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Teddie Jordan

I'm finishing up my second day helping an old out of town friend navigate the waters at MD Anderson. I have thought frequently the four days that we have been here in the last five weeks about my many beloved friends and classmates who have been down this road. It is a place that is at first intimidating, but ultimately inspiring!

John Philip Adams

Teddie and crowd. IF you are at the Med Center for whatever reason, my condolences and i hope you get as good of care as i received. for those not on a 'heart healthy diet' GO TO the DUNN TOWER cafeteria in Methodist hospital WHy, you ask, BECAUSE they have really good food. as compared to that heart healthy stuff. Remeber the heart healthy motto, "IF it taste good spit it out, Wrong stuff"
I can only hope that any and all of us who have gone trought the doors of our med center hospitals get well soon. remeber the rehabs are pretty tuff also, but at least you are being rehabbed.
I can also gladly say you are in the best hands that are available to make you better. Take care and best wishes. i can also add that taking a bag of candy, halloween for me, as a bribe to the hospital personell that are caring for you. you will be surprised how much it helps you and them. GOD BLESS.

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Yes, Teddie, it is intimidating the first couple of times, but it gets better.  I think I could still tell you each and every department and floor # of all the doctors Charles had through the 13 months we visited there.  You're a good man, Teddie, to help your friend.

Also, John, good idea about the bribes, but I found Bath & Body Works for the females brought really big smiles. 

John Philip Adams

Bath And Body is a limited market. Halloween Chocolates hit a broader range. Besides, my body guard who was at least a 6'6" guy from Nigeria. He had traveled all of over Europe and the world. He is a registered Nurse. LOVED the Mars candies.

Bath and Body would not have been a great idea or i believe would not have had the universal appeal.
My nurses, doctors and just the general help at Methodist is a small UN force. THE whole Med Center is like this. BE GLAD WE ALL HAVE GROWN UP WITH THESE FOLKS. ASK Ms. Henny.

William Donald Ansley

Wishing everyone A Very Merry Christmas!

Teddie Jordan

Thank you Bill, and Merry Christmas to you and your family. 

And Merry Christmas to all of our awesome Waltripian classmates of all years! 

And here's to a joyful 2017.

Christmas Eve Update- We attended a beautiful and moving Candlelight service with our kids and family at Faithbridge Methodist church in Spring and saw and hugged and visited with classmate Patty Williamson. You never know when you're going to see old Waltrip friends.

Larry Reid '63

Merry Christmas to all our classmates!

Ruth Ellen Winters (Schmidt)

Merry Christmas to everyone and may you have a Happy Healthy New Year.  Gods Blessings to all.

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Hello myne fyne Waltripynes...been sorta busy, hobblin around and trying to get things done. I was already hobblin from just bein old and broke down, didnt need another malady to further slow me down.  Went to my sawbones Doc Holiday, Wednesday, and had Xrays of my back done, and now they've scheduled an MRI for january. Seems another vertebrae is collapsing and breaking like T9 did Christmas of 2014....

      Went to Doc Toe Jams today, and foot not healing. Doc wants to give it another two weeks in Das Boot, then schedule surgery sometime in January.  He says after surgery, I will have to stay off of it completely for SIX WEEKS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !   AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG
I know I'll have to do that, but it's gonna be one of the hardest things to do ever. 

     Ok, this is not wworkin out at all as I had planned.  If it is as Doc Toe Jam says, I have about 2 or 3 weeks to get some major projects done before the Waltrip spring memorial softball game....these are all projects I was goinna do anyway !  Man O man, and I thought 2016 was a bad year...Maybe my grandson has some friends at A&M still going to school that are hungry. I will give him a shout then.

     Say, I saw in the Chronicle that a Mrs Marbury passed away, and it names a Sweety Marbury as one of her children. Is that our Sweety?  The information said Mrs Marbury lived in the Heights.  Our condolences to the Marbury family.

     Suppose to be crumby weather for new years eve and day. We could use some rain, but hope for only an inch, and not the 20 inches in 20 minutes kind.  Walking, er hobblin down to the gate, I noticed on the hill, a zillion bluebonnets starting to sprout . They are in the "hugging the ground" stage, but sometime in april, they should be in full regallia.

