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Huntsville, AL - While writing this, I am in Huntsville to attend a book signing at Shaver's Bookstore and to enjoy the dance at the Elk's Lodge. I'll be stopping in Birmingham to visit my family there on the way back to Memphis.
While digging through some items I seemed to inherit from the last class reunion, I came upon the photo above. While it is probably not a flock of angles (I know for sure a couple of them don't qualify), I am not sure really what group is represented in this photo.If you click on the picture above, you will get a bigger version of it, so that you can better identify the people.Can someone identify the group and perhaps name the people in the group. Also, what was the occasion for having this photo made?Class year with emails please.These stamps were introduced to the United States by Emily Bissell in 1907. After World War II with the development of the antibiotic streptomycin TB became a curable disease, although it would be decades before it could be considered under control in developed countries. To reflect the expanding scope of the organization's goals, the name was changed to the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association in the late 1960s. The NTRDA became the American Lung Association in 1973, though the 1974 seals continue to show the NTRDA inscription on the sheet margin.Today the Christmas Seals benefit the American Lung Association and other lung related issues. Tuberculosis was declining, but recently has been on the rise. TB is still one of the most common major infectious diseases in the world.
This week I'd like to share with all of you a Christmas project done by my son-in-law, Greg, at his and Tiffany's home in Escondido, California. Greg is a techie-junkie and loves doing things like this and I think he did a great job this year. Merry Christmas to all of you.Web SitesI know many of you hate Christmas letters, and that is why I have decided to make this an optional viewing. If you would like to read my letter then you can click on the picture above. If you don't want to, then you don't have to click on it.
My apologies to any of you who expected to pick up one of my books at the dance at the Elk's Lodge Saturday night. Sue and I were starting to set up to sell the books and the guy who told Jerry Brewer it was okay for us to sell them came up and told us we couldn't sell books at the dance tonight because someone at the Elk's Club objected. We didn't stay, and took out "banned by the Elk's Club" books and left. We left plenty of copies at Shaver's Bookstore, The Coffee Tree, and Harrison Brother's Hardware Store if you still want a copy.