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Beau Wann, Jr.

   Yeah TJ, I totally concur wwith you about what's changed with our class.  Arent life cycles funny!  20 years ago we were 55ish and most still working, and knew we were approaching oldhood, but still thought we were 10 foot tall and bullet proof. Well, maybe 9 foot tall.  Now we're there, great grandpa and grandmahood.  As I stated above some folks cant drive at night, me being one of them.  Sometimes I cant see the forest for the trees!    Hmmmmm heavy sigh ! ! !

     What about we do it on a Saturday afternoon!  There were a lot of guys, me included, that use to meet for lunch once a month during the week methinks.  Hmmm, what did we call that group?  WABEC?   Waltrip Alumni Burger Evaluating Committee?  Well no matter,  we could do the same again!   Or, how bout if one of us once a month put on the forum that we are going to lunch, and would anyone care to join us!

    oh well, we will see what we will see.  Of course everyone is welcome out here anytime. Still got a fridge full of beer and pina coladas and margarita makins, peanuts and popcorn and chips and salsa.  Well ok, guess I'll have to rethink stuff.   I didnt want to wait till October to see folks.  What if I cant come then?  I know, too bad doodad!

    Storm just roared through here about 3:30 only got .63 of an inch of rain. Not enough, but we gratefully accept it.  Thunder and lightning got all the critters upset, me too!  So I'm up and dressed,  obviously since I'm tipy typing on this here keyboard. Well duh...Sometimes I just amaze myself...!!!   Suppose to be nice for the next 5 days or so.  Got the inlaws coming out today for lunch if they're not flooded in or out. 

   Time to deplane!  Keeep the sun at your six and the Son in your heart, and "ride boldly ride"...
Your frien and resident worrier, blind dawg Cephus Magoo, esq.

Teddie Jordan

How about trying 4pm, second Saturday of every month, pick a place, and give it a try. The secret to success I  believe is having a standard place and date and staying with it!

Like you said we ain’t getting any younger! Except  for me, I just had two cups of joe and my morning raisin nut bran and I’m ready to go. 

Beverly Hengst (Allen)

Received this notice from James Tumis.  Harvey, class of "65,  was a guest member on our website.

Let's keep Harvey's family and friends in our prayers.

Deceased Classmate: Harvey Tumis '65
Obituary Link: http://www.austinfuneralservice.com/deceased/harvey-tumis
Date Of Birth: 09-13-1947
Date Deceased: 04-09-2019
Age at Death: 71
Cause of Death: Cancer
Classmate City: Brentwood
Classmate State: TN
Classmate Country: USA
Was a Veteran: No
Survived By: Rita Tumis wife and three children Brian, James and Celeste.

Scotty Croom

in searching thru old pics, i found pics w/many of us who attend flings..will make copies for reunion and share w/all ....most have changed little,but some faces i remember,but not names...i guess its my old age.lol...

Johnny Sheffield

Good news on Janet Strickland. Rick called me

Yesterday and stated that Janet’s was doing much better. 

She came home to vidor to be with her daughter for a couple 

Of weeks before coming home with rick to shiner Texas. 

Rick stated she will most likely be on a oxygen pack all the time. 

Happy Easter to rick and Janet. 

Johnny

Johnny Sheffield

To all my waltrip class mates. 

Happy Easter to all you and your families. 

May you have a wonderful weekend  

Johnny

Larry Reid '63

He has risen!

Bill Traill

Happy Easter to all my ole classmates !! Enjoy this beautiful day.

Beverly Hengst (Allen)

Wonderful news about Janet improving.  Thanks to Johnny for keeping us updated. 

Also, thanks to Johnny Sheffield, Larry Reid and Bill Traill for thinking about our class and making Easter posts.

Wishing Easter blessings for everyone.

Teddie Jordan

Johnny, thank you for the report on Janet, it sounds like real progress for her. We will continue to pray for her, and Henny, and Charles Burkhardt and Roma and others.

And I got to thinking about our sweet Jackie and the joyful reunion she no doubt has had with her mom and dad and other loved ones who preceded her. I’m betting that as much as she loved people and WHS classmates and gatherings she has probably already organized monthly heavenly gatherings of classmates who have also arrived in Heaven. 

Pat Brantley (Ross)

I love the idea of driving into Houston on a Saturday.  October is a tough month for me.  Sometimes I am fine and other times I am in full retreat mode.  I have been working on Ancestry for my daughter.  Her husband’s family has put a great deal of work into his genealogy so I thought I would too.  How old am I?  My husband’s grandmother is from Grab All Tennessee and is related rather closely to the Spenser family.  That is Winston Churchill and Princess Diana and her sons, William and Harry.  What a hoot.  This sweet old woman who spoiled my children rotten when my back was turned had relatives on the Mayflower.  My side of the family is boring.  I am spending my time on Ron’s family and ignoring mine.  

