This came through. Don't know why the earlier one didn't. Maybe I'll re-send it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Grice" <donald_grice@comcast.net> To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:20 AM Subject: [PTREE] TEST > Hey, just wondering if there's a problem on the list. Not receiving > anything on my end. I sent something earlier, about an hour ago, and > haven't even seen it yet. > > Don > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hey, just wondering if there's a problem on the list. Not receiving anything on my end. I sent something earlier, about an hour ago, and haven't even seen it yet. Don

Just wondering if the line between California and Mississippi has been cut? I haven't seen anything on here for a couple of days. How about a recipe? This girl at work brought a squash casserole to a potluck recently and I got the recipe. I tried it yesterday but I liked hers better. Still good though. SQUASH CASSEROLE 6 cups summer, crookneck or zucchini squash sliced, unpeeled 1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 cup grated carrots 1 pint sour cream 1 can soup (Cream of chicken, mushroom , celery........whatever 1 cube margarine or butter 1 package stovetop dressing mix (I used cornbread stove top) 1 cup grated cheddar cheese 1 can sliced water chestnuts (optional) Cover squash and onions with water and cook 5 to 6 min. - drain thoroughly. To drained squash and onions, add carrots, sour cream, soup, cheese and water chestnuts and fold together carefully. Melt margarine or butter and add stove top mix, stir well. Butter large casserole dish and layer with dressing mix, layer squash mix and top with dressing. If you are going to use it right away, you can put in in a 350 degree oven for about 15 to 20 min. until heated through and bubbly..........or you can store it in the refrigerator and heat it later for about 45 min. to and hour before serving. It seems to get better each time you reheat it and it freezes well also.................Enjoy

Nova, you can be proud of your grandchildren. Anyone who has service this country to keep us free. I have a great nephew that will have to go over to Iran or Iraq or one of those place the last of Feb or March. He would have gone when he was in the 5th grade if he could have. So everyone keep DD in your prayers. Better change the subject or I'll have another wrinkle. Take care & talk later. Peggy

Ohhhh Lordy, Peggy, then I need to laugh a lot. Ha That reminds me I just have today to come up with some real hokie expressions to say in front of my 12 yr old LaJolla, CA grandson tomorrow. I probably will say them with out thinking about it, anyway. John and I will be back on Sat. along with Curt, one of the brand new "The Few, The Proud, the Marines." We've had them in all branches. One grandson is in the Coast Guard now. Curt is just the very latest. Nova **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)

Thanks, I do love to write them so it's good when someone tells me they enjoy one. A lot of my stories are not about the "olden times" but some day, they will be, for the little kids growing up and ones being born later. With families all scattered out all over the place, and with TV, MP3's, ipods and the like, kids don't sit long evenings in front of the wood stove listening to their parents and grandparents laugh and tell stories any more. Now I love technology, I do like my mp3, Tony Joe White's singing (I almost laugh out loud every time he grunts!) helps me pass the time, while I volunteer at the research center, that ol' swamp boy helps me copy endless things, shelve books, create data bases or whatever I'm asked to do.) Joe surprised me with it a few months ago and this ol' granny had to learn to copy and rip my cd's over to my player. Peggy and OD, I added that Choctaw gospel group's cd. Love it. They were at the church dinner on the grounds in 07. I try my hardest to learn the one in Choctaw, but my brain is too old, I guess. Later, Nova **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)

We need to have more laughs. It's less wrinkles when laughing than when crying!! > > > > > Peggy, I didn't really mean to write a story this time, was just remembering > some of the fun things about Dad and OU. He did have such fun with it all. > > You mentioned Hiram, wish I could have met him, he was really a special guy, > wasn't he? > > I have said before, you know how we all love to find letters and papers > written by our ancestors? Well, my descendants will wonder why I wrote so much!! > I started way back writing a few things down on those long car drives back > to see the families when we were in the AF. > > I belong to a small writers group that meets once a month and that makes it > important to get something written down each month. The two hour fun, > laughing lunch we go to afterwards is OK, too!!. > > Nova > > **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making > headlines. (http://news.aol.com?ncid=emlcntusnews00000002) > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Gang, If anyone is interested, and is in the Kosciusko area, the Chuck Wagon Gang will be at our church this Saturday night. (Jan. 17th) New Hope Baptist Church, County Rd. 5216 (Monson's crossing rd. it is sometimes called) It starts at 6 or 6:30 and I think it has been announced on French Camp radio. Several in our church have been to see them and they have maintained the same sound as the original Chuck Wagon Gang, and I'm sure it will be good. $5.00 at the door. This group has been around 72 years.. email me and tell me you are attending! Our song leader has been trying to get them for 2 years.. and they just happened to be singing nearby and contacted her -- I guess we are the "in-between" place.. Jenny

