Personalized children's books or a letter from Santa...these make GREAT gifts for the Grandkids! In addition to that, if you make a purchase from one of these links, It will help to benefit The DHS Class of 1967 website. These are affiliates of mine and I will get a small commission on any sales, which I will use to help fund this website.

I just have to share this story with you. This weekend, my wife and I were putting up our Christmas tree and it turned into a real adventure!

Here is what happened. First of all, the tree had been sitting on our patio for a few days so the branches would drop a little before we brought it in the house to set it up. Previously, I had strung up lights around our roof and in order to turn them on I had to unscrew the porch light to plug in the Christmas lights; therefore, our patio was dark! The night before, because it was so dark on the patio, my wife tripped and fell and she hit the stone patio pretty hard hurting her back and chest.

To help throw some light on our project Christine turned on her car headlights so we could see to get the tree into the house. Somehow we managed to carry the very heavy tree inside and set it up, but it kept tipping over because the trunk was crooked! Christine was having trouble lifting because of her injury from the fall so I tried to pick the tree up all by myself and I heard a terrible snapping sound and felt my rib crack! Now we were both out of commission and the tree was lying on the living room floor!

I’ve had broken ribs before and was not looking forward to that pain again! Fortunately, I don’t think I broke anything this time but I did some kind of damage and I am having a lot of trouble moving! This entire tree trauma took us about an hour and it was getting late, so we decided to go out and grab something to eat.

OOPS...we forgot to turn the headlights off and now the car battery is dead and I don’t have any jumper cables! Good thing we have two vehicles. We went out to eat and bought a pair of jumper cables and just left the tree lying on the floor. Eventually, our 16-year-old granddaughter stopped by for a visit and she helped us get the tree straightened out and all is well. Christine and I are moving kind of slowly from our bruises but we will survive! Who would have thought that just putting up the Christmas tree would turn into such an episode?

Christine and I want to wish each and everyone of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Blessed New Year!

I attended Morris Street School from grades 1-6 and then Millridge for grades 7-8, so this picture doesn't ring any bells with me. However, I received the following e-mail from Shiela Bartram Hislop. So if any of you went to Main Street School and remember Mrs. Edgett, send Sheila an e-mail.

I've attached a scanned picture from the Danbury News, and I'm wondering if anyone (other than me) remembers Mrs. Edgett. She taught Science when I was in Main St. School, before DHS.

Sheila
shislop@snet.net

Happy 104th Birthday

Mary Edgett celebrated her 104th birthday with members of the Mary Wooster chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Dabury. A lifelong resident of Danbury, Edgett is a retired school teacher and has been an active member of the DAR for 68 years. From left are Barbara Rosseland, regent; Basrbara Westby, treasurer; Barbara Pearson, second vice regent; Natalie Weise, vice regent; and, seated, Edgett, chaplain.

The previous article got me to thinking about some of the teachers I had in school and I thought it would be great to hear from everyone about who their favorite teacher was in High School and why.

This would also make a great addition to our website, so take a few minutes and send me an e-mail all about your favorite teacher.

My favorite High School teacher was Miss Buzaid. She was my Spanish teacher. The thing I liked most about her was that she was all about Spanish! We weren't allowed to speak English in class or even if we passed her in the hall we had to say "hola" not "hello". I must have learned something from her because I was in the Spanish Honor Club and I still can speak Spanish after all of these years!

Miss Buzaid really new how to make Spanish fun and I enjoyed her class. We went on a field trip once to New York City to visit the United Nations (again, no English allowed) it was an awesome trip!

Thanks Miss Buzaid for being such a GREAT teacher!