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The Life and Times of Larry Piper
Midland, Michigan
January 14, 2015
1816 Bauss Court
Midland, MI 48642
The Life and Times of Larry Piper
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To Judy,
Without whom these memories would not exist,
nor would there be anyone to share them with.
Contents at a Glance
Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
(46) 1
Growing Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(32) 2
Maturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(19) 3
Purdue University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(21) 4
U. S. Army Chemical Corps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(23) 5
Dow Chemical Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(11) 6
Further Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(29) 7
John Piper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(64) 8
Family and Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(24) 9
Coaching Fleet Feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(23) 10 Sports Stories & Sports Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(25) 11 Athletic Endeavors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(14) 12 Double Ironman Triathlon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(38) 13 Stories: Youth, Fleet Feet & Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
( 6) 14 Memorization Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(30) 15 Medical History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(18) 16 Miscellaneous: Pets, Hobbies, Religion, Vacations .
(22) 17 Lists: Life, Bucket, Book, Movie, Classes . . . . . . . . .
( 9) 18 Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
( 0) 19 Family Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Picture Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Epilog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Colophon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Annotated Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H
Appendix I
Appendix J
Appendix K
Appendix L
Appendix M
Appendix N
Appendix S
Appendix T
Appendix V
Appendix X
Appendix Y
Appendix Z
Addendum
Diary2
High School Grades & College Transcripts . . .
366 Day Memory List . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .
Cars I've Owned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Medical Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Web Site (www.pipers-place.net) . . . . . . . . . .
My Favorite Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Endurance Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Important Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Resume of All My Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
My Favorite Sayings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Additional Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Military Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
My Favorite Stories: Fulghum, Gulley, et. al. .
Doctor’s Surgical Notes & Test Results . . . . .
Double Ironman Triathlon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dad’s Military Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Excel List of 450+ Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
YMCA Memorabilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Diaries: Pacemaker, Hip Redo & MAZE . . . . . .
Story Extensions + More Stories . . . . . . . . . . .
Nov 17, 2011 to present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Table of Contents
1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Growing Up
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Kendallville, Indiana
North Manchester, Indiana
22 Addresses Where I Have Lived
Riding Bus with Note Pinned On Me
See Yourself As Others See You
Danville, Indiana
Central Normal College
First Watch I Owned
Fluoroscope
Batting Cross-Handed
Building Forts & Model Airplanes
Rubber Guns
Who Were My Boyhood Friends
Cub Scouts vs. Boy Scouts
License Plate Numbers
Danville Carnival
Radio
Music Test
Roy Rogers & Buckshot
Best Present I Ever Received
Comic Books
YMCA Camp
Paper Route Collections
2
Sales Meetings on Paper Route
Morning vs. Evening Paper Routes
Indy 500 and Edwin Young
Tennis, Basic Stuff
Pool Table
K-12 Teachers & Report Cards
Bill Bauman and Latin
Most Popular Girl in Town - Contests
7 Letters in H.S.
Homecoming Queen Voting
Sexual Mores of the '50s
15 Miles in 15 Minutes
Double Quartet
Bad Eyes
Halloween and Johnnie Ray
Fire Drills at Danville School
Dates With Judy
Advanced Chemistry
Greatest {whatever}
Abdication & Other High School Stories
How Did I Chose Judy
What Role Models I Served
Hendricks County
Maturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Foster Construction
Wedding in Terre Haute, IN
Honeymoon Frankfort, KY
Lebanon, Indiana
Midland, Michigan
1816 Bauss Court
Darwin Awards
Crossing the I-Beam
Campbell Reunion
53
Annus Mirabilus
Giving Flowers
Artists vs. Business People
Perfection vs. Work
Marshmallow Treats
$600 Penny Stock
Well Educated Person Should Know
Chain of Command
Flomax & Other Statistics
ix
Duct Tape Incident
Sign Language in the ICU
Vocabulary
Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle
Hawthorne Effect
13 Virtues of Ben Franklin
Triple-Triple
Stories That Ain’t So
3
Building A Solar Porch
Other Construction Projects
Eclectic R Us
Adddend:
Daily Routine
Expressions – Explained
Most Unforget. Character
Learning Typing
Purdue University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
West Lafayette, Indiana
Freshman Year
Cary Hall
ROTC
4 Roommates
Course Load + Class Size (Addendum)
Purdue Teachers
College Lifestyle
4th Semester
Looking Back: Purdue and Ch. E. (Add)
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Dow Chemical Company
The Interviewing Process
Hiring Into Dow
History of Dow Chemical
Maze Bright
Special Assignments
Styron
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Football & Basketball Games
Squash With Rudy
1st year of Grand Prix, 1958
Costs & How I Paid for college
English Professor
Physical Chemistry Professor
Tennis at Purdue
The Pole Vaulter
50th & 100th Reunion (Addendum)
College Teachers (Addendum)
U. S. Army Chemical Corps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Advanced ROTC at Purdue
Ft. Riley, KS,1959
Anniston, AL
Ft. McClellan, AL
COOC 4A Class
501st Company
Chemical Corps School
Escape & Evasion
Airborne Training-Missed
Gas Chamber
Nerve Gas & Other Chemical Agents
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LSD & Other Goodies
Officer of the Day
Anniston Jail
PT Tests in the Military
Lasting Friendships
Decontamination Skit
Blood Draw Incident
On Thermonuclear War
MOS 87315
Mushroom Cloud Joke
Day I Met the General (Addendum)
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Napalm & Quality Control
Production Planning & Control
Process Engineering
Research Lab
Ethocel
Methocel
125
Computer Support
A Nun, Blood, Magnet & Computer
SyFA
Dioxin
Shrink at Dow
4 Types of People
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25th Anniversary at Univ of Michigan
Registered Professional Engineer
6 Pipers = 11 College Degrees
Test Taking
Classes Taken
John Piper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$5 Bet
Punting the Cat
Father-Son Tennis
Baseball at Victory Field
World War II Service
Building Our Home in Danville
John Piper at Manchester College
Does The Name Piper Mean Anything?
Watching Sports on TV
Wrestling at the YMCA
Reloading Shells
Mirror Incident
5 Ways of Doing Anything
Shorty at the Carnival
Shooting Clay Pigeons
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Franklin Planner
Strikes at Dow
Effect of Military on Dow Career
How I Left Dow
Further Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Nuclear Power
Dow Tuition Refund Program
Grade Point Averages, GPA
Michigan, MSE Ch Engr, 1964-1969
Central Michigan Univ, MBA, 1966-1971
Missed Graduations
7
Massey Tapes
165
John & Mildred: Contrast in Styles
Baseball in the Creek
Conservation Club Shooting Incident
Pistol and Rifle Matches
Yahoudi
Stories for Little Boys at the YMCA
YMCA Camp Stories
John Piper's Death and Funeral
Playing Solitaire & Other Games
What Happened to Dad’s Guns?
Virgil Ray Piper
Building a Floating Pump
Going Hunting
Camp Retirement & After Effects
Addendum: Cleaning Out House
Family and Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Judy
Living in Speedway, IN
Move to Phoenix, AZ
Officer’s Home of Two Boxcars
Outhouse
Ringing Pig
Judy Milking Cows
Mean Rooster
Bakery Smells
Tornado in 1948
Birthday Bicycles
Plowing the Fields
Riding The School Bus
xi
4H
2 Hatchets with Green Stamps
Indiana Business College
Allison Division Job
Indy 500 Queen Candidate
Judy at Anniston: No Job, No Money
Ovarian Cyst Removal
Scot
Bob
Birth
Robyn Neck Surgery
Break Hand
Laura
Birth
School
Athletics
Others: IU Track
Mother
Playing Piano at the Silent Movies
Fourth Child in College
Coleus
Threw Away My Childhood Memories
Kept Lists
Janet
Background
Doll Collection
Wrecked Car-Without Honors
Lawrence County Astronauts
Carol
Background
Fell Out of Car
Cookbook and Tests
9
Minnow Badge and Pottery
Travel to Birmingham, AL With Only $2
Judy on the Nose Cone
Social Studies Fight
Alterations and More
Working at Dow Chemical
The Magnolia Tree
Background
Hand Accident
Gramma J.
Background
Easter Egg Hunt With Carol
The Birthday Cards That Kept Coming
Worried About Lack of Education
Joe Officer
Work Ethic
Rebuilding 6 cylinder Chevy
ALS
Geneva Campbell Officer
Cooking, Clothes, and 11th grade
Commitment Process
Grandpa Ed Piper
Jack of all Trades
Fishing Worms in the Basement
Gramma Ethel Piper
Grandpa John Jollief
Other Jolliefs
Other Officers
Family Stories Not Printed
Coaching Fleet Feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
257
Wilma Rudolph Comes To Practice
Senior Olympics
Shot Put Roll
Al Kayner, Gerald Guntsch & Piper
Jumping the Finish Line
The Parmele Incident
Track Meets
Other Running Clubs
Vienna Boys Choir
Running By The Numbers
Herb Scogg on Swimming
Day I Forgot About Judy
22 Blanks
1974 Team Picture
Power Bar
Heart Monitor
6Jun94 – H.S. Finals
Notable Women Stories in Fleet Feet::
Gloria Lockman, Hypatia, Sally Ride, Kathy Switzer, Lovelace, Joan Benoit, R. Ruiz
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Sports Stories and Sports Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jesse Owens
Jim Fixx
John S. Akhwari, '68 Olympics
Ken Cooper
Jack Twyman, Stokes, Robinson
Sheehan, Henderson & Anderson
Peter Strudwick
Bobby Riggs
Dennis Rainear
Wilma Rudolph
Lance Armstrong
Mildred 'Babe' Didrickson Zaharias
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Frank Shorter
RAAM
Major Taylor
Sy Mal & Ted Corbitt, Marathoners
Roger Bannister
The Wet Field
Jim Thorpe
Marathon Stories
Phidippides & Spiridon Louis
Lou Gehrig and Cal Ripken
Gill Dodds
Jill Costello, Olympic Medal (Addend.)
Athletic Endeavors (age) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
YMCA (8-11)
Summer Park Program (9-11)
Tennis-Life Lessons (12-15) + Adden.
State Tennis Champ: Elkhart + Indy (15)
Varsity Letters H.S. (14-17)
Softball (16-23)
Squash With Rudy (19)
Tennis - at Purdue (20)
SCUBA (23)
Running (21-47)
Paddleball (22-68)
Handball (24-34)
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YOGA (30-50)
Great Escape Prison Run (41-43)
Biking (28-71)
Mufti-Sports (35-40)
Racquetball (30-50)
Swimming (34-Present)
Triathlons (40-55)
Race Walking (53-69)
Midland Comm. Center (23-Present)
Greatest Sports Day of My Life
Personal Health at Dow
Aerobic Diary
Double Ironman Triathlon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Origin of the Event
History of My Triathlons
My Two Ironman Triathlon Attempts
The Decision
The Commitment
1993 – Seeing the Real Thing
Hard Core Training
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04-Jun-94—Most Memorable Day
The Questions We All Have
The Announcement
The Qualifiers – 41 World-Wide
Event: 4.8 Swim, 224 Bike, 52 Walk
Post Event
Power-Point Slide Show
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Stories: From My Schooling, Fleet Feet and Adult . . . . . . . . . .
From My Schooling
Titanic
Alcatraz
Corrigan
From Fleet Feet
FAQ and RTFM
Rosetta Stone
Dan Henry
E-Ticket
Rubicon
Orange
Learned as an Adult
John Scarne
Isaac Asimov
Kobayashi Maru
Head and Shoulders
No Win, Win-Win, Zero Sum Games
Perfection in Magazine
Great Grey Goose
Cold Readings
Tomb of Unknowns
Jump the Shark
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Winchester Mystery House
Yes Virginia
Zone 5 Planting Season
Thunder & Lightning
Dead Cat Bounce
Harmonic Convergence
Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
Traveling Salesman Problem
Rainbow Tables; Reverse Engineering
Patient Zero
Prime Directive
Ben Carson
Bouncing Betty
Waiting in Line
Lottery Winners
Royal Society
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CPE1704TKS and Passwords
PI: 3.14159...
How I Did It
Medical History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I.B.S.
Blood Poisoning
Penicillin Allergy
Injuries
Surgeries
D.I.S.H.
Cleveland Clinic
Urticaria
Mayo Clinic
Bronchial Infection
Heart By-Pass Surgery
Univ of Michigan Hospital
Atrial Fibrillation & Hernia
Beaumont Hospital
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Paul Revere
Brinks Robbery
Memorization Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Utterback & Onnen (the two Jims)
Top 100 Dates in History
Memory: 366 days of the year
Quizzes: All My Memorized Lists
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Health Care Professionals
Mind & Body Tests
Ran Out of Gas
Autologus Blood Donations
Sanding off the ‘S’
Pacemaker + Follow-up
Left Hip Redo (Addendum)
You Were Never Alone
Purple Hearts (Addendum)
Cardiac Checkup at Cleve. Clinic
B.P.H.; Colonoscopy
Addendum:
MAZE-Atrial Ablation
Cataract Surgery Pneumonia
Cellulitis
Dowling Surgery
Lab Test Results
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Miscellaneous: Pets, Hobbies, Religion, Vacations . . . . . . . . .
Pets
Hobbies
Religion
Donations and Money
Vacations
1964 Worlds Fair
Sanibel Island
Scot & I on Two Bike Rides
Leaking Fuel Pump
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Family Photos
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Bio: How I Would Introduce Myself
Egg Croquettes and Pluckettes
Who Was Born Near Me
Family Rituals & Gulley Story
Where To Live
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Baby Pictures
Other Baby Pictures
4 Piper Children
High School
Whatever
High School With Judy
Wedding
Military
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Computers I Have Owned
What Has Changed The Most for Me
If I Were King for a Day
What Happened in ?
On This Day – Some References
Piper's Maxims
Piper's & Gibb's Rules
Other Rules: Fulghum, Rogers, Army
Special Days in my Calendar
Timeline of Larry Piper's Life
Best Advice I Ever Received (Addend.)
Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
22 Addresses Where I Have Lived
Ancestor Chart
Descendant Chart
What Happened on Jan 1
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Slippery Hill
Cedar Point
Dayton Air Force Museum
Okefenokee
Chess at Purdue
Meals on Wheels
John Wooden
Bounty on Fox
Epilog (Addendum)
Lists: Life, Bucket, Books, Movies & Other Trivia . . . . . . . . . . .
