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Sherry Hester (Trasp)

Rex, Thanks, to you and all of you for the Mothers Day Wishes! 

 

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Sherry, 

You are moist welcome! And here's to the lasses who helped shape whom we are today!

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Fred had a computer situation and asked me to post this for our Wonderful Strong Ladies!! 

Thanks Fred!

Click on the link!

https://www.americangreetings.com/pickup?

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

Thanks Fred and Rex!!
I clicked on all 3 Keys.
I enjoyed all but I think I liked
the table and wine the most!


 

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The setting with the outdoor table was nice... the fire flies in jars created a glowing ambience.  I liked the beach scene. Brought back moist memories of uh... uh... Deborah Kerr & Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity". I sampled the wine too!

Tommy Weathers

Just had to say something about Love. Just a few months ago a friend of mind's wife  passed away after 50 something years of marriage. The guy was really having a hard time trying to adjust. Two weeks ago he went to the Joy Center for lunch and he saw a nice looking lady looking him over. He wasn't sure how to take the ovious glancing form the lady but knew that she wasn't checking out his baseball cap. Being 87 years old he didn't care why she was looking but was excited by the fact that she was looking. He walked over to the table where she was and ask if she mind if he sat there. She was very excited that he came over and asked  him to please have a seat. There was a spark that he hadn't felt it many years. Fact is her husband had been gone for over a year and she was also was having a hard time trying to adjust. They hit it off big time  and are having a wonderful time togather. My friend is like a high school boy with his first girl friend. You can't wipe the smile off his face. We have a coffee guoup that meet every morning around 5:00 and we all wait to see him walk in with that teen smile glowing all over his face. Reason for this story is he has given me a person I can fix CDs for. Guy has no cell phone or computer and no way to get old music that we all love from the 60's. That is where I come in. I am making CDs with all the old love songs. I am almost as excited as he is. Reminiscing with each old song I put  on his CD.  We had the best music, cars, friends, and schools. Loved Roswell and all it gave me in my teen years. I must thank Pat R for all the music I have in my collection. Thanks Pat. Hope you all put some old music on and thank back when and where you were when you  heard the song for the first time.

Tommy Weathers

Guss I need to check my spelling befor I send. Think you

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

AWH!! Tommy your story warms my heart!
Thank you so much for sharing the story with us!!
Never to late to feel like a Teenager again!!

Dan Cook

Nice commens Tommy!! 

Paula Carl (Cowee Miller)

What a wonderful story about your friend, Tommy. And I can relate because I found that same kind of love and happiness over 18 years ago when I met my David!  I still grinning after all these years. 

Patrick Riley

Tommy, great story ... thanks for sharing!

FACT: Getting old sucks!

FURTHER FACT: Stories like you shared give us a positive alternative to focus on helping mitigate the above fact!

CONCLUSION: Every day we wake up on the green side of the grass is a blessing we all need to be thankful for!

CLOSING OBSERVATION: If Tommy can meet for coffee at 5:00am every morning, he must be doing pretty well!

ADDITIONALLY: I must agree with Tommy's comments on music. I was listening to some of my '60s favorites when I opened up the forum just now. In our days, we may not have had cell phones and social media, but we definitely had the best music (and the hottest girls and the coolest cars)!

AND FINALLY: This RHS alumni site is another blessing to all of us. Thanks to Johnny originally and Rex now for your efforts in keeping this website alive and thriving!

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Think it was at one our annual Gathering reunions when a bunch of us guys Bill Turley, Billy Ward, Tommy Weathers and I were driving around Ruidoso. I put on a CD by Seal in Bill’s player.  That's when Tommy said he liked “soul” music. When I got back home I copied the digital songs and sent a CD album to Tommy. Tommy then told me about his digital music collection he’d been working on over the years. Tommy probably to this day has close to a half million songs or more on his computer. Tommy said he had gotten turned on to a digital collection that our RHS friend Pat Riley had amassed.  I got in touch with Pat and he set me up with the digital song collection and a program library which organized the whole kit-n-kaboodle.  Thanks Pat so much for sharing your wealth of music!  Thanks to you Tommy for all the music we’ve exchanged over the years!

~ “Next to love Music puts soul in your spirit”

John Landess

Tommy,

I posted this once before, but??? (Alaska hot spot???). Anyway, I really did enjoy your story. I gives us old guys some hope! And ladies too.

