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News From You
Elsie Jensen Kalfas from North Carolina appreciates our efforts most profusely with kudos for the whole staff!! She says "Thanks for the Memories" and the photos, and Daryl's great essay. Thank YOU, Elsie...next time send something about YOU!!
Janet Goldbach Rosenwinkel told us not a word about herself, either, but wants to have another REUNION in Glen Ellyn! (any more votes for this?????)
Carol Weigand Williams says she wrote a note to "Kietz" after our last Letter, and received a nice reply from his daughter, Mrs. Mumley. (Try it!) She (Carol) is enjoying retirement from teaching, and sees Betty Staley Carlin at a "college roommate" reunion each spring. She would like to hear that Gunther Wittmuss is doing well! (So would we, Carol).
and...Gunther is now living at a new place:
Wynscape, 2180 Manchester Road, Wheaton, IL 60187 Ph: 630-668-7031
Send him news and good wishes, Pals...it means a great deal when you are confined!! We sent him a BIG card from Laughlin, and he told Phil that he really appreciated it!!
Nancy Homan Keiser sent us a nice check and words of encouragement from York, PA, where she and husband Paul are involved with Habitat, and are looking forward to a barge trip down the Rhone River this fall. FACT: Nancy's mother, Ann Homan, was the first woman President of the Glen Ellyn Village Board! (Ed. Note: Did you know that? I didn't! See what you find out when old pals communicate??)
Tom Jensen is still traveling all over the world..last fall in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, etc. He is looking forward to a South America trip! How about getting that computer, Tom?? You can do it!!
Don Sage says the Woodworths stopped by Minnesota in June, and our "Production Staff" popped for dinner!! Don is in good health after some major problems, and is happily busy with grandchildren and family occasions (you remember, they have a passal of kids!)
And..O, those Osterlings!! They celebrate their fifth year wandering the world in their Rolling Abode, visiting kids and family and even some of US!! They left after Easter to travel on up to Canada for the summer months, stopping in San Diego to see Nancy Mac-More, and in Sacramento for the Jazz Jubilee as well as a howdy to Dick and Betty Calkins! Then, on the way down again, saw the Sages! Oldest daughter gets married in October and ALL the many Osterlings, (8 kids, 12 Grands) cousins etc, will be together in one place for the first time in years! A great report guys!
Marge Kinder Mongomery wrote a couple of e-mail paragraphs about her trip with husband Jim to France in June. They visited French friends whom they had hosted here in the United state in 1999, staying in French
homes and experiencing the family life as well as learning the culture first hand. (AND the language!) Then they went on to Frankfurt with Marge's brother in tow. A great trip, sounds like, Marge!!
Editor's life lesson #1:
"You might never get called if you don't raise your hand"
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How about John and Pat Beezley Mitchell? They say it's OK to get the Newsletter on the web and save some postage. Obviouly, they are "with it"!! John volunteers at the Cantigny War Museum every week with buddies Don Kennard, Snub Pritchard and Joe Carlton!! John also did the photography for Glen Ellyn - A Village Remembered that we mentioned last issue. No grass grows under this grads feet!! Pat and John have spent some time with Dick (Itch) and Sally Malm in Sister Bay, WI., too. (Ed. Question: How about volunteering to set up the next REUNION in Glen Ellyn, you two??? "Ask a busy person...")
Speaking of Wisconsin...Les Duryea, host to the "Old Goats" and many summer travelers this year, sent a postcard saying he expected Jim and Frannie Love, the Malms, and the Dr. Bob McCrays in late September, and, to appease the "distaff" grads, he has offered his Tamarack Lodge to a group of ladies for 6 days next summer. GEE, thanks, Les, this gets you off the hook!
Remember our Joe Wagner? We have a note from Joe saying his CATERPILLAR Dealership in Colorado is doing just wonderfully, thank you, and he has expanded to Mongolia and now SIBERIA!! He says: "it is a different working environment, especially when the temperatures get to 50 or 60 degrees BELOW zero!" Joe expects to visit there before the end of this year!! COOL, Joe!
Editor's life lesson #2:
"If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels!!"
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AND...this is "News from You"!! Are you listening?? Mostly the same people keep us informed of the world out there, but it would be very nice to hear from the rest of you!!! Like:
Grace Warren Gonzalez, from Col Vertiz, Navarate, Mexico!! or
Mary Jane Infernusi Sanny, from Bellevue, NE!! or
Ralph Lambert, from Shell Knob, MO!! or
Peggy Pearson Soderstrom, from Jamjo, SWEDEN!!!