Bucket List, Resolutions and Goals
My Values
Describe Yourself
My Best Books List
My Best Movies List
My Best Movie Lines
My Top Motivational Speakers
Bracketology
What Indianapolis Was Like in 1953
Interviewing Questions To Ask
My Tombstone Inscriptions
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Individual
More Pictures With Family
Recovery Back Surgery
Double Ironman
Grandchildren
Biking
Judy and I
Family Pictures
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Annotated Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Index
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Colophon and Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H
Appendix I
Appendix J
Appendix K
Appendix L
Appendix M
Appendix N
Appendix S
Appendix T
Appendix V
Appendix X
Appendix Y
Appendix Z
Addendum
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High School Grades & College Transcripts .
366 Day Memory List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cars I’ve Owned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Medical Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Web Site (http://www.pipers-place.net/) . . .
My Favorite Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Endurance Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Important Papers
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Resume of All My Jobs
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My Favorite Sayings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Additional Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
My Military Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
My Favorite Stories: Fulghum, Gulley, et. al.
Doctor’s Surgical Notes & Test Results . . .
Double Ironman Triathlon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dad’s Military Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Excel List of 450+ Stories (as of Apr 2012) .
YMCA Memorabilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Diaries: Pacemaker, Hip Redo & MAZE . . . .
Story Extensions + More Stories . . . . . . . . .
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Introduction
“ There are many people who mistake their imagination for their memory.” Josh Billings
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” Winston Churchill
My high school football coach, who also taught social studies, had arranged for a mock
fight to break out before the start of class. After letting the fight progress for a couple
minutes, Coach Gray charged in to break it up. Feigning ignorance, Gray sent the two
offending boys to the principle’s office. Then he quizzed the other students: What
happened? Who started it? Who said what? What clothes were they wearing?
The student answers were all over the map. Mr. Gray had made a lasting impression:
eyewitness accounts are not reliable. While I was not present for this experiment, I
have heard it retold at every class reunion for Judy’s 1958 graduation class. Now, even
the retelling is showing memory lapses. Who were the two boys? When did this
incident happen? Where was the classroom? These three questions: who, when and
where will vex every author as they attempt to recount the highlights of their own life.
A funny story has developed between Judy and I as to what actually happened when I
called for our first date. We cannot agree on what was said and what we agreed to.
So read this book with the above caveats in mind. The stories all happened; the details
may be a little off. Some stories may seem like a history book, but I lived through these
incidents. They shaped my thinking; they are the reason I am who I am. Besides, I tried
to offer my own spin on some of the classic stories. I came to appreciate that one
should write down the details of one’s life, not only for your descendants, but also for
your own satisfaction. No one is ever sorry they wrote a book.
Why
I really think that anyone who’s fortunate enough to live to be fifty
years old should take some time, even if it’s just a couple weekends, to
sit down and write the story of your life, even if it’s only twenty pages,
and even if it’s only for your children and grandchildren...You’ll be
surprised what you find.
Bill Clinton, My Life, 2004
Basically this book is to record my life for my descendants. Specifically, it is for my son
Scot and his two children, Mitchell and Jessica, and for my daughter Laura, and her
Introduction
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two children, Alexandra and Mackenzie.
My life can be compartmentalize into categories: growing up, maturing, education,
military, work, coaching, medical, and my relatives. I identified over 450 individual
story topics about my life, which I parsed into 19 chapters and 20 appendixes.
I have always had a core of John Piper stories; I began to write these into a web page
in 1993 on the 25th anniversary of his death. Next, I was always a fan of sports stories,
particularly by Howard Cossell and Bud Greenspan. Then I had a unique military
career which gave me numerous “war” stories. My 32+ years with Dow Chemical
afforded me many more unique tales. My completion of three college degrees, two at
night, also provided a wealth of information about contrasting educational styles.
My sports involvement and participation took a number of branches. First, I coached
young girls for 30 years in an AAU club known as Fleet Feet, and I had a calendar of
stories for them. This also got me close to other track events at the high school,
college and Senior Olympics levels. Finally, I trained for, competed in and finished a
Double Ironman Triathlon. This once-in-a-lifetime experience gave me a whole new
set of stories. Lastly, my medical history could fill a large textbook.
Why Now
Much of this book was organized and written during the six months of bed
confinement following back surgery. I figure about 100 pages of book for every one
month of recovery.
Historically, I had compiled a list of individual stories, events, or facts about some
aspect of my life. This list took life for Dad as a web site on the 25th anniversary of his
death. Then during the 30+ years of coaching girls track, I also compiled a list of
stories to work into each practice. I ended up with an Excel file that was a list of each
story (see Appendix X), sequentially numbered as I thought of them, a text file for
each story, and the final book file that had the stories in the order they appear in the
table of contents. All this took place while learning the software, OpenOffice.org.
Meanwhile, I reviewed the books of two of my favorite story tellers: Robert Fulghum
and Philip Gulley. While I don't have the direct pipeline that these two ministers
have, I did try to put a moral or thoughtful twist into many of my stories. Appendix N
makes references to some of my favorite stories from these two authors as well as a
couple other writers. The heart warmer and chicken soup books, which are
compilations or republications of other people’s stories, are NOT my models.
Judy and I had the opportunity to create a printed 50th Reunion Memory Book for
our two respective high school classes in 2008 and 2006. These 130+ page booklets
2
Introduction
forced us to learn some basic printing capabilities as well as acquire two color laser
printers. A little homework uncovered the art and pitfalls of self-publishing. These
books as well as some background books are all listed in the Bibliography. So the
“labor of love” of printing my high school reunion booklets was really a warm-up act
for the publishing of this book.
Who This Book Is Really For
My target audience is my two children and four grandchildren. When they actually get
around to reading this book is another matter. What I can control is the timing of its
availability. The book is purposefully thin on stories about these six closest
descendants. I have concluded that it is best for them to write their own stories, and
perhaps to add them to my stories.
Ultimately, I have come to realize that this book is for me. The forced-telling of my
life's experiences will help my descendants not only win a trivia contest about my life
but also will help me better understand where I came from and how I got to this time
of my life. I don't think I have any “issues” to deal with like Glenn Beck admitted in
The Christmas Sweater, but I might be the last of recognize this. Finally, Judy says it
will not be a Mommie Dearest book--so I have allowed her to censor selected parts.
Also, it is NOT a book about who begot whom and where and when.
I frequently mention that my family were list makers. What this also means is that we
were pack rats. This book has given me the excuse to rummage through all my boxes of
collected papers, photographs and slides, to pull out the nuggets from each box, to scan
anything of possible long term consequence and then, hopefully, to pitch the rest.
How This Book Is Structured
Each of the 19 chapters is grouped into a phase of my life, somewhat in chronological
order. I have tried to place the more interesting stories near the start of each chapter.
If you want FAMILY stories, then read Chapter 1 – Growing Up, Chapter 2 – Maturing,
Chapter 7 – John Piper, Chapter 8 – Relatives, Chapter 15 – Health, Chapter 18 –
Genealogy, and Chapter 19– Family Photos. If you want to read about my
EDUCATIONAL life, then read Chapter 3 – Purdue and Chapter 6 – Education. My
CAREER is covered in Chapter 4 – Army, Chapter 5 – Dow Chemical, and Chapter 9 –
Coaching. My ATHLETIC experiences are covered in Chapter 10 – Sports, Chapter 11 –
Achievements, and Chapter 12 – Double Ironman Triathlon. The balance of the book is
the answer to the question, “What do you do now that you are retired?”
How This Book Is Structured
3
I make no apologies for writing this book like a computer manual; computers are my
everyday companion. Sections like Colophon, Contents at a Glance, Bibliography,
Footnotes and Indexing are a product of reading computer manuals.
The Appendices should be viewed as a separate book. The Appendix is mostly a
compilation of documents about my life. There are also 2 Indexes: one for Ch 1-19
and one for App A-Z + the Addendum.
One of the toughest part of writing this book was to quit making changes, revisions,
and corrections. Every time I reread any part of the book, I always make some minor
wording changes, add another story, find more typos and renumber the pages. To
resolve some of these problems, I added a section called Addendum in late 2011.
Now all new material could be added without disturbing the original book.
You are likely reading a printed copy. However, there is so much background
material, like photos, certificates, and possible sound bytes, that I would like to
ultimately make available. Someday I hope to include this background material via
the hyperlink mechanism. In the future, if you are reading this as a PDF file on your
computer or possibly from a CD in your computer, or even reading the book via some
electronic means, I hope to make it possible for you to jump to this extra material.
Getting Updates
Since 2000, I have maintained a web presence. I have added another folder for this
book. You can find current information about errors, corrections, my latest thoughts,
and reader's comments here. You can even download a PDF version of the entire
book. This will allow you to read the book on a computer or an ebook reader. If you
are on a computer, you can easily check the hyperlinks within the book.
http://www.pipers-place.net/thebook/
Contacting The Author
Since I have resided at the following location for the past 46 years, there is high
probability you can reach me at:
Larry L. Piper
1816 Bauss Court
Midland MI 48642
(989) 835-8573
[email protected]
http://www.pipers-place.net
I look forward to your feedback, either positive, negative or indifference.
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Introduction
Acknowledgments
“...I stood on the shoulders of giants.” Sir Isaac Newton
Normally one acknowledges those who helped bring a book to fruition. However, since
this is a self-publishing effort and this book is about my entire life, I would like to
chronicle all those who have influenced and thereby helped me throughout my life as
well as this book. I must recall the idea behind Mitch Albom's “Five People You Meet
in Heaven”. The premise, at least to me, was that you are not even aware of many
people who either helped you or were influenced by you. With this caveat in mind I
would like to mention those who I feel most influenced me. As for those whom I
influenced, history will have to wait for their books.
First, as with most people, my #1 influential force was my parents. While Dad was the
most vocal and visible in my life, Mom was always there for me. Genetically speaking, I
was always afraid of getting my Mother's genes, but it seems I avoided her father's bad
health genes and did get her brain and music genes. I also got Dad's good sport's genes
as well as his bad health genes. Of four possible grandparents, only one, Gramma
Jollief, known as Gramma J, was in a position to influence my life. She definitely did,
but like my Mother, it was Albomesque, behind the scenes and beyond my awareness.
The next group are the no-brainier answer to the question about one's top role models
who are non-relatives. First was Bob Leedy, a teacher, coach and family friend. Next
was my tennis mentor, Rosemary Frazier Helton. Both of these individuals are
prominently mentioned in this book. While I can rattle off he names of all my grade 1-6
teachers, none were that memorable except for the extreme negative influence of my
third grade teacher — Mrs. Whittinghill. The scary thing is that my Jr. High teachers
hardly register on my role model radar.
Many of my high school teachers, coaches and church leaders do come to mind. Mrs.
Armstrong (four years of English, two years of Latin) influenced everyone; fortunately
I was one of the few that the experience was positive. The second most influential
teacher was Moe, Mr. Francis Moriarty. Moe did teach (drivers training and typing)
but it was his coaching, specifically football and track, that caused male students to
worship him. Even the erudite Mrs. Armstrong must have secretly admired Moe's
speaking abilities when he motivated the entire school assembly before Friday night's
game. What and how he said to the team in the locker room can best be described as
“priceless”.
Acknowledgments
5
Mr. Kirtley gave me two years of great math as well as worldly comments, something
few other teachers could or would do. Mr. Rudy Miller ostensibly taught senior year
advanced math, but he was the mission controller who launched my mathematics
into college level. I always felt my science teachers were weak, but Mr. Baldauf, who
admitted the atomic theory came after his formal schooling, must have done an
adequate job because I aced the pre-college exams in chemistry and physics.
The Methodist Church, my Sunday home for 11 years, had two notable ministers,
Ralph Steele, who once took me to a conference for prospective ministers, and John
Rawlings, who taught me softball so well that four years after he left, Judy and I went
to him to be married.
The sports community was always present in my world. Jim McKay's Wide World of
Sports, Howard Cossell in football and boxing and Bud Greenspan with the Olympics
were the most memorable. While I was aware of the many national sportscasters,
mainly baseball, I never lived in their broadcast market. Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee
Reese were my favorite on Saturday afternoon baseball. Bob Costa's, and a couple of
his books, are the most influential record of my sports world. Sports Illustrated has
been on-again, off-again for me.
My memorable bachelor level professors at Purdue were few and far between. The
two most influential now remain nameless; they were my advanced ROTC
department head and a freshman English whiz whose part time job was coach for
Purdue College Bowl team. Both have their own story in this book.
I would like to say that many of the two dozen bosses I have worked for would make
my list of role models. Unfortunately, most of these men had distracting personal
habits like smoking, drinking or infidelity, often in combination, so I didn't admire
them at all. Three of my first bosses do stand out: Wayne Foster, owner of Foster
Construction that employed me as a laborer for three summers, Bill Gross, my boss
in Special Assignments who navigated me through the first year at Dow Chemical
and Marvin Miller, my first real boss at Dow.
Surprisingly, national sports figures were never that influential for me. However
opponents I have faced have taught me immensely: Tommy Carter in tennis, Don
Traxler in paddleball, and Rudy Hauser in squash racquets are the most memorable.
Corporate individuals and motivational speakers were also very influential. Dow
Chemical afforded their employees many opportunities to learn people skills and
management techniques. Hyrum Smith and David Massey were two individuals
along with the Wilson Learning Corporation that immeasurably affected my life,
both in and out of Dow Chemical.
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Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
7
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Appendix A
Grades and Transcripts
Comments about 3 colleges + Delta + Army + Dow
If you add up all the courses on my transcripts plus other course I have taken, you reach a sum
of 278.7 semester credit hours. That is more than the total of any two friends with college
degrees. That does not include Army courses and various certificates from Dow on seminars I
attended.
At various points in the book I have talked about course loads and GPAs.
Purdue
Univ Mich
Central Mich U.
Delta
Sag. Valley
Correspondence
Dow Chemical
Army
172.7 leading to a B.S. in Ch. Engr and 2nd Lt. Commission at Purdue
30.0 leading to an M.S. in Chemical Engineering at Univ. of Michigan
47.0 leading to an M.B.A. from Central Michigan University
10.0
8.0
6.0
6.0
?
Comments about the chronological listing of courses in the Appendix L.
Appendix I, Important Papers, contains four diplomas for Larry, two diplomas for Judy and
one for Laura.
