OUR classmate MEG HULSEY MAILO is in the HOSPITAL and waiting for surgery as a result of an
accident that happened this month on November 3 at her home in western
Colorado. In a 11/3/22 Facebook post, Meg’s daughter Toni wrote:
“I don't usually ask for anything from people, but today I need my light workers. My mom
lit a cigarette this morning while wearing her oxygen and she has been burned. We
don't know how badly yet. She is being worked on now. Today is also her birthday.
Please send all the love, prayers and so much healing energy!”
Toni noted that her mother has “full thickness burns from shoulder to butt” and is in the
hospital’s burn unit that specializes in treating people suffering from burn accidents. Toni
added, “I will keep updating this post [on Facebook] because I don’t have any phone
numbers for any of the family.”
Our classmate Gillie Walker had her own Facebook post with the headline in all capital
letters — CALL FOR INTENTIONS OF HEALING AND LOVE!! Referring to Meg, Gillie
wrote: “She needs our prayers, intentions, love and healing light. Whatever it is you do,
do it now and do it frequently. Hugs to all !!”
Many thanks to our classmate and our class-website manager Paul Snell for notifying
me about this sad news of Meg’s accident. Please join me in keeping Meg in prayers.
Please see our class website for additional updates on Meg’s condition.
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FEEDBACK from READERS includes the below-listed entries that were submitted in
response to information contained in previous updates.
Donnie, I love the history of Southern Colorado! I have lived in Pueblo since 1970 and
love the ethnicity of living and teaching here! Thanks for sending the story [August 2022
newsletter with the article about southern Colorado history].
— Starr Coakley Miller, Class of 1966
Very interesting family history!! [August 2022 newsletter with the article about southern
Colorado history].
— Linda Nolin Weber, Class of 1966
Donnie, thanks for the history article. [August 2022 newsletter with the article about
southern Colorado history].
— Maryellen Brada Manuszak, Class of 1966
FEEDBACK from READERS (continued)
Thanks for sharing this story [August 2022 newsletter with the article about southern
Colorado history]. Quite interesting family history, for sure.
— Sheryl Salmon Pyle, Class of 1965
Thank you Donnie for your decision to keep the WHS news forum for our classmates to
enjoy free from what can become an ugly debate over political beliefs. Your decision
serves us all and keeps us focused on the goodwill generated by your thoughtful and
informative newsletters. We have never taken the train you described in your
article [August 2022 newsletter], but we’ll put it on our bucket list. It sounds amazing.
The landscape of Colorado Springs has changed in ways that we could hardly imagine.
And not in a good way. The area around Conejos Street has now become a trendy
neighborhood, especially on Vallejo Street which now boasts Stucco homes that sell for
$600,00 to $700,000. And my first family home on West Boulder Place that we bought
for $13,000 is listed on Zillow at $359,000! Crazy.
— Barbara Garrison, Class of 1966
[Note from Donnie: Barbara’s reference to
Conejos Street was an area described in the
article in the August 2022 newsletter about
my family history, which included a big
migration of my and other Mexican American
families to Colorado Springs in the 1940s.
In addition to my family residing in the
Conejos neighborhood, the family of our twin
classmates Stella and Della Romero also
resided there. When Stella and Della lived in
the Conejos area, Barbara used to walk to
and from grade school with them when she
(Barbara) lived close to the Conejos area
before the Romero and Garrison families
moved to the newly-founded town of Security
in the mid-1950s.]
Thank you for the updates, Don and Paul, and anyone else that helps. Prayers to Marie
and hope she is doing better. Watch out for the omens!! My love to classmates of 1966.
— Rhonda Richards Shamburger, Class of 1966
[Note from Donnie: Her reference to Marie is the article in the June 2022 newsletter
about health issues facing our classmate Marie “Mimi.” Rhonda’s reference to “omens”
is a different article in the June 2022 newsletter about May fires in Colorado Springs.]
FEEDBACK from READERS (continued)
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Donnie, I would refer to "him" as your mother's husband, not your stepdad. Even though
you took on his surname, he wasn't really a father in any sense of the word.
— Cheryl Minehart Belt, Class of 1966
R&B SINGER BARBARA GEORGE
had only one song, which in 1961 reached No. 1
on the U.S. R&B chart and No. 3 on the Billboard chart when she was only 19 years old.
Written by Ms. George and titled “I Know” with an upbeat melody, the song was
performed in later years by Fats Domino, Ike & Tina Turner, Cher, Anne Murray and
Bonnie Raitt. The melody of Ms. George’s song “I Know” was borrowed by the famous
1960s R&B group Shirelles on their 1963 hit “Everybody Loves a Lover” — a song that
was originally a hit by Doris Day five years earlier in 1958.
Ms. George’s second song came out in 1963, but it did not even reach the Top 40 on
the R&B and Billboard charts. After battling drug and alcohol problems, she resurfaced
in 1967 with a third song that flopped and she fully retired from music to focus on raising
her three sons. A born-again Christian who restricted her musical talent to the church
choir, she revived her aforementioned 1961 hit song “I Know” and performed it at the
2001 funeral of her longtime singer friend Ernie K-Doe whose 1961 R&B song “Mother
In Law” reached No. 1 on the U.S. R&B and Billboard charts. Ms. George began writing
her autobiography in the mid-1990s, but the book remained unfinished by the time she
died in 2006 after battling Hepatitis C for more than ten years.
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TO VISIT OUR CLASS WEBSITE that was assembled and has been maintained since
April 2009 by our Class Committee member and Webmaster, Paul Snell, please go to:
www.1966whs.com
That’s all, folks. [Those are the same three words that the famous 1950s cartoon character
Porky Pig always used upon ending each episode.]
Respectfully submitted,
Donnie Martínez (November 4, 2022)
Security — grade school thru graduation 1966
Known in Security by stepdad’s surname Collier
Martínez is my birth certificate and legal surname
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