Larry Klein

Ira - I'm betting we'll be "watershedding" some more as folks read up on the latest news from 50 years ago.  To quote our long time friend and classmate Barbie Watt Vilter - "What a hoot"!

Jeff Daum

Dave,

Excellent points about being involved in the translation between what is there before our eyes and what we think we see and what we want to record or capture.  That, I feel is the essence of the difference between an individual’s collective photographs and another’s snapshots.  I keep around a print of a picture I took in the 60s even though unfortunately the negative is long gone.  It is a shot of sun streaming through a set of small flowers on a stem, with dew, that is very ethereal.  I saw it while walking along the edge of some woods at my friend’s farm.  The print captured exactly what I saw in my ‘mind’s eye’ so to speak.  Most of the pictures I take reflect closely what I see when I look through my lens.  As a result when I go on a photo-shoot or one of our trips, I tend to follow the principle of Occam's razor.  My interests in photography today ranges from natural settings, people and architecture.

Here are a couple: one from the Galápagos

This is at Machu Picchu

Great Wall China

David Buchholz

Jeff, I'm glad you're joining in, and you have presented us with some beautiful images.  

As we near the end of summer, I wanted to post one summer image of my own, this from San Sebastian, Spain, taken forty-four years ago.  Ever wonder, when you see a photograph like this, how many of these people are still...?

I've always believed that this would make a wonderful jigsaw puzzle...

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Jigsaw puzzle or change a few items in the picture, post them side by side and challenge the viewers to "spot six differences".  

The "Back To The Future" edition of The Chatterbox is WONODERFUL.  I wonder what Postmaster General Day, who was in town to promote the new ZIP codes, would think of the demotion of his bailiwick from cabinet status to a semi-private service that would be struggling to survive in fifty years.  He was then using withholding Saturday delivery of the mail as leverage with Congress to increase his budget. If he only knew what was ahead. 

Nancy Messer

Jeff - Love the photos.  The characters are there right in front of me. I feel like reaching out and petting the guy in the top photo and starting a conversation with the little girl.

Dave - I don't know about that crossword puzzle.  I used to do them frequently before I started collecting cats and that one looks a bit difficult - much better as a photo.

Judy Holtzer (Knopf)

Ann, thanks for the advice (it took me a while to see your post. I don't know why I have trouble with this. Some cognitive impairment, I guess.) and I'll try it next war, coming soon to your nearest theater. Not sure if he will pay attention to a treat while barking so hysterically and running around, and I'm on a walker so chasin him is a bit of a problem. As for his "leaking", it's usually also poop, but I agree with your anxiety theory. What's weird is that I haven't been this stay-at-home for all that long, and when I was away from home for a day or for weeks, I had a familiar neighbor come in to feed and walk him (day) or move in (weeks), so he was always in his home environment. Hoping to feel better with new medication so I can go out more and get him used to me having a life again!

It is great talking with another dog-lover, by the way. Thanks.

Jeff Daum

Thanks Nancy!  I appreciate that feedback.  I did a few things other than photography while at WHHS.  One included a business carving totem poles.  As a result there is a deep internal need  to pose next to and if possible assume a look similar to, any totem pole I come upon in life.  For example

This very attractive picture of me taken at the Maori culture and geothermal visitor center, New Zealand.

Here is a picture of one of my poles at the Indian Hill Club.  Ray Farnham hired me to carve the pole, at the time in addition to teaching at WHHS he managed the club.  The picture is actually from Popular Science (June 1963).  The picture that accompanied an article in the Cincinnati The Post & Times on July 11 1962 is too pixilated to reproduce.

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Phil Spiess mentioned in a post that he thought that the Tyler Davidson fountain, The Genius of Water, is one of his favorites in the world.  In 2007, shortly before the repaired fountain was returned to its location on the renovated Fountain Square, it was put on public display at the Art Museum.  For a fee, you could meet her "up close and personal".  My coworker Liza and I met her.

David Buchholz

Sunday Quiz:  I'm posting a photograph of Rosa Dolores Alverío, the wife of the late cardiologist, Dr. Gordon.  Her most famous name, though,  was "Anita."  Who is she?  She is unique for the honors she received.  Can you name them?  P.S.  She used this photograph as a centerpiece at her 80th birthday party:

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Sunday Quiz: Rita Moreno. Thanks, David, for making this an easy one for me. Rita lives in the SF Bay area, and I have met her several times. She is fun-loving, has great energy and lovely.

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

I LOVE Rita Moreno. Great picture. 

I meant to answer your question: Winner of the Oscar, Grammy and Tony awards. A triple threat. 

She also received the Kennedy Center award.  Anything else ( without my googling it)?

