Jim Gaskell:
CLASS OF 1975
Powell County High SchoolClass of 1975
Deer lodge, MT
University of Central OklahomaClass of 2009
Edmond, OK
May Technical CollegeClass of 1996
Billings, MT
University of Montana - JournalismClass of 1992
Missoula, MT
University of Montana - JournalismClass of 1989
Missoula, MT
Jim's Story
March 9 Anatomy and Micro -Biology going well had 200 for month of Feb- Today was Barbies Big 5-0 I remember a joke I heard when she turned 20 or 30-- went like this Why didnt Barbie ever get pregnant??? Cuz Ken always came in a BOX!!! LOL was 82 here today but cold weather coming down from Montana!! it will be cold in the mid -50's!!
Then all classes that remain are Embalming and Embalming Chemistry
Restoritive Art Practicum and Board Review
Only have classes on Tues and Thursdays 9 am to 1 pm then work 4 to midnight rest of the time--
Had the grandson Micheal Thomas John Meagher-Cox last week it was fun got him some shirts for school, 4th grade and he lives in Lawton- his other grandparents live in Fletcher and his step- dad Warren is being deployed to Iraq in the National Guard at the end of August.
Took Summer Semester 16 days and it was like 16 weeks for a normal semester took Chemistry and got a "C" now I'm taking intro to Business last day is
on Mon July 28th Got a "A" in that class!!
then all classes that are left are
1)Pathology 3 cr !
2)Micro-Biology & Lab 4 cr
3)Anatomy 4 cr
4)Embalming
5)Embalming Chemistry 4 cr
6)Restorative Art 4cr all the hard ones left
7) Practicum and Board Review
and some electives to make up 124 total credits for this Bacholers of Science Degree!!
so another year or 2 and I'll be done!!!
I'm on My Space--
I saw my son, Devin he is 25 and lives in Magna, Utah on April 19, he was in Fort Worth, TX at a month long class and is employed for Weathrford Oil, a off brach of Hallowburton and is sending me an application for work in Rock Springs, Wyoming setting up and tearing down seperation tanks in the oil fields pay is $1,700 a week I think I can live on that and make more than burying people!! and I miss the mountains!! I can always go back to School!!
Work & School I am a "Death Care Specialist"
April 23 at 940 for the year-- Summer Semester taking Chemistry and Lab June 2 - 27th 8am to 2pm Mon thru Thursdays and then Intro to Small Business and elective for the 2nd half July 2 - 25th 9 to 11 am same days...
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More now it's July 17th why count??? we're all gonna die------
30 May 1,160 total deaths year to date month to date 185 total cremations for year 315 38% cremation rate--
I have worked 96 hours the past 2 weeks Not bad for a part time job... removing people from hospitals- nursing homes- residences and the Medical Examiners Office, have 2 cots with me, take them back, bath, embalm, dress, casket and deliver to 15 other funeral homes here in Oklahoma City or cremate, sweep and vacume and process the bones and bag and deliver to the same funeral homes here. Bag-em and Tag-em !!
Starting my Junior Year at UCO Spring Semester Jan 14, 2008!! Pathology and Humanitys Modern to Ren-
Went to May Technical College May 1995 / May 1996 Montana Rail Link Railroad sent me there after messing up my back at the Laurel Round House / Car Shop in the Mechanical Department as a Hostler - Laborer Took Computer and Electronic Technology Course at May Technical College before it closed its doors ~ it was a 12 month course and had a 3.29 GPA !!! not bad concidering the lovely grades I got back when I was a WILD CHILD !!! So I just hit
format C:/ and reload alot!!! sometimes config...Expand for more
.sys and autoexe.bat but other than that learing now to be a UNDERTAKER / FUNERAL DIRECTOR!!
College
Starting my Junior Year Jan 14, 2008 at UCO
March 88-Oct 88 went to U of M in Missoula 2 Quarters Sociology and Journalism
May 94-May 95 May Technical College In Billings Computer and Electronics Technology
Started for a Bacholers of Science HAD A BS DEGREE FOR YEARS!!. in Mortuary Science at University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, OK Aug 23, 2004 Sigma Phi Sigma
What about Military Schools?? U.S.Army Infantry School FT. Benning, GA 1976/ CBR-NBC School FT. Lewis WA. 1980/ NCO School PNCOC 1983/Instructor Cadre' Training School FT, Harrison, MT 1985
Fall Semester 2004
Psychology of Grief, History of Funeral Directing, Restorative Art, Mortuary Jusprudence
Spring Semester 2005
History of U.S. since 1877, Biology, Funeral Home Management I, Orientation to Funeral Directing
Fall Semester 2005
Funeral Counseling, Humanitys- Music & Culture
Spring 2006 OCCC / Oklahoma City Community College
U.S. Goverment, Basic College Math, College Writing (These 2 classes were non-graduate but got the basic's down again!!)
Fall Semester 2006
Accounting I, (pre-requisite for Funeral Home Management II),
Computer Technology in a Global Society, MS Office Applications
Spring 2007 Semester
Math for General Education, English Composition I, and Intro Into Chemistry & Lab, I with drew after spring break after starting organic chemistry just too much with work and homework time... got the idea tho on Carbon- Hydrogen bonding- covalent bonds - Isomers and situants on the chain --which make up compounds. got into polypeptide bonds and sugars in the body glucose-frutose- calories and still didn't know how to make a hormone!!
Fall 2007 Semester
Funeral Home Management II, English Composition II, Funeral Home Statitory Laws on Monday nights form 6 to 9 pm so much for Monday Night Football!!!---
*****JOKE TIME******
What does a woman and Kentuck Fried Chicken Have in common???
When you get past the breast, leg and thigh all that's left is a greasy old box!!!
Workplace
IS Living a part of dying OR... is dying a part of LIVING???
Worked also as an apprentace at
John M.Ireland Funeral Home & Chapel in Moore, OK 73160
Hey Ya Know What I Mean ?
SomeBODYs gotta do it!!!
Party like a Mortican.... Grab a Cold one!!!
Friends help you move... Real friends help you move....Bodys!!!
I'd Rather Have a Bottle in front of me... than a frontal labottomy !!!
Was working at Westlake ACE Hardware as a floor associate almost a year part time and driving, delivering caskets on my days off for Funeral Director Service,, Been all over the State of Oklahoma to Madill and Tulsa, Witchita, KS and to Shreveport, LA picking up bodies--
Military U.S. Army:
2 Feburary 1976 11 B 10 Infantryman Basic D-5-1 3rd Platoon Fort Knox, Kentucky 40122 1 April 1976 20 May 1976 B-11-5 Fort Benning, Georgia 30018 6 June 1976-1 Feburary 1980 3rd Platoon B CO 1/10th Infantry 4th Infantry Division Mechanized-
Fort Carson, Colorado 80913 OUR BATTALION WALKED 110 MILES IN 4 DAYS IN AUG 1978!!!
Calvery Scout 19-D-20 15 March 1980-15 March 1988
Air Troop 163rd Air Cav Montana Army National Guard 59722
Fort Harrison Montana Cadre' Instructor NCO / OCS Courses 1986-1988
Honorable Discharge at end of time in service.
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