Richard Montague

Jeff,

thanks to Uncle Sam I was stationed in Thailand from may of 68 to Nov of 69. A friend and I rode a motorcycle from ubon to Chang Mai, interesting city even back then. Fell in love with the country and the people so much so that I married a Thai.

Orchids are a big business here in Florida. We belonged to Selby Gardens in Sarasota and visited several large growers all over the state including Muses near Orlando and Alberts and Merkle in Boynton Beach. Orchids are a fun hobby but can be a problem to maintain outside.

Rick

Jeff Daum

Hi Rick,  The Thai we have had to pleasure of meeting are really a beautiful people inside and out.  Re orchids, I grew them very successfully when we lived in Grosse Pointe Michican but it is too difficult to do in Las Vegas with our humidity normally under 10%.

David Buchholz

Church is wherever you find God...Christmas morning church service at Point Lobos.

David Buchholz

...and in the smaller things, too...a Christmas cactus.

Philip Spiess

Jeff, Richard, and All:  I am a devotee of classical (and otherwise) murder mysteries.  One of my favorite fictional detectives is Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, who, if you don't know him, developed the top floor of his West 35th Street, New York City, townhouse into a conservatory for growing orchids.  Every day from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and every afternoon from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., without fail, Wolfe and his botanical assistant, Theodore Horstmann, work in the Plant Rooms on the orchids (nothing is to interrupt Wolfe in this pursuit).  Over the course of the novels, from 1934 to 1975, much is divulged about the propagation and cultivation of various kinds of orchids.  The same can be said about Wolfe's capabilities as a discerning and demanding gourmand (he weighs in at nearly 300 pounds):  numerous recipes for fine dining are scattered throughout the novels -- some of them are actually based on food -- but fortunately these have fruitfully been collected in Rex Stout's The Nero Wolfe Cookbook (Viking Press, 1973).  [N.B.:  Rex Stout was also one of the great liberal commentators and advocates during World War II and the McCarthy era.]

Barbara (Bobbi) Yunker (Brafman)

Does anyone have a home in Asheville, Hendersonville or the surrounds? My husband and I visit there often and are considering retiring in Asheville. Comments would be welcome.

David Buchholz

Dear Class of 1964,  I regret to inform you that this will be the last photograph I intend to post to the Message Forum in 2014.  As we're all settling into what promises to be a frigid New Year's Eve (yes, even in CA we're not LOL), I thought this an appropriate send-off to the year.  No Name, Colorado, 2012.

Clyde (Chip) Brown

Celebrating NYE in Port Aransas, TX, with friends. SURSUM AD SUMMUM Eagles!  

Jeff Daum

Won't be able to sign in and join tonight so wishing all a very happy, healthy and balanced 2015!  We are now on the Big Island Hawaii after a month touring Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Happy New Year everyone. Thank you Rick. Best New Year's party I've attended. I hope Schneider isn't too lonely tonight!

Dale Gieringer

 Thanks Rick for the rockin' trip back to days of old lang syne.  It's always good to stay on the young side. Happy New Year from the West Coast where we're still in 2014.  Best wishes, Dale G. 

Nancy Messer

Rick - thank you for the visit back watching all of us as we matured over those 6 years.  The music was  fun and appropriate.  Liked the ads too.

Happy New Year everyone.

Ira Goldberg

That did rock my remembrance! Thank you, Rick, Richard, et all. Years and miles apart, our Performing Arts Fund, Virtual Reunion and Video, Chatterbox, Memorial, Messages, and Rockin' continue to bond us and to symbolize our 'e pluribus unum.' Wherever we came from, whomever we became, and whatever life holds, a WHHS connection and relationships will always be within. Thanks to an entire class for forever being the cast!

Jeff Daum

Thank you Rick for putting together such a thoughtful memory jogger and refresher!  What a super start to 2015.  Really appreciate all of the time, effort and skill you put into bringing this montage to us.

Dexter Roger Dixon

Thanks, Rick, for the "Rockin' Remembrancer"!  It brought back a lot of specific memories both good and bad.  But either way, it was a good trip down memory lane.  I was surprised at how many people who left Walnut Hills before graduation that  I had forgotten who were part of my 6-year WHHS experience.  Good job, Rick!!

