Claudia Kay

You are correct,  It appears jokes are still acceptable for people who are fat.   

Cathy Hurley

Claudia, I could not agree with you more. This has very little to do with weight. It has to do with the viciousness of bullying and the long-term damage it does. I'm sorry to say that I did not know Royce or Joyce at Paschal. I met Royce a few years ago on Facebook. She was one of the kindest, most generous people I've ever known. She had made an extremely productive life for herself and her family. She was a  good person. She told me something  that I found almost unbelievable. Her mother died while she was at Paschal, and she said that made the bullying even worse. I think we just have to admit that for whatever reason there are a lot of mean people in the world. I'm quite sure that bullying has been going on since the beginning of time. It even occurs in other species. Still, it is a timely topic, and I can think of very little that is more important than fighting bullying because of the damage it does to young people in the formative years of  their lives.

Carl Weisser

Rick I have to agree with Cathy Hurley about Claudia's concern on bullying overweight kids in school. When I was teaching 6th graders in Crown heights Brooklyn in the late 1990's it was still going strong. It is not passe. A few reality TV stars may be making money out of it but the vast majority are still too often shamed and hurt deeply. 

Randy McFarland

Heads up, everyone! I just got a long, weird message that appears to be from Carl Weisser, and it's clearly not, it's a scam. I don't know if anyone else got it, but I suspect some of you will - there's no particular reason I would be the only one. Either Carl's profile has been hacked or the entire website has been hacked.

Randy

Randy McFarland

Heads up, everyone! I just got a long, weird message that appears to be from Carl Weisser, and it's clearly not, it's a scam. I don't know if anyone else got it, but I suspect some of you will - there's no particular reason I would be the only one. Either Carl's profile has been hacked or the entire website has been hacked.

Randy

Here is the text of the message from "Carl"

1/12/24, 3:23 PM urgent Confidential
https://www.paschal68.net/member_messages_form.cfm?thread_id=18971558 1/1
Hello Randy, I apologize in advance for the length of this message and urge that you keep the information in
strict confidence and not share it with anyone except your closest trusted friends and not forward it to others
in detail or if at all of possible not at all, as it has the potential in the wrong hands put me in grave danger as
well as the other parties involved. For the last 4 years I have been sponsoring a graduate of the University of
Ghana off and on with some financial support during lean times and last year she managed to come to New
Jersey and stay with a friend of hers who lives near Atlantic City. 2 weeks ago, she was planning to come visit
me in Oklahoma and had her plane ticket and everything but decided to do a little sight seeing and shopping
along the boardwalk where all the casinos are. She is here on on a temporary visitor’s visa. She was walking
somewhere between one of the luggage storage places that is in an out of the way location (bad idea) and the
boardwalk, when she was abducted by a group of men who are members of a Mexican drug cartel. There
business is to kidnap vulnerable young women walking alone on or the boardwalk and hold them for $10,000
ransom. Well, I could not possibly pay 10,000 and certainly not anytime soon since almost all of my land got
sold in recent years to pay debts and I am barely scraping by selling on eBay and hoping to restart my
silhouette portrait business that came to a halt due to Covid. It is a long shot but here is my precarious
position: She is to be transferred by private jet to the Mexican Cartel Leader's location in Mexico this evening,
January 12. The local boss in Atlantic city whom I have had several conversations with has taken a liking to
her and has become very protective. Each of his guards is assigned to an individual girl to protect and not in
any way abuse, neglect or take advantage of any anyone who does is severely punished. It is all about the
money. Anyway, the boss, after repeatedly hearing me say I can't come up with any significant money in a
short time, and taking liking to her himself, has decided on his own as well as by bribing some of the guards,
to release her and have a couple of guards escort her to the international airport under the guise of searching
for her as a fugitive. The price for this was a much-reduced fee of 3000, and just a few hours ago he reduced
it to 2000. So I am calling texting emailing everyone I know asking for help. If I were on Facebook and had a
lot of likes which I am not and I don't, I would try a Go Fund Me. If I can find 20 people to contribute as a
loan 100, or 40 people 50, or a combination of that, it gets me to 2000. But any amount, no matter how
small, would help. I just got through pulling everything I could from local friends and far off friends to get
1500 just to keep her in New Jersey the last time the flight to Mexico was scheduled so am really tapped out.
They fly 10 girls to Mexico every 2 weeks whose parents have not paid the ransom. There they are used and
abused and passed around and more often than not then sold to an Arab company that sells body parts. I
thought she was lost until the local boss all of a sudden decided to make this offer. He knows once she gets to
Mexico he cannot protect her. So, I apologize for the short notice but I only got the word last night of the
offer and this morning I was subjected to a brief video live phone call for a few seconds showing the
execution of one of the girls and the beginning of chopping her up on a butcher table to dispose of her and
the phone camera panned around the room to show that my friend was there. So live video call this could not
be staged and pieced together real time with Photoshop. This is no scam. All the girls were made to watch the
gruesome task that lasted an hour and a half. She told me this after crying for 3 hours. This happened
because her parents tried to get the FBI to attempt a rescue instead of paying the ransom. ALL contributions
will be considered short term loans to be repaid in 3 to 4 weeks when I get a $4500 loan from MetLife on my
10,000 life insurance policy that already has a 6000 loan on it from years ago but still has a net cash value of
5600. The loan has already been approved I just need to send in the paper work by email. Anyone who can
use Zelle can send to my Chase account just using my phone number or email address (580-682-9075
carlweisser@yahoo.com) otherwise, I can't use Western Union although maybe someone else can send to me
to Oklahoma. I can pick it up at the local Dollar General Store. Or buy an Apple gift card and email a picture
of the inside with code exposed plus the sales receipt, or Apple card online through Amazon seems to be the
easiest, sent to my email. Sincerely yours, Carl Weisser

