thomas

"Last year was the warmest year on record."

Al Gore and the Warmers like to screech that last year was the warmest year on record but they don't mention that their puny records only go back 130 years.  Earth's climate actually goes back 4.5 billion years and the climate has been a lot warmer and a lot colder than now.  Three hundred million years ago the atmosphere had CO2 levels of 7000 ppm which is 20 times current levels and there was no run away global warming.  Even those fundamentalist Christians who believe that the earth is only 6000 years old would laugh at the Warmer's claim that the earth's climate is only 130 years old. 

So don't believe those Chicken Little Warmer propagandists.  The sky is not falling and as we say in Texas, "Drill baby drill."

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

thanks guys, who let me know who's comming in sept., anybody else out that hasn't contacted me, please do,hope everyone can try and make it,lets have a blast like last year-great fun.

Linda Peate (Powrie)

Hi Guys:  My Mr. Thomas, are you a Democrat?  I wasn't sure!  Well, luckily I agree w/you.  Wish I could have had as many vacations, but unfortunately, we didn't have the money OR the time off!  My husband does play golf every Sat., but he's just running a business, not the whole country!!

Nancy:  Barb & I will be there.  And I spoke w/Marcia Pullin (Bruder) & she will be here.  Her mother passed away & she is free to travel more now.  Sally Willey (Johnson) I believe is coming as well.  She hasn't committed totally, but I think she will come.  You can contact her at Sally.Johnson@huntington.com. 

I see Mr. Moga (my high school secret crush--one of many) has arrived on this site.  Hope you make it to one of these reunions, Billy!  Would be good to touch base w/people we haven't seen for sooooo long. 

Phyllis, I pray you will beat this again.  You are a fighter, so go for it.  Love you & pray for you. 

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

thanks linda, i knew marcia was comming,she contacted me, glad you guys are comming, i will get ahold of sally. we sure had fun in huron,going to linda m. house for supper with phyllis,tim, and caro;l w. on thurs.,she looks good, and she is a fighter. hope all is well with you guys.

Bruce McKelvey (McKelvey)

Saturday night,Sept. 24.

                                       Anybody needing lodging for that night. The REDROOF INN on Clemmens Rd in Westlake, off of Crocker Rd has some great rates. I have stayed there before on several ocassions and it is quite nice for the money. I reserved at $54.99 + tax. Of course I used the "Gummer Discount" There phone number is (440)892-7920.........Check it out!

Linda Peate (Powrie)

Bruce:  I think we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express, which was really nice. (Barb says it was the Hampton Inn when I spoke w/her.  Sorry.  But it was quite nice!)   Price wasn't that low however.  This will be so much fun.  It seems to grow as each reunion happens.  Hope Gillespie comes, too.  Hadn't seen him in soooo many yrs.  Anyone who lives in R.R. or nearby has no excuse if Marcia is coming up from the south!! 

I tell you, Fred, you crack me up.  And since we are staunch Repubs, we (my husband  & I) enjoy your humor.  We work w/a couple who LOVE the current administration.  Wait till they see the damage done yrs. from now & what their health care looks like.  Ours has already been affected. One doctor in Fla. will only take cash.  Won't submit insur., doesn't take Medicare, etc.  Not cranky, Bill--just wondering when it will all end & how.  We're too old for healthcare to go thru these changes.  I think we're in the "Twilight Years" as they say!!!

Linda Peate (Powrie)

My new email since I retired is linda@insight.rr.com for anyone who cares!!!!

Bruce McKelvey (McKelvey)

Ahhhh yessss...Retirement. My wife retires today as an RN for well over thirty years. My last day is tomorrow..retiring for the second time. Time to get crazy and live on the edge with the wife! Many great things planned..Hopefully we won't get arrested during the process!!!  Started with naked skydiving.....

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

sorry lin, i've been busy with volleyball with my grandgirls. phy's address is  3755 vandemark,litchfield 44253. and pat g. isn't comming in sept., he will be with his grandchild, nor is sally w., but alot of other people i've beenin contact locally are. we will have a good time like last year, good for you to retire, i'm not ready yet. see you soon,love,nancy

Fred Thomas

The Ugly Truth

Russell Means, the great Native American leader and movie star is on his last legs.  As for Indian leaders though I prefer Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Chingachgook.  Redskins were very brave but not very good fighters as they lost almost every single battle and in the end the war.  I guess it would be PC to feel guilty about all that, but I for one am glad that we Pale Faces won.  My house may be built on Indian bones. 

Furthermore should we feel guilty about our military fire bombing Dresden and burning 100,000 people alive?  How about vaporizing babies at Nagasaki and Hiroshima?  General Curtis Lemay ordered the bombing of 55 Japanes cities before we even had the A-Bomb. 

Incidently, World War II was the last war we actually won.  If we don't have the stomach for that kind of slaughter I doubt if we will ever prevail again.  That's the ugly truth.