June 2013 Edition
BULLETIN BOARD
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Next luncheon is Thursday, June 20th @ 11:30 AM. Please make your reservations with Jo Ann
Copenhaver @ jkline6160@myactv.net.
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There is a covered pavilion so rain or shine, the September class event will be a picnic at the
FOP picnic grounds. Great food, fellowship and entertainment. Mark the date of September
19th on your calendar today!
JUNE BIRTHDAYS
Barbara Grant
Pete Limburg
Bob Hogan
Don Rice
Vernon Davis
Connie Magaha
Gene Smith
Susan Morton
Anne Snyder
JUNE ANNIVERSARIES
Bob & Fran Norris Lawrence
Ernie & Judy Barnhart
Mike & Joyce Flynn
Durbin & Betty Horn College
John & Jean Newton
Allen & Lisa Kennedy
Bill & Sandra Couchman Fout
Jim & Libby Harbell
Terry & Judy Isminger Gossard
Larry & Christine Stenger
Walter & Becky Goetz Bills
Jim & Doris Holsinger Hilton
Terry & Cindy Strock
Phil & Kathy Brader
Lee & Joan Wallis
Nevin & Barbara Esterly Smith
Bob & Paige Nitzell
Jerry & Sybil Speck Bender
Bob & Shirley Moats
George & Peggy Mongan
CLASSMATE ACTIVITIES
Doris Hilton
We had a wonderful Mother’s Day. My son and family took us out to dinner on Friday and our daughter
and her family brought dinner on Sunday.
Jone Burket, Larry Keller, Paul Keplinger,
Frit Hill, Larry Weber & Yours Truly
On May 11th, six Class of 57 members participated in the Relay for Life Golf Tournament that supports
the Cancer Society. We were rained on for the best part of the round but we had a great time while
supporting a worthy cause. Larry Weber had a conflict and arrived after the start but joined in late and
finished the round. Plan to join in next year with your own foursome or give me a call and we will get
you set up with a group. It is a “scramble” so no matter how good or poorly you play, you will have
fun.
Ron Amos
I went on my annual catfishing trip to Lake Marion on the Santee Cooper reservoir system in South
Carolina with a friend, Wayne Kline. Fishing with Captain Ray Mills, in two days we caught about 300
pounds of catfish, the largest weighing 32 pounds. Dotty prepared some catfish nuggets last evening
using the Long John Silver batter recipe and they were fantastic. The catfish freezer is well stocked.
with the fish supply taken care of, now it’s time to get on that Harley, planning a trip to the coast of
Maine with Chicago Bob who is from.....Chicago!
Betty Horn
District 3 Track and Field: Kennedy Shank (Betty’s granddaughter) of Northern takes
AAA pole vault
Kennedy Shank did not leave the AAA girls' pole vault in much doubt at the District 3 Track and Field
Championships Saturday afternoon.
Every height she cleared, Shank cleared on the first attempt, including her ultimate height of 12-0.
She then went for the district record of 12-3 but did not get that.
"I felt relieved [once I won], but it's good to have someone else there to push you to go higher,"
Shank said.
Editor’s Comment: Congratulations Kennedy on a significant achievement that came about
because of hard work and dedication!
Pat Jones
We have exciting news to share with you. Stevie's pilot for NBC got picked up which means the
network, NBC, has decided to green light the pilot to series.
It's called CRISIS and she is one of the leads. The series will shoot starting this July in Chicago. We
don't know how many episodes yet or when it will air but most likely it will start airing in the Fall.
NBC's upfronts are Monday so we're sending her to NY so she can be involved and attend the NBC
party. She's going to stay in the city for a few days to have some general meet and greets with the
magazine press.
Editor’s Comment: Wonder if she needs an agent?
Alice Ann Lindsey
My grandson, James Kiefer, graduated Magna cum laude from Virginia Tech on Saturday, May 18. He
will be attending U. of MD Dental School here in Baltimore in the Fall. John and I enjoyed the
celebration with the family -- sixteen of us. In the photo from left to right are John and Alice Ann
Colton; my granddaughter, Lindsey Kiefer, sister of James; my daughter, Beth Robertson, mother of
James; my daughter, Laura Robertson; and her husband, Rico Franklyn. The rest of the group
included Beth's fiancé, Steve Matlack; Joan Colton Fink and her husband Will as well as the Kiefer side
of the family.
The photo was taken Friday, May 17 after all the seniors gathered to be recognized in Lane Stadium.
We broiled in the sun Friday and dashed through the rain drops as we gathered in Cassel Coliseum
Saturday when they were actually given their diplomas. At least we were indoors for that ceremony.
James planned well. After Saturday graduation, we drove thorough the beautiful Blacksburg, VA
countryside to Beliveau Estate Winery for a wine tasting and delicious buffet lunch. In the evening we
enjoyed dinner in nearby Eggleston, VA at The Palisades Restaurant after another beautiful drive.
Even the rain and mist couldn't hide the beauty of the area or spoil our joyful celebration.
