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Beau Wann, Jr.

Seems funny to me, when I get on the forum, everyone else gets off...ok then, wonder why that is!  Must be me!  So in the interest of community spirit and cooperation,  I shall disappear into the night...---poof---

Pat Brantley (Ross)

Get back in here, beau.  We read and laugh.  At our age we need it.

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

You better believe we enjoy!

41 days until reunion.

Hugs,

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Nope, not gan doit...I'm offin here for good...in fact I am so off, I am not even on it now, even tho it looks like it...what you are seeeeeeing (e stuck) is an hallucination....If I do decide to come back, and i'm not making any promises, It will be under a nom de plom, so you wont know it's me...sorta like now...ha, admit it, you are so cornfused...none more so than me, which is not me of course, but someone else...oh the humanity...

Bennie Schielack

Beau, you could always return as your alter ego Jeff.  Many of us enjoy your special view on life, and in particular, your mastery of the Kings English.  Plus, we need more humor in our lives.  Anyone that would dare to complain is, at our age, way too serious.  As I stated, we NEED more humor in our lives .....

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Houston Gang - Reminder - Fuddrucker gathering tomorrow Tuesday,

September 9 - 6:00 p.m.

Paige Talley (Meek)

Hello All,

Richard and I have not been on an exended journey to some faraway land as we would like to imagine. We have been busy doing stuff that most of you would recognize. I won't mention the "stuff" just incase you haven't gotten to this year's list yet. 

I am still unemployed and I am taking this opportunity to let my back get its "going out" and often "staying out", (sometimes all night long) done. I surely hope she settles down before a new job comes along. My unemployment is giving Richard the chance to be   MANLY   by working harder and longer for  his BRIDE who is very thankful !!!

I do hope you are well and having a wonderful summer. We will see you at Fudds.  Hugs, Paige

Johnny Sheffield

Well hello everyone

like to wish all the September birthdays a very happy birthday. 

Beau, don't stop talking on the web site.  May need your help to put

50 years into 15 minute speech at the reunion. 

That way , the band can keep on playing and we can keep on dancing. 

Look forward  to seeing everyone at the reunion. 

Johnny

Teddie Jordan

Beau, don't take it personally. If you look back over the 6 year history of this Forum it it has always been a flurry of activity, much of it thankfully your contributions, followed by several days of inactivity. Hard to say exactly what the explanation for this rythym is, but it has consistently repeated itself.

You are much loved my friend!

We hope to see everyone at Fudd's tomorrow night and hopefully at the reunion in October too!

Johnny Sheffield

Teddy

saw where you and Fran were at the wrangler in navasota.

You and Fran should have continued to austin county to indudtry Texas and stop by

got a nice cold ultra.  Well anyway let Fran know not to go to beau rivage after holiday weekend when the casino gave out over. 2 million dollars now I know why Becky and I got 3 free days so they could get there money back. Today Iam taking my 4. Year old grand daughter to pre school. 

Made sure she has lunch and blanket. Been a while since I have done that with my kids. 

Brought back memories.  Thanks to Jackie 

and the message forum all of us can Cherrish

our memories. 

Anyway got to go

johnny

Wayne Lake

Well, it’s been a long while since my last confession……………………… Over the past few months we have sold the League City house and bought/moved to a place on the water (canal) in Aransas Pass that is still a work in progress – what a mess.  The good news is I am where I want to be for at least 6 months a year as I can sit on my dock and pat my feet in the water and sometimes see dolphins out back – I think I’ll keep my mask and flippers handy on the dock and jump in sometime to try to  ‘commune with them’ .

During the drama of buying, selling and remodeling real estate, I have been seeing some of Fannin street’s finest cardiologists (thanks to a heads up by Jimmy Hilsher and ensuing reference from Henny Banning) about a left ventricle mitral regurgitation (MR) but none of them have said I need surgery immediately so I’ll keep on keeping on for now anyway since I am ‘asymptomatic’ which means although the valve is leaking, no enlargement etc.,  although I do get a little light headed when walking up hill.   

I look forward to seeing everyone in October - I tried to call Gordon Hammett to see if he would attend but he sold his business in 2008 and I don’t have any home/cell number for him. Gordon, Larry Don York, David David, Lynn Prewit, Jimmy Hilsher, Phil Young (sometimes), Bruno, Spanky Taylor and I wasted a lot of our misspent youth together  doing some very stupid things (me anyway) especially after Hi Y meetings and  I would like to see them there. I think we have all lost track of Spanky?  I see where Bruno will attend, how about Walter O’Conner, Robert Knox, Jimmy Harrell, Timmy Bell, Mike Dragics, JC Mosier, Frank Lynn, Ronnie Peters, anybody hear from them and are they planning to come?

