Winter edition of Newsletter posted

 Our diligent and hard-working newsletter editor, Diane (Sauer) Hughes, just published the latest edition of our Hiliners61 classmate newsletter. It's the "winter edition 2023" edition and, if you didn't receive your copy via email, you can access it in the Newsletter Archive section in the list on the right side of your screen. All of Diane's excellent newsletters are archived there. By the way, if you aren't receiving these newsletters in your email inbox, please let Diane know. Contact her at hughesdiane.45@gmail.com

Diane does a fine job of covering this  "winter" we can't seem to get rid of. March is here and those of us in North Dakota and parts of Minnesota have several feet of snowbanks near or around our house. However, the weather has not been at seasonal norms in several parts of the county, as many of you know.

However, as I look at lots of snow in March, I remember that I was born in a blizzard back in 1943. My dad, a Soo Line depot agent at a small town called "Benedict, ND," had to enlist the railroad's "section gang" to shovel a path for the car that was trying to take my mother to the hospital in Minot. That was in the fourth week of March!  So, maybe, what we're experiencing is not unprecedented. Does that help? Probably not.

Thanks, Diane, for another great job! And thanks to our always thoughtful Chair, Barb (Sheppard) Lang, for having the newsletter printed and then she mails copies to those without email. What a great service to help keep us all connected!

If you would like to go directly to the PDF of the latest newsletter, click here.

- Larry Gauper, Blogmeister, 3-17-2023 - Happy St. Patrick's Day to all the Irish
  (if we have any in our 1961 class!)

Addendum from classmate Roger Taylor--Roger writes: "Relative to your speculation about the possible Irish descent of our classmates, I suspect that would depend on what counts as "Irish." My paternal grandmother had three grandparents born and raised in Ireland.  That makes me (at least) 18.75% Irish.  Anyway, I figure that's sufficient to justify the green shirt I'm now wearing and the green beer I plan to soon be drinking. Furthermore IMO it's in any case appropriate to wish everyone, even those descended from Norwegians, a Happy St. Patrick's Day!"  ###