Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Mike’s obituary:

https://m.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=michael-ladd-hunting&pid=193097780&referrer=0&preview=True

Jerry Ochs

Does anybody remember?   Was this girl in our graduating class or in the class of '65?

Paul Simons

Jerry this happens at times - the "Class Creator" website services many schools, many graduating classes from all over the country. Sometimes the queries to its database get crossed up. The woman in the photo didn't go to WHHS. I'm pretty sure I recognize her from TV and the Internet. She is identified as K.E. Fitzpatrick in the yearbook from St, Joseph HS in Waterford Twp. New Jersey from which she graduated in 1985. So she is a good bit younger than we are. She obtained a law degree and has been a counselor to highly placed political operatives. She married an associate, identified as George C,. with whom she worked in the legal and political realm. Or, according to alternative facts, she is a world - champion blueberry picker - New Jersey is a center of blueberry farming - and worked as a conductor on the Amtrak Metroliner between Washington DC and New York, where she is said to have thrown a drink at a passenger, a member of Congress, when he said something with which she disagreed.

Meanwhile, enjoy the view of the Philadelphia Art Museum from a platform at 30th Street Station.

Philip Spiess

That's Winnie Colt, in her mane bridle outfit on the day of her marriage, hoofing it up the hill in her saddle oxfords (or were they horse shoes?), say hay!  (Or is Jerry Ochs just trying to stirrup things?)

Jerry Ochs

You seem a little hoarse, Phil.

Philip Spiess

Jerry:  I am apt to bridle at your comment, but I will try to rein in my emotions.

Jerry Ochs

Phil: I was champing at the bit to read your riposte.  

Paul Simons

You dudes do a lot of horsing around for 6:00 in the morning. But yes, that's what cowboys do. I can hear Spiess and Ochs grumbling about it now, out on the trail out in Wyoming - that's Wyoming, Ohio, a ways past Elmwood Place and Hartwell on Vine Street -  - "Yeah, Simons, and the horse you rode in on..." well, it's not a horse. It's a car from Rockenfield Ford. I didn't know I got the best deal...until I went to Rockenfield!!

Philip Spiess

Wyoming, Ohio:  How the memories come surging back!  Our former next-door neighbors in Clifton moved out to Wyoming when I was still young, but kept contact with us (they hosted my sister's wedding breakfast in 1966), and they annually invited us out to their home on the Fourth of July to enjoy their pool, drinks, and the six or seven fireworks celebrations (given Hamilton County's "patchwork quilt" of independent municipalities, as Iola Hessler called it, all of which had their own fireworks displays), which you could see from their hillside.  For many years, I supplied the fireworks for our own on-site celebrations at their house, often having to go to Milton, Kentucky (across the river from Madison, Indiana, near Hanover College, where I and seven other of our WHHS classmates had gone to college), to get the fireworks, because you could not buy them in Ohio (N.B.:  You can now buy fireworks in Ohio -- but you can not use them there!).

Jerry Ochs

CAPTION CONTEST

My entry: Thelma and Louise survived the crash, but they never looked the same.

Paul Simons

I don't know, but Willie Nelson has a new album out and it's terrific. This dude just goes on and on and gets better and better.

Philip Spiess

Okay, Jerry, I'll bite at your picture caption:  "Two of the faces that never made it onto Mount Rushmore."

Jerry Ochs

How about: Cagney & Lacey Season 45

Philip Spiess

Hmm.  I was hoping to post, as a memorial to Mike Hunting, who loved mushrooms, his favorite mushroom recipe, which he had posted to me on his "Classmate Profile" on this site -- but it appears that, once one is deceased, all memory of that person -- profile, several years of comments, pictures, etc. -- is erased, and only "In Memory" comments exist.  While I appreciate the "In Memory" comments, I think it would be advantageous to keep our classmates' "Profiles" on this site as a true memorial of what they did, and thought, and commented on -- and how we responded back.

Jerry Ochs

Phil et al.: At the bottom of the In Memory page there is a link to Mike's profile pages.

Philip Spiess

Thanks (but so far I still haven't found the comment I'm looking for).

Bruce Fette

I wish to agree with Phil. It is very unfortunate to loose all of the information about our good friends from WHHS except for a postage stamp photo when they pass. I would love to see the profiles remain available in some fashion.

Larry Klein

Phil, Bruce, etal,

I believe our profile history is not "lost" In Memoriam.  It is merely compressed and stored.

As Jerry pointed out, you can access the original profile page by clicking the link at the bottom of the In Memoriam page. Once on the original profile page, you will see the most recent comments/posts for each "thread" in the profile.  These can be expanded to see the historical comments by clicking a link near the top of each thread which says "click to see (25) previous comments", eg.

Phil, if you can recall the general thread where you saw the comment you're looking for, you should find it by clicking that link.  Might take some poking around in several threads to find your specific comment, but not to worry - you can't break anything in there. I haven't (yet), and that's a minor miracle in itself.  Happy "hunting' (pun intended).

Paul Simons

Tomorrow morning I'm heading towards Cincinnati for a few days. It's been too long since White Castles and the Coney Island pool. And now there's a new attraction - hummingbirds, lots of them, were flying around the Ault Park gardens last time I was there in summer. This time maybe I can get a photo.

Bruce Fette

I wish I could join in a bag of W.C.s too.  And it has been sooo looong since I went to Coney.   Have a great time!  Take plenty of pics so we can enjoy a digital based memory of everything Cincy!

Philip Spiess

Thanks, Jerry and Larry (oh, god!  it rhymes!) for your assistance.  Once I learned that there was a connection at the bottom of the "In Memory" page, it helped solve my "complaint" problem; but I thought that the comments I was looking for were made early on (circa 2014-2015) and on Mike's "Profile" page, somewhere below the picture of him with the big tray of morel mushrooms, since that's what he and I were chatting about.  But I'll keep looking.

Paul:  The last time I was in Alms Park -- and this was years ago -- all I saw (aside from the Stephen Foster statue, the Ohio River, Lunken Airport, and the former Wine Press house) was a dead rabbit, smeared in the middle of the road near the entrance gates.  (And, yes, I got a photo of it.  At the time I was photographically documenting what we call in the historic preservation trade "street furniture," "commercial archeology," "urban scale," "townscapes," and other items for a slide lecture I did for years called "Reading the City as Cultural Document."  The rabbit, of course, counted as "roadkill," a victim of the intersection, as it were, between the natural world and the human-induced environment.)

Paul Simons

Thanks Bruce and Phil - the idea of taking a few Cincinnati photos - terrific, will do. Good to be on a mission, not just lollygagging out the turnpike to get some White Castles.

About roadkill - last time I almost was the roadkill. One rainy night - last October - driving out I-75 from downtown to the motel in Sharonville in the center lane and some absolute idiot slowed and then came to a dead stop. Traffic flying by on either side. I was frantically pumping the brakes to make the brake light flash, laying on the horn, looking in the rearview, seeing cars coming at me and then Praise The Lord veering off, finally a break in the traffic, and I got around him. Then he starts up again but I was gone, free, alive. They're crazy in Ohio in more ways than one.

Jerry Ochs

The U.S. army has bases in Japan and the commisaries sell frozen White Castle cheeseburgers in a 16-burger box.  I don't know about the other services.

Paul Simons

But where are the hamburgers??

Paul Simons

But wait!! There's more!!