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06/23/09 09:44 PM #28     Nancy Holt (Monson) I guess I never tuned in to the "message forum" until now. How fun to read all the Ensign school references. I had to do a quick run through in my mind to remember all my teachers. Miss Finster, Miss Hannah, Mrs. Lyon, Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. DuBois, Mrs. Raybould and Mr. Anderson. Hi to all of you Ensign Elementary friends! Jim Ingebretsen lived in our ward and so I saw him as he lost his battle with his brain tumor. Here is his obituatry notice if you want to read more details. Obituary: James Hyrum Ingebretsen James Hyrum Ingebretsen "Jimbo" James Hyrum Ingebretsen died peacefully surrounded by family on Sunday, December 23, 2007 from pneumonia while fighting a courageous battle against a brain tumor. He was born December 1, 1950 in Salt Lake City, son of Robert and Mary Ingebretsen. He was graduated from East High School in 1969, attended radio broadcasting school, and then the University of Utah. He owned and operated his own ice cream store and for the past 16 years worked at LDS Hospital. He is survived by 5 siblings, numerous nieces and nephews, and countless friends. The funeral will be Friday, December 28th at 12 noon at the Emigration 4th Ward Chapel located at 18th Avenue and Hilltop Road. There will be a get-together for friends and family on Thursday, December 27th from 68 pm at Larkin Mortuary, located at 260 East South Temple and again Friday morning at the ward one hour prior to the services. Jim was simply the kindest and warmest person on earth. He blessed every life that was fortunate enough to meet him. We thank his physicians, nurses and technicians who took such marvelous care of him in the last days of his life.

06/24/09 03:11 PM #29     Jim Olsen Nancy (and everyone else who ultimately 'stumbles' onto the Forum), many thanks to you (& to Marv, for the previous posting) for the information about Jim, a member of our class whom I always knew about, but never knew well. I for one hope this site, with what it represents and reflects, will not disappear and be forgotten about by Labor Day 2009.

06/30/09 07:03 PM #30     Verdo Thomas Marv; What could have possessed you to take on such a daunting task as babysitting a reunion website? I applaud you. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting. And I want to thank my old homey, Dan Brown, for contacting me about the reunion and this fabulous site. It's been fun reading some of the entries on this forum. However, I was one of the few Central City kids in our class, so I'm giving a shout-out for good old Oquirrh Elementary memories to: Terry Spinks, Joe Rosendaal and Janie Best. Thanks again, Marv for this wonderful way to communicate. -vt

07/01/09 06:47 PM #31     Willy Revada Allen Don't let the MO's Control this reunion if you want too see me. Best Willy

07/03/09 08:02 PM #32     Dan Brown Ron Poulton speculated on the origins of the Leopard song. He was close but here is the real source.

07/07/09 02:49 PM #33     Jim Olsen LOOKS just like Pee Wee Herman in a dimly-lit theater right AFTER they turn up the house lights, and SOUNDS just like Tiny Tim warming up for 'Tiptoe through the tulips...' Great stuff, Dan! Eric's strained rendition of 'Old Man River' sounds better by the second!

07/09/09 04:18 PM #34     Marv Curtis On behalf of Allyne Kemp... Hi classmates - My husband and I just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary - yea we got married soon after graduation - I am now the mother of 6 - 2 sons and 4 duaghters five children are living as well as their spouses = my husband finally retired in September of last year and our only living son will soon be leaving for Afghanistan for the second time - being stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas. We are now enjoying being alone together as well as our 12 grandchildren - 6 boys and 6 girls Won't be able to attend the reunion Saturday night, but will be thinking of all of you ! Allyne

07/17/09 12:11 PM #35     Thomas E. Thulin You know, I've been reading a lot of the bios and the forums, what a special thing we have here in this website. I have retouched with a few old friends that I didn't think I would ever find again, and some mistakes of some I thought I knew but didn't (sorry Deb). We need to contact those we know that haven't signed on yet and light a fire under them. Some of us can't be at the dinner, but a lot of us can be at the school. We aren't getting any younger, and the "In Memory" column is going to get longer unfortunately. Let's re-meet as many of us as we can while we have the chance. Some of us were friends from kindergarten. It would be great to rekindle that friendship, don't you think? Come-on, give us a hug. I'd even give Mavor a hug...well maybe a handshake, hah. See ya there. Tom

07/17/09 02:24 PM #36     Jim Olsen Well, who woulda thunk it??? Mark Stevens wagging his name all over the Home Page with a 'highfalutin' email address right to his desk at Deloitte Touche, only one of the most prestigious accounting/consulting firms on the planet, with his personal phone number right next to it. So I call him up, gullible enough to expect (since every single bean-counter I've ever met is so anal retentive they would never dream of writing a number down wrong) that I would actually speak to the man. And what happens? I get some pickle-sucking, crabby old Gestapo spinster informing me that "this is NOT Mark Stevens"! So buyer beware! Have this guy 'do' your taxes at your own risk! If he can't even get his own phone number right, imagine what he'll do with your dependent tax credit now that your dependents are all grown & out of the house (except the ones who can't find a job and move back in...). And mark (no pun intended) my words: he'll probably try to pin the blame on Marv for copying his number down wrong. Sounds more like 'high flatulent' than 'highfalutin'... Even after 40 years and, in your self-deprecating 'There are a lot of Mark Stevens out there' way, you're still THE MAN, Mark. (At my age, I'm closer to self-defecating, but that, as they say, is 'a- whole -nother' subject.)

