If any of you have a web site you wish to share, please send it to me at joowen@ctesc.net .

T J Band Roles http://www.tjhs-news.com/Band_Roster.htm

Joan Domaschk sent us pictures and details of her recent trip. 2010 Trip to Antarctica.

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Betty Rosebaum Scott

Born in Port Arthur, TX on Sep. 7, 1937
Departed on Nov. 14, 2011 and resided in Nederland, TX.

Betty Rosenbaum Scott, 74, of Nederland, Texas passed away Monday, November 14, 2011 at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas.
Betty was born September 7, 1937 in Port Arthur, Texas to Seth and Maude Rosenbaum. She was a resident of Nederland for 39 years. Betty was a member of Port Arthur Department Club, Artisans Club, Groves-Port Arthur Order of Eastern Star Chapter #953, International Order of Rainbow for Girls, Port Arthur Coin Club, International Doll House Collectors Association, and member of several Stamp Collecting Associations.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Robert Rosenbaum. Survivors include her husband of 57 years, Joseph Scott of Nederland, TX; daughter, Dee Ann Scott of Port Neches, TX; grandson, Michael DeLay of Oklahoma City, OK.
Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, November 19, 2011 at Levingston Funeral Home in Groves with Reverend Byron Jarratt officiating. An Eastern Star service will be conducted by Chapter #953 at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park.
A visitation will be held on Friday evening from 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Friends wishing to make memorial contributions may send them to: Groves-Port Arthur Eastern Star Chapter #953, P.O. Box 512, Groves, TX 77619.

COMMENTS ON THE LIFE OF DEWITT REED, By Pat Bostick Reed, January 2010

Many of you may recall DEWITT REED as a fun loving guy with a contagious laugh and a fondness for playing the guitar, flying airplanes and driving cars as fast as he could with mufflers howling. Most of these qualities and interests endured throughout his life. He did, however, manage to tone down the mufflers.

His laughter endeared him to many. He was simply fun to be with. His music evolved from country and folk to classical and flamenco. Numerous party invitations included “and would you bring your guitar?” Of course, I got to tag along. As he settled a bit, he worked hard and accomplished much. To some extent he was driven by an insatiable curiosity and a broad range of interests. He wanted to know how things worked—the origin of the universe, the nature of spirit and the mechanics of solar energy. And he was known to explain his latest knowledge in baffling detail.

Most of all, Dewitt was a good human being who valued his family and PA friends throughout a life filled with fun and hard work. He was an enthusiastic life’s partner for me, one who led me to intriguing places and pursuits that some considered “out of character for Pat Bostick.” We had no children, but we enjoyed a rich life together.

We started dating during the summer of 1955, went to Lamar together for a year, then to UT-Austin. We married in 1958, and I taught “junior high school” while Dewitt finished his pharmacy degree. Early in 1961, we returned to PA where he worked as a pharmacist for Mulkey’s, and I taught at TJHS. It was during the next four years that we were bitten by the travel bug, starting with a trip to Monterrey, Mexico. When we started to realize how varied the world is, yet how similar people seem, we started to broaden our horizons and sample strange places and cultures. We went to Mexico City, then spent most of a summer in Spain where we toured, lived with a family, took Spanish lessons and Dewitt studied guitar. A longterm pattern was established that eventually took us to much of North America, residency in Europe and travels from Iceland to Asia.

In 1965 we returned to UT to graduate school, and by the end of the sixties, we each had a brand new PhD in hand. Dewitt’s was in pharmaceutical chemistry and mine in biological sciences. To some extent, the world became our oyster. Our first job site was Charlottesville VA, where we did post doc research at the University of Virginia and explored the eastern seaboard. Next, through luck and happenstance, we secured two research positions in biological chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and moved to Germany. We spent two years working some and playing a lot before we moved back to the USA and landed in Pocatello, Idaho. Dewitt taught med chem at Idaho State University, and I taught nutrition. We did outdoorsy things, bought our first house, built a second story on it and, by 1979, looked south to Arizona.

