CHATHAM  HIGH  SCHOOL
Class  of  1963

 

May Birthdays

Dee Martin Montgomery, 5-1 (FB) Bob Tower, 5-13 (FB) Cindy Tamlyn Snow, 5-19
Lynn Reynolds Timko, 5-1 Jeff Morgan, 5-14 (FB) Lynn Maidlow Deverill, 5-20 (FB)
Marc Sanderson, 5-1 Rick Bezer, 5-15 (FB) Diane Nothum Smith, 5-21 (FB)
Tom Ruffle, 5-2 Suzy Garrigues, 5-15 Ed Hadley, 5-24
Stu French, 5-7 Al Klotz, 5-15 David Trench, 5-24 (FB)
Margie King Sanders, 5-12 (FB) George Marts, 5-15 (FB) Marsha Chapman Zwicker, 5-25
    Linda Van Wert, 5-28
(FB) = FaceBook    

The Reunion Committee will meet in Chatham to review possible venues for the 50th.  With luck and hard work, we hope to have the date and location of this special event.  We will also review a number of ideas for side events; some standard and staid, others wild and non-conventional.  Send your ideas to committee@chs63.net. We're getting closer!

A Note about Randy O'Brien from his wife Sharon

Hi All ...

This is Sharon ...I hacked into Randy's email so I could update those of you who I know care about him.  We arrived here at the
Mayo Clinic 4 weeks ago to begin our journey for Randy to be accepted for liver transplant.  Or better yet ..to see if he can survive such a big surgery.
Well ..two days after we arrived I had to take him to the ER cause he was in pretty bad shape.  It gets complicated, but the short version is,
the toxins in his body build & affects his brain with something called hepatic encephalopathy. He gets really confused & disoriented.  He's also lost 100 lbs.
so he's lost most of his muscle strength ..also the disease doesn't allow his liver to retain protein ..so he is in a wheelchair ..unable to walk. 
He also has something called ascites ..which is fluid collecting in his abdomen.  He's had to have it drained many times now.

Ok ..well they got him back to shape ..but the docs said he needed to be in a rehab to gain strength cause he's too weak for any surgery.
Soooooo ..we took him to one a couple of miles away from the hospital.  I am staying in the Marriott attached to Mayo ..so I pick him up daily to

go to his evaluation appointments.

Well ..five days later ..he was back in the ER.  This time he was comatose ..not responding to anything ..he ended up in ICU in critical condition &
remained that way for a few days.  His bowel was twisted & he had a really bad urinary tract infection ..and his belly had developed some kind

of air pockets which the doc said was really dangerous.

He stayed in ICU for 9 days ..but I'm happy to report ..so far he's doing OK!!  We need to go through many more tests before he is approved ..or not ..
for transplant ..but should know something by the 15th of May.

Some of you may already have this info ...but I don't think you all do ..so much is just a guess on my part!!  Anyway ..any questions ..you can email me shar@cfl.rr.com.

I will try to let you all know what the results are ...thanks for caring .........Sharon O'Brien

 

 

If you move or change email address or phones, you can click on the Update Info on the menu to the left or here.

Also, you can change data on the CHS Reunions site, which is being maintained by the School District of the Chathams (SDOC).
click here

 

Two new features on the side menu.  Check out Reunion '13 and Classmate Websites.  More to come on the latter.

Good news.  I've renewed the website hosting and domain
name for another 2 years.
So keep the news and photos coming!
The bad news.  I don't have enough new info to publish now.  Fortunately (or unfortunately), I've been so busy at work that I haven't really had time to work on the site.

  Also, I've redone the "missing email" page to make it easier to figure out.
If you can help find these folks, everyone would truly appreciate it.

  Do you have any archival photos. Contact me.  If I get them, I'll treat them with utmost care.  I'll scan, burn a CD and return the originals and CD to you promptly.

 I am always seeking new stuff.  Several classmates are looking through their photo albums and scrapbooks for old photos, newspaper articles, etc.  If you find some old photos, I always prefer digitized images, but I can accept photos and negatives.  I'll digitize them and return originals to you.  Click link to submit anything "newsy" or fun or poignant or to find out my snail-mail address.  LINK.  In the meantime, Enjoy.

Revised: May 11, 2012