Loved your story! Jeannine Jeannine Kirkpatrick Smith

I miss Hiram's stories but go back to his file & read them now & then. keep your stories coming. Peggy. Peggy, I didn't really mean to write a story this time, was just remembering some of the fun things about Dad and OU. He did have such fun with it all. You mentioned Hiram, wish I could have met him, he was really a special guy, wasn't he? I have said before, you know how we all love to find letters and papers written by our ancestors? Well, my descendants will wonder why I wrote so much!! I started way back writing a few things down on those long car drives back to see the families when we were in the AF. I belong to a small writers group that meets once a month and that makes it important to get something written down each month. The two hour fun, laughing lunch we go to afterwards is OK, too!!. Nova **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://news.aol.com?ncid=emlcntusnews00000002)

My dad Paul P'tree ran a laundry, later a furniture store in Wynnewood and earlier had worked in the oil fields after farming, but his favorite job was one he took after moving to Norman, so Mom could help my aunts with their mother Granny Ada Franks Skaggs. Dad wanted a part time job, finding one in the OU Sooner's Field House Locker Room. He would have paid to work there! It soon turned into a full time job for him for many years. He loved meeting the coaches, Barry Switzer, of course, the assistant coaches and all the players. To have always loved football, at first Wynnewood High School, back when he drove his four daughters to games so we could be in the pep club with our red pleated skirts and white sweaters, later watching OU on television, to be able to actually work there and talk to all the coaches, players and everyone involved with OU Sports was a dream come true for Dad. I'm sure they got a kick out of this folksy old guy daring to discuss football with them, but he had a ball. He would take his guitar, fiddle & harmonica, playing when he had time, of course he told them all his hunting and fishing stories. He laughed at the professors because they always seemed to tell him, "Paul, you should write a book." He did know a lot about hunting and fishing. He knew how to read all the signs in nature like his dad and grandfather and the Farmer's Almanac taught back then. Dad was also the first person I knew who believed you should leave a place cleaner and neater than when you found it. I've made people wait many times because I could not leave a camping spot with trash all over, even if it had been left by other people! But even in Okinawa when the AF sent us there, if we camped on the beach, I could hear Dad's voice all the way from Oklahoma. "Let's all get busy and clean up before we leave." He would have to clean out lockers if someone forgot to pay etc and was supposed to toss it but he started using the washers/dryers at the field house and then selling the stuff over the locker room counter. What was funny, the guys who had lost the stuff would pay him for it. They'd say,( I'll leave out the cuss words he'd quote laughing) "Dang, Paul, you're selling me, my own dang stuff back." But they'd pay up and leave laughing. One time, he complained to a group that some young blond would wait for him by his car about the time he got off work every day!! they started watching and sure enough there was a stylish young blond waiting by his car every day. They didn't know it was my sister Beverly just getting a ride home! He was always kidding someone. But he knew everyone over there. There were several future astronauts going to school at OU one time. One forgot, taking the locker key back to Houston with him, he mailed it back to Dad pretending it was a key they were going to use to rob a bank. I wish I could see that letter now to see who he was. He was always taking someone home for one of Mom's home cooked dinners. Once, way back in Wynnewood when I was little, he worked for Kerr-McGee Refinery. Notre Dame football players worked there in the summer, thanks to Senator Kerr. Dad would bring these big football players home for some of Mom's cooking and they really enjoyed it. His young daughters also enjoyed those dinners!! On OU game days Dad wanted everyone to come over, Mom always cooked something special for lunch and snacks but Dad would get a kitchen chair and place it right in front of the TV, the rest of us would be behind him on sofas etc laughing and talking but you didn't get between Dad and the Sooners when they were playing. At that time Mom and Dad lived within walking distance of OU, all the fans parked up and down the street and in front of their house and walked on to the game etc. Dad loved joshing back and forth with everyone. But they better not park behind his car because right after the game, he headed to the coffee shop and either celebrated a win or moaned with his friends about a loss. You