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A belated Happy Birthday wish from Donnie Williams. May you have many more BD's and stay safe and healthy.

Happy birthday. I hope all is well with you and Hal. I prepared a video for you, but you must use YouTube or Vimeo. I chose Vimeo, which I never used before. The audio is from my multi-tracking audio studio. When I sing along with it and make a video, the voice is slightly out of sync. In other words, don't expect a Hollywood production. Liz is on the washboard. I play bass, guitar and dobro. The banjo track was borrowed from YouTube. So-ooooooo..... Have a wonderful day. You'll never be this young again. Forget the fact that 73 is not the age of a spring chicken. You and Hal celebrate.

Posted on: Sep 22, 2018 at 10:37 AM

The JHS all-class reunion takes place on the first Saturday in June each year and the next one will be on June 1, 2019 at our old JHS building from noon until 5 PM. Everyone invited to come, no charge, no reservation, donations collected at reunion. Visiting with other alumni and teachers, refreshments and a planned program in the auditorium at 2 PM. Program for 2019 will be the musical history of Jackson featuring a video produced by John Reitzammer, JHS class of 1963. Plan to come while the building is still being used as a school and available to us to meet and remember our good ole JHS days.

Here's wishing you a healthy and happy birthday. And may you have many more to come.
Cheers, Donnie Williams

I hope you have a wonderful day. Happy Birthday Joyce.

If anyone wishes to see a Cushman very much like Dickie's, I have added a photo to my photo gallery of a similar model with the same color scheme.

Dickie and I had a common interest in electronics, motorscooters and motorcycles. Tom Elam mentions the Cushman, which I knew really well. I helped Dickie do some major engine work, probably around 1962. Dickie was unusual, to say the least. He used to transmit a sound on his CB (yes, he was a ham and a CB operator) to aggravate people. He called it a Q-Bird and it chirped like a bird. I don't see an attachment symbol in this reply section, so I don't know that I can share what I believe to be a sound much like Dickie's Q-Bird. Another unusual thing Dickie did was purposely interfere with a neighbor's TV using some handheld device with an antenna on it. He would do this at night when he could see the TV through a living room window. Maybe I was as unusual as Dickie in my own way and that is why we were good friends until the last time I saw him at the 40th. It made me sad then to see signs of some mental changes. When he was hospitalized and I heard he did not want visitors, that was even sadder. Now I have mixed emotions. Sad - but relieved at his passing. I am going to try to find a way to share my imatation of Dickie's Q-Bird. ........Donnie 

Happy, happy birthday Judy!
Donnie Williams

In junior high, when others of us were trying to be basketball players, Robert was the best free throw shooter in the class without any help from Coach Bray.  What we needed was a "designated shooter" rule.

Thanks for serving. I did not know you were in Tampa. I am in Palm Bay Donnie

Reading Linda's comment about Tony, I wish that we could know our classmates as grown-up men and women.

Hey Don, You say "prepare and present the music" so I ask, Are You a musician?
Music has always been a major part of my life, whether listening or playing. I mostly play bluegrass, but listen to most everything. I was band leader, guitar player, lead and harmony vocalist and sound man in a bluegrass band for a while, but now I mostly jam at nursing homes and Alzheimer day cares. Jamming involves no stress. it is what it is!
Peace,
Donnie