I would love to have had this on hand when I was teaching junior
high geography.
(Answer at the bottom)
The unhappy kid getting glasses in this Norman Rockwell took me
back to that dark day in 1959 when my world was upended. Click HERE
to learn all about it.
Sam Turner, who I believe is the only former faculty
member getting the Fry Day emails, had some nice things to say
about my recent work. My response was a quote from Arthur C.
Clarke: “the modesty with which I am so thoroughly imbued is but
one of the many qualities that make me so great.”
I heard from Sarina Klein Nordmarken ’63 and asked her to tell me
again the story of the 6600 block of Saranac — the “Klein Block”.
“Next door to us was Roberta “Bobbie” Kleine” Sarina recalled.
“Bobbie went to Crawford, but was younger than us. I was probably
in college when they moved in. Karl and Emma Klein were senior
citizens, had no children, but owned a stinky bulldog named Jimmy
Boy. Next to them, by the way, was the Zeltins family. Yuris,
the oldest, graduated in ’59. Mara was Class of ’60. Andris
graduated with you in ’62 and Annie graduated, I think, in ’69.
I can't resist color photos of Santa Fe trains in the "Warbonnet"
paint scheme. I've added this one to my Santa Fe train page along
with some new information. Turns out there are three different
kinds of diesel locomotives pictured on the page. Click HERE
to check them out.
My classmate Larry Wahlgren shares shots of "his" and "hers"
Wahlgren rides. Click HERE
for more pictures and a lot of motor head talk I didn't
understand. That's NOT a dead body in the truck.
I exchanged more than a few emails with Mel Birken over the years before I learned I was chatting with Melva Brown Birken '67. I'm posting this on the very good chance I won't get an obituary and photo.
(LITTLE ROCK)
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