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Joseph Gentilini

To my classmates!  May our New Year 2017 be one of peace in our hearts, our families, our nation, and our world.  Love to you all.  I am so glad I made it to t he reunion!!  Peace, Joe Gentilini

Mark Schweickart

I just saw Mary Margaret's post saying that Janie's husband Dennis has passed away. I never met Dennis, but since he was the man who won her heart, he must have been a very special guy. We all love you Janie.

Joseph Gentilini

So sorry to hear of Janie's  husband Dennis passing into God.  May your heart be healed.  JOe Gentilini

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, Janie. Much love.

David Mitchell

Janie,

So sad to hear the news of Dennis' passing. I know you share in the beleif that if the "promises" made to us these last two tousand years are true, then he is experiencing a peace and joy that goes beyond our wildest dreams. 

Margie Davis

Janie. I am so sorry for your loss; losing Dennis,  the one you love!  Know that I will be keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers!!  Margie

Deborah Alexander (Rogers)

Janie, I am so saddened to hear of your great loss.  Hold on to  your memories of your life with Dennis, which I pray will sustain you at this difficult time.  Please know that I am  keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.   Love, Debbie

Mary Clare Hummer (Bauer)

Hi,classmates. I checked with Janie about arrangements for Dennis.  He was the love of her life and for that she feels very lucky. She said there will be no service at this time but a celebration of his life is being planned for sometime in the spring. She will let us know & appreciates everyone's expressions of sympathy and love. 

Clare

Joseph D. McCarthy

Clare,

Thank you for keeping us informed.

Monica Haban (Brown)

To Janie, and all who have lost a loved one, keep in mind a reassuring quote attributed to St. John Chrysostom:

They whom we love and lose are no longer where they were before.  They are now wherever we are.

Mary Clare Hummer (Bauer)

This was in today's (Sunday, January 8) paper:

Timothy Lavelle

Dear Abby,

Your representative just left my home. Pleasant young man. I will put the following synopsis in writing as he requested.

1) No, I did not know that I had written you 17 complaining letters, questioning, whining letters since the early November debacle. Of course I am sorry for wasting your valuable time.  But I was earnest in both my comments and my queries.  For instance, maybe you recall my comment....The man who first said 'making a mountain out of a molehill' probably did not have moles in his yard." That was an example of one of my ernest comments. I have a Japanese film crew, camped on my property, making a movie to be titled "Mozilla, This Time He Means Business!".

2) Also, I asked you what I thought was a really fair question - and one you have no doubt heard before in your undertaking as Grand Pubah of the Confused. "Abby" I asked politely, "why does my wife think I should be able to read her mind"? Maybe I have to read your mind to get an answer??

3) And in my earliest letter your team seemed to misread what I wrote completely. Your rep suggested that I had complained about not being able to get a table for five with Al and Judy at some recent party for fifty would-be friends! Read the ^%$&*& letter will you? I asked why, after having good wood-working tools for five years, I couldn't make a table like Al Judy did for the 50th Reunion.

Maybe I'll write to Ann Landers instead. Or...Or better yet...Yeah, better yet, I just won't open a newspaper for the next four years! What a great idea!

Old friends...No doubt this posting seems crass and untimely to many. I've just always thought it was my job to make you laugh...especially when things seem dark. Just take it as a loud fart in church...

Mary Clare Hummer (Bauer)

Please tell us you photoshopped all those piles of dirt around the tree stump, Tim.  Otherwise whatever you are doing to eliminate the moles is definitely NOT working. But I have no helpful suggestions. Maybe check online for a mole chaser in your area.   As far as Al's woodworking skills, you need to visit his shop back here in Columbus. I'm not an expert but I think his set up would put any craftsman's to shame. His projects really are pieces of art!!!  Good luck with your mole battle.  Chin up, buddy. Forward. 

Clare

James Hamilton, M. D.

Tim,

Whenever people complained to me about moles I referred them to a dermatologist .

( Booo, sorry, that kind of humor went out in the '50's.)

Those molehills are about 5 times larger than those of prairie dogs. Hopefully moles don't carry bubonic plague like the prairie dogs do.

Jim

Timothy Lavelle

Clare, you Humdinger you...and Jim...Doctor Bop. Thank you both for letting me off the "It's too soon for humor" hook. The next ten to fifteen years are going to be difficult enoough for every one of us. So I am just going to veer between aging goofy foolishness and anger; humor and tilting at old windmills. Like Jim says. "Make mine a martini".

Story: when my Dad passed away we all gathered at the homestead to help Mom clear out his stuff. It was very sad with each of us finding important momentos and shouting out "Ahhhh, Grampa's pocket knife" or "Ahhh, I found Grandpa's favorite gloves" and this went on for awhile until my brother in law Tom reached under the kitchen sink and pulled something out of the cabinet, left there by an older brother.

We were all standing there when Tom stood up and said "Ahhh, Grandpa's Bong"!!! Dad would surely have appreciated how hard we all laughed.

Janie Albright (Blank)

Tim, thanks for the much needed humor. I'm glad someone takes the responsibly of humoring our class seriously. Could be an oxymoron there. 

I want to thank all of you who have sent me comforting words on this forum, on Facebook, in messages and emails and cards.  Each one means so much to me.  I am one of the very lucky ones who found and spent 40 years with the love of my life. We went through a lot with his illness and I did a lot of crying and grieving toward the end.  But the quality in his life was gone and he was ready to go. I plan to be happy with all the wonderful memories we had together.  I am spending the winter in Puerto Vallarta, the place we both loved so much, as we had planned and I have a sense Dennis is with me. 

Timothy Lavelle

Janie....what more in life could a man want than the true love of a partner like you. If there is some place to go after this life, he is there waiting with a big smile and a hug.

But hey....oxymoron....Damn, girl, you know I lost a lot of weight so I wouldn't look so..."Oxy" at the reunion!  I once told a childhood friend's Mom that I had served in 'Military Intelligence' and she turned to her husband and quietly said, "That explains why we lost Sid".

Enjoy that sunshine and those lovely memories. We"ll hold your place at the bar while you're away!

David Mitchell

Hear! Hear!

Linda Weiner (Bennett)

 Speaking of farts, the young altar server, kneeling in front of us, did the unmentionable during the Consecration!!

No shit!

Timothy Lavelle

It's halftime.

Seahawks are losing.

Let's all celebrate out 70th birthdays in Columbus and then have a road trip to Vegas. leave it all in Vegas. Make a movie!! Early June, 2018, BEEEEE THEEEEERE!!!

John Maxwell

Mark Schweickart

Well I'll be dangled, I didn't know moles could be wrangled.

David Mitchell

HUH ?

Mary Clare Hummer (Bauer)

You must have a lot of experience with these critters, Jack!!   You & Tim need to get together. We have Buckeyes down here that can usually handle any Michigan problem. I could send some & you could drop them in the holes--just a thought! Clare

Joseph D. McCarthy

Okay Mark it's time to tell the truth.  You've paid a lot of advance money for your remake of the films that started  it all.  Superman and the Mole-Men (1951); followed by The Mole People (1956), and the last Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961).  So when is your film do to be released?