| Belton High School Class of 1960 Thursday, July 29, 2010 Turn on your sound! Send goodies to janbostickstoehr@gmail.com |
| Happy Belated Birthday to Dick and Will! |
| The BHS Class of '60 50th Reunion June 11 and 12, 2010 |
| A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg fulsome PRONUNCIATION: (FUL-suhm) MEANING: adjective: 1. Effusive; lavish. 2. Excessive to the point of being offensive. ETYMOLOGY: A combination of the words full and -some (having a particular quality). NOTES: Does the word fulsome have a positive connotation or negative? Depends on whom you ask. The word started out in mid-13th century as a straightforward, unambiguous word to describe abundance. By the 17th century, it had acquired a deprecatory sense, as in the second sense listed above. Then, again, it went around the bend and in the 20th century the positive sense of the word become more common. Language purists continue to stick with the second sense, while others use the word in its first sense. What to do? Avoid it, unless context is clear, as in the two usage examples below. USAGE: "Dacres offered Hull fulsome compliments on the courage and performance of his men." Ian W. Toll; Blood Brothers; The Economist (London, UK); Nov 4, 2006. "One tires of the fulsome endorsement, the blizzard of exclamation points, the arch locutions." Daniel Aaron; Belle du Jour; The New Republic (Washington, DC); Feb 2, 1998. |
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| July 29 from Gary: Jan, just to set the record straight - this photo actually was not of one of our two Shar-Peis but was of a neighborhood English Bulldog who took advantage of an opportunity when an ice chest was overturned in my son's driveway. (Thanks, Gary. Guess I don't know from Shar-Peis...) |
| June 30/Gary |
| July Birthdays |
| 1 Wilson 3 E.C. (Buddy) 6 Frida Kahlo, artist 13 Patrick Stewart 13 Jan 16 Dick 18 Will |
| Watch Belton Grad on Jeopardy! James Richardson will be competing on Jeopardy! during the week of July 26-30. Does anyone know what class he was in? |
| July 23 |
| July 23 |
| "Crying in the Chapel" Elvis Presley |
| July 27 from Barbara: There have been concerns about not having received the class photo.....Wish someone had said something sooner!! They were to have been mailed out about 3 weeks ago. When I asked Sherlyn....lady responsible for the pictures ...she said she would check with the person who had helped her & it was up to that person to get them in the mail. OOPS....never got in the mail. She & I are terrible sorry for the ball being dropped! They are going out today. Please let anyone who asks know as I don't have that many email addresses to send out a mass mailing. Again, sorry for the delay but they are on the way!!! Barb |
| July 26 from Morris: Hi, JanBee: # 28806 here. I read the obituaries every day in the Temple paper. Today (July 26th) there is an article and 2 photos of Royce Boren, and a tribute to his 52 years of service to BISD, as teacher to trustee. A very nice tribute! I've been looking for my class picture for several weeks, and emailed Janean, asking if she knew anything about that status. She forwarded my email to BarbaraBB, who arranged the photogs, and Barbara responded that the picture was "in the mail". I look forward to receiving it, whenever it arrives. Since I Mapquested your new house some weeks ago, my "byline" on my home page on Yahoo is Stanardsville, and it gives me the temperature range for each day. It must really be hot there - I hope you successfully learned to operate the air conditioning controls! We are on "death watch" here - Mother (89) and her brother-in-law (90) are both in very bad shape. He and Mother's sister live in Shreveport (202 miles from here) and it is possible we will have 2 funerals in a short period of time. Our favorite Pastor has agreed to do Mother's funeral, but is only available on Tuesday or Thursday. I will leave for CO within a month of the funeral, then back to the family farm near Harrell's place for the Winter. Have fun unpacking and setting up! Geezer |
July 26 from Gary:
If you have begun thinking outside the
box again, try this poem.
It was originally composed as a song for a
play called Psyco-ed.
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away!
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back
any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam
the door!
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away!
"Antigonish" (1899)
William Hughes Mearns
Regards, Gary
Jan's response: I'm still not thinking
outside the box. We have a whole
houseful of them---in every room but the
bathrooms. Fortunately, there's a nice
attic awaiting some of them.
I'll bet it's quite beneficial for exercising
the brain to move. Y'all should try it every
few years! I hope we don't have to move
again anytime soon...
If you have begun thinking outside the
box again, try this poem.
It was originally composed as a song for a
play called Psyco-ed.
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away!
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back
any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam
the door!
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away!
"Antigonish" (1899)
William Hughes Mearns
Regards, Gary
Jan's response: I'm still not thinking
outside the box. We have a whole
houseful of them---in every room but the
bathrooms. Fortunately, there's a nice
attic awaiting some of them.
I'll bet it's quite beneficial for exercising
the brain to move. Y'all should try it every
few years! I hope we don't have to move
again anytime soon...
| July 27 from Janean: So glad to hear from you, and that you are happy...though very busy and occupied with sorting and unpacking. Glad you are pleased with your move. That's a good feeling. OK, 2 1/2 hrs away from where you used to live...hum. That's pretty far, but I know you want to maintain friendships. How are your puppas taking to the new location? I bet your house will sell quickly if it's in a good location, and sounds like that is definitely the case. What are the "drawbacks" to the house? We were so fortunate when we moved...our house sold in a weekend for over-asking price! Will could not have handled the stress of 2 houses for long...much less 3! Ha!! You guys were fortunate to have the lake house for initial reprieve! I'm sure you got many, many bday wishes and this bday will be remembered as the year of the move! ;) We had a great week at Lake LBJ last week! I can send pics... BTW, how did you happen to connect with the Machalek's? You guys are full of energy to be making that trip at this time! Well, glad you have your computer back and in at least semi-business again! ;) I couldn't go long w/o my computer! We are still getting together once a month for lunch...such fun. luv, j P.S. We are unbelievably getting rain this week...uncharacteristically cool!! |