Barbara Kahn (Tepper)

Jeff, Great pictures from Barrett's auctions. We do watch some on tv.

Dale, Any of my relatives still living in Ohio are all voting for Hillary, we are proud Democrats.

Phil, Love the Cleveland/Cleavland story, Keep em' coming

Thanks, Barbara

Jeff Daum

thanks Barbara!  If I had known you were watching I would have waved   I ended up being in some of Velocity/Discovery Channels footage each day, including part of my interview with Mike Brewer of Wheeler Dealer fame.

David Buchholz

Jeff, I enjoyed the auction photographs, too.  I thought you might have photographed my hemi-powered 2012 Prius Plug-In, but perhaps it had already been sold by then.

Perhaps some of you have had the opportunity to hike the parks and monuments in Utah.  Arches, Zion, Bryce are the better known ones.  Jadyne and I just spent a week in two of the lesser known parks—Capitol Reef and Escalante.  The subdued California autumns were in full swing in Utah.  Here are a couple of images from the twenty-two that I've posted on my web site.

http://www.davidkbuchholz.com/capitol-reefescalante/

Philip Spiess

Beautiful pictures, Dave!  Can you tell us a little more about those two parks, with which I am unfamiliar?

Jeff Daum

Thanks David.  My guess is I missed your hemi-powered Ca certified Prius Plug-In because it was blocked from view by the pretty in Pink Mini Cooper Custom stretch limousine with a hot tub in the back.

Artful shots of Capitol Reef and Escalante in Utah.  Thanks for sharing.

Jerry Ochs

I fear I have become a curmudgeon.  Am I the only perrson to give up on an article on the web site of a respected publication because the author wrote "deep-seeded anger" or "for all intensive purposes" or some other, to me, unforgivable error?  Am I being too harsh? 

Philip Spiess

Go for it, Jerry!  Keep the faith and keep the standards!  The world is full of idiots, but we WHHS graduates do not have to kowtow to them or submit ourselves to their ignorant indignities!  "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"  [Puck or puke, as the case may be -- and nobody these days even knows or cares about syllables: The Washington Post no longer uses them to divide words at the end of a column line, resulting in some inanities (or even unconscious obscenities!).]  -- Spiess be with you.

Stephen (Steve) Dixon

She is not on the classmate roster here, probably because she left Walnut Hills after the eighth grade, but some of you will remember Carolyn Ahlert. I have posted about Carolyn previously.

I learned from her brother Carl, also a Walnutter, that Carolyn passed away early on Friday morning, October 21. Here is the obituary which was due to be printed in today's edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer:

Charleston, SC – Carolyn Jane Ahlert, 70, of Mount Pleasant, SC, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 21, 2016 at Sandpiper Rehabilitation and Nursing Home.

Carolyn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 4, 1946 to the late Mary Ruth Hartman Ahlert and William Louis Ahlert.

Carolyn was raised and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from Withrow HS, where she played flute and piccolo under “Smitty” in school bands, orchestras and ensembles, including Withrow Mintrels.  She earned a BA at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, studying instrument and voice.  After graduation, she served in the Peace Corps, teaching music in Medellin, Colombia.  Subsequently, she worked with the Cincinnati Symphony and Ballet Company, then in Indianapolis and Memphis, where she began working with Houghton-Mifflin Publishers.  They soon transferred her back home to Cincinnati.  After retiring from Houghton-Mifflin, Carolyn looked after her aging parents, until her father’s death.

Carolyn enjoyed performing instrumental and vocal music for many years.  She was also active, playing tournament bridge.  In retirement, Carolyn did volunteer work, serving the longest and most recently with Save the Animals Foundation.  She moved to South Carolina in 2013 to be near family, as she battled with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).

Carolyn is survived by two brothers and their spouses. Glen Hartman Ahlert and Priscilla Ahlert reside in Fort Myers FL and Shutesbury MA.  Carl William Ahlert and Helena Ahlert are in Mount Pleasant.  Niece Erica Grace Ahlert-Smith, and her family live in Hamden, CT.  Nephew, Ryan Christian Ahlert, and his family are Charleston residents.  Carolyn is also survived by three grandnieces.

A memorial service will be held at the Circular Congregational Church in Charleston’s historic district, 11:00 Saturday, November 12^th.  In lieu of flowers, tax deductible memorial donations may be made in Carolyn’s honor to the following:  (1) for PSP research - University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute, c/o UC Foundation, PO Box 19970, Cincinnati, OH  45219-1970  (2)  Hospice of Charleston, 4975 Lacross Road, North Charleston, SC  29406.  Please visit “Book of Memories” for Carolyn at PalmettoCremationSociety.com.

Barbara Kahn (Tepper)

For Jerry - Don't give up on this! There is a dumbing down in America that shouldn't be overlooked or tolerated. It's a sign that schools aren't doing the proper jobs for their students. Writers who misuse words, phrases and mix up spellings will lose credibility. Get on that soapbox and campaign for back to the basics in education.

Stephen Collett

Thanks for posting the news and obit on Carolyn Ahlert. I remember Carolyn very well, surprised that it was already after 8th grade that she left. We were both in homeroom and jrhigh band. She was a kind, perceptive girl and I can see from the photo also as a woman. I remember Carl well also, a runner with Nelson.

Tina Preuninger (Hisrich)

Thanks, Steve, for posting the remembrance for Carolyn. I remembered her not being there but like Stephen just not when or why she left. I recall that she was musically talented, witty and funny. She was always positive, I also recall she was missed when many of us learned she transferred and wondered why as she was smart. Now it is obvious her mus was more important and perhaps for her area, better at Withrow. You are right, Stephen, her face shines, reflecting a wonderful person we would all wish to know. She was quite talented and contributed greatly wherever she was, I have no doubt. 

Tina Preuninger (Hisrich)

Sorry. Not mus but music!

Dale Gieringer

Trick or treat!

Our persimmon trees bore fruit this autumn for the first time in years. Don't they look perfect for Halloween? Many thanks to Peter Crockett and Davida for helping us pick them.  They dropped by to visit us on their cross-country odyssey from St. Petersburg.  What a joy to find fellow WHHS classmates still on the same wavelength after all these years.

Best Halloween wishes to all.  -  Dale G.

Philip Spiess

Well, squijillens!  (Or, as Nero Wolfe would say, "Pfui!")  Miserably, I missed a golden opportunity to spring a Hallowe'en "trick" on the unsuspecting little tykes looking for "treats" who came around my neighborhood this evening.  [Historical note:  "Trick-or-treating," in its original and truest sense, was a late 19th Century-early 20th Century American Hallowe'en phenomenon, carried out largely in rural areas, where local youth would ask for a "treat" and, if it was not delivered, would subject the unwilling party to a "trick," most commonly overturning their outhouse ("Oh, shit!" was the usual response).  Later manifestations in the first half of the 20th Century included putting a paper bag filled with dog excrement on someone's porch and then lighting it on fire and ringing their bell.  When they opened the door and saw the fire, they'd rush onto the porch to stamp out the fire and . . . well, you get the picture (usual response:  "Oh, shit!").  The present-day practice of "toilet-papering" trees in some neighborhood malefactor's yard therefore is pretty lame (though certainly within the same frame of reference).  And, by the way, the handing out of candy as the "treat" -- every pediatric dentist's dream come true -- got into full swing after World War II, when the war rationing on sugar was lifted.]  But back to my story.  For the past month, we have been having major renovations and remodeling done on our bathrooms (leading to some pretty dodgy bathing, I can tell you), and one of the results is that the old fixtures lie in our driveway, waiting for the junkman to make the path straight and the rough places plain.  Too late I thought of a plan to take the old toilet (used, but clean) and set it up in the yard to employ the bowl as the distribution point from which kids could select their choice of candy.  Would the kids have taken the candy?  I don't know, but if they had, I've have been flushed with pride, and if not -- well there was another nifty "trick" idea down the tubes!

Dale:  So the persnickety persimmons persevered.  If not ripe, did you purse your persimmoned lips when partaking, as they perpetrated their persistent parching?  Or did you pursue piercing the air with percolating promises of predatory perdition?  (Please pardon the preachy predominance of presumption here!)

Evan Burkholder

Thanks, Steve, for posting your rememberance of Carolyn. We are all now of a certain age. Cheers

Stephen (Steve) Dixon

Carolyn Ahlert left Walnut Hills for Withrow because she was aiming for a career in music and Withrow's program, especially instrumental, was far better. Their director was widely recognized.

And, as the obit shows, that decision panned out.

It was certainly not for a lack of academic talent. Carolyn graduated as the Salutatorian of her class at Withrow.

Here is another photo from that reunion of Mt. Washington Elementary friends a few years ago. Here are Carolyn and Jerry Blake having a laugh, probably over something Jerry said, while looking at someone's old scrapbook.

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

It is with an extremely heavy heart that I share with you the passing of our dear classmate, Rick Steiner. Rick had open heart surgery on October 20th and was recovering at home. He and I shared the Cubs' World Series victory last night. This morning he is no longer with us.

We have lost one of the best of the best, and our Class of 1964 will never be the same again.

As soon as I know funeral arrangements, I will post them.

Rest in peace my dear, dear friend and brother. May your memory be a blessing for us all.

Dale Gieringer

    OMG, what a tragedy at this most unsettling hour.    Thank you, thank you, thank you Rick for bringing our class together.    Blessed be your memory in the annals of WHHS alums.   As we read in  Miss Hope's Vergil class,   "Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt".   You rose to the highest.

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Rick Steiner's funeral service will be held this Sunday, November 6th at 2 PM at Weil Funeral Home, 8350 Cornell Road, Cincinnati 45249. (513.469.9345). Rick is survived by Jan and their sons, Ace and Duke.

If you wish to make a contribution in Rick's memory, please consider our WHHS Class of 1964 Performing Arts Fund which we created to honor Rick for all that he has done for our class.

Rest in peace, dear Rick.

Sharon Baum (Covitz)

I am shocked Gail about Rick's passing. He truly was one in a million!  May his memory always be a blessing!

Zola Makrauer

I am shocked and so saddened by Rick's passing.  He will be

Missed by so many... RIP wonderful man....

Nelson Abanto

This really hurts.  

I am going to fly up on Saturday and attend the service on Sunday.

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

I am stunned by the news of Rick having left us way too soon! I dont' know what else I can say except he was an exceptional person and I am so sorry for his loss to his family, friends and everyone who knew him.  I will cherish his memory, especially as the leader of the class of '64.  

Godspeed Rick!!!

David Buchholz

Words Fail.  Thank you Rick for bringing me back to my friends of 1964.  We will miss you. R.I.P.

Dexter Roger Dixon

Rick Steiner was a go-getter, a lover of the arts, and a guy with the most delightful sense of humor.  Our class will truly miss him.  Requiescat in pace.

Dexter Roger Dixon