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03/17/17 01:01 AM #899    

 

Linda Weiner (Bennett)

 Anyone recognize this?

 


03/17/17 01:14 AM #900    

 

Timothy Lavelle

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, Linda.

Sorry for coming back so quickly but I was trying to reach Steve Hodges, aka Fr. Robert and just heard back from him. His schedule is too packed to spend time with us here...but I blab enough for Steve and six others anyway. Steve has always been someone who I admired, even when we were 8th graders. Here is his reply to me.

"I'm still serving full-time as a school chaplain, dividing my time between two schools and helping out in the parish where I live.  I barely have time to check my email account each day, not to mention websites, as attractive as it may be to contribute to the conversations with classmates.  If I were to start a conversation on the website, even with a simple "hello," I would feel obligated to follow-up in responding to remarks sent my way.  As enjoyable as that would be...
Someday, when I'm retired...excuses, excuses.  Forgive your old classmate.  I'm with you in spirit, and everyday, in my private prayers, I remember the BWHS community, esp. my classmates and their families, as a group.
Sincere best wishes & prayers, Tim, and God bless you!"
So, that's some input from our boy Fr. Robert. Great guy. Also, took McLeod's advice and checked you.tube for the poet. I don't like poetry cause I'm dumb about that stuff...this guy is pretty amazing. Almost a stand-up comic but deep too. Thanks Mike. "Forgetfullness" and a two poems written by dogs are especially (for me) poignant. OUT. Really. Out for awhile. Really this time. Really...

03/17/17 11:24 AM #901    

Joseph Gentilini

I want to express the same sentiments as Dave M regarding Janie.  I love this website and ability to correspond with my classmates.  I don't think that this happens elsewhere, at least I doubt that it does!  I also want Janie to know that I keep her in my  thoughts followng the passing of her husband.

On Tim's response, he mentions Steve Hodges (Father Robert).  Steve was a classmate from St. Agatha.  Years ago I saw that his mom had died and Father Robert and I exchanged e-mails about his mom and the passing of my mom.  I am sure he is quite busy, but at least he can read the responses when he can.

This morning I put on a redish shirt and my Leo told me to take it off and wear a green one.  He is half Irish.

So ... HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

 

Joe

 

 

 


03/17/17 11:31 AM #902    

Joseph Gentilini

I missed the 'first time cry' that Janie put here. My father died very suddenly and I did not cry.  I had to be strong for my blind mother, do her checkbooks, medicines, etc., and work everyday.  Six months later I broke down and cried.  It was a good cry and healed me in many ways.  When my Mothe died,  I was sad but knew it was coming.  We had spoken everything that needed to be said.  Grief happens when it happens - no time table.  Janie, I hold you in my  thoughts and prayers.


03/17/17 02:03 PM #903    

 

Deborah Alexander (Rogers)

Janie, if this forum has helped you through a rough spot  it is only fitting.  "Cast your bread upon the waters and it shall return to you a hundredfold".  You have done so much for all of us by creating this forum and website, perhaps you are getting some small return from us in dealing with the loss of your husband.  We are all so blessed to be in touch with each other.  It has to bring a smile to your face, as it does mine, to read  the entries and thoughts of our classmates and friends.  You should be so proud that all of this is thanks to you!  We are loving it as a group, and holding you in our collective arms as you go through the loss of your husband.    Prayers coming your way, too, girl.  XOXO

 


03/18/17 11:14 AM #904    

 

Janie Albright (Blank)

You are all very kind! Muy amable. I'm really doing very well. Let's face it, we all have our moments. But your support and friendship, and enjoying our connection is very uplifting. I look forward to this ongoing conversation.    smiley heart


03/18/17 12:48 PM #905    

 

Michael McLeod

Working on a profile of the woman who owns Pulse, Joe.

Hasn't been told. Her story, that is. 

She opened the club about 20 years ago in memory of her brother, who died of aids.

Comes from good Catholic stock. Good Catholic family. 

This will take me a while but I'll be sure to let you know when it comes out.


03/19/17 09:00 AM #906    

 

Robert Berkemer

I look forward to your story Michael, we need more articles about the angels amongst us and she needs the love and recognition in return for what she gives.


03/19/17 09:09 PM #907    

 

Lorraine Heitchue

Greetings,  this is not a response to previous messages.

Want to do something special in May, 2018 to celebrate your 70th birthday?  I'm rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.  It's an 8 day trip from Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead through the heart of the canyon.  

YNO ROWING REQUIRED

I'm going with Grand Canyon Expeditions.  Their website is www.gcex.com

If you're interested you can email me at lhfox2000@yahoo.com 

Lorraine Heitchue 

 

 


03/19/17 10:08 PM #908    

 

Linda Weiner (Bennett)

 

Ok regarding "Tale of Two Cities" photo is cover of Sunday magazine from the 80s. The story is about two (rival) cities in Ohio. I was a great read. It was so right-on I saved it.

One of you might remember.

 


03/20/17 12:39 AM #909    

 

Linda Baer (Schell)

Dear Frank,

I have not been on our BW sight for a few months but for some reason I started reading the forum tonight. 

I read your last entry....

I played golf today.  It was Sunday.   I saw pine cones in the woods...I saw beautiful water.........I had conversation, not so religious.......and are you really sure God created this game?!?!?devil

Hope you are feeling better...  Linda

 

 

 

 


03/20/17 07:55 AM #910    

 

Frank Ganley

Dear Linda, Of course God created golf but no other game. Only golf is traversed over rolling hills with trees and ponds and lakes all of God's handiwork. No course is ever the same, it holes may be replicated but never duplicated. Remember that as long as we are doing good deeds and living with God we are "god-like". we are not god but acting as God would. If anyone watch the Bay Hill Classic the new campaign "that's what Arnie would do" is almost a repeat of wwjd bracelets. Therfore we know playing golf pleases the Lord​. Since Linda is not convinced of this Book of the Bible we must go to the second Book of the Bible, WE know that when the Lord was on his walkabout and dicovered that hitting a pine cone and watching it cascade to the ground was good. But now comes the problem. How does the Lord transfer this gift to man. At the time of Adam and Eve they had no time for recreation, only survival and procreation. The Lord saved the idea till he felt man was ready for golf. But the question still remains how did the Lord inspire man to play. One cold and lonely night in a stable rejected by all that there was no room in the inn, was a mother and father giving birth to the Savior of the world and no one knew it but them and the angels. Listen to them singing "hark the herald andlels sing glory to the new born king: and the Shepards in the fields as they lay with thier flocks are beckoned by the angels to go and see the new born King, and they did and they knelt and prayed. And the lord Father made a note who came and prayed, the three wise men were months away following a star, You aren't going very fast on a camel following a star. Now the Lord in his infinite wisdom did not inspire the shepards in Isreal to play golf. There is no grass to waste on a game, only sand for miles and everybody dresses in robes and hoodies. One day in Scotland a boy, Ian after he settles the sheep has some time on his hands and he takes his staff and without thinking lauches a petrified sheep dropping into the air and watchers it cascade to the ground, just as the Lord. Ian is excited and calls his brother Kevin to show him what he did. Kevin being the younger say :I can hit it further than you, and so game on, they go to measure and sure enough a rabbit hole is near . I bet ​ can get it the hole in less. You on and the bet is made. What a fun day they had, and couldn't wait to tell the lads about it. They put the sheep away and safe and before going home they stopped st their favorite  pub and described their new game and now new passion. Now in one day many things have been invented and started. One golf was invented by ian and kevin, the 19th hole can be attributted to them also and lastly when talking about golf while accompnied with alcahol Bull shit was invented. The Lord works in mysterious ways. And so goes the Gospel of Golf , inspired by the Holy Spirit .


03/20/17 03:46 PM #911    

 

Michael McLeod

Finally, after all our in depth conversations about matters of faith and all our nostalgic remembrances it comes down to the ultimate mystery the class of 1966 must address:

 

How the hell is it that Frank G. was not our class valedictorian?


03/20/17 06:48 PM #912    

 

David Mitchell

And to think, all this time I'd been thinking golf was invented by the devil.

I mean, I likes to do me a whole lotta cussin' out there knockin' that little white ball around. Ya hear what I'm sayin'?


03/20/17 07:18 PM #913    

Joseph Gentilini

Michael, I look forward to your report on the woman who owned Pulse.  Keep me posted.  Joe


03/20/17 08:25 PM #914    

 

Monica Haban (Brown)

If you've ever dreamed of making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, check this one out.  We made one eleven years ago with our now friend Father Peter Vasko OFM.  As President of the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land, he can provide you with a unique opportunity.  Several Columbus residents, Watterson alumni (1970's) have already signed up.  Father Peter will be leading a pilgrimage to the Holy Land June 22 to July 2, 2017.  You can email me at figgiebrown@aol.com with questions, and you can also visit  http://www.tektonministries.org/catholic-pilgrimages/  for details.

Father Peter has supported our Columbus efforts for the Christians in the Holy Land for the past eleven years through Cradling Christianity.


03/20/17 08:28 PM #915    

 

Michael McLeod

Hmmmm, Linda: It's been a lotta years but that story does look vaguely familiar.

 


03/21/17 09:02 AM #916    

 

Frank Ganley

FrankThe Devil had nothing to do with the devil but only withGod. Each hole is a different test an different set of challenges to manipulate your way around the game board so to speak. It tests your inner spirit and of course your commitment , Dave, Linda , and anyone else who plays you play as good as you practice. There is no one who goes to the course without dreams of a hole in one or shooting par or whatever you goal is but practice is the key. Golf is the easiest of all games to play, Proof take a grandchild who hasnever played, give them a club and ball are they playing golf yes if they swing at the ball. Everything in life is equal and opposite so Golf is also the hardest game to play as it the hardest to be good at. Each shot must be perfect . Not only a perfect hit on the ball but a perfect swing and the hardest part did I pick the right club. Do not be discouraged, dispair not, Its hard. The most important thing to remember is it is a GAME> we PLAY GOLF noit work golf. I work golf, tour guys work golf yet for some reason the amateur curses etc on a missed shot. Please gentle readers PLAY accept that you think perfect but can't perform perfect yet. Peace. Take a lesson.

 


03/21/17 09:36 AM #917    

 

David Mitchell

(ahem,,,damn good thing Frank didn't take up fly fishin' - or god forbid, gourmet cooking)


03/21/17 06:55 PM #918    

 

Linda Baer (Schell)

 

Dear Frank,

I have had many PGA teachers over the years...(as this sport does not seen to come to me as easily as you.) But I have had men, women, old, young, technical, boring, BUT I have never a teacher with lessons that  makes me think I should have joined the convent instead of the LPGA!  You are one of a kind and always surprise me!   Ok, I'm ready for chapter 3!πŸ™β›³οΈ  I think I'm getting it...I've been going at this all wrong.

Love you Frank....is this book going to be in encyclopedia form?

 

 


03/21/17 08:16 PM #919    

 

Michael DeTemple

Frank, 

The closest I got to golf was being a caddie at Brookside Country Club in Worthington.  As I remember we could play on the course on Mondays, but I was so bad at it, that I gave up after a few rounds.  I was a real hacker.  You may have heard of the book, "Golf in the Kingdom."   I read it many years ago, at the suggestion of a friend.  It is an unusual take on golf.  Here's a synopsis of it from Wikipedia:

"Golf in the Kingdom is a 1971 novel by Michael Murphy. It has sold over a million copies and been translated into 19 languages. Golf in the Kingdom tells the story of Michael Murphy, a young traveler who accidentally stumbles on a mystical golfing expert while in Scotland.

Murphy was inspired to write the book after his time at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He became interested in the similarities between descriptions of successful athletes and people who said they had achieved the state of Zen. The novel spawned the Shivas Irons Society, an organization whose members combine golf and meditation." 

The book presents the game of golf as a metaphor for life: with its fairways and rough, its smooth but deceptive greens, its treacherous sand traps and water hazards.  Like life, golf has a goal that is often difficult to reach, with obstacles along the way; there are frustrations, mistakes in judgment, defeats, joy, miracles, exhilarating moments and so forth.  But the book highlights one aspect of the game in particular: the mystical dimension of golf.  Golf is revealed as a doorway to the mysteries of life and to a higher dimension of experience, a path to truth and self-discovery.  In fact, John Updike wrote:  "Golf is of games the most mystical, the least earthbound, the one wherein the walls between us and the supernatural are rubbed thinnest."  Somehow, being in the beauty of that utterly natural world, golfers can see and experience things they do not encounter elsewhere.  They glimpse the supernatural, peeking through the walls of creation; and they can sense the presence of God.  

 

 


03/21/17 09:19 PM #920    

 

David Mitchell

Now das what I'm talkin' 'bout!

 


03/21/17 09:59 PM #921    

 

Frank Ganley

Mike,being a life long golfer, and one who loves to read,  I have gathered a very nice collection of books on rthe subject of golf. I. Have read and reread Golf in the Kingdom so often that there are so many dog eared pages I have to use a marker.bit is spiritual and a true connection with the Highest power . nirvana is hard to achieve it the rimes you leave your ego in your car trunk and allow that whatever occurs ,it is karma. To those who play relax your ability to strike the ball is no indication as to who you are but simply how you are as a golfer. Enjoy its a game. That's why we have a handicap. Linda at the present time I am unable to play period. The foot surgery has been no trip to the beach but so nessasary . the handicap used to be zero but the past two years has not been good lol.my handicap was climbing to 20. Ouch. I am looking forward to working to get it back in single digits. One thing Linda for a simple quick lkesson is the swing for golf is the exact swing as a tennis swing, a baseball swing and if you throw underhand. All the same. The number one thing or mistake golfers make is you try to make sure you hit the ball. I know I'm going to hit the ball so I just swing.. Does Jordan spieth know when he is going to hit the ball? No nor does he care when he hits the ball. What he does know is he is going to hit it. He just swings. Just swing.

 


03/21/17 10:09 PM #922    

 

James Hamilton, M. D.

Frank et. al.,

As Dave Mitchell, Steve Hodges, "Goose" and a few others with whom I hacked my way around Raymond Memorial Golf Course back in our high school summer days can testify, I tried but never was any good at golf. Once I may have broken 100 but then did not do as well on the back nine 😁. My first clubs were a few that my father had when he was very young and consisted of wooden shafted, leather handle wrapped mashie, brassie, spoon and a putter; basically what the Scots would call "Sunday Sticks" (hey, Mike DeTemple, check out that term on Wikipedia!)

03/21/17 10:48 PM #923    

 

David Mitchell

Jim,

How cool. I still have my dad's old canvas bag full of hickory shaffted "mashies", "niblicks", and "spoons" too. He had them from back when he was a kid, when he and one of his older brothers (David) caddied in the 1926 U.S. Open, that Bobby Jones won at Scioto C.C. I believe Uncle Dave carried the bags for one of the final four players (recall, in those days it was "match play" - not "medal play").

I still remember some of those rounds at Raymond with you, Steve, and Tom. (John Jackson played in your place once). Do you recall the time where we all four wiffed on our second shot off the first tee. We all laughed so hard for a minute or so that we were holding up play. 


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