During our 20 years in Flagstaff, Dewitt had a number of interests. He taught pharmacology at Northern Arizona University and consulted for W.L. Gore on patency of arterial transplants. Decades ahead of his times, he designed and built a solar house in an alpine meadow at the base of the San Francisco Peaks, where night temperatures sometimes fell to 20 below zero. He kept us relatively comfortable in a good-sized house without a furnace and thermostat—just the sun and wood. He also realized one of the ambitions of his teens. He put together a country/western band. With beard and jeans, he was probably the only middle-aged PhD in the state playing bars, weddings and RV parks.

Dewitt’s interest in drug delivery devices (ways to get drugs—legal ones—into the body) led him to establish his own research laboratory. He focused on transdermal absorption, and in the mid 1980’s developed an effective “patch”. He eventually held the US patent for one of the first nicotine patches! He wasn’t able to commercialize his design because it was for timed release, thus more complicated and expensive to manufacture than the ones finally produced. Later, however, using similar materials, he developed (and patented) a small inhaler that held essential oils for introduction of their vapor directly into nasal airflow. The medicinal effect depends on which essential oil is breathed, but his device solved the problem of how the vapor is kept constantly available by the novel approach of wearing an inhaler directly on the nose. This patent he licensed to a company in New York, who has developed it for retail distribution.

Dewitt was his own man and secure enough in himself that he was comfortable being supportive of me. We were good partners. His moral support and gourmet cooking sustained me while I immersed myself in university administration, first at NAU mostly as academic VP and interim president. Then in the mid-1990’s he moved with me to North Carolina where I served as chancellor (president) of the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Tragically, the last year before my retirement in 1999, he was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer and given 18 months to live. Heartbroken, we moved back west. He managed to stretch his survival to seven and a half years, but the cancer finally overwhelmed him. Dewitt died in September of 2006 in Las Vegas where we lived at the time.

I moved back to northern Arizona and live in the small town of Sedona with my little dog. Returning to an interest of my youth, I am studying art and painting, mostly in oils. End

Around the World with Joan

It took me about 6 months to plan my trip. As you know, I do perimeters around the countries so I finally decided to do small countries. I started out from Melbourne, FL, where I live and fly to Rome to Malta where I biked Malta....about 67 miles. Then I flew to Turkey and I hated it. I flew to Cyprus and I wanted to bike the perimeter but it was impossible because of all the past fighting. One of my worst experiences was when I saw two Muslims tortured a cat...if only I was living the United States as I would have neutered the two men. Yes, I have learned self-defense. Next, it was Singapore and 9 police took my passport from me and I am very glad that I have a doctorate in psychology. It seems the police said I could not bike there and my bike would have to stay there. My bike is a Bike Friday and it fits into a case. Anyway, they returned my passport and I enjoyed a wonderful day in Singapore with the Art Museum, going to Mother Goddess worship, etc. My bike actually went around the world with me and ended up in our home.
To save money, I stayed in airports where it was very safe. Those airplanes are very expensive. Ha! My best place was in Hong Kong and loved the Art Museum, the ferry, and just walking alone cheap eating and juices. I finished with South Korea and stayed in the best airport in the world. They had crafts for foreigners in the airport and learned so much about South Korea. They taught me some art and I was a painting of a cat but the woman insisted it was a tiger. I now are paying for a frame for $80.
It was a 13 hours on the plane but the flight attendants were perfect...giving us much to eat/drink. A woman of the flight attendants has a friend who is going to learn to fly in Melbourne, FL. She asked about the heat here.

But I was so very glad to see my husband, the 7 cats, and my rowing machine (www.Concept2.com).
Now, I'll try to send you some photos. The first photo was from Malta, the second was Cyprus the Greeks size (I do hate Turkish part), Hong Kong.
That trip was the best of my life and can't wait to go to April. I do all the runners races locally and will do that the end of 10 years in 2010. That is quite a story, too. I love to run, row, bike, and lift weights.

Submitted by Nancy Watler

Published May 08, 2009 07:52 pm - Helen Marioneaux, Port Neches

Helen Marioneaux is the Port Neches Mother of the Year. She and her husband raised two granddaughters.
David Ball / The Port Arthur News

Mother of the Year, began raising children again as a grandmother. PN grandmother mother to grandaughters. DAVID BALL
The Port Arthur News

PORT NECHES — Helen Marioneaux, Port Neches Mother of the Year, began raising children again as a grandmother.

Marioneaux and her husband Melvin took in granddaughters Jennifer Grimes and Amy Keys in the early 1990s after their mother gave them up, according to Grimes.

