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Dick and Diane,
You will probably be on the road by the time I am posting this, but know that my prayers are with you. May you have safe passage and your travels be swift. If you do read this, please call if I can be of assistance while you are in the area.

12/19/08 01:15 PM

#335

Oh Dick and Diane:
I am so sorry to hear about Mr. Moore. He and all of the family (and friends) are in my thoughts and prayers. I've always thought Mr. Moore reminded me of Jimmy Stewart... Just such a sweet family.
I echo Gary in saying, please call me if there is anything I can do.

My love to you,
connie

12/19/08 01:54 PM

#336

I know that many will want to leave comments for Dick and Diane and the Message Forum is a familiar location. As I thought about a better way so they won't have to read through other comments, the best solution may be to go to Dick's profile and leave a Profile Comment (new feature). The comment will be recorded on his profile page and he will be notified that you have left a comment. I believe others will be able to read your comments but they will only appear on his profile page. You can look at my profile page to check it out. Don and I exchanged comments to test the system. Diane hasn't turned on this feature on her page. Just wanted to make everyone aware on another option to convey your concerns and well wishes to Dick and Diane.

12/22/08 11:24 AM

#337

I just wanted to send happy holiday wishes to all of you!
Our 40th. class reunion (and of course the planning meetings) was truly a high-light of my year. Brought back so many memories AND made new memories.
I believe that one of God's many blessings to us is the gift of special people in our lives. Thank you, my class of '68, for being so special in my life.

With love and good wishes to all of you...
connie

12/22/08 01:28 PM

#338

Ditto!!

12/22/08 04:22 PM

#339

Donald Chandler

Merry Christmas everyone! I’m feeling a bit nostalgic… and I love Christmas! and I’m in a writing mood today. So please forgive me if this gets too long.

As a kid growing up on a farm in the 1950’s, my favorite Christmas memories were all of family… Mom’s homemade candies and cookies… going with Daddy to the woods to find a Christmas tree… and that long sleepless night before Christmas. The tree always looked bigger than life, and I loved those beautiful lights, especially those colorful electric “bubbling” candles that you never see anymore. There was never a lot under the tree on Christmas morning, but Santa always seemed to leave exactly what I and brother Ron really wanted. It was magical! Mom & Dad are gone now, and Ron and sister Helen too. And Christmas just isn’t the same without them.

But Liz and I have created our own memories through the years, and one of my favorite Christmas memories actually happened in September eight years ago. (Please bear with me). We were blessed to be a part of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the year 2000. One afternoon we visited Bethlehem, which is not such a “little town” anymore. After having falafel for lunch, we went to the Church of the Nativity, which tradition says is on the exact site of the stable/cave where Jesus was born. The very ornate church was not exactly what I expected, but what happened later remains burned into my soul. We went just outside of town to some local shepherd’s fields (yes, there are still shepherds in Israel). We stood on those hills looking back toward Bethlehem in the distance with the Church of the Nativity silhouetted against the late day sky and listened as our Pastor read the Christmas story from the scriptures. I was trying to imagine what it must have been like on that night 2000 years before when the angel of the Lord appeared to those poor shepherds and let them hear the Good News of Jesus birth! As I stood there clicking away with my camera, a young shepherd boy came around carrying a little lamb, and he was more than happy to pose for a picture with Liz. To this day, when I hear “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem” or my favorite Christmas song, “Oh Holy Night” my mind goes back to those shepherd fields. I guess the farm boy in me identifies with what those poor shepherds must have felt on that first Christmas night.

Liz and I plan to go “over the hills and through the woods” to Louisville, Kentucky early tomorrow morning to spend Christmas with some of her family. I would love to see my first “White Christmas,” but I think there is a very slim chance of that this year. May all of you have a wonderful, blessed Christmas with your family and friends. If you are out and about, please travel safely. And if you have some favorite Christmas memories to share, I would love to read them too.

Love & Christmas Blessings! Don

12/22/08 08:18 PM

#340

Janie Etheredge (Harris)

Hello Class of 68
Here is wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Love Janie

12/23/08 05:16 PM

#341

Jimmy Willis

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

01/01/09 06:08 PM

#342

Happy New Year wishes my friends of the Class of '68.
I hope it is a healthy and blessed 2009!

with love,
connie

01/01/09 08:16 PM

#343

Kathy Carter (Campbell)

Hoping all of you have a blessed and healthy new year. God has been good to us through another year and we look forward to see what He has for us in the new year.

We're heading out early Friday a.m. to Athens Regional to be with my oldest sister, Vera. Her husband, Howard Johnson, received devastating news on Wednesday that he has accute, aggressive leukemia and has little time left. We were with them for a while on the 23rd and he was not feeling well then. So we are going to spend tomorrow with them. He is in room 5142 right now but they may move him to a "family type" room so his family can come and spend time with him better.

Please pray for them.

I hope I can make time soon to update my profile.

Love to you all,
Kathy

01/02/09 11:12 AM

#344

Kathy, I'm so sorry to hear about your brother-in-law. What a shocking way to begin a new year. Please pass along our love and regards to Vera and to him.