547
548
549
550
551
552
553
554
555
556
557
558
559
560
Appendix B
366 Day Memory List
Include my paper on how I memorized stuff.
Insert: This should be a spreadsheet with 2 page summary + 6 pages of details + 2 page of the
top 10p events (according to llp)
Appendix B
561
562
Appendix B
Appendix B
563
564
Appendix B
366 Days That Changed The World: 1492-2009
Rank Year
253
389
474
403
99
476
379
463
206
226
121
124
393
208
315
104
294
119
329
194
192
8
374
147
279
247
161
55
441
41
219
56
457
395
252
364
410
394
381
162
452
176
299
363
320
199
354
334
1863
1971
1959
2002
1948
1912
1953
1815
1776
1901
1964
1991
1992
1914
1943
1920
1950
1919
1955
1981
1954
1973
1968
1848
1961
1998
1961
1986
1936
1933
1958
2003
1887
1959
1789
1937
1868
1992
1910
1964
1996
1922
1999
1945
1929
1898
1959
1947
Appendix B
Date
1-Jan
2-Jan
3-Jan
4-Jan
5-Jan
6-Jan
7-Jan
8-Jan
9-Jan
10-Jan
11-Jan
12-Jan
13-Jan
14-Jan
15-Jan
16-Jan
17-Jan
18-Jan
19-Jan
20-Jan
21-Jan
22-Jan
23-Jan
24-Jan
25-Jan
26-Jan
27-Jan
28-Jan
29-Jan
30-Jan
31-Jan
1-Feb
2-Feb
3-Feb
4-Feb
5-Feb
6-Feb
7-Feb
8-Feb
9-Feb
10-Feb
11-Feb
12-Feb
13-Feb
14-Feb
15-Feb
16-Feb
17-Feb
Description
K
Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect; issued by Lincoln 9-22-1862 // 1939-Larry sPiper birthdate
Cigarette ads banned on TV & radio // 2002 eye hemorrhage
s
Alaska becomes 49th state
s
Euro coins debuts as common currency in EEU
s
Kinsey's Human Sexual Behavior
s
New Mexico becomes 47th state
s
H-bomb announced by Harry Truman in State of Union address
w
Battle of New Orleans, ends War 1812, last US-British engagement
w
Common Sense published by Thomas Paine
s
Texas oil strike, Spindletop; beginning of oil industry; replaced steam & horse
c
Surgeon General Terry says that cigarette smoking may be hazardous to ones health m
Congress approves Gulf War--Operation Desert Storm begins 1/16
w
Japan apologies for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during WW II
w
Ford introduces car assembly line
c
Pentagon dedicated, black/white toilets separate
s
Prohibition goes into effect; 18th amendment
s
Brinks Robbery, 2.7 million
s
Peace Conference in Paris for end of WW I
w
1st press conference on TV, Eisenhower, filmed originally, no questions
s
52 hostages held by Iran for 444 days were released
w
Nautilus, 1st nuclear sub launched // 1961-graduate from Purdue; Army commission c
Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion
s
USS Pueblo seized by North Korea
w
Gold is discovered at Sutters Mill, CA, by James W. Marshall
s
1st live TV news conference, Kennedy
s
Clinton denies having sexual relations with Monica Lewinski
p
Apollo fire kills Grissom, White, Chaffee
d
Space shuttle Challenger explodes, kills 7 including teacher Christa McA.
d
Baseball's 1st Hall of Fame Class: Cobb, Ruth, Wagner, Johnson, Mathewson
t
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany // 1961-start at DOW
p
1st American satellite launched, Explorer 1
c
Space shuttle Columbia explodes
d
1st groundhog day, Punx, PA
h
The day the music died--Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens, Big Bopper // 1989-2nd hip operation
p
Washington elected 1st president (unanimously) by 69 electors; Adams was VP
p
FDR tries to 'pack' the Supreme Ct w/15 judges
s
Uncle Sam 1st appears in Harper's Weekly, Thomas Nast // 1989-Larry Piper's 2nd hips operation, Cle
European Economic Union established, by treaty
s
Boy Scouts of America incorporated by Wm Boyce in DC
s
Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan Show; 73M viewers // 1991-Laura & Kent anniversary p
Kasparov loses 1st game to Deep Blue, computer, in regulation 6 game match
t
Insulin treatment for diabetes announced by Canadian Drs Banting & Best
m
Clinton acquitted of 2 impeachment charges // 1955-Mark Officer birth date
p
Dresden firebombing, killing 130K of 1M population, by British bombers
w
Valentine's Day massacre of Moran gang in Chicago, 7 killed
s
Battleship Maine blows up in Havana, Cuba
w
Fidel Castro becomes prime minister of Cuba // 1975-Toby Lepera birth date
p
Voice of America starts broadcasting to Soviet Union
c
565
397
238
26
148
86
32
426
135
201
388
68
478
163
228
123
70
266
146
60
138
338
431
85
200
276
229
372
81
459
398
50
295
491
234
171
271
183
75
97
72
415
246
308
400
328
220
46
189
43
115
195
174
112
566
1929
1878
1962
1972
1980
1945
1836
1964
1993
1951
1953
1960
1961
1877
1991
1933
1946
1836
1876
1965
1945
1874
1918
1930
1868
1950
1802
1926
1756
1942
2003
1942
1980
1895
1775
1989
1957
1953
1998
1979
1919
1981
1889
1945
1902
2000
1968
1973
1917
1959
1974
1865
1815
18-Feb
19-Feb
20-Feb
21-Feb
22-Feb
23-Feb
24-Feb
25-Feb
26-Feb
27-Feb
28-Feb
29-Feb
1-Mar
2-Mar
3-Mar
4-Mar
5-Mar
6-Mar
7-Mar
8-Mar
9-Mar
10-Mar
11-Mar
12-Mar
13-Mar
14-Mar
15-Mar
16-Mar
17-Mar
18-Mar
19-Mar
20-Mar
21-Mar
22-Mar
23-Mar
24-Mar
25-Mar
26-Mar
27-Mar
28-Mar
29-Mar
30-Mar
31-Mar
1-Apr
2-Apr
3-Apr
4-Apr
5-Apr
6-Apr
7-Apr
8-Apr
9-Apr
10-Apr
1929-1st Academy Awards to bolster new medium / 1949-25-2--1st TV Emmys presented
c / 1959-May 4--1s
Edison patents phonograph // 1982-Nick Ivan surgery on shoulder
c
John Glenn 3 orbit flight, 1st US
c
Nixon arrives in China, 1st president to visit
p
Miracle on Ice, USA upsets Russia, 4-3, in Olympic hockey
t
Marines raise flag on Mount Serabachi, Iwo Jima
w
Col. Wm. Travis calls for help from Alamo
w
Cassius Clay becomes heavyweight boxing champion of the world, defeats Sonny Liston
t
World Trade center bombed - in the basement
d
22 amend--limit president terms to 2
s
Crick and Watson discover the structure of DNA // 1995-twins birth date; 1981-Mildred Piper
c
death
1st Playboy Club opens in Chicago, magazine since Dec, 1953
s
Peace Corps founded by John Kennedy
s
Rutherford B. Hayes declared president in election too close to call
p
Rodney King beating by LA police; subsequent police acquittal 4-29-92, 53 dead, 2383 sinjured, 3100 busine
Roosevelt launches New Deal + speech: 'The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.' p
Churchill delivers Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri
p
Alamo falls to Santa Ana
s
AG Bell receives patent for telephone; 3/10/1876-Watson, come in here
c
1st combat troops arrive in Vietnam // 1993-Larry Piper retires from DOW
w
Tokyo fire bombing, 337 B-29s attack w/120,000 fire bombs
w
1st student admitted to Purdue University
s
1st US case at Ft. Riley; worldwide influenza epidemic, killed 2.5-5% of population, affect
m 20-25%
Gandhi starts non-violet civil disobedience campaign w/200 mi salt march
s
Impeachment trial begins for Andrew Johnson
s
FBI establishes 10 most wanted list // 1950-blood poisoning, hospital 7 days
s
West Point Academy is established // 1993-Piper retires from DOW; 2006-start bronchial
w 40d infection
Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket
c
St. Pats Parade in NY, first; St. Patrick died in 461
h
Jap & German Americans interred during WW II
w
Bush-43 invades Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein // 1913-Mildred Piper
w
MacArthur leaves Philippines, vows 'I Shall Return' // 1984-foot surgery by Dowling
w
President Carter announces that the US will boycott the 1980 Olympics
t
1st movie projector demoed by French Louis & Auguste Lumière
c
Patrick Henry says, '…give me liberty or give me death'
s
Exxon Valdez spills 11M gal oil // 1943-Janet Sue Piper
d
EEU, European Economic Union, formed by 6 nations: Fr,Gdr,It,Lux,Bel,?
s
Salk announces polio vaccine
m
FDA approves sale of Viagra // 1940-Judy Piper birth date
m
3 Mile Island nuclear plant loses coolant
d
Solar eclipse proves Einstein's Theory of Relativity
c
President Reagan shot by John Hinkley
p
Eiffel Tower Opens
c
US invades Okinawa // 1974-started coaching Fleet Feet
w
1st movie theater opens in LA, 10c for 1 hour
c
Microsoft is ruled a monopoly
s
MLK Jr. assassinated in Memphis
p
1st cell phone call, Motorola phone
c
U.S. enters W.W. I
w
7 Mercury astronauts selected by NASA (actually on 9th),
c
Hank Aaron breaks Ruth's record with 715th home run, 755 total
t
Gen. Lee surrenders to Gen. Grant
w
Tambora erupts, year without summer // 1961-active duty in Army
d
Appendix B
96
18
27
40
76
359
127
34
21
89
371
38
411
69
90
80
375
110
377
117
235
414
418
132
31
35
95
3
51
225
142
281
172
116
84
261
9
168
738
13
382
305
423
93
128
412
198
327
20
310
366
283
140
1905
1961
1945
1865
1912
1947
1961
1942
1995
1999
1836
1993
1985
1981
1990
1986
1865
1932
1945
1803
1960
1941
1923
1942
1961
1954
1915
1945
1960
1869
1997
1949
1940
1455
1796
1868
1954
1980
1958
1927
1881
1992
1934
1844
1935
1896
1941
1957
1953
1868
1889
1980
1896
Appendix B
11-Apr
12-Apr
13-Apr
14-Apr
15-Apr
16-Apr
17-Apr
18-Apr
19-Apr
20-Apr
21-Apr
22-Apr
23-Apr
24-Apr
25-Apr
26-Apr
27-Apr
28-Apr
29-Apr
30-Apr
1-May
2-May
3-May
4-May
5-May
6-May
7-May
8-May
9-May
10-May
11-May
12-May
13-May
14-May
15-May
16-May
17-May
18-May
19-May
20-May
21-May
22-May
23-May
24-May
25-May
26-May
27-May
28-May
29-May
30-May
31-May
1-Jun
2-Jun
Special Theory of Relativity announced by Einstein
c
Russia's Yuri Gagarin is first person to orbit earth
c
FDR dies, Harry Truman becomes president
p
Pres. Abe Lincoln assassinated by John W. Booth
d
Titanic sinks // 2006-start bronchial infection
d
Texas City, explosion, Fr ship Grandcamp carrying ammonium nitrate, kills 576.
