Bobby Chain's Party for Gary and Mary Ann - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Aug 5, 2004

Bobby Chain's Party for Gary and Mary Ann

Date: Aug 6, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Good News
"Bobby and Betty Chain are giving Gary and Mary Ann a going away party Friday night. Over 150 people were invited and less than 10 people sent regrets. Now that's love!"

Tonight's the night!!!

Date: Aug 6, 2004

This was a terrific thing for the Chains to do. I was honored to receive an invitation (though I couldn't attend, because I'm still in Raleigh), and the invitations themselves were great. They were worded something like, "to thank Drs. Gary and Mary Ann Stringer for their service to USM and to the City of Hattiesburg."

I'd like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Chain for their support of the Stringers, and of USM faculty generally, in these past months.

Wish I could have been there!

NO QUARTER.

Anne Wallace

Date: Aug 6, 2004

I fear it will be a lot like an Irish wake.

It was awfully nice of Bobby Chain to recognize the many contributions of Mary Ann and Gary to Hattiesburg and the university. They are good folks, indeed.

Date: Aug 6, 2004

Flash,

Why do you think it will be like an Irish wake? I don't understand. Help me, please! I am neither Irish nor up on the classics. You know, the more education we receive, the more we know about fewer topics.

Thanks,

Date: Aug 6, 2004

Instructions for Irish Wakes

Evidently, it involves a bunch of "keening & crying," along with whisky drinking & snuff dipping.

Date: Aug 6, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Good News
"Flash,
Why do you think it will be like an Irish wake? I don't understand. Help me, please! I am neither Irish nor up on the classics. You know, the more education we receive, the more we know about fewer topics.
Thanks,"

It is a bitter sweet celebration of a life lived and the passage to a better place.

As one Clancy brothers song put it,"Isn't it grand boys to be bloody well dead?"

Date: Aug 6, 2004

Well, so much for the snuff dipping...

Date: Aug 6, 2004

May I presume that means it's a go on the whisky part?

Date: Aug 6, 2004

It's so quite tonight. Was everybody invited to the big party except li'l ol' me? I'll bet my phone was off the hook. Yes, that has to be it. My phone was off the hook.