I am now walking with a cane.  This is a problem because my hands don’t work very well.  Putting weight on my hand is slow going.  I don’t drive at night.  Ron has no problem driving at night because he doesn’t pay that much attention to his driving.  He wants to discuss something we heard on C span book tv.  We talk more than a lot of our friends.  We can argue politics, economics or sports.  We just like to talk.  If someone had told me that the most important thing in finding a mate was finding a friend, I may not have believed them until I passed 21.  We got married when we were 23.  This June will be 50 years of saying “quote your source” when debating whatever.  

Beau, I wish I could get on the paleo bandwagon.  I really need to lose weight.  I have read the books.  Ron is losing weight.  I think I am afraid of getting sick.  So many foods make me sick.  

Beau Wann, Jr.

     TGIF...Gooooooooood eenin Waltripynessssssss...Internet been kaput for a few days, plus a storm came through, 33 mph winds. Blew everything off the deck, AGAIN, dont know why I put the furniture back anymore, seems like ol Mariah likes to clean house everytime she gets her back up.  I'd sit on the floor, cept I couldnt get up again without help. I'd have to call one of my wonderful classmates to come pick me up, then we'd have to party etc....

    Great eenins up here, fireflies started flashing us this past tuesday.  Me and the pups stayed out on the deck till the wee small hours of the morn just watching those winks from our DuBarry days.   Got a smorgasbord of deelights for all the senses,  fireflies, shooting stars, thrushes and warblers, blue crested hoopooes, crows etc, plus the ever delightful and oderiferous honeysuckle wafting about.  Er now and then me n the pups pick up the tantalizing smell of bacon or chicken fried steak and fries wafting about and teasing our noses....I'm on a diet, and cant have the chicken fried or fries, but pups sure can. (40 pounds lighter now, got 10 more to go)

     Other than SPRING CREEK BBQ,  havent found a good place to have our oncet (east texas for once) WABEC (whirld afairs and burger evaluating committee)  meetings.   So far every place I've checked, except SPRING CREEK BBQ,  have someone seat you, and have waiters and waitresses, and that's no good  So I will endeavor to persevere.

     On the same vein of thought, "can you tell me what the correct ignition timing would be on a 1955 Chevrolet Bellaire with a 327 cubic inch motor and a four barrel carburator...?"   Oh, that's another vein, really, WHY, and this question was put to me so I got to questioning it myownself, why do all the meetings have to be in the 2nd week of the month?  Why not the first week, or third or fourth?   Is there some significant reasoning behind the 2nd week?   Doesnt really matter which week, just wondering if there was some specific reason for the 2nd week.   I dont want to hear, " that's the way we've always done it", but a REAL reason!  This test counts as 50 percent of your final grade, so youse youtes better study long and hard and get back to me.

    The gin and tonic festival...scratch that, the Cotton Gin festival is this weekend in Burton, Tx, just about a 30 minute drive further west from the Chalps.  Thinking about riding my bike up there and seeing what I can see.  Rode pegasus to Washington on the Brazos last weekend and certainly enjoyed the trip and the destination.  Lots O smells, fresh mown hay, plowed earth, and wild onions, and bacon laced items, and fortunately no skunks,  or hog farms, yea!    One year in the past I was riding my scooter, and got behind a truck pulling a trailer full of hog....stuff, and I had to turn around and go another Di rection.  Now that's a smell that'll hurt ya. 

    Time to deplane boss!  Keep the sun at your six and ride boldly ride...
Your frien and resident skinny person, and all round wacko, Ol BeauWann Kanobie esq. 

Beau Wann, Jr.

     Good windy day to youse youtes.  The only place I've found that we could ever meet, other than fudds, is Spring Creek BBQ, and it's kind of iffy.  They only serve BBQ, and the accouterments, it's good, but no where near the variety as Fudds.  Most places want to seat you, and have waiters and waitresses.  So in conclusion looks like we have to be content with the past 8 years we had at Fudds.  That would be a 2 hour round trip for us, and traveling is not easy on me.  Fudds was almost perfect, food and layout.  Sorry Charlie, folks want tuna that tastes good, not tuna with good taste.

Jim Taylor

OK Beau,  If you want to meet at Fudd's, post a date and time and we will meet you and Diane there along with whomsoever, you can coerce to join us!

J

Beverly Hengst (Allen)

Jim and I will meet y'all there too.  By the way Beau, our round trip will not be that much shorter than yours.  The Houston traffic is HORRIBLE.  However, how could we resist visiting with the Wanns and Taylors!

Llynn Roff

Speaking of fudds:  I like to renew our meetings.  We have many folks that are retired and can make daytime meetings.  Someof us are still working and can't make daytime meetings easily. 

Pat Brantley (Ross)

Beau, google says your ignition timing should be between 32-38.  That is a big spread.  3,000 rpms smooth sounding will tell you if you hit the sweet spot.

The reason people always say second week is because first week doesn’t always have Sunday to Saturday in it.  The rule is for those slow people who don’t understand “first Saturday”.  The trip is about 3 1/2 hours for us.  We make it at least once a month.  My legs aren’t happy with car trips, but they aren’t happy sometimes regardless of being pampered.  I wish I could do keto.  I need to lose weight for my health.  Maybe when those who practice medicine find the right meds.  

