Clark W. Schadle

Clark W. Schadle

Jim Dunlap

Great stuff.  Who drew the little pair of feet?  I have lots of old Irvin stuff but don't have any of this.  Good for you, Clark.

Jim Dunlap

Jim Dunlap

A clarification:  the response we need relates to SHOULD WE INCLUDE YOU IN THE ROOM BLOCK FOR RESERVATIONS??  Some of our local classmates might commute, rather than overnight.  What Bryson is trying to focus on is the number or rooms to plan for...given its importance in dealing with the Hotel.  Hope to see lots of you in person at the Mini!!

Victor Dutro

Hi everyone. I just received a notice that Lynnette Turner Hawke (Fusaro) was to have a Birthday. It is with a heavy heart I am sorry to say that as far as I know, Lynnette passed over on December 25, 2021. 

I didn't know how to enter her name into the In Memory section.

Ruona Bertaccini

DEAR ALL, ESPECIALLY KLAUS AND JIM, WE, TOO, HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED WITH THE CLASS CREATOR DEMANDS TO PURCHASE, BUT GIVEN UPCOMING PLANS FOR A REUNION, IT DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A GOOD TIME TO LET GO OF A "SECURE WEBSITE" OPTION.  I WOULD BE VERY WILLING TO CONTRIBUTE TO A FUND TO FINANCE THE PURCHASE.  I CAN SEND YOU A CHECK FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR OF THE TWO.

I ALSO HOPE TO ATTEND THE REUNION IN OCTOBER, SO INCLUDE ME FOR ONE ROOM AT THE MARRIOT.  I WILL BE INCLUDING YOUR PLANS AND INVITE  FOR THE REUNION ON OUR '65 WEBSITE.  THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO TO KEEP THIS GOING AND FOR YOUR GENEROUS INVITATION TO OUR CLASS.  WITH MUCH APPRECIATION, RUONA BERTACCINI

Klaus Hille

Greetings,

Dear Victor and Ruona, great to hear from you again. Thank you for the information you provided in your comments. Obviously we depend on notifications from schoolmates and family members of deceased classmates to enter them in the IN MEMORY page of our website. If anyone has access to an obituary or other information related to Lynnette's death, then please pass it on to me at kphille@aol.com. When a classmate or a guest listed on our website is enterd on the IN MEMORY page, then his or her profile is marked with a rose and no more birthdays are posted. (Although it probably would not be a bad thing to keep remembering everyone's birthday.) The point is that i need to be informed when one of our classmates passes on, so that I can make the appropriate entry on the IN MEMORY page and so that other classmates can add their comments and memories.

As to the Security Certificate for our class website, I would like to hear from everyone who is using the website what their Log In experience has been. Does a warning about this being an unsecure site actually show up on your computer or device? Does the warning come up every time you try to log on? In my case the warning came up only once. I advanced past it and it hasn't come up since then. So far it is business as usual when i log onto our site. The only difference I have noticed is the website address. It is the address for ClassCreator. This may make it difficult for anyone searching for irvin63.com to find us.

My proposal is that I will make a payment for the Security Certificate for two years. That will bring it in line with the subscription and the fee for the domain name. Before the two years are up we can decide how we want to proceed. I will also contact by seperate email those classmates who have offered to help pay for the certificate. If we split the cost into three or four parts, then it won't be too much for anyone.

Rocket On!

Klaus

Clark W. Schadle

Klaus, I will be standing by to send you money when you need it

Clark

Klaus Hille

My thanks to classmates Michael "Mike" Dickson, Harry Murphy and Clark Schadle for their donation to renew the website's secure domain certificate. The secure certificate will (hopefully) make it possible for us to continue to access our website without warnings of unsecure pages and redirects. 

Thanks also to Victor Dutro for making me aware of the passing of Lynnette Hawke. Please click on the In Memory link. Lynnette was a popular classmate and some of you might want to post a comment or a story to her page.

Klaus Hille

Isn't this great to see? I don't watch these award shows, but one of our daughters brought this to my attention, and I thought that it might be of interest to many of you. Hopefully a report like this will not only put the spotlight on EPISD and Irvin High School, but will also inspire and motivate students to dream big and make the most of their studies. 

Jerry Barrett

West Texas’ Castner Range designated a national monument

By Julián Aguilar

President Joe Biden declared a near 7,000-acre swath of land in West Texas a national monument, a move that was cheered by environmentalists and Democrats who said the designation will sustain wildlife and honor the cultural history of the area’s Native Americans.