d
Bag of Pigs invasion is a disaster
w
Doolittle raid on Tokyo by 16 B-24s, USS Hornet, 3 executed // 1775-Paul Revere; 1906-SF
w
earthquake
Truck bomb destroys Federal building in Oklahoma City, OK, Tim McVeigh
d
Student shootings in Columbine, Littleton, Colorado
d
Sam Houston defeats Santa Anna at San Jancinto // 1997-Mitchell Piper birthday; 1955-1st
w
date Judy Off
World Wide Web actually started in CERN; Tim Berner-Lee's idea on 8-7-91
c
Coca Cola tries to change basic taste formula
s
IBM personal computer introduced
c
Hubble telescope launched
c
Nuclear reactor explodes at Chernobyl
d
US Sultana explodes & sinks in Miss. Rv, 1800 of 2400 die, likely cause was courtney dcal bomb
Yellow fever vaccine is announced for humans
m
Dachau prison liberated
w
LA purchase for 3c/acre ($15M), signed 5/2/1803, reached DC 7/14/03
s
Spy plane & Francis Powers are shot down over Soviet Union
p
FCC starts TV network with 10 stations
c
2 Navy pilots fly cross-country
c
Battle of Corral Sea begins (all air combat)
w
Alan Shepherd sub-orbital flight, 1st US man in space
c
Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile
t
Lusitania sunk, 1198 die, unrestricted submarine warfare
d
V-E day
w
FDA approves the birth control pill
m
Promontory, UT, Central Pacific and Union Pacific meet, drive golden spike
c
Kasparov loses 1st match to Deep Blue, computer, in regulation 6 game match
c
Berlin airlift ends; Stalin relents
s
Winston Churchill speech: 'blood, toil …' 3 d after becoming prime minister of Britain p
Johann Gutenberg devised 1st movable-type printer, printed bible
c
Edward Jenner, GP doctor in rural England, developed smallpox vaccination // 1971-MBA
m Central Michigan
Pres. Andrew Johnson acquitted by 1 vote
s
Racial segregation in public schools declared unconstitutional in Brown v. Board Educ, sTopeka, KA
Mt. St. Helen explodes
d
NORAD formed between US and Canada
c
Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic
c
Red Cross founded by Clara Barton // 1909-John R. Piper birthday
m
Johnny Carson says goodbye after 30 years
p
Bonnie & Clyde killed in LA shootout
p
Samuel F.B. Morse sends 1st telegraph message, 'What Hath God Wrought"
c
Jessie Owens sets 4 world records in 45 min at Big Ten meet, Ann Arbor
t
Dow Jones Index starts with 12 stocks, 40.96
s
Sinking of the Bismark & Hood
w
Baseball owners vote to allow Dodgers & Giants to move to West Coast // 1983-Joe Officer's
t
death
Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay reach summit of Mt. Everest, return alive--Mallory & Irving
c
in 1924
1st Memorial (Declaration) Day, to honor Civil War dead // 1967-Laura Piper birth date h
Johnstown flood, 2209 dies when dam breaks sending 60' wall of water
d
CNN goes on the air 24 hours a day
s
Guglielmo Marconi receives patent for wireless (radio)
c
567
369
30
59
11
432
386
471
101
316
288
28
430
293
406
113
422
368
250
114
29
254
120
10
23
67
324
54
134
573
154
105
6
83
342
287
493
399
150
407
521
450
268
75
73
57
216
322
2
87
361
297
221
42
568
1916
1942
1968
1944
1776
1953
1973
1752
2001
1987
1966
1954
1215
1963
1972
1983
1953
1977
1989
1938
1972
1948
1962
2000
1977
1914
1956
1908
1867
1937
1939
1776
1996
1976
1992
1889
1868
1999
1807
1862
1865
1789
1799
1945
1955
1969
1848
1969
1925
1933
1967
1847
1978
3-Jun
4-Jun
5-Jun
6-Jun
7-Jun
8-Jun
9-Jun
10-Jun
11-Jun
12-Jun
13-Jun
14-Jun
15-Jun
16-Jun
17-Jun
18-Jun
19-Jun
20-Jun
21-Jun
22-Jun
23-Jun
24-Jun
25-Jun
26-Jun
27-Jun
28-Jun
29-Jun
30-Jun
1-Jul
2-Jul
3-Jul
4-Jul
5-Jul
6-Jul
7-Jul
8-Jul
9-Jul
10-Jul
11-Jul
12-Jul
13-Jul
14-Jul
15-Jul
16-Jul
17-Jul
18-Jul
19-Jul
20-Jul
21-Jul
22-Jul
23-Jul
24-Jul
25-Jul
ROTC authorized by Nat'l Defense Act // 1967-Rob & Deb anniv
w
Battle of Midway 4 of Japan's carriers destroyed, 1st Jap defeat // 1960-Larry+Judy anniversary
w
Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles
p
D-Day, Allies invade Europe
w
Richard Henry Lee proposes resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence
s
Segregation outlawed in DC restaurants // 2002-quit Fleet Feet
s
Secretariat wins Triple Crown // 2002-bike crash, broke l. shoulder
t
Benjamin Franklin 1st flew kite to show lightning was a form of electricity
c
Tim McVeigh executed in Terre Haute, IN, for 1995 OK City bombing, 169 dead
p
Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorby', by Pres. Reagan
s
Supreme Court establishes Miranda rule--right to an attorney, informed of rights
s
US holds nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack
w
Magna Carta signed by King John of England
s
1st woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova
c
Watergate break-in
s
Sally Ride, 1st American woman in space
c
Julius-Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing for spying
p
Alaskan pipeline opens
c
Flag burning is ruled constitutional by Supreme Ct; Texas v. Johnson
s
Joe Louis KO's Max Schmeling
t
Title IX, Higher Education Act, passed to aid equity in sports for women
t
Berlin Blockade begins
w
Supreme Court rules against prayer in public schools
s
Human genome rough map is announced
m
Supreme Court rules that lawyers can advertise
s
Archduke Franz Ferdinand & wife Sophia assassinated in Sarajevo, starts WW I, heir-apparent
w
to Austria-Hun
Interstate highway system created by Federal Aid Highway Act signed into law
s
Tunguska, Siberia, asteroid explodes 7K above ground, levels 1K sq-km trees
d
Canadian Independence Day
h
Amelia Earhart disappears; near Saipan; Mrs. Putnam (publisher)
c
Lou Gehrig 'Luckiest Man Alive' speech
t
Declaration of Independence created by Continental Congress
h
Dolly, the sheep, is cloned
m
1st women admitted to Naval Academy; Army next day
w
Shoemaker-Levy comet's 23 pieces hit Jupiter
c
1st issue of Wall Street Journal published
c
14 amend, blacks have full citizenship
s
U.S. defeats China, 5-4, World Cup Soccer, Brandi Chastain winning goal
t
Aaron Burr fatally wounds Alexander Hamilton in duel // 1960-Kelly Officer
s
Lincoln creates U.S. Army Medal of Honor
s
Horace Greeley advises his newspaper readers to 'Go west young man'
p
French Revolution, Bastille prison, world's 1st social revolution
s
Rosetta Stone found Alexandria, Egypt(Greek,Egypt hieroglyphics,Greek demotic)
c
Trinity atomic test, 5:29 am, Alamogordo, NM
c
Disneyland opens in Anaheim
s
Chappaquiddick incident, Ted Kennedy kills Mary Jo Kopechne
s
1st womens' rights conference, Seneca Falls, NY // 2000-Geneva Officer's death
s
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon
c
John Scopes is tried and convicted for teaching evolution
s
Wiley Post solo flight around the world, 7d, 18h, 49 m
c
Race riots in Newark, NJ (also Detroit and L.A.)
s
Brigham Young arrives at Salt Lake valley with 148 Mormons after 17 mo. // 1999-chestspains
Birth of first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, Louise Brown, England,
m
Appendix B
207
204
443
141
376
401
319
340
284
157
267
12
100
25
12
213
473
429
79
1
383
313
545
44
111
301
475
447
125
133
304
159
202
33
22
91
122
465
36
24
438
232
421
264
280
92
227
5
275
196
62
405
391
1948
1953
1945
1981
1956
1964
1981
1943
1958
1914
1962
1945
1991
1974
1945
1846
1934
1960
1961
1945
1947
1977
1807
1920
1991
1977
1959
1992
1609
1992
1944
1968
1883
1963
2005
1963
1997
1856
1945
1939
1957
1972
1901
1979
1974
1956
1913
2001
1953
1814
1998
1950
1893
Appendix B
26-Jul
27-Jul
28-Jul
29-Jul
30-Jul
31-Jul
1-Aug
2-Aug
3-Aug
4-Aug
5-Aug
6-Aug
7-Aug
8-Aug
9-Aug
10-Aug
11-Aug
12-Aug
13-Aug
14-Aug
15-Aug
16-Aug
17-Aug
18-Aug
19-Aug
20-Aug
21-Aug
22-Aug
23-Aug
24-Aug
25-Aug
26-Aug
27-Aug
28-Aug
29-Aug
30-Aug
31-Aug
1-Sep
2-Sep
3-Sep
4-Sep
5-Sep
6-Sep
7-Sep
8-Sep
9-Sep
10-Sep
11-Sep
12-Sep
13-Sep
14-Sep
15-Sep
16-Sep
Pres. Truman signs executive order desegregating the military
s
Korean War armistice signed // 1999-Triple by-pass operation St Marys, Dr. Baumgardner
w
B-25 bomber crashes into 79th floor Empire State Bd, 13 die
d
Lady Diana Spencer weds Prince Charles
p
US motto, 'In God We Trust' adopted
s
Ranger 7 takes 1st close up US pictures, 4308, of the moon
c
MTV goes on the air
s
1943-PT-109, commanded by JFK, rammed by Jap destroyer Amagiri
w
Nautilus becomes 1st sub to cross North Pole under water
c
WW I officially begins when England declares war on Germany
w
Marilyn Monroe found dead of apparent suicide, on pills
p
US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (9th)
w
World Wide Web idea, Tim Berners-Lee related his ideas on ALT.HYPERTEXT (actual 8/6)
c
Nixon resigns, effective next day; Ford sworn in // 1989-Brems shoulder replacement p
Nagasaki A-bomb // 1991-World Wide Web debuts
w
James Smithson gives $508K to establish Smithsonian Institute
s
Alcatraz first accepts federal prisoners
s
ECHO 1A satellite launched into LEO
c
Berlin wall, border between Easy & West Germany, closed; completed 6/18
w
V-J day // 1909-John Piper birth date
w
India wins independence from British Empire
s
Elvis Presley dies
p
Fulton's Folly, steamboat demo in NYC Hudson River
c
Women acquire the right to vote in US, 19th amendment
s
Soviet Union officially collapses
w
Voyager 2 launched on tour of outer planets, 12" platter with greetings in many languages
c
Hawaii becomes 50th state
s
Ruby Ridge incident, FBI kills Vici Weaver in 6 d standoff in ID // 1954-HS shoulder break
s
Galileo demos telescope for 1st time // 1988-1st hip replacement; 1969-MSE Michiganc
Hurricane Andrew hits Homestead, FL, $20B in damage
d
Liberation of Paris by Allies after 4+ years of Nazi occupation
w
Democratic convention in Chicago has anti-Vietnam war protesters
w
Krakatau's erupts, 36K died, Indonesia
d
MLK Jr. gives 'I Have a Dream' speech to 200K in Washington DC
p
Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans
d
Hot line between Moscow and D.C. goes into operation
w
Princess Diana dies in car crash // 1965-Scot Piper birth date
p
Joseph Lister performs 1st surgery with antiseptic
m
Japan surrenders aboard USS Missouri
w
WW II begins as Germany invades Poland, Britain and France declare war on Germanywon Sep 3 // 1995-b
Ford introduces the '58 Edsel // 1994 Double Ironman Triathlon
c
11 Israeli athletes killed at Munich Olympic Games // 1994-Double Ironman Triathlon t
President McKinley assassinated
p
ESPN sports network premiers on TV
t
Pres Ford pardons Nixon // 1988-1st hip replacement, CC, Dr. Borden
p
Elvis Presley appear on Ed Sullivan show
p
Lincoln Highway opens at 1st coast-to-coast paved highway (now US 30)
c
al-Qaeda terrorists use 4 planes to attack WTC and pentagon
w
Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of Soviet Union, (actual 9/7) succeeds Stalinp
National Anthem written by Francis Scott Key
s
1998-Google incorporated by Page & Brin; actually 9-7-98; domain on 9-15-97
c
Inchon landing, Korean War
w
Oklahoma land rush, 100K people, biggest ever
s
569
65
419
177
94
258
481
251
241
300
144
230
58
456
151
217
303
82
7
413
380
66
296
278
449
205
126
468
77
108
129
71
309
360
416
446
16
156
462
440
420
362
277
17
335
102
106
356
384
318
182
245
455
265
570
1787
1851
1995
1973
1897
1962
1779
1789
1981
1960
1964
1928
1982
1938
1946
1967
1995
1957
1947
1973
1950
1871
1936
1845
1939
1492
1792
1947
1951
1964
1973
1867
1781
1978
1967
1962
1983
1901
1854
1881
1997
1886
1929
1938
1940
1952
1952
1964
1995
2006
1860
1811
1895
17-Sep
18-Sep
19-Sep
20-Sep
21-Sep
22-Sep
23-Sep
24-Sep
25-Sep
26-Sep
27-Sep
28-Sep
29-Sep
30-Sep
1-Oct
2-Oct
3-Oct
4-Oct
5-Oct
6-Oct
7-Oct
8-Oct
9-Oct
10-Oct
11-Oct
12-Oct
13-Oct
14-Oct
15-Oct
16-Oct
17-Oct
18-Oct
19-Oct
20-Oct
21-Oct
22-Oct
23-Oct
24-Oct
25-Oct
26-Oct
27-Oct
28-Oct
29-Oct
30-Oct
31-Oct
1-Nov
2-Nov
3-Nov
4-Nov
5-Nov
6-Nov
7-Nov
8-Nov
Constitution is signed by Continental Congress in Philadelphia
s
NY Times starts publishing @ 2 cents, was NY Daily Times
s
Una bomber manifesto printed by Wash. Post & NY Times
s
Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in 'Battle of the Sexes'
t
NY Sun runs 'Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clause' // 2005-Double Hernia
s
Abe Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, free slaves as of 1-1-1863
s
John Paul Jones…I have not yet begun to fight'
w
Supreme Court (6 members) is established by Congress
s
Sandra O'Connor 1st female justice on Supreme Court sworn in
p
Nationally televised debates between Nixon and Kennedy
s
Warren Commission concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in JFK assassination
s
Penicillin discovered by Scottish Dr. Alexander Fleming, 1st used 1941
m
1st of 6 to die from cyanide-laced Tylenol, all Chicago area--led to safety caps
m
Chamberlain & Daladier sign Munich Pact with Hitler, give away Czech
w
Nuremberg trials end, 22 Nazi war criminals tried, 12 executed, 7 prison // 1963-Purchased
w home 1816
Thur good Marshall becomes 1st black justice on Supreme Ct
p
O.J.Simpson found not guilty after 252d trial
p
Russia launches Sputnik
c
1st TV speech from White House, HST wanted meatless Tue & eggless Thursdays
c
Yom Kippur war
w
U.S. invades North Korea by crossing 38th parallel
w
Great Fire destroys Chicago + WI and MI; 2500 killed
d
Hoover Dam power flows // 1962-Larry Piper discharged from active duty, Ft.McClellan, cAL, after 18 mo
Naval Academy opens
w
Einstein letter delivered to FDR on potential of atomic weapons
c
Columbus discovers America
s
Cornerstone of White House laid, architect James Hoban
s
Chuck Yeager becomes 1st person to break the sound barrier, 662 mph, announced 6/48,
c X-1 in Rogers Dry
I Love Lucy premiers
s
China becomes 5th nuclear power
s
OPEC oil embargo against Yom Kippur supporters
w
Alaska, takes possession from Russia, for $7million, 591,000 sq.mi, Seward's Folly s
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, VA, ending Revolutionary War // 1962-returned to DOW
w
WACs deactivated, integrated into Regular Army // 1966-Robyn Piper
w
100K Vietnam war protesters march in D.C.