As I write this James is at West Point for a friend's graduation and later this week, he and Lindsey will
join their father and step-mother for a trip to Costa Rica. Not a bad way to begin life as a graduate!!
North-South Annual Golf Outing
Editor’s Comment: Some things never change, best Class of 57 athlete then, and still the best
athlete today at 73, Terry Strock. Terry won the 2013 North-South tournament and on the last
day of the event he started the day with three birdies, finished with six birdies (two chances at
Eagle) and a score of 74 – missed shooting his age by one stroke.
2nd Place – Terry Gossard 3rd Place (Tie) – Jim Carnes & Ralph Kline
Below is a pic of all the Class of ‘57 participants and, three Class of ‘58 folks who like our class better
than their own.
(L-R) Cianelli, Strock, Gossard, Kline, Kisiel, Limburg, Dando, Carnes & Knode
(L-R) Moser, Boyer, Riser
There was a North-South Nassau on the last day and the South Team won the front, back and overall
and reduced the North Team’s treasury.
Editor’s Comment: We were also “blessed” with a couple of VPI alumni in the name of Leo
Burke and Roland Wheeler, both of whom are certifiable.
Roger Kisiel
"Eagle Pride" is an award recognizing 8th graders, whose teachers nominate them for character,
caring personality, positive attitude, and enthusiasm. Cameron, a.k.a. Camy, was nominated by his
band and jazz band teacher. Camyy plays trombone in the jazz band and 8th grade band. He was only
one out of three 8th grade students who were selected to receive the award.
Ladies Luncheon
On May 21st a group of ladies from the Class of ’57 held a luncheon at the Bavarian Inn in
Shepherdstown, WV. They enjoyed a crab melt and good fellowship.
(L-R) Sandra Couchman, Susan Morton, Kirklyn MIddlekauff, Nancy Carnes, Barbara Crider & Judy
Iseminger.
Ralph Kline & Kirklyn Middlekauff
They tied the knot on May 4th. Honeymoon and parties are now over.
EDUCATION CORNER
Great Quotes on Education
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. ~
Abraham Lincoln
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory
to add another story or wing. ~ Albert Einstein
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. ~ Alec
Bourne
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. ~
Alice James
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~ Alvin Toffler
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of
understanding. ~ Ambrose Bierce
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me
to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to
think. ~ Anne Sullivan
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
~ Beatrix Potter
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in
knowledge always pays the best interest. ~ Benjamin Franklin
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ~ Brander
Matthews
Education is a wonderful thing. It broadens your horizon, so you know just what to drop out
from. ~ Dave Berg(My Friend God)
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~ Derek Bok
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of
others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~ Douglas Adams
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. ~ Finley Peter
Dunne
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. ~ Finley Peter Dunne
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't
stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good
teacher. ~ Flannery O'Conner
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. ~ Francis Keppel
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not
know, about something you do not want to know. ~ G. K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle
contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~ G K Chesterton
A college education shows a man how little other people know. ~ Halliburton
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~ Henry B. Adams
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~
Henry David Thoreau
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ~ Jim Rohn
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~ John
Dryden
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is
practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so
primitive. ~ John W. Gardner
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is
aimed. ~ Joseph Stalin
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from
the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ~ Laurence J.
Peter
No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. ~ Lee Rudolph
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~ Malcolm S.
Forbes
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~ Mark Twain
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a
rule they don't know what happened on either occasion. ~ Mark Twain
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. ~ Oliver Wendell
Holmes
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any
rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to
the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence. ~ Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing
that is worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~ Peter F. Drucker
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your
life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by
going into banking. ~ Philip K. Dick
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ~ R.S. Ingersoll
I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son. ~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's --The educated man's! ~ Robert Browning
The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt. ~ Robert Buzzell
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. ~ Robert C. Savage
If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~ Robert F.
Goheen
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for
the alumni, and parking for the faculty. ~ Robert M. Hutchins
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university
education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed
up with nowhere to go. ~ Timothy Leary
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not
made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. ~ William
Hazlitt
COMEDY SECTION
(Written by Kids)
1. HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHOM TO MARRY?
You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like
sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the
chips and dip coming.
- Alan, age 10
No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry.
God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're
stuck with.
- Kristen, age 10
2. WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?
Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.
- Camille, age 10
3. HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?
You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the
same kids.
- Derrick, age 8
4. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?
Both don't want any more kids.
- Lori, age 8
5. WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?
Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each
other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough.
-- Lynnette, age 8 (isn't she a treasure)
On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually gets
them interested enough to go for a second date.
-- Martin, age 10
6. WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?
When they're rich.
- Pam, age 7( Love her )
The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with
that.
- Curt, age 7
The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them
and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do.
- Howard, age 8
7. IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?
It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to
clean up after them.
- Anita, age 9 (bless you child )
8. HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED?
There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there?
- Kelvin, age 8
And the #1 favorite......
9. HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?
Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a dump truck.
- Ricky, age 10
Can't argue with these "words of wisdom"!