Dale Gieringer

    For the first time since we moved to Oakland 30+ years ago, the temperature reached 100° in our garden.    The entire Bay Area is covered under a morbid gray smoky pall from forest fires.  Weather like this isn't unheard of down south in LA,  but it's without precedent here.  Downtown San Francisco posted an all-time record high of 106°  (previous record was 103 in 2000).   Nasty weather for nasty times.   Do we have classmates in Houston?  

Jeff Daum

Very nice photo Dale.  That certainly is unusual weather for SF.  We've been on a bit of a heat streak as well in Vegas.

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Our classmate, Roger (aka Dexter) Dixon, continues to improve after his recent hospitalization for multiple medical issues. I received this latest update this evening: 

"Roger was moved to ReHab at Euclid Rehab Hospital which is part of the Cleveland Clinic.  He is allowed visitors and would welcome them. He would love it if you called him. He loves mail. He is in room 11, bed 2. His phone number is (216) 692-8722. His address is:  Euclid Rehab Hospital, 18901 Lakeshore Blvd, Euclid, OH  44119."

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

I'm not sure if we have any Houston area classmates, but Hurricane Irma is headed toward Key Largo!  Nelson, are you battening down the hatches?

Nelson Abanto

Ann,

We are definitely in Hurricane mode in Key Largo.  The consensus forecast is that we are in the center of the forecast cone.  Where this hurricane goes is a rather complex question but we have to behave as though it is coming right here.

In the past we have tended to behave as though the hurricane would miss us.  You can't do that with a Category 4 storm.

Tina Preuninger (Hisrich)

Be safe Cindy and Nelson.  Prayers are with you and your Florida home. 

Ira Goldberg

Nelson, with a slight tribute to both John Babsone Lane Soule and Horace Greely??, "Go North, young man, go North!" Wish you the best. 

Stephen (Steve) Dixon

Pretty good news on my cuz, (Dexter) Roger Dixon. 

He has moved to a rehab facility within the Cleveland Clinic complex and is going through daily bouts of two kinds of therapy. He is feeling much better, enjoying visitors and very much on the mend.

There was a mild stroke involved in what happened to him. To the extent that any stroke can be mild. Much of the rehab is on regaining the practiced tones and elegant diction many will remember. It is still hard for him to communicate over the phone but he is enjoying visitors.

The address of the facility is:

Euclid Rehab Hospital
18901 Lakeshore Blvd.

Euclid, OH  44119

David Buchholz

Sometimes patience and luck come together.  Last week on Cape Cod. An osprey nest at Wellfleet harbor at sunrise.

Becky Payne (Shockley)

Wow! That is stunning!

Paul Simons

Glad to hear the good news about Dexter, and another great photo Dave. It is something how life in enormous variety just blankets this planet and keeps going around and around like the planet, stars, galaxies do as well. Re: 106 degrees in San Francisco and heat waves and storms setting records everywhere - not a good state of affairs to be a citizen of a country where official policy is to deny that there's a problem. Quite a lot to lose on this particular planet, quite a lot to lose.

Barbara Kahn (Tepper)

Dave, Thanks for the great Osprey photo. Watching osprey nests, local and nest cams around the world, has been one of my favority hobbies the last few years.
 

Margery Erhardt (Schrader)

Thinking of all our classmates who live in Florida (Gene I know you live there) as I see now it is mandatory evacuation for the Miami area. Living in Austin we had two and a half days of torrential rains just 2 weeks ago from Harvey and I have never seen it rain so hard here. Houston to Beaumont and Rockport just experienced unbelievable damage. For those who think this is unusual weather please check out Galveston in 1900 and the horrific storm that killed so many. A good book to read on that storm is entitled Isaac’s Storm after a scientist, Isaac Cline, who was really based out of Cuba where some of the first weathermen for the Weather Bureau were assigned. The book is authored by one of my fav’s, Erik Larson – a compelling read! Oddly enough this Galveston storm came in after a prolonged heat wave affected the US in August of that year (think the high temps in CA.) Additionally, throughout the first two decades of the last century weathermen recorded all-time highs and all-time lows in temperatures. This is just typical fluctuation every century.

