BlankThat would be real cool, if you could get it. Well, really if Merilee
finds it first. Excuse me, I’m really tired. It’s hot and I’ve been up since
6 this morning moving. Hopefully Merrilee will find it and you can share it
with us. I’d love to relive it. Even the clap of thunder!
Vickie Rolison
From: Steve
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 12:17 PM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Forty-Five Years Ago Today
Rumor has it that Mimi may have a recording. If she does, she said she'd look
for it and send it to me to hopefully digitize if the tape is still good enough
to play once or twice through.
Once I get it in digital form, I can try to clean it up a little with an audio
editing program; then I can share both versions with everybody.
I should know in a couple weeks if she could locate it.
I'm sure Chard probably recorded it too, but I don't know where those tapes
would have gone. That would be a bit more of a challenge since I'd have to
hook up my reel-to-reel recorder. I haven't used that in probably twenty
years, but I bought it new in the mid-80's because I liked recording on reel to
reel better than cassettes. But, cassettes are certainly more convenient.
Of course, there's nothing like doing it digitally today.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Vickie
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 12:30 AM
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Forty-Five Years Ago Today
I should have noted in the previous message, this year on June 14th, Duane and
I closed on the house as the loan was funded and we received our deed. So,
what a memorable day for sure. It was hot here too, around 90 degrees.
However, we still don’t have the keys to the house. We saw Jay about a half
hour before receiving the deed, asking if we could have the keys. His response
was not until the walk through on Friday. Well, on Friday, we went for
breakfast out, and picked up our check from the Title company and went to
Prescott to deposit it. Well, it so happened, they were here at 10 o’clock to
do the walk through, so left a note on the fence saying they were here and we’d
have to reschedule. So, hopefully now Monday, we’ll get the keys and I can do
laundry. There’s a plug or cover over the drain in the laundry room, and we
don’t know how to properly open it, so my washer won’t drain all over the
floor. smile. Boy do we have a bunch of laundry to do too. So, here’s hoping
they’ll meet us at 1 o’clock Monday afternoon. Duane has doctors appointments
both days they suggested to do the walk through at 10 o’clock. So, I told them
we should be done by 1, if they will agree to do it then, on Monday. So, yes,
the song was Scarboro Fair. Don’t know exactly why Natalie Labanke chose that
song. It wasn’t anything relating to graduating. But that’s the song that we
were singing when the huge clap of thunder sounded off. Yeah, I did jump, and
probably giggled a little too. I sure wish I had a recording of it, but it
seems no one has a copy. My mom recorded it, but her house was broken into
when they lived in Benton Harbor, and lots of tapes were stolen. That was one
of them. so, it just wasn’t meant to be. Anyway, I still have my diploma, and
that’s all that counts. I remember Marcie and Steve were the valedictorian and
salutatorians, and Steve Horstman was our class President. I walked down the
isle with Bruce Bishop. Our gowns were blue and gold.
Vickie Rolison
From: Steve
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 7:24 PM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Forty-Five Years Ago Today
Today being Wednesday, June 14, it is exactly 45 years since I graduated with
the class of 1972. On that day there was a great thunderstorm during our
graduation ceremony and if the weather holds, we might have a similar event
this evening. We've had some pretty humid weather the last couple days and
there are supposed to be some thunderstorms tonight. But, my thoughts are with
all the graduates from my class as well as everybody else's class from MSB.
Steve
Class of '72