could hear the roars of the crowd, the band playing and you could see part of the top seating from their front yard on Brooks St.. It was great!!!! I think I've only met Coach Barry Switzer face to face twice in all these years in Norman. One time he held the church door open for me as we both dropped off kids at Vacation Bible School. Another time I was sitting in Beverly's car parked curbside in front of Homeland Grocery, Barry & Becky came out pushing their grocery cart, he stopped and came over to tell me, a stranger, that my coat was was stuck in the door, the next week he was announced as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys! Oh yeah, a long time after Barry was no longer coaching, my son John was driving me and his son Curt down Main St in Norman, I said "Hey, there's Barry." John honked and Barry turned and waved without missing a beat in his conversation. John and Curt were both big Barry fans, they high-fived and John was kidding "A Barry Sighting!" It's just all in fun. He is in several businesses in and around Norman. One is Switzer's Locker Rooms, a storage place. Several of those around. He and Toby Keith are in some business' together along with another guy who was on my bowling league in the late 70's. The wife of one of Barry's best friends was a volunteer for me at the library before I retired, my coworker and I got to hear a few fun stories. When the kids came in for programs in the summer, no matter who their fathers were at OU, they had to behave, one young guy asked Dad if he knew who his father was!! and Dad told him "H*ll yes, I know who your father is and if you don't behave, we'll march up to his office with me holding your ear all the way." He said the kid behaved after that. Sounds just like Dad. Years later, when Dad passed away, Mom got so many cards and notes from people who had known him at OU. He touched a lot of people. Since I write a family history story each month, I guess I have just written January's, still needs a little tweaking but it's almost there. Thanks for listening!!! Nova **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! 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Thanks Nova for the OU story. Even tho, of course, I'm am OLE MISS fan. Your story has gone into "Nova's stories". I miss Hiram's stories but go back to his file & read them now & then. Nova, keep your stories coming. PP

Thanks Nova. That's another one in my Nova stories file too. Donnie ----- Original Message ----- From: <Srod46@aol.com> To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 7:35 PM Subject: [PTREE] My Dad's All-time Favorite Job. At OU!! > > My dad Paul P'tree ran a laundry, later a furniture store in Wynnewood > and > earlier had worked in the oil fields after farming, but his favorite job > was > one he took after moving to Norman, so Mom could help my aunts with their > mother Granny Ada Franks Skaggs. > > Dad wanted a part time job, finding one in the OU Sooner's Field House > Locker Room. He would have paid to work there! It soon turned into a full > time > job for him for many years. He loved meeting the coaches, Barry Switzer, > of > course, the assistant coaches and all the players. > > To have always loved football, at first Wynnewood High School, back when > he > drove his four daughters to games so we could be in the pep club with our > red > pleated skirts and white sweaters, later watching OU on television, to be > able to actually work there and talk to all the coaches, players and > everyone > involved with OU Sports was a dream come true for Dad. > > I'm sure they got a kick out of this folksy old guy daring to discuss > football with them, but he had a ball. He would take his guitar, fiddle > & > harmonica, playing when he had time, of course he told them all his > hunting and > fishing stories. > > He laughed at the professors because they always seemed to tell him, > "Paul, > you should write a book." He did know a lot about hunting and fishing. > He > knew how to read all the signs in nature like his dad and grandfather and > the > Farmer's Almanac taught back then. > > Dad was also the first person I knew who believed you should leave a > place > cleaner and neater than when you found it. I've made people wait many > times > because I could not leave a camping spot with trash all over, even if it > had > been left by other people! But even in Okinawa when the AF sent us there, > if we > camped on the beach, I could hear Dad's voice all the way from Oklahoma. > "Let's all get busy and clean up before we leave." > > He would have to clean out lockers if someone forgot to pay etc and was > supposed to toss it but he started using the washers/dryers at the field > house > and then selling the stuff over the locker room counter. What was funny, > the > guys who had lost the stuff would pay him for it. > They'd say,( I'll leave out the cuss words he'd quote laughing) "Dang, > Paul, > you're selling me, my own dang stuff back." But they'd pay up and leave > laughing. > > One time, he complained to a group that some young blond would wait for > him > by his car about the time he got off work every day!! they started > watching > and sure enough there was a stylish young blond waiting by his car every > day. > They didn't know it was my sister Beverly just getting a ride home! He > was > always kidding