ly: Hi Jim, It was good hearing from you earlier. Here is an update on the Storm family. Christmas was extra special for the Storm family. Ginny’ s birthday is Dec. 26 and it was her 80th. All of our children and grandchildren were together, all 17 of us, which includes Avery, the husband of Savannah our oldest granddaughter, and Bailey, the new wife of grandson Christian. We have seven grandchildren: Savannah, Christian, Emma, Ashley, Skip, Spencer, and Mary. All are productive citizens and Mary will graduate from Ole Miss next year. The Storm family has been very blessed with good health and prosperity. Life has been very good. I still love keeping up with power generation and energy and have been involved with Danny’ s seminars, short courses at USCB-OLLI, and was invited to the CEO summit last September at Liberty University. I also post my thoughts on energy and electricity generation on my blog.
In September 1959, Harry Park( as you may remember b / c you were there, too) held up a one pound chunk of coal and then went on to express the energywork in foot-pounds equivalence of 778 ft, pounds for each of the 12,000 BTUs. As I recall, he took the heaviest guy in the class and showed how at 100 % efficiency, the 12,000 BTUs could lift him into space. Boring stuff for most people but for me, I was hooked on energy from that point on in my life and career. Interestingly, it must have made it to my DNA because our three sons are all involved in energy and electricity generation. Our oldest son, Richard, is president of Innovative Combustion Technologies. Middle son Danny runs Storm Technologies and his son Christian makes him a third generation Storm Technologies employee. I am retired from Storm Technologies, but Danny lets me participate in his seminars a couple times through the year. Hopefully, I do not embarrass him as I am pretty rusty. The sections of the seminar he lets me teach are the fundamentals and those have not changed. Youngest son Stephen is employed as a program manager at the Electric Power Research Institute( EPRI). All have done well and all three are well respected in the power industry. Harry Park’ s inspiration of their then 16-year-old dad, then a naive teen, lives on. Today at Hilton Head we had a rare snowstorm. Usually, this is a location of very mild climate. For you and any of our classmates, if you are travelling this way, let us know in advance( email is best), Ginny and I would love to treat you to dinner at one of the many fine restaurants on the island. Warm regards and best wishes for a great 2025. Dick Storm( Jinx)
You can just feel Dick’ s enthusiasm as he speaks about his family.
Jack Amis checked in with me late last year. He has some struggles physically, but has a great attitude and is always good for a story. He lives within sight of the Williamson campus!
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Recently someone was talking about his visit to Alaska and seeing the Northern Lights. That brought a memory of my time at WTS. I was walking along Rt. 352 and stopped on the railroad bridge. The night sky was rippling and pulsating with the awesome colors of the Auroras Borealis. I have never forgotten that scene. It is God’ s handiwork!
I would love to hear from more of you fellows. Time is marching on and the opportunities to connect are shrinking. Let me know what I can share with our classmates. We would appreciate hearing from you. What are you doing with your time? Richard Perry is writing and publishing some wonderful poetry.
Blessings to you all, Jim Fox, C-21
W 65 Richard Dunlap 103 Old Field Dr. Bloomsburg, PA 17815 215-872-1111( cell) rdunlap6W5 @ verizon. net
Greetings classmates,
Hope you are all well and as healthy as possible for old guys in their 80s! I am writing this at the end of January, but you won’ t be reading it until sometime in the spring.
As you know, this year, 2025 is our 60th anniversary of our graduation from Williamson. Hopefully you received a letter from me / Williamson inviting you to join your classmates on campus, Alumni Day, April 25th. We will be the guests of the school at a luncheon in a private room in the new Wesley Student Center.
I know for a number of us we are having physical concerns and health issues and are not able to fly / travel anymore. I certainly understand, but I did want to make an attempt to gather our class for one last celebration. Again, I ask you to please respond, either way, so we may plan accordingly.
Here is some news on classmates that responded to my request for updates. Fred Espenship: Carol and I are doing well. Celebrating our 57-year anniversary in January. We’ ve been traveling extensively, as follows. Just returned from our 2-week Viking Cruise in Australia and New Zealand. We both got to pet a kangaroo, see wombats and a Tasmania devil, and cruise Sydney Bay past the well known Sydney Opera House. It was fun!
We are headed to our regular Arizona visit for 1-month in April and returning May 1. Going to squeeze in some turkey hunting before flying to North Carolina and South Carolina, visiting friends, ending with an American Cruise Line cruise from Charleston, S. C., to Amelia Island, Fla. Nothing planned for the rest of 2025, other than enjoying our home located in the Rocky Mountain foothills of Colorado. We are blessed!
John“ Rosie” Rosenberger: I’ m glad to
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hear from you. I really enjoy and never miss reading your classmate notes. It’ s a shame that of the 36 of us left that we can only contact 16 of the guys. Is there any talk about a 60th reunion?
Like everyone else, I made it to 80. I guess we’ re some of the lucky ones. My wife Kathy and I are doing fine. We retired 19 years ago and moved to Bon Ayre, a 55 + community in Smyrna, Del. We love it here and have many friends. I still mow my own lawn and shovel the snow. My battery powered lawn mower and snow blower make the job easier.
We are still line dancing; for 30 years now. The holidays were nice with the children and grandchildren coming for Christmas dinner. And I, of course, watched the Mummers Parade on New Year’ s Day. I never miss it. I use to play the banjo and marched with the Dick Crean String Band for 10 years in the Mummers Parade.
We have a nice club house and large heated swimming pool in the community. So, we can’ t wait for summer to return
. I get together with several of the guys in the community during football season to have a tailgate party at the clubhouse and watch the Eagles play.
My two daughters and my two grandchildren are doing fine. My grandson is 22 and has a good job in the computer industry. Don’ t ask me to explain it to you! My granddaughter is 17 and will graduate from high school next year. Well, I guess that’ s about it for now. John“ Rosie” Rosenberger, C-52, 6W5
Leroy“ Lee” Wolfe: Hi, Dick, Lee is still doing OK. They took him off insulin because his blood sugar is down. He’ s talking more. Just wish I could understand what he’ s trying to say. Hope you and Marsha are doing well. These older years are really not golden. Take care and God bless. Shirley Wolfe( You may remember that Lee is in the Spring Center City VA, dealing with advanced Alzheimer’ s Disease.)
Bob“ Hedge” Raybold: Hi, Dick. Doing fine. Just moving slow. Not much news except Lana and I are having our
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