We went to see Buddy Guy and Robert Randolf the other night – what a show – at 78 Buddy Guy does not have the talent/energy he once had so he mostly entertains with f-bombs and some very high guitar riffs but Robert Randolf and his slide is incredible and when he plays ‘when the saints come marchin in’, it will make you stand up and start heading for the pearly gates - support live music!  

Beau, you are not allowed to stop blogging, you’ve got us all hooked on your East Texas prose and it would not be fair to your audience!

From Lake Wobegon with highs in the 50’s this week, see you in October and a big thanks to Lynn, Jackie, Barbara, Johnny and all the other reunion committee members for their dedication and effort.   

wtl

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

As noted, Bill Knecht joined our website and we were hoping he could come to reunion.  

William Allan Knecht

09/08/14 02:35 PM

Jackie, I'm not going to be able to attend the reunion. It would be great to come and see everyone after all this time, but Virginia is a long way away and I just can't make it work. My wife graduated from Corpus Christi King and their 50th reunion is on exactly the same dates as ours. We can't make it to hers, either. So we'll just stay here and ride our horses and look forward to seeing all the photos afterward. Many thanks for putting me in touch with the website. Have a great time at the reunion!

Bill Knecht

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Wayne,

Thanks for the kind words regarding the reunion, it's going to be our BEST, has to be, it's our 50th and the reunion committee has been working hard!  

I've also sent you an email to give you some info on the guys you were asking about.

Hugs,

J

John Philip Adams

Is Everyone going to the Debakey Clinic. yes, they are some of the finest. i thought when i saw the words about a confession, i began to worry if some of the indictments were still outstanding. Glad to see this was not the case. you take care and do whatever the docs tell you to do. See you october.

jpa

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hello myne fyne waltripynes...first off, I was never going to get off the forum, I was just foolin about! I appreciate the fine votes of confidence from all my swell classmates, but I was really not on a phishing expedition...just my warped sense of humor...but thank you very much for your enthusiastic support...trust me, it is very appreciated...makes me love you guys all the more! ! !

     Just fresh from FUDDS...oh man, what a great group of folks and lots of fun...I tried to make the rounds of talking to everyone, but just not enough time, plus cant stand for too long of time before I have to wrest myne weary bones...My beloved Diane, class of 72, made mention tonight, as she does everytime we come back from FUDDS, "your friends are just wonderful, I really love them..." or woids to that effect! I concur wholeheartedly ! ! ! !

     Wayne, glad to hear you are fairing well after your heart incident...good to hear about your knew home on the water you love so much! We expect a slide show...wanta see you swimming with the dolphins...I'll just watch from the dock, or your slides...if I was swimming with them, be my luck they turned out to be the rare dolphin/sharks never seen before, till they bit my butt...wrong way to make the eenin gnus...

     The shappell heel house is still there...waiting for them to finish, and us to move in...whenever in the hell that will be...the curly moe and larry texas clown home builders, slower than molasses in January...up noth that is! First ETA on move in mid may...2nd ETA mid july...then end of august...now???? who the hell gnoes! ! !

     When we do move, we have some great neighbors just down the road, Sharon Allen and her hubsand Robert, who by the way has a brand gnu 1940 ford pickup...showed us a picture, wow it is beautiful. Hop to see it someday parked outside our house, visiting of course!...and Johnny and Becky just live up the road down in Industry...a mere hop skip and jump from ourn house..

     Jenny Taylor was in attendance...amazing how a visit from her can just lighten and lively up a room...I put in an order for a new car for her and Tony to er uh, find for us...I was looking for a 1940 yellow ford truck...I think I gno where they can find one...

     J.B. Bellflower was there, an old saltwater sailor...great talking to him tonight! James robinson had a picture of a very small horney toad in his hand...I havent seen a live horned toad since I was a lad! I had one named Irving, as a pet when I was knee high to a Roy Rogers lunch box! My dad and the rest of the wild bunch gave it beer! Irving became an alcoholic and had to enter the betty ford clinic to dry out! Went to Hollywood, and I've never heard from him since! Thats gratitude for you!

