Sandy Steele (Bauman)

Gail, Richard, and Larry, the website is amazing and although I rarely comment, I enjoy reading what our classmates like to discuss. As Ray mentioned, we all have enjoyed many milestones as classmates. I loved the Cane Convention designation. Looking forward to seeing everyone in June.

Paul Simons

I'm posting this for all and especially for The Right Honorable Phillip Spiess, Chief Justice of the Department of Lore, Historian Par Excellence, National Champion Raconteur.
Thank you for your Attention to this Matter.
(Sic, SICK, and in the language of Sursum ad Summum et Sourdough, "Sic Semper Tyrannis")

Winston Churchill loved paraprosdokians, figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected.

1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.
3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
5. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
6. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting
it in a fruit salad.
7. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
9. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out, I just wanted pay checks.
10. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put "DOCTOR."
11. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
12. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street...with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
13. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
14. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.
15. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
16. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
17. There's a fine line between cuddling and...holding someone down so they can't get away.
18. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
19. You're never too old to learn something stupid.
20. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
21. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
22. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
23. Going to church doesn't make your Christian more than going to the garage makes you a car!

Philip Spiess

Bravo, Paul -- and one more:

In filling out an application, where it says, "Sex:" I put "YES!"

Jean Snapp (Miller)

Greetings to all.  I love all the messages and historical information on our website.  Many thanks to our webmasters for their work in keeping us all connected.  

Jean Snapp Miller

Nelson Abanto

Ok guys, you have forced me to play my trump card:

Quotes/insults

1.  "I  am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;  
 Bring a  friend, if you have one."
     George  Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.  
        
 "Cannot  possibly attend first night, I  will attend the second...If  there is one."
     -  Winston Churchill, in response.   
      
 2.   A  member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will  either die on the gallows, or of some  unspeakable  disease."
     ·  "That  depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace  your policies or your  mistress." 
    
  3. "He  had delusions of  adequacy."    -  Walter Kerr 
    
4. "I  have never killed a man, but I have read many  obituaries with great  pleasure."
     -  Clarence Darrow
 
 5.  "He  has never been known to use a word that might  send a reader to the  dictionary."
     -  William Faulkner (about Ernest  Hemingway). 
   
6."Thank  you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll  waste no time reading  it."
     -  Moses Hadas
    
7. "I  didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice  letter saying I approved of  it."
     -  Mark Twain
 
 8. "He  has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his  friends.."
     -  Oscar Wilde 
   
  9. "I  feel so miserable without you; it's almost like  having you  here."
     -  Stephen Bishop
    
10."He  is a self-made man and worships his creator."
     -  John Bright
    
 11. "I've  just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's  nothing  trivial."
     -  Irvin S. Cobb 
   
 12. "He  is not only dull himself; he is the cause of  dullness in  others."
     -  Samuel Johnson 
   
13.  "He  is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
     -  Paul  Keating
      
14.  "In  order to avoid being called a flirt, she always  yielded  easily."
     -  Charles, Count Talleyrand

Ed Seykota

Hi Paul, 

Thank you for posting your list of paraprosdokians.  

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

Thank you as well for inviting me, some 65 years ago.
to appear with you, on stage, to perform our rendition
of the Ventures' Walk Don't Run.

I consider this instrumental  in encouraging me
to continue composing and performing.

For examples, The Whipsaw Song  and, more recently, 
Jumping off that Train and Real Love.

Ed

Paul Simons

Thanks and great to hear from you Ed! I'll never forget the time I stopped by your place when we were still attending WHHS, and you had a Gibson 335 that you were playing real music on - complex chords and progressions- I was floored! Glad you're still playing and like many, and fortunately, felt the pull of country music- bluegrass banjo - fabulous!

Me, I can't stop either. Speaking of "Walk Don't Run" - this is a descendant that I put together called "Rock Don't Roll." This is from about the time we were all about 65 years old. Also thanks to Phil and Nelson - we need stuff to laugh about, these days.

