Ric Rivera

To ZOOM IT Maybe the technology has been updated to accommodate the shortfalls by then. The Bel Canto 2021 Reunion did, with approximately 50 online. - "There has to be the owner of the ZOOM account thus likely will orchestrate small groups of ten changing every 5-10 minutes". Individuals phoning in are included. What a HUGE undertaking!

Ric Rivera

Great posts thank you all!

Goodbye, 2021 - Hello 2022! Let's do 2022 into a good year! On the Eve, the eclipse, the candle flames out, "times gone by," and you light another, you turn the page and a new chapter you will again, write.

Now, grab your favorite brew [does not have to be Kombucha] and give "Thanks." For good health angels, a toast to dear ones and friends, more so raising your glass to those that passed into memory! 

So, for those in spirit. Upon every wave of the sparkler, every handful of glitter fallen, every firework burst in the sky. Honor their glory, "Wow, that's spectacular!" - Give a big "Thank You" from the bottom of your heart. "HERE's TO YOU!" - Good friend, buddy, family member, or loved one!" "HERE's TO YOU!" - "Til We Meet Again" - "ALOHA OE'"

Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

Let's hope for a better year than 2021, remembering those we lost, praying for those struggling, and doing our best every day, even if that best is just managing to get up in the morning.  Happy new year, y'all.  

Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

So sorry to hear this. His last posts before he got COVID were so happy and full of the beach and fun. His daughter, who works in healthcare, said PLEASE GET VACCINATED.  And I would add PLEASE WEAR A GOOD MASK. If you won't do it for yourself, do it for people like Jeff whose immune systems are not good. Let's protect each other in his memory.  RIP Jeff. 

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

I just received word from Mark Weaver that Laurie Oliver Burningham passed away on March 6th.  

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

OBITUARY

Laurie Ann Burningham

MARCH 23, 1950 – MARCH 6, 2022

IN THE CARE OF

Evergreen Washelli Funeral Home & Cemetery

Laurie Ann Burningham, age 71, of Shoreline, Washington passed away on Sunday, March 6, 2022. Laurie was born March 23, 1950.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.Evergreen-Washelli.com for the Burningham family.

Laurie Burningham Obituary - Seattle, WA (dignitymemorial.com)

Ric Rivera

Long time Picnic coming for Bel Canto choir members. And Happy Birthday to the rest of the March Shamrockers! - Philip, Don, Joan, Andy, Thomas, Sharon, Howard, Merilee, Connie, Wendy, and Sandra.

Rest In Peace Jeff and Laurie Ann RIP!

John Hein

We've lost another classmate, albeit not a '68-er. Tom was a good guy, from our daze at Sharples thru the hallowed halls of FHS, I always liked him. RIP Tom

https://obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/harold-wick-1084706611

Ric Rivera

Thanks, John, Tom Wick was a year younger and went to Hawthorne elementary grew up a couple of blocks from the school next to Genesee ave. RIP.

Ric Rivera

An American hero, the stature of genius.
Coming this Monday, April 4, 2022
Ken Burns’s four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin.
The promo LINK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJtYoq0HH9c

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Woo hoo.  Just heard back from a classmate.  When I don't hear for a while, I get concerned given our ever advancing age.  Keep posting friends so we know you are okay.

John MacLeod

MacLeod here.  Alive, well and snarky as ever.  Important question.  Who was the 142nd fastest gun in the west?  Hein knows.

Dorothy Rodes

Rodes here. That would be Frank Gallop.

John MacLeod

Dotty Rrrrr.  How cool is that.  Your synapses are hitting on all cylinders.  Many of his friends called him Irving.  

Judith E. Payne

I follow the posts but am amazed we are chatting about sharp shooters in the west.  I'm glad Dorothy is so good on this topic!   I am still enjoying the woods of New Hampshire.  I actually live in a small town, Hanover, where Dartmouth College (and its grad schools) is.  Who knew I would find home up here?  I moved because one of my daughters moved up here and had two kids.  It quickly felt like home unlike any location since my years in Seattle.   I am actually working again part-time on digital solutions in African agriculture, building on the last 10 years of my full-time work at USAID.  Among other things, I'm also training hard for something called 29029 on Stratton Mountain in October (google it if you are interested). (I tried to add a photo but it came out sideways... )  

John MacLeod

The roar of thunder on the lake, or is that the whine of turbines.  The hydros fly today.  Go grab some of your Mom's clothes pins and a few of the family playing cards.  Snap them on your bike and take a spin while towing your wooden hydro.  It is the important things in life.  Ric is most likely hosting a race party and Al Shocken is probably buying, selling or trading Seafair pins and memorabilia, down at the pits.  Wonder if Bill and Tom Rhodes are out on the Miss Thriftway.  In 1962 one of the Blue Angels took out a friend's chimney and his neighbor's house.  Mountlake Terrace.  62' I think.