     All the regulars were there tonight, and a couple of us Xtra larges...Ok, gonna sing off. Gotta take some pain meds and hit the sack. Gotta busy day tomorrow! Taking Cooper down to see my mom and the rest of the alzheimers residents. She knows who Cooper is, but not me. But thats ok, at least she has something to recognize! Cooper sure does make a difference to those folks down there. He connects with them when people dont! What a blessing God has given us with Cooper!

     And to think, he was a throwaway, on death row...rescued thank goodness, and now as a non-human, is a productive member of the human race! Funny how things work out isnt it! He may not be human, but methinks he is really an angel, least thats how I'm gonna tell it...

     I believe I was singing off wasnt I !

     your frien and classmate-in-law...Brother RE Lee Burgoo

Beau Wann, Jr.

"Bomp bapa bomp pa bomp pa bomp bomp bompa bompa bomp bompa dank a dank danka dinga dong ding..blue moon...you sawr me stand ing alone..."HAVE YALL SEEN THAT MOON OUT THERE TONIGHT? wow, it sure is pretty!  

    Wouldnt be write if I didnt mention Scotty and Lola...they werent there, dont drive after dark, like most of us are gonna get one day, but they were there in spirit for sure...miss them when they are not there!

Jackie and Barbara and Lynn, the heart and soul of our reunions, were in attendance...Jenny has been helping with finding lost classmates...Teddie and Fran...Gloria...Jim T...missed Jimmy H this time...probably out fishing with his grandkids...Bobby C in attendance...hmmm, have I missed anyone? Oh yeah, Lynn Rolf was there...

Hey Larry Y, can you talk to Keith Kupeck and see if he will come to the reunion? Havent seen him for 50 years...wish I could help find some of the missing!

Missing things is an art form with me, finding them doesnt seem to be an option!

Wayne Lake

Beau, I’ve been trying to get PFC Kupec to come to Fudds/Clays for years and the reunion also but he refuses.

Jackie sent me contact info on Walter O’Conner, Ronnie Peters, Spanky and Frank Lynn.  I spoke with Walter last night and he said he was planning on coming Friday night and I left a message with Ronnie. Frank may be out of the country. Spanky Taylor’s mail bounced – he was living in an apt on Sherwood lane right across the street from where I grew up- I wish I knew this before!   

What about that hillbilly, Gary Keith, anybody talk to him about coming?

• Perks of being over 60 and heading towards 70:
  
  Kidnappers are not very interested in you.

• In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first. 

• No one expects you to run--anywhere.

• People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?"

• People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.

• There is nothing left to learn the hard way.

• Things you buy now won't wear out.

• You can eat supper at 5 PM.

• You can live without sex but not your glasses.

• You get into heated arguments about pension plans.

• You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
  You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.

• You sing along with elevator music.

• Your eyes won't get much worse.

• Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.

• Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.

• Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.

• Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.

• You can't remember who sent you this list.

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night

wtl

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Yes, agree with BroBeau another great evening at Fudd's --- just posted the pictures!  Look under Fuddrucker/Houston by Year tab in left column.

Just FYI - Jenny Taylor is doing a lot of research on our "missing classmates" and finding many. Please look at the "Missing Classmates" tab on left very bottom.  If you know any information about any of these folks, please "Contact Us" at top and I'll pass to Jenny.  Again, any info can help her in her search - married names, last address you have, phone numbers, etc.

Wayne, so glad you were able to contact some of the guys on your list.  Hope they can come to reunion.

Hugs,

J

Beau Wann, Jr.

      Hello fellow waltripians...been under the weather ! Wonder what the heck that means! If you're under the weather, exactly which weather are you under? Tornado watch? Freeze warning? Maybe they've been saying under the whether...or under the withers...of a horse that's just stomped a mudhole in you...that'd make you feel really bad now wouldnt it!   

     I dont know, coloquialisms sometimes defy logic! Anyway, I broke a tooth day of Fudds, got the number of a dentist in the heights from an friend who shall remained unnamed...I'm not going to tell you it was Richard Meek, you couldnt drag that information out of me...anyway this anonymous source, Richard Meek, sent me to a dentist, and she had to pull one of the few, the proud, the molars.

     Dang, and I've had that tooth for ages now. Anyway, got fever, whole side of my face hurts, it'd kill an ordinary human bean, or lima bean, whichever comes foist! Been junked up on novacaine, and hydrocodone, vicodin, and tylenol #3...THATS TYLENOL NUMBER 3, NOT THE STUPID "HASHTAG" BULLCRAP ! ! ! !

