2023.11.16 THROW BACK THURSDAY - GIRLS' CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON COMING UP MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2023 PLUS CLASS NEWS
GIRLS' OF '56 CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON FIRST MONDAY IN DECEMBER!
Please make sure you mark your calendar for our Girls' Christmas get-together at Mary Lou Hosack Billingsley's,
7040 Parkway Village, 14300 Chenal Parkway, (501) 539-2552. Again this year Mary Lou is having our luncheon
catered so you don't need to bring anything! Thank you, Mary Lou, for your generosity!!! Girls, please be sure
and let Mary Lou know if you are coming so she will know how many to plan on.
The girls' monthly lunch get-together at Izzy's on the 4th Friday of each month WILL NOT BE HELD ON MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 27 because our Christmas luncheon is the next Monday.
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Sometimes I think I should start slowing down a little (like I haven't already!), and then I do something like this and I think, you'd better get a life!
This is what happens to you if you're a true Virgo. So I was sitting around thinking, wonder how many guys we had in the Class. More guys
than girls? And then what did we end up with? I bet the girls far outlived the guys. Well, think again!
BEFORE AFTER
Gals 387 Guys 195 You know the old saying,
Guys 357 Gals 189 "the caregiver goes first!"
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1956 CLASS NEWS
Nancy J. Rector Douglas, 81, of Morrisville, NY, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, March 6, 2020 at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse.She was born September 15, 1938 in Clinton, AR, a daughter of James Gower and Frances Ruffin Rector. She was a graduate of Central High School in Little Rock, AR, Lindenwood College in St. Louis, MO and received her Masters Degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. She studied health radiation at the University of California at Berkley where she helped to develop the mammogram. On July 7, 1962, Nancy married Henry I. Douglas in Arkansas. They moved to Morrisville in 1964 where she started her career teaching math at the Rome Free Academy. She was a substitute math and chemistry teacher at Morrisville-Eaton Central School, and later, was a professor of physics, chemistry and math at SUNY, Morrisville from 1972 until retiring after 28 years. She also taught acoustics there when SUNY had an instrument repair course. She loved to play the piano, and following her retirement, was part of a 50’s group who went to fairs and played out of the back of a truck. She also played the clarinet.Nancy was a member, elder and clerk of the session of the Morrisville Community Church, and a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society.Surviving are her husband, Henry; her children, Susan and Brian Bristow of Sacramento, CA; Carol and Dawn Woods Douglas of Morrisville; grandchildren, Abi and Matthew Bristow of Sacramento, CA; Logan Misorek of Morrisville; sister-in-law, Beverly Marolf of New Hartford; several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by a brother, Charles Rector.Memorial services will be held at 11am Saturday, March 14, 2020 at the Morrisville Community Church, Swamp Road, Morrisville.Interment in the Village View Cemetery, Morrisville will be private at a later date.Friends are invited to call at the Burgess & Tedesco Funeral Home, 31 Cedar St., Morrisville on Friday from 6-8pm.Contributions in her memory may be made to the Morrisville Community Church, PO Box 178, Morrisville, NY 13408.
Published in Oneida Daily Dispatch from Mar. 11 to Mar. 12, 2020.
Contributor: JoAnn (Grabowski) Duga (49348630)
Sorry to report that Joan Raines and her husband, Richard McMurray, both have dementia and have moved to Assissted Living
in Tennessee so her daughter can look after them. Richard is brother to our Classmate, Bill McMurray.
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1955 CLASS NEWS
Betty Houchin’s new book is her fifth. As a longtime professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism she did a lot of writing.
Any of the royalties from the sale of her book will go to student research travel funds!
Rosemary Ridgedill Arnold has moved to Florida to be near her son For more information, contact Mary Thomas Gardner.
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Only half of you will really enjoy this one!