North High School

RE: Prayer Request

2012-04-14T09:02:08-04:00

Hi Shirley,

I've been aware via Facebook that something serious was going on, and when we were at Mary Jo's, someone told me that your daughter had been in a car accident that left her in a very precarious position. Words fail us at times, and this is certainly one of those times. I have been and will continue to be in prayer for you, relying on Romans 8:26: "Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words."

In Him,

Eileen

Prayer Request

2012-04-04T15:41:29-04:00

From

Shirley Kuhns (Pelz) Facebook page - 3/4/12

In case some of you haven't heard. Deana is in the hospital. Went by ambulance Monday afternoon. That evening they placed a central line in her neck and an arterial line in her leg. Then around 11:00 p.m. they decided they needed to go in and put a tube through her back into her kidney to drain it. Kidney stones are blocking the kidney from emptying and they will have to be removed, but she is a ...pretty sick little gal right now and they want her to get better before they do that. We will be in the hospital until after that at least. Right now the main concern is the infection in her blood. She's been halucinating today and talking kind of goofy which they say is because of the infection. She isn't in a lot of pain though, just worn out. They had lots of trouble with her blood pressure being too low, then too high, but that has stabilized now too. Keep her in your prayers. Thanks!

Class of 62 -Cookbook For Sale

2012-03-17T13:32:01-04:00

Hello Everyone,
The class of 1962 is printing a cookbook that contains recipes from our class, the class of 1961, and friends of North High. This cookbook has over 260 pages of various dishes and will be bound in a spiral format. (I might bait the hook here by telling you that we have the recipe for Doc's Garlic Salad included in our cookbook.) We would like to extend the opportunity for others to be able to purchase these from us if they would like. Please contact your classmates and let them know we will have this available. Anyone wanting to order one or more of them may contact Leigh Ann Hughbanks Koksal at lakoksal@cox.net She is located in Wichita. Our cookbooks are $25.00 and we are hoping to be able to include shipping in that price if buyers are not local.

I also have North High Bears for sale. These are Beanie Baby bear sized, made by the Holy Bear Company. If anyone would like to purchase them, they are $10.00 each. They will need to get in touch with me at imdragon9@frontier.com

Smiles,
Nola Walker Martin, Class of 1962

Memories ???

2012-03-03T15:57:08-04:00

Bring back any memories??

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Someone asked me the other day, 'What was your favorite 'fast food' when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called "home', I explained. 'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it:?

· Some parents NEVER owned their own house, or wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.?

· My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).? ?

· We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.?It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.

· I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

· Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.

· All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

· Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:? My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember? Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner. And curling irons that burnt your hair or your skin. Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.

Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes?

2. Coffee shops with juke boxes ?

3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles ?

4. Party lineson the telephone?

5. Newsreels before the movie

6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows

started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate)?

7. Peashooters ?

8. 33 rpm records?

9. 45 RPM records?

10. Hi-fi's?

11. Metal ice trays with levers?

12. Blue flashbulb?

13. Cork popguns ?

14. Wash tub wringers?

If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young?

If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older?

If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age?

If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Senior Texting

2012-02-03T12:39:05-04:00

I hope you'll check this out it sure will help me. lol or lol ???

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Tower Book Signatures

2011-10-31T20:41:19-04:00

1964 Tower Signatures

Click on the link to find your signature and comment that you wrote before going to the top of the tower, I think. I got lucky my names is on page 2. Looks like all I could think of was my High School sweetheart. John K - Mr. Karen Dowler Kelly today, happily married for 47 years.

RE: Remember these?

2010-09-24T21:44:16-04:00

So much fun to see these... top class picture was MISS Betty Bee Slack, teacher. Can recognize and name so many.classmates. How crazy is that? Woodland: Virginia Stewart, kindergarten; Mrs. Perry, first; Betty Bee Slack, second; Doris Evans, third; Betty Cord, fourth; Bertha Alexander (who we saw and cared for ...for many years), fifth; and Myrtle Pellett, sixth. Wow, those WERE the Woodland days!

RE: Karen Kelly's Story!

2010-01-01T13:44:23-04:00

1. It's been 6 months since I added this. I reduced it to be 10 things instead of 25.

2. I can't remember that much about my high school years, except my time with my HS sweetheart. My husband today, John Kelly. It was a good time for me. My high marks were in sewing, art, sports and business. Passing marks in English and Math! Where is my report card?

3. We celebrated our 45th being sick with colds, but managed to go see "It's Complicated", very very funny movie.

4. I love having my family home for the holidays, but glad to get back to an empty nest home. Had Christmas dinner on Christmas eve and did nothing on christmas day execpet open presents and make breakfast. Son and family, from Virgina, came home on Sunday before Christmas and left the following Monday. It was a good day and week! Hadn't cook that much since...?? can't remember when.

5. It's a fun day when when John and I can go antiquing??? To sick to do that on our Anniversary.

6. I can't spell some days, that's that memory block thing again. Do you have that problem too?

7. I'm afraid when John retires he'll cut my spending off? :) I've had to much freedom to spend and buy whatever I wanted. I think twice now before I buy?