     Doc Hollidayette asked me if I wanted gas! I said, no, I got plenty, do you want some? I can send this place up like a hot air balloon...you can imagine the look I got! ! ! sorta like the one you have on your face now....oh man, that's just growty to the max!  She also told me not to "brush my teeth, dont rinse, dont spit, and dont drink with a straw..."     DAGNABBIT...4 things I love to do most in life! I asked her when I would be able to do all that stuff, and she said tomorrow, which is today...so, I could do 3 of the things, but had to go buy straws to complete the fourfecta! ! !    Oh the humanity! ! !

     Ok, I'm off my rant...meds and depression got me all wacked out of kilter! ! ! HELL KNOW WE WONT GEAU...

    you know what would be good rat gnow?  Strawberries and whipped cream...ooooh man...but as luck would have it, we dont have any...just vanilla icecream...is it just me, or did anyone get hungry whenever the teacher mentioned, "ok class get out your MANILLA folders..."?   Well, you know, manilla-vanilla ! ! ! Just a thought! ...gonna go get some soon as I finnish this post...vanilla, not manilla...yeah yeah I know, hurry up, right? 

    You know what I'd do if I were a billionaire?  Sleep in ! No,  I'd buy the hotel that the reonion is going to be held at, and let all waltripians stay free...probably be cheaper just to pick up the tab than buy the hotel wouldnt it! ! !     yeah yeah, now how you gonna be?  Ok, meds really warpin my already warped sense of humor..."ok scotty, give me warp speed"  "Captain, captain she's at warp 10 now, she cant take any more" ! ! ! "Crew, prepare for rain of meatballs"

    "Goodnight Mrs Callabash, wherever you are"

Your frien and resident crazy person...John Henry "doc" Holiday Burgoo esq

Marcie English (Nolan)

Wow Beau! Glad you are above the weather again and up to making us laugh out loud. Be careful with those straws while taking #3's. Scuba mask might help.  See you next month.  Marcie

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Oh Marcie Marcie Marcie, mercy mercy mercy...you dont know how long I've waited just to hear your voice...and offer me a scuba mask...thats the ticket...I must say a #3 scuba mask would improve my looks somewhat...WHAT? IS THAT THUNDER I HEAR?  Hells bells, it sure is, My guard dog Cactus Jack just went at warp spppppeeeddddd under the bed.  (the preceeding was a fwee weather weport) fwom elmer fudd no doubt!
fingers messing up. I better straighten up, or Jimmie lee will come smack my fangers with a ruler. Honest JL, I'm not looking at the keey boardddd!  Obviously! 

      No really Marcie, I have thought of you often...I had an 8 X 10 BW picture of you and I backstage in the auditorium at Waltrip, (NOOOO, really?) yup at Waltrip... and I am handing you a bouquet of roses or some sort of flawrs...I have searched for that photo to no end, and I'm pretty sure my first trial wife #1 threw it away! 

      I dont know who took the picture, or how I wound up with it, but I treasured it, till it disappeared!  The picture was completely respectable, we were at least 6 ft apart...I think it was for something in Mrs Blounts class...once again, nooooooooooooo really?  Mrs Blount was sure a hoot wasnt she! Takes a special kind of lady to put up with us, or at least me anyhoosier! 

      Marcy, I havent seen you in 50 years, I always thought you were some kind of special. Looking forward to seeing you this Octember, or is it septober, no matter. I have to warn you though, you wont recognasize me. gotten so old and ugly, I dont even recognasize mineownself in the mirror. Well, I wasnt no prize before I got old either!  (not a fishing expedition for a compliment, I've got eyes, fuzzy though they may be)...

      Speaking of flawrs. my jawbone is sorta ok...most of the payne is gone...Doc Hollidayette kept asking me if I felt anything, like a pinch! I said "no, feels like an ice pick you been a stobbin me with!"     "other than that, it feels just wonderful"    She said "you shouldnt feel anything at all"..."how about stress" says I..."oh dont be stressed, relax and breathe"..."ok" says I, "then you sit here and let me a stob you with an icepick and see ifin you dont feel stressed you out"...

     Nah, she really was pretty good, sort of overly cautious about the box I checked that said I had asthma. Seems novacaine has adrenaline in it to clear the lungs and help you breathe better. I can vouch for that, cause many a asthma attack found me in the ER getting a shot of adrenaline so I could breathe. Seeing as how breathing is an important part of, oh say LIVING, I was glad to get one of those shots!

