Since many of you new my husband, Paul, I know you would want to know of his passing this past Wednesday the 23rd of April. Many reasons for my deep sadness - mostly because that Damn Alzheimers took Paul away from who Paul was. That makes me cry! He could have had many more years of golf. For those of you with FB, you can look up our Daughter (Kris's) posting/video - it's beautiful (said her Mother). She's Kris Reinking-Jackson. Paul started teaching P.E. at our own Glenbard East. But when Bill Ryder requested Paul get into administration, Paul left to pursue his first love, Golf. It served him well!! He was an excellent teacher (golf lessons) and not only was he the golf pro at Kankakee Country Club for 35 yrs. but he was President of the Illinois PGA, and on the National PGA Board. He truly loved the game. As most of you know, our son, Jeffrey Paul passed away 2 yrs. ago and I'm convinced they are back together on an easy PAR 3 course. Paul was 82, class of '61 at West. He had been in Memory Care 8 months and Hospice care for 2 weeks. I miss him so much!!! Judy Long Reinking
Judy, Judy, Judy,,,I am so sorry for your loss! I know how difficult this time is and I will be praying that you get through it without too much pain. Let me know if you would like to talk.
Judy, I did not know Paul, but I do know dementia. My greatest sympathy is sent to you. Paul had a very productive life and together you made many satisfying memories for you to reflect upon. Hold those tight as you work thru the loss of your partner and all will be well in time.
I was probably closer to Paul's brother, Keith, playing Pony League baseball with him, but I have a nice memory of Paul. At our 50th reunion, there was a small golf outing for about 8 or 12 of us, grads and spouses. I rode in a cart with Paul. We, along with Keith, had all caddied at Glen Oak CC, and we knew the rules and the etiquette of the game. It was a great grounding in life--acting as one should, following the rules as they were. Anyway, I hit a shot and took a divot. Perfectly acceptible. I retrieved the divot and replaced it, then sprinkled a little sand and seed mixture around it. Paul said, "That's what I keep telling my members [at Kankakee Country Club]. A replaced divot grows back much faster than a dump of seed and sand." What I'd done was a vestige of my caddie days, but we shared it and knew there was a right way to respect the golf course. He was a great guy and my heart goes out to you on your loss. He achieved a lot in his life and I'm sure much of it was because you were there standing behind him.
Thanks so much, Mark! Great Story about the golf at our 50th. I will tell Keith that you mentioned him & Pony League. I'm sure he will remember. He's in San Diego and has been for yrs. He retired from the Navy out there and in Sept. of this yr. he will be going on the Honor Flite to Wa. D.C. Kristin will go with her Uncle and is quite excited to do this with him. We are having a Celebration of Life for Paul at the Kankakee C.C. in June. We are looking forward to going back there and seeing "old" friends. Thanks again, Mark! Hugs
Al Bolton
Jim Bullard
Bruce Burianek
Paul Chouinard
Sandra Gilbert
Tom Gorman
Bob Gray (maybe)
Phyllis Grimm
Dale Hahne
Sandra Little (maybe)
Barbara Ritzler
Vicki Strother
Jeannine Wheeler
Post your answers here. Good luck.
To those of us now over 80 years old, well done! Keep it up!
Sorry it's taken so long to answer, and one has to have the '63 Aries in hand to figure it out. If you don't have the actual book you can access it at Classmates.com. I'll wait a couple more days for the answer.
I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the summer wherever you are.
Thanks to Don and Bill for making guesses in answer to my really-not-that-important question.
But here's the answer: All of those people--actually a small subset of our entire senior class--were different from the rest of us because they were looking straight into the camera for their senior pictures. The rest of us looked left or right or just into the haze somewhere.
Something to make your heart swell with happiness this weekend or any other: I can report that Otto's Tavern at Crescent and Finley is still around and doing well. Had lunch pizza and beer with my bother, Tom, as we detoured on our way to a family reunion a couple of weeks ago. The current owner, a Glenbard West grad, has had it for 27 years and is still in touch with the Tezinsky (sp?) son, Tom, after all these years.