     Got a pot o black eyes soakin in a big cauldron, and a ham on ice, just waitin to be thrown in the pot with those peas. Some jalopena cornbread waitin in the wings ready to go in the oven. If your up this way, stop in and have a bowl of good luck for the gnu year. 

     Also got some "rockets red glare" and "bombs bursting in air" fireverks for tomorrow night if it doesjt rain. Might just shoot em off even if it does.  I might save a few for the spring game and spring fling...

     Ok, gotta go. Wolf pack wants to go out and kill a buffalo....

Keep the sun at your six and have a happy new year

Your frien and resident iron man....BeauCephus E Magillicuty esq...

Post Script: I saw where Roy Heads son won dancin with the voice or whatever it is, I even tuned in and they showed Roy in one of his old clips, dancin and singin. Ol Roy and his wife were there on hand. Glad to have someone recognized from our old "Goin to the river" days.   I havent seen him since our high school days. Glad to know His son is carrying on the family tradition.   Roy Head and the Traits, and BJ Thomas and the Triumphs....saw them play and danced to their music, but cant remember where they performed. Diane says Roy played in a club across from waltrip on 34th street. The club is gone now, and dont remember it's name.

I do hope everyone has fared well these holidays, and continue to fare well in the coming years. God Bless you all...
 

Bill Traill

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM Myrtle Beach  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Johnny Sheffield

Happy new year to all my classmates   

I wish all my classmates good health

And gods blessing for 2017. I will be getting with 

reunion committee to plan the spring fling

for 2017.  Look forward to seeing everybody again. 

On another note, beau I believe the club

on 34th street was called savaggios. 

Have a wonderful New Years today. 

Johnny

Scotty Croom

discovered on facebook that we lost another classmate...jack rogers of georgetown...passed away sat.,dec. 31st....

Steve Puckett '65

Club owner Lee Savaggio was important for guiding Roy's comeback in the early 1970s. See http://crazycajunmusic.com/bio-roy-head    

Here's 'Treat Her Right' from 1965 .  Roy said he co-wrote the song.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FYAB74OIeI  It's a cleaned up version of a song about getting cows ready for milking.

Happy New Year, everybody!

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Thanks Steve for the info on Roy Head....and thanks Scotty for keeping up with all our classmates. I didnt know Jack Rogers, looked him up on our profile page, he never signed in, and sorry to say, the face does not look familiar, although he does strike a resemblence to the late great Buddy Holly.  Oh, and thanks to Johnny for remembering Savaggios. My brain is trying to recollect the name, and I think it is coming back to me. I do remember the building right across from the entrance to Waltrip. It is now a Rent all place. even rented some things from them over the years.

     Got about an inch and a half of rain Monday morning...we sure needed it. Glad it was a fast moving storm.
I bought some rockets red glare and bombs burstin in air for New Years, but the wind was blowing too hard, and well, we both fell asleep. Didnt even have a celebritory drink or anything. I do remember we woke up at the same time right at midnight, aand said Happy new year, and fell back to sleep. Most exciting couple of the year ! ! ! !

     That's a good idea about bringing gifts to the hospital staff. When Diane was at Texas Womens, we were just so focused on her survival, I didnt even think about all the work going on around us. Wish I had, because they took very good care of her.

     I do that now with the bank and vet doctors and staff, and our little post office. I take em cupcakes or cookies from time to time, just to let them know we appreciate their cheerful profesionalism, and the great care we receive. I will try to remember the gifts idea if and when either one of us is incarcerated at a health care facility.

      Time to deplane....keep the sun at your six and ride boldly ride...

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Please keep the Rogers family in your prayers.  Jimmie Lee Brawner sent me the obituary of our dear classmate, Jack Rogers.  Funeral services are tomorrow (Wednesday, Jan. 4) at 1:00 p.m. in chapel of Cook-Walden Davis Funeral Home in Georgetown, Texas with Reverend Walter A. Pohland officiating.