8. We've been blessed with good health and jobs. At times my job has be more volunteering then being paid. Thank goodness John has worked at Beech for 40 + years.

9. My volunteer experience was my resume when I started a real job after my kids graduated from High School. Was very involved with PTA in their schoolyears. Even served on the Kansas State PTA board as secreatry, and parenting chairman. Now I'm helping with my grandchild's PTA as their Newsletter editor.

10. One of my favorite things to do is scrapbooking. Need to get my Chirstmas picture off to the printer. Going to Texas for a 4 day scrapbook retreat in January. I begining to run out of pictures ? NOT! Just need to get them organized to figure out what I need to scrapbook next.

RE: No TV to View on 9/11

2009-10-03T12:05:24-04:00

Wow, Cathy!

Things were a little different out here in the flatlands, but we weren't untouched. I was in charge of the Zoo that day since almost everyone else in management was in St. Louis for our national zoo conference. We knew air traffic would be a serious mess with lots of people stranded. We offered free admission to anyone making an unscheduled stop, hoping to take their minds off their predicament. We had quite a few people taking us up on it, including a number of Zoo professionals trying to get home from St. Louis.

The zoo profession lost one of its most beloved people, Tim O'Sullivan, personnel manager for the Bronx Zoo, who was in the World Trade Center for a meeting. I'd had the pleasure of driving him around the Wichita area when he was out here once.

I have family in Manhattan and they were the first thing on my mind. Fortunately, they escaped any physical trauma.

They say almost everyone had some sort of connection to the 9/11 tragedy, and I believe it is true.

RE: Remember these?

2009-10-02T12:07:27-04:00

Karen and Laura - the teacher in the 2nd Woodland picture is Irma Jones. This was 2nd grade. I think at the time the Woodland primary classes were scheduled in shifts becasue there were so many of us babyboomers. Melissa

RE: No TV to View on 9/11

2009-09-29T20:57:59-04:00

On 9/11, I was at the Pfizer Conference Center on 42nd Street, attending a United Way/Pfizer sponsored employment law training. About 75 attendees were just settling in to opening remarks when the lead Pfizer attorney interrupted, announcing that a plane had struck a tower of The WTC. Then another announcement of the second plane.

As events unfolded, we were asked to remain in the building if possible. The presenters continued presenting. Pfizer provided land-line telephone service...cell-phones were mostly down...news coverage was provided on 52" monitors in the hallways, and on wall projection screens in several conference rooms on the lower levels, where we were. People restlessly wandered in and out of the training rooms. At about 3-ish... those remaining of our group agreed to reschedule. Many people stayed in the building, several for the night.

There was no public transportation downtown and I was wearing a business suit and heels. A boutique across from the Daily News Building was open, so I stopped and bought a pair of sneakers. I wore those shoes on 9/11/2009...and often just looking at them on the shelf evokes that odd calmness that held everyone making their way down Second Avenue that afternoon, each awed by the time/space/visions being shared. We passed hospitals with staff outside waiting anxiously near the curbs, expecting to be overwhelmed by victims who never arrived.

A friend/co-worker, at whose wedding I had danced only 3 months earlier, lost her husband. Sean worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. Their child was born in March 2002. And other co-workers lost family. A receptionist lost three cousins, a caseworker lost a sister-in-law, a cook lost her brother.

My youngest son was at home and had not turned on television. He began hearing unusual sounds of a crowd and looked out of the living room window to see more people than he could count standing in the middle of Grand Street, looking down East Broadway. Just as he turned to find the remote, our building shook and he told me that the people in the street began covering their mouths and eyes in shock. The first tower had collapsed. The WTC had been the view enjoyed by four of the six apartments on each of the upper floors of my co-op, as well as a workplace. I am attaching a photo (click on My Profile) taken this morning from one of those apartments...WTC towered behind the spired municipal buildings you see at the imaginary end of the angled background street.

In addition to hiring Project Liberty professional and para-professional staff for the agency where I worked, I received FEMA and Red Cross training/certifications, assisting disabled New Yorkers and their families in the aftermath. That little boutique, as well as many other small businesses, was unable to survive the aftermath of street closings and area evacuations that followed. Several friends have moved away from the city...many citing fear of orange alerts and noxious air quality. The hole left in New York is much larger than the one between Vesey and Liberty Streets.

The Butcher Twins

2009-09-28T05:47:47-04:00

Does anyone know anything about those girls? I remember their mother was a hairdresser and the girls would often come to school with different colors added to their hair (well before it was in fashionable thing to do).

Janet Hofmaster Scuka

RE: Sign In, What's Next?

2009-09-21T11:42:00-04:00

DIANE MARSHALL ANDERSON wrote:

Why is this website only active for two years? It seems like it would be wonderful to keep it going until we are all gone! It's a great way to stay connected especially for those of us who are a long ways from Kansas. Thanks for all your work, Karen!

