Date: Nov
25, 2007
From: Paul Spencer
Subject: SOS
Hi Jeanne,
I have been looking at the
SOS web pages and have enjoyed them very much. Thanks very much for
your and George Fredericks work in
putting it all together.
After finishing my Ph.D. in
physics in 1969 I spent 1 year as a post- doc at Stuttgart in Germany,
and 8 years at Xerox in Webster N.Y. I
worked in laser printer R&D
at Hewlett-Packard in Boise, Idaho and retired in 1999. Since then
I moved to Pullman, Washington and work
on home projects and do a
little part-time consulting for Weyehaeuser Lumber company central research.
I will scan some of my slides
and send some pictures to add if you like them.
Best regards,
Paul R. Spencer
509 332 6699
paul-spencer @pullman.com
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Date: Aug 27, 2007
From: Tom Judson
Subject: Greetings from
Provence
Hello Everyone,
I am in France on vacation
for for two weeks and have made a web site and blog for the trip.
I am currently in Provence, where I am eating great food, enjoying wonderful
company, and speaking nothing but French all day long. I wish that
I could stay here for the entire summer. The address of the web site
is
http://web.mac.com/twjmath/iWeb/Site%202/
http://web.mac.com/twjmath/Site_2/France_2007.html
I will be adding new things
everyday or two, so check back often. Please feel free to post comments
on the blog.
Tom
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Date: June 9, 2007
From: Paul B
Subject: Simian
Ski Trip goes YouTube
Hi Jeannie,
....
I put on YouTube the "Simian
Ski Trip" video from your film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIRnQKWJcTY
See you in July.
-Paul
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DATE:
May 4, 2007
From:
John Conley
Subject: East Coast Update
Hi All,
It's great to hear a sign
of life from the Simians (I recall that the good Dr. Curt has a new name
for the aged branch of the Simians, but I can't
recall it!).
I was beginning to wonder
if someone passed around the Kool-Aid and I missed it, or if I'd offered
some unintended offense and had been ejected from the group. It's
good to learn that it was just the same rampant idleness that has kept
me from being more active in correspondence. I'm glad to be back
in touch. (Still "living" (Lynn says "hitting the road for work at 5am
isn't a 'Life'!") and working in Northern VA, and hating the daily commute.
I just went to a reunion of another bunch of old friends from Army/Southeast
Asia days (that reunion happens on about the same random, "once-in-awhile"
schedule that the Simians use). Like the Simians it's a mixed bag
of "life-after" paths ranging from a former US Representative (defeated
in the last election by the Democrats) and a guy who was President of Lowe
Alpine (now President of DeuterUSA) and some lawyers on one end, to several
who never really "succeeded" after the military on the other, and then
a bunch of us "middle-class" folks in between. Several now have places
in South America (Mexico and Panama) and it rekindled our thoughts of just
bagging it and moving to South America. Unfortunately, we still haven't
matured to the point of facing the fundamental economics equation that
if you want to stop working, you gotta stop spending. Anyway, didn't
mean to get started, and I've got to head to work. Love to all, John
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Date:
April 18, 2007
From:
Paul B
Subject: Return
to Middle America, Early Warning
Hi Jeannie,
Christina and I finally have
plans to get back to Illinois to visit my mom for her birthday on July
13th. We are flying into Midway the evening of July 10th and leaving
the morning of the 17th. Are you planning to be home if we stop by Jacksonville?
I just tried calling and just
got the damn machine, so I'm sending the email.
Recent backyard photo attached.
This week Christina made a pie with the end of last year's production.
-Paul
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DATE:
Fri April 6, 207
From:
Eric Johnson
Subject: Eric Johnson
contact information_6Apr07
(March 6--I just got severanced
from Motorola. Last official day is this Friday. I'll get a severance
package. The New Life begins.
Eric)
Contact information on Eric
Johnson retirement:
My email account at Motorola
and the 413-3179 phone will be disconnected today. (This is) My last
official day at Motorola, although I'll have some time here doing finish
up tasks.
My computer at home is not
operational, although the computer itself has been repaired. My home
phone, 480 998-5057 has not worked in two months (it rained in late January).
I will fix it but don't know if I'll keep traditional phone as the buried
wires are rotted and Qwest will not spend the money to lay new cable.
The new email account where
you can send messages, which I will access at library for now, is:
ashb90@gmail.com
I have taken over the contract
for my Motorola cell phone, and will keep phone after today:
480 626-3362
Keep in Touch
Eric Johnson
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Date: March 25, 2007
From: Harry Zanotti
Subject: Frank Knight
Obit
Hi Jeannie, hope all is going
well in Illi-land for ya.
Our local News Gazette obit
for Frank Knight follows:
Frank B. Knight was born Oct.
11, 1933, in Chicago, son of Frank H. and Ethel V. Knight. He married Ingeborg
Belz on July 30, 1970, in Champaign. She survives.
Survivors also include two
daughters, Marion A. Knight of Laguna Beach, Calif., and Ellen D. Camp
of San Francisco; one son, Marc A. Knight of Laguna Beach, Calif.; one
granddaughter, Chloe M. Camp; and one brother, Charles A. Knight of Boulder,
Colo.
Mr. Knight attended the University
of Chicago; he received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of
Cornell in 1955 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in
1959.
From 1959 until 1963, he worked
for the University of Minnesota as a research associate, then as an instructor.
From 1963 until his retirement in 1993, Frank was a professor of mathematics
at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Besides teaching, he
did important research in this country and abroad, wrote several books
and numerous articles for mathematical journals and served as associate
editor of the Illinois Journal of Mathematics.