someone. > > But he knew everyone over there. There were several future astronauts > going > to school at OU one time. One forgot, taking the locker key back to > Houston > with him, he mailed it back to Dad pretending it was a key they were > going to > use to rob a bank. I wish I could see that letter now to see who he was. > > He was always taking someone home for one of Mom's home cooked dinners. > Once, way back in Wynnewood when I was little, he worked for Kerr-McGee > Refinery. > Notre Dame football players worked there in the summer, thanks to Senator > Kerr. Dad would bring these big football players home for some of Mom's > cooking > and they really enjoyed it. His young daughters also enjoyed those > dinners!! > > On OU game days Dad wanted everyone to come over, Mom always cooked > something special for lunch and snacks but Dad would get a kitchen chair > and place > it right in front of the TV, the rest of us would be behind him on sofas > etc > laughing and talking but you didn't get between Dad and the Sooners when > they > were playing. > > At that time Mom and Dad lived within walking distance of OU, all the > fans > parked up and down the street and in front of their house and walked on > to the > game etc. Dad loved joshing back and forth with everyone. But they better > not park behind his car because right after the game, he headed to the > coffee > shop and either celebrated a win or moaned with his friends about a loss. > You could hear the roars of the crowd, the band playing and you could see > part of the top seating from their front yard on Brooks St.. It was > great!!!! > > I think I've only met Coach Barry Switzer face to face twice in all these > years in Norman. One time he held the church door open for me as we both > dropped off kids at Vacation Bible School. > > Another time I was sitting in Beverly's car parked curbside in front of > Homeland Grocery, Barry & Becky came out pushing their grocery cart, he > stopped > and came over to tell me, a stranger, that my coat was was stuck in the > door, > the next week he was announced as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys! > > Oh yeah, a long time after Barry was no longer coaching, my son John was > driving me and his son Curt down Main St in Norman, I said "Hey, there's > Barry." > John honked and Barry turned and waved without missing a beat in his > conversation. John and Curt were both big Barry fans, they high-fived and > John was > kidding "A Barry Sighting!" It's just all in fun. > > He is in several businesses in and around Norman. One is Switzer's Locker > Rooms, a storage place. Several of those around. He and Toby Keith are > in some > business' together along with another guy who was on my bowling league in > the late 70's. > > The wife of one of Barry's best friends was a volunteer for me at the > library before I retired, my coworker and I got to hear a few fun > stories. > > When the kids came in for programs in the summer, no matter who their > fathers were at OU, they had to behave, one young guy asked Dad if he > knew who his > father was!! and Dad told him "H*ll yes, I know who your father is and > if > you don't behave, we'll march up to his office with me holding your ear > all the > way." He said the kid behaved after that. Sounds just like Dad. > > Years later, when Dad passed away, Mom got so many cards and notes from > people who had known him at OU. He touched a lot of people. > > Since I write a family history story each month, I guess I have just > written > January's, still needs a little tweaking but it's almost there. Thanks > for > listening!!! Nova > > > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 > easy > steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De > cemailfooterNO62) > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Gang, just wanted to share something my younger sister Beverly P'tree Hood sent to me this afternoon. Beverly has been employed at OU for a number of years, we won't say how many, she is Assistant to the Director of Housing and Food Services. Oh yes, Beverly's husband's family also has MS. roots. His Mom's three (over ninety) sisters still live there and his first cousin is Billy McCoy, Speaker of the House. ****************************************************************************** ******************** Behind the scenes, the heart of Bob Stoops revealed By John Helsley - The Oklahoman Published: August 23, 2008 Kourtlyn Uzoma grew sick. Just 13 years old, he was sick of being sick, sick of the battles with a wicked cancer, sick of the relapses and the two years trying to get well inside a hospital. Then came word of a special camp — Kamp Kourtlyn, to be hosted by Bob Stoops and the Sooners at their practice field in Norman. Just for him. And for a day, Kourtlyn wasn't sick anymore. "He hung around with the football players, tossed the ball,” said Kourtlyn's dad, Clement Uzoma. "Bob took him in his BMWand they went around everywhere. It was just joyful to see Kourtlyn and his face and how he reacted when he got home.” Such an effect Stoops had on the little man. "Bob Stoops,” Clement said, "was God's angel sent to Kourtlyn.” While few know this personal side of Stoops, similar stories stream from the many who have either seen or experienced the Oklahoma football coach's continual outreach and acts of compassion