Apr 8 1968
Won National Championship in Extemporaneous Speech
DSR TKA National Championship in Washington D.C. I spoke on the second question in the final round. Picture from Speaker and Gavel May 1968 showing all those in the final round.
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Oct 9 1967
Favorite Songs from 1967
The World I Used to Know Wonderful, Wonderful Sounds of Silence Day Dreamer Along Comes Mary Cast Your Fate to Wind Blown in the Wind Cherish Blown in the Wind I Want to be Free Elusive Butterfly Melody to an Unknown Girl Surfer Stomp Land of the Free Home of the Brave Broomstick Cowboy Hungry […]
Jul 1 1967
Road Trip with Lyndon Bittle to New York and the Montreal World’s Fair
Lyndon and I drove across the country in his red Volkswagen Beetle. We stopped in west Texas to visit his family and Dayton Ohio to visit my aunt and uncle. We continued to the Montreal World Fair and New York City.
Nov 26 1965
Lyndon Bittle
Lyndon and I were best friends junior and senior years of high school. We were roommates sophomore and junior years of college. We bought a Fiat Spyder together with the financial help of his father. We took a road trip together to the Montreal World Fair in 1966. Senior year of college we grew apart […]
Jul 1 1965
Jackson Hole Road Trip 1965
Drove from Lodi to Jackson Hole with Greg Kennedy and his Jackson Hole friend.
Feb 16 1963
Pocket Watches
Both my grandfathers used pocket watches. From about seventh grade through high school I too carried a pocket watch. I preferred baby bend watches that went for about three or four dollars and were sold at checkout counters. The baby bens kept poor time–off three to five minutes a day. They also broke often. Nonetheless […]
Nov 28 1959
Mom’s fall
About when I was ten, on a winter week-end trip to Old Man’s Cave park, my mother fell over a cliff. She landed on her locked leg which broke through the hipbone socket. She was in a hospital bed at home for several weeks, her leg in traction.
Jun 8 1957
Family Trip to California 1957
When I was 8 years old our family drove route 66 from Lancaster Ohio to LA to visit my grandparents and aunts, uncles and cousins. We spent $10 a night on cheap motels, had breakfast at local camp grounds. We stopped at national parks. In LA we visited Knox Berry Farm and Disney Land.
Aug 27 1970
Fiat 850 Spider with Lyndon Bittle
In 1970 Lyndon and I jointly bought a Fiat Spider 850 with the financial help of his father. Within the next two years everything on the car broke except the steering wheel.
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