Well, best wishes to all, I am back in Alaska, and woke up to 39 degrees this am. But up to 54 this afternoon. I am SURE Roswell is getting a little warmer than that.

Pat, 

I agree that getting old sucks, BUT the alternative sucks worse!!!! I was at the VA in Albuquerque 3 times last week with my son, and I can say I am thankful for my health, such as it is.

Anyway, in my missing post, I mentioned that fishing is supposed to be good up here this year, and that I will get Rex to post one of my photos from last year.

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John L's  "Fishy Story"

Rex,

I finally managed to send the photo to myself and am forwarding it on to you.

I hope that will work. This AT&T phone seems to be having problems here in Alaska.

Thanks, John

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Tommy Weather contributed this for music lovers...

Bill Leggett

REX I JUST HAD TO POST THIS PHOTO. 

Fred Miller

Bill, if ever a picture was worth a thousand words...

John Landess

Fred, I have to say a big ditto to your post.. My youngest son, who is a disabled Navy vet, is managing to pay his student loans. All these young people who want their loans forgiven, should be given mandatory jobs sweeping streets or something.

Tommy, that was the song I heard the other night when I forgot my hearing aids!!

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

Bill, I agree with Fred and John!
Here is something with a little 
different sort of Humor! I couldn't 
stop Laughing!

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I had a chuckle with the subtle humor of Tommy's "Sound of Silence".  In addition, Simon's "Kodachrome" had an early expiration date...

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"Those whom Love Sunsets and El Capitan"

Paula Carl (Cowee Miller)

Beautiful sunset picture, Rex!!!  Frankly I miss ALL New Mexico sunsets! There are so many trees in East Texas that I just don't get to see sunsets like these.  Happy Friday to all of you. 

Dewey Johnson

In 2026 Roswell will celebrate the 70^th anniversary of the Lions Hondo Little League Baseball All-Stars winning the tenth Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA.

       I am working with the Historical Society for Southeast NM on festivities, and we have found two things:

        One, because moms started keeping scrapbooks when their sons made the All-Stars, there is a wealth of material about the all-star team as it progressed through games at the district, state, regional, and national levels. Also, because their wins attracted additional newspaper coverage.

         Two, there is not that much about the 1956 regular season. For ex., we know the four Lions Hondo teams – Malco, Stray Bolts (Wilmot’s), Lulacs, and MLB Realtors, but we know only a few of each team’s players. No 1956 team rosters were printed in the Roswell Daily Record that year, although they were in 1955.

          And to clarify one league from another, the four teams playing in the Optimist League in 1956 were Lee Mack, Bill Deanes, Short Changers, and Elks Club. The third Little League in Roswell in 1956 was at Walker AFB. They also had four teams – the Pirates, Cardinals, Little Wheels, and Imperials.

       You members of the RHS Class of ’62 were, by and large, 12-years-old in 1956 when eleven 12-year-olds went to Williamsport. The other three team members were 11. We know who the All-Stars are. What we’d like to know is who else played for Lions Hondo during the regular season and which team he was on.

       So, if you can find out, please correspond with Amy Tellez, Executive Director, at historydirector@outlook.com, 575-622-8333, 200 N. Lea Ave., 88201. Tell her the names of boys you know who played during the regular season for Malco, Stray Bolts, Lulacs, and MLB Realtors. We would also like to know where these teams practiced, who were their coaches, any amusing anecdotes, indeed, anything you think is important to the history of the 1956 regular season.

        Ditto with the Optimist League. We’re also interested in who played ball for them in ’56. Optimist All-Stars defeated Lions Hondo All-Stars in 1955, only to be eliminated from tournament play by Midland. In 1956, of course, Lions Hondo beat the Optimists in district. In any event, we’re looking to list as completely as we can, by league and team, Roswell boys who played baseball in 1956.

       Thank you for whatever info you can give.

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Dewey,

I'm sure you have been in contact with Ferrell Dunham, Tom Jordan, Jim Valdez, and/ or Blaine Stribling for some of this information?  Another good source would be Cal Turley, Bill Turley's brother.  Cal played on the All-Star team a year later in 1957.  I'll give Cal a call and have him get in touch with you or the Historical Society. Another '62 grad who played for the Optimist league in 1956 was Larry Adams.  Larry complained a lot over the years... losing to Hondo thus being deprived of going to Williamsport.... 

Good Luck with your endeavors. 

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