Cris Moorehouse and his new blog

Cris and Theona Moorehouse are our traveling pair... they have logged a lot of miles and gone to a lot of beautiful places in these United States. Today he sent me this email.

Barbara, thanks for the obituary for John (Jack) Hendricks. He lived close to us when we were growing up and I was sorry to learn he had died. We are on our way to Savannah, GA for our niece’s graduation from Savannah College of Art and Design. I am also trying to do a blog, it’s address is crisandtheona.blogspot.com if you are interested.

Theona & Cris
novella@chartertn.net

God bless us everyone!
BC

Killian's Shangrila June 20th

Classmates Carol Leeper and Doug Killian have an absolutely beautiful place near Mooresburg TN (about an hour from my house in Kingsport), and they have invited us down to visit again. A large group of DBHS Class of 60 classmates made it down there last August. Tommy and I were unable to go since he just finished his chemo, and his immune system was so low. He loved it there, he called it "Shangrila". Carol says June 20th is a good date... so mark that on your calendars. There will be barbeque sandwiches with several sides to choose from, all for $7.
If you wish to bring a dessert to share, please do so... I'm sure we can all slip off our "diet" for one day... surely!! I will be posting some pictures taken from last August's gathering... on the website... if I can figure out how to do it!!!

God bless us everyone!
BC

First Friday June 5th 2009

Hey guys... it's time for another First Friday event! We have so much fun, and we're also working now... working on telephoning our classmates with information we had gathered at our last reunion. Sue Shaulis Thomas made copies of those information sheets, we each took one, and we are calling to verify information once again. NOTE FROM SUE: M.Colley, C. Killian, B. Coughenour, C. Cameron, J. Dotson, S. Bridwell, F. Lucas, D. Plott, C. Tichenor, R. Deason, M. McConnell, L. Robinson, K. Parham and J. Beck, please return your (1) Class Information sheet and (2) the Information Corrections sheets to Sue Thomas at the First Friday Meeting (June 5) or mail them immediately to Sue Thomas, 1528 Watauga St., Kingsport, TN 37664.

Don't worry if you were unable to contact all of your people. This is just the first attempt. Sue will compile a list of persons who have not been contacted, and we will then see if any of our classmates know how to contact "the missing."

Thanks Sue, for spearheading our efforts!

God bless us everyone!
BC

Ben Hunter's Garden

Please go to www.timesnews.net/tearsheets and look for article "THE NEW GROWTH" on the front page of the FAMILY section C. There is Ben's face shining out from under his broad brimmed hat, and his words about his gardening skills! I think we may need a visit to Ben's Gardens to get some hints!!

Barbara

Graham Clark's Eulogy

Today was a good day... my brother was able to upload Graham's eulogy from Tommy's funeral onto YouTube today. I had been wanting to hear it again... I guess I never realized just how much Tommy meant to him. You may or may not be interested, but if you are, you just GOOGLE
Graham Clark's Eulogy or Tom Coughenour, and it should come up. There are three parts:
the first part has PT 1 in the title, the second doesn't have any number with it, and Pt 3 has a number on it. Once again, the family is bathed in love and support and peace beyond understanding.

God bless us everyone!

BC

At our last First Friday (May), Sue Shaulis Thomas gave out a page to each of us with names of our classmates as they were listed at our last reunion. She asked us to call those people, find out if their information needed to be updated, and if they wanted information about our 50th (FIFTIETH!!!) reunion sent to them. I haven't been able to get everyone called yet on my page, but I've enjoyed talking with Fred Churchill last week, and today with Eddie Chase (except now he is Ed :)... I spoke with Ed as I drove to Fredericksburg VA for a visit with my Grands and to see my 13yr old Hannah play Grandmother Mermaid in "The Little Mermaid"! Anyway, it was fun talking with Fred and Ed, and I look forward to connecting with the other classmates on my sheet! Barbara

Sue Shaulis Thomas, Katie Taggart Driskell and I met for lunch Tuesday to discuss some options for our 'information gathering', 'website presence', etc.   We discussed our google group and the possibility of our own Blogging Site.  Here it is, now I just have to learn how to use it!  

Barbara

I will be trying to learn as much as I can about BLOGGING as we use this site. This is for Dobyns Bennett High School Class of 1960 graduates and classmates... we will be using it for dissemination of  class reunion information for our upcoming 50th class reunion, October 8th, 9th and possibly 10th, 2010.  I look forward to sharing information with you. Keep in touch! 

Barbara