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11/09/08 05:25 PM #81     John MacLeod Susan Niven..........Thanks for the school photo site. I was truly suprised to find photos of myself, you and others from our class. I feel that I must pass it on for others to enjoy. http://www.worldschoolphotographs.com/wsp/index1.htm Kodakking away............John

11/09/08 05:44 PM #82     Susan Niven Thanks John, I knew YOU would enjoy this site! Hope everyone who logs onto it will too! Cheers. Susan

11/09/08 09:49 PM #83     Susan Niven Nancy What a huge job! Well done and thank you so much. Looking at the photo's again (for the zillionth time) my memory for faces is slowly coming back but I need names! Susan

11/10/08 04:13 AM #84     Lyn McKinney (McGraw) Okay Susan, I give. Can you explain why when I logged onto the school photograph site I got two photos of 'hear no evil, see no evil, etc', now it pointed to the one in the middle stating it was me, so what I want to know which of the two others are you and John? Say I think we should have our next reunion at your house. Think you can put us all up? By-the-way, someone needs to pull the plug up here in Snohomish County before we all float away. I have been working non stop with all the rain trying to keep from having to issue snorkles to all our residents. Plus with Thanksgiving approaching everyone is practicing for the yearly family gathering where all the families punch each others lights out. Yep, this is the highest domestic violence day of the year. Families who haven't seen each other all year (and for a reason) gather together to have a few drinks, over stuff themselves when Uncle Elmer builds up enough gumption to tell Aunt Freida what he realy thinks about that 'never-amount-to-nuthin' son of hers, and Freida's 1957 champion bull-riding, beer bellied, truck driving husband stands up knocking over the dinner chair...and the fights begin. Job security is what I call it. Every year just like clockwork. Happy Holidays. Bring it on. And how y'all doin out there in the real world? Lyn

11/10/08 08:32 AM #85     Nancy Raetzloff (Groth) To all of you who may be interested, I deleted almost 150 duplicate photos and then had to go back and renumber everything. I should have been a lot smarter and deleted the duplicates before numbering them. Oh well, at least it is more manageable now. I really need help here with who you all are and what you are doing in the photos. We want to have some serious and not so serious captions so that those of us out of towners can figure out who you all are and what you were up to. I like the idea of doing the next reunion at Susan's place. We can all bring our camping gear and have woodstock style gathering. Let us know Susan when the weather would be good. We want to do this up right.

11/10/08 05:15 PM #86     Susan Niven Lyn and Nancy What an excellent idea! I would be honoured to have the Class of 1968 meet at my place for the next reunion. Just keep in mind that Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, is the most remote capital city in the world and that it will take a day to get here from Seattle, and it's a 2 hour drive from Perth to Warawarrup. Seriously, anyone who might contemplate a visit to Australia and a trek across the continent to Western Australia is very welcome at my place! Nancy, the best time of year is probably autumn before the winter rains and after the heat of summer - March, April or May. Lyn, John is the one to the right of you and I'm on your left! By the way, where is Tony? Now that we've got John back we need to find Tony!! Cheers. Susan

11/10/08 06:20 PM #87     John MacLeod Lyn.....I'm glad you found that photo of the three of us. I remember the day well. We just spent that whole day monkeying around. John

11/10/08 06:31 PM #88     John MacLeod Susan........Just question here. What is the meaning, if any, of "up" in the names of towns/villages in Australia? John

11/10/08 07:05 PM #89     John MacLeod For inquiring minds.........I'm one of the unlucky ones who has SAD (Seasonal Affected Disorder), thus my dropping off the radar for a while. No big problem, just a minor funk from time to time. I know I'm not alone with this. However, now I'm back and I brought my goofy humor with me. Disorder, Datorder and Out of Order..........John

11/10/08 07:20 PM #90     Susan Niven John You're not alone! Unfortuntely the Pacific Northwest is not the best place to live with SAD and neither is the southwest of Western Australia in the wintertime. We've just gone through a very, very wet winter and early spring. Today is overcast and threatening to rain and it's the 11th of November! Summer officially starts on the 1st of December and then we have days and days of hot, sunny weather to greet us. It's not too bad if the temperature huddles around 27 degrees C, but not so good if it's 35 degrees C for any lengthy period. We do enjoy a seabreeze in the afternoons most days, which cools the evenings down. In the Perth area it's called the Fremantle Doctor. I believe that "up" means place of water, hence Warawarrup, Binningup, Coolup, Wagerup etc......... Take care John!

11/11/08 08:57 AM #91     John MacLeod Susan........Thanks. This week the rain has made good on its threat. We even have spawning salmon making their way up some of the roadways. It makes for great footage on the six o'clock news. Thanks for the info on the meaning of "up". I am a sponge for trivia of no importance. Just recently found out that "stan" means land, as in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and more. Now most of you probably already knew this but I can be a little slow on the uptake at times. Mr. Richardson is still holding my final grade in Social Studies hostage until I turn in all my homework. Thus far negotiations are at a standstill. I tried to get Henry Kissinger, Madeline Albright and Jimmy Carter to intervene on my behalf, no response. Go figure. Visualizing whirrled peas........John

11/11/08 09:12 AM #92     John MacLeod Marcia Ray......I had the chance to catch a news story on Bhutan last Sunday morning on CBS. For those who have not read Marcia's profile.....She spent several years there with her husband and daughter. What a beautiful country nestled between Nepal, India and China. Amazing where many of us have been since 1968. Google up 1968 and see how many historic events occured that year. John

11/11/08 09:18 AM #93     John MacLeod Nancy Wong........Okay girl. It is time for you to post a picture of you and the Governator Arnold on your profile. Nancy is an event planner in California and rubs shoulders with some famous people, as opposed to most us who can only claim we bumped into Gary in the hallway accidentially. Bumping around in the dark.......John

11/11/08 06:00 PM #94     Susan Niven John Salmon on the roadways - now that would be a sight! The thought of salmon makes me hungry. Can't get the real good sockeye salmon over here, anyway not easily. And I used to take salmon and Dungeness crab for granted! Mr Richardson - now I have memories of him! And like you, John, I didn't know that "stan" means land - so that makes two of us. Interesting. Keep the trivia coming! Still cool and overcast today, but looks like the weather is due to brighten on the weekend! Cheers. Susan

11/11/08 07:29 PM #95     John MacLeod Nancy Wong.........Thought I'd let you know that is me in the center of picture 13. I am hob nobbing with two men of power in the city of Seattle. Greg Dean is Seattle's Fire Chief and Leonard Piha has his finger on the pulse of Seattle's City Light. In picture #32 it appears that Wayne Henry might be at a practice session of Jeopardy with Georgina Palmer. "Alex, I would like state capitals for $1,000.00" When in Seattle and confronted by the possibility of some heavy lifting, you might want to get John Jimenez, picture #21. John is a retired crane operator, pictured with his wife. Rebel without a clue.......John

11/11/08 07:52 PM #96     John MacLeod The Buffalo Theory of Intelligence......... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest member. When the herd is hunted it is the slower and weaker ones at the rear of the herd that are killed first. This is good for the herd as a whole. The general health and speed of the herd improves with this removal of its weakest members. In much the same way the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now as we know excessive consumption of alcohol kills brain cells. By the process of natural selection it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way the regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, thus making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. This is why you always feel smarter after a few beers. Attribution of the above theory goes to Cliff the mailman on "Cheers". Mugging up for a smarter day......John

11/12/08 03:40 PM #97     Nancy Raetzloff (Groth) Hey John: There might be some basis for your buffalo theory of intelligence except for one thing. There is no natural selection. When you over consume alcohol it randomly kills cells both unhealthy and healthy ones. I am guessing that you might have already experienced the results :) However, we love your wacky sense of humor anyway. You have brightened many of our days. If the rainy gray weather really gets to you, just come on down to sunny arizona and get out of the gloom for a while.

11/12/08 05:30 PM #98     John MacLeod Nancy..........are you sure?? You've just burst my bubble, psssft......John

11/12/08 05:51 PM #99     John MacLeod Picture #78......Marsha Gross, Debbie Kashino, Donna Amira Manager Debbie Kashino gets right down to business "Look Slick, I tell you my girl here can eat 50 eggs. So put up your money, or shut up." Meanwhile trainer Donna Amira offers up encouragement. Marsha I apologize for being such a wise acre. My folks tried their best to break me of it. I have slapped myself on your behalf. John

11/12/08 05:59 PM #100     John MacLeod Arne Vicklund.....Nice comment on your profile. I think says it all for most of us who were able to attend the reunion. John

11/12/08 06:31 PM #101     John MacLeod On a serious note.........If you feel up to it, you might leave a word or two about our classmates who have passed on. Some were our friends for a few years and others all our lives. Larry Dahl and Walt Henry lost their lives in service of our country. Larry was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Walt was awarded the Silver Star with Clusters. Both made the ultimate sacrfice for their fellow men. Reflectively.........John

11/12/08 11:17 PM #102     Susan Niven Well said John. I have been surprised and saddened to find so many names of classmates who have passed away. I have such fond memories of growing up with some of them - especially Katie Neupert. She was one of my Dad's favourites amongst my primary school pals and her cousin delivered our newpaper! Nice memories - only wish they were not so faded! Gee thinking back on those times and places is making me homesick....... Susan

11/13/08 08:38 AM #103     Nancy Raetzloff (Groth) I agree with Susan. I have been attempting to get more information on everyone in the In Memory section. As I locate it, I will add it to their profile and they will get a red rose in the class profiles listing. I know that there was more info at the reunion and I am going to try to get that entered in the website. Thank you for your thoughts about our classmates who have passed away before us. We truly do need to give them our deepest respect.

11/14/08 09:05 AM #104     John MacLeod Susan..........Katie Neupert always had a smile on her face. She was always fun to be around, a real spark plug of life. John

11/14/08 09:24 AM #105     John MacLeod Health Insurance??? I am wondering as to whether I should renew my policy with Bubba's Low Cost Health Insurance. My doctor sent me down to radiology for a chest x-ray the other day. The door to radiology opened directly to the taxi cab stand. I was ushered into a waiting cab and driven out to the airport. At the airport I was put on the carry on baggage scanner conveyor belt. The agent then called my doctor with the results. Perhaps Dorthy has some insight on this trend in the health insurance industry. Now, I am a glass is half full guy. My hope is that Bubba's is on the cutting edge in health care and cost containment. Toasting with prune juice.........John

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