Did anyone else see the remarkable juxtaposition of the Moon and Jupiter this morning? In case you didn't, here's a pic:
So how did I know it was Jupiter? Terry Witt probably can tell which planet is which just by looking at them (even I can ID Mars) but a free app called Star Walk can open up the heavens for you if you're interested. Constellations, planets, stars and even the International Space Station are identified readily.
And you can beam yourself up to anywhere you'd like to go.
There is an iPhone app named Planets that allows you to point your camera at any celestial object and it will show the object and all surrounding planet and stars.
The app is particularly useful during an eclipse.
Many of us went to Hammerschmidt School. The Hammerschmidt family lived on the other side of our block. My younger brother and sister were friends with Pete and Janet. I believe their grandpa's phone number was Lombard 2. Our party line phone number was 496W. The W numbers became the Mayfair 7 exchange. Maybe somebody was listening in to your conversation back then, but nobody was getting hacked.
As a small bit of history, Hammerschmidt Lumber was preceeded by Lombard Brick and Tile (L B & T). I am married to Cathy Hammerschmidt, GE Class of '65. We also have the same tape measure as Mark and an inordinate amount of Hammerschmidt memorabilia. I am working on posting a couple of pics of things that you may find interesting. We have a porcelain sign from L B and T which shows their telephone number as 5 and a sewer cover from Lombard emblazoned with L B and T. The only thing that remains of the lumberyard is a cornerstone from the lumberyard in the park and ride lot on St. Charles Road near Charlotte Street We still have the old time clock from the lumberyard which works perfectly My folks telephone number was 329J and does anyone else remember that when we were transitioning over to dial the Illinois Bell folks came to our schools with a big dial that they used to show us how to use it. I still have a working dial phone on my desk at home.
The first phone number I can recall was our 1950 party line: 1717R. Later, Mayfair 7-8513 (I think).
So if someone that year (1950) were to approach you and say, "75 years from now, you'll hold in your hand--anywhere you want to go in the entire world--an object the size of a pack of cigarettes that will call anyone you know, show you them talking to you, tell you the weather, give you a chance to spread your political views the world over, order dinner from something called Pizza Hut, and have delivered to your door just about any item you could possibly want," would you have called the cops?
So what will 2100--75 years from now--be like? Thoughts? John Prine's "Living in the Future" says "We are living in the future / I'll tell you how I know / I read it in the paper / Fifteen years ago / We're all driving rocket ships / And talking with our minds...."
I was at O'Hare yesterday and walked by the model of a quantum computer I'd read about in the Tribune the day before. Here's their picture:
By Dominic DiPalermo, Chicago Tribune
The model looks like a gold-plated, fat stalactite hanging from the top of its cage. I downloaded the explanation of how it works and how it's a huge advancement over today's computers that are based on x's and o's. Has something to do with Schrödinger's cat, which somehow is considered to be both dead and alive at the same time, or a flipped coin that could be both heads and tails while it's in mid-air. Someone please explain. I'm pretty good with the x and o computer I'm typing this on, but I also got an email from Microsoft about how I can personalize my task bar in so many ways my head spins. A salient question: how many apps do you have on your phone? I have 279. I had a reason, over the years, for downloading each one, but now I can't remember the reason for at least half of them. Time for some, as the Scandinavians say, "death cleaning."
I hope everyone reading this is doing well and looking forward to fall color or more moderate temperatures if you live where it's hot.
How do you guys remember your home phone numbers from 75+ years ago? I remember operator assisited phone calls and we had a party line. I remember the Mayfair 7 exchange but not our number. I called from it but, rarely, to it. That probably explains why I don't remember it.
Those were the good old days ... right?.
I barely remember my number now. All cell numbers, we have four now. I don't even have to remember the numbers I call often. They're in my contact list by name. I just need to press one button to connect.