Where ARE these guys??? We don't get returned mail from your addresses, friends...so we know you're getting our letters! Talk to us! Or just say "hello"?
Bob Durnal still offers his program for web security to any grad who is interested!!!
Dr. Johnny Glathe, Albie Birkelbach, and The Rev. Roger Rose, BLESS THEIR HEARTS, all sent me some e-mail updates on happenings since we last published:
John and Carol took their planned trip to Spain and Portugal, and enjoyed Barcelona the most, but, strangely, found a Japanese Navy Band (!) playing Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train" in LISBON! Johnny is still tracking BATS at Jasper Ridge, and tells some more Bat Facts:
"Bats pollinate many of our important tropical crops such as bananas and mangos, as well as making us "itch free" by consuming TONS of mosquitos, like 60 tons in Texas alone!" AND, did you know (bet you didn't) that one fourth of the earth's mammalian species are BATS?"
(No comment!)
Rog says that he and "best friend" the Rev. Shirley Rose will host us at their home any time the California (or environs) contingent wants to get together for a BBQ or?? Thanks, Roses..it takes a skiploader to get some of us off our duffs!
Albie and wife, Sally spent a couple of weeks in Belgium and Germany after attending the graduation of daughter Ann with 2 (that's TWO) masters degrees from Indiana U. this summer. We hope you make the next reunion, Albie!
Editor's Life Lesson #3:
"There isn't a lot of time between green bananas and speckled bananas"
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The Love-birds, Jim and Frannie, have been all over the Yewnited States, seems like, since they came back to San Jose (Fran knew the Way) and the "blue Pacific" from Florida, Jim's home, which they sold. They took their good old time on the way back, and stopped to see Jim's kids in Kansas City, the Mormon enclave in Salt Lake City, Lake Tahoe, and got back in time for the Proctor Family Reunion in Santa Cruz, CA in June..There were 49 attendees!! This has obviously been a good "meld"!! Lucky, lucky, one in a million!!
Bill and Pat Unterberg are "getting along nicely", he says, in Florida with a Cruise now and then, and both of them improving in health and enjoying year-old twin grandchildren! How could you ask for more??
My sweet co-horts and partners in this crime of reporting, have both told me that they don't need to be included in the "news" Baloney, says this Editor.. without these two, I'd be up the creek..and anyway, they have had some fun worth telling about:
Chuck Staufenberg, spent his usual month of May (merry) in Scotland walking up and down "hills", attending a Scottish wedding at Bishop's Bay, swilling a little suds (or beer??ale??) and visiting friends, and since has jumped in the ocean at Santa Barbara on a regular sunny summer weekend schedule...and keeps telling me I'd better start writing SOMEthing!
Phil and Shirley Woodworth have been from Padua and Venice (Italy!) to Northern Pennsylvania; to Trout Lake, WI (w/Duryea); to the Minn. State Fair Carrousel (w/Sages); to Shirl's 55th HS reunion in North Dakota; to NY, NY on an Elderhostel Theatre Trip; and to Hawaii with all their kids and Grands! Whew! Now he has to get busy publishing!!
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Editor's Life Lesson #4:
"If your dog doesn't like someone, you probably shouldn't either"
Ed. Note: My dog Ginger liked all of these girls in 1939. This must have been my 12th birthday at 220 Forest Avenue. That's: Patsy Teschner; Phyllis Stevens; Betty Nichol; (my sister, Sue); ??; Me, the tall Editor; Phyllis Wallace; Carolyn Rothchild and Betty Lou Wheeler.
Send us a picture of YOUR 12th birthday, OK? Or maybe a picture of the dog?
In comments from all of you after the spring issue, we received many grateful remarks about Daryl's essay on Frank Moulton. Since then, we have talked about doing a...
"What Ever Happened To:" column!
There are some of us who didn't actually graduate from GLENBARD, but happily consider it OUR school! Do you ever wonder about other old pals!? Or, do you see them?? Fr'instance..does anyone know what ever happened to Tony Eorgoff? (Bob Durnal thinks he died in the War..but who knows??) and my personal search is for Patsy Teschner? There must be more..are you interested?? How about Keith Salter?? Where's Stella Upshur?