for sick children. Publicly, it may be a hard and rugged persona that Stoops puts forth, but privately, particularly when in the company of kids in distress — which is often — he's gentle and soft. "What's impressive, it's something he doesn't share with other people,” said former Sooner _Jacob Gutierrez_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Jacob+Gutierrez&CATEGORY=PERSON) , who became known for his own charitable acts while at OU. "It's not a publicity thing. It's him being who he is. He understands he can make an impact on other people's lives, and he takes the time to do that. "It's not because he wants the attention or it's someone making him, it's just because. "And that's who coach Stoops is.” Bob Stoops: behind the scenes _Kay Tangner_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Kay+Tangner&CATEGORY=PERSON) , a volunteer at The _Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Jimmy+Everest+Center+for+Cancer+&+Blo od+Disorders+in+Children&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) , first invited Stoops and his players to a pep rally the young cancer patients wanted to throw to celebrate the Sooners' 2000 national championship. Stoops accepted. And he's been returning ever since. More and more frequently over time. In season. The off-season. Over the summer. Sometimes Stoops arrives with players. Many times he slips in alone, unannounced. "We were in the hospital a lot last year,” said _Stacy Hasley_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Stacy+Hasley&CATEGORY=PERSON) , whose 7-year-old daughter Jordan is in remission from leukemia. "One morning, it was 8 o'clock and there's this knock on the door. And the door opens and it's him. "It's just a very cool thing that he does.” Stoops has stopped in at the hospital with his own family on Thanksgiving mornings and also near Christmas. When he can, he celebrates birthdays with the kids. "Just hangs out,” Tangner said. "Talks. Sits on the edge of the bed.” If anything, Stoops has avoided any attention when it comes to his time at the hospital and his fight for the cause. Even his charity, the _Bob Stoops Champions Foundation_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Bob+Stoops+Champions+Foundation&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) , aimed at helping ill or disadvantaged children, maintains a low profile. Only recently, sensing that he could help enhance awareness of the need for critical bone marrow matches that many sick patients are awaiting, has Stoops peeled back the curtain. During the team's annual Media Day earlier this month, Stoops welcomed reporters to a volunteer testing procedure to register potential donors with the _National Marrow Donor Program_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=National+Marrow+Donor+Program&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) . Stoops was among 84 individuals, mostly players, who added their name to the registry. "You have the opportunity to save somebody's life,” Stoops said. "It's pretty neat when you think about it. I see a lot of kids at the Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center that are awaiting bone marrow transplants, or awaiting matches. "Or I see a lot of them that have already had their match and had their transplant and are recovering from it. And I know the difference it makes in their lives.” Reaching out Even kids focused on overcoming cancer know who Bob Stoops is. Some, however, may not be such big fans — at first. "Kids are so honest,” Tangner said. "They'll say, ‘I have to tell you, I don't like OU. I like OSU.' "And he'll say, ‘Well, that's OK. Everybody's got to like somebody.' And by the end, it's not even about football. It's about a friend.” And friend is the word most associated with Stoops in his relationships with the kids and their families. "Oh my goodness, each family thinks they're Bob Stoops' special patient,” said Dr. _Rene McNall_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Rene+McNall&CATEGORY=PERSON) , a pediatric oncologist at the hospital. "He has this amazing way to remember all their names. "I can't tell you the number of patients and parents who are in the middle of this very stressful thing and they think Bob has this special place in his heart just for them. "And he does. He just has a way of making them all feel special.” was a promising 17-year-old high school pitcher with a baseball scholarship to the _University of North Texas_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=University+of+North+Texas&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION) when persistent pain on his right hip led to an MRI. Doctors discovered a baseball-sized tumor, and diagnosed him with _Ewing_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Ewing&CATEGORY=CITY) 's sarcoma, a cancer that most often strikes between the ages of 10 and 20. _T.J. Hutchings_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=T.J.