Debbie Turner (Monroe)

Our website has NOT been hacked!

David Bloxom

Kipp Baker

I would suggest Carl's identity here has been cracked. This does NOT sound like Carl. The lengthy back story is typical of these sorts of scams. Advise to delete the message and move on.

Felix Higgins

Cathy Hurley

Very sorry to hear about Jeff.

Kenneth Fine

Cathy Hurley

David Kubiak

David Kubiak's sister Shirley just posted on FaceBook that her brother, our dear friend and classmate, David Kubiak has passed away. I have no details. I do know that David had been a dialysis patient for many years and had  never been able to receive a kidney transplant. David was the sweetest, kindest person. I have been so fond of him since we met at South Fort Worth Elementary. We had not remained in touch. I kept up with him through his sister. If I receive any more details, I will let you know. My thoughts and prayers go out to David's family.

Gyrene Koonce (Kennedy)

Thanks for the news about David.  I remember him too from SFWE.  He used to live up the street from us before both his and our families moved away.  Prayers for his family!

Richard Alexander, III

Anyone out there have any clue or info about Lisa Dye?

Richard Seifert

Dear Classmates:

Hello from The Woodlands, Texas......just north of Houston .

Rick Seifert here.  Did you ever think you would live to be 75 ?  I know I did not. It never even occured to me. I thought I would be long gone.  

For most of us, life has taken roads we did not think we would travel. 

For me, flunking myself out of medical school with 1 month to go was a COLOSSAL PERSONAL MELTDOWN. My Mom never got over the fact that she was not going to have a "Doctor Son".  I was not diagnosed as BI-POLAR until years later.  But looking back to medical school....Yes.....I was battling some definite BI-POLAR tendencies which made my behavior erratic. 

However, as I grew older, I realized I had "TO OWN" my mental illness.  Instead of letting it control me, I needed to get help and therapy.  With the help of my wife I was able to "swallow my pride".  Getting therapy was one of the best things I ever did.  (Note: I met my wife, Suzanne, while I was a Senior Medical Student at Texas Medical Center in Houston.  Suzanne was a young cancer nurse working at MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER and I did a Senior Oncology Rotation through ANDERSON.  I met Suzanne and the rest is history !  3 kids and now 8 grandchildren !

Why am I writing this to you ?   Here is the reason:   If you have family members, friends or grandchildren who are struggling possibly with some type of mental illness, HELP IS AVAILABLE.  But we need to REACH OUT FOR HELP.  

I am now a Public Speaker on Mental Illness and the Help which is available.  

If I can assist any of you and/or any of your family members, I would love to do it.  I am not a licensed therapist !  So I will direct you to a good source of mental therapy.  

