WE GOT MAIL

     Heard from a pair of long time Korner viewers this week.
     From John Kueck, BHS-61, "I'll offer my view of the reduced input to your column from my personal viewpoint. As a semi-frequent commenter, I find myself running out of input. On occasion, a new subject triggers a comment from me. I expect others have a similar situation. Betty Mae Harris triggered some memories, but I was too busy to comment (another excuse). What I remember was a group of moms who conspired to have their sons take ballroom dance lessons. I was one of the victims. After some dance instructions, the boys lined up on one side and the girls on the other and then you chose a partner. I wonder if anyone else remembers this?"
     Vern Modeland, BHS-50, said, "it all depends on from where and how you look at Boone to see what's going on. Ye of lesser time note that the obituaries show a graduation date from dear old BHS as maybe the 70's, or even the 60's for those "old timers." But, there are those of us loosely organized as expatriates who can tell you about bobsledding on the snowy streets in the 1940's, pulled behind someone's family car, which was, perhaps, a Hudson or a Terraplane (the Needhams had a nifty green one with automatic shift). I'll bet those class of 60/70 somethings don't even get out in local bad weather, unless its to hop a plane to Aspen or wherever, to see snow. But, know that we expatriates are watching you, hovered over our laptops from expatriate-land, which includes Tejas and other Gulf Coast corners.....or even the Ozarks, where winter seldom comes. Don't call us gone yet!"
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     Some Scrabble rousers.
     Rearrange Presbyterian......Best in Prayer
     Rearrange Desperation.......A rope ends it
     The Eyes.........They see
     Dormitory.......Dirty Room
     Slot Machines......Cash lost in me
     The Kornerman's question is........"Who sits around trying to figure these things out?"
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     BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS: Lisa Ann Weichman Foster, 56, Boone. Ballard HS-80. She married Ronnie Foster. They had four sons, Derek of Maxwell, Danny of Norwalk, Darrin of Ames and Dylan of Slater. Her mother and sister also survive.........James Nash Jr.. 66.........Tom Curran, 74. BHS-62. BJC-64. Also educated at the University of Arizona and the University of Southern California graduate school. Taught in the San Diego school system for nine years and then entered the real estate business. Survivors include his wife, Patsy, his brother, Bill Curran and Bill's wife, Diane, of Boone........John "Jack" Toepfer, 90, Madrid. Born in Boone. Married Mabel Ray in Boone in 1949. Moved to Madrid in 1956. Army vet. Worked for the railroad and then Firestone from 1953 to 1985 when he retired. He owned Madrid Glass and Screen for many years. His son, Bob, and daughter, Joanne Dunlap, survive.
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