Family News

November 1999: Ken Nagler just sent us a wedding photo of Ken and Sarah Ferris. Click here

Edith (Dodo) and Ralph Raynor recently moved from Sun City, Arizona to Tennessee to be near family. Dodo sent us some pictures. You would click on George and Julia Ferris at the bottom of the home page, and then at the bottom of that page you would click on the new photos from Dodo.

 

Ken Hale retired from M.I.T. as Professor of Linguistics in April, 1999. He is as busy as ever, and is still very actively doing research. To visit a web site dedicated to Ken, click here:

http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/ken_hale_tribute.html

Lillian Morrison first went to South Carolina and visited Jean and family in December, and then visited Alan and family in California in January and February 1999. She is back home in Michigan now.

 

 

August 1, 1998, Just got a note from Jennifer and Warren announcing the birth of

Emily Rose, weighing 7 lb 12 oz, just under 23 inches. Emily was born at home, and

Emily and mother are doing fine. Here is one photo of Emily, and to see more photos of

our newest relative, click on Marion and Ethel near the bottom of the home page.

 

July 13, 1998, from a note from Steve Hale to Ken and Sally:

"Gene saved Chayito's life, by remembering something taught in kindergarten,

and calling 911 in the nick of time, when Chayito suffered anaphylactic

shock from an unknown allergen, while I was out of town. The causes

may either be that she developed an allergy to strawberries, or more likely

that she was bitten by a kissing bug. We are very thankful to Gene for

his quick actions, as well as proud of him."

 

From the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Sunday, July 12, 1998:

 

Young heroes call for help

in emergencies

 

By L. Anne Newell and Tom Collins

The Arizona Daily Star

 

Oro Vally resident Maria thought she was dying on Tuesday.

As she lay on her living sofa, her throat tightening like a fist,

her thoughts turned to her two young children.

 

"I was afraid to die and leave them," she said yesterday.

 

But 5-year-old Gene, remembering what he had learned in school,

picked up the phone and dialed 911. He followed an operator's instructions,

sitting close to his mother until paramedics arrived.

 

Officials credit him with saving her life.

"I'm so proud of him. I can't even believe how smart he was," said 35-year-old

Maria yesterday from the family's house, near North Oracle and East Magee roads.

 

Three other children in Tucson area also recently aided their parents by calling

911 and following operators' advice rescue crews arrived.

 

Gene Hale learned how to call 911 in his kindergarten class at Harelson Winifred

Elementary School. Kelsey and Caitlin Spears learned from watching the television

show "Rescue 911." Sahuarita resident Wayne Montgomery learned through his

fifth-grade class at Sahuarita Elementary School.

 

"What these incidents show is success in educational efforts with children in the

community," said George Good, a spokesman for Rural/Metro Fire Department.

 

Maria Hale had been visiting a family friend Tuesday afternoon, but returned home about

3:30 when she felt ill. She lay down, thinking rest would do her good.

 

But she only felt worse, and didn't know what was wrong.

 

Officials have said since that the woman was having a severe allergic reaction and

was going into anaphylactic shock. Typically during anaphylaxis, a person's airway

completely closes off.

When paramedics arrived, Maria's neck and stomach were covered with hives. Paramedics

said she was wheezing loudly and her throat was tightly constricted.

 

"If Gene hadn't called when he called, his mother would have died," said Julie Carter, one of

several paramedics who rushed to the Hale home.

 

"The reaction went from mild to serious just while we were here. In another couple of minutes,

she wouldn't have made it," she said.

 

Gene said he stayed with his mother until the rescue crews arrived, looking out the window to make

sure who they were before he opened the door.

 

"This is just really amazing that he had the insight to do all this on his own," said his father,

Stephen Hale, a biological consultant who was out of town during the incident.

 

He learned of his son's heroics before he returned home Friday, the same day Maria was

released from the hospital.

 

Officials still haven't learned what her allergic reaction, although the family did find a kissing bug

on the living room couch shortly after the incident. Some people have extreme reactions, including

anaphylactic shock, to the mosquito-like parasites.

 

Gene isn’t …

 

 

 

 

From Ezra Hal, March 19, 1998:

 

I have (shamelessly) made my trumpet solo on Dylan Hicks latest album

"Poughkeepsie" available in RealAudio. I played on song no. 3, Rocket

Ship. The album will be coming out later this month on No Alternative

Records and should be available in most record stores.

 

http://www.pioneerplanet.com/realaudio/rocketship.solo.ram

 

[The above note from Ezra Hale, March 19, 1998] 

[The note below is from Ezra Hale, May 13, 1998]

(Ezra is one of the two in the horn section)

shameless self promotion #43458980

 

Deformo was chosen as the best rock band in the twin cities in this

weeks City Pages.

 

YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!

 

check it out:

 

BEST LOCAL ROCK BAND

 

Deformo

 

Not just the best band in town, but the funniest, Deformo are indie

rockers with more brains in one of their ingeniously ungainly hooks than

50 major-label bands have in their whole lousy discographies. Strident

students of the post-punk rave-up, they'll also add a taste of Tijuana

with a two-piece horn section, and they do it without sacrificing their

fervent guitarrorism. Screaming above this sonic mess, Deformo's

huge-haired lead shouter, Steve Salett, bellows hilarious lyrics about

twentynothing indecision. Yet the band manages to avoid the devil of

irony. In 1997, our undersung heroes put out two damn fine records, an

EP called <IThe Queen Bazaar</I and an eponymous full-length release,

both chock full of songs rife with attacks on Anglophiles, "rich kids,"

and that perennial source of young ennui, the day job. Rumor has it

Deformo might be headed to New York over the summer--making them shoo-in

winners for next year's award for Best Band to Leave the Twin Cities.

 

or online at:

 

http://www.citypages.com/bestof/summary.asp?Category=7

 

(you have to scroll down a ways)

 

 

The shamelessness continues,

 

Ezra