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Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Nina, I am also sending you my condolences and admiration. May you continue to find comfort in your family and your students. They are lucky to have you. 

Monica Haban (Brown)

Nina-

As St. John Chrysostom would state:

They are now wherever we are.

You have been a role model for us all.
A treasure to Art, and faithful to the Core. 

Love you and see you soon. 

Monica 

Monica Haban (Brown)

California Quentin comes to Columbus.  
Lawrence Quentin Foster that is.
Larry would love to see you
Saturday, October 17th at Massey's Pizza
in Graceland Shopping Center at 11:00 am
and thereafter. Mike Boulware has reserved
a table of 12.  Please RSVP Mike /All if you plan to join us. 

The OSU vs Indiana game will be televised there.
And so we gather again!  The Class of '66!

Lorraine Heitchue

Monica Haban (Brown)

Lorraine- 

What's your email address? I'll send the group photo to you!

Monica

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Monica, I have been looking occasionally for the photos of the 60th Reunion to be posted like other years.  Are they only available to those who attended and/or is there a cost involved? Thanks!

Monica Haban (Brown)

Donna and Lorraine-

Nina posted many photos from our class reunion for all to enjoy

August 2nd and 3rd, both on this Message Forum and also on our

class Home Page.  In August I also posted a few on this message forum page

including a photo of our priests at Mass and the gift that includes

the in memoriam poster/card for everyone to enjoy. 

The actual poster/card was in the gift bag for all who attended the reunion.  =)

Michael Boulware

Monica and Pals, there is no need to RSVP; just show up. Massey's does not open up until 11. I will be there helping set up tables and getting the proper channel for The Ohio State/ Indiana game on the TV's. Looking forward to seeing Larry. Massey's is in Graceland Shopping Center. As you turn into Graceland, it is on the right side (North Side)about half way down. If you can't stay, that is okay, we are doing this in order to say hello to Larry.

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Thanks for your quick reply, Monica.  Sorry, I had seen the photos that Nina posted in August.  I guess since then I had been looking at the Class of 1966 Photos section to see if there were more being shared.

Janie Albright (Blank)

Donna, I've had a time getting the pictures to load. I need a new computer and haven't made it a priority yet. I'm still looking for an assistant to help me with our website in case I get hit by a bus. Clare was my backup. 😢. If anyone has any ability at all on a PC or mac I can walk you through our site and share passwords. It is template driven and not that complicated unless you have a 12 year old MacBook like I do. 😩

Lawrence Foster

Monica and Mike - Thank you so very much for your work in doing all this when I am in town.  I really appreciate it and am looking forward to see as many as possible that can meet up.  And I am looking forward to being around OSU fans!  

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Janie, I just figured it was something I was doing wrong.  You definitely have your priorities correct...choosing between enjoying PV and shopping around for a new computer. 

Thanks for all that you have always done and continue do for the rest of us.  Abrazos.

David Mitchell

Yesterday, I attended a service at my church to commemeorate the retirement of our pastor after 30 years. Our previuos and present Bishops were there (both of whom have become personal friends) and our other four (Angican) priests - yes, with wives and crying babies, and teenagers, and grandkids - all of whom have also become friiends. Also a packed house of many good friends in the the congregation.

They sang three of my favorite hymns "Shout To the Lord" "Give Me Jesus", and "He Will Hold Me Fast". But when they closed with this song the tears began to flow - including yours truly. 

Many great versions on YouTube but I love this one. Anthony Evans Rocks!

John Maxwell

Michael McLeod

whoa. Billy Joel has a medical condition, a brain inflammation of sorts, and doctors have told him to avoid performing. He's a longtime fave and i've seen him perform many times. Hang in there old friend.

And Jack, let's get a campaign going to stir up the ol' home town and have them change its name from Columbus, Ohio to Indigenous, Ohio. It's got a ring to it.

Michael McLeod

Recently I finally fully retired after 50 odd years as a journalist at the Middletown Journal, Cincinnati Enquirer, and most recently the Orlando Sentinel. I don't think I have talked much about hmy day job here over the years because chatting with y'all and writing stuff for fun was my relief from sweating out deadline workadays..Apart from the journalism gig I also served as part time writing and literature professor at the University of Central Florida and Rollins College, a lovely and quite well thought of private school in nearby Winter Park.

I was the proberbial mann fur alles as a journalist, doing time on the city government beat, then as a police reporter - we called it the cop shop - then as city government reporter. Over the years my favorite beat was as a movie and theater reviewer. I was also a men's issues columnist at one point, which I was perfect for given that I was a man who sure had issues.

 I lived a life of loving what I did for a living. It was hard, hard work. Writing is the hardest thing I have ever done, and if it weren't for deadlines I never would have done it..I needed the whip. I was no angel. I was lazy sometimes. Writing is HARD!. I got better at it but it never got easy.  My personal life suffered, two time divorcee here,  but I blame it on me, not my profession.

Now I can turn my attention to tuning up work on my home of 20-odd years. It's a powder blue, single story, four bedroom, two bath, two kitchen bungalow with porch, pool and patio out back. Nice garden behind the pool and a few blessed trees around. I laugh at how I  took trees for granted when I lived in Ohio. You never take the shade of trees for granted  again if you live in Florida! My son lives in what amounts to an adjacent apartment with its own bath and kichen. That gives me security.I am single but keep company with a lovely grade school teacher.

Fortunately for me and everyone involved in this story, she knows how to handle a dude at my level of maturity.

If you are ever in Orlando my email is MCLEOD.MICHAEL1@GMAIL.COM

James Hamilton, M. D.

Mosquitos

As I retrieved the trash and recycle bins this morning it was in the 40's with blue sky and sunshine. But what I appreciated most was a welcome paucity of mosquitos.

I am no entomologist but the mosquitos around here are some of the largest and numerous that I have encountered. Granted, coming from a drier state after so many years away from here, I may not be very familiar with the local bio environment anymore, but some of these critters seem enormous to me. And they have been numerous to say the least.

I suspect that the ponds around Hilliard can be good breeding grounds for these insects, but I wonder if any of you have encountered an increase of these  insects this year, or is this just the normal cycle.

What we need is a few good frosts to break the cycle and the sooner the better.

Jim

Michael Boulware

Jim, I work at Rolling Meadows Golf Course. We don't go out without applying insect repellant. The insect that is really scary is the tic. They have been abundant and are around 12 months of the year. Mosquitoes are a real pain as well. Apply that repellant.

David Mitchell

I see in today's news that the King of England and son William and both wives visited the site of the famous Aberfan mining disaster back in October of 1966.

Joseph Gentilini

Hi David, what a sad story you shared.  Thanks for sharing this personal story.  joe

Joseph Gentilini

Michael McL  - CONGRATULATIONS on your retirement.  I am fascinated by the career that  your chose or that chose you.  What a wonderful career.  Now, take some time for yourself and your companion and enjoy it all.  You did good!  Joe

Joseph Gentilini

Hi Jim H -- welcome back to Ohio with all the misquitoes!  I am sorry to tell you that Ohio gets plenty of them during the raining seasons and the city of Columbus ends up spraying to kill them.  Wear protection. Good thing to think about: Columbus will probably be having a warmer and drier winter.  Unfortunately, we will probably be having a green Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I miss the little snow for Christmas and we don't get as much as we all did when we were younger. Last year was an exception as one time we got 11 inches of snow at one time.  joe

James Hamilton, M. D.

Mike B. and Joe G.

Thanks for the mosquito report and advice. Use of repellants is definitely a good idea, especially if I wander about areas that I like to photograph. I hope the city sprays these ponds around Hilliard and other places so as to at least "thin out the numbers".

Mosquito bites are bothersome but what microbes they can transmit are worrisome. Ticks are, of course, another problem and the diseases some species of them can carry and transmit are another good reason for protection.

It seems like every few years a new infectious agent is discovered which is carried by an insect vector and can be transmitted to humans.

We live in a microbial world!

Jim

Michael Boulware

Thanks to everyone who showed up for Larry Foster's get together. Larry sure is a talented artist with a great sense of humor. We had a wonderful time.

Michael McLeod

Nina: so sorry. My heart goes out to you.