David Buchholz

Yes, Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Golden Globe, Grammy, and Kennedy Center.  Her late husband, a cardiologist, was cared for by my best friend, a Kensington cardiologist.  Rita and my friend are good friends, and she announced to him that she wanted to "meet some new people", so he invited her over for his birthday party.  I had the pleasure of not only spending the evening with her, but I was able to invite my two gay friends who live across the street to the party, too.  I posted this photo on Facebook, and the friend replied, "I drove her home after the party.  I can die now."  She lives in the Berkeley hills, a couple of miles away.

A funny footnote to the party:  when we sang "Happy Birthday" to my friend, she imitated Marilyn Monroe when MM sang "Happy Birthday" to JFK.  Seeing her snuggle up to my friend, I shouted, "Hey, it's my birthday, too!"

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

One of my fondest memories from the Peanuts of '62 was the production number where we sang America from West Side Story.  Even though we sang lyrics from the Broadway production, the movie was (and still is) my favorite movie musical. 

I've loved Rita Moreno since she played the little slave girl, Tuptim, in The King and I. I guess there is something to that "six degrees of separation" business.  Now I feel "stoked" that I know someone, who knows her.

Now does anyone in our class know George Clooney?

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Ann, I wish I did! 

Larry Klein

Ann and Gail - don't know George, but when I lived in Lookout Farms condos in Crestview Hills, Ky 30 yrs ago, my condo was about 150 yards from the old Clooney home.  It was then, and I think still is, a Kentucky landmark property.

On another note - I DID play bridge once vs Mr Omar Sharif at a national in Bal Harbor, FL.  Quite a gentleman.

Philip Spiess

Jeff Daum -- Love your photos, too, but really love your totem poles.  When I was in high school and a Boy Scout in Clifton (Troop 3), one of our leaders got the idea that we'd love to carve some totem poles.  My Dad, who worked for the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co., told the guy who he could call to get some free electric line poles.  The leader apparently never told the guy at the Gas Company what they were to be used for, because when three of them were delivered to the church where we met, they were covered with sticky and smelly creosote!

I've never met any of the Clooneys, but I did get a drink once for Bette Davis at the Smithsonian.  No one realized she was there -- it was when "All in the Family" donated Archie Bunker's armchair to the Smithsonian, and she'd come as a guest of Sally Strothers, with whom she was being interviewed the next day on National Public Radio.  Ignored, she was sitting by herself sort of behind the gigantic seated statue (nearly nude) of George Washington by Horatio Greenough, so I went up to her and said, "Miss Davis, may I get you a drink?"  And she replied, in that famous husky voice of hers, "Oh, thank God!  Would you?"  As I recall, it was a Gin & Tonic.

(I'll save my other odd story about the Washington statue for another occasion.)

Chuck Cole

Phil, your "another occasion"s are always worth waiting for.

Jeff Daum

Phil,

Thanks. My poles also came from there but they were not coated.  Certainly would have made it a greater challenge!  I was also in scouting, troop 127 and am a life member of the National Eagle Scout Association (my carving while in scouting was limited to 'ball and chains, letter openers and kneckchief slides."

David Buchholz

Phil, I agree with Chuck.  Except for your "Sursum Ad Summum" contributions you are primarily a "reactive poster", able to find and riff on virtually anything in anyone else's posts.  I'll be anxiously awaiting your comments to this...

Laura Reid (Pease)

Hi All, how do I upload a photo to the Message Forum....I had lunch with a classmate today and have a photo and am clueless....thanks, Laura

Dexter Roger Dixon

I did get to meet Nick Clooney several times when he came to the Mayor's Office in Cincy to do news stories for Channel 12.  That was when I was press aide to Ken Blackwell back in the day.  George never showed up though..

David Buchholz

Laura, check out post 796, p. 32.

Philip Spiess

Dave:  A "reactive poster," eh?  May I refer you to Wilkie Collins' well-known and much anthologized short story, "A Terribly Strange Bed" (from After Dark, 1856)?  Therein is truly a "reactive four-poster"!

On another note, a good number of years ago (before my son was born), my wife and I were visiting Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts with her young cousin (yet another Philip in the family).  Going through an 1820s Federal-style mansion, he wondered what the large china mug was doing under the bed in the master bedroom.  "Philip," I said to him, "the 18th and early 19th centuries were a time when there was a canopy above the bed and a can o' pee below the bed!"

Philip Spiess

Jeff:  I've always been impressed with those, like you, who can carve those "ball-in-chain" things.  The guy our troop always hired to be our campsite counselor at BSA Camp Edgar Friedlander at Milford, Ohio, was a master at it (he was also a lineman for the phone company, but I don't know what he did with their poles).

Larry Klein

Phil - "but I don't know what he did with their poles)."  Probably used them to gather info for the government.

Canopy - aarrgghh!

Sturbridge, Mass - played bridge there several years ago with my buddy in Providence.  What a neat "colonial" village setting.  Had a couple meals in a restaurant that reminded me of some old Amish places with family style seating.  Of course, not being a "historian", I have no recollection of the place's name.  Food was great, though.  Oh, and we finished third in the tournament.