My older daughter will be 48 on May 2nd.  I am so blessed to have a wonderful family of extended friends that have been with me throughout this great opportunity of life.  My son in law who is truly a son will have three weeks to talk about his older wife.  He is hilarious.  

We will do our best to get to wherever you decide to have this get together  

Paige Talley (Meek)

Richard and I will do our best to get to Fudd's as well. After all ... 'tis where this love affair began!!!

Lynn Prewit

Having the Fudd"s meeting the second Thursday of each month worked well for years. The turn out was always good. Hope we can do it again.

James Hilsher '65

Lynn, I am pretty sure it was Tuesday not thursday

Beau Wann, Jr.

     RE Fudds, next weekend is out for us, which is of course the 2nd Saturday in May.   We have another wedding to go to out of town.  It ought to be a law that if I am invited to a wedding, then the wedding has to be held at my house. Yeah, that's the ticket.  Got to board the dogs once again, and I dearly hate that.  And, the next day is Mothers day for crying out loud.  We are going to try to pick up the dogs on Sunday even though they are closed on sunday, but they have to be there to administer meds and feed and water the animals, so we could be there when they are. 

    I'm thinking any Saturday after 3 pm would be a good time for fudds if that is agreeable to all corncerned. If anyone wants, we can meet the next saturday after mothers day, or if folks dont want to break with the "2nd" thingymabob, then the 2nd Saturday in June at 4, Or whenever anyone can get there. We cant administer jacks siezure meds  any earlier than 3, so then the hour drive would put us there about foah. Yall dont have to work around us, we will try to do what we can to be present.

     CHIMACS  (Chappell Hill Intergalacticaly Meteorlogical and Cornpone Society)  weather station, has been monitoring the weather, whether there is any weather atall.  Had an inch and a fourth yesterday and almost an inch today, and we sure needed it.     Lots O wind yesterday, none today, yea! ! !  Lots O T & L (thunder and lightning), animals all scared to bejeebers and back.  Jack has a "Thunder Shirt" which seemed to work this time, plus had a pain pill.  Little miss is also terrified of T & L, so she was inside my shirt when she wasnt under the bed.  Annie-bob is scared of NOTHING, and Dixie Belle is only scared of not being with us. 

     I believe I'm at 170 now, a 40 pound loss, got 10 more to go.   In the grand scheme of things, I'd a never thought I was  50 pounds overweight.  I'd like to say I feel better, but not really sure. I feel lighter that's for sure. Another 10 pounds, and I believe I could outdance Fred Astaire.  I might just have to buy some weighted shoes so I dont float off the planet,  like the girl had on in "Ms Perigrine Falcons home for phreaques" or whatever the title was. Sure a strange movie.

    Ok, gotta sign off for now. I'll come back in a megaparsec.
Keep the sun at your six and the son in your heart, and "ride boldly ride"...
Your frien and resident light weight phreque, Ol lonesome George Cephus esq.

Wendy Sherrill (Carter)

Hi to everyone from South Carolina!  You don't often hear from me on this site, but I keep up with what is going on.  Especially thru Teddy Jordan on Facebook!  Dale and I were in Verizon today looking for a new "dumb" phone for him.  Pretty soon we will have to get one from an antique store.  While we were there, the manager was talking about her daughter going to Slippery Rock Univ in Pennsylvania.  That made me think about Coach Hunkler.  So, since one of us has a smart phone, I googled him.  Well, lo and behold, he passed away last month.  Attached is the link to the obit or you can google Hunkler Slippery Rock.   As you can see, he hasn't changed a bit.    Can anyone remember him playing the Kingston Trio instead of Christmas hymns in class during the holidays?

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/richard-hunkler-obituary?pid=192260739

Teddie Jordan

Wendy, so sorry to hear of Mr. Hunkler’s passing. He was one of my favorite teachers and I had posted a favorite Waltrip story on my profile on this site about him that is an example of how Cool he was. 

I remember reading years ago that he was the Dean at Slippery Rock, and being proud, but not surprised. The cream always rises to the top!

Thank you for letting us know.

Jenny Taylor (Williams)

As I search for missing classmates, I found that Roger Conway had passed away as we put on his profile. We said we would post an obit if we found one.  I recently recieved an email from his neice who said the following:" Hi Jenny, Tracie Hartfield here.  My uncle Roger pass away from long battle with cancer on March 25, 2019 in Marble Falls, Texas.  Thank you for remembering him.  He was cremated without any services at his request." 

Rest in peace Roger. 

Beverly Hengst (Allen)

Tom Gann found Mr. Hunkler's obituary and asked me to post it.  Tom said he was a fantastic algebra teacher and swimming coach at Waltrip.  Another favorite teacher no longer with us.

Richard Frederick Hunkler Obituary

1935 - 2019