Jackie Lee Rogers, age 71, of Georgetown, Texas, passed away on Saturday, December 31, 2016 at St. David's Georgetown Hospital.

Jackie served in the U.S. Air Force as a Corpsman. He graduated from Dallas Baptist University with a B.S. degree. Jackie worked for 35 years as a Registered Nurse at the Veterans Health Administration. In 2000, Jackie was named one of the "Great 100 Nurses of Dallas/Ft. Worth". He was a member of the Faith Lutheran Church in Georgetown, Texas. Throughout his life he enjoyed gardening, bird watching, camping and fishing.

He is preceded in death by his mother Daisy Rogers-Reid, father Robert Lee Rogers and brother Richard Rogers.

Jackie is survived by his wife, Dianne Rogers; mother-in-law, Juanita Horn; sons, Lee Rogers and wife Rebecca and Jeffrey Rogers and partner Samantha Brenner; granddaughters, Hannah and Jessica Rogers; sisters, Betty Krus and Robbie Jordan; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00 P.M. on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 in chapel of Cook-Walden Davis Funeral Home in Georgetown, Texas with Reverend Walter A. Pohland officiating..

Arrangements by Cook-Walden Davis Funeral Home, 2900 Williams Drive, Georgetown, Texas 78628 (512)863-2564.

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Good mornin sunrise to you from the hill at Chappell Hill...38 degrees, wind chill 28 degrees....

     Whenever I conjure up a picture of the stage at waltrip, Mrs. Blounts smiling face appears. I loved that lady, her and Mrs Hawkins and Mrs Cook....they just had a way of making me feel good about me, whether I deserved it or not.

     I thought Doctor John was taking care of all the problems! ! !  I will get Diane to contact Doctor John. She is going in today and knows Doctor John and friends of his, Phil. she worked with Phil for a dozen years or so in special ed in HISD.   I  cant imagine the doc letting the staff of Waltrip, or HISD, or the construction company to fall down on the job.

      The call went out last summer for new uniforms for the football team, and the alum responded abmirably. All kids had uniforms..... Diane says the band is always  holding fundraising events. I'll bet ol doc john is on top of the problem. if anyone can  get it done he can.  It is just probably one of those items on the remodel list that hasnt been completed.  having been in ccornstruction myneownself, there's a certain order to how things are completed.  They dont look like they make much sense, but lo and behold, voila, it all ccomes together....most times anyway.

      Thanks Sweety for the heads up, and sorry about the passing of your mom.

        How's the weather in Durango?  Cold and snowy probably. One of my grandaughters, Lucy, is snow boarding in Red River New Mexico this week. Oh to be young again....nah, I dont think so...I certainly wouldnt want to be a kid in these times, or go through all I went through AGAIN! ! !  If I could go back and STAY, say in 1953 maybe...8 years old is a good age....

     Ok, cream of wheat is ready...find whatever good you can find in this day...and
keep the sun at your six and ride boldly ride....

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Howdy from the frozen tundra! High for the day was 32 at one oclock. Wind is howling, icecicles hanging from the house and stuff. Just think, next friday it will be 80 or so says the weather prognosticators.  I'm not ready for summer, or at least not for the summers we've had, but wouldnt mind it just a tad warmer, say 45 gredees?  Oh well, Kay Sarah Sarah...never gnu just what perzactly those two youtes had to do with anything, but que serapi serapi, eh what?

     Whut you believe the pups want to go out again? Ok, then....got thrree shirts on and my cycle riding lined jeans on  for my cold genes....hi ho. hi ho, it's off to the froazen tundra I go....

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Good frosty mernin to youse youtes...Hi Terri, saw that you were awake...come on in, the coffee just finished perkin, got bacon fryin in the arn skillet.... and it's warmed up from 19 degrees to 20...Man, I was never so glad to see the sun come peekin up over the Brazos river and the next ridge.   This sunrise is for you, Bud....

      I've talked to Wayne up in Minnesooooota a few times, and he said it was -23, that is 23 below zero....Makes our piddlin little 19 degrees a balmy day at the beach....