Castner Range, a former training and testing site on the Ft. Bliss Army base, is a “place of incredible beauty,” Biden said during the official announcement at the Conservation in Action summit in Washington, D.C.

“The people of El Paso have fought to protect this for 50 years. Their work has finally paid off,” Biden said.

He also thanked U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, who helped spearhead the effort and who the president said hounded him for months to make the designation possible.

“I’ll hope you’ll still have reason to call me because you called me a lot on this one,” he joked.

Read more about the newly designated national monument

Dolores Wheless (Turner)

Hi Clark, I see my name on your page you posted.  We must have had a class together.  

Terry Duke

"In 1882, Dr. O. C. Irvin became the first superintendent of the El Paso City School District (the forerunner of today's El Paso Independent School District). One of his dreams was to have a good high school in El Paso. He served as president of the school board beginning in 1913. Dr. E. H. Irvin made El Paso High School a reality to help El Paso's overwhelming growth problems. Mr. C. M. Irvin was a member of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce and was the president of the school board from 1955 through April 8, 1958, when he retired. Mr. Cecil S. Bean was Irvin's first principal, and Mr. Boyd was the first assistant principal."

I remember Principal Bean very well. We all thought that "Cecil Bean" was a most unfortunate name.

Jerry Barrett

I think I remember you Terry. Were you on the debate team, and your partner was Charles Gass?

Jim Dunlap

Update to All.  The Mini is coming up soon,  Bryson is herding multiclass cats.  We hope to see many of our classmates attending.  FYI, Jimmie and I will be hosting a hospitality suite for our class to hang out and relax.  No way will this be for the 100+ plus attendees, but hopefully other classes will make their own arrangements.

Looking forward to knowing who will be attending.  For sure, check in with Bryson.

Richard W. Henderson

It's 10:30 and the thermometer reads 101 F !!! We aren't leaving the house for the next three days...Welcome to Las Vegas. 

Cannot make it to the reunion this time. We are doing a fund raiser art show for the Shriner's Childrens Hospitals on that date. As a Mason, I'm dedicated to that cause. Hope everyone has a great time.at the reunion.

If anyone is curious, pull up the July 4th debut of the Las Vegas Sphere. One of my friends says on a scale of 1 to 10. it is a 100. If you see it on the web, take it around for one more time and watch the traffic! On the "strip", two lanes just stop as one unit and everyone got out of their cars and watched. Talk about wild.

As for my drawing the "Las Vegas Zoo", I discovered that an unknown amount of the 32 drawings were from photos that had copy-rite applications.  Friends had sent the photos to me to draw, and even though I warned everyone about copy-rite laws to watch for, they sent them anyway. Most of the drawings took over 150 hours to do (some over 200 hours) and since they had been copy-rited (?) I could not sell, nor display those drawings. So I gave them all away to several friends that really wanted them, and will appreciate the drawings. Talk about a really hard heartbreaker !!!

God bless and be safe.

Jim Dunlap

Bummer about the copyright issue, for sure!!  Your art pieces are so beautiful.  Having seen your studio,I'm addtionally impressed.  We'll miss you in El Paso.  Seems like we will have a pretty good crowd.  I heard that the hotel front desk is giving out canes and wheelchairs upon check in!!  Just kidding.  Or am I??

Not to bother others, but when we are chatting one to one I'll tell you about my work trip to Liberia and the amazing (but ultimately futile) efforts of the former slaves that returned to Liberia to set up a USA replica, complete with a Masons feature.  I have some photos to share with you.

Great update.  Thanks.

Richard W. Henderson

HEAT...Having lived in El Paso in the 1950s while the earth was having the latest "CLIMATE CHANGE" of the time, the current "CLIMATE CHANGE" brings back memories. Memories if seeing ranchers cutting the thorns off of prickly pear cactus so their cattle could eat that for food. And having the water ulilities to ask that everyone only take one short shower a week to conserve water. And a bunch of other things to conserve water. And more than once I would lay under the swamp cooler vent (cheap house) in the hall to cool down.

This latest "CLIMATE CHANGE" seems to be a bit more serious. I firmly believe that all of the asphault that has been put down in the last 60 years, the new homes and buildings that now exist, and the farm land, forests and jungles that are no more have something to do with the current problem.

Some advice; living in southern Nevada, here are some tricks that I have learned. Always have a pair of cheap cloth gloves, a floppy hat, a "moving' blenket and some water in your car. Changing a tire can be much easier with those items. Take a camping cooler with you to the store. When you buy milk or meat or anything that needs refrigeration, it really sucks when you get home to find those things having spoiled by the time that you get home.

And go ahead and buy a spare serpentime belt for the mechanic to use, so the parts house doesn't have to "order" the new one for you, and you can do without your car for two to three days.

Just some odd thoughts... God bless and be safe.

Klaus Hille

Some of you might be interested in visiting the Trinity Testsite while in El Paso fo the reunion. The link below will give details. If you haven't seen the movie Oppenheimer, then I recommend that you watch it. It's not so much about the physics, but more about the political "games" of the time ... and are still being played today.

https://home.army.mil/wsmr/index.php/contact/public-affairs-office/trinity-site-open-house

Jim Dunlap

Let's put a marker in for this, Klaus.  As we get closer to October, folks will start thinking more carefully about how to spend our short time together.  That said, when it comes to "planning" I still haven't decided to do the mega-drive (per usual) or spend a night going and coming.

Jim

Klaus Hille

In case anyone wants to register for the upcoming reunion but can't locate the form in your email, here is a link to it. You might need to copy the link and paste it in your browser..Please try to register soon so that Bryson can get a more accurate count of attendees. Thanks.

https://1drv.ms/b/s!ApmADo6ZyU6zgZx5tLW1mhnYQK5lvg?e=HX6Asv

Jim Dunlap

Interesting link, Klaus.  That said, the website is essentially saying "don't bother" for Oct 21st.  For those interested in early-era physics leading to The Bomb, I just finished, "Fundamental: How Quantum and Particle Physics Explain Absolutely Everything," by Tim James.  Now reading "Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World," by Tobias Hurter.  Have started several times to read  Albert Einstein's "Relativity: the Special and the General Theory: a Clear Explanation that Anyone can Understand."  Each time, however, I gave up because after a few chapters I got lost.  In the Preface he writes, "The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examination, and, despite the shortness of the book, a fair amount of patience and force of will on the part of the reader."  I understand that if I'm moving on a train and someone else is next to the tracks, in the same time frame our movements will greatly vary.  That's about it.  Maybe I'll give it another try.  

Jimmie Byron Vaughn

Jim,

Try "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking.  He calls it the "best selling book never read" .  I've read it halfway three times.....still cannot envision the concepts beyond that point.  Oh well, so much for the high IQ...

Victor Dutro

This is the first post here for a very long time.

Some of you may remember me as the one that designed and built a parabolic reflector (satellite dish) as my physics project. I set it up in the hallway and demonstrated it. At the time, I used a microphone and amplifier at the focal point. We could hear everything going on in the hallway, even from the other side of the school.

About 35-37 years ago, I discovered that there is an Entity that controlled pain in my body. From that and years of research, I now know that this Entity, is within everyone and that it listens to every thought and every word spoken. It controls every function in the body. 

This Entity is more Intelligent than we humans. I now call it Body Intelligence. I use the capital letters to indicate something higher than our physical body, and a superior intelligence far beyond our current level of consciousness.

Two and a half years ago, it led me to discover a breakthrough in science. As it turns out this breakthrough is part of the inner workings of the communication system that this Body Intelligence uses within the cells, and from cell to cell as well as from system to system.

Why am I writing this now? 

I feel it is a moral obligation to share this information because this knowledge can save lives and cure diseases.

Drug companies make over a trillion dollars a year selling their drugs. They don't want people to be healthy or to get well. The government won't allow us to make any medical claims. We have to say a disclaimer every time we talk about a supplement that everyone's body needs and that this Body Intelligence wants us to supply to our body. 

We are at an age, when the body is in short supply of the molecules that the cells need to function correctly. and up to a few years ago, we had no option, but to cope with organ dysfunctions, aging, and a host of diseases and physical complications. 

I have had to silently watch my friends and family suffer from ailments and die when science has discovered that there is now a way to slow aging, reverse the deterioration of our organs and tissues and bring our health back to a more optimal function. 

OK, I have given the message. (Start listening to your Body Intelligence or learn how to communicate with it.) It is now on you to take responsibility for your own health, and that starts with getting educated. That Body Intelligence is your guide and teacher.