Thanks to Lois Lindley for sending me the link to this. It's been on TV a time or two in more recent years, and it's always fun to remember back to our glorious 1960s! Even if they were our arch rivals, the Websterites had many of our same experiences. Who ever thought we'd be the age we are now and having so much fun remembering our past and EVEN wanting to watch a Webster Groves show again! Enjoy everyone! Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQxUkZ4Anc
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Thursday, December 31, 2020
JerryJazzMusician.com publishes our own Poet Laureate Alan 'The Count' Yount yet again - a New Year Wish to boot out the old year!
Here is Alan's newest poem published just yesterday on Jerry Jazz Musician's great jazz site. If you go to the JJM site (hotlink below) to see it, there is a hotlink to hear "Listen to the Music" - a great song! Alan wishes us all good fortune in our fight to banish the pandemic to somewhere far far away and SOON! Let's all behave ourselves and stop spreading germs! Happy New Year to everyone! And thanks again Alan for uplifting us when we need it!
Alan Yount, poet; Columbia, MO
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…..I have always been a great fan of the Doobie Brothers.This poem uses a line from the Doobies' song, “Listen To The Music.”
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What The People Really Need, Is A Way To Make Them Smile
………..“Tom Johnston, Doobie Brothers Band.”
…………“What I miss most, is seeing …all the people smile.” … Jerra [Alan's devoted wife]
in the virus era
now everyone wears
a mask.
*****
with all the college students
returning this fall,
I realized that no one
can really tell
what the gals & guys
look like.
*****
then there is this:
you can’t even see, or hear
if people are singing
a little song
as they walk along …
(maybe saying, I love you so).
*****
with masks on
the people look like
they are cast
in pompean stone.
*****
we all need to pull together
to find something
fairly soon.
right now it seems
nearly impossible,
but somehow show them
that change is coming.
*****
finally, finally,
make the masks come off:
“that what the people really need
is a way to make them smile.”
***
Postscript: This poem was inspired by the Doobie Brothers song, “Listen To The Music,” from their album Toulouse Street.
………….Originaly published by: WestWard Quarterly: Fall issue, 2020.
https://jerryjazzmusician.com/2020/12/what-one-song-best-represents-your-experience-with-2020/
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Mrs. Korum dies at 96 - her favorite saying, "Old Age isn't for sissies" so true!
Dave Korum's mom, Marcella, has passed away, please see her obituary here:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/stltoday/name/marcella-korum-obituary?pid=197333064
Another of our class parents who has lived a very long life; we are a lucky bunch to have had such great parents with many of us having them for a long time. Sending sincerest condolences to Dave and his family.
Friday, December 11, 2020
Farewell to another classmate, Maxine Galvin Filley, RN superb nurse leaves us too early.
Thank you to Linda and Louise Moore for alerting me to the announcement of the recent death of our classmate Maxine Galvin Filley, RN. She was a stellar registered nurse, spending most of her career at St. Joseph Hospital right in our hometown, Kirkwood. Please read her obituary here:
https://www.timesnewspapers.com/webster-kirkwoodtimes/maxine-marie-filley-nee-galvin/article_33bef756-3b01-11eb-a032-436f5e36a86a.html
to learn about what a super-star she was in her chosen field. I don't believe she attended any of our reunions but I do know she lived right in Kirkwood for many years, if not all her life.
Extending our sincerest condolences to her family.
Friday, October 30, 2020
June 26, 2019 KHS65 folks get together in the Columbia, MO area
Well folks, I am so far behind in so much in my life I will never catch up! As you can see since these are photos from our June 26, 2019 get-together in the Columbia area. We met at Canterbury Hill Winery where the wine was great! The food and company were also great. Posting our recent, October 10, 2020 photos reminded me I never got these finished! I have more grade school pix to post too!!! YIKES, it never ends. We had a great gab-fest this day last summer. Perhaps I have posted this on my Facebook page, seems like I remember saying that we ran into a group of KHS girls there having lunch at the same time we were. Somehow they heard us or we heard them and we figured out the KHS connection.... ENJOY...we always have a great time no matter who joins us ... let's always keep it up!
Front: Guels, Soutar, Eck, Purdy, Clark, Divincen
Saturday, October 17, 2020
MORE CATCHING UP WITH ALAN YOUNT
These posts are a bit out of order, but I'm not enough of an expert with Blogger to know how to adjust that, so just keep reading down for more of Alan's work as I'm posting several things he's sent me over the past few months, my very bad for not keeping current! Alan is a true renaissance man - trumpet player par excellence, amazing poet, husband, father, and retired university librarian...so many talents! Enjoy these poems! Thank you Alan for continuing to share your work with us - please keep it up! Keep reading below - there is more after this first one!
ON ONE DAY AT A TIME
in these troubled times
and false spring
after seventy
but also before
those older years
try and find
on one day at a time
find something in each day
you will enjoy doing
something good and interesting
you absolutely love to do
on every single day
Postscript: written on June 6, 2020 seventy third birthday,
with hope of strength and peace in these times.
Published by: JerryJazzMusician (a national online jazz journal),June 18, 2020.
Published by: Birdsong Journal (a Sandy Benitez publication), June 23, 2020.
AFTERWARDS: FOR THE SPRING OF 2020
“The World Breaks Everyone, And Afterwards,
Many Are Stronger At The Broken Places.”--- Ernest Hemingway.
many, many, years ago
I was in need
of some extra money.
I had decided
to sell my upright 1940’s
kay bass violin.
however
this april
I still have it:
and I always know …
how much
it still means to me.
it is beyond compare
with the comfort
it gives.
just feeling the design
of the birds eye
maple neck …
and then again …
just lightly touching
the string
there’s the deep strength of sound:
reassuring and resounding
from the perfectly placed bass notes.
this bass
has been
a lifelong friend:
I need this old bass
in these trying times
now more … than ever.
Published by www.JerryJazzMusician.com (a national online jazz journal):
“Afterwards: For The Spring, Of 2020.” May 23rd, 2020.
ALAN YOUNT MEMORIALIZES OUR CLASSMATES JOHN EMERLINE & JIM BURTON IN VERSE
My apologies to Alan for being so late in posting his work. This one is also published on jerryjazzmusician.com and the editor of that blog was very complimentary of this one. A shame we have to memorialize our classmates due to deaths way too early, but at least we can remember them with dignity and enjoy Alan's poetry.
ACCIDENTLY PULLED UNDER,
BY THE UNDERTOW
“For Jim Burton And John Emerline.”
just today, I read
in my high school newsletter,
that two 1965 classmates
and friends from kirkwood high:
jim burton
and john emerline
were pulled under
by the undertow.
it was off of the beach
near emerald isle, north carolina.
the day was sunday
july 12, 2020.
it seems enough, in this year
and in these times
to worry about dying
from the virus.
then there is also the constant
and continuing … undercurrent of worry
about accidently contracting, and then
succumbing to the virus.
at the extreme very least
for my two
high school friends
could thus be said:
“he who
dies today
does not
have to worry
about tomorrow.”
william shakespeare.
Published by: www.JerryJazzMusician.com (a national online jazz journal).Sept. 25, 2020. In “Vol. 3, A Collection of Poetry Reflecting the Era of COVID, Black Lives Matter, and a Heated Political Season.” (27th Yount poem published by JJM and his150th poem published).
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