In that vein, and partly reminded by talking to Phylis Martyn about her 1939 Newsletter, we have put together an essay (from various memories) about Jim Martyn:
Chuck Staufenberg says: "Herb Moulton sent me copies of a few letters from his cousin Frank when Frank was in the Army in the Phillipines. One of them mentions how Jim Martyn kept them all amused with celebrity impersonations..I (Chuck) hadn't realized that Jim was also over there".
Daryl James remembers: "it seems I first met Jimmy through Keith Salter when we were in Jr. High. He knew, and was liked by everybody in town! It seemed there wasn't anything he couldn't do. His mastery of the violin bordered on virtuosity! Northwestern University set up, in those accelerated war years, a program for exceptional students, and Jim met the qualifications to enter that program. He entered NU in our Senior year instead of graduating with the rest of us.
A year and a half later, Jim was drafted into the Army, and went to the Philippines with Frank Moulton. Jim was with him when Frank was killed on Luzon. My last conversation with Jim was Christmas in the '80's. He was living in Eureka, CA, playing local piano, and raising llamas!!"
Phylis' input, the most accurate of all: "Jim showed musical talent very early, and played the piano by ear. He started on piano lessons, but the teacher gave up and suggested violin, so he would learn to read music. He did very well with violin until he broke his arm 2 winters in a row sledding down "deadman's curve" behind Glenbard!
Jim and Frank Moulton were in the same gun emplacement in the Philippines. They expected to go on to a battle site together, but Jim was offered a desk job as a clerk. He always felt he could have saved Frank if he had been with him at the front. While in the Philippines, Jim contracted recurring Polio and never could play the violin again.
He could still play piano, and after working in Paris for the Marshall Plan, returned to LA and played piano for private parties, the Dinah Shore radio show, started a posh men's tailoring shop, and finally moved up to Arcata, CA with his friend Lindsay Field. They raised Llamas, a huge Lab dog, a horse, chickens, an angora goat, doves and two alley cats they had brought with them from LA. The property was a real Paradise, and Jim's life was so varied!"
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The Poetry Corner
(In response to the Jim Martyn Story and other Class Obituaries)
The Hawk
The hawk is not sensitive to the wonders of his flight,
The aerodynamics of how his wings keep him airborne
Is not a matter he ponders
As he effortlessly glides through the atmosphere
In search of prey
He is aware that he has the finesse and power
To spot a mouse one hundred feet below.
And with a terribly marvelous swiftness
Swoops down to grasp the hapless mouse
With his magnificent attack armor,
Talons, beak for a merciful and instant kill
And with an equal quickness
His thunderbird wings thrust him
Skyward
Clutching his kill
Food and dinnertime
Fulfillment and self-satisfaction
Maybe pride
And the joy of flight
It is when a calamitous malfunction
Cripples our sky warrior
That perhaps he becomes aware
That his power,
His flying skills are gone.
No more joy of flight
Eyes that can instantaneously
Penetrate flora, fauna below
Too late
He learns.
And like the hawk,
Man discovers past glory
Past power, past love
Past opportunities, friends and joy
Too late
Daryl James
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AND HERE'S SOME POETRY FROM SOX..."MONEY MAN":
After the Spring Newsletter, our balance in the bank was $811.41.
Since then we have had a bunch of donations from Rosemarie Marek Vaughn, Carol Weigand Williams, Elsie Jensen Kalfas, Nancy Homan Keiser, Jane Kemper Janke, and Bill Unterberg. Those added $125.00, so our current balance looks like this: $936.41 Not too bad!! Every issue costs about $250.00 or a little more (about $1. 50 per person ). The last issue with all the color photos was $250.48, but this Editor suspects that the Publisher spent some some of his own moola on color ink cartridges, so my message to you fellow grads is:
WE ACCEPT YOUR DONATIONS WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS AND GREAT RELIEF!!
There is plenty of cash for the next few issues if we don't have any more PARTIES!!..but...THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT, COMMENTS AND CHEERS!!!
I hope I haven't missed anyone who has sent us a check. If I have, PLEASE let me know. Some people send money to Phil, some to me and some to Sox, and it all has to get to Sox somehow (we try to be diligent about sending it on snail-mail) to deposit in the checking account. If you are so inclined, it would be GOOD to send your $$ to:
Stanley Howell, 711-33 Tramway Place, N.E., Sandia Heights, Albuquerque, NM 87122 !
Then it won't sit on my computer desk for 3 months, or get put in Woodworth's travel packet! (As I write this, they are off to Seattle!)