07/24/09 05:47 PM #37     Patricia Rogers (Broadwell) Just a joke... that I couldn't resist! Here's to you, Mom!!! Drinking, Gambling, and Golf A man was walking in the city, when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking bum who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner. The man took out his wallet, extracted two dollars and asked, "If I gave you this money, will you take it and buy whiskey?" "No, I stopped drinking years ago," the bum said. "Will you use it to gamble?" "I don't gamble. I need everything I can get just to stay alive." "Will you spend the money on greens fees at a golf course?" "Are you NUTS! I haven't played golf in 20 years!" The man said, "Well, I'm not going to give you two dollars. Instead, I'm going to take you to my home for a terrific dinner cooked by my wife." The bum was astounded. "Won't your wife be furious with you for doing that? I know I'm dirty, and I probably smell pretty bad." The man replied, "That's okay. I just want her to see what a man looks like who's given up drinking, gambling, and golf."

07/27/09 02:32 PM #38     Jim Olsen This could actually work, People!!! > Dr. Dave Thomas (plastic surgeon) can bring the botox in the little black bag no doctors use anymore and do all the 'touch-up' work (which admittedly will instantaneously morph into extreme make-overs on some of us); > Dr. 'Feel Good' Homer Smith (anesthesiologist) can smuggle in six-packs of assorted user-friendly narcotics to ensure that our collective pain management is well-controlled; > Various in-laws / out-laws of Sally Ralphs Larkin can wait in the wings to provide taxidermy services to any interested parties when it all goes SOUTH; and (for those of us with families whose response to our demise would be 'Good riddance') > Dr. Ernest (Pete) Baldwin (internal medicine) can arrange clandestine, discreet removal of body parts to be compacted into fertilizer pellets for use on the myriad golf courses surrounding his clinic in West Virginia (they don't call it 'GREENbrier' for nothing, y'know - wink, wink). (Of course, the botox might make the greens a bit more difficult to navigate . . . a small price to pay) Doesn't it provide you with a degree of comfort to know, thanks to the phenomenal academic baptism we received at dear old East High, that we are so well connected and prepared for any conceivable outcome?!? Bring it on!

07/29/09 08:39 AM #39     Martha A Blickensderfer (Duke) Martha A. Blickensderfer Duke Still working not retired yet, still living in Salt Lake City, have a wonderful husband of 19 years, took a while to find a guy with a short name to go along with my l-o-n-g name. have been filling in my life with a divorce, widowhood and now some longetivity with marriage. Sure would be nice to hear from some of the Stewart School group. and the others who attended our dear East High.

07/31/09 10:42 AM #40     Marv Curtis I have enjoyed all of the photos that have been uploaded, but it only makes me want to see more. If you don't know how to put a photo on your profile but you would like to, just email your photos to me at marvcurtis@gmail.com and i will post them for you.

08/06/09 10:55 PM #41     Mary Anne Armstrong (Jensen) Marv, What a wonderful job you have done with this site! What a wonderful gift you have given the class of ’69. You do realize you have accomplished the near impossible, you have pulled all the factions of the class of ‘69 and united them in the entertaining, educational, and insightful pastime of getting to know one another again, or in some cases for the first time. I have enjoyed everyone of the profiles! I am so sorry to have heard about Joan. I knew Joan all through Wasatch, Bryant and East. We lived in the same neighborhood all our lives. She truly was always kind, always thoughtful and always loving. In all the years that we were growing up, I never knew Joan to say or do anything mean, or small, she was always large in heart and integrity. It broke my heart to hear of her passing. Also another neighbor of ours passed away. Karen Taft. I wish I could help you with the date or details, but she died about five or six years ago, I believe of breast cancer. I thought she should be on the memory board.

08/07/09 04:35 AM #42     Marv Curtis Hi Mary Anne, Thanks for your kind remembrances of Joan. Do you remember if Karen Taft graduated in '69 with us? I remember the name but I can't place her face at the moment. Thanks, Marv

08/07/09 06:49 PM #43     Dan Beck Yea Patricia Rogers I still have my class ring and yes it does still fit. Though it has been at the bottom of my tool box for nearly 40 years it is there and still fits.