Bonnie Altman (Templeton)

Nelson, your quotes were most amusing. Thanks for sharing.

Bonnie 

Bruce Fette

Paul,

Great vibes!

Lee Max

I'm sad to inform you that Lee Max has passed away. He so enjoyed this message forum. 

Dede Seder

(Lee's wife)

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Sorry to learn this about Lee. He was one of the few people in our class who knew my husband. They were competitors in the golf tournaments held at Cincinnati Electronics, where they crossed paths.

My condolences to Lee's family. 

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Dede,

Thank you for informing us of Lee's death. Our classmates join me in sending condolences to you and your family. We have fond memories of Lee.

Please post more information about Lee's death: His obituary, date of death, etc. We would like to honor him and his memory.

Thank you, Gail

Bruce Fette

Dede,

I never had a chance to ride motorcycles with Lee in Arizona. I am very sorry that I didn't. Please accept my condolences.

Bruce

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

A friend of mine, Jeff Slutz, Withrow '60, just sent me the link to the PBS series "King Of Them All", about King Records.  Has great video of Cincinnati from "back in the day". I haven't watched all of the episodes, but I'm sure they will take us down memory lane, or at least Brewster Avenue in Evanston.  Enjoy on the PBS streaming app on your tv or phone.

https://pbs.org/show/king-of-them-all-the-story-of-king-records?source=social

Paul Simons

First condolences to Lee's loved ones. And, belatedly, to all who have lost the closest people in their lives. We're all on the same highway, all we can do is make the very best of the time that we do have.

Along that line thanks Ann for the link to the King Records show. You know Euge Katona and I from our class and George Makrauer and Stan Hertzman from the class of '62 got to record there, both our own stuff and backing up a couple of vocal groups. Here's a photo. Yes, that was then and this is now, and this is from the shameless self-aggrandizement category to be sure, but then self-aggrandizement, particularly the shameless kind, is very "in" these days. The person you may not recognize is Steve Welkom, a first class guitarist and singer from Chicago.

Paul Simons

And this is a fabulous album by Freddie King - that's how he spelled it as he became more well known- one of the great artists who recorded for King which by the way was on Brewster St., a few blocks from WHHS.

Philip Spiess

Some of those of us who grew up in Clifton attended weekly Thursday night band concerts in the summer at the bandstand in Burnet Woods park.  They were bands conducted by Herbert Tiemeyer, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra trumpeter (originally violinist); George G. Smith IV (a.k.a. "Smittie"), heir to several generations of Cincinnati band leaders and, at that time, band director at Withrow High School; and Walter Esberger, long-time Cincinnati band leader.  Marian Spelman (a relation, I believe, of our classmate Teedee Spelman), a well-known Cincinnati singer on TV, was often a featured vocalist at these concerts.  [Note:  at the age of one or two, I stood up on the park bench and conducted the marches with my forefinger.]  There were also snack vendors in attendance; I particularly remember the creamsicles and fudgesicles that they vended. (Oh, and I remember the smell of the disinfectant used in the basement restrooms that were under the bandstand.)

In my early years, the concerts featured typical Sousa marches and "oom-pah"-type music dating from the 19th century and the era of Cincinnati's beer hall concerts; later, in my high school years, the songs from Broadway musicals became standard.  "God Bless America" was almost always played at the end of the concert, particularly if "Smittie" was conducting, with the audience singing along.  I believe there are still concerts occurring in Burnet Woods today (the bandstand is still there), but I shudder to think what type of music is now on offer.

Did anybody else attend neighborhood band concerts in their youth?  I know the Cincinnati Park Board had two endowed funds for such concerts in the parks (one was the Groesbeck Fund).  I also know that other concerts took place on different nights of the week elsewhere in Cincinnati in summer (like Ault Park?); weekly summer concerts took place in Eden Park at the Murray Seasongood Pavilion on Sunday afternoons.  (Oh, yes, and Deke Moffitt's band -- he the composer of "Little Red Caboose Behind the Train" and one-time repertoire director for King Records -- occasionally played out at Winton Woods Park.)

