Fw: [Oxford63] Reunion Photos

[Betsy Cadbury]

Hi, all!  Jane, thanks SO much for your terrific work!  The photos look wonderful.  I am blown away by the fact that I could take some very unprofessional snapshots on my dumbed-down Snappy-Easy idiot-proof camera, get them put on a CD at Wal-Mart, send them to you, and lo and behold - there they are for everyone to see, looking WAY better than anything I should be able to do with my limited skill.  We certainly are a stunning group of women!  
 
I think it`s "i before e except after a SOFT c"  - and in addition to "neither leisured foreigner seized the weird height", there was a page with several columns of additional exceptions which included weigh and heifer (WHY did I remember THAT?!).  I also remember the Lie-u-ten-ants.  And "duly, truly, argument, ninth and judgment".  And "this accommodation has two cots and two mattresses".  Good grief - we were only one class!  Just imagine the impact Miss Jarrell has had - a veritable one-woman bombshell in the world of spelling!  If I think of anything else, I`ll pass it along.  Happy autumn to all!  Love, Betsy

Anne Aschenbach <aaschenbach at comcast.net> wrote:
"LIE, U TEN ANTS !!!!!"
 
and something about "surfeits"??
 
----- Original Message ----- From: jwhitcomb 
To: oxford63 at cyber-community.com 
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Oxford63] Reunion Photos



Oh Jane- Those photos are great even on my sluggish old computer. Thank you so much.
 As for the spelling rules- I think it would be fun to try to put our heads together and see how many we can come up with as a class. I'll write the ones that come to my mind and if everyone else throws one or two in we might come out with a pretty good list.  
 1.  OK we all know the i before e except after c.  (remember- a friend to the end)
   Exceptions-- Neither leisure foreigner could seize the weird height. (or weight)
 2. When adding ed or ing  you double the last letter (consonant) only if the accent is on that last syllable and the vowel is short. i.e. parelleled, abetted, abated, visited.   
  That is enough for my brain for tonight. I think up more in my sleep. 
       Lots  of love to all--- Judy
From: "Jane M. Hill" <jhill at cybermesa.com>
Reply-To: oxford63 at cyber-community.com
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:07:57 -0600
To: oxford63 at cyber-community.com
Subject: [Oxford63] Reunion Photos


Dear Classmates,

Thanks for being patient with me. I just knew I needed a good block of time to put up the photographs, and I got that last weekend (Labor Day) and today. Thanks ever so much to Anne, Betsy and Lelly for contributing lots of images. We have a pretty good representation of events.

I did degrade the photos somewhat so that they would not take FOREVER to load. On the other hand, if you are on a dial-up connection, you might want to fix a cup of coffee or otherwise occupy yourself while they crawl to your computer. The link is:
 
       http://www.cybermesa.com/oxford63

What I enjoyed most about the reunion was that we could simply pick up where we left off - after all, we all know each other fairly well. 

Meanwhile, I have more aspirations for our digital future. I would like to password the Email List so that we could use it as a jumping off place to more personal information such as addresses and telephone numbers. As it stands, the site and the list are open to the Internet - though no one but us knows that they're there!

I would also like to add Barbara Jarrell's spelling rules to our Web site. That's something we could contribute to the world, and I'm sure BJ would approve. Is there a pack rat out there with a printed copy? Would K-O happen to have them?

Enjoy...


*** Jane ***

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1-505-988-9200 

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