Getting back to the subject of parties, and reunions: The general concensus seems to favor Glen Ellyn again, and not just from the mid-westerners. We west-coasters like to get back to our roots and nostalgia, too. (Sox has been back to play golf recently; Loves have been back and are going again to Wisconsin) Jennie Swallen Groenig is for it, and I know many others would attend. BUT...THE RUB: We need Organizers!! I have suggested it to the Mitchells. Why not be in touch with them and say "HEY..WE'LL HELP!"??? What I think is:
"You'll never catch a frog if you're worried about getting your shorts wet!"
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THEN THERE WAS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL!!!! No matter where you went to grammar school, we ALL went to the same Junior High before we really grew up and entered GLENBARD...
"You must remember this..."
Click here to see the contents of the program for The Outlaw King!
Everyone was in it!! Read the names and roles. What a memory of the
olden days!! And notice which "techie" Webmaster sang the LEAD!
(Sorry about the small print; we're trying to reduce download time.)
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What do YOU remember about 1934?? Not much, probably..but Don Ward can look at one product of that year every time he wanders into his garage. He has been excited about Pierce-Arrow automobiles ever since the Century of Progress (THAT rings a bell!!) where he and brother Frank ('40) searched for the "Silver Arrow" that was supposed to be on display. Then in 1950, Don bought his first 1934 Pierce V-12 convertible, and has been hooked ever since. He now owns this one: A beauty!
Because we received his story a little late, the whole narrative is on the web site in Don's own words, instead of on the hard copy! There are specs and the rest of the story here. THANKS, DON! My '34 Ford roadster was no competition at all, but I wish I still had it in MY garage.
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Here are a few more late flashes:
Jennie Swallen Groenig had dinner with Max Grimshaw and wife Betty, who now live in Oregon. Betty is a writer with a web-site,
www.janroywest.com (webmaster note: now closed), in support of her book on creative writing. Jennie was surprised and pleased to see them. See?? Grads in touch!! Hooray! That's the purpose!
Elenore Drouin Carlstedt has a new address: 1326 Village Dr. Arlington Hgts., Ill. 60004
Dave and Anne Hoy have closed up shop (almost) in Tucson, and moved "heart and hearth" to Camden, Maine at:
45 Union St. Camden 04843. (Check the roster for their E-mail (and updates on other contact changes).
IF THIS HAS SEEMED LIKE A WHOLE LOT OF YAKKING..YOU'RE RIGHT..The news was supposed to have ended a couple pages ago, but stuff kept showing up on my E-Mail, and even in my snail-mail box!! You guys are catching ON!! Chuck was the one who elicited the Pierce-Arrow story from Don Ward..and Phil and Shirley Woodworth, your Publisher and friend, made news all on their own with travels all over the 50 states, and Yurp!! I think the hardest part of being the Editor is figuring out what to put in, and keeping it concise.. That's CONcise!
There are more and more of the Class getting computers and E-mail..and if you are some of them, don't forget that sometimes there is news on the Web that isn't in the Newsletter...just because Chuck can update oftener than twice a year!! So, LOOK!
Ben and I are newly returned from a GLACIER BAY TOURS cruise to South East Alaska, and are getting ready to hop on over to "the" desert for most of the winter,(by November 15th) to play some golf and try to get better enough to play with Sox and Nancy MacGonagle More again at the next Reunion. (Or anyone else who will play with some amateurs of the high handicap variety) Actually, Nancy and I have played some here in CA and hope to do a lot more (no pun intended)!
Our address in the desert is: #7 Lugo Circle, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270, and you know the e-mail:
phlathub@aol.com.
All the Editor's "life lessons" are courtesy of Cynthia Copeland Lewis in her book Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me ...and all the smart aleck remarks are mine alone!
If you need a printed roster, or a tour guide, tell PHIL at: 8765 Empire Ct., Cincinnati, Ohio 45231, or e-mail at:
philw1949@aol.com.
If you want to announce on the Web that you have won the Lottery , or want to learn how to sing the Lead in an Operetta, tell CHUCK (Robin) at: cwsmps@rain.org.
If you need money, and want to borrow some, tell SOX at; 711-33 Tramway Pl. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122, or
grasox@aol.com
Important!
Send a copy of your Christmas Letter to Pat at: 307 North Bayfront, Balboa Island, CA 92662 so she will have all your good news for the next Newsletter.
Remember:
THERE ARE ALWAYS A FEW UNPOPPED KERNELS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BOWL!!
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