Here's hoping everyone out there is well and had much joy in your Christmas. After we went home to Georgia for Dick's daddy's funeral and have some brief family time there, we spent time with our kids in Colorado. It was a busy time, with all of us trying to get to GA, back to Chicago, Colorado, and Ohio, then out to Colorado, battling crazy holiday airports, flight delays, and dicey weather. We made it though, and enjoyed our time together. I am still catching my breath since we got back here Tuesday night.

No news. I just wanted to say "hi". I thought of you yesterday when we watched GA beat Michigan. Everytime I see the Dawgs play, hear an old song, even use a pecan that I brought home from GA, I think of you. (Not nuts in general, just pecans!)

May 2009 be kind to you, and may we all have the faith and strength to see us through any rapids that might come our way.

Love y'all.

01/04/09 09:46 PM

#345

Judy Stewart (Findley)

Hi All,
Happy New Year. May it be the best one yet. Go "dawgs". So glad they won. May God Bless you all each and every day this year. Love ya,
Judy

01/05/09 07:21 AM

#346

Kathy Carter Campbell's brother-in-law, Howard Johnson, died Sunday, 1/4/09. Thoughts and prayers are with all the family.

01/08/09 08:43 AM

#347

Well the New Year is a week old and they say confession is good for the soul. So, how are we doing with those New Year's Resolutions or is that Revolutions? I know - don't ask a question you wouldn't answer yourself, so here goes. My resolutions:
1. Improve diet and lose 20 lbs - down 6 pounds so far so the diet must be working.
2. Read thru the Bible - still on schedule.
3. Take Sherron out to dinner at least once a month - still looking for a free night.
4. Keep the Sabbath - still working on that one too.
5. Exercise regularly - so far, so good.
6. Run a 5K in under 25 minutes - asthma may thwart this one but time will tell.
Well that's enough baring of my soul, how about you? How are you doing with your resolutions? Need some encouragement? Rah, Rah, Rah!!!
May the Good Lord bless and keep you and lift you up beyond your wildest dreams in this New Year.

01/08/09 01:30 PM

#348

Gary, it looks to me like you are doing pretty well with your resolutions!!!!
Tell us about your diet.

01/08/09 01:55 PM

#349

"You on a Diet" by Dr. Oz - from Oprah Show. Hope it works better (and longer) for me than it did for Oprah!!!

01/08/09 05:24 PM

#350

Inez Nation (Rogers)

Hello everyone,
Hope you had a great Christmas and this next year is good to all of us.
Gary, I made some new years resoulations also but I'm afraid to say in case I break them. I am doing good on one so far but it is only the 7th day into the year. (No Charging on credit cards) weight is the other one. Now I said it. Sound like you are doing good tho.
Dick sorry to hear about your father.
Kathy sorry to hear about your brother in law.
Love to all,
Inez

01/08/09 11:15 PM

#351

Well, one of my resolutions was to become ultra organized. You know, a place for everything and everything in it's place and all that. Well, I took my high hopes to The Container Store. In case you aren't familiar, it's one of those huge stores about the size of Walmart that sells nothing but organizational stuff to put all the stuff you have too much of in. (What a commentary on our society). Anyway, all of it was stupidly expensive, and I remembered that I've got lots of empty shoe boxes that are just sitting in the closet doing nothin' when they could be organizing something. However, on the way out at the register I did buy a little thingy to hang on my key chain that holds my eye glasses cleaning cloth. I do intend on keeping my resolution, but I'm just starting small. And besides, I really did need that little thing, because my glasses keep so many fingerprints on them it would even drive CSI crazy.

My other resolutions? I have the right to remain silent. Best of luck to the rest of you though. Gary and Inez, I'm rooting for you!

Hugs across the miles,
Diane

01/09/09 08:01 AM

#352

My point in sharing my plans is a little thing called "accountablility". I'm hoping that by others knowing my resolutions, it will force me to stick with them. The hardest thing for me to remember is that every journey, no matter how near or how far, is completed one step at a time.
Does anybody have a good joke to share?? I need a good laugh to brighten up my New Year.

01/09/09 10:26 AM

#353

Gary, hope this helps.

"Did you hear that our local police station was broken into and somebody stole all the toilets? Right now the police have nothing to go on...."

Sorry for the potty humor.

01/09/09 01:51 PM

#354

LMAO!!! An inappropriate, appropriate response???

01/13/09 08:43 AM

#355

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01/13/09 09:10 AM

#356

Hello to all!

I am looking at a Sunday afternoon in Feb. to "get-together" at my house. (Much like the "planning meetings" - we just won't have anything to plan). Just informal, sitting around to talk/laugh/share memories. and of course we would have to have some snacks.

TENTATIVELY thinking about February 22.
Will be in touch soon.

I hope you are all doing well. I think of you so often, and am SO grateful to have "reconnected".

Gary, I still thank you for this site. I check it regularly and am always so glad when someone has written.

with love,
connie

01/13/09 07:03 PM

#357

Let's get-together..

The date is set: Sunday, February 22 @ 2 p.m. at my house in Crawford. My phone # is 706-743-5212 if you have any questions.
Casual dress:(jeans / warm-ups).

Diane Harris Moore is planning her trip to Ga., and is hoping to be here. Dick too, if work schedule permits.

Spouses are invited. After the pleasure of meeting them at the reunion, they all seem like part of the class of '68.

Please let anyone know that you think doesn't have e-mail or check this site.

I hope you can come.
connie

01/13/09 08:12 PM

#358