Professor Knight was a member
of Phi Beta Kappa, maintained memberships in the American Mathematical
Society and in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and is listed in
the Who's Who in America.
Mr. Knight had been an avid
mountain climber for many years in the United States, Canada, Europe (Matterhorn
in 1954) and in Peru. Together with other climbers, he achieved quite a
few first accents. Mr. Knight enjoyed traveling with his wife and children
while they were growing up, in the United States and in Europe. He participated
in the Saturday Hike with friends and family for many years.
Classical and Baroque music
(he played the piano) and poetry meant a lot to him. Mr. Knight was devoted
to his family and to the pursuit of intellectual goals.
Memorials may be made to Grace
Lutheran Church Food Pantry or to the organization of the donor's choice.
Published in The News-Gazette
from 3/21/2007 -
3/23/2007.
Notice • Guest Book
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Date: March 24, 2007
From: Terry Courtright
Subject: Building
Date: March 25, 2007
From: So what took
you back to Illinois! To answer your questions: I have only a nephew
and his family in Chicago still living in the state, and they come out
here to visit his sister so we see them then. I have gotten back
for high school reunions on an irregular basis. We expect to travel
in the RV but haven't this year because we are building new house in the
eastern Black Forest about 30 miles NE of Colo Sprgs. We are general
contracting ourselves and doing a little of the work but mostly hiring
subcontractors. We have been out there nearly every other day and
expect to be finished late May. I'll try to post the address and
phone changes when we get that done. Later---Terry & Terry
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Date: Nov 2006
From: Riciarhd Ely
Subject: Simians Found
> Yep, it's still OK.
>
> As for me, I'm just about
to get the cast removed from a badly broken ankle. Two months of
not driving, what a drag. Same leg I broke 3
> years ago. I'm scheduled
to have the hip replacement redone this December - the implant rotated
after the operation, so the
> biomechanics have never
been right. I've found a doctor's doctor to do the operation - head
of the department at UCSF Med Center.
>
> I'm still living in the
redwoods outside of Sebastopol. My wife now lives in Marin with her
new partner - comes to see me every week or
> so. We get along
really well this way. I have various girlfriends here and there,
but they all are partnered, so I'm always Mr #2.
>
> My daughter Catia is living
here, and I've rented the cottage to an old friend/former lover, so I have
plenty of company.
>
> Working a 4 day week doing
environmental geology. Great bunch of people, but the work is a bit
boring. Can't afford to retire.
>
> I remember Dick, but only
barely. Seems like they are beginning to drop all around me,
more and more all the time. Other then my leg,
> I'm in good health.
Really frustrating to miss three years of backpacking - not that many left
when you're 66.
>
> Both my boys are getting
PhDs - Geoff in seismology at Scripps, Ben in biostatistics at U Wash.
Catia was a gypsy on the Renaissance
> Faire circuit for 8 years
- now she's trying to settle down and get a good job. She did OK
as a booth manager for various people, but
> she's tired of being on
the road all the time.
>
> Give my best to any old
friends you see,
>
> Richard
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** Date: Oct 12
From: Brad Davidson
Subject: Fall
Jeannie,
Thanks for the update.
Didn't know Dick personally, but heard the name often enough. Sorry
to hear of his passing.
Been pretty busy goofing off
this summer so didn't dig up the photos. Soon as the weather turns
crumby I'll have no more excuses. Spending a good deal of time on
the bikes (non-motorized)and had a really good summer for it. A bit
more sedentary than the old-days, but at least it's outdoors.
Had an email from my 7 year
old grand-nephew up in New Hampshire. He got his first taste of caving
(commercial style) and was really excited about
it. Can't wait to completely
corrupt him at the family Thanksgiving reunion. A few pics
of Cottonwood in the Guadalupes and Devils Sinkhole
ought to spark him up.
Anyway, good to hear from
you and hope you get settled in eventually.
Regards,
Brad & Val
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** Date: May 2, 2006
From: Brad Davidson
Subject: Simians Found
Jeanne,
Nice to hear from you and
a real hoot to run through the web site. My kids now have serious
doubts about their heritage.
Val & I married in 68
and left U of I in the summer of 69. I went into the service and
we headed to the west coast. In 73 we landed in Washington
State for a few years and
then migrated back to Chicago area in 76. Swore to Val it was only
a 5-year career move. Been here ever since. Hoping to
retire out west some place
some day.
Still married to the same
great lady, two "kids", one the mother of our two grand kids and the other
a free-spirit domiciled in Portland. (She'd be a good Simian.)
Introduced both daughters
and a son-in-law to caving,(Salamander and one trip to the Guadalupes).
They thought it interesting but it didn't stick.
Maybe I'll try out the grandson
in a decade or so.
Still love the outdoors but
find it tough to do a lot in Illinois. Bike a lot in the summer veg-out
in the winter.
Hooked up with Mark Ross
some years back in Kerrville, TX (@ 50 miles NW of San Antonio).
He was selling insurance and part-time custodian for several closed caves
in the area. (Go figure). He's still there according to the local
directory. Even longer ago saw Fred Hansen in Champaign. He
also appears to still be there.
Great fun to read about the
old days as well as your group's more recent exploits. My heart is
still there but "resistance was futile and I was
assimilated".
When I get time, Ill rummage
around in the basement and scan up some of the missing newsletters and
assorted photos.
That's about all there is
to catch up. Good luck on your move back to Chi-Town.
Much Regards,
Brad & Val Davidson
