Denise. Tony is of course my brother. You probably figured that out by now.
He plays drums for the band he mentioned Billy Mack and the Juke Joint
Johnnies. I know, weird name. But not weird band. Pretty cool actually. If
you go to the website
hhttp://www.billymackmusic.net
I hope I got the link correct, you will hear some of their music. I think I
have told you from another list, who I am, and that I’m in Arizona. We got our
new house finally and moving is such a pain. Hope to never move again. We
called a guy to help us get our stuff out of storage, but he called and passed
on the paid job. He sounds weird anyway. He told the storage lady that he
wanted to work for people getting things out of storage, but that we asked him
to come to our house first, and he didn’t want to do that.
We need to empty our truck out first before we can get stuff out of storage.
Anyway, this wasn’t suppose to be about all this stuff, and glad to see you
made it on the MSB list. Marie Reh, can probably help tell you who all in your
class has passed. She is on this list too. Which, she is probably busy
setting up the next alumni reunion in August. She’ll post the notice to the
list whenever she gets it created.
Vickie Handley RolisonFrom: lkeeler@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 4:09 AM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: greetings
I’ll let him tell you but, I’ve seen him and hes really good! I’m Larry Keeler
class of 81. I lived in Kalamazoo while I was at school and drove threw
Hastings up to Edmore for family reunions.
From: Tony Handley
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 6:38 AM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: greetings
I play in a rockabilly band called Billymack and the juke joint Johnny's. We
played a festival at stagecoach Park last Friday. Take care and God bless you.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 20, 2017, at 2:17 AM, "Denise Thompson" <deniset@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi tony
What do you play?
Denise
From: msb-alumni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:msb-alumni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Handley
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 9:17 PM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: greetings
Hi Denise welcome to the list. My name is Tony Handley. I'm from the class of
78. I just played in your area of this last Friday. We were over there in
Middleville. Went right through your hometown to go through there. Take care
and God bless you. Tony 1978
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 19, 2017, at 3:41 PM, "Denise Thompson" <deniset@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone
This is denise Thompson new to the list. Thanks Marcia for getting me
connected. I’m class of 70. I’m back in MI living in Hastings about 25 miles
from grand rapids after 34 years in phoenix Arizona. I came bak two years ago.
I decided it was time to come home and get reintegraded into my family. I love
phoenix and it was a difficult decision, but it was time to come back. My
family has been great since I’ve been back and it’s nice to go to great nieces
and nephews graduation parties and marriages and reunions, etc. the weather?
Well we won’t discuss that, but I will say it’s been nice that the two winters
I’ve been back haven’t been that bad so for that I’m greatful. Smile
I went to phoenix originally to seek my fortune like pioneers before me. I
did find work, but I’m still looking for that fortune thing. Lol
I spent many years working at the local independent center which became and
still is one of the largest in the country. For 10 years I was the state of
arizona’s ADA/5o4 coordinator. I took early retirement in 2005 to escape all
the beurocratic nonsense and then worked for myself as a disability civil
rights consultant until I came back to MI in april 2015.
I keep busy now managing TLF, (the listen factor) which is a group of
internet radio stations that air tv shows. No video just the sound tracks. We
air oldies- shows from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, etc. a few current shows as well
both those that have audio description and those that don’t. it keeps me pretty
busy, but I also love to read, mostly romantic suspense and other action
thriller types.
Most evenings I get together with a group of on-line friends and we play
games on a site called blind adrenaline where we play euchre, spades, texas
holdem, draw and yaht.
At the moment my household family consists of penny my retired dog guide,
daisy my jack russel mix and crystal my miniature dachsund.
So that’s me in a nut shell. Probably more info than you ever wanted to
know. Lol
Denise