   She asked did I have my inhaler with me, to which I replied, "No"...she said I could go home and get it and she would wait for me!  Now, call me silly, but I think she was just trying to get me to hell out of her office! If I had gone home, and got it, I'd be willin to bet, I would have come back to an empty orfice. She would have moved out lock stock and novacane!      But no, I held fast, really held fast on the arms of her char!  got my fanger prints embedded in the arms of that chair! 

     All through the proceedure she kept telling me to breathe! Seems I do have a problem with holding my breath when I'm in the midst of a ice pick jobbin me in the jaw, but what the hell, I'm just a kook. )boy, you can say that again( no, I dont think I will!  She also had a blood pressure machine and an oxygen counter hooked up to me. 120/70 even in the icepick stobbin mode!  O2 98 percentile...sure is good to know them figgers!! Then my blood pressure took a dip to 113/73, and rat smak dab in the middle of her blood lettin too. I'm just a shaolin priest eh what! "when you can snatch the pebble from my hand grasshopper, then you will be a man"!

    All the while I was a setttttin in her barber/dentist chair, my mind wandered, in between the ice pick jobbin, about the saxophone player that died in a dentist chair! He was alergic to novacaine. For the life of me I cant think of his name, but at one time a big name on the Jazz circuit!  Anyway, I survived the ice pick onslaught, through sheer super hero powers!  You didnt know I was superman and batman combined did you!  Well you did knhow I was batty, and now you knhow I'm super batty. ( dont know why I spelled know, knhow! Fingers messin up, sorry JL)

     Another weather report, whether you want it or naut!  It's raining! ! ! Film at eleven!

     Looks like it stopped raining. Guess I'll gather up ol Coop and mosey on over to the antique mall and straighten up our booth. We moved to a smaller space! Seems we sold most of our larger items! Cant for the life of me figger out why any one would want to buy that crap, I mean really great antiques!

     Well mouseketeers, happy trails...
your loopy frien,  Morticai Magillicuty RE Lee Burgoo esq...

Post script: I really do have  a BATMAN watch to prove I'm batty

Teddie Jordan

Cephus, I'll have some of what you're having!

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Me too Teddie! ! ! Oh wait, it's me...and I've already had whatever it is I'm having..."need a shot of rythum and blues, with just a little rock and roll on the side, just for good measure..."

     Houston, the eagle has landed ! ! ! OUR EAGLE IS BACK FROM WHEREVER HE spends the summer up noath...Looked west from the driveway, and voila, thar he was!  By the time I got my binocs and camera, he flew off...guess he was tired from the journey and needed to rest up before picture taking could commence...wise decision that! (probably just tired of waiting on me trying to find my binocs and camera and set em up)   Wonder if the osprey and kingfisher will return...

     How about this cold weather ! ! ! Snowin in cornroe! I know, I know, it's not reaolly cold or even very cool, but it beats 95 gredee weather. I'm gonnna wear my blue jean jacket today...I love blue jean jackets...thats one of the things I allus wanted growing up, but never owned!  Now I have a plethora of them. Most of them worn to a frazzle, and a little thread bare, but still good to go!

     Ok, dats about all for now! Lacy, our turkish van princess, is laying across my arms and key board making it extremely hard to type. Hmmmm, hey Jimmie Lee, there should be a test in typing called, KITTEN ON THE KEYS...I know I know, it's old and lame, sorta like me, but it's the best I could come up with on such short notice!

     goink to the anti que mall and do stuff...mostly just sit around with the Coop, and watch my beloved do stuff!     Methinks thats fair, I watch stuff, and she does stuff...Plus, I'm always thinkink about doink stuff...woiks fer me!  

    I shall return ! ! 1 Thanks for the warning, right?

your frien and loopy bro-in-classmate...BeauCephus Burgoo esq... 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Hello deah lovers...got some pictures from the chappell hill shack...

Mama deah, two youngsters from year ago last spring, and two bambis from last spring...pretty neat huh!

Just came from reunion committee meeting hosted by the most gracious Teddie and Fran Jordan at their  stunningly beautiful new home...needs to be featured in all the home magazines ...wow and what a great group of folks...we are so blessed to have such a closeknit group of folks...most of us have known one and other for 62 years...

Jackie Crowe (Finch)