Diane Marshall Anderson

Diane,

Thanks for the compliments. The committee is hoping to continue if the Silent Auction is successful or we receive donations from classmates. The domain name (wichitanorth64) is paid for two years and the monthly fee for the website is being paid monthly. The cost for one year is $97 or three years for $249. Doesn't it always boil down to money? As for "to keep it goin until we are all gone!" That's my goal to keep going until the good Lord says "Welcome good and faithful servant"! I'm sure there are people that would be able to do want I'm doing. ClassCreator.com has lots of help when ever we need it. Other websites have great ideas, it just takes time to get them online. Check them out. If we get another group to sign up we get $50. I've just about got all the 400+ Yearbook pictures online.

Get the word out to classmates about the website and hopefully we'll have 70% of classmates on board by the 50th reunion! Shirley Kuhns Pelz is our behind the scenes detective in locating missing classmates addresses, phone numbers, e-mails etc. If you want to help click on her name and send her a message.

After reunion, plans to get pictures of events online, more yearbook pictures, create surveys so we know what classmates want on the website. Much to do - I need to get some other work done. Talk later, keep in touch! kk

RE: Sign In, What's Next?

2009-09-21T10:27:15-04:00

Diane Marshall Anderson

RE: Remember these?

2009-09-19T18:47:50-04:00

I asked Laura Lyons, since they were her pictures, and she didn't know either. Bring your pictures to the reunion. I'll try and bring my scanner and we can get it scanned and put it on the web later. I got some more pictures from Laura but I haven't had a chance to put them on the web yet. Hope to see you at the Luncheon also. kk

RE: No TV to View on 9/11

2009-09-19T17:27:06-04:00

I was with my sister at my home in Georgetown TX getting ready for work and heard the annoucement on the radio. Ran into the familyroom and turned on TV in time to see second plane hit. My sister and I were both stunned our husbands were both traveling that day on airplanes. We had prayer and I went to work and trusted God to keep our husbands safe--he did. Jack started carrying a purse for a while after that as it was easier. What a day and to think children in grade school do not even remember. I was previlaged to meet a survivor of the towers crash at the 2002 transplant games in MN. She was still in shock and shaken up, she became my hero.

No TV to View on 9/11

2009-09-12T18:42:19-04:00

John and I were on vacation in Colorado, camping in the mountains, that September 11, 2001 in Colorado. The night before we had just listen to a CD "This was Radio". About the days of The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, and Radio Coverage of World War II.

That next day we were listening to the Radio (with very poor reception) just like in those days with no TV. We couldn't figure out why Petter Jennings was on the Radio. We finaly figure out what was going on. We went to the lodge and they had a radio on with better reception and we listen some more and was in disbelief. The next day someone went to town and brought back a paper and it was read by everyone several times. It wasn't until Friday of that week when we stopped at a rest stop and saw a TV with replays of the planes flying into the buildings. We were a week behind in our emotions from everyone else.

It's a day to remember and as bad as when President Kennedy was killed in 1963. I was in a bussiness class when we got word of his assasination.

Sign In, What's Next?

2009-08-18T23:08:44-04:00

First sign in and complete your profile if you haven't done that.

There are two areas to complete as Member Functions: Edit Contact info & Edit Profile. You can add or update as you wish. Be sure and read and click on the three boxes about security.

Be sure and click on Reunion Details and then click on 45th Pre- Register to let us know if you are planning to attend. It gives us a head start before we receive your check. Don't forget the Deadline date is September 1st, before the cost is raised. Also if you have a classmates e-mail send them an invitation at Missing Classmates to join the site.

Our domain name for our site is: www.wichitanorth64 and is good for two years. It's much shorter and maybe we'll remember it. It was: classcreator.com/Wichita-North-64. Let me know how you learned about the website. Class mailing, Web search, Facebook...??? How can we get the word out about our official Class of 64 website?

Make this a fun website, check the Redskin Pow Wow, and Classmate Profiles. Click on your friends name if you want to be notified when they update or be notified when their birthday is. Upload some of your favorite pictures, we all change, we might be passing each other in the Grocery store and don't realize it. We have scan the yearbook to add the senior pictures to your profile. If you aren't in the yearbook send me 1964 picture.

Click on Reply if you have other tips, or suggestions of what you want on the website.

Time is passing, classmates are missing. Look forward to all the messages.

Talk later. Karen (Dowler) Kelly / kk

RE: Remember these?

2009-08-17T18:15:35-04:00

Karen - I went to Woodland only one year, when I was in third grade in Mrs. Doris Evans class I think (1954-55) - but I don't have any pictures of that - do you know who the teachers were in these two shots? Also, I have a few good group shots, one of John Marshall's student council, on the steps of the school (I see Cindy, Robin Carlock, and Kenneth Cinotto in it but not sure who else), and one of the North Nocturns, and a shot of an assembly for Student Council - a bunch of us onstage, but don't have a scanner. Will try to figure out how to post them...not real good with that kind of thing. Judy

Remember these?

2009-08-16T19:32:41-04:00

Found some old pictures of classmates of Woodland School. Who's Who?? Hope you enjoy! Do you recognize the other building?

1964 was the last classes to have graduation at the Wichita Fourm before it was torn down for Century II.