Bruce Fette

Thanks to Rick and all who helped put together the Rocking Remembrancer. I enjoyed every minute of remembering everyone. I hope everyone had a chance to Rockin Remember all the good times and good friends!

I guess I will have to drop over to Phil Speiss' house and see how the morning after recipie is working.  :)

See you all again.

David Buchholz

The last moments of 2014 found me sandwiched between my lovely wife Jadyne and my equally lovely ninth grade girlfriend. (WHHS, also class of 1964).

 How could 2015 get any better?  Happy New Year, everyone!

Richard Winter (Winter)

From Rob St. John:

I wish all of you a very Happy New Year from sunny LA, where Sharen and I are vacationing to see the Rose Parade tomorrow.

Rob St. John

Sandy Steele (Bauman)

Thanks to Rick and Dick Winter and the committee for the fun New YearsEve video. Watched it today. We spent sixteen days in Austin in December, but celebrated the New Year with a gourmet dinner at our home with two couples that we have celebrated with for over thirty years whenever we were all in Cincinnati. Looking forward to the 70 th birthday party! Thanks  to everyone who helps to make our class so special! Have a wonderful 2015!

Bruce Fette

Rick and all Classmates,

Thanks for many things to Rick and all his teammates.

My extended family and I just returned from the Disney Movie "Into The Woods".  The audience had so much fun laughing and booing and applauding, and crying over this movie. While I have not had the wonderful opportunity to see all your shows on Broadway, but my wife says we will be there for Passover, so let us know what to see when we get there.

Thanks to you and your team for all the wonderful entertainment!  :)

Bruce

David Buchholz

OK, I waited as long as I could...The Museum of Modern Art, one of San Francisco's most beautiful buildings, is being "renovated" in a two year expansion program as a result of a gift of a zillion dollars to house the entire art collection of Donald and Doris Fisher, the founder of GAP and his wife.  Although the building has long been a favorite of photographers, I took a slightly different slant in my approach to the "old" museum, choosing color for its own sake and allowing the structure itself to balance the flow of color and line.

Larry Klein

Apparently somebody turned out the lights on this forum.  No posts in ten days??  Where did everybody go??

I just remembered I owe everyone a pic of the new south athletic complex.  I'll get one up as soon as my camera thaws out.

Jerry Ochs

Welcome to the Forum, Susie Lovatt Bortz Myers.  If you have photos, please post them.

Philip Spiess

Larry's right:  where are you people?  I've been enjoying these posts for almost a year now (as Dave Buchholz accurately said, I respond to and riff off of your posts with my comments), but there's been nothing new for several weeks.  Keep it coming, folks, or ain't nothin' gwan to happen here!

So now, tell me, Cincinnatians, what the hell is happening in the Queen City?  Did somebody put something in the water (Richard Montague, take note)?  Yesterday I heard on the national news that a local Cincinnati bartender was out to assassinate Speaker of the House John Boehner (well, okay), and today I hear on the national news that a local Cincinnati man had planned to blow up the Capitol building in Washington with pipe bombs and to shoot down Senators and Congressmen (Congresswomen?).  This is ridiculous:  not only is the Capitol building a spectacular bit of American Roman Revival architecture (thanks to Thomas Jefferson) -- and currently undergoing restoration on the Thomas Walter dome -- but anybody trying to lay pipe bombs around the Capitol would be instantly picked up by the Capitol police!  (Don't ask me about how my wife and I were held at gunpoint at midnight a number of years ago coming from our favorite restaurant on Capitol Hill, and how the Capitol police immediately responded.)  What's up, Cincinnatians?

David Buchholz

Phil, thanks for jumping back in the fray...it's good to see your pixels again...Judy, so much going on in Israel...Nancy, how're your cats?...Nelson, been fishing?...Jerry...whuzzup in Japan?...Larry, where's the pic?...Ann, I see you on FB, but Chief ignores the Forum...Jeff, more sunsets, flowers, anything?...Dexter, reviews of the new movies?...Sandy, Stephen, Ira, Dale, Steven, Chuck, Margery?  Help!

 I'm posting a nine year old photo, which remains one of my favorites.  Berkeley formerly hosted a parade called, "How Berkeley Can You Be?", and with the exception of the group of the marching nude Baby Boomers it was fun to see.  If this photo, of the marching tree and the two tie-dyed ladies, doesn't capture the essence of what it means/meant to live in Berkeley, I can't imagine what else would...