- 08/02/2010- Jane Canegaly Newman - Jane reported: "Just an update: we are not coming to the reunion because of baby due (youngest son and his wife) about that time.
What have I been doing lately? Learning to play the harp. Still playing piano and organ, and enjoy being a part of an English handbell choir and singing in choir in church. Finished PhD. in Natural Health several years ago. Find it very interesting: remedies should not replace medical intervention, but can certainly help to support and build up the immune system. Advise doing conventional medical treatment and adding natural health measures as well in most cases.
Husband and I have been traveling: Alaska, Galapagos, Costa Rica and all over Caribbean, Africa --would go there again in a minute. Tenting over a cliff over a river with hippos roaring in the river! Ngorongoro Crater, home to 30,000 mammals, thought to be the area where the garden of Eden was, site of Leakey findings.....absolutely fascinating. They checked under the vehicle we were in with mirrors on rods, to ascertain that there were no bombs, etc. when we got to Nairobi. The natives call Nairobi "Nairobbery" because the thievery rate is so high. We were advised there not to go out on our own. .
Husband has been helping to rebuild a Thomas Morse airplane in Ithaca (where the original was built). This is a biplane used in pursuit training in WWI.
Enough. Enjoyed reading the info from classmates posted on the website."
- 09/06/2013 -Jane Canegaly Newman -
Hi Gerry: I want to thank you for keeping people up to date on happenings in the class of 1952. Was it that long ago? Some happenings are not so happy, but need to be known. I was especially saddened to hear of the passing of Bob Oman. He was a good friend.
Does anyone who went to Eastondale Elementary School remember Sammy Elfman Ring? I don't know why I remember him, but he often got the rattan (remember that?) in first grade. I don't remember him beyond first grade.
Our oldest son had a stroke about a year ago. We spend a lot of time visiting him and helping his family. He has had a baclofen pump installed which emits medication gradually into his spine, relaxing his muscles and reducing spasticity. Making slow progress. His mind is still wonderful, for which we are very grateful.
Spend my time quilting, painting (watercolor), gardening, and singing in the choir in church. We also have traveled quite a bit, although I hate to leave our son for very long. Have been to Alaska, Galapagos, Africa, and recently to Grand Manan Island, where we got to hold a storm petrel chick. The storm petrel builds underground nests; on an island off from Grand Manan there were 10,000 nests.
I still have asthma, which I've had since I was two, and my husband has some COPD. Not fun.
Thank God for every day and rejoice in it. Jane (Canegaly) Newman
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In our "High School Memories" section, which was published by the Easton Historical Society,
Jane contributed the following:
Skating on the cranberry bog behind our house in the winter and
skating across the reservoir at Christmas time to chop down a cedar tree (we were too poor to buy
a tree).
Tobogganing in the snow- We lived at the top of a good sized hill, and we built a ski jump to go
over on a toboggan. That, plus the ledge of a cranberry bog to bump over (a good two feet or more,
if I remember correctly), caused the person on the back of the toboggan to get well jarred and
a few bones loosened each time down the hill.