“She is an outstanding person and I consider her my guardian angel for raising my sister and I,” Grimes said. “She has been the best mom that I could ever ask for and will always be the mother of the year in our eyes, to all six of her kids (Marioneux’s children and the two granddaughters) as she would say.”

Grimes detailed how her grandmother was hard of hearing, but never let that stop her from being the mom the girls needed.

“Even though she couldn’t hear, she always gave to the PTA, always gave more than most parents — money for fundraisers, for trips and for band uniforms,” she said. “She was always there to talk to and even though there was a huge generation gap, she always gave good advice. She always told us whenever we had doubts in life, ‘you can, you can, you can.’”

Marioneaux was also there for every twirling, band, choir event and football game.

During Grimes’ senior year at Port Neches-Groves High School, Marioneaux suffered aneurysms and a stroke. She was rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston and went into emergency surgery the next morning.

Prior to the surgery, the doctor told Marioneaux’ family she had a 2 percent chance to live and a 4 percent chance of recovery, if the surgery was successful.

“We were told she probably would be a vegetable. After the nine-hour surgery, my grandmother laid in the hospital for a few days and finally started coming around after 20 days in the intensive care unit. Soon after, she started three months of intensive physical therapy and then was allowed to come home under close supervision,” Grimes said.

This March, Marioneaux was given a clean bill of health when she went back to the doctor for a check-up.

‘Helen, your good to go and you never have to come back.’” the doctor who performed her brain surgery, said.

Grimes said she told her daughter, Marioneaux’ great-granddaughter, ‘Emery you can, you can, you can’ as the child was attempting to crawl. It reminded Grimes of her grandmother learning to walk again after therapy.

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Joan has informed me she completed 100,000 miles of perimeter riding on February 17, 2009

Carolyn Bigler Hebert here, TJ class of ’58 webmaster

http://graduatemuseum.com The website is in memory of Donna Worthington, class of ’56. The museum was her brain child. This website is under construction as is the museum under renovations from damages due to hurricane Ike. The reason for the website is because the museum is in need of help. Nancy McClain was in communication with me. She was so frustrated at the possibility of the museum being closed due to all the damages from the hurricane that I decided to purchase a domain name and build a website. She had cataract surgery and has not been able to get information to me with exception of a few Hussar and Colleen photos and the article Classes Past. However, I have managed to put up a few pages with information I found by doing searches. The one article helped me to know how and what to search for. I was living in Hawaii when the school merger took place and when the Graduate Museum otherwise known as the School Museum or Reunion Hall opened. You may go ahead and link to the website as the Red Hussar Alumni Association has or you may watch the progress and link when all the pages are linked.

You may want to check the Email Santa page in my personal website. Anybody can do it and the information doesn’t go anywhere but your printer. You input your answers and a reply is generated before your eyes. Then you print your reply from Santa. It’s neat. This is in MY website not somebody else’s website. http://moonlightflower.org.EmailSanta.html Try it, it’s fun. You can input your answers in any language. The reply will be in the language you input.

Thank you. Carolyn Bigler Hebert

http://moonlightflower.org

Joan Domaschk is pictured to the right and has an amazing

record of accomplishments. Joan Writes:

I hated Physical Education at JH High School because they made be play sports. The only time I have ever seen a volley ball, tennis ball, etc. was when it hit me. I am extremely dyslexia and impossibly left-handed. I solved the problem by boozing/using. However, in about 1970 when I was finishing my doctorate in education psychology, I found running and loved it. In 1976, I was the first woman to run the Grandfather's marathon (26.2 miles) in North Carolina. I ran 2 more marathons and was the first woman finisher. We won't talk about how slow I have become as a runner. Ha!
  In 1979, I bicycled the perimeter of Australia, 9500 miles. Triathlons (swim, bike, run) began for me in 1980 but I couldn't swim...Ha!  In 1991, I bicycled the perimeter of Australia the second time.
At this writing, I have completed in 205 triathlons, and have been 3rd woman overall two times surprising everyone and including the race directors. Ha! I just had 2 perfect triathlons!
My husband and I got married in 1992 at the end of a long triathlon (2.4 ) mile swim, 112 mile bike, and 26.2 mile run). Now, I wasn't very pretty and I couldn't get my wedding dress over one injured arm but I did throw the bouquet.
Then, I discovered indoor rowing (www.Concept2.com)later in 1992. On Sept. 6, 2007, I have now finished 11,000,000 meters of rowing. If only I could row 40,000,000 meters to get around the earth. Ha! I have rowed 30 hours, the only woman to do that. I hold rowing records in my age
group 60-69 and will turn 70 in November...more rowing records. But I love to bicycle perimeters. Please see www.pbaa.com. A bicycle perimeter is biking 50 miles or more around any geographical thing such as a country, state, county, city, etc. In order to train on the bike, my husband and I ride our tandem bicycle 56 miles around the perimeter of Palm Bay, FL now a total of 836 times. I don't like mountains as I don't like altitude sickness that I get when I am over 8500 feet or more.
My worst health problem is my horrific asthma whenever I am around smoke or cold. Lance Armstrong, the greatest bicyclist ever, says that all smokers should quit and I agree. I just can't be around smoke as it can kill me. That is one of the problems I did not go to our high school
reunion. Fortunately, I live in Florida where it is usually warm and noneof my friends smoke. I cannot associate it with my smoking families.
Traveling is my passion. I have bicycled solo around 23 different countries and had had many wonderful adventures. I have been power
lifting 26 years (my husband teaches at a university with a gym) and that is definitely the foundation of youth or so the research insists. I
recommend everyone to lift at least 2 times each week but don't tell me how to do it. Most gyms can tell anyone how to lift properly. I lift
high weights as heavy as I can and then the next time I lift light weights. By alternating, I am actually lifting heavier than I have I ever
done. You can see from my photo that I don't look a heavy weight boxer but just an ordinary "little old lady" without flab.
If you want to lose weight, just exercise. I love my rowing, running, and bicycling and don't have to worry about my gaining weight 5"2" 109
pounds. In November, I want to run a 1/2 marathon or 13.1 miles. I do many 5 k or 3.1 miles, 10 k or 6.2 miles local running races.
Women throughout the world have a virtual rowing team. I try to row about 45 miles per week and believe me that "eats away the pounds."
But I do other things like knitting, reading, writing, taking care of 7 homeless cats, donating to University of Florida, etc. (I tried to donate
to colleges in Texas but they didn't answer my email) etc. but I hate housework. Also, I dislike cooking but I am very glad that we have the
money to buy food. I have developed and sold a microwave bread recipe without any fat. Yes, we eat a good diet but I love chocolate.
After all these years, I have never been happier but remember I have always been very awkward, dyslexia, etc. But I have found what I       love to do that makes me happy and am a better person because of it. But you can do it, too. You're never to old to find the foundation          of youth! If I can do it, anyone can.
We live in Melbourne, FL, and really enjoy it. To save the environment our home is 1/2 mile from my husband's work and the gym, 1 mile from Wal Mart, 2 miles from the library, 3 miles from the mall, the post office, etc. I can bicycle every I go and do so. I do drive about 200 miles per year!
Again, do what makes you happy and if I can do it, anybody can.
Happiness,
Joan Domaschk Joesting-Mahoney, Ed.D.

From Dick and Gail Connell Coulbourn

Dear Kay,
Glad to hear some good news. Gail Connell Coulbourn, my wife, also married an Aggie who was in the Ross Volunteers. Namely, me. She and I helped Price Daniel get inaugurated in 1957, and I was in the honor guard for King Rex in the New Orleans Mardi Gras that same year. I didn't get to fly jets, but I did do some interesting work at the US Army Signal Research and Development Laboratories at Ft Monmouth, NJ. I worked under a bunch of Austrian, French, and American physicists, and got really inspired to be a physicist if and when I should grow up. Gail wanted to get a master's in English, and in 1960, A&M was not open to females. Sooo, we came down to tu, as we called it at A&M. I got a job and worked part time on my MS. Gail got her MA in English a lot quicker. Having majored in electrical engineering for my BS, I was handicapped in my efforts to get a higher degree in physics. So, I had to go back to electrical engineering for my MS. While going to school at UT I worked at the Applied Research Labs, part of UT. I had my A&M saber mounted over my desk most of the 38 years I worked there. It probably made me real popular with the t-sips.Gail taught English at Lanier High School for several years, then taught at Austin Community College several. We had three boys, two of whom are married to wonderful wives. We have a grandson and a granddaughter, also wonderful. Now for our bad news. Our oldest son died last year in a swimming accident. He was a good swimmer, but there was an electrical ground fault in the pool. It was a terrible loss, as he was really a fine young man. He was 43. But the Lord has been gracious to us.

