Thursday, November 19, 2015
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East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Feelings hurt in high school
linger long after graduation
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I loved the letter from
but have no desire to relive those days.
“Ready for the Reunion” (July 31),
People need to realize that sometimes
who wondered why some people in
we move on and don’t need to revisit
her high school graduating class didn’t
the past. — Carol In Georgia
respond to the notice of the reunion.
Dear Abby: My high school expe-
Some of us would like to completely
rience was traumatic to the point that
forget high school and everything
it put me in therapy. People who look
associated with it.
forward to these things look back on
I missed my 10th, 20th, 30th and
their high school days with fondness.
Jeanne
40th year reunions. I did consider going Phillips I’m guessing that’s because they
to the last one, but then I started reading
weren’t picked on for being fat, not
Advice
my former classmates’ posts on the
coming from a rich family or being a
reunion website. It seems everyone is
minority.
retired, wealthy, has numerous grandchildren,
I would rather walk barefoot across broken
at least one retirement home in an exotic locale glass than spend another minute with my high
and spends their time relaxing and jetting school class. I ignore the invitations because
around (or so they say). I’m still working, not my mother taught me if I can’t say anything
wealthy, not particularly successful and have nice, I should say nothing at all. — Ray In
moved from my home state to the backwoods Scottsdale, Ariz.
of middle America. Basically, I have a boring
Dear Abby: Successful turnouts often
life, so I have nothing to brag about. I didn’t go. occur as a result of personal outreach from the
I’m still in contact with the important people committee. A personalized note, phone call or
in my life from high school and just don’t need other kind of targeted communication (“Dear
the aggravation of attending a reunion. — Susie, we’d love to see you again. Please
Staying Home
come.”) will make a difference to an alum. —
Dear Staying: Thank you for your input. Former Reunion Planner In Washington
I received a large number of responses to
Dear Abby: Of the 280 missing students,
that letter, many of which were emotionally for a quarter of them to be deceased would
charged:
be par for the course. “Ready” should create
Dear Abby: My class just had its 45th a Facebook Groups page for her high school
reunion. I live 20 miles away, but have never graduating class. Ours is very popular — 35
attended one and I never will.
percent of our former classmates are already
My best friend and I were bullied, insulted part of it. — Peter In Naples, Fla.
and excluded by our high school peers. After
Dear Abby: It is possible that many of
45 years, we are still close friends. Neither of the graduates never received the invitation.
us has any desire to see any of those people Email contact information, phone numbers
ever again.
and addresses change often. I didn’t receive
High school was a miserable experience for anything about my 10-year reunion, but a few
us, and we couldn’t wait to graduate and go off of my friends said they did. I can’t respond
to college. Why would we want to socialize to an invitation I didn’t receive. — Rod In
with them now? We forgave them long ago, Omaha
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 19, 1915
Having scored a big hit at the anti-saloon
league convention in Portland, Parsons
Motanic, prominent local Indian, and Rev.
J.M. Cornelison, missionary at Tutuilla,
arrived home this mooring from Portland.
They sang songs in Indian before the conven-
tion and were an attraction more popular
than the famous Hammer quartet. Motanic
also made several temperance talks before
the convention in his native language, Rev.
Cornelison interpreting, and was roundly
cheered. Motanic, when he made his speech
took the platform clad in a blanket and war
bonnet. “I wear these clothes,” he said, “to
show you I am on the warpath. I come to scalp
the Portland saloons.” He then told of his life,
of his transformation from a riotous-living
young Indian to a quiet Indian farmer, temper-
ance and church worker.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 19, 1965
A ceremony next week in Memorial
Hospital, Santa Rosa, Calif., will dedicate
a nursery in the children’s wing to a woman
doctor who was born and raised in Pendleton.
She is Dr. Pearl V. Konttas, pediatrician,
who recently retired from private practice in
Santa Rosa after 39 years there. Dr. Konttas
said her mother was responsible for her
early interest in medicine. “My father, Jacob
Konttas, studied medicine in Finland, where
both our parents were born. He was asked to
become associated with a doctor in Canada,
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But he felt he didn’t have enough training, so
he moved to Oregon and took up farming.”
Her father died when the doctor was very
small. There were no sons in the family, so the
mother encouraged her youngest daughter to
become a doctor.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 19, 1990
Donna Caldwell says she began to get
suspicious when her husband, parents and
boss showed up at the annual awards dinner at
the recent convention of the Oregon Associa-
tion for Alternatives in Education in Newport.
But she was still surprised when she was
named Alternative Education Administrator
of the Year. Now in her fourth year as director
of the Alternative Education Program in
Umatilla County, Caldwell supervises alterna-
tive schools in Pendleton and Hermiston. She
supervises two classroom teachers and 3½
aides. The two schools serve about 80 students
at any given time. About 150 junior and senior
high age students attend the two schools over
the course of a school year. “It’s nice to be
recognized by your peers,” Caldwell said.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 323rd day of
2015. There are 42 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 19, 1915, labor
activist Joe Hill was executed
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the murders of Salt Lake
City grocer John Morrison
and his son, Arling.
On this date:
In 1794, the United
States and Britain signed
Jay’s Treaty, which resolved
some issues left over from
the Revolutionary War.
In 1831, the 20th pres-
ident of the United States,
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Orange Township, Ohio.
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1863,
President
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a national cemetery at the site
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Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
In 1919, the Senate
rejected the Treaty of
Versailles by a vote of 55 in
favor, 39 against, short of the
two-thirds majority needed
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In 1924, movie producer
Thomas H. Ince died
after celebrating his 42nd
birthday aboard the yacht
of newspaper publisher
William Randolph Hearst.
(The exact circumstances
of Ince’s death remain a
mystery.)
In 1969, Apollo 12
astronauts Charles Conrad
and Alan Bean made the
second manned landing on
the moon.
In 1990, the pop duo
Milli Vanilli were stripped
of their Grammy Award
because other singers had
lent their voices to the “Girl
You Know It’s True” album.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Alan Young is 96.
Talk show host Larry King
is 82. Former General
Electric chief executive
Jack Welch is 80. Talk
show host Dick Cavett
is 79. Broadcasting and
sports mogul Ted Turner
is 77. Singer Pete Moore
(Smokey Robinson and the
Miracles) is 76. Former
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa,
is 76. Actor Dan Haggerty
is 74. Fashion designer
Calvin Klein is 73. Sports-
caster Ahmad Rashad is 66.
Actor Robert Beltran is 62.
Actress Kathleen Quinlan
is 61. Broadcast journalist
Ann Curry is 59. Rock
musician Matt Sorum (Guns
N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver)
is 55. Actress Meg Ryan is
54. Actress-director Jodie
Foster is 53.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE