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David Mitchell

'Xcuse me for breaking onto this "I.C. club" private chat room, but I need some help. My FAX machine just broke. Does this mean I'll have to learn to use an "alternate fax" ?

James Hamilton, M. D.

Timothy Lavelle

Dudes n dudettes...Larry F sent me the IC book via e-mail...it's an 11 meg download so I was surprised that Yahoo mail did not crater...but it was a delightful if somewhat voyeuristic trip for me.  Some of you truly look just like you did, I am serious. Phil Enright and Brad Neilson look like med-school students instead of 8th graders. "Hammy" and Vicki Smith, Kevin Cull and Bob Berkemer - simply much younger versions of their current selves. Donna Kelley...I just made a joke about your possible vocation and here you are looking like a model amongst chidren. Maggie Clark, Joe Donahue, Christine Oneal just amazing...And the familiar names like 'Squirrel' Croyle. Pat McGroovey. Earl (whatever happened to Earl?) Allen and another big head scratcher....where in  the world is John Hickey? Everybody should get this thing from Larry - who by the way has not aged a day!

But Donna....in my best street voice....Damn Girl!! 

Robert Berkemer

Say Larry, could you send me a copy of the I.C. Yearbook. I have no memory of it at all. I still have the picture of our graduating class but thats about it. Can you just send these as an attachment and save time and expense?

Thanks, Bob

Michael Boulware

Check out Don Holland and Becky McGee Holland's son, Nate. He is a world class snow boarder. Nathan has been world champ multiple times and was just edged out last week. He'll be on NBC this Sunday . Nate handled himself very well in the interviews after the competition last Sunday. Daddy Don had has mug on the national screen as well.Nathan is trying to make the U.S. Olympic team for the third time.

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Just look what you have started now! Larry, thanks again for sending me the yearbook. It was great to see many of our friends who were important in our lives but who are no longer with us.

Yes, Tim I had a close brush with the habit but the universe had a very different destiny awaiting me----shaking up a nation living under Franco's dictatorship for 36 years. It took me 4 years but he finally succumbed. (Remember the line on SNL about Franco?) .Thanks for the compliment and making me blush....now put away that oregano, please.:-)

PS Bobby C, I know you wouldn't do that!

Janie Albright (Blank)

Mike, thanks for the update on Nate Holland. The last two times he was in the Olympics I sent out notices to our class. You probably notified me or maybe Jodelle. I actually saw Don in one of the tv appearances along the course. And I signed up for Nates instagram and have seen pictures of his wife and baby. I went to St. Mikes with Don so we go way back. A lot of fun to vicariously enjoy something like the Olympics through the eyes of someone you grew up with. Please continue to send updates as you get them. 

Fred Clem

To you Clintonville folks, here's an article about the redevelopment of the Olympic Pool site:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170125/clintonville-apartments-to-be-for-55-and-older-crowd

You'll probably have to copy the link and paste it into your browser.

Janie Albright (Blank)

FYI there's a little link symbol at the top of the posting page you can click and paste your text to make a link active. 

Mark Schweickart

Donna,

So glad to hear how you managed to boot out the Franco regime. I always wondered who did that. And as odd as this may sound, I actually wrote a song about living under Franco called "Looking for Lorca." I mean when one sits back to write a song lyric, there's no telling what might pop into your head, right? Spanish Civil War just sort of jumps right to the front for most people, and I guess I am no different.  Any way if you want to listen to it, go to my website: www.marqmusic.com.

Note: you will need to scroll down quite a bit. I think it is about the 30th song down the list. Also, note that I made this with quicktime files that are no longer suppported by Chrome or Explorer, so use Safari or Firefox if you have that. And with Firefox, when you click on the song, you will probably see a warning at the top asking you if you want to authorize using Quicktime. What a hassle. Sorry about that.

Nonetheless, I think you will like the subject matter.

Mark

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Timothy Lavelle

"....and this news report just in, Generalisimo Francisco Franco is STILL dead".

Monica Haban (Brown)

Larry-

Please email a copy of the I.C. yearbook to me as well.  I taught at Immaculate Conception School for six years during the '70's. The great honor was that 20 years later, I taught many of their children at Our Lady of Peace School. Glad to have moved back to Columbus from Dallas,Texas!

David Mitchell

Tim,

Still?

Frank Ganley

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Mark, I listened to "Listen to Lorca" this morning. Your words truly moved me, evoking memories of the Spain I found in 1971.  The reference to the "walking dead with eyes always averted..." describes the pall hanging over the country after 36 years of Franco.  When a country has access only to the discourse, the voice of the person in power, when contrary opinions and thinking are censored and squelched fear becomes a way of life. 

I know this for a fact. A real fact.

Tim and Dave, I am happy to report:  Affirmative!!

David Mitchell

Donna,

I had not recalled that you actually lived through "el franquismo's" last four years. Wow. what an experience. I remeber my dad explaining to me that he was the only National leader who ever conducted aerial bombing against his own people. I believe back in the 30's he was letting his buddy Adolph Hitler use several Spanish cities for his "non-existent" Air Force to "practice" on. Just Imagine! Someone correct me if I have my history wrong here. 

This brings to mind a flawed but wonderful foreign film, Butterfly's Tongue  - 1999 (renamed "Butterfly" and subtitled for American theaters). It was a sweet story of a little boy in a Spanish town who was a shy little schoolboy with his wonderful relation to an older teacher. The old man eventually gets taken away by the police with other communists in an Army truck while the town Priest and other family members look on submissively and the little boy runs crying after the old man in the truck. Perhaps you may know the film  (it was only a single screen Drexel, Grandview, Bexley type of showing in Columbus).

** Sadly, the film had a sex sene that was so blantanly over the top (and added nothing whatsover to the story!) that I could not take my two teen-age nieces to see it. How I wanted them to see this touching and moving bit of history - unknown to many Americans. 

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But the timing of your experience brings up two sad facts: 

First, that he "reigned" for so long, and

Second, that we are THAT old - yikes!

Mark Schweickart

Donna,

Glad you felt the sentiments expressed to have been accurate for that time period. I have never been to Spain, but I thought it must have been something like that. Feel free to share this with any of your  Spanish friends who might also remember those repressive, dismal times.

David Mitchell

Speaking of touching films - this has nothing to do with anything here but, do yourselves a favor and go see the new film "HIDDEN FIGURES" - about the black women engineers and mathematicians behind the NASA space program. You'll laugh, cry and want to stand up and cheer (more than once). I knew it would be good. I just had no idea it would be THAT good! 

(and you CAN take your teen-aged grandkids to this one)

Lawrence Foster

Lawrence Foster

I just posted the cover of the IC 1962 yearbook, The Immaculatin.  Don't worry folks, I am not going to post the other 35 pages.  The reason I did this post is because I found out just the other day that this cover art work was done in the 8th grade by none other than our grade school and high school classmate Bob Berkemer.  I know Bob took drafting classes at WHS with Sister Thoma, I think.  But he had this skill and talent long befroe he got to high school.    

Janie Albright (Blank)

Bob, who knew?! Were you holding back on us when we were looking for raffle items?!  

Larry, thanks for posting!

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

There's a lot of talent in the class of ´66.  Good job, Bob!

Timothy Lavelle

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR......

Six thousand years ago, about, Chinese astronomers discovered that there was some thing magical about the universe at this particular time of year. The news was so momentus that they determined to pay a visit to and advise the ruler of the time, Foo the Elder. An infamous non-believer in global warming, walls and other things, Foo was known to his people as "Phooey" for his common response to most widely held beliefs of the day. When his scientific advisors sat with him and told him of the wonders of this date, that the universe was in a state of "Perfect Balance" he listened thoughtfully. Then he turned to his chief-of-agreement, Kerry Ahn, and stated his position. He spoke with a heavy Chinese accent. "Kerry" said Big Phooey, "these-a men are a-rying to me. I don't bereive them-a...do-a you"? "I bereive that I want to keep my new job, Emporer Phooey...so I bereive anything you terr me to bereive" was her measured repry, er, reply. Big Phooey condemned the advisors to death or having their brains scanned for troublesome (he pronounced it 'trubbersome' ) thoughts, whichever they chose.

It was into this very dangerous situation strolled the Emporer's only child, young 'Foo the Party' who had been out all night fullfiling his name. When he was told about "Perfect Balance" and the danger to the advisors he knew he had to do something, mostly because these were also the men who were the only ones with the secret knowledge of brewing. With the thought "A Foos gotta do..." in his mind, he offered to prove to Big Daddy that the advisors were correct. As you can imagine, this underlined the PO in Big Phooey. But pressing on, younger Foo asked for a fresh egg and promised to balance it on its end to show that the universe was in fact, in Perfect Balance...which by the way they all pronounced as 'Purfeck Bowrrance'. This sort of bowrrancing act was known as impossible thoughout the land and referred to in the Emporer's scrolls as "Fake-a News".  

It took the young prince Foo quite awhile. He laid the egg on it side and let it roll around and find it "own spot" where it stopped rolling. Then he turned it on end and with great care and a bit of time, he balanced the egg. See the photo...tried to make it smaller but failed this time.

Big Phooey was so stupifed that when he lept off his throne to approach the egg he tripped on scientific fact, (hey, that;s how the story goes!) and fell on Kerry Ahn, sadry kirring them both. Although there were reports that Kerry Ahn slithered away and is still in hiding. "Unkirrable Kerry" is a child's horror tale in darkest Noath K-rea to this day

The court and the advisors immediately pronounced that there was a new ruler who believed in many things, but mostly "he believed he would have another beer"! He was affectionately known as "'Egg' Foo, the Younger" throughout his reign.

Really, true story. My mother taught it to me as a child including the art of balancing eggs in honor of Egg Foo. Trust me.....

David Mitchell

I am reminded of the intro to an old Kingston Trio song;

"....... you see, I was educated in your country at U.C.R.A."

(that's a big Amelican football school in the Westwood neighborhood of Ros Angeres)

Robert Berkemer

Janie,  I wasn't holding out... it's just been decades since I've done any art. I've had some domestic pressure to do so but....  I will say that it was a thrill for me to see Sr. Thoma at the Friday night gathering at Watterson. I was very fortunate to have been allowed to take her Art class as a freshman as she was a respected artist and made a real impact on me. Actually, there were four Sisters at Watterson who took the time to comment and encourage my talent in art, Sr. Toma, Sr. George Ann and Sr. Marie Karen along with a fourth (who's name I can't remember), who, my senior year when I was mistakenly placed in academic English class, worked with me and gave me a sense that I wasn't a complete academic looser! These four women gave me the courage to go to college against the advise of everyone else. I am so lucky.... Just a little kindness can change a persons life.

And Donna, you are right, there was so much talent at Watterson and in our class. It is facinating to see the various paths our childhood friends have taken. I'm proud of the heights many have achieved and humbled by the adversities others have struggled through and still worry about some childhood friends who have seemingly disappeared. It's a shame that we don't all live closer together so that we could maintain these wonderful lifelong friendships...