All the best,

Rick Seifert

Cell:  281-636-0520

Roger Pitts

Well Done...young man. .....Keep on Keepin' On 

Thanks for the Positivety 

Roger Pitts

Linda Wetmore (McAnarney)

Thank you for what you are doing!  I admire you for speaking out on behalf of any form of mental illness and saying it in such a way that all can take heart in knowing there is help available. Congratulations on your successful marriage and your family. 
 

Best Wishes!!

Linda (Wetmore) McAnarney

Claudia Kay

Always wondered what happened to you over the years.  

So glad you are taking your experiences with mental health to the rest of the world.  So many people need help but are afraid to do anything or do not know how to start looking.

Keep up the good work.  Maybe we will see you when we all start turning 80.

Take care of yourself

Van Green

Richard, thank you for sending your message about your life experience. I have found it interesting to read about our class members' lives and experiences and see all the different paths our class has taken. Your path has been difficult, which has resulted in a very positive outcome, one you should be proud of. Forbes recently released a review showing the state of Texas as the worst state in the nation in providing Mental Health services to its citizens. This makes your work all the more important, so thank you for your efforts and your service to fellow Texans.

Richard White

Richard,

We didn't know each other in school, but I want to say that it took some courage to post this.

Well done!

Richard Seifert

Dear Richard White, Van Green, Claudia Latimer Sullivan, Roger Pitts, David Browning, and I know I may be forgetting someone:

THANK YOU for your very kind and encouraging letters and messages,

Richard, I DO remember you.  Thank you so much for your note.  I was such an INTROVERT during my junior high and high school years.  I had a very limited circle of friends........Steve Helm, Gary Jahns, Jim Shaw, David Moore, David Moorman, Baker Peeples, Tommy Gist, Mike Archenhold.

And Rick Selcer and I were good friends during our McClean years. 

Steve Helm became a physician.  A Pediatric Allergist in Tuscooloosa, AL.  And I know GEROGE GREER became a psychiatrist.  Cathy Hurley became an Internal Medicine physician.  

Baker Peeples became a world famous Opera Singer in San Francisco....pretty sure about this. 

I was really saddened by the early passing of Mike Archenhold in Austin and Jim Shaw. Both wonderful people. 

I know I am forgetting classmates to mention. Please forgive me. 

Steve Helm and I attended the 40th REUNION.  It was a good experience.  Just too short a time to talk with everyone.  The first person i saw was RANDY MacFarland ! !  RANDY MAC ! !  He looked just the same as during his Paschal years ! ! 

All the best to each of you. 

In God's Grace,

Rick  (used to be RICHARD SEIFERT but I had the BIG NAME CHANGE when i went to college at BAYLOR !)

Richard White

Rick,

Our paths didn't cross much, Rick (that's what people call me, as well). I knew Steve from the swimming team. I had a class with George Greer -- chemistry with Lou Hudgins, I think (a very memorable teacher). Baker Peeples also, I believe (unless it was English). I found out decades later that David Moorman lived one block over from me.

On a side note, regarding Mr. Hudgins. I'll never forget what he said when, approaching mid-term finals, someone asked him what would be covered on the test. He said, "Everything I said or meant to say." He was a Marine in WWII, as was Bill Allen (the math teacher, not the coach).

Rick Selcer

To all the other Richards-Ricks out there:

I grew up as Ricky (my father was Richard or Dick). His friends use to rub the top of my blond, curly head and say, "Ricky, how are y ou?" I hated it. So sometime about the 6th grade at Tanglewood, I started going by "Rick," which is how I happened to arrive at PHS. I've never looked back, and all my father's friends are long gone. 

During our Paschal days, I knew the other 2 people on this string as "Richard" (Seifert and White). I knew Richard Seifert a long time before Paschal. What I remember most about him is he ran this highly profitable lawn service. I absolutely hated mowing the grass at the Selcer homestead, but I envied his business acumen and the money he made. I sorta kept up with Richard/Rick after he went off to college and was roommates with a longrime friend of mine, Mike Merrill. Mike used to talk about how Richard was "always studyng" when he (Mike) was going out partying almost every night. (Mike and I were the same way back in Ms. Bale's math class at Paschal.) Much to my irritation, he made it out of Ms. Bales' class with an "A" while I barely made it.

