Douglas High Alumni News Letter

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Publisher Ed Grensky Volume No. I Issue No. 10 Date 8/29/09

Good News
We have located three more classmates, and
have two email address changes for you; so
get out your reunion booklets and keep up
with the changes.
First, two email changes:
1. Change the name of Estelle Abel to
Estella Hazen Woody, and change
her email address to:
flyers@centurytel.net .

2. Margaret Day Hammer, change to: 3. Kathy Story Wagner

Peggy.hammer@chemeketa.edu . wags@cmspan.net .

Classmates Found:
Newsletter Information
I know I’ve asked for the past two weeks if
anyone would like to write a column for this
newsletter, or submit a periodic post, to
contact Ed at: ed_tonya@msn.com

I’ll try not to mention it again, but keep it in

mind; I have had only two willing soles so
far.

1. Linda or Lynn Mann Morris

Lynn_phx@yahoo.com . Terry Woodall Sept. 2nd
Happy Birthday Terry from all of your classmates.
NO PHOTO
If I’m missing anybody’s Birthday, it’s due
2. Connie Smith White
to you not filling in your birth date on your
stewhi@peoplepc.com .
web page.

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 Web Site Information
Something new that’s been added to the web
site is the convenience of reading current,
and past newsletters anytime you want. To
find it go to the main page of the web site,
and scroll down looking on the right side
until you see “Featured Links” and click on
the newsletter you want to read.
When you’re on the web site don’t forget to
look at the message board for information
from classmates, also check the “family
news summary”, recipes, and more.
On the main page of the web site, there are
three areas you can go to, to check your
classmates; I find the best place to go is
“View Class Directory” under the world
glob. Why? It’s easy to find, and with just a
glance it shows those that are missing,
diseased, and for those found it shows the
city they live in right off the bat; from there
you can go to their biography.
I’m still looking for photos from some of
you that took photos at the reunion, you can
send me via email, if of course they were
digital. Ed_tonya@msn.com The most
important photo I’m looking for is a close up
of the group in the gym.
Reunion Poll Stats
Two weeks ago I posted a poll on our
web site asking you to vote on what you
wanted to do for our future reunions; the
response was okay.
What do you want for the next ten years?
Picnic every year w/ 50th reunion. (9)
45%
Picnic's + Reunion in 5 years w/ Big 50th. (11)
55%
Total Votes: 20 The actual vote count
on picnics each year with a reunion in 5
years and a BIG 50th is 14 instead of 11;
there were two that couldn’t vote on the
computer and one that made a mistake in
voting.
I received an email from Marilyn Grass’
she made a great observation; I put
picnics will be held each summer on
Aug. 1st, NOT! They will be held on the
first Saturday in August every year
accept for what is planed for the 45th and
50th.
A POST
By: Jeanette Gardner (Harty)
grannynette@gmail.com
I liked this, it reminds me that no
matter how old we are, we still have that
opportunity to sing the song we came to
sing, If we just will. Tagore did not really
begin to share is poetry until in his 50’s. I
believe as long as we are willing to put forth
and try something new, we will stay young.
And I for one do not want to grow old , I do
not want to spend my days rocking in my
rocking chair, I want to sing my songs, even
if they are out of key..
.
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 Oliver Wendell Homes said: Many
people die with their music still in them ,
Why is this so? To often it is because they
are always getting ready to live, before they
know it, time runs out. Tagore expressed a
similar thought in these words. “ I have
spent my days stringing and unstringing my
instrument, while the song I came to sing
remains unsung .”
Just For Laughs
A little girl, dressed in her Sunday
best, was running as fast as she could,
trying not to be late for Bible class. As
she ran she prayed, 'Dear Lord, please
don't let me be late! Dear Lord, please
don't let me be late!' While she was
running and praying, she tripped on a
curb and fell, getting her clothes dirty
and tearing her dress. She got up,
brushed herself off, and started
running again! As she ran she once
again began to pray, 'Dear Lord,
please don't let me be late...but please
don't shove me either!'
I felt I should run this
Memorial for Joan one
more time.
Joan’s husband Bob sent this email
for her classmates.
Thanks, Ed, and others, for your postings
remembering Joan.
Over the past year there has been a
tremendous outpouring of love from our
own community and beyond. Choral and
Bible theater performances, donation of
Bible books to our local library, and
memorial funds have all been dedicated in
her memory. I share, and invite you to
share, Joan's strong faith and belief in
eternal life.
Joan loved our home and family, including
daughters Amy and Kim. She loved our
community, serving for many years as a lay
representative to the Shepherdstown
Ministerial Association. Joan treasured our
community's Vacation Bible School, which
she taught and helped direct for many years.
She loved teaching adults and especially
children about the Bible. And she
documented her methods in a book, a
wonderful labor of love entitled "That Ye
May Teach the Children" I still have copies
of her book for sale if anyone is interested.
Joan termed the last few years, when we
toured the country for her Bible talks, "the
peak of her career." It was a wonderful
time.
Joan had fond memories of Oregon,
including Winston, and Douglas High
School in particular. We had the privilege
of making a couple of quick visits over the
years and she was in touch with a few of
your classmates. Joan really enjoyed her
high school years and I know she was
blessed by all of you who knew her. If you
have any special stories or comments about
Joan, I'd be glad to receive them via email
at: snipes@principia.edu
Wishing you and your classmates all the
best,
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 Bob Snipes
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
If anyone has Judy Swift Mendenhall’s
contact information, would you
please email it to me?
ed_tonya@msn.com
The following massage is so very
important; I hope each one of you will
take the time to read it.
I want to explain to you the direct
comparison between the Old Testament
people and the New Testament people, yes
us, as to the knowledge we have been given
about Jesus coming and on our choice.
I know there are those reading this that
already understands this important truth. For
those of you that need more information,