Dixon (Dick) Coulbourn TJHS '54

The message below was received from Nancy Watler on June 16, 2007 to inform us her brother, Tommy Watler, has passed away.

It is with sadness and a heavy heart that I have to tell you Tommy passed away peacefully about 2pm today (Saturday). Burial will be in Port Arthur thru Clayton Thompson. He wasn't in pain and just died peacefully. I will miss him terribly.

The Announcement below is for the son of Jo Ann Albert Thompson

Michael James Webster 40 of Garrison and Nacogdoches, died Jun 1 2007 in Memphis.

Born Oct 10,1966 in Corpus Christi. Employed by Marathon Oil Company. Parents Jo Ann and John

Thompson of Garrison, Texas. Survived by one brother and a sister.

Patsy Parent and her husband, Ronald Sedtal, on April 28 celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They have 7 children, 11 grandchildren. Congratulations.

Oscar Ortiz

Thanks to Nancy Watler for the story below:

Published March 21, 2007 08:41 pm - When Quota International of Southeast Texas began searching last summer for a person of the year to honor, they looked no further than the mayor of the city — Oscar Ortiz.

Quota chooses mayor as 2006 person of the year
Mary Meaux
The Port Arthur News

PORT ARTHUR —

When Quota International of Southeast Texas began searching last summer for a person of the year to honor, they looked no further than the mayor of the city — Oscar Ortiz.

“It was an easy decision,” Club Member Nancy Currie said.

“First and foremost, the hurricane was still in our minds and everyone was still recovering at that time. We knew how hard Oscar worked after the storm. His business was destroyed and he had lost his home in a fire.”

Ortiz will be honored by the club at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Holiday Inn Park Central. Currie said the event is already sold out.

“I’m flabbergasted. It’s just beyond me,” Ortiz said of receiving the award. “I am deeply honored and moved they would pick me. For the first time in my life, I’m speechless.”

The mayor was shocked when group representatives visited him months ago to inform him of the award.

“I asked them if they were sure,” he said.

Ortiz follows the previous person of the year, Sam Monroe of Lamar State College-Port Arthur.

A Port Arthur native, Ortiz is the youngest of eight children and grew up on the west side of town during the depression era. His father and older brothers would leave the family to work in cotton fields while his mother did ironing and cleaned houses to help support the family.

He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1955 and worked as a laborer at the Port of Port Arthur before joining the U.S. Air Force. While in the military he was a radar specialist and served in Korea.

Ortiz and wife Carol have three children and four grandchildren. He entered the business world in 1982 when he opened Gingiss Formal Wear at Central Mall. He and his wife now own and operate Tuxedo Junction.

Ortiz was unavailable for comment on Wednesday.

Quota International links people of all ages, occupations, and nationalities in a worldwide network of service and friendship.

Founded in 1919 as the first international women's service organization, Quota's membership today includes men as well as women in clubs in North America, South America, the South Pacific, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

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From Joan Domaschk to our Class. December 9, 2006

I would like to share my experience with the Parade of Lights in Melbourne, Florida on December 9. For years, I have been part of the local Patriots of Peace. Our leader, used her creativity and her husband's electrical knowledge to make a lighted float with the earth's globe and a peace dove. We were encouraged to wear white. Others brought peace signs and a defeated congressman walked with his very friendly wife and dog. Two children rode scooters lit with Christmas lights. After all this War caused depression, I felt good waving my peace sign and walking with friends waving to an enthusiastic crowd. The world, for just about an hour, seemed to be a more peaceful place.

But then walking home in the clear Florida night, I remembered that it was time for the space shuttle to " fly " so I stopped to watch it light up the night sky above many local Christmas lights. And I felt good about this although at times I think NASA is a waste of tax payers money, but it wasn't on Saturday night December 9..

Peace on Earth, Goodwill To All People !

Joan Domaschk Mahoney, Ed.D.

Below, picture and text by Owen Meredith.