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- Dean Upshaw, A.I.A.
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- dupshaw@verizon.net
- 20 Dec 2004
Neww E-mail above. I do not know who changes this . Buy, here it is again dupshaw@verizon.net
- Gary Jones
- 15 Aug 2004
and..........I "hope" I can learn to proof-read!
- Gary Jones
- Amarillo, again
- Roger1935@msn.com
- 15 Aug 2004
Just stumbled across your website and was tickled to see pictures and read comments. I hope you keep this site going for many years - come to think of it, I hoe I keep going for many years.
Gary Jones
Class of "54"
- Charles Ray Graham
- 5300 Briar St., Amarillo, TX 79109
- Charlie79109@aol.com
- 29 Jul 2003
After working for the Santa Fe-Burlington Railroal for 45 Year, I retired. My
wife is the former Rachel Amerson. We will celebrate our 50th anniversary next
July. We have traveled to Alaska and up to Canada many times. We love Vancouver.
At this time we are taking care of my 90 year mother. We also, have a year old
great grandson with whom we have so much fun. My wife taught school at Nazareth
and Bushland retiring with 22 years. We have 3 children, Cindy Klause is a
computer programmer at Pantex, our son is on disability, and Sandra will start
her student teaching this fall to hopefully teach middle school math after
graduation. We have 4 grandchildren plus the baby I mentioned earlier. Our
granddaughter is a deputy sheriff for Potter County.We belong to First Assembly
of God Church and We know that all things work together for good to them who
love GOD,to them who are the called according to His purpose.(Romans 8:28) My
favorite activities are garage saling and vi! siting with the men down at Henry
D's every morning.
- Robert W. Goodrich
- 6510 Sandie Drive, Amarillo, TX 79109-5125, (806)358-0866, Fax:
(806)358-4445
- rgoodrich@webtv.net
- 17 Jun 2003
This is comment #2 from me (and I think I may offer others as well). After
reading a number of comments from classmates I too, want to commend whoever
designed, developed and delivered this website. What an excellent idea -- and
very professional. It is a privilege to offer comment and to read the comments
of others. Of course, after a lengthy review of classmate's contributions it has
become clear to me that there is opportunity and perhaps reason(s) for offering
more descriptive detail(s) about each one's life, and an interpretive assessment
of that life. Such an effort would of course be voluntary, and it would require
some thoughtful preparation. And while not everyone would want to participate in
this collective effort I believe it will be very exciting and most interesting
for those who choose to contribute to it.The results will constitute (in brief
or in length) a commitment to that ancient Socratic (or Platonic) admonition to
live an "examened life" because, according to Socrat! es (or Plato) that is the
only kind worth living.
So, it is possible to get beyond the "descriptive" level of awareness of
ourselves (here is where I live, marital status, children inventory, here is a
list of the places I've lived, the work I have done, and here is where I have
traveled). All of this descriptive info. is essential, it is very interesting,
and welcome from each of us. But there is so much more to our lives and our
living. The really, really big questions that we are all most concerned about
remain unaddressed. Do we dare to begin a dialogue in which we respond to those
"really, really big" questions?
Frankly, I am not sure I even know all the "big questions" that I have
alluded to, but I do know some of them, such as: what were some of my most
powerful learning experiences? What have I attempted but failed to finish, or
failed to do well? What valuable life lessons have I learned in my 67 years of
living? As a consequece of living through a lot of daily experiments (with the
results of the trials being error, error, success, error, error,etc.) what do I
now better understand about friendship, about being a spouse, a parent, a
neighbor, a citizen of the United States of America?
If we attempt to write responses to some of the "big, bigger and/or biggest"
questions about life and our having lived, we may discover there is material
sufficient for a "Class Biography". We may be able to profile ourselves as a
class, and to generalize about ourselves in terms of our strengths, our
weaknesses, our achievements, our faialures, our great joys and our great
saddnesses. Some may ask,"How will such a profile, such a biography, be any
different from other classes before (or after) us? What is distinctive about the
'Class of '53 that merits the effort to write a biography of ourselves as a high
school class? What can be learned from such an exercise?
I certainly do not have answers to those latter questions -- and I am not
sure any of us do. But we will surely discover answers if we elect to work
through such a project. My own opinion is that such a work will result in"third-level"
, and possibly some "fourth-level" awareness, for ourselves and perhaps for
others as well. The fact is we have become pretty good at handling "first-level"
awareness (descriptions), and some amount ofthe"second-level" of
awareness(reflection). So just how effective are we in handling the
"third-level" of awareness -- the interpretive level? Just how good are we at
speaking to the meaning of it all? Are we willing to perform that 'internal
audit' that is essential in order to speak to the meaning of our daily life
experiences, our careers, our parenting, our friendships?
No doubt some one or two of you are bound to say, "Ok, Robert, we will try
it, but YOU GO FIRST!! Show us what it looks like and maybe we will follow.
Will I risk responding to that challenge? In the words of James Joyce, my
response is: "Yes, I can. Yes, I will ........Yes." But you need to understand
that I cannot and will not make this journey alone. I need classmates who will
agree to climb the mountain with me, with the full undertanding that once we get
to the top, we may be able to see further and more clearly than anyone has seen
before us. But it is equally possible that clouds may obscure our vision once we
reach the top, and we will not be able to see much at all. We will come back
down that mountain of attempted self-discovery with very little in the way of
results. And we will walk away with a little saddness, for sure, but we will
nevertheless be confident about our reward, knowing we created a path for other
classes who will follow.
Please let me know what you think about this idea.
Sincerely, Robert Goodrich
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