w
Cuban Missile crisis announced
w
Truck bomb kills 241 US marines in Beirut, Lebanon
w
Annie Taylor, Bay City, 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls
p
Charge of the Light Brigade, Crimean War, Battle Balaclava, Tennyson
w
Gunfight at OK corral in Tombstone, AZ, silver discovered
p
World markets crash, DJIA drops 554 points to 7,161, fears of global economic // 2008-back
d
surgery
Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres. Cleveland, gift from France
s
Stock market crash, beginning of Great Depression
d
Orson Welles' War of the Worlds on radio causes mass hysteria
p
Battle of Britain ends, bombing of London ceases, Germany prevented from invading British
w Isles
US detonates first H--bomb in Eniwetok Atoll; announced Jan 7, 1953
w
Dewey defeats Truman newspaper, Chicago Tribune
p
Washington DC residents vote for President, 23 amend
s
Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
p
Saddam Hussein sentenced to death for 'crimes against humanity', 125 villagers after attempted
w
assassinat
Lincoln elected president, split opposition vote
p
Battle of Tippecanoe, Wm H. Harrison defeats Shawnee near Lafayette, IN
w
Wilhelm Rontgen, German, discovers X-rays
c
Appendix B
107
242
19
458
274
451
37
326
259
74
45
351
285
15
453
49
109
166
428
402
175
155
118
131
236
454
39
445
4
152
350
214
321
98
298
332
345
520
14
390
61
448
243
260
53
373
256
78
392
439
417
193
348
1989
1775
1918
1927
1982
1851
1971
1945
1941
1883
1963
1974
1620
1963
1936
1859
1867
1922
1924
1943
1947
1993
1955
1942
1967
1991
1933
1917
1941
1987
1992
1901
1936
2000
1962
1911
1939
1773
1903
1865
1998
1989
1988
1944
1947
1851
1776
2004
1831
1945
1890
1922
1999
Appendix B
9-Nov
10-Nov
11-Nov
12-Nov
13-Nov
14-Nov
15-Nov
16-Nov
17-Nov
18-Nov
19-Nov
20-Nov
21-Nov
22-Nov
23-Nov
24-Nov
25-Nov
26-Nov
27-Nov
28-Nov
29-Nov
30-Nov
1-Dec
2-Dec
3-Dec
4-Dec
5-Dec
6-Dec
7-Dec
8-Dec
9-Dec
10-Dec
11-Dec
12-Dec
13-Dec
14-Dec
15-Dec
16-Dec
17-Dec
18-Dec
19-Dec
20-Dec
21-Dec
22-Dec
23-Dec
24-Dec
25-Dec
26-Dec
27-Dec
28-Dec
29-Dec
30-Dec
31-Dec
Berlin wall opened up, torn down in subsequent days
w
Birth of Marine Corps
w
Peace signed for WW I // 2000-Bob Piper death
w
Holland Tunnel opened in NY by Calvin Coolidge
c
Vietnam Veterans Memorial 'Wall' dedicated
w
Moby Dick published
s
Intel introduces first microprocessor chip
c
US imports 88 German rocket scientists
c
Japanese Ambassador Joe Grew predicts Pearl Harbor
w
Railroads create time zones
s
Gettysburg address by Lincoln // 1999-Jessica Piper birthday
s
A.T.&T. broken up by Justice Dept
s
Mayflower with Pilgrims lands Plymouth Rock, left Sep 16
s
JFK assassinated
p
1st issue of Life published // 1949-Robert Piper
c
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species
c
Dynamite patented by Alfred Nobel
c
King Tut's tomb opened; opened sarcophagus 2-16-23; Howard Carter & Carnorvon
c
1st Macy's Thanksgiving parade // 1987-Mark+Kelly anniversary
s
Tehran Conference with Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin; WW II strategy
w
UN votes to partition Palestine, grants Jewish people a homeland
s
Brady Bill signed by Clinton (5 d wait to get handgun) // 1947-Debbie Angleton Officer s
Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat on bus
p
1st chain reaction, U. of Chicago, Fermi // 2005-TEE + cardio conversion
c
Dr. Barnard performs world's first human heart transplant, Lewis Washanski
m
Terry Anderson released after 2454 days, Lebanon
p
Prohibition ends after nearly 14 years
s
Halifax, Nova Scotia, destroyed by ammo ship, 1800d & 9K injured
d
Japanese launch surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, declared war on Dec 8
w
Reagan-Gorbachev sign treaty eliminating an entire class of nuclear weapons
s
Diana and Prince Charles separate
s
Nobel prizes 1st awarded, 5th anniversary of Alfred's death
c
King Edward III abdicates British throne to marry Wallis Samson, Am divorcee
p
George W. Bush wins election by ruling of Supreme Court // 1940-Jill Jollief birth date p
Battle of Fredericksburg, VA; Lee defeated Burnside, decisive loss for north
w
Amundsen, Roald + 4 others are 1st to reach South Pole ahead of Scott // Carol Piper cbirth date
Gone With The Wind premieres in Atlanta
s
Boston Tea Party
s
Orville and Wilbur Wright first fly
c
13 amend, abolish slavery, condition of readmission to Union
s
Clinton is impeached, 2 of 3 counts
p
Panama invaded by US to remove Manuel Noriega, drugs
w
Libyan terrorists blow up PanAm 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland
w
Nuts reply by Gen McAliff at Bastone
w
1st primitive transistor demonstrated in Bell Labs; 12/16/47 1st invented
c
Library of Congress burns, loses 2/3 of 55K volumes, all of Jefferson
d
Washington crosses the Delaware River to defeat the British
w
Tsunami hits Indonesian area; 280,000 are killed
d
HMS Beagle leaves for 5 year mission (Darwin)
c
Pledge of Allegiance recognized by Congress
s
Wounded Knee massacre of 146-400 Sioux Indians, Ghost Dance
w
USSR established
s
Panama Canal turned over to Panama--Carter treaty
s
571
572
Appendix B
Appendix B
573
574
Appendix B
Appendix C
Cars I've Owned
#
Purch
Date
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
6/57
3-11-61
20/64
4-12-69
~1969
1972
1975
6-1-76
11-29-76
2-21-8?
1980
1985
1988
4-27-88
11-9-89
8-12-93
1998
2000
2008
Sold/Trade
Date
$
Car
3/61
650
5/65 2141
1973 2500
1969
80
~1977 ~500?
1974 ~2000
1983 ~3000
3-22-79~3000
1630
198? 3875
1986 ~5000
5-8-85 ~500?
1988 ~500
4000
1997 ~3750
1999 ~4000
~6000
10/08 ~6000
15,000
Disposition
1955 Chevy BelAir Drove on honeymoon, grn/wh
1961 Chevy Impala Drove to Army, tan
1966 Chevy Super Drove when kids born, white
1956 Chevy BelAir broken crankshaft, brown
~1966 Chevy Corvair Convertible, blue, lawyer, oil
1969 Chevy
Dow Car, maroon
1973 Chevy Vega
Yellow, drove FF & MTU
1969 Ford LTD,4d Delta Ford, green
1973 Ford Wagon
Jim Phillips, Varner Ct. ?
1981 Ford Escort Wgn red, Stawicki,Laura, Sova
1980 Chevy Chevette blue, floor board,
Ford Escort Wgn
reddish brown, wreck at CU
1986 Chevy Wagon brown, I wrecked State St
1985 Chevy Cavalier totaled Judy CU ?, brown?
1986 Ford GT
white, Benny, stolen,rof
1990 Chevy Lumina Judy rolled, blue
1999 Chevy Venture white, still have
1995 Chevy Lumina blue, sold 1100, 135K
2006 Chrysler T&C white, back surgery
You May Be Defined By The Cars You Drive
“One ship drives east and the other drives west,
with the selfsame winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sails and not the gales,
That determines the way we go.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Appendix C
575
Maybe cars doesn’t deserve a chapter, but for some people it would be the highlight
of their life.
I actually lost four cars by accident: 55 Chevy on a crash in Lansing, Judy rollover on
Fordney Road, I was hit @ State & Indian, Judy CU crash,
Find a picture and make a few comments about each.
Comments that others have made about their cars.
AAA was of no help in bring up information about the past 20 years of bills.
Scots cars and motorcycles
Bought Laura a car.
Three stories about my cars:
1 – about 1971-1972 I had a car with a bad Bendix spring in the starter. When the car
(starter) got hot, the spring would not engage the starter motor. If you poured water
over the starter, it cooled down, and the car would start. Wick Allen started the
rumor that one had to piss on the starter to make this car go.
2 – I had a car that routinely got stuck in reverse (probably the ‘73 Vega). You could
lay down beside the car, reach under the car, and jiggle something to allow all the
gears to work again. One night, when the Community Center used to stay open until
11 pm, I came out about closing time, having played PB most of the evening. I was
very tired. The weather was cool—about 30-40. I could not get the car out of reverse.
The Center was closing, so I could not call from there. I raised the hatch and backed
the car the 2 miles home.
3 – My Jr. or possible Sr. year at Purdue, my ‘55 Chevy battery was bad. I did not
have the $20-25 to buy a new one. So I started the car by ‘popping’ the clutch. I
always parked in on a hill on the West side of Ross-Ade Stadium, so it was no
problem to start. But one Sunday evening, I drove over to the Student Union,
probably to get something to eat. I usually could restart the car if I was gone only a
few minutes. But the weather was cool and the battery was dead. I was parked next to
an open alley. So in order to start the car, I put it in neutral, pushed it, jumped in,
turned on the ignition, popped the clutch, and it started—all within the space of
about two car lengths.
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577
578
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Appendix C
579
580
Appendix C
#1
Year: 1955
Date Pur:
1957
Description:
BelAir
Pur. $: 640
Date Sold:
Color: Green/White
Sold $: Trade In
Pur. From: Indy used car lot, with Dad
Details:
6 cylinder, got good mileage (~24 mpg), I
drove it for the two years I worked for Foster. Then I
took it to Purdue my Jr. & Sr. years. My Jr. year the
battery was shot, so I had to push/jump start car for
part of winter.Drove on honeymoon. Bad horn shorted
out wiring. Blew a cylinder in Smoky Mts. Joe Officer
and I rebuilt engine for ~$100. Drove to DOW. Collision
in Lansing. Traded to Garber, Saginaw for #2.
#2
Year: 1961
Date Pur: 1/61
Description:
Chevy Impala
Pur. $: ~$2100 Date Sold:
Color:
Light Tan
Sold $: Trade In
Pur. From: Garber Chevrolet, Michigan Street, Saginaw
Details: Purchased in winter. Loaded everything
we owned in car for trip to AL. No A/C, so travel
was very hot. Got car repainted when sprayed by
smoke (acid). Bought ‘lifetime’ seat covers
(Fruehaul ?)
#3
Year: 1966
Description:
Sport Color:
White
Super
Date Pur: 12-65
Date Sold: ~1973
Pur. $: 2500
Sold $:
Pur. From Garber Chevrolet, Saginaw ?
Details: Red interior, 4-on-floor. Both kids were little, put a
crib in back seat like a cage. Scot yanked keys out ignition,
Appendix C
581
#4
Year: 1956
Date Pur: 4-12-69
Pur. From
Description: Chevy BelAir
Pur. $: 80
Color: Brown
Date Sold: fall ‘69
Sold $: 30, rab
Rod Bock, from out west
Details: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. 1st time we
had a second car. Judy needed a car while I was
gone to
Ann Arbor for school. Had oil problems.
Broke down in Auburn when Judy & Geneva
had gone shopping. Dad pushed her home.
#5
Year: ~1966
Date Pur: ~1969
Description: Chevy Corvair Conv. Color: Blue
Pur. $: ~500
Date Sold: ~1977
Sold $:
Pur. From: Lawyer on Ronan
Details: Had small oil leak. Alum. Engine was easy to
cross-thread spark plugs. Took kids to July 4 fire-works
at Midland fairgrounds when it was very cold.
#6
Year: 1969
Description: Chevrolet
Color: Maroon
Date Pur: 1972
Pur. $: ~2000
Date Sold: ~2000
Sold $: donate
Pur. From: Dow Chemical
Details: This was a Dow company car. I don’t
think it had been well maintained. We drove it
back one Christmas when it was about 5 F at
Breckenridge. The engine would hardly keep
running. Coles rebuilt the engine. I eventually
gave it away to Mark Officer
Appendix C
583
#7
Year: 1973
Date Pur: ~1975
Description: Chevrolet Vega Wagon
Color: Yellow
Pur. $: ~3000
Sold $:
Date Sold:
Pur. From: ???
Details: May have been my favorite car. Drove to FF for many years. Drove up
to Mich Tech for 1st CC 125.
Slept in for 1980 Taylor PB and Freep Marathon.
Eventually had problem of sticking in reverse—I had to back home one night
from Mid. Comm. Center.
#8
Year: 1969
Green/Wh
Description: Ford LTD 2Dr
Color:
Date Pur: 6-1-76
Pur. $: ~3000
Sold $:
Date Sold: 3-22-79
Pur. From: Delta Ford, Bay City
Details: One of the most troublesome cars I have owned. Seemed to have more
maintenance problems.
#9
Year: 1973
Date Pur:
Description: Ford Wagon ??
Color: ???
Pur. $:
Sold $:
Date Sold:
Pur. From: Jim Phillips, Varner Ct., Midland
Details: I have no recall or picture of this car.
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#10
Year: 1981
Date Pur:
Description: Ford Escort Wagon Color: Red
Pur. $:
Date Sold:
Sold $:
Pur. From: Stawicki,
Details: Judy purchased on her own. This car
had a lot of problems with timing belt.
I let Laura drive it at I.U. She got stuck in MN.
Judy & I drove up and towed it back—in a snow
storm.
#11
Year: 1980
Date Pur: Fall 1980
Description: Chevy Chevette , 4D Color: Blue
Pur. $: 4613
Date Sold: Ford LTD Sold $: Trade
Pur. From: Bandeen Chevrolet (so-so dealer satisfaction
Dettails: We drove this a lot with both children in high school. My hips were
getting worse; I eventually put my right foot through the floor board because of
the pressure of getting in and out of this car.
#12
Year: 1986
Description: Chevy Wagon
Color: Brown
Date Pur: ~1988
Pur. $: ~500
Date Sold: ~1988
Sold $: ??
Pur. From: ??
Details: I wrecked this car at the corner
of State and Indian. I was coming out of
Dow and never saw a car coming on Indian.
I don’t think I had this car very long. It was likely a replacement for 73 Vega
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#13
Year: 1985
Date Pur:
Description: Chevy Cavalier
Pur. $:
Date Sold:
Color: Tan
Sold $: 800
Pur. From
Details: Rusty, power steering problems
#14
GT
Year: 1986
Color: White
Date Pur: 11-9-89
Description: 1986 Ford
Pur. $:
Date Sold:
Sold $:
Pur. From: Ben Emen
Details: Bought just after surgery. Almost hit a deer
on the way home at Titt. & #47.
#15
Year: 1990/1994
Date Pur:
Pur. $:
Description:
Date Sold:
Color: Blue
Sold $: Totaled
Pur. From
Details: Judy rolled
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#16
Year: 1998
Date Pur:
Description: 1998 Chevy Venture
Color: White
Pur. $:
Sold $:
Date Sold:
Pur. From: Freeland, Burt Watson
Details: Not too bad a deal.
