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Russell Kraus

Hello to the 1962 CHS Class!

Just a short note to inform you of a mini-reunion for our class.  Next June the class of 1964 will have their 50th reunion.  Some of us are choosing to be in Carrington for at least part of that time so we can visit with old friends from their class.  Their reunion will be June 20, 21 and 22 in Carrington.

We will not have any organized activities for our class.  It will just be a time to sit and visit!

If anyone now has an email address, please email me at mastraley@yahoo.com.  Or, register on our class website at www.carringtonhigh62.com.  Russ Kraus updates that site.  All information about our class can be found there and if you are registered on the site with your email address, you will receive an email notification whenever someone adds information to the site.  It’s a good way to stay up-to-date on our classmates.

If you plan to be there in June and want to reserve a room in Carrington, the numbers for the motels are as follows:  Chieftain, 701-652-3131, Carrington Inn & Suites, 701-652-3982, and the Cobblestone, 701-652-3000.   Also, if you’ll be attending, please put a message on the class site, respond to the Message  or call one of the Carrington folks to let them know where you’ll be staying or a cell phone number where you can be reached so they can let you know where we’ll gather.  If you don't want to put it on the class website, call Darlene Tennyson (Carrington), Janice Hart (Edmunds) or Larry Lura (Barlow).

In addition, there is an all-school reunion being planned by Tyler Doeling, who graduated about ten years ago.  The dates for that event are Thursday, July 17, Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th of July in 2014.  If you use Facebook, type in “2014 Carrington All-School Reunion” to find more information.

Hope to see you in June!  Some of our classmates may also choose to attend the event in July.  We do not plan to send any further notices on either reunion.  Check the website or call one of the Carrington folks if you want to know who will be there or to find more information on either the June or the July reunion.  Have a good winter and stay warm!

Mary Ann Straley > Cell 320-267-6282

Carole Neuman (Pepple)

Plan on being there.  Carole Neuman Pepple

Barbara Willey (Silkey)

We look forward to meeting up with our classmates on Saturday afternoon.  It will be an exciting "catch-up" time; under the shelter for giggles, talks, nibbles and drinks!  Just maybe a few of Ivy's games to keep us on our toes.  How many are planning on the trip to Rockford for the play on Friday night? 

Barb Silkey

Carole Neuman (Pepple)

I will be attending the play and I have purchased my own ticket but they put me with the group.

Carole

Carole Neuman (Pepple)

Remember the Hymn Sing at the Foster County Fair?  A big calling card.  They have changed that a bit and it is in the Calvary Baptist Church on Main Street (the old Jack & Jill store).  It will be June 22 so if anyone is still here, plan on attending.  You even get to build your own sunday afterwards.  Much better seating than the fair barn and the participants have to be relieved that there is no weather conditions to contend with and their sound system is great.

Carole

Barbara Willey (Silkey)

Greetings,

We plan to arrive in Carrington on Friday, June 20th, in the afternoon.  We would like to join all for the supper at New Rockford.  We shall meet the car caravan gathering in front of the Cobblestone Inn.  But we will come back to Carrington after supper and spend that evening with Doris and maybe other family.  Also plan to come to the library for our catchup visit on Saturday afternoon, and take part in any other festivities later in the day.  My cell phone number is 690-3025. 

Don't know about the rest of you but we are anxiously awaiting this reunion weekend.  There is much truth to the fact that old friends are lifetime friends-- some for a reason, some for a season but some for a lifetime!  

Barb Silkey

Russell Kraus

Arriving Carrington, Thursday late afternoon. We'll be joining you for dinner in New Rockford on Friday, and the play. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Happy early 51st Anniversary Barb & Dick !

Mary Ann Straley

We will arrive Carrington Friday afternoon.  The dinner and play sound great.  Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Mary Ann

Denny Land

I will be there on thursday afternoon

Mary Kay Pederson (Hudyma)

I was sorry to miss this year's mini reunion.  I' m hoping for another one in 2015!  It is easier for me to get to a reunion in ND, but I would try to go farther.  The reunions are the only thing that bring me back to Carrington no that I no longer have family there.

Russell Kraus

Sorry you couldn't make it. But you definitely have a good reason for missing the festivities.

Hope to see you, perhaps in 2015. Ivy's soliciting ideas regarding potential locations for 2015, and has mentioned Bismarck., which has some great motels and activities.  We realize ND is a good location as it's convenient for so many, unfortunately not for all, but some of us apparently enjoy the travel. The Black Hills, if the timing is right would be another spot to consider, or perhaps Medora again.