Any memories, folks?

Sandy Steele (Bauman)

Paul, Thaks for posting the picture of the four of you at King Records. Just had coffee with Stan in December and love to hear always about your musical escapades. Hope to see you in June.

Paul Simons

Thanks Sandy, I posted some general info on your profile page.

Paul Simons

I'm just gonna throw this into the ring - some can, and some can't make it to the upcoming reunion. To the web tech people - these days the multiple member meeting app seems to be Microsoft Teams. Does it work on Apple devices? Is Zoom still around? Is there any way of getting maybe 100 people connected with an app like that? In other words a real-time virtual reunion event? 

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Paul, Our 80th Birthday Bash Reunmion isn't a virtual reunion event. We had a virtual reunion for our 50th Reunion when there was no actual reunion taking place. Putting that reunion together took a lot of time, energy, money and patience. Our 80th Birthday Bash Reunion will only be in-person. I hope that you will be able to attend. We are planning wonderful Friday and Saturday events. Look for your postcard with details. Coming soon....

Yes, Zoom still exists!!

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Hey Paul, that's a great suggestion.  We could possibly incorporate a Zoom call into our Talk Around. I have hosted many Zoom meetings for several groups I belong to.  I even hosted a virtual birthday party that some classmates came to for my 75th birthday. People from anywhere can join the video (or audio only) chat via laptop or or phone.  It's very simple to send out an invitation via email address or text message. I'll have to check, butbI believe I could even post an invitation directly into this message forum.  

I'll discuss it with "the committee" and get back to you. 

 

Paul Simons

Thanks Ann and Gail and the very last thing I want to be is the instigator of a divergence of communication protocols regarding the upcoming reunion. Hopefully it will be possible to have both in-person and virtual coexist, although the very concept of coexistence is under attack nationally and globally these days. 
 

But one has to commit to one's position I suppose, as long as that position is not kneeling on the floor of a golf course dining room. The introduction of the "talk around" makes the discussion even more meaningful than it was. We inherited some crazy stuff like smoking tobacco and ridiculing sest belts but we learned, we got better. 
 

We have seen it all. If any generation, any graduating class might have something to talk about, it would be us. We were in that schoolhouse when the news came over the speaker at the front of the room that JFK had been murdered. We saw the Black girls trying to walk into the high school in Little Rock and get spat on and cursed at by the racists that have actually gained, not lost, political power. We saw Neil Armstrong set his foot on the moon and we have seen that and other realities called hoaxes.

Some of us went to war to stop the spread of Russian communism and now we see a Russian communist hailed as a wonderful leader by some with national power in this country. We saw Thurgood Marshall extend voting rights by winning cases before the Supreme Court and as a Justice on that Court and now we see the Black man sent in to take his seat vote time and again to rescind those rights. I hope it is noticed that the only names I have mentioned here are those of Neil Armstrong who is even older than we are and Thurgood Marshall who is dead. But we aren't. Maybe there's a chance for off-year virtual talk-arounds if it doesn't work this time.

Laura Reid (Pease)

Dear Classmates,

 

After talking with Ann Shepard Rueve who will be moderating our class talk around at the reunion, and as the 80th Birthday Bash Reunion co-chairs, Sandy Steele Bauman and I want to let our classmates know that our June 12/13 reunion in Cincinnati will be in-person only. There will be no opportunity for a hybrid Zoom option. Please refer to Gail Weintraub Stern’s post #6913.

 

Sandy and I look forward to seeing everyone in June!  You don't want to miss this!!

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Upon further reflection, the logistics of incorporating a Zoom call into our Talk Around would be more involved than I had initially thought. However, since it was a great idea, it might be something we might want to consider for one of our non-Birthday Bash years, when everyone would be able to join a call at a particular time, wherever we are. 
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in person in June.  I just received my SAVE THE DATE postcard in the mail.