# 17
Year: 2000 Description: 1995 Chevy
Lumina
Color: Blue
Date Pur:
Pur. $:
Date Sold: 11/08
Sold $: 1,100
Pur. From
Details: Private sale through Craigs List
# 18
Year: 2008
Date Pur: 10/09
Description: 2006 Chrysler T.&C
Color: White
Pur. $: 15,000
Sold $:
Date Sold:
Pur. From: Feeny Chrysler, Midland
Details: Scot and Judy picked it out and Jewed them
down. We needed reliable car for my back surgery.
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The new 789 Chevy. It sits on a
Corvette C6 chassis, with a front
styled like a 57 Chevy, the side
like a 58 Chevy and the rear like
a 59 Chevy, hence 789.
It was built by N2A – No Two
Alike, and the company plans a
run of 100 vehicles.
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Appendix D
Medical Records
This Appendix will contain as many of my medical records as I can pull together.
Medical records currently constitute one of the most secretive subjects around, and yet
I feel they should be completely open, particularly to my heirs. I also feel very strongly
that everyone should be keeping meticulous medical records, and they should be easily
available when needed. I really believe that everyone should be ‘chipped’ like we do
animals, not only for ID purposes but also for medical treatment purposes. The
mistaken worries about misuse of medical information is the single biggest hindrance
to the overhaul of the U.S. medical system. But I am nearly alone in this opinion.
Chapter 15 contains the specifics on various surgeries and health issues. Appendix S
has copies of all my doctor's reports. This appendix is a summary of medical background information. I have assembled the following information:
Addresses of all my doctors, 2 pages
Chronological medical history, 3 pages
Timelines for the following:
Health (all my medical procedures) (1 page)
Health Details (all my medical procedures (7 pages)
All the prescription drugs I have taken (2 pages)
All the drugs, prescription and OTC, I have taken (2 pages)
Back Fusion, Nov 27, 2008 (2 pages)
Pacemaker, Apr 27, 2010 (2 pages)
Heart Information (2 pages)
Hip Redo, Nov 23, 2010 (2 pages)
My weight over my lifetime (1 page)
Chronological list of all the drugs I have taken (2 pages)
My opinions and ranking of all my doctors (3 pages)
Pictures of my doctors (as many as I could find (3 pages)
An online repository of my medical history (1 page)
My most valuable medical record is a file called DRUGS.DOC; the original is on ASUS:
MyDocs, and I keep a copy in Dropbox as well as carry it to all doctor visits. It is a
chronological list of the dates of all medications and doctor visits.
A daily diary following pacemaker surgery, Apr. 27, 2010, has been moved to a final
Appendix Z so as not to upset the page count of other parts of book and Appendices
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Major Medical History for Larry Piper (Chronological)
Date
Procedure
Outcome
10/12/1941
2/1943
12/25/1944
4/9/1946
3/6/1947
Laryngitis, 10d in bed. Dr. Rust, 38 & Central, Indy (babybook, bb)
Cold, near pneumonia, in bed 10d, Dr Kim, Beech Grove (bb)
Mumps on left side (bb)
Old-fashioned measles, broken out 10d (bb)
chicken pox, was not ill, in bed ½ day; scabs present for a month (bb)
th
Shots: 12/7/39 small pox; 2/40 3 shots for whooping cough; 5/1/40 & 10/40 2 shots
diphtheria; 5/9/46 Japanese smallpox (Dr. Gibbs); cod liver oil, 1 tsp daily from 1 mo of age
10/1943
Five Points, IN, fell off clothes rack; Dad Navy? 1” scar over right eye, 2 stitch
Dr. Dorman, 5504 E. Washington, Indianapolis
6/14/1945 Manchester: tonsillectomy & circumcision in doc's office, Dr. Geo Venable, Man.
3/1953
Blood poisoning, rt. hand
lanced, 1 week in Indy hospital
8/30/1954
1/15/1959
Separated rt. shoulder, broken bone
result of football practice
Reaction to penicillin
mobility restriction
Cast for 6 wks, no physical therapy
Purdue medical; rash, nurse hyper
1/17/1979
Foot surgery on left toe by Dowling; went to orthotics (Chicago) & stretching
2/19/1982
Shoulder surgery by Nick Ivan
osteophyte, missing cephalic vein
Although referred by Grand Rapid’s sports clinic, Ivan ‘botched’ it
8/1984
pain in hips (>90s 440), W. Kanicki -PT
Osteoarthritis diagnosis, treated by
Douglas McKeag, MSU, ankylosing spondylitis ? D.I.S.H.
MY CALL
8/23/1988
2/03/1989
8/08/1989
3/1992
3/14/93
8/16/93
9/3/94
New l. hip; Les Borden, Cleve Clinic
no longer pain in hip
New rt. hip ”
“
“
“ took a little longer to heal this time
New rt. shoulder; John Brems, CC
great mobility & strength
Won State PB ‘C’’ Doubles
sent plaques to Borden & Brems
Retired from DOW
Dr. Trohman, cardiologist at CC; apt. was a SNAFU; have 8 page report
Completed Double Ironman, Huntsville, AL (S-4.8, B-224, R-52.4; 35:35)
9/3/95
Separated rt. shoulder in bicycle crash on Trail; Brems said no problem
7/1999
Open heart, triple by-pass; Baumgartner 82 hrs in hospital
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9/1999
11/1999
2/15/2000
mid/2000
9/23/2000
4/12/2001
5/2/2001
Following treatment for cold, developed a full blown rash (urticaria)
Trouble eating & breathing; lasted 4+ years; numerous Docs & pills
ER - can't breathe
inhaler, went away in a couple days
Upper GI by Arbabi
OK, no mastocytosis or ulcer
Akbar on high doses of Atarax, Doxepin and/or Prednisone
Squamous cell carcinoma; O'Donnell cut two areas off face; 6 mo follow-ups
Mayo Clinic-Dermatology, Hand gave me a cream, otherwise of little value
Ann Arbor-Dermatology, Rasmussen, drop prednisone, stronger antihistamine
Akbar was primary physician; pronounced cured 9/28/2006
4/22/2001
ER - Kidney stone; Mistook for I.B.S.
6/9/2002
Separated left shoulder on bicycle fall on Trail; in sling for a month.
Occurred the day after I quit coaching girls track (30 years)
9/15/2005
Double hernia, Wolf results OK, but took 35 d. to treat.
Judgment error in 10d Plavix cessation AF precipitated by pain during 35d wait
12/2/05
T.E.E. & Cardioversion by Diehl
‘cured’ AF;
1/2/06
Vitreous hemorrhage in left eye
stayed vertical for 3 weeks, goes away on own
3/17/06
Bronchial infection, 40d, coughing almost learned to play piano while recovering
5/1/06
Back pain now part of my life
8/23/06
2/1/07
stress test failed; VF ?. Heart cath looks good (Mattichak);
saw Yunus on possible defibrillator; not now, no lifting, call if sort of breath
4/30/07
5/31/07
8/23/07
8/29/07
Hurt back again at Swayze Track meet
Schutz finds stenosis in spine
visit Roth, showed MRI
visit Cleveland Clinic, Borden & G. Bell
12/05/07
Pellizzon replacement for Diehl
8/29/08
9/23/08
10/30/08
revisit Roth, ready to proceed w/surgery. scheduled myelogram and CT scan
another MRI because myelogram did not have dye dispersed
decided to go with back surgery date;
prelim pre-op on 10/07/08
10/22/08
Bulusu wants to do biopsy on prostate;
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nothing ever passed; last of IBS attacks
chiro, hurt back at N24Hr, Carrollton bike ride
saw Smith 2x, pain pills only suggestion
recommended Roth
surgery candidate, to watch for 1 year
hips OK, back needs surgery (fused ?)
dropped Norvasc & Plavix; doubled Atenolol
delayed 3 mo until out of back brace
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10/27/08
Nonie;
Decompressive laminectomy w/fusion–no instrumentality; Beaumont; Roth &
9/16/09
Diehl office visit; talked about pacemaker, sch. echo cardiogram; he dropped ball
said everything was OK in a form letter that Raeann gave me when I showed up after
10d
9/26/09
Annual prostate exam at MMMC
OK, he said I was 2/10 w/hemorrhoids
12/2/09
Bulusu digital exam
OK, no sign of lump
2/11/10
3/2/10
3/24/10
4/27/10
Heard Islam at Towsley; called for apt. next day; 1st do a Holter MY CALL
Holter monitor at insistence of MCVI (lost another month)
Islam apt; EKG; 20 min talk ; to do catheter ablation + pacemaker
pacemaker surgery Islam took me off Coumadin & Atenolol; on Coreg
7/19/10
Dennis Johnson says I have some glaucoma; will check again in 3 months
8/04/10
8/05/10
8/06/10
8/10/10
8/13/10
8/16/10
8/18/10
says AF has
8/23/10
Went to Diehl: told him: I can’t breathe; pacemaker not working; sch. 4 tests
Peggy turned on exercise response; also sch another echo-gram (no results rec’d)
Failed lung test; 8/09/10 Yadam appoint. for lungs is 10 weeks off
Saw Michael Dense in Shields; told me on 8/12 my left hip was ‘out’
Saw Gary Smith for 40 min, advice, nothing specific, feels my heart is strong
Echo cardiogram by Alecia
Came in to Islam based upon Scot’s network contact of Dawn Lesma, Lansing; she
returned; she put me on Coumadin and Multaq; scheduled cardioversion on 9/16.
Again MY CALL on everything from 8/4/10
Realized I had a drug interaction between Multaq and Uroxatral; got Bulusu to
change prescription to Flomax MY CALL
9/07/10
Alecia ran stress test; went 9 min; POS equip, lungs & hip worked against me.
9/16/10
Cardioversion – worked! Feel much better & breathing in swimming is better;
doubled Coreg.; Coumadin INR has stabilized around 2.6; Islam says OK for hip surgery
9/30/10
Annual prostate exam; no change; Dr. Frier says Flomax will LOWER BP !
10/4/10
Cleveland Clinic, Geo. Muschler; he can fix it! Scheduled for Feb 1, 2011.
10/15/10
Yadam on lungs; sees nothing in chest X-ray or test results; OK for hip surgery.
10/19/10
Johnson followup on glaucoma; continue to watch for 6 more months
10/20/10
Islam 4 week followup on cardioversion. AF still present. Wants to do further
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ablation. I declined; I want to do hips first. Islam agrees. Started Lisinopril on 11-3-10.
11/2/10
11/15/10
11/23/10
Faulx at Cleveland Clinic; got approval for hip surgery on 2/1/11
Pre-op tests at Cleveland Clinic; hip surgery rescheduled to 11/23/10
Redo of left hip by Muschler; Lakewood 11/29; home 12/2; 6w-1/7; 11w-2/7/11
05/04/11
Colonoscopy by Ofari-Darko; nothing found, come back in 10 years!
05/06/11
Young cleaned up 2 big toes; wants me on Lamasil. Declined
05/16/11
Met w/Peggy + Carmen to check programming for 60+ minutes. Reset RF on MV
from 2 to 4; check back 2 weeks. Base rate of 60 overridden by AF protection.
Auto lifestyle turned OFF. Immediate improvement in swimming.
05/17/11
MY CALL
K. Shokoohi check eyes, glaucoma OK (16); qualify for cataract surgery in both
eyes. Will do about 2 weeks apart. Declined until heart ablation done. He was NOT
concerned about Flomax & Coumadin.
MY CALL
05/31/11
06/02/11
06/07/11
2nd pacemaker reprogramming session. Upped RF on MV from 4 to 6.
Scheduled ablation and cataract surgeries now that pacemaker working OK
Saw Diehl in Mt. Pleasant; decided to stay with him.
07/28/11
07/29/11
Atrial ablation (Islam); full MAZE, 6+ hr
ER to reinsert foley catheter; (Komara)
08/05/11
08/26/11
Left eye cataract, Great Lakes Eye Clinic, Saginaw (Shokoohi, Bell, Mesaros)
Right eye cataract, Great Lakes Eye Clinic, Saginaw (Shokoohi, Dude, Mesaros)
09/02/11
09/09/11
Eye apt. at LensCrafters (Appold) l. eye 20/80, r. eye 20/30; can drive now OK
New glasses in at Dow (sunglasses). Cannot read without glasses
09/23/11
Regular eye apt. with Dennis Johnson; Kathy ordered w/new frame style; glasses
came in 7d later. Lot of trouble adjusting to bifocal line. Trip to Purdue on 10/7/11
seemed to allow my eyes to adjust to new glasses.
09/26/11
Peggy reprogrammed pacemaker. It had been turned off (again) on 7-28-11. I am in
AF ~80% of the time & I can feel it. Swimming is a struggle.
09/30/11
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Carotid artery test at MMMC; results good. What was Islam thinking?
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10/19/11
10/27/11
12 wk followup by Islam. Created a flow chart of history and future options.
3rd cardioversion (Islam)
11/04/11
Saw Peggy, she reset 8 things to 9/26/11 settings; 4 time Peggy reset pace.
11/07/11
11/16/11
1 yr checkup by Muschler on hip redo
Final visit to Islam; says she can do no more for me. Will be in AF “forever”. Did
drop Multaq & Lisinopril, double Coreg to 20mg, raise limit to 140 pulse.
01-10-12
Saw MacKinnon and he says I have bronchial (walking) pneumonia. Prescribed
Avelox for 5d, but rash in 45 min. after 1st pill. Switched to Sulfa/Trimetho for
10d. Also albuterol inhaler. Missed 1st 19d swimming; back to 21 len and increased
4 len/day until Feb 2 reached 71 len.
02-06-12
Midland Urgent Care. Saw Andrew Bone, diagnosed cellulitis under 3rd toe, rt.
foot. Prescribed 10d K-Flex. Not gout. Took 3 x-rays to rule out injury.
Midland ER. Neuman, foot much worse. Talk of opening up foot to drain infection.
Took culture, 1 hr Cipro IV, stop K-flex, 7d of Cipro + Sulfa/Trimetho. Better
next day.
MY CALL
02-07-12
th
02-15-12
New patient visit with MacKinnon. ~35 min, good rapport, lot of info xferred
both ways. Gave me OK to resume swimming.
03-09-12
Saw MacKinnon at UC. Bronchitis coming back. 10d Cefprozil; foot suspect
03-18-12
Saw Craig Adams at ER. Rt. foot again has cellulitis. Gave me 10d of Cipro and
Bactrim (double dose). Ran PAD test on 3-21-12. Results negative, i.e., good!