The only Rick/Ricky I knew at PHS was Ricky Kriesberg. I may have misspelled his last name. I liked Ricky a lot though I lost track of him after PHS. The only person I kept in touch with after PHS was Mike Merrill who died tragically years later. I still miss him. Mike was always up for a good time. While we were still at PHS, he dubbed us "Dr. Merrill" and "Dr. Selcer" saying we had to think positively. He proved prophetic. 

Thanks for the memories, Rick 1 and Rick 2.  

Richard Seifert

Dear Dr. Rick Selcer:

WOW !  Rick, thank you for that great letter.  Brings back a lot of good memories !

I remember staying at your home in Tanglewood on several nights.  

My Dad and Mom always hoped to live in Tanglewood.  They really liked Tanglewood. Later, Dad and Mom did get their DREAM HOME up on Hildring Dr. W. Solar-heated swimming pool and all the works.   Steve Helm and his family lived on Hildring Dr. W.  

And Elaine Cohen lived on Hildring Dr. E.   As did Sharon Morphis.  I can't believe I remember this. But I do. 

OH BOY !   Mike Merrill !  Mike was SO DARN SMART he hardly had to study.  He could "Hit the Books" a couple days before final exams and do very well.  YES, I did study ALL THE TIME because I PREMED was very difficult.  Of course, Mike was in PREDENT and he was taking most of the same classes.....but he had about 15 to 20 more IQ points than I did. 

God Bless, Mike !  He was a large consumer of alcoholic beverages. But he was so smart he could still make the grades.  Crazy stuff. 

Mike went to Dental School at Texas Medical Center in Houston and I went to Medical School at Texas Medical Center in Houston.  Mike was so smart (Have I mentioned this several times !) that he did very well in Dental School and he went on to be a specialist in Orthodontics.  Only the best dental students get selected to go into Orthodontics or Oral Surgery or Periodontics. 

Jerry Schwartz was there with Mike in Dental School.  And Jerry went on to specialize in Periodontics.

Rick, I am so proud of you that you went on to earn your Ph.D. 

Yes, SEIFERT LAWN SERVICE was the "Brain Storm" of my Dad, BOB SEIFERT.  Dad pushed really hard in the area of MAKING MONEY.  Dad grew up in the Depression.  Money and the ability to make money was everything to BOB SEIFERT.   My brother, Ken, and I were only the "INSTRUMENTS" of Dad's desire for money.  Ken and I were not given a choice.  Dad had us working at 13 (me) and Ken (11).  

Dad turned SEIFERT LAWN SERVICE into his retirement business.  SEIFERT LAWN SERVICE served Fort Worth for 46 years.  Crazy stuff !

Roger Pitts worked in the lawn service.  Ben Robinson, Steve Madsen. And others. 

And Dad had a bunch of TCU students working as Crew Chiefs.

OK.....that is enough from me. 

All the best to each of you,

Rick 

Richard White

Isn't this an interesting place. I made few lasting relationships at Paschal, though it was, for the most part, a happy time for me. Suzy Meek (Studdard) and Gary were friends at a time in my life when I needed friends. Early in this century I reconnected with Lucien Clark and Mike Mitchell. Mike will still talk to me. We were roomates in Pachl dorm at UTA the first half of the fall semester of '68. We both agree what what happens in Pachl stays in Pachl.

In 1973 I went to Disneyland with a shipmate. While standing in line for a ride I heard someone call my name out loud. I turned around and there was Nikki Thompson! We had had no classes together (unless my memory is failing me; a possibility one can never dismiss), and our paths really never crossed, but she recognized me and greeted me warmly. That was an unforgettable moment.

I also bumped into two other classmates who never shared classes with me, though I can't recall their names at this moment. One was on a sidewalk in NYC, and the other was in a parking lot in Dover, Delaware.

Unrelated to this forum, I encountered an actual shipmate while taking my granddaughter rollerskating two weeks ago. He saw my cover (the ball cap in my profile photo) and greeted me as another Navy veteran. When he asked where I had served it came out that we were on the same ship in 1972.

Walt Disney was right. It's a small world, after all.