John Mensing
| Residing In | New Braunfels, TX USA |
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| Spouse/Partner | Carol Mensing |
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| Occupation | Retired |
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| Military Service | USAF  |
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John's Latest Interactions
Happy B-Day, Mike. Always great to hear from you and enjoy your comments.
Posted on: Jul 09, 2022 at 3:33 AM
Posted on: Jun 25, 2022 at 1:37 PM
Doug, thanks for the update on your family and friends involved in this terrible war. Sadly, at his point I believe the end of this mess will only happen if and when Putin expires. He is clearly obsessed with bringing back a long lost vision of what Russia once was, in his mind.
Hope you will allow me a story about Judith and two other classmates we have lost. After graduation I took one year at SAC, before going off to UT along with my friends Ken Kennon and Paul Kurth. Ken and Paul urged me to take a chemistry class with them (I never took chem at Lee) - "we will help you," they said, "it will be fun," they said. Judith Schiebout was also in the class, and we four were the only Lee-exes. I did not know Judith well, but I knew she a truly brilliant student in our 64-class. On day 1, the instructor said a condition of taking this class is one year of high school chemistry - those who did not know that may want to drop the course now. I hung in there, and Ken and Paul did help as promised.
On the day after the mid-term exam, the instructor asked 5 students to stay after class - the 4 of us from Lee and a girl from John Marshall. He told us we had made the only A grades on a very difficult test, and asked us each to tell him who our chem teacher was and what high school we were from. When the 4 of us said Lee, with 2 different chem teachers and I confessed I did not take chemistry - he asked "What the heck kind of high school did you people go to?"
(He also asked how Paul and Ken managed to cram a year of chemistry into my head one day a week for about 8 weeks? Lots of empty space, I guess.)
ADDENDUM -- All 5 of us subsequently went off to UT, and I learned the girl from Marshall was also named Judy. Ms Schiebout earned Bachelors, Masters, and PhD degrees at UT, in Geology, I think. She went on to a stellar career as a Professor and researcher at LSU. Paul got his engineering degree and became very successful in engineering and later in business. Ken transferred to another college and also did well in business. I becamed good friends with Judy from Marshall, who earned Masters in Chemistry and Geology. In unrelated news, she and I married in 1971. As busy people traveling different paths, we divorced some years later. She employed those degrees at NASA as a scientist in the Lunar Lab, an astronaut for a short time, and ulitmately as a lead scientist and Curator of the moon rocks.
Mike, many thanks for the B-day wishes. Please excuse the delay in replying - we have been on our annual summer road trip to Lake Tahoe. Now settled in and enjoying the cool mountain air. Sounds like you had a good time under your lids during the alley cruise - but you really should get a room for that kind of canoodling !!
Posted on: Jul 08, 2017 at 12:05 PM
David, thanks for the birthday thoughts. I see you have one coming up as well, so advance happy B-Day to you also.
Thank you so much, Rozana. Hope to see you at our New Braunfels breakfast club gatherings off and on. I will miss July and August, however, to be a "summer Californian."
Doug, as always the photos of your travels are amazing and I particularly enjoyed the scenes of Venice. Has to be one of the most unique cities in the world.
Posted on: Jul 09, 2016 at 3:33 AM
Posted on: May 30, 2016 at 2:26 PM
Doug, wonderful photos as always and looks like you will have many more photo ops on Whidbey. As Mike said, the fires are really bad in the West this year. We recently returned from a couple months escaping the Texas heat out at Lake Tahoe, and smoke was in the valleys most of that time - then followed us home all the way to New Braunfels. Drought and recent lightning storms are a bad combination.
