Enid High Class of 58

Hi folks,
Jenifer Reynolds and her husband Chris Cook (Discover Oklahoma) just finished a short video of H that they have uploaded on to Youtube. The link is attached if you'd like to see it.

Thanks
Edna Mae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1gw_osMwMs

HI!
Hope things are well with you guys.
I put H's video on Youtube overnight last night. There have already
been 4 views! Any way you can send the above link to people to have
them watch it if you want or you can embed it into your website. It's
really easy to do. (or so I'm told) There is a link on the right side
of the video that says embed video. All you do is copy that link and
then paste it on your website where ever you want the video to be. A
lady who does this all the time told me that's how it works. If you
need help don't hesitate to call.

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Jerry Driskell bio:

If I can remember back 50 years to those ‘school days’, it seems to me that the guidelines for an autobiography are to focus on three major things: who you are in life, what life means to you and what your outlook for the future is. OK! With that said, I admit I was never very good at writing when I was in school, so there is no reason to think I’ll be any better writing this, but here goes. What a “bummer”. Two very important events occurring on almost the same dates. We will be on a mission trip from April27th to May 3rd to KY, so I will be unable to attend the “50th.” I will have to resort to “yuk” writing instead of “trading stories” with some of the old gang. Maybe we will have a “55th”?

I was born and raised in Enid, attended Garfield, Longfellow and of course EHS. Coming from a “country family” I was always more interested in hunting and fishing than in school, or even school sports; although I did try out for the swim team and the baseball team. Those didn’t quench my desire for the “great outdoors”, so it was back to hunting and fishing. I did manage to “drag” the Tastee Freeze a few times with friends that had “wheels”. So it’s interesting that I ended up with mostly “inside jobs” Banking was my second longest work commitment (my 47 year marriage to my wife Jane is my longest commitment); but before banking was Champlin Oil and the Air Force. All of my (25) years of banking were spent in Florida. The (25) is significant because when I decided to retire in ’94, I was told at my retirement party that I was too young (55) to retire and that I would be bored and would “be back within 3 months”. My response was that when I went to work in the bank, I promised to give it (25) years and if I like it I would make it a career and if not, I was going to quit.

Twelve of the fourteen years of “life after banking” were spent mostly doing what I’ve always loved to do; enjoy the beauty and wonder of God’s creation; the great outdoors. What better place for that enjoyment than living in Blairsville, GA., with my wife Jane and our youngest son, Mike living here also only 5 miles away. So many families are not separated by days of travel and it is wonderful to have both sons living close to us. Our oldest, Time lives in Orlando with his wife, Kim and their two precious grandchildren, Dustin and Kaitlyn. We are able to see them two or three times a year and last year all three families (us, our kids and Kim’s parents) too their RV’s and went camping in DC. It was great. We had taken our boys to DC when they were nine and twelve and last summer the grandkids were eight and eleven.

Living only 100 miles north of Atlanta in a little town in the middle of the 750,000 Chattahoochee National Forest; a hiker’s, hunter’s and fisherman’s paradise, it is the perfect “attraction” for family reunions. With ten wildernesses, 1,3567 miles if trout streams and 430 miles of local trails and the famous 2,135 mile Appalachian Trail beginning here, there is no limit to the outdoor activities for our “kids” and grandkids. From Brasstown Bald, Georgia’s highest peak, down to the Chattooga River, a whitewater river that offers some of the most challenging rapids in the Southeast, it is like living year ‘round vacation. Two miles northwest of Blairsville is the 4,180 acre Nottely Lake; a “bass and stripper” fisherman’s dream. On the East, South and West, Blairsville is surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains where you can hike to any one of the dozens of waterfalls with exotic names like Panther Creek Falls and Horse trough Falls. Vogel State Park (one of the oldest in GA) is six miles south of Blairsville; where our grandkids insist that we go camping every time they come to visit. We live on the east side of a ridge called “Guffey Valley”, where we have a great view of Blairsville, since we are about 500’ above the town. From the dining room window we watch the array of song birds coming and going form our feeders; everything from Black-capped Chickadees, Tufted Titmouse and Red-breasted Nuthatch to Carolina Wrens, Eastern Bluebirds, Pine Warblers and Downey Woodpeckers; the grandkids know them all. If we rise “really” early, just at the first light of day we might see a deer, turkey, bobcat, fox or a family of raccoons. Every time the grandkids visit there is one animal they always hope to see? A black bear! We’ve never seen the one that investigates our property about once a year; at night. He chewed up a trashcan one time and that ‘thrilled’ them to no end; so they are always sure that “this visit” will be when they see him.

My wife Jane finally retired from the insurance business in ’05. She was an insurance agent for 27 years and was an agent with the local State Farm office for her final 12 years. So while she worked and I played, I had some spare time; too much to just hunt, hike and fish so it was ‘back to work’ part time. I started the first Property Management Service in Union County. Never had any employees but used “contract labor” to manage the properties, it wasn’t like a ‘real job’. I managed 21 properties at the high point and now 8 for the low point. For the last several years as a property would sell, I just did not replace it with a new property. I always had some permanent renters but mostly vacation renters since as you can imagine Union County has always been a popular spot for vacationers. But even while ‘working’ those twelve years, I always managed to get in a little fishing or hunting.