Speaking of Galveston, one of my favorite music groups back in the late sixties was The Chad Mitchell Trio who had an album out called Might Day with a song by that name and it was about the Galveston storm and after reading Larson’s book was it ever accurate! The trio came to UC in that lovely rather small auditorium (at least by today’s standards) and announced that Chad was leaving his trio after the concert BUT they had a new singer to fill Chad’s position and he was with them that evening, a guy by the name of John Denver, and he sang several songs that evening with the Trio and he introduced Annie who was in the audience. My favorite concert and I still listen to their music on my ipod while exercising.

Stephen Collett

Beautiful Osprey photo Dave. We have them here on the south tip of Norway. It´s called the "fish eagle" in Norwegian. Are those constructed platforms for nests? We don´t have that here, probably why we don´t get that photo. 

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Our thoughts and prayers go out to our 13 classmates who live in Florida. To see who they are, click on Florida in the 'Where We Live' box located in the lower right corner of our Home Page. 

If you are able, please post how/where you rode out the hurricane. Until then, stay safe.

Judy Holtzer (Knopf)

Hi all. I haven't been around for a while, and have no hope of catching up. That said, I do want to join those who wish Dexter a fast and hopefully complete recovery. Also best wishes to all in danger from the truly crazy and deadly weather lately. Stay safe!

And Dave - the osprey photograph actually made me gasp out loud. You just keep outdoing yourself over and over....

Judy Holtzer (Knopf)

These two somewhat dorky men are my sons Micha and Joel, showing off their this year's Octoberfest duds. Yes, apparently this is a costume event.... Octoberfest, as far as I can figure out, is the yearly beery celebration of October in Germany. Every year the "boys" go together to Munich to decompress from their demanding jobs and do some brotherly bonding. So, if anyone out there is also heading to Munich, say hi to my kids. 

Henry Cohen

Ann, what kind of dog is Chief, Wheaton?

Dale Gieringer

Uh-oh, it seems as if Irma has taken a dangerous swing toward the Keys.  Please spare Florida and save some of the rain for us in California this winter!   

Amazing that we don't  have any classmates in the 4th largest metro area of the country.  We have them in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Lubbock but not Houston.

Barbara Kahn (Tepper)

There are many Osprey platforms made especially for them but also they build on top of light poles, electical wires and all sorts of things. The platforms are the safest for them and a few have cameras attached for viewing. That was interesting Steve about the translation Fish Eagle. Here the Osprey is know as a Fish Hawk I think.

I also watch Eagles too and their nests are enormous. Mostly they make them themselves in trees.

Philip Spiess

Judy:

Oktoberfest brings in the Fall harvest of hops.  So "Juchhei!" to your sons, and "Shalom!" to you.

Ed Seykota

Hurricanes

This season I receive visits from Harvey at my ranch in Bastrop, Texas and from Irma at my Apartment in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. I consider myself fortunate to experience relatively minor damage.

I wish to extend my prayers wishes to everyone still in Irma's path, particularly my friends and associates in Florida, for protection from the winds and rain and for a speedy return to blue skies.

Stephen (Steve) Dixon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t34qc54BUbYMargery, thanks for the book recommendation. Everything I have read by Eric Larsen is completely engaging. And, I have that Chad Mitchell Trio album (the original LP) in a box somewhere. Thanks to you I am hearing Super Skier and Lizzie Borden  playing in my head right now.

Speaking of old music, I thought this was a lot of fun, and perfectly appropriate for this group. This guy did a lot of work and compiled a tidbit of every Billboard #1 Hit from 1956 through 1964. It almost perfectly brackets our time at Walnut Hills. I am now headed off to listen to the full version of some of the best of these.

One question for you, though:  Were you partly responsible for making Alvin & the Chipmunks #1?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t34qc54BUbY

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Hank: Chief does resemble a wheaten, but he is a goldendoodle. 

Stephen Collett

I wrote something like this a few days ago and think I messed up posting it -I get over-emotionally engaged in the US Open these evenings, on ESPN. Sorry if this is redundent. 

I am so fascinated by the egalitarianism displayed by the Open. They have every variety of diversity covered. There is a ballboy with leg braces, every shade of color and ethnicity among the workers. They even have old folks like us, albeit often with substantial glasses, as line judges.

Long may it wave.

Steve