Lions-L Discussion List - September, 1996

From: Bob Brown
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 96 10:56:43 EDT
Subject: Changing Addresses

Don, I'll go fix your address in a few minutes.

Normally I'd reply privately to you, but your message reminded me... I was going to post a "List Administrivia" message about once a month, and I haven't done it. Maybe I'll figure out whether I can make that happen automagically. Thanks for the reminder.

--Bob '65

From: Bob Brown
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 96 09:54:12 EDT
Subject: Alumni Registry

I received the following communication, which the sender attempted to send to Lions-L. Since the list is open only to Baker alumni who have subscribed, the message below "bounced" to me.

--Bob '65

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Hello,

Upon the suggestion of one of your alumni, C. Rolf Milton I would like to announce the addition of Baker High School - Columbus to the Georgia Alumni Page located in

http://www.infophil.com/Georgia/Alumni/BHS.

The alumni page is a voluntary effort by several U.C. Berkeley students and will always remain a free service. It is intented to supplement the home page you are maintaining.

It offers a central site in which people can look for alumni from your school. The page offers a bulletin board which should reduce e-mail clutter. Only registered alumni can post messages in the bulletin board. It also offers an automated e-mail registry in which an alumni can automatically update his or her information. The use of passwords also empowers the alumni to only have their e-mail addresses available to fellow registered alumni. Hence, this registry would reduce the man power needed to maintain your home page.

Please put a link to it from your page (http://www.Baker.HS.org/home.html)

and also please publicize it to your fellow alumni.

Thank you.

From: Janice Bolles
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:34:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Annoucement (fwd)

bill send a email to Deleted on american on line and i think she can help you. that is joann hart cotty she is the one that put the whole reunion on.

janice bolles

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 4 Sep 1996 13:01:22 EDT
Subject: How To Handle Senior Pictures?

LI>When we did the first senior pictures, we made the names in the
LI>class indices "clickable" when there was a picture available, even
LI>if there was no other information.

LI>Is that the right thing to do? If not, how do we indicate that.
LI>a picture is available?.

LI> --Bob '65

Bob, That sounds fine to me. Are you getting the pictures from the Annuals? Hope so...I don't think anyone here has any of me.

R. Elaine Graves (67) Baker.

From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 08:37:31 -0400
Subject: Another Classmate Locator

Hi folks, just checked in to another high school locator site:

http://www.xscom.com/reunion/

Only one Bakerite listed there (before me) and I sent her an e-mail about @Baker.

Bob - I left a note to the webmaster asking him to set up a hot link to @Baker.

Mike '64

From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 13:32:25 -0400
Subject: Re: Another Classmate Locator

Mike,

Actually, several of us have registered with ' Reunion Hall ' already. I registered on the 16th of July and many more have since then, it's just taking them a long time to build a page for Baker and post all of the entries.

Something else people may find interesting too, is the search engine ' Lycos '. Go there and enter ' People Find .' You can find anyone in the United States that is listed in a phone directory, along with their phone number and address.

Johnny Joiner ' 65

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 11 Sep 1996 08:40:36 EDT
Subject: Re: Another Classmate Locator

I have registered at the Reunion Hall...probably, like you, in the July timeframe. I thought I was registered on Four11 until I tried to find "me". I kept trying and never was registered. Finally, I complained that it was just not viable for me to "spend" my valuable time this way. (Effective complaining...rule #1). Sooooo....Four11 told me they would register me right then and there if I would just fill out the information on the email they sent me. I will try to go in again, today: +)

Thanks, Johnny for the information on Lycos...People Find. You all know that I have been "looking" for childhood friends (some were like sisters and brothers to me no more than that....stabilizing influences for me! Some of these are names with very young faces:

Linda Melton, John DeChamp, Connie Sparks, Wanda Patrick, Karen Lightcap, etc.) I will certainly put on my "scout" hat and look into People Find!

R. Elaine Graves Baker '67

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 11 Sep 1996 10:07:16 EDT
Subject: Hurricane Fran

Hi all... I hope all are alive and well. I hope none of you were devastated by Hurricane Fran. I know that many lost a great deal. It was a bad time for a lot of people. Thursday night was a hard night for sleeping in my upstairs bedroom even with storm windows.