convincing information if you will, in
making a choice, I want you to discover
what the Old Testament people were told
and what we are being told.
Old Testament people being told, their
King was coming.
God, through the prophet Zechariah wrote in
9:9 Rejoice, O daughter of Zion! Shout in
triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold
your King is coming to you; He is just and
endowed with salvation, Humble, and
mounted on a donkey. Even on a colt, the
foal of a donkey.
Old Testament people being told, this is
Jesus.
John the Baptist in Jn.1:29. As John the
Baptist was preaching the coming of the
Messiah and baptizing those who were
repentant, he saw Jesus coming and said,
"Behold the Lamb of God, which takes
away the sin of the world"
John’s announcement that Jesus was the
prophetic Lamb of God formally set into
motion the progression of events that would
culminate in the fulfillment of all the
prophecies concerning the Passover Lamb
and the redemption of humanity.
Jesus was going to come, and yet He
suffered rejection by his own people.
The Old Testament people had Moses and
the prophets told them all along their King
was coming.
Now what are we being told, as to the
knowledge of His coming?
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, this is
found in the first three verses of the book
of Revelation.
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The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which
(A)
God gave Him to (B)show to His bond-
servants, (C)the things which must soon take
place; and He sent and communicated it
(D)
by His angel to His bond-servant (E)John,
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who testified to (F)the word of God and to
(G)
the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all
that he saw.
3(H)
Blessed is he who reads and those
who hear the words of the prophecy, and
heed the things which are written in it;
(I)
for the time is near.
In case you read over it without pondering
its meaning, (Revelation), disclosure: the
revealing of something previously
hidden or secret.
Now under the New Covenant which is the
(New Testament), we have been told Jesus is
coming; we all understand He is coming.
God turned his face from His people in the
Old Testament and still does today, because
His people rejected Him, but soon that will
change.
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You know He is coming, so why do you
wait to make the commitment to follow
Jesus?
The list below is a compilation I have
come to understand as the way to
salvation, through my study of God’s
inspired Word.
1. Believe in Him. Jn. 3: 16-18
2. Repent of your sins. Lk.13:3
3. Ask God for forgiveness. Acts 2:38
4. Be Baptized in the name of the,
Father, the son, and the Holly Spirit.
Mk. 16:16
5. Keep His commandments.
Matt.19:16-17
And the greatest of these is “Love thy
neighbor as thy self.
Put on the Whole Armour of God, (study
His Word).
The verses below are a short list of
additional verses that coincide.
See Acts 4:10-12; 17:30; Rom.10:13-15.
"For the Son of man is come to save that
which was lost [humanity]" (Matt.18:11
KJV).
After this message above, I want you to
know there are three cinereous, one of
which you do fall under, no ifs ands or
buts.
Hot, Cold, and Luke warm.
Hot: These are the people filled with the
Holy Spirit that believe in Jesus as their
Lord and Savior, they have repented of their
sins, asked God for forgiveness, and doing
there best to follow Gods commandments.
Cold: Those that have not heard the Good
News, and or do not believe in God even
after hearing the Good News.
Lukewarm: Now remember, I told you
above there are three cinereous, one of
which you do fall under, no ifs ands or buts.
THE LUKEWARM CHRISTIAN
"And to the angel of the church of the
Laodiceans write: These things says the
Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of God; I know
your works, that you are neither cold nor
hot: I would that you were cold or hot.
So then because you are lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot, I will [am about to]
spue you out of my mouth. Because you say
you are rich, and increased in goods, and
have need of nothing; and know you not
that you are wretched, and miserable, and
poor, and blind and naked: I counsel you to
buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you
may be rich; and white raiment, that you
may be clothed, and that the shame of your
nakedness does not appear; and anoint your
eyes with eye-salve, that you may see. As
many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be
zealous therefore, and repent" (Rev.3:14-19
KJV).
There are many lessons a Christian can learn
from this warning to the Laodiceans, and
one of the most important is that God does
not tolerate minimum performance. Those
who have been called to be a Son of God
must endeavor to be zealous in their
commitment to God. Jesus Christ says if
one is doing the minimum that is required,
he is unprofitable, and if one is lukewarm
in his commitment to God, he is in grave
danger of being cast out of the body of
Christ
I have covered a lot of information here, in
an abbreviated topical study.
My endeavor here was to give an important
message; you know as did the people in the
Old Testament Jesus was coming, now you
also know He is coming, the message here is
choice. All our lives we make choices, right
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or wrong we make them. Why wouldn’t you NOTE: Do you have a question
want to seek the information needed to make
an informed choice, which will affect your about anything the Bible teaches
eternal destiny? that you would like further
understanding on? I will do my
You can’t just sit back and hope that God
will accept you because you have been a best to answer your question
good person, but we are all sinners and fall directly via email, or I can add it
short of the Glory of God. The only way to to our newsletter; there may be
the Father is through Jesus, which is by His
Grace. Time is short, don’t waist it. others that wonder about the
same question.
NOTE: There is a book coming out on Oct.
31st by the name “If Christians Were Really
Christian” by John Killinger.
Web site address below.
About the book:
Description: In the world today, churches http://www.classreport.org/usa/or/winston/d
and church members are often diverted from hs/1969/
their central mission of loving others and
interpreting life through the vision of Jesus Ed’s email below.
Christ. If Christians Were Really Christian
shows that with the message we have been ed_tonya@msn.com
given and the spirit of God to lead us we
should have led everyone to the kingdom of
God.
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