     I dont know what it is about the night time, but it just seems to magnify pain and such...Went to bed packed in about half dozen and one hot rice bags...it helps some, and I  become the most popular thing in the house, for the critters....got three cats and two pups snugglelufpalin up to me to stay warm...."Oh sure, you love me now...but what about when the rice bags cool...."!    Well, no danger of that, because the warmth of me and 5 animals just keeps em heated up...of course it does make it difficult to get out of bed and go take care of bidness, but i manage...I'm blessed for sure....just glad I dont have any horses or cows...

     ALLLLLRIGHT....it's up to 21 now....when will this heat wave ever end....oh the humanity ! ! !
Nah, just funnin ya mother nature, come on, lighten up....ok, gotta go turn the bacon and get the toast and eggs ready....

    Endeavor to persevere, keep the sun at your 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, and all the numbers heretofore, and ride boldly ride...   

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

9 degrees in Melissa this morning - hopefully going up to 32 - SNOW still around, but didn't see ice when I walked out to get my newspaper.  Glad I have lots of shows recorded to watch today.  Stay warm, everyone.

Beau Wann, Jr.

     HEY JIMMIE LEE ! ! ! ! !   So gald to see your smilin face this frosty morn. 9?  Wow, we got a better score than yall did, 19 ! ! !   It is now a balmy 24 and suppose to get up to at least frrezing by 10 am oclock...this morn...gonna freeze again tonight, but the weather prognosticators say it be in 80s by next friday....GOOOD! ! !
     Water running a tad slow...our water lines are what is called PEX, and not suppose to freeze or burst...here's hopin they don't !! ! !!! The house is about 200 feet from the well and is fed by a 2and1/2 inch pipe. Havent inspected it today, but will shortly.

     The pups swimming pool is f rozen solid, and it's about a foot deep.  I cant imagine why folks still live up north, because as bad as we think we have it, they have it to the 10th power. 

     Warm days and hearts to everyone...

Beau Wann, Jr.

Freeze plug kicked out at the well, spraying water all to heck a nd gone. shut main breaker off to stop it. called well people, well. suppose to be here this afternoon....oh joy! ! !   looks like  I'm going to have to build a pump house and insulate it.  thought I had covered it up enough, guess not..

     anyone out there know how to play 42?   We dont!  My dad and his brothers, the wild bunch, use to play all the time in my grandmothers kitchen whilst she kept the coffee and beer and pretzels flowing.  As soon as the first or 2nd domino was played, they all knew who had what, and layed their hands down. Their hands were so big, they could put their entire draw of dominoes in their hands and look at them.

     I'm a kkklutz and drop dominos and card =s everywhere.  Anyway, whn or if we have the party here in march, we have dominos and just about every other game in the whirld,, I want to learn how to play 42 !  If it's too complicated, mayb e just 41 or 40....

Clint E. stopped by and gave his poncho to me, now wasnt that nice. Also found a couple of rabits to sit on my head....this is what 19 degrees looks like....got my bum foot propped up on a boulder...dont know what it is about some people and taking pictures, they just cant do it. Diane falls in that catagory. My ,mom was the whirlds worst. she would back up a mile or so, and then cut everyones heads off or miss em all completely.

    it's not really that hard, what you see in the view finder, is what you get. It is, unless you close your eyes and move the camera around, like some folks I know.  Oh well....Kay sarah sarah.....

Scotty Croom

just rerad in facebook that classmate virginia petit died this past week...

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Beau, it's been a while since I played 42, but used to really love it.  42 is a Baptist game because we weren't supposed to play with cards (gambling, you know).  Charles and his buddies played regular dominoes a lot (much easier to understand).  42 is kind of like Bridge or Spades.  Pull out the dominoes and those of us who can't run the bases can play.

Beau, when is your surgery again?  Now, you know we're not expecting you to be laid up when we come because of your not listening to your doctor about "not doing anything while you recuperate."  So, do what Diane tells you and rest and heal.

Teddie Jordan

I grew up keeping score for my dad and our farm neighbors up in Iola every Saturday night for their forty two game. In spite of that I never learned the game, which in hindsight seems amazing. Poker is the game I have enjoyed as an adult.