Here in Fayetteville, most are pulling together to "clean up after Frannie". (Some are still without power and water)! Good things have happened because of the hurricane though. I was introduced to some of newer people in the neighborhood. I was gratified to find my "old" neighbors, as always, supportive and kind. We were really "kindred spirits" in the face of disaster, though many of us do not socialize much anymore, in our neighborhood. (Maybe we need to have a block party like we used to do, when our children were young! Now, most of us just wave from our cars on our way to fulfilling our busy daily schedules. Sometimes we talk over a fence or even in the road when walking the dog.

But, Friday morning we found ourselves in the same "boat"! We were without electrical power or water! Many of us had trees laying all over the yard; all had carpets of twigs and branches. Some have structural damage to homes or sheds. All are alive here in this small subdivision and well, if a little shaken!

Myself, I did a major yard clean up on Friday at my house with the help of a newer neighbor and her eleven year old boy, Chris. He now has a client for a regular lawn mowing! I now have two new friends! I had no water or power for 3 days. That was difficult! I am still buying water. We have been advised not to drink our water, yet.

A friend from Raleigh called tell me that the Unity Church I attend was closed this past Sunday. Ra, who is from Ghana, said Fran was a "test". "Elaine", asked Ra, "did you pass? This time it was only a few days... what if it was for a month or two? I ask this because you know there will be more. How did the other humans do in your area? (This is how Ra talks). Do you think they passed the test?" I answered that I a little disappointed in my behavior because I had let it depress me some. (Fran had scared me). Overall I think we "humans" had passed this small test. But, I cannot say that we would do so well if the outages lasted longer. I know there will be more "tests".

We, humans, here in Fayetteville, NC are like many humans out there. We are used to our comforts. I had help from neighbors and I helped, too. But, I also ended up with an angry next door neighbor who picked this time to tell me that he thought my butterfly bush and perrenial hibisbus were on "his" property. (He threatened to cut down my red dogwood. I went to the courthouse yesterday on the 10th of September for the proper maps/deeds to initiate a resurvey). I hate this...it is going to cost me...but it is one of the "bad" residuals left from hurricane Fran. I will weather it also, as I have "Frannie".

From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 10:32:03 -0400
Subject: Re: Hurricane Fran

Elaine, I'm so glad you made it through the hurricane and came out with a few new friends in the bargain.

Do any of you Baker Lions remember when we had flooding in Columbus? We lived on Rice Street about two miles from the river, and the water came up into our yard and drowned the chickens my grandmother raised. Seems that water actually came into Cindy Rush's house a few doors down. People were riding down the streets in row boats! What year was that? Seems like it was before I started at Baker. Just as Elaine recounted, I remember neighbors spending lots of time helping each other and just visiting, especially since the power was out!

- --Deborah Alderman Valentine, '66

From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 12:14:27 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Hurricane Fran

Deborah...

you and Elaine haven't lived 'til you've been through an ice-storm in New York STate!!!! Glad everyone's fine.

Did you get my cc e-mail about my book being sent to you? Al '64

From: Ballengee, Anne
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 96 14:25:00 PDT
Subject: FW: Hurricane Fran

And, I think an ice storm in NY State would be EASY compared to snow and/or ice in our nation's capital!

Anne Achey Ballengee '66

From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 15:04:17 -0400
Subject: Re: Hurricane Fran

Yes, Al, thanks so much. Your book hasn't arrived yet, but I'll let you know.

From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 15:07:03 -0400
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

Wait a minute! I think Bob Brown will back me on this one: Ice storms in Atlanta keep people house-bound because of steep driveways and few salt trucks! We Atlantans think WE take the prize!

Can hardly wait for Kathy Om. Agar's reply to this one!!!

- --Deborah Alderman Valentine '66

From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:36:41 -0800
Subject: Re: Hurricane Fran

WOW, I remember the flooding, but not when? Haven't thought of that in years.

Rolf

From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:38:37 -0800
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

OK, so you guys want to talk Winter weather, come see me in February! :-)

Rolf

From: Ballengee, Anne
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 96 16:07:00 PDT
Subject: Hurricane Fran

Having lived in Alaska (ask Jim Burke - he remembers and brought it up at our class reunion!), I know that folks up North know how to deal with snow and ice whereas folks in this part of the world just PANIC! And, after all the milk & tp disappear from the super market, the folks hole up waiting for sunshine!!!

Anne Achey Ballengee '66

From: Freeman, William
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:06:28 -0400
Subject: RE: Hurricane Fran

Anne, I totally agree with you........Snow/ice in the DC area brings things to a standstill and then some. Four hours to go ten miles is all kinda fun..................

Bill Freeman '67

From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:59:21 -0500 (EST)
Subject: RE: Hurricane Fran

C'mon...what a joke. A DC Icestorm so bad? Up here the trees break in half, the powerlines come down, the heat and electric go off, and the roads are impassible.

But the best thing is this...isn't it funny how silly stuff like this sparks a flood of messages...after we've been so quiet for awhile! Gotta thank Elaine Graves...she sure gets us going! I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Silly...but fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Al '64

From: Katherine Agar
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:05:56 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: winter

Deborah,

Ok, here's my contribution to the one-ice-manship discussion. Our town is so small they don't really have the equipment to clear the streets properly, so basically we drive on packed snow and ice most of the winter. On the other hand, we can easily walk anywhere we want to go. We had lots of 50-below days last year, so the "anywheres" were few!

Kathy Agar

From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:39:04 -0400
Subject: Weather

I lived on Fletcher Ave in Columbus during the big flood. I can remember the water rising into our back yard from a creek near the South Columbus Boy's Club ( I think it was Bull Creek ).

Being an Army brat, and serving in the USAF myself, I have lived on the gulf coast and east coast with hurricanes, Texas with monster tornados, New York state with ice storms, Labrador with blizzards, freezing days and nights, and snow deeper than the houses themselves, and in Hawaii with, huh, well what can I say?

If you've never witnessed a major hurricane, or a tornado ( of any size ), you can't begin to imagine what it's really like. I guess what I'm trying to say is, given a choice as far as weather is concerned, I'll take Hawaii.

( Lots of grins ).

Johnny Joiner ' 65

From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:45:00 -0400
Subject: Linda Melton

Elaine,

Is Linda Melton related to Don Melton? Don is here in Hinesville. I see him fairly regularly, if he is related, and you are looking for her.

Johnny Joiner ' 65

From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:19:32 -0800
Subject: Re: winter

Katherine Agar wrote:
> We had lots of 50-below days
> last year, so the "anywheres" were few!

Oh, Oh. I think Alaska weather (my area at least) has to take a back seat to that.

I do remember some of the ice (rain turned to ice) storms in Columbus, and they were certainly unequalled in comparison to some of the places that I've been to. - not to mention the snow storm of 1973 (?) . . .

Rolf '67

From: Lawrence Johnson
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 7:18:21 EDT
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

Having lived through six hurricanes, two tornados, several midwestern hail storms and ice/snow storms in Washington, DC and Atlanta, I dislike hurricanes the most.

Larry Johnson '65

From: Freeman, George
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 07:49:00 EST
Subject: Hurricane Fran

Having lived through ice storms in Alaska, blizzards in Minnesota, hurricanes in Virginia (Hazel '54?) & tornadoes in Illinois I dislike driving on I-285 (Atlanta) the most.

George Freeman'66

From: Bob Brown
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 14:49:27 EDT
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

>Wait a minute! I think Bob Brown will back me on this one: Ice
>storms in Atlanta keep people house-bound because of steep driveways
>and few salt trucks! We Atlantans think WE take the prize!

Truly! And because they're infrequent, *all* the weakened trees come down at once, instead of a few at a time, so roads are blocked, power's out, etc. ad grumble.

Say? Howcome Al's mailing you a copy of his book and I hadda get mine at a bookstore? <grin>

--Bob '65

From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:47:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

Bob...

Deborah's getting a copy of my new textbook entitled THE LAW AND ROCK 'N' ROLL. It'll get to her as a desk copy because she's a professor. The novel is different (grin). I wish I could give a free copy to everyone from Baker...or I wish everyone from Baker would buy my books...(bigger grin). Love you all.

Al '64

P.S. I wanna puke hearing how bad Atlanta's weather is...are you all kidding...come up here...or better yet join Rolf.....the northern weather is bad...and the biggest reason is not storms...but the lack of sunlight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:50:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

PPS...she gets a desk copy free FROM THE PUBLISHER not me. Have you read the novel yet, by the way?

Al '64

From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:15:11 -0400
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

Mr. Brown,

Glad to have you back! I thought that that ICU/ER stuff was going to do you in. I had a great time in Atlanta last weekend. Sorry that I couldn't get together with you and Deborah! Will be there again this weekend because my son, Richie, is flying in from Houston for a meeting. Imagine that he has my time planned. There is always the next time.

Elaine, glad that you were able to weather the storm and to get back on-line. Until later.

Jeannie '65

From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:24:46 -0400
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

Al,

there are "several" of us who are professors out here (smile). And Bob is moonlighting as a prof again this fall. We will be glad to give you our addresses. Only next (am ready for this one) you are going to ask us which course number in which we will use the text, the number of students......

Jeannie '65

From: Bob Brown
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 17:05:20 EDT
Subject: Re[2]: FW: Hurricane Fran

Hey! I'm a perfesser. Erm, at least I'm an adjunct instructor. (Yeah, I know... I know... the Lowest of the Lowly.) I've somehow found myself signed up to teach 10 quarter-hours in addition to my "day job" this Fall. Sigh.

Yes, I've read the novel, and I enjoyed it. Others who grew up around the military (or went to OCS!) will enjoy it, too. My local bookstore didn't have a copy, but it didn't take long for them to order it.

From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:55:15 -0800
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

Al Sciarrino wrote:
>
> Bob...Deborah's getting a copy of my new textbook entitled THE LAW AND ROCK
> 'N' ROLL.

Hey, Al, that's a great title. Is it widely available?

Rolf

From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:02:30 -0400
Subject: Weather

Let's see, we hit worst ice, lowest temperature, hurricanes, and floods. Who was in the worst heat?

BTW - A Chicgo winter is pretty close to the bottom of my list of experiences.

Mike '64

From: Johnny Joiner
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:07:49 -0400
Subject: Re: Weather

South Georgia, in August when it's 104 degrees and the humidity is 100 %. It's so damned mucky, you can hardly breathe.

Johnny Joiner ' 65

P.S. Mike, how close are you to Downers Grove, Ill ?

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 09:16:18 EDT
Subject: Bad Highways/bad times

LI>Having lived through ice storms in Alaska, blizzards in Minnesota, LI>hurricanes in Virginia (Hazel '54?) & tornadoes in Illinois I dislike LI>driving on I-285 (Atlanta) the most. George Freeman'66

I hate driving on the beltline in Raleigh at 630 PM weekdays.....

I hate driving on I-95 cause it is so boring...and forget billboards...Ladybird Johnson was right wildflowers rule! Billboards ARE ugly (and the emperor was naked as a jaybird)!

I LOVE, love, love country roads!

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 09:22:04 EDT
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

Today...(though my back still hurts like crazy)! I am elated to have lived through my 1st hurricane!!!!

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 09:33:14 EDT
Subject: Linda Melton

LI>Elaine,

LI> Is Linda Melton related to Don Melton? Don is here in
LI>Hinesville. I see him fairly regularly, if he is related, and you
LI>are looking for her.

LI> Johnny Joiner ' 65

Actually, I believe she was an only child. BUT, her real father was a baseball player (he may have had other children). I think he played with the minor leagues. (I love baseball but I don't really keep up with all the players, even in the major leagues! I think his name was Bob Strawn or Strom or something like that (does anybody recognize that name?). She was adopted by her stepfather. Her mother was French. We were together in Verdun American High School, Verdun, France (61-64).

The last I heard from her she was living in Key Biscayne, Florida with her mother. I was at Baker High, Columbus, Georgia at that time.

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 10:39:36 EDT
Subject: Hawaii

LI> If you've never witnessed a major hurricane, or a tornado ( of any size
LI>), you can't begin to imagine what it's really like. I guess what I'm
LI>trying to say is, given a choice as far as weather is concerned, I'll take
LI>Hawaii.

LI> ( Lots of grins ).

LI> Johnny Joiner ' 65

I agree...I think it was frightening while it happened. (my "fight or flee" mechanism was up, but I had no where to go but out into the storm...so I busied myself).

I cleaned and cleaned (in case strangers came to my door, needing shelter). I also stocked up on water (filling every container, including the bathtub). I got all the candles I could find ready in case of power failure, as well as, the kerosene lamps. I had already gone by the store the night before for milk and bread so grocery supplies were well stocked.

I had cooked on the Sunday afternoon past; I had cold food I could eat (or share) for a little while.

I kept an eye out for the storm in case it got a lot worse. My emergency spot was ready, I had chosen the downstairs hallway, where there is a door between the kitchen and hallway that makes a third wall. There is a large oak desk I could drag over me and my round mamasan chair mattress.

When my 25 year old, Civil Engineering technician son, was younger, he and I did many drills for all kinds of disasters. It was free fun...and educational (great for rainy days when money is tight)! It not only helped us both to learn good procedures for emergency situations but gave us some memories of times together (my favorite is belly-crawling out of our bedrooms and down the stairs in case of a smoke alarm going off or at the least sign of smoke)!

From: Bruce Emerson
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:57:02 -0400
Subject: Re: Weather

I spent three years with Boeing at their China Lake location from 1991 - 1994. That part of California is real desert with average summer temperatures or 115 degrees. China Lake is located just between Los Angeles and Los Vegas, very close to Death Valley. It's really nice to be back in the SouthEast - Huntsville, Alabama.

Bruce Emerson

From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:58:50 -0400
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

LI> Say? Howcome Al's mailing you a copy of his book and I hadda get mine at a bookstore? <grin>

LI> --Bob '65

Maybe he thinks I'll mail him a free, autographed copy of CrossTalk! Or maybe it's 'cause I'm "prettier" than you!!!

<huge guffaw>

(Deb. Alderman Valentine 66)

From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:47:03 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

Rolf...

the ISBN # is 0-07-057873-7 (McGraw-Hill). Hopefully your bookstore can get it ordered for you! My novel Officer Candidate School can also be ordered from your bookstore...I forgot the ISBN # but it's in books in print as "Officer(s) Candidate School"

Al '64

Maybe you might wanna read this stuff during the cold Alaskan winter (ha!)

From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:50:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

Deborah...it's definitely your second reason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Al '64

I really can't wait until we have an all sixties reunion by the way.

Al '64

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 15:46:34 EDT
Subject: RE: Hurricane Fran

LI>impassible. But the best thing is this...isn't it funny how silly stuff like
LI>this sparks a flood of messages...after we've been so quiet for awhile!
LI>Gotta thank Elaine Graves...she sure gets us going! I love
LI>it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Silly...but
LI>fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LI>Al '64

Not so silly Al...
Hurricanes Stories are like Fish Stories....brings out the bragg in us! Makes us cling together and revel in the calamities and joys of life. This IS what it is about....laughing (even in relief) and loving each other.
I love it, too....This is wonderful!

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 15:48:58 EDT
Subject: FW: FW: Hurricane Fran

I agree...we are never ready in the south for snow. ....but what IS "tp"... texas pete, ?????got me.....Anne.....Elaine!

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:07:22 EDT
Subject: RE: Hurricane Fran

Al....how nice of you to send me a book.... to think I was planning to buy one....Well maybe I can buy the next one...

I want to say again Al...thanks...you just don't know how much I love to read!!!

Elaine....67

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:10:04 EDT
Subject: Re: Hurricane Fran

LI>WOW, I remember the flooding, but not when? Haven't thought of that in LI>years.

Thanks Deborah,

The flooding had to be before "67"...

Elaine Graves Baker

From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:37:08 -0800
Subject: Re: Flooding

I think it was about '63 - any help?

Rolf

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:30:48 EDT
Subject: Al's Books

Elaine here....

Thanks for the info Al....Waldenbooks here I come.....to look at Al's books. Maybe buy...

Y'all have a better and better day!!!!

Elaine Graves Baker 67....(feeling like Winnie the Pooh and Tigger,too)!

GLAD TO BE ALIVE.

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:21:46 EDT
Subject: Re: Al's books...

I was just kidding, Al. I plan to look for both of your books. But...before I buy, I must browse....they may or may not be my kind of reading.....wellllll....I may buy them just because you are a one of Baker's Best!

I really do love laughing with you all and loving you all, too. Hurricane's help to reinforce basic values.

Elaine 67

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:24:06 EDT
Subject: Re: FW: Hurricane Fran

LI>Mr. Brown, Glad to have you back! I thought that that ICU/ER stuff was LI>going to do you in. I had a great time in Atlanta last weekend. Sorry that LI>I couldn't get together with you and Deborah!

Thanks Jeannie....

If there were only more time....but then we would have to have more money too ....

For all those wishes we would each need our own personal Genie...

Elaine 67

From: Rod Weiss, Sr.
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 96 02:07:49 UT
Subject: Graduate Listings

Bob:

Talked with Mr. Mossor and Ms. Canady about the years you needed graduate's names for. They checked all the listing they had for the 50 and they do not have any for 57 or 58. They will get you 91 as soon as the work load allows them the time.

You will have to locate school annuals for 57 and 58 I'm afraid.

Good luck. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Rodney

From: Bob Brown
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 96 01:43:13 EDT
Subject: Difficulty Reaching @Baker Server

Some of you may have had trouble reaching the @Baker server on Friday, September 13. @Baker is connected to the Internet via PSINet, and they were having router trouble in Atlanta on Friday, and connections fro some locations failed. The problem was traced to hardware and has been repaired.

--Bob '65

From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:21:51 -0400
Subject: Can You Top This?

In a message dated 96-09-14 04:02:24 EDT, Johnny Joiner wrote:

<< P.S. Mike, how close are you to Downers Grove, Ill >>

A lot closer than I am to Georgia. I'd guess about 1/2 hour. I'm up in the extreme northern 'burbs of Chicago. It is about the same driving time to downtown Milwaukee as it is to Chicago.

For the driving horrors commentary, I submit Houston as the consistently worst driving experience. I've see individual jams that are worse, but nothing reaches the daily nadir of the Houston driving experience. (I lived and dodged...drove there for 3 years)

Mike '64

From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:43:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Can You Top This?

Mike, is Houston really worse than Los Angeles? It took me an hour to go ten blocks a few years ago.

(Deb. Alderman Valentine '66)

From: Deborah Valentine
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:44:20 -0400
Subject: Re: Difficulty Reaching @Baker Server

Bob, I'm having to delete the lions -l address from Cc every time I send a message??? Is anyone else having this problem?

(Deb Alderman Valentine '66)

From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 10:57:12 -0400
Subject: Houston Traffic

What made/makes Houston traffic so bad was 2 situations:

1) There was no law requiring trucks to cover their loads. As a consequence, we were always dodging gravel and other detrius flying off trucks traveling at 70 mph. I replaced more headlights (and both cars had chipped windsheilds) in the time I lived there than in all my driving years elsewhere.

2) Most residents of Houston are not natives. Its boomtown status attracted folks from all over the USA....with all the various driving customs from the place of their origin. You never knwe if the person ahead would slow up or speed up on an on-ramp, pass on left or right, thow a bird or shoot you for throwing a bird, ..... you get the idea, an unpredictable, chaotic mess.

Mike '64

From: Britt Ware
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:47:15 -0700
Subject: Class of '54

Bob:

Yesterday, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported the death of Charles Dean Wilson, 62, on September 6th. Charles was a graduate of Baker HS, class of 1954. He resided in Dublin, GA.

Please amend the '54 class roster accordingly. I remember Charles very well but I hadn't seen him since our high school days. I have the notice which was published in the paper in case anyone wants more detail.

Thanks,

Britt Ware ('53)

From: Bob Brown
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 96 00:48:50 EDT
Subject: Holy Cow! Wotta Week!

What a week!

Moving a hospital emergency department turns out to be, er, hard. You don't get to close for a week... the clock passes some arbitrary time and you start seeing patients in the new building, while continuing to treat patients at the old facility, too.

Happily for me, I only had to coordinate the move of the computer stuff, phones, and radios. We began moving on Monday, saw the first patient in the new building at 03:10 on Tuesday, and mostly had everything out of the old space by close of business on Wednes- day.

It's a good thing, too, because the construction company started demolition on the old area on Thursday!

On top of all that, we turned on a new automated tracking system for E.R. patients and implemented new registration procedures for Code I (really sick) patients at the same time.

All's well that ends, I guess. I'm still alive, mostly caught up on sleep, and ready to face the next week. Erm, when school starts. Sigh.

--Bob '65

From: C. Richard Tolbert
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:28:09 -0400
Subject: I made it!

Hello All, I was very glad to see that Baker had a web page. I didn't see a lot of my classmates listed, but maybe in time.

I have lived in Columbus most of my life. I am a licensed electrical contractor (for Georgia and Alabama), 47 years old and single. Feel free to Email me anytime and visit my web page: Omitted

Richard Tolbert

From: Kathleen O'Connor Moore
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 22:12:33 -0400
Subject: I Made It!

Hi everyone, It's Kathleen O'Connor Moore. '88

I noticed only a few folks from my year have checked in but maybe sometime there'll be more. I live in Milwaukee now - yikes, I better get ready for the snow.

I am really glad to have found the Baker page. Helps ease the homesick blues.

Kathleen

From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:25:18 -0400
Subject: Welcome

Welcome Kathleen. I live in Mundelin, IL now and am also enjoying the last tolerable weather before the nastienesss sets in.

Welcome also to Richard Tolbert.

Both of you might want to catch up on the gossip, memories and running commentary this mailing list has engendered since it began in December. They have been suummarized monthly and the summaries are "clickable" on the @Baker home page.

Mike Omelanuk '64

From: Jeanne Sweeney
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:29:05 -0400
Subject: Re: I Made It!

Richard and Kathleen, Welcome!

We have a groups of Baker alums that chat here -- on just about everything. Feel free to initiate questions, thoughts, comments....

Jeannie '65

From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:24:48 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Welcome

Kathleen...

I'll be in Milwaukee on Columbus Day weekend! Al '64 (Sandye...obviously I won't be making the '64 reunion...talk later)

From: JANICE BOLLES
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:52:10 -0400
Subject: Re: I Made It!

Kathy

My daughter Janna Bolles wants to talk with you when you get this e-mail. She been looking for you and the old gang. She lives with me up on the backwaters . You know where , on Lake Harding . Call her on the ring-a-ding or email me at JANICE BOLLES. Hope to hear from you soon.

Mrs. Janice Bolles

From: Kathleen O'Connor Moore
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:52:12 -0400
Subject: Re: I Made It!

Hi!! I knew this list thing was a good idea - It's good to hear from you.

From: R. Elaine Graves Baker
Date: 24 Sep 1996 16:29:24 EDT
Subject: Re: I Made It!

Who are you? on this list we cannot see who you are...all mail sent to list has return address on it from lions-list central...ask BoB Brown...the webmaster. I am...elaine baker 67 was R. Elaine Graves 67

From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:48:11 -0400
Subject: Re: Lions Digest V1 #162

In a message dated 96-09-24 04:02:08 EDT, Al wrote:

<< Kathleen...I'll be in Milwaukee on Columbus Day weekend! Al '64 (Sandye...obviously I won't be making the '64 reunion...talk later) >>

Hey Al, I'm an hour away from Milwaukee. Call me if you get a chance - I'll meet ya half way. Home Deleted work Deleted.

Mike '64

From: Al Sciarrino
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:04:18 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Lions Digest V1 #162

Mike...

that'll be cool. If I get the chance, I'll call before I leave here, and we can set something up. All is tentative at this time, but I believe my trip to Milwaukee has a 70 to 30 chance. Flight rates are way down!

Al '64

From: Mike Omelanuk
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:26:18 -0400
Subject: Call

Great. If it doesn't work out, we'll try again. I had to pass Bob several times this summer.

Mike '64

From: C. Richard Tolbert
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 19:59:21 -0400
Subject: 1967 Yearbook

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know how or where to get old year books?

1967 in perticular.

Please let me know.

Rick Tolbert '67

From: C. Rolf Milton
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 20:06:41 -0800
Subject: Re: 1967 Yearbook

No, I don't, but would love to have 64, 65, and 67.

Rolf

MRO