Larry Reisnouer

I agree with Ivy regarding Facebook although I do use it rarely mostly because my daughter-in-law posts photos of the grandkids.   This forum is a great place to exchange information.  How else would we have learned that Ivy is an experienced worm wrangler.  lr  

Barbara Willey (Silkey)

Greetings Fellow Classmates,

I would have to say that I use Facebook often and do use private messaging there too.  It has been a way I have connected with lost cousins, kept in touch with my nieces and nephew, and know what's up with my grand nieces and nephews.  To me, it has been a lifeline to family.  As you know most younger people do not write letters, make telephone calls.  All ages no longer just drop in "cuz I'm in the neighborhoood".   That is what I grew up around; neighbors and friends just stopping.  So to me, facebook has been that link.

That being said--our message forum is a super way for all of us to stay in touch.  I enjoy it and cherish each and every message posted.  This is our link to the past and our link to lasting friendships with each other.

I too, as Larry said, have not wrangled any worms lately but so enjoyed hearing about Ivy's escapades with them.  Isn't it interesting to know some of these facts about each other?  My life seems rather dull in comparison but in the past I have help move cows to summer pastures on horseback and chased a few sheep into a corral and pulled a egg out from under a protective hen as she pecked away at my hand.  These things were long ago of course but the memories have never faded. 

Now I'm of the age that I've decided to keep working on that bucket list.  I don't want to wake up some morning wishing I had done this or that but realize that I'm no longer capable of "getting 'er done".  So next week we leave for Norway and Iceland providing that volcano lets us fly.  It's been a long time dream.  I will walk where my ancestors walked, I will talk in person to those lost cousins, and I shall touch the gravestones of the past.  If you don't see me at the next reunion, I'm probaly still driving around in that rented car trying to get across one more fjord or over one more mountain. 

Uffda me,

Barb (Willey) Silkey

Mary Kay Pederson (Hudyma)

I wish I had read Barb's post earlier; I hope she checks the forum from Norway.  I made that trip with a cousin in June, 2004.  We spent time in Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, and the Lofoten Island where we visited a distant cousin.  We flew to Kirkenes, on the border of Norway, Russia, and Finland, and took the MM Trollfjord to Bergen.  That was a wonderful cruise in the fjords with many side tours on the regular stops for this working ship.  We also enjoyed the wonderful train service for Oslo to Trondheim and from Bergen to Oslo.  It certainly was a month to remember!

Russell Kraus

Re: The Resturant service, quite common in many countries, even with groups as samm as 3 or 4. I experienced it quite frequently in Japan. I guess what counts is you get your food.

Russ

Barbara Willey (Silkey)

Twenty five to thirty years ago, my mother asked me to take over writing to relatives in Norway as it became to hard for her to continue.  Consquently I became pen pals with a second cousin there.  Over the years we told of our childhood, our families, our lives.  No holds barred, nothing off limits.  This trip to Norway allowed me the chance to meet her in person and spend time together.   Our travel companions( another couple), Dick and I spent time exploring the "home" area where my ancestors lived.  I saw the church where my great grandparents were buried, I sat in a pew as they would have and met a fellow with the same ancestorial family name.  I gathered leaves from the churchyard to press in a album and read all the gravestones with some familiar names.  Dick calls this "Dead Norwegian Hunting" as he has been through this many times before.  We walked the villages, saw the farms, fjørds, mountains where those ancestors would have been.   Nothing but nothing could have prepared me for the pure joy of meeting this cousin face to face.  We hit it off in person as we had in those years of writing and sending pictures back and forth.  If I would have had to turn around and return the next day from Norway I would have still considered the trip A#1 sucess. 

But we still had time after this most important visit to see and breathe the air of Norway.  We rented a car and drove the west coast which includes tunnels-lotza tunnels-under the sea, through mountains, ferries across the fjørds, switchback narrow roads.  Did you know they grow apples up the mountains at a certain elevation?  We spent time at a apple factory with an uncle of our traveling companion.  He did not speak English nor did his wife who was Thai.  But we had an interpeter for about an hour.  Then we spent a good part of the day there with them, had a fabulous Thai meal, went to an local museum, and somhow were able to communicate the with hands and gestures the rest of the day.

The scenery of Norway is absolutely amazing--it is a picture postcard for real.   Some of the other things we saw were a high mountain cabin, WW2 bunkers built by the nazis, viking long houses, viking burial grounds, large sailing ships, fjørds with mirror like water, waterfalls from melting glaciers on top, an ocean side cabin,  picture perfect little villages.  I could go on and on but I've already written so much as to bore my classmates, thank you for still reading this.

I must also tell you how the people were so gracious and generous.  When we would come to a "family" village we just stopped and talked to people to learn more of our genealogy.  Everyone would spend time and effort to connect us to someone who knew of our family name or someone who themselves did genealogy.   I felt so at home there.

Barb Willey Silkey 

Mary Ann Straley

Yea for Sonja!  She has conquered our website!