Atrial doppler on lower extremities; no problems, everything OK.
03-19-12
04-10-12
04-17-12
04-25-12
06-11-12
07-18-12
08-03-12
09-19-12
10-17-12
11-06-12
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Met w/Pelosi (referred by Diehl on 03-06-12)
Echo Cardiogram in Brighton; said EF=35%
Asis (fellow) changed pacer to ventrical paced; lot of pain for 1-2 weeks
Saunders (fellow) gave me nuclear stress test; EF=42%
Pelosi – released me back to Diehl; Horwood “fixed” pacemaker
Bulusu switched me to Jayln; added Cialis
Shakoohi says I have a “macro hole” in left eye; watch for 3 mo.
Groove root canal; Cady patched; wants to do 2 crowns for $2,500!; later
pulled tooth on 12-26-12
Started massages w/Cathy; every 2 wks; Stena Ritt on 12-20-12
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11-12-12
11-19-12
Muschler says both hips OK; come back in 3 yr; I said probably not.
Diehl says everything OK, echo in 6 mo. Talked about replacement PM
01-17-13
Horwood, 2nd adjustment; I am switching to U/M for further heart work
05-01-13
Echo by Alisa at 301 Bd.; Diehl on 5/12: 20% EF, go back to see Pelosi, get 3rd
lead attached; apt 6/26/13. Heart sounds strong, what gives?
06-11-13
Shokoohi says left eye is good; no changes; watch 6 mo
06-26-13
Meet w/Pelosi; he asks me if I am passing out! Do a MUGA on 28th; get 45% LV,
52% RV EFs. Diehl on 9/16 tells me I have a “Class 1 heart.”
09-18-13
Henning pulls #18 molar; $250. No pain
11-11-13
Shokoohi says no change; don't need new glasses; come back in 9 mo.
02-03-14
Stena says intercostal muscles are tight; this explains a lot: lung soreness,breath
02-05-14
Cady filled 3 cavities; $900
02-06-14
08-06-14
Horwood saw 2 incidences; 2.5 yr on battery;
Horwood saw 0 incidences; 2.0 yr on battery; white coat; paced 96% of time
08-11-14
11-05-14
11-21-14
Winegar glued cap back on
Cady glued cap back on; talked to deb about potential $6K dental bill
Cady filled cavity
11-06-04
O'Donnell cut basal cell off my cheek; squamous cell off Judy's shoulder
11-20-14
11-25-14
MacKinnon 'insurance' visit; no labs; he is leaving; nurse's results all wrong
Young cut back both big toe nails; declined to have them removed
12-12-14
Diehl changed Vytorin to Lipitor; Coreg to CR2 (10 mg). Said Pelosi would do pacer
replacement; 5'7”, Stacy is scheduler for Diehl; he said he was 'porky'
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Doctor Comments
It is a habit of mine to not only keep lists but to rank the items in the list. People rankings
were always a part of my life. The military does it, particularly among the enlisted
personnel. Dow Chemical ranked its people annually for pay and promotion purposes.
Sports nuts have always felt it was their right to comment on who should be traded and who
should be kept. In recent years sports magazines have actually published a list of every pro
football player, ranking them from 1 to 1000+ for the purpose of drafting in the fantasy
leagues.
John Madden in one of his books flat out says that doctors should have their won-lost
records posted on their door. But they don’t. You are left to word of mouth and Internet
comments to form your opinion. At least doctors don’t flood our airwaves with
advertisements like the lawyers were allowed to do starting in June, 1977. But hospitals and
drug companies more than make up for it with their incessant and insidious ads. It seems
that 2009 will be the year when some doctors started requiring patients to sign a release
form that they will not post any negative comments about them on the Internet. (This legal
restriction has been around for years in the form of prenuptial agreements, employment
contracts and lawsuit settlements.)
My personal feelings about doctors are mixed. I place them in the “necessary evil” category.
I am not awed by their pedantic mutterings or their fancy degrees. I frequently remind them
that I seldom see a doctor walk across water when coming to work. I spent much of my
career at Dow working with other types of doctors, chemistry or engineering, and so
familiarity has dulled my appreciation of their skills. My father was not big on medical
doctors either; his parents had even less use for them.
But I appreciate medical doctors for their acquired experience and keeping up with current
technology. I am in awe with their ability to sort out symptoms and reach a conclusion,
although the “buzz words” to which they respond to are becoming common knowledge—
kind of like people who have learned what to say to live off the social welfare system. I
sympathize with doctor’s problems when patients withhold information or lead destructive
lifestyles. If I was a doctor, I could not keep my mouth shut at the stupidity level that many
patients exhibit.
I place medical doctors in the same category as school teachers: able to do great things for
people but also able to do great harm. My ranking below (for the first ~40 doctors) is what
this particular doctor has been able to do for me at a particular time in my life. The rankings
may not be sequential because I am constantly reevaluating their work.
No.
Doctor
1 Les Borden
2 Herbert Roth,
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Specialty
Orthopedic
surgeon
Orthopedic
1st Date
Comments
06/10/88 2 total hip transplants; frank,
aggressive, friendly
08/23/07 Back fusion, 27Oct08;
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Jr
surgeon
3
Raana Akbar
4
George
Muschler
5
Nilofar Islam
6
John Brems
Allergist,
immunologist
Orthopedic, redo
of left hip; 9 days
in CC hospital
Cardiac Surgeon,
electrophysiologist
Orthopedic
surgeon
7
Norbert
Baumgartner
8
Doug McKeag
Cardiac surgeon
Orthopedic
surgeon
David
O’DonnellDermatologist
9
Electro10 Frank Pelosi
physiologist
Dermatologist
11 James
Rasmussen
12 Leslie Schutz
Pain management
13 Gary Smith
Family practice
14 Ken MacKinnon Family practice
15 Aditya Bulusu
Urologist
16 Rodney Diehl
Cardiologist
17 Michael Dense Chiropractor
18 Kamen
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Ophthalmologist
10/27/08 somewhat conservative; very
quiet guy. Genius surgeon.
12/16/99 Figured out and cured my
09/28/06 urticaria; she died in 2009
10/01/10 Did left hip redo, sharp,
competent, busy because he only
operates 1 day/wk
03/24/10 Installed my pacemaker; also
04/27/10 catheter ablation; no followup;18Aug10 did cardioversion
08/08/89 Right shoulder replacement; very
sharp guy; may have limited my
shoulder mobility
07/29/99 Did my triple bypass, Jones did
the prelims & Maresca did the
follow ups
9/85
1st diagnosed DISH; got me into
4/25/88 Cleveland Clinic with Borden
12/21/99 Has great eye for skin cancers
4/11/12
U/M, listens, willing to try new
ideas
05/02/01 U/M contact who cured my
urticaria by doubling Atarax and
Doxepin
05/31/07 Diagnosed my back problem;
referred me to Roth
Family doctor for 40 yr, easy to
see, but has turned conservative
lately; has missed a number of
treatments that prolonged my
misery.
1/10/12
Replaced Gary Smith for our
family. Not the sharpest and
hard to see, but adequate; we like
each other.
Man of few words, some accent,
helped Don Kasper, switched me
to Uroxatral & back to Flomax.
07/26/99 My #1 heart doctor; not totally
comfortable with his abilities &
conservative pill treatments.
03/21/07 Best chiro I have used, he got me
through back pain in 07-08
01/02/06 Eye bleeding, just watched it
615
Shokoohi
19 Farred
Shokoohi
20 John Wolfe
Ophthalmologist 08/05/11 Cataract surgeries
Surgeon, DO,
hernia
21 Irene Kazmers Rheumatologist
09/21/05 Good surgeon but forced me
into 10d Plavix cessation
11/01/02 U/M, wonderful listener, drew 9
blood samples
Family eye doctor. Replaced
22 Dennis JohnsonOphthalmologist
Dad (T.K.). He is a good fit.
05/04/11 Colonoscopy, found nothing
23 E. Ofari-Darko Endoscopy
11/02/10 CC, heart approval for surgery
24 Michael Faulx Cardiologist
09/22/05 Great doctor, but impossible to
25 Stephen Jensen Urologist
see without 2 hr wait. Too quick
to suggest TUMP surgery.
Chiropractor
Low key adjustments over the
26 Bob Smith
years; good ‘friend’
Lawrence
Hale
Dentist
I have seen him for the past 30+
27
years; he will retire in 6/2010
03/01/83 Did my foot surgery in 1984
28 Gerald Dowling Foot surgeon
Pulmonologist
10/15/01 Failed lung test was bogus;
29 S. Yadam
chest x-ray OK; lungs sound
good
Podiatry
04/12/05 See him every 2 years to trim my
30 Mark Young
right big toe
Cardiac surgeon 01/22/07 Referred to him by Diehl, would
31 Asim Yunus
do surgery if I ever need defib.
12/14/07 ChE U/M; decisive, Judy doesn’t
32 Gary Pellizzon Cardiologist
like him; revised my pills while
Diehl was on sabbatical
07/26/99 Consultation for by-pass surgery
33 Robert Jones Cardiologist
34 Stephen
Cardiologist
08/28/06 Did a heart catheter
Mattichak
35 Nitin S. Govani Internist
12/01/10 Lakewood doctor who sprung
me
04/12/01 Mayo Clinic, she kissed me off
36 Jennifer Hand Dermatologist
because I was an engineer (as
was her father).
37 R. G. Trohman Heart, Cleve Clinic 08/16/93 Missed a great opportunity to do
something earlier w/heart. Bad
apt. & bad rapport.
Nick
Ivan
Surgeon
Screwed up rt shoulder with
38
616
Appendix D
39 Luigi Maresca
Cardiologist
~9/99
40 M.R. Arbabi
41 Ellsworth
Endoscopy
Surgeon
02/15/00
08/17/05
Ludwig
42 John Galsterer Endodontics
11/06/01
43 Gordon Bell
Orthopedic, CC
08/29/07
44 Stephen Lang
Dermatologist
~12/99
surgery ~19??. He came highly
recommended by a sports
medicine clinic.
Did followup of bypass surgery,
has arthritis that halted his
ability to perform surgery
Checking on my urticaria
Consulted with him before
hernia surgery.
3-4 root canals over the years;
should be ranked higher
2nd opinion on back fusion; 7 hr,
said back ‘already fused’
Egotistical German who got
nowhere on my urticaria. Wick
Allen thought he was great.
Missing Doctors: Camisa, Mesaros, Archer, Cady, Hennig
Missing Pictures: Rasmussen, Wolfe, Galsterer, Smith, Hale, Pelosi, Lang,
Ludwig, Giovani
Comments on miscellaneous doctors and PA's:
James Komara – saw him on July 29, 2011, to reinsert foley catheter after hospital
release from Islam's atrial ablation
Nitin S. Govani – internist who released me from Lakewood facility, 12-1-10
Camisa – saw her? I think in Ann Arbor for urticaria
Trohman – cardiologist I saw at C.C. on 8-16-93; see App S, p.788
Nonie – Dr. Roth's wing man. The best PA I have ever seen.
Bridgette – Dr. Muschler's helper; new but enthusiastic.
Chandra Rasmussen – Islam's helper; almost useless because she's clone of Islam
Holly – Dental assistant who works out of Senior Center
Appendix D
617
Baumgartner
Les Borden
John Brems
Michael Dense
Rodney Diehl
Gerald Dowling
Nilofar Islam
Stephen Jensen
618
Irene Kazmers
A. Bulusu
Jennifer Hand
S. Mattichak
Appendix D
Doug McKeag
Herbert Roth
Raana Akbar
Appendix D
Gary Pellizzon
Asim Yunus
Nick Ivan
Leslie Schutz
K. Shokoohi
S. Yadam
Gary Smith
F. Shokoohi
Geo. Muschler
619
Some of My Other Doctors Whose Pictures I Could Find
Dennis Johnson
Luigi Maresca
Mark Young
Michael Faulx
James Komara
620
Trohman
M.R. Arbabi
Gordon Bell
Ken MacKinnon
Robert Jones
Ofori-Darko
David O'Donnell
Appendix D
Online Medical History
Sometime in 2009 Scot signed up us both for www.MyRoadID.com . It is a web site where you
can enter quite a bit of medical information which can be accessed by anyone who knows your
serial and pin numbers. You get a choice of bracelet or ID tag which you wear. If the EMTs
find your unresponsive body, they can get online to find your medical history. The renewal is
$10 per year which is cheap insurance for any person. I actually saw an ad for this company
during the 2010 and 2011 Tour de France.
Much of this book has been uploaded to my website: www.pipers-place.net.
Ted Hennig
Appendix D
Laura Horwood
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(Below is misc. information about (1) list of drugs, & (2) when I started/stopped certain drugs.)
Date Started
-1
0.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
12.
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43b
43c
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Date Stopped
Comments
Dolobid
08-85
8-88
McKeag, 3x/day,
Lamisil
~2-99
~5-99
Smith prescribed for toe fungus
Pepcid
7-27-99
10-02-99
Ascriptin
10-15-99
Lopressor
10-16-99
blood pressure
Darvocet
08-17-99
left hospital with the above 4 drugs
Vit. E
07-31-99
10-09-99
resumed 1-12-00
Vit. C
07-31-99
10-09-99
resumed 1-12-00
Coenzyme Q10
Folic Acid
07-31-99
10-09-99
Vit. B6
07-31-99
10-09-99
Motrin
Lipitor
08-3-99
Benadryl
09-17-99
09-23-99
Zithromax
09-22-99
Xanax
11-26-99
12-02-99
Prednisone
09-24-99 (60 mg taper) 08-21-00(7.5a) 9-16-00(5.0a)
Inhaler
09--25-99
10-02-99
Ensure
09-27-99
Prevacid (should be #18)09-23-99
Gaviscon
09-28-99
Ambien
did not take
Zyrtec
12-3-99
doubled on 12-28-99, off 2-29-00; 5/3/01 on again to 12-15-04
Tetracycline
11-11-99
11-20-99 these 4 drugs from Dr. Lang
Nystatin
11-11-99
11-20-99
Tavist-2
11-11-99
Tagamet
11-11-99
11-23-99
Adult aspirin
One-A-Day Vit.
