Richard W. Henderson

Shirley,

 And I thought that once the blisters and other red spots were gone, that the shingles were over. Thanks for the good news! I think that I may have some nerve damage yet. Boy, is this fun!!!

Harry,

 Fully retired? I still have a corporation to run. We just shipped a bunch of compressor parts to a mine in Michigan. They have 20 large air compressors that need to be rebuilt. Large? well these are from 100 to 250 Hp. machines. And back in El Paso, the old Border Steel plant has three 800 Hp. units.

The last time I "retired" I threw my cell phone out the window while I was driving on the freeway. I had been on call 24/7 since 1975 and really thought that I was done. The problem is that our children and grandchildren don't want to get their hand dirty. So my old customers won't let me "retire", even though I raised my labor rated to what I think is an unaccepticle amount of money. And they keep calling which really upsets Connie.

By the way, if any of you know of medical folks that are thinking of doing so, the V.A. has been acively looking for employees. In Las Vegas, thay run ads on TV for new employees of all sort. And doing the volunteer work is so easy anv very rewarding.

God bless and be safe.

Shirley Kennedy (Adams)

I would have had the implants but insurance would not pay for them.  Maybe in a couple of years, they will allow.  For now, I will try to get use to the bridge or partial dentures..

Oh how awful to have shingles around the eyes, but luckier not to have in the eyes.

Jim Dunlap

No shingles shots for us.  My outbreak was mild with some lesions on one side of my upper chest.  No pain.  My wife's was on one side of her face, one lesion left a small scar in one spot, but did not touch her eyes.  Again no pain.  In both cases the outbreaks coincided with stressful family situations - the mind-bending kinds of situations that keep you up at night and accordingly compromise one's immune system.  Still not planning to get the shots.  Lesson learned to avoid shingles?  Avoid high stress work, family or other situations!!

Richard W. Henderson

I Believe an apology/explanation is in order from me. My remark about some of the veterans not having a mirror in their home was at first glance, out of order. We can usually tell which of the folks that pass through have a home and which do not. And sadly some of them don't even have a home to hang a mirror on the wall. We had one a couple of weeks ago that needed a ride back to the Salvation Army facility because he had to fast to gve blood that morning and he had not eaten any breakfast. We are not allowed to give them any money, but I can treat them to sharing lunch with me in the cafeteria and use my credit/ATM card to pay for both meals (And a few  extra pieces of fruit for the road). THAT breaks your heart.

Anyway if anyone was offended by my remarks, I apologize.

God bless and be safe.

Dolores Wheless (Turner)

From what I understand you cannot get the shingles if you never had the chickenpox.  I may be wrong but that is what I was told.  My daughter got the shots as soon as she could as she was in so much pain and had lost some of her vision.  She never misses work but she was out for 10 days.  I guess some people have lighter cases than others but you can get them over and over again according to the Opthamogist that treated her eye condtion.  

Jim Dunlap

I think most of our generation had chicken pox.  In fact, I seem to recall parents would take their kids to chicken pox homes for the kids to catch it, such as to get it over with.  That was then; now is now.

Richard W. Henderson

May all of us have a very happy Easter.  I am going to be able to hold our # 10 great-grandbaby!!! She will be six months old on the 13th.  I was not able to hold her until now because I had the shingles. So yes, tomorrow will truly be a great day for me.

Something else that I have been thinking about. I have always heard the Sharon Tate was in our class at Irvin, but I cannot remeber her. Any help?

God bless and be safe.

Dolores Wheless (Turner)

Happy Easter everyone and I am greatful that we have great grandchildren.  Never thought I would live to see my greats but an so thankful I have.  Glad you shingles are better Richard.

Shirley Kennedy (Adams)

Sharon Tate was a year ahead of me.  She was a junior in 1961.  That is the only year that she attended.  Marty was in the same class.  I always will remember her by her pony tail, sweaters and peter pan collars.  The boys were always crazy about her.  I remember slave day, everyone tried to outbid each other for her to be their slave.

Shirley Kennedy (Adams)

Oh, and hope that everyone had a Happy Easter.

Jim Dunlap

Milestone for you, Mr. Henderson.  Long article in today's WSJ about The Tropicana being torn down to be replaced by a sports stadium.  007 staying there was mentioned and not long ago I bought the complete set of James Bond movies.  I'm watching the movies in number order and one of the early movies I've watched so far was the one involving Las Vegas and The Tropicana.  Time marches on....

