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Fiat 850 Spider with Lyndon Bittle
In 1970 Lyndon and I jointly bought a Fiat 850 Spider with the financial help of his father. Within the next two years everything on the car broke except the steering wheel.
Won National Championship in Extemporaneous Speech
DSR-TKA National Championship, Washington, D.C. I spoke on the second question in the final round. Picture from Speaker and Gavel, May 1968, showing all the finalists.
Favorite Songs from 1967
The World I Used to Know Wonderful, Wonderful Sounds of Silence Day Dreamer Along Comes Mary Cast Your Fate to the Wind Blowin’ in the Wind Cherish 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 Exodus Everyone’s Gone … Read more
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 in Dayton, Ohio, to visit my aunt and uncle, then continued to the Montreal World’s Fair (Expo 67) and New York City.
Chess
I played chess in High School. Junior year I was school champion, president of the chess club and on the chess team. Senior year I gave up chess to devote myself to speech.
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’s Fair (Expo 67) in 1967. Senior year of college we … Read more
Jackson Hole Road Trip 1965
I drove from Lodi to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with Greg Kennedy and a friend of his from Jackson Hole.
Pocket Watches
Both my grandfathers used pocket watches. From about seventh grade through high school I too carried a pocket watch. I preferred Westclox Baby Ben watches that went for about three or four dollars and were sold at checkout counters. The Baby Bens kept poor time—off by three to five minutes a day. They also broke … Read more
Mom’s fall
About when I was ten, on a winter weekend trip to Old Man’s Cave in Hocking Hills, my mother fell over a cliff. She landed on her locked leg, which broke through the hip socket. She was in a hospital bed at home for several weeks, her leg in traction.
Family Trip to California 1957
When I was eight, our family drove Route 66 from Lancaster, Ohio, to Los Angeles to visit my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. We spent $10 a night on cheap motels, ate breakfast at local campgrounds and stopped at national parks along the way. In LA we visited Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland.