08/07/09 10:25 PM #44     Ladene McInelly (Moffett) Marv: For Karen Taft, check out page 53 in the 69 yearbook, dark long hair, bubbly personality and a joy to be around. If she is Karen Jo Taft her obituary is in the Salt Lake Tribune and she died February 2, 2005.

08/08/09 04:19 AM #45     Rita Strickland (Guy) Hi! I just got on the site, I love it, thanks Marv for all the hard work. I thought I might make the reunion but it is just around the corner and I couldn't get it together. However, I am sure everyone that attends will have a great time and you have so many activities planned, surely there is something for everyone. Great to finally be in touch.

08/09/09 07:30 AM #46     Steve Garrett Great site. brings up mental images of many things, like,"wrap" dancing at the stomps, Stu Asahina's "jock"lap around the track', "flexible scheduling", how we learned anything is amazing. Mavor's "grunts" when he threw a football,MIlburn trying to decide which chick he wanted that week, you know who Becky, Kathy, Wendy, other Kathy. Icould go on for days, Great website, hope others "remember" glimpses of our school days, lots of good times. One more just hit, does anyone remember Jon Browns drum solo of Innagoddadavida?

08/10/09 08:33 PM #47     Paul Sorensen Marv, I gotta give it to you, the website is GREAT!. You've done an outstanding job and it's nice getting back in touch with former classmates. Just wish I could have worked this out while I was still living in Europe for the 30th. But what the heck, ten years ago, technology/snail mail in Italy just wasn't was it is today. Besides, my flight from Rome was diverted and I "had" to spend a long weekend in Paris and ended up returning to Italy...OH WELL! Now it's SLC or bust! After all, how far from SLC can a flight via Atlanta get diverted to...other than Cincinnati, God forbid!

08/10/09 08:42 PM #48     Paul Sorensen More seriously Marv, my deepest sympathy over your loss of Joan. She was a great person and I was truly saddened just now learning about her passing. The artists rendering you posted of her captures all of her grace and beauty, just as I remember her.

08/13/09 06:47 PM #49     Stephan Block IF YOU WENT TO STEWART ... Please show up at the Bayou Friday night. This may be our last best chance for a Stewart School reunion. I want to see you there! Details: 7:00-10:00 PM An Unholy Alliance Those who went to Wasatch Elementary, Bryant Jr. or Stewart School, or anyone who wishes they had gone to these stellar institutions, are invited to a get together at the Utah Bayou Restaurant, 645 South State Street. Contact Betsy Baker for more info. Thanks, Stephan

08/13/09 11:07 PM #50     Peggy Scott (Youngs) To John Adamson, and all my classmates. I have been so looking forward to the reunion and having the opportunity to see all of you. The death of my husband two days ago will prevent me from attending, and will effectively change my whole life as I know it. Thanks to those of you who have sent messages of condolence, I really do appreciate your kind thoughts. I will be with you in spirit, and I hope that some day I will have the opportunity to see all of you again. Love to all, Peggy Scott

08/14/09 12:51 PM #51     Kate Whitney (Neilson) It has been an interesting ride back to high school while reading all your messages. I sometimes have dreams that I am hurrying to class, upstairs somewhere, and I am late! (I usually was late for some classes) I have thought often about the assignment Mrs. E. gave me along with other 'misfits' in senior english. She expected us to do a horrible job - but we surprised her and the others in our class by filling the room with fog, from a fog machine one of our group members was able to borrow from the U of U theater, using the voice of a professor, from the theater department - UofU, to read our 'Poem' on tape and I used my artistic ability to sketch my impressions of the poem. Happy to report we all recieved an 'A'. It's a wonder that we didn't set the fire alarm off. I was going to use my fog machine in one of my classes one Halloween - the principal told me no because I would set the alarm off. High school is a hard time for most young adults. I'm greatful for the bumps in life I had at this time. It has made me a better person and a teacher of middle school and high school students. I have great empathy for most of the loners and shy students and I am very strict with those who think they can get away with anything. Thank you Marv for such a wonderful job putting together this website. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about all of you and where life has taken you. May you be blessed with laughter and many joyful memories with your life ahead!

08/15/09 01:54 PM #52     Terry Spinks !!!!!!!!I/M BUMMED OUT!!!!!!! Hi Everyone. I'm really disappointed that I am not going to be able to attend the reunion. I really wanted to meet everyone again after all these years. I wish I could have been there but my job takes me away at the most undesirable times. I had to fly my boss back to the PGA golf tournament in Chaska, MN. He is really good friends with 2 of the players, Brian Gay who he sponsors and David Toms. He even makes me attend the tournament with him. I have a real tough job, but someone has to do it I guess. Anyone may contact me anytime to say hi. Thanks again Marv for all your hard work putting this reunion together and to all the others who has helped. We have a lot of great people in our class. Take care and I hope to see at least some of you in the near future. Terry Spinks

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