Klaus Hille

Interesting to watch before Monday, April 8.

Great American Eclipse | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
https://youtu.be/WTfQpdTD_3M?si=hU1-5w9BA9Muli5C

Dolores Wheless (Turner)

We are right in the path here in Kerrville.  Expecting over 100,000 people to come to our town to watch the eclipse.  Kerrville Emergency services have been planning for this for over a year.  We plan on staying in and watching from our place until everyone leaves.  Traffic will be crazy here for a few days but excited to see it.

Robert James. (Bob) Waller

Dolores.......when did you move to Kerrville?  My wife and I lived there from 2001 until we retired in 2020.  I was the Market Executive for four Broadway Bank branches in the Hill Country.

Bob Waller

Clark W. Schadle

My brother Al ( class of 64 and I just complete a road trip in truck pulling a 17 foot trailer from Phoenix to Palmer Alaska. It was 3600 miles and we averaged 600 miles a day and completed the trip in 6 days. We had super weather saw lots of wild life and had wonderful time together.  We only crack the front and side windshield due truck throwing gravel off the road.  When this picture was taken we were listening to Dwight Yoakam sing "we are a thousand miles from nowhere" we were on a 318 mile stretchin the Yukon Territory of Canada with no services.  we had to carry extra fuel.

Klaus Hille

Clark, you mean you didn't just put wings and a prop on that trailer to fly it to Alaska? Sounds like you had a fun trip anyway. 

Dolores Wheless (Turner)

Hi Bob we moved here in 2017.  Our daughter Dana Turner Dunagan has lived her for about 30 years.  She is a special needs educator in Early Childhood here in Kerrville.  We lived in Georgetown, TX when we moved here.  She had been wanting us to move here when we retired.  You may have known her.  I was born in Austin, TX and lived there until my frehaman year when we moved to El Paso.  From there we moved to Lubbock and that is where my husband and I were married.  We lived there for about 5 years and then we moved back to Austin where he went to work for IBM.  I didn't work until the kids were in middle school and then I reitred from Austin independent School District as an Admin. Then went to work for computer staffing company and eventually was hired at IBM and then we decided to retire and travel.  Where do you live now?  

Dolores Wheless (Turner)

Clark, sound like a wonderful trip.  Glad ya'll had a good time and a safe trip.  Lots of memories made I am sure.

Jerry Barrett

Hi Dolores.

I worked for IBM in Ausin from 1970-2008. What is your husband's name, and what part of IBM did he work in?

Dolores Wheless (Turner)

Lynn Turner, he started out on the line I think in 1969 and then was in Accounting for several years and retired in Purchasing.  He retired and took the last buy out in 1995 or 96.

Jerry Barrett

Lynn Turner - hmm that name is vaguely familiar. I worked with a few/not many purchasing agents in my job as a product development engineer.

Dolores Wheless (Turner)

Well IBM was a pretty big place.  I only worked there as a contractor and later as supplemental. We went to Church with some engineers, Bill Morse, Glenn Smith and Jjim Spikes.  You might have know some of them.

Richard W. Henderson

My uncle Carl Henderson worked for IBM.  The only other job that he ever had was with the U.S. Army when he worked on the project called ENIAC  (spelling). I never really knew the man and can only recall seeing him three times in my life. 

One more piece of useless information from the peanut gallery.

God bless and be safe.

Jerry Barrett

IBM Austin was a big place for many years, employing nearly 12,000 employees and contractors in its heyday. I did know and worked with Jim Spikes for many years. He passed away May, 2023.

I worked for IBM in Austin for 37 1/2 years. I started there June 1, 1970, two days after I graduated from UTEP. It was a great place to work. I have many fond memories and continue to have friends. A group of us retirees still meet for a monthly breakfast, averaging about 20 people each time.

Dolores Wheless (Turner)

Yes we knew about Jims passing.  Don't know if his wife is still in Georgetown now are not.  They moved to Sun City in Georgetown a few years ago and I assume she is still there.  We had already moved form Georgetown to Kerrville at that time.  My husband gets the IBM retirees notes which lets us know when someone passes.  Small world isn't it.  Who would have ever thought we both are Irvin graduates and both were in Austin at the same time and never knew.  IBM used to have the best family days at their park, and the Christmas parties for the kids and the adult  Christmas parties .  Sure changed over the years.  They were good to us and my husband traveled alot in the last few years but he was ready to reitre and for us to  travel which we did.