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Thursday, November 19,2009
The New Stamford American - Vol. 1, Issue 25
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President Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, in the presi-
dential limousine, minutes before his assassination.
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Where Were You......?
Most people age 50 and older can remember exactly
where they were when they heard the news that President
Kennedy had been shot on November 22, 1963, just as
others remember vividly the attack on Pearl Harbor, the
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and more recently
the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger and the
terrorist attacks of September 11,2001.
We asked our readers to send us their memories of the
place and circumstances of where they were when they
learned that the president had been shot. Here are their
responses:
I was sitting in Spur,
Texas in Mrs. Moore’s
2nd grade class. I remem-
ber the sadness all around.
Teachers were crying and
saying how awful it was. I
think we were dismissed
early that day. I have told
my kids, their kids and
God willing I will get to
tell my great-grandkids as
well. It was a very sad day.
The whole town was sad.
It is still sad today. I will
always remember the day
J.F.K. was killed. Some
things stick with you, like
Sept 11th. We won’t for-
get that day either! - Jody
Miller
I was in my U.S. Gov-
ernment class when Pres.
Kennedy was killed. -
Roger Detamore
I was in college at
Southwest Missouri State
in Springfield, Missouri. -
Cary Davis
I was a resident physician
working on the Child Psy-
chiatry Outpatient Service
Clinic at John Sealy Hos-
pital when President John
Kennedy was assassinated.
I was dating my future
wife, Doris, who was a reg-
istered nurse and she was
working on the inpatient
psychiatry unit. Everyone
was devastated and crying
when they heard the news
announcement by Walter
Cronkite on CBS Radio/
TV.-William Otho Gille-
an, Jr., M.D., San Antonio
I was at work at Produc-
tion Credit Association
(now First Ag Credit) in
their old building, which
now houses Clark and
Cobb. - R. C. Cobb
I was teaching P. E.
at Houston Jr. High in
Hobbs, NM. - Nadia Has-
sen
It was my birthday and I
was in 6th grade in Texas
History class in Morton,
Texas. - Lynda Hill
I was in the 6th grade
at Reynolds Elementary
on the playground when
someone told me the news.
- Jim Astin
I was going to McMur-
ry College in Abilene and
was sitting in my apart-
ment studying when I saw
it on TV. My first thought
was, “Who did it?” - Ray-
mond “Booger” Hughes
I was in the second grade
and on the playground at
Oliver Elementary School.
We thought it was a hor-
rible made-up rumor un-
til we got back into Miss
Turner’s classroom and she
told us it was true. She had
us put our heads down on
our desks. - Jacque South-
erland Avery
I was in algebra class in
Lueders in the 9th grade.
Mr. Anders had one of the
few portable TV’s in town
and brought it in for us to
watch. - Jo Bennett Burns
I was in the second grade
in Oklahoma City. - Den-
nis Braden
I was in Bryan, Texas at
Allen Military School, 4th
U. S. Army Command. Af-
ter the news was received,
we stood at attention in
formation for four hours.
Taps was played and the
Lord’s Prayer recited be-
fore we were dismissed. -
Dub Harrison
I was stationed at Walter
Reed Medical Center in
Washington, D. C. We had
a Texas license plate and I
remember we received lots
of glares. - Gary Mathis
I was at work in the fur-
niture store. - Ray Kinney
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Thankgiving: A Time to Count Your Blessings
Thanksgiving is a very
American holiday, but
many people aren’t aware of
its origins or wide-spread
celebration. It is one of the
few rare holidays that is
identified as a secular holiday
despite its religious origins.
Though most scholars regard
the first true Thanksgiving
celebration as the one at
Plymouth Plantation in 1621,
the first attested celebration
was in St. Augustine, Florida,
on September 8, 1565. And
even though Thanksgiving
is distinctly American, it’s
celebrated internationally.
Our neighbors to the north
celebrate Thanksgiving in
October and it’s celebrated
in the Netherlands as well.
The pilgrims who landed on
Plymouth Rock stopped at
the church in Leiden on their
way to the Americas. The
15th century gothic cathedral
still holds Thanksgiving
services each year.
Thanksgiving has been a
nationwide tradition in the
What Were Thankful
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Carolyn Smith:
Our God and the blessings
he bestows on us: our fami-
lies, our health, our friends,
the community we live in, my
grandchildren.
Lisa Terrell:
I am thankful that the good
Lord gave me my wonderful
family and our great friends, I
am thankful to reside in small
town America!
Sara Perry:
I moved back here a year
ago, and Fm thankful to be
back with my family.
United States since the mid-
nineteenth century, but wasn’t
a national holiday until 1941.
The reason that Congress
made the day of thanks a
matter of federal lawis because
of a contention on what
day it should be celebrated.
President Lincoln proclaimed
a national Thanksgiving Day,
to be celebrated on the final
Thursday in November 1863,
in response to a series of
editorials by Sarah Hale. It
has been observed nationally
ever since.
Lincoln, and each of his
successors, declared the last
Thursday in November as
Thanksgiving.
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Jennifer Asbury: Practicing the Art of Nursing
This accident occurred at the intersection of
Highways 277 and 92, Sunday night around
7:30 p.m. Emergency medical services and fire
departments from Hamlin, Haskell Stamford, and
Anson responded. The two-car collision resulted in
six injuries: five were transported to the hospital
by ambulance and one, an 18 year-old female, by
AirEvac helicopter.
Stamford Memorial
Hospital’s New Chief
Nursing Officer Jennifer
Asbury knows a thing or
two about nursing. She has
been a Registered Nurse
since December 1991 when
she got her Bachelor of
Science in Nursing from
Texas Christian University in
Fort Worth, Texas. Recently
she took the next step and
completed her Masters of
Science in Nursing in August
2009 with a specialization
in Nursing Administration
and Nursing Education. Her
resume is at the very least
impressive.
Asbury started in the
Neurological Intensive Care
Unit at Harris Methodist in
Fort Worth, Texas, where she
worked for five years. She says
that people always ask her
how it felt to work in such a
high stress, high mortality
area, and she said it was a
blessing to see people go from
having something traumatic
happen to them and their
families to helping them
overcome those obstacles.
She said that lots of times
it came down to caring for
the patient’s family as well as
the actual patient, knowing
that the family in most cases
was the main support for
the patient. Asbury firmly
believes in treating the whole
patient and says that while
it is easy to get caught up
in the technology, a nurse
shines when she is able
to incorporate caring and
healing into the care of her
patients. She also believes in
confidence in nursing saying
that she has yet to meet a
nurse that said they could
“kind of” do anything. The
confidence that a nurse has
in herself or himself shows
through to the patient and
helps the patient trust in the
care they are getting from
that nurse.
From her job in Fort
Worth, Asbury moved to San
Antonio working as a Clinical
Applications Consultant for
a company out of Maryland
called Aspect Medical Jennifer Asbury settles into her new role as CNO at Stamford
Systems. Memorial Hospital.
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Russell, William. The New Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 2009, newspaper, November 19, 2009; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009587/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.