What does life mean to me and what is my outlook for the future? As a Christian, I have several visions of the future and my number one vision right now is to focus on obedience to my Lord and Savior. Remember I mentioned twelve of the past fourteen years were spent in pursuit of my desire to enjoy the great outdoors? Well, the last two plus years have been spent in pursuit of serving my Savior, Jesus Christ. What a two years it has been. Starting with God’s call to go to MS three weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and minister to those that has lost almost everything; everything but their faith in God. God gave us the opportunity to work in the very beginning of the clean up operation. Then God called us to serve at a mission in KY in the heart of the coalmine country called Red Bird Mission; the largest Methodist Mission in the US. Both missions involve stories that would take pages and pages to describe; so I will save that for another time. Five trips to Vancleave, MS and five trips to Red Bird Mission in KY. The first trip to MS was just Jane and I. With each trip thereafter, God touched more hearts and members of our church wanted to go; four, then six, until the last trip in ’07 we took a work team of ten with us to MS. It has been almost the same scenario for Red Bird Mission. God has touched hearts and more church members (not just the ones that went to MS) wanted to go spread the Word and serve Him; four then six, then eight and our next trip the 27th of this month will be with a work team of thirteen. Our God of Grace and Love has blessed our family beyond my ability of understanding and now He has blessed us with the opportunity to truly be disciples; and to be in fellowship with literally hundreds of other disciples while working with our hands and spreading the Good News to those that do not yet know Jesus Christ. Or, in some cases to bring those that have “strayed” back to Him. God has a way of calling the ones that “we” least expect, to His service. It is to His Glory that the ”less than faithful” seem to be the ones that He delights in changing; and that truly described me.

In closing I will share some words with you from Patrick Morley. “If the Bible is clear on anything, it is clear on the subject of our top priority. One day an expert in the law of God tested Christ with a question; “Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied by quoting from the scroll we know as the book of Deuteronomy. He said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength” (Matthew 22:36-37). If we penetrate the full scope of this great commandment, if we absorb the weightiness of its importance, if we saturate our minds with the Word of God, and if we devote every ounce of our strength to loving God, then our lives will take on a new dimension and softness will begin to appear. “He will quiet you with his love (Zephaniah 3:17). Our relationships will begin to thaw out. The beginning of the day will bring excitement, not dread. We will hear the birds singing again, like we did when we were younger. And in the smells and sounds we will be warmed by the presence of God, and we will be cooled from the heart of our anguish by the breeze of the Holy Spirit against our soul. This is the essence of our being. Of course, we are not going to sit around all day and merely think loving thoughts. Rather we are going to set our hands to the task God has given or will give us, at the same time remembering that our most important work is to love Him. Whatever task He gives us provides an opportunity to demonstrate our love and gratitude for Him in a tangible way. To know God is to love Him. A man who understands how deeply God longs for a personal relationship with him will be overwhelmed by how God took the initiative in his life. God wrote the (greatest) love note ever written; “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). May God continue to shower each and every one of you with His Grace. Always in Christ. Jerry 5-2-08

Hi!
I saw the web site for the Enid HS Class of 1958 missing list and thought I’d see what I could find. I’ve been tracking missing classmates for my own Ohio high school for years and recently started tracking other high schools with web sites looking for missing classmates in preparation for special upcoming reunions. I’m retired and enjoy working on my computer. I used 1940 (plus or minus 1-2 years) for the average year of birth your class and Oklahoma as the home base, if needed. Anything below in parentheses is what I found for each listed name and can be used to verify or eliminate names using middle names/initials and DOB’s found in old school records or yearbooks if available. I can’t guarantee any or all listed below are correct or current but they are worth checking. Much success for your 50th this year!

Pat (now living in Tennessee).

P.S. I didn’t notice that your 50th had already taken place in April (call it a senior moment) until I went back to your web site to get the e-mail address to send the following – maybe it will help for future reunions.

(She had some info after names so if anyone is interested in checking into anyone here let me know and I will send you what she found)

Betty Lavickey Chodrick
(Vaughn) Stanley Hyden
Esther Dyer Shannon –
Benny Rex Fiely –
James Tadlock –
Wilma (J) Collier Rayner
JoEllen Brummett – can’t find under this name; probably married
Patricia Galusha – can’t find under this name; probably married
John L Goddard –
Ronald (Ray) Hicks
Everett (Byron) Johnson
Clifton Lister – nothing under this name
Stephen Charles Ladd
Janet Nelson McKee –
Phyllis Oliver Kitchen –
Deloris (K) Rouse Taylor
Nita Gayle Stewart – can’t find under this name; probably married
Mary Ann Barnes Rebouche
Patsy Lee Riley Rathjen
Jerry Michael Robinson – nothing under this name
Teddy Leroy Summers
Glen D Wichert

This was so nice of her I wanted everyone to know about it.

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IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR ADDRESS, INFO OR PHONE LISTED PLEASE TELL ME.

I said I was thinking about retiring. Well, I did. New e-mail address is
(if you are a classmate, email me and I will give you her new email address) .
Thanks - Linda Roten

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Paul W. Brune, P.E.
(any classmate that wants Paul's address or phone - email me and I will send it)
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we have an address for Tim Jackson

Mary Jeanette Carlberg is moving back to Enid the end of this month. If you want her address I will be glad to pass it on.

we have an address for Raymond Dunbar if anyone would like to have it.

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The committee met tonight and decided to run the website through Dec 08.
If you have a new address or something interesting you want everyone to
know about just let me know and I will add it to the website. You can check
in every once in awhile and see what I have added.

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