+Hutchings&CATEGORY=PERSON) They also found three spots on Hutchings' right lung. "I was in the hospital,” Hutchings said, "and cach Stoops came by and introduced himself, like I didn't already know him before.” A few months later, Hutchings' treatment ramped up — on his birthday no less — with radiation tacked on to chemotherapy. "They told me to come down to the nurses station,” Hutchings said. "They had all these balloons and stuff. I thought, ‘Oh, that's nice, the nurses threw a party for me.' "I turned the corner and Bob Stoops and _Adrian Peterson_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Adrian+Peterson&CATEGORY=PERSON) were there. I was just baffled. They brought out the cake and everything. It was pretty awesome. ” Hutchings' birthday: a Thursday, two days before the Red River Shootout with _Texas_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Texas&CATEGORY=STATE) in the _Cotton Bowl_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Cotton+Bowl+(Game)&CATEGORY=MISC) . "They were leaving out that Thursday afternoon to go to Texas,” Hutchings said. "Adrian Peterson was on the cover of _Sports Illustrated_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Sports+Illustrated&CATEGORY=COMPANY) the week before. And he brought him up there. "One of the biggest games of the year — always. I totally couldn't believe it.” Passing it on That first pep rally evolved into an annual event around Christmas. Now the tradition involves sending the Sooners off to their bowl destination. The children make banners and perform cheers. They present awards and "bowl rings” — candy ring pops and light-up rings — and even hand-made trophies. One year, there was an Orange Bowl trophy made with plastic fruit. The players, they laugh and they howl. And they connect, so much so that they end up coming back, too. A list of OU players who have joined Stoops for room tours at Children's Hospital would be lengthy. "I'd ride up there with coach Stoops,” Gutierrez said. "He knew each of the kids by name, and that really impressed me. He'd sit there and talk to them for a little while. And not just the kids, but the parents. It's a hard time for the parents, too. "It was great to see that kind of a person and to play for that kind of a person. I'll always take that and know that no matter how busy you get or how famous you get, there's always time for other people.” Pass it on. "The neat thing is watching him bring his players and teach them how to be a good person, too,” McNall said. "I always say I'm not a big football fan, but I'm a huge Bob Stoops fan because of all he does.” Building a connection Tangner often shadows Stoops on his trips to Children's Hospital, shooting pictures to present to the patients and their families. She keeps copies, too. And there are enough to fill several bulky photo albums, the images capturing the bond between Stoops and the children. Forget, she said, that Stoops is a popular football coach. That may get their attention. But there must be something special to maintain it and create a connection. "They can be in the dumps, because they're up there in the bone marrow unit, there for several weeks at a time,” said Tangner, who has seen a lot in 15 years of serving at the hospital. "And he can walk in and you can just see it. You can feel it. "And the parents are just so grateful, because you'll do anything for your kid to just feel better.” Stoops might toss a football in one room, play dolls in another. Mostly, he just talks. About stuff. Kid stuff. And, sometimes, he plays coach, too. "That's what he tells the kids in the bone marrow clinic. He walks in, and he knows them all by name. ‘You've got to keep it up. You've got to stay strong. You've got to keep fighting.' ” McNall sees the struggles every day. She works on the front line, where disease wages an unfair war with kids. Disease too often wins. Bob Stoops can't beat that. But he can provide reinforcement. "Honestly, it gives them something positive to look forward to, to do,” McNall said, "someone special who is special to a lot of people, who thinks of them as special. "I had one kid who told me, ‘Except for this cancer thing, this has been the best year of my life.' ” Making memories The rooms and halls of Children's Hospital are filled with stories. Some heart wrenching. Some uplifting. Stories of pain and suffering and sacrifice. Of loss. And conquest. There are Sooner stories, too, involving Stoops and his players. There's the tale of little _Kaci McGee_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Kaci+McGee&CATEGORY=PERSON) , who at the age of 4 would watch an entire OU football game just to see Stoops. And she referred to him as, "My Coach Stoops,” which she'd repeat over and over as she followed him from room to room at the hospital. There was the funeral for _Justin Scott_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Justin+Scott&CATEGORY=PERSON) , a teenager who lost a battle with a bad form of leukemia, where no black clothing was allowed, only crimson and cream. Where Stoops and several players served as pall bearers. "It's not a little thing he does,” McNall said. Said Tangner: "I can't tell you how many times I go and there's the football that he's signed, right by the casket. Or in the slide show, there he is with them. And how much it means to the families.” There was Stoops last December, sad that he would have to miss the annual pep rally because he was due to have shoulder surgery the same day. And there was Stoops, on the arm of his wife Carol, showing up still groggy from the procedure. "Who would have come straight from surgery?” Tangner said. "It had to mean something to him.” And what about Hutchings, now 21 and a junior at OU, beating cancer. Stoops