John MacLeod

Judy, Judy, Judy.................Glad to hear that all is well in New Hampshire and your education endeavors have not ceased.  I know little about African Ag., but the mention of it sends my feeble mind upon inquirery.  Google here I come.  I recomend "Kiiss the Ground" on netflix.  Deals with the saving of soils through changing farming methods.  Saving desertified land in Africa and the Loess region in China.  We have seen it before with the "Dust Bowl".  Have friends who lived it as children.

OK, blah,blah,blah all over again

John MacLeod

Tenacious ambition, thy name is Judith E. Payne, ponder 29029.  Think of Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Jim Whitaker, Willie Unsold and all the others who have scaled one of the foothills of the Himalayas.  We have a couple of classmates that are known to have trod the trails of the Himalayas.  One who prefers not to be named. Voldemort, perhaps and another who lived for a time in Bhutan.  I will let any of those identify themselves.  Maybe one more doing research???

Bruce R Hildebrand

John,
The Blue Angels are Navy and fly during Seafair in August.  The Plane that crashed in Montlake Terrace was an Air Force Plane (F102) and crashed in April (during the Worlds Fair Opening)


Here's some links:

https://mltnews.com/day-1962-plane-crashes-mountlake-terrace-home/


https://historylink.org/File/723#:~:text=On%20April%2021%2C%201962%2C%20an,(now%20part%20of%20Shoreline.)

Judith E. Payne

First, Bruce, thanks for getting facts straight for John on planes smashing houses.

Second, Africa's soil is depleted but Africans and others know how to address the problems.  We have great examples.  The problem is that these efforts have not scaled.  So the challenge is putting together a scalable way to address the problems through policies, training, incentives.  I won't bore you but if you are interested you can google and read this:  A Soil Initiative for Africa (https://library.faraafrica.org/2022/05/31/a-soil-initiative-for-africa/)..  I am working on defining the dashboard to track success and the digital solutions that get soil information in farmers' hands.  

Third, my 29029 effort is a challenge I may not meet but I'll try.  Going up Stratton Mountain 17 times in 36 hours for a cumulative altitude gain of 29029 (Everest) is ridiculous and beyond daunting.  My coach says, "isn't it great to have a challenge you may not meet?"  Well not so great.  I ran 13 marathons, not easy, but I knew how to train and that led to success.  We'll see about this 29029 thing!  Needless to say, it is getting me doing workouts I've not done for decades!  Boy am I SLOW....   

John MacLeod

Well,Duh.  The Navy?  Seafair?  Asleep at the wheel.

John Hein

Thank you Dorothy Rodes for mentioning Frank Gallop. I revisited the saga of the 142nd fastest gun in the west; but only then recalled the name. Yes, dumb-dumb-butterfingers Irving, alas, right outside the Frontier Deli, RIP. This remembers me of a tombstone replica I saw at Madam Tussauds Wax Museum, Fishermens' Grotto, San Francisco, commemorating Boot Hill: "Here lies Lester Moore, 2 shots from a .44, and no Les, no Moore".... Seems the Wild Wild West was a tuff town..... DeadWood, indeed....

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

So John, I have to say that I have never seen so many interesting epitaths as at Boot Hill cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona.  

Dorothy Rodes

" ... no Les, no Moore ..."  ... doesn't get more pithy than that. Tickled me. Thank you, John Hein.

John MacLeod

Boothill in Tombstone is an interesting look back in time.  My favorite spots there are the Bird Cage Saloon and the Rose House.  The Rose House has a rose bush that was planted about 1875.  It now covers an area of about 8,000 sq. ft. and the bole (stump) is about 4' in diameter.  The Bird Cage closed sometime around 1935-1940 and has not changed.  Under the stage is an area with a card table that had a poker game that went on for 5 years straight.  If I remember correctly the buy in was $3,200.00.  Earp, Masterson, Hickok, Holliday all sat in at sometime.  History then and now..................