Acidophilus
12-4-99
Plavix , 75 mg
12-8-99dropped by Pellizzon on 12-14-07
Chloro Trimeton (tried once)
Periacten
01-20-00
Atarax
02-29-00
Cholestyramine (Questran Lite) 3-10-00
Accolate
4-15-01
Zocor
5-16-00 (20)
10-11-00 (40 mg/day) notice sore joints
Doxepin 25 mg
8-13-00 (2x25mg); 05-03-01 (3x50mg); 5/21/01 ?? (2x50mg)
Multivitamin
Tylenol+Codene
Triamcinolone, 0.1% cream
04-15-01
05-01-01
Hydrocodone (kidney pain)
04-22-01
04-23-0 Took 1 every 3hr for a total of 5
Zantac
05-03-01
Protopic 0.1%
12-11-01
O’Donnell to be used as needed
Elocon 0.1%
12-11-01
Omega-3
12-19-03
1200 mg; doubled to 2400 mg on 7-08
Baby Aspirin, 81 mg. 12-26-03
(also resumed Vit E)
OS Cal (400 mg Ca, Vit D
01-05-03
Zetia
10-13-04
Diehl tried out
Vytorin
12-15-04
Diehl switched me to this
Lotrisone
08-10-05 topical treatment for jock itch; stopped ~ 9-5-05
Atenolol
09-19-05
03-24-10 stop by Islam, 25 mg, hypertension
Appendix D
46.
47.
47a.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
52a
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
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60.
61.
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(48)
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66
67
68
69
69a
70
71
72
73
74
75
Desonide cream
09-28-05
Flomax
09-22-05
Cipro
09-21-05
Given by Wolfe after hernia surgery; again
2-8-12 cellulitis
Coumadin
11-02-05
stopped 04-22-10 by Islam before pacemaker
Levaquin
03-24-06
7 day antibiotic by Smith for bronchial infection-cough
Prednisone
03-31-06 5 day burst by Smith for continuing bronchial infection-cough
Erythrocin
04-10-06
finished 04-21-06 + couple more days at 1/day
Advair inhaler
04-10-06
finished 05-13-06
Tetanus shot
06-26-06
when I scrapped my shin on bicycle; at Mid. Urgent Care
TriMetho/Sulfamethox 08-30-06
quit after 3 days on 09-01-06 – good stuff; resumed 9-6-06
Nitroquick (nitroglycerine)
09-06-06
0.4 mg, not using
Paxil
12-06-06
20 mg., take 1/day in am; quit in 2-3 weeks, drowsy
Norvasc
02-06-07 Diehl, added to Atenolol; Pellizzon dropped 12-14-07
Vicodin
05-18-07 Smith – add to Aleve + Tylenol; maybe see physiatrist
Co-enzyme Q10
~03-08
100 mg, expensive, using only ½ to ¼ dose
Vit. D (400 to 1000 mg) 08-10-08
You: You’re Health
Ferrous Sulfate
09-20-08
Roth: build iron prior to surgery; stop ~12/08
Uroxatral
present 10-22-08
halted 8/23/10 & started Flomax again
Coreg
05-08-10
10 mg; went to 20 mg 9-16-10;
10-7/28/11; 20-11-17-11
Multaq
08-19-10 Islam for AF control prior to another cardioversion
Coumadin
08-19-10
Islam for AF re-occurrence
Lisinopril
11-03-10
Islam for blood pressure
Nitrofurantoin, 100 mg 07-29-11 Komara (Islam) antibiotic for foley catheter (7d)
Prednisone Acetate
08-01-11
eye drops for cataract surgery, 4x/day
Ofloxacin
08-01-11
eye drops for cataract surgery, 4x/day
Bromday
08-01-11
eye drops for cataract surgery, 1x/day
Avelox
01-10-12
antibiotic for bronchial pneumonia; rash in 45 min, quit
albuterol inhaler
01-11-12
use as needed (had used back in Mar 2006
Sulfametox/Trimethho 01-11-13
for #69, 10d; repeated on 2-6-12 for cellulitis
Cephalexin (K-flex)
02-06-12
500 mg, 10d , 3x/day
Muprocin (MacKinnon) 02-15-12
Ointment to apply to rt. foot for Cellulitis
Bactracin Zn Ointment 02-15-12
OTC, ER gave me some also
Cefprozil
03-09-12
Bronchial recurrence, MacKinnon
Lamosil gel
04-24-12
Dr. Young says to use for 4-5 mo;
about $10 for 3 wk tube
dropped 8/12
dropped 5/10
dropped 6/23, resumed 6/29
dropped 6/22
dropped 5/13
dropped ~1/15/01
dropped 10-08-05
dropped 12-14-07
dropped ~6/08
dropped 03/24/10
dropped 04/22/10
dropped 07/31/10
dropped 11/17/11
dropped 11/17/11
Appendix D
Atarax
25 mg, 10x/day
Tagamet
400 mg, 3x/day
Prevacid
30 mg/day 15 mg every other day 0
Acidophilus
300 mg, every other day (stomach bugs)
Cholestyramine 2 packets/day (Questran Lite)
Periacten
4 mg, 3x/day
Baby Aspirin – added back Plavix
Plavix and Norvasc; doubled Tenormin to 25 mg/day (Pellizon)
Vit E & C
(extra beyond multi-vit); You: Your Health
Atenolol
by Islam; asked why I was taking this drug
Coumadin
by Islam prior to pacemaker; did not resume
Co-enzyme Q10;
figured it no longer helped me; very expensive
Multaq
not doing any good to stop AF
Linsinopril
trade off for doubling Coreg
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My most valuable medical record is a file called DRUGS.DOC; the original is on
ASUS: MyDocs, and I keep a copy in Dropbox as well as carry it to all doctor visits. It
is a chronological list of the dates of all medications and doctor visits. The previous
two pages are extracted from this 20+ page document.
Two daily diaries following pacemaker surgery, Apr. 27, 2010, and hip redo surgery,
Nov. 23, 2010, have been moved to Appendix Z so as not to upset the page count of
other parts of book and Appendices.
Then on Sep 21, 2011, I created an Addendum (currently starting on page 1051). It
allowed me to add new stories and expand on existing stories without having to redo
the page numbers in the main book and Appendices. Much of my post-2010 medical
history is in this Addendum.
Then on Nov 17, 2011, Dr. Islam said she could do no more for my AF, and she
released me back to Dr. Diehl. Unspoken but understood was the fact that I would
have to live with AF for the rest of my life. Judy and I think she could not handle my
confrontation personality, and my desire to maximize my athletic performance. So I
started a third diary on this date. Currently this diary is NOT part of my book; it does
have more details of recent medical visits than what is in DRUGS.DOC. I keep this
diary on HP1:MyDocs/thebook/ as well as in Dropbox.
Finally, I do keep a series of monthly calendars where I make notations on any
changes is my daily drugs. This would include missed days, antibiotics taken and
“experiments” when I am self-medicating myself. These charts are next to my drug
bottles. I also have clear, plastic 1.5 crates (in the basement) that contain all my past
medical records.
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Appendix D
Appendix E
www.pipers-place.net
Get Into The Digital Age
“If you build it, he will come.”
Field of Dreams, The Voice
Around 2001 I acquired a web presence. For $100 a year I have had my own domain
name, numerous email accounts and virtually unlimited storage space. I have
convinced a few other people to also acquire a domain with Powweb.com.
At the present time Judy and I have 14 web sites. This Appendix contains a brief
picture and description of each of the 14 sites. They are listed in the order which they
appear on Pipers-Place.net. (The original website was: www.pipers-place.com, but I
lost this domain for a year when a “squatter” grabbed it during the confusion of my hip
re-do in Nov, 2010. I once again own “.com”, but I have done nothing with it.)
Appendix E
625
Judy is the webmaster for this site. The Piecemakers Quilt Guild is a 13+ page that
showcases the activities of this 100+ member club.
Created in 1998, this site follows the activities of the 1958 class of Danville High
School, of which Judy was one of the 59 graduates.
This is Laura Greenfelder’s business site. She runs a women’s retreat that can
accommodate up to 16 women for either weekday or weekend craft projects. Laura
has subsequently added a 2nd church site that can accommodate 24 more women.
626
Appendix E
This is an older site that was created by Larry to follow the activities of the Internet
SIG, originally as part of the now defunct Saginaw Valley Computer Association.
This is the high school web site for Larry’s 1956 class.
Larry created this web site almost 10 years after finishing the event. The details are
within Larry’s book (It’s Time To Pay The Piper).
Appendix E
627
This is a hodge-podge site that potentially can reference a number of Larry’s past
activities. At the present, only 3 of the 19 links are complete. Most of the missing
links are part of Larry’s book, and may or may not be updated at this online site.
Larry created this site in 1994 when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Finally,
some 16 years after the Hall was started, the group responsible for the Hall decided
to create their own site (http://www.midlandascc.org/MASCChall.htm ).
628
Appendix E
Larry’s summer of 2004 was spent riding his bike to 25 to 30 of the nearby Senior
Centers. It was an interesting project; I wish I had carried a digital camera.
Appendix E
629
This site sprung to life after seeing all the tributes to Elvis on the 25 th anniversary of his
death. I had most of the background information, so it took only 3-5 days to create it.
I was swayed by numerous web sites that displayed photos. Mostly, I wanted to show
off my Uzi camera.
Appendix E
629
This was a quickie site to celebrate the efforts of Scot and I at this annual Father’s
Day bike event. I think it was the last time I could seriously challenge the course.
Finally, I have written this site at least 5-6 times, but always in my head. I am not
sure I can capture my original feelings and ideas. Fitness and what it means in the
real world vis-a-vis the medical community and popular advertisements is a subject
about which I feel very strong.
630
Appendix E
I recently added in this purple heart site. I expect it will subsequently contain a
selected amount of my medical history.
I have messed with blogs, but only the first two on my hospital stays were added to on
a regular basis. Occasionally I will feel like getting on a rank and I will add something
to the bottom two.
Appendix E
631
The bottom part of my web page (index.htm) is a hodge-podge of stuff. I have had
problems with the midi music: some people don't like any music, and many people's
browsers do not recognize midi music.
In the fall of 2010 I managed to 'lose' my domain, www.pipers-place.com. A series of
events occurred which led to this predicament: separate bills from Powweb that
caused me to lose track of what I had paid, a recently installed pacemaker that was
malfunctioning, a series of medical tests to find out what was wrong with the
pacemaker, the 'discovery' that I needed a new hip implant, the loss of my credit card
which automatically paid my Internet bills, and the effects and recovery from my
second toughest surgery.
Once I finally realized that I needed a new domain name, all sorts of problems arose
in my mind. But a fortuitous phone call to Powweb resulted in not only a new
domain name, but the transparent movement of over 2 G of my data to the new site. I
am now known as: www.pipers-place.net .
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Appendix E
Appendix F
My Favorite Movies
My Favorite Movies
2 pages
AFI Top 100 Movies in 4 Categories
3 pages
America’s Greatest Movies in 12 Categories
1 page
My Best Movie Lines
2 pages
633
634
My Favorite Movies
635
636
My Favorite Movies
637
638
My Favorite Movies
I cannot find the exact reference to this site other than in is from 1988 TV special on
CBS. The results are in a book titled, AFI’s 100 Movies in 100 Years.
639
My Best Movie Lines
#
Movie Line
Character
Actor
Actress
Film
Year
1
Kicked Out
Captain
James
Cagney
Mr.
Roberts
2
What we have here is a failure to
communicate
Warden
Strother
Martin
Cool Hand 1967
Luke
3
I'll be back.
The Terminator
Arnold
The
1984
Schwarzen Terminato
egger
r
4
Monsters from the id.
Doc Ostrow
Warren
Stevens
Forbidden 1956
Planet
4
Go ahead, make my day
Harry Callahan
Clint
Eastwood
Sudden
Impact
1983
5
If you build it, he will come.
Shoeless Joe
Jackson
Ray Liotta
Filed of
Dreams
1989
6
We have a system and it works.
Klatu
Michael
Rennie
The Day
1951
The Earth
Stood Still
7
Angela Hopper, I’d recognize that
face anywhere.
Harry
Bannerman
Paul
Newman
Rally
1960
Round the
Flag Boys
8
Mama always said life was like a
box of chocolates. You never know
what you're gonna get
Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks Forrest
Gump
1994
9
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Sam Spade
Humphrey The
Bogart
Maltese
Falcon
1941
10 Have I done everything I could
Rudy
Sean Astin Rudy
1993
11 Toto, I've a feeling we're not in
Kansas anymore
Dorothy
Judy
Garland
1939
12 Frankly my dear, I don't give a
damn
Rhett Butler
Clark Gable Gone With 1939
The Wind
13 Here's looking at you, kid
Rick Blaine
Humphrey Casablanc 1942
Bogart
a
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The
Wizard of
Oz
1955
My Best Movie Lines
#
Movie Line
Character
Actor
Actress
Film
Year
14 Nobody knows (referring to the
actual cost of an airline ticket)
Suzy (Jonah's girl Rita Wilson Sleepless
friend)
in Seattle
1993
15 Is anybody there? Does anybody
care?
John Adams
William
Daniels
1776
1972
16 May the force be with you
Han Solo
Harrison
Ford
Star Wars
1980
17 Bond, James Bond
James Bond
Sean
Connery
Dr. No.
1962
18 Houston, we have a problem
Jim Lovell
Tom Hanks Apollo 13
1995
19 When I'm good, I'm very good, but
when I'm bad, I'm better
Tira
Mae West
I'm No
Angel
1933
20 You dirty, sheep herding …
J. P. Harrah
Robert
Mitchum
El Dorado
1966
21 It's Alive! It's Alive
Colin Clive
Frankentein
Frankentein
?1931
22 Elementary, my dear Watson
Sherlock Holmes
Basil
Rathbone
Sherlock
Holmes
1939
23 Play it Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’ Ilsa Laszlo
Ingrid
Bergman
Casablanca 1942
24 You’ve got to ask yourself one
question? Do you feel lucky? Well,
do ya punk?
Harry Callahan
Clint
Eastwood
Dirty
Harry
1971
25 I’m going to make him an offer he
can’t refuse
Vito Corleone
Marlon
Brando
The
Godfather
1972
26 Your ego is writing checks your body Capt. Tom Stinger James
can't cash
Jordan
Tolkan
Top Gun
1986
27 Wax on, wax off
Mr. Miyagi
Pat Morita
Karate Kid 1984
28 There's no crying in baseball
Jimmy Dugan
Tom Hanks League of 1992
Their Own