still meets with him two or three times a semester, just to have lunch and check in. "He gave me his cell phone number and told me to call if I ever needed anything,” Hutchings said. And there's Kourtlyn Uzoma, who died last spring. When he was too sick to attend the _Miami_ (http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Miami&CATEGORY=CITY) game he so wanted to see last fall, Kourtlyn was presented with a game ball, signed by all the seniors. "That game ball is in my house,” his father, Clement, said through tears, "and every day I see it. Bob Stoops came into our life, and I look at him as a Christian man, then secondly as a coach. "My son for the last two years was in the hospital. Bob Stoops came every week to see him. I can remember when it got to the point Kourtlyn couldn't talk, they would bump hands." "I don't know how to describe Bob Stoops except to say he's an angel. An angel God sent to visit all these kids.” Nova P'tree Hornback - Proud OU Sooner Fan ****************************************************************************** *********************************************** **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://news.aol.com?ncid=emlcntusnews00000002)

from Donland - Palmertree rootsweb members from TEXAS are biting their tongues in order to not make snide replies to zerou references. ****************************************************************************** ********************************************* Go ahead and BITE real hard!!!! Really bugs you, huh? You are the only rude person on this line, so please when you see my address on an email just delete it. Because that is what I will be doing to any Donland email. You and you alone stopped all the friendly sports kidding on this line a few years ago when you were rude to ME the first time about OU. No one else has mentioned their teams, college, high school or professional since then, thanks to you!!!!! There are all kinds of sports fans. My gosh, I actually smiled and made welcome the TEXAS basketball players who were walking, eating and shopping at Sooner Fashion Mall on West Main St., Norman, OK., just about two hours ago. 1-12-09. I suppose I should have booed and thrown my ice at them, instead? Grow up!!!!! Nova P'tree Hornback - Proud Sooner Fan!!!! **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://news.aol.com?ncid=emlcntusnews00000002)

I knew that some of the words in the story were blue etc but didn't know it would print out like it did for me. Sorry about that!!!!! Nova Sigh........another learning situation, I have so many. **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)

Palmertree rootsweb members from TEXAS are biting their tongues in order to not make snide replies to zerou references. -----Original Message----- From: palmertree-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:palmertree-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Srod46@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:56 AM To: palmertree@rootsweb.com Subject: [PTREE] An OU story with a better ending..... My sister Beverly and I were trying to remember the name of a retired 30 yr OU marching band director who was the director while our cousin Gene French's son David was the Drum Major. David was quite famous with the fans, because he could lean back so far, keep marching and keep time with the baton etc. He now teaches school in OKC. (David's Grandmother Cornelia P'tree French, was the granddaughter of Thomas Andrew P'tree and Lemontine Dean P'tree who left Chotaw Cty., MS. for Texas way back.) Anyway when I found the band director online, it also mentioned the story below. We were living in Norman in 1983 but I certainly missed this story some way. You would have thought I would have heard about it, even if we didn't go to games etc. On one site there is even a pic of the game ball, so I guess it is true. Part of the article is below: ************************************************************************ ****** ********************************************** Gene "Coach" Thrailkill transitioned the Pride to emphasize technique and sound - but not at the expense of the overriding goal to support the Sooners. During the 1983 _Bedlam_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlam) game at _Oklahoma State_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_State_University_(Stillwater)) in _Stillwater_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater,_Oklahoma) , the Sooners fell behind 20-3 early in the 4th quarter. Stillwater police took Thrailkill off the field for not having a sideline pass. Incensed, Thrailkill told the Pride to "start playing and don't stop until we're ahead!" The band complied, and played "_Boomer Sooner_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomer_Sooner) " non-stop - and after roughly 300 times, the Sooners were ahead 21-20. _Barry Switzer_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer) and the Sooners awarded the Pride the game ball, and labeled it "The Day The Pride Won" as proof._[2]_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pride_of_Oklahoma_Marching_Band#cite_n ote-Sooner_Mag-1) We certainly could have used Thrailkill and that 83 band in Florida last Thursday!!!!! Those Gators were awesome!!!!! Nova **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir =http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%2 6bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) ------------------------------- Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My sister Beverly and I were trying to remember the name of a retired 30 yr OU marching band director who was the director while our cousin Gene French's son David was the Drum Major. David was quite famous with the fans, because he could lean back so far, keep marching and keep time with the baton etc. He now teaches school in OKC. (David's Grandmother Cornelia P'tree French, was the granddaughter of Thomas Andrew P'tree and Lemontine Dean P'tree who left Chotaw Cty., MS. for Texas way back.) Anyway when I found the band director online, it also mentioned the story below. We were living in Norman in 1983 but I certainly missed this story some way. You would have thought I would have heard about it, even if we didn't go to games etc. On one site there is even a pic of the game ball, so I guess it is true. Part of the article is below: ****************************************************************************** ********************************************** Gene "Coach" Thrailkill transitioned the Pride to emphasize technique and sound – but not at the expense of the overriding goal to support the Sooners. During the 1983 _Bedlam_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlam) game at _Oklahoma State_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_State_University_(Stillwater)) in _Stillwater_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater,_Oklahoma) , the Sooners fell behind 20-3 early in the 4th quarter. Stillwater police took Thrailkill off the field for not having a sideline pass. Incensed, Thrailkill told the Pride to "start playing and don't stop until we're ahead!" The band complied, and played "_Boomer Sooner_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomer_Sooner) " non-stop – and after roughly 300 times, the Sooners were ahead 21-20. _Barry Switzer_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer) and the Sooners awarded the Pride the game ball, and labeled it "The Day The Pride Won" as proof._[2]_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pride_of_Oklahoma_Marching_Band#cite_note-Sooner_Mag-1) We certainly could have used Thrailkill and that 83 band in Florida last Thursday!!!!! Those Gators were awesome!!!!! Nova **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)

I see I boo-booed. I addressed the drummer e-mail to Janice. The e-mail I was responding to is Kathy. Sorry. Maybe Kelly will want to play some if he's up to it..........Donnie ----- Original Message ----- From: <bkgagent@bellsouth.net> To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [PTREE] hoedown > Good drummers are difficult to find everywhere! Not just around here! > -------------- Original message from "Don Grice" > <donald_grice@comcast.net>: -------------- > > >> That's good to know Janice. I was desperate to find a drummer with drums >> for the first hoedown. Wound up getting my ex brother in law, Mickey >> Suit, >> from Ark. I was actually trying to borrow his drums, but got him too! I >> think Al can play drums too. Drummers are hard to find in >> Montgomery/Choctaw counties. >> >> Donnie >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kathy Hall" >> To: >> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 5:47 AM >> Subject: Re: [PTREE] hoedown >> >> >> > Kelly plays drums also. Doesn't have any now but played in a bar band >> > for >> > years. >> > >> > >> > Kathy Hall >> > >> > --- On Thu, 1/8/09, peggy palmertree wrote: >> > >> > From: peggy palmertree >> > Subject: Re: [PTREE] hoedown >> > To: palmertree@rootsweb.com >> > Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 5:12 PM >> > >> > Buckoo can play the keyboard, that is if he comes. >> > >> >> Thanks Ken. >> >> >> >> Janice, are you holding out on us? What does your husband play? We can >> >> always use somebody else in the band. Last time we had a lead guitar, >> > bass, >> >> steel guitar, 4 other guitars and a drummer. I wish we had a keyboard. >> >> >> >> Donnie >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: >> >> To: >> >> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:02 AM >> >> Subject: Re: [PTREE] hoedown >> >> >> >> >> >> > Don, >> >> > >> >> > Don't forget that Jancie's husband plays with a band, >> > too........... >> >> > >> >> > :-) >> >> > >> >> > Ken >> >> > >> >> >> Janice, we'll get you there one way or the other. If you hang >> > around, >> >> >> I'll >> >> >> show you where the old house place is. >> >> > ------------------------------- >> >> > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at >> >> > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > ------------------------------- >> >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >> > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> > without the >> >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at >> > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at >> > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at >> > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ------------------------------- >> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Everett and I were just there the other day and I don't recall seeing a chimney. They probably had to leave that in Choctaw?