Time Line

Birthdays

March: March 16th - Joan McNamara Phillips; March 27th - Anne Graham Dukes; March 29th - Sue Hays Campbell

April: April 30th - Kathy O'Brien Henderson

Anniversaries

March: March 9, 1958 - Ann Graham and Vance Dukes celebrate their 50th this year

April: None reported

Memorial Held For John Brockway

GABLES HIGH FOOTBALL HONORED

Click here to read about South Florida's greatest high school football teams. Note our Gables High Class of 56 is in the "honorable mention" section...twice!

http://miamisouthpaw.blogspot.com/2007/09/south-florida-greatest-high-school.html

HUMOR FROM ROSS YOUNG

Bob, a 70-year-old, extremely wealthy widower, shows up at the Country Club with a breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25 year- old blonde who knocks everyone's socks off with her youthful sex appeal and charm. She hangs onto Bob's arm and listens intently to his every word. His buddies at the club are all aghast. At the very first chance, they corner him and ask, "Bob, how did you get the trophy girlfriend?" Bob replies, "Girlfriend? She's my wife!" They're amazed, but continue to ask. "So, how did you persuade her to marry you?" "I lied about my age", Bob replies "What, did you tell her you were only 50?" Bob smiles and says, "No, I told her I was 90."

THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Famous divorcée is ready to take the plunge again
Wed, Feb. 20, 2008
By JOAN FLEISCHMAN
jfleischman@MiamiHerald.com

Miami attorney Alice Hector is engaged. Her intended: Miami native Gordon Ettie, a private equity investor who once headed the Americas division of Hosokawa Micron International.

''I was loath to get married again, but he swept me off my feet,'' says Hector, a trusts and estates litigator with Akerman Senterfitt. ``I'm gleefully happy!''

Hector, 62, and Ettie, 69, met through It's Just Lunch, a matchmaking service for professionals. Their first date on Oct. 10 was dinner, not lunch, at Chart House in Coconut Grove, followed by a drink at nearby Scotty's Landing, a funky bay front restaurant. ''I liked him from the moment I met him,'' she says. And ``he asked me to dance in the parking lot. Incredibly romantic.''

They have much in common. She has four children from her two marriages, and two grandchildren. Ettie, also divorced, has three children and six grandkids. The couple play golf and tennis, and he's a serious sailboat racer. Ettie has opera and symphony tickets; she has tickets to the ballet.

Nostalgia Time

Do you remember when...

*All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

*It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?

*Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

*Nobody owned a purebred dog?

*When a quarter was the average allowance?

*You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

*Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

*All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?

*We had "filling stations" where you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked and gas pumped for free without asking, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And you got trading stamps to boot?

*Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

*It was considered a great privilege to dress up and be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

*They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . .and they did?

*No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

*Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

*Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison perfect strangers?

*The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?

*Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?

*Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?

*Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

*The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

*Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

*Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?

*Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

*Being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much greater cause for alarm. But their love was greater than any threat.

*Summers were filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the beach or the pool?

And how many of these do you remember?

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

Soda shops with tableside jukeboxes

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

Newsreels before the movie

P.F. Flyers

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Highland 6-4601).

Kinescope

Party lines

Peashooters

Phonographs that played 78, 45 and 33 1/3 RPM records

Green Stamps

Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Carbon paper

Roller-skate keys

Pink and black outfits

Cap pistols

Studebakers, Henry J's and Hudsons

Washtub wringers

The Fuller Brush Man

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

Tinkertoys

Erector Sets

Lincoln Logs

5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that pink slab of bubble gum

Salt water taffy

Jiffy Pop popcorn

Spudnuts

Brownie cameras

Rinso White

More Oldies but Goodies

Another fun website for musical memories.

http://dapatchy.com

What to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone

Thanks to Buddy Inman for sending us this.

Let's say its 6:15 p.m. You're driving home alone after a usually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.

What can you do? You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course didn't tell you what to do if it happened to yourself.

Many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, which makes this article extremely relevant. Without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

These victims CAN help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives!

From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter "AND THE BEAT GOES ON." (Reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)

All Aboard

We look forward to seeing all of you who are going on the cruise April 19^th. We hope to have a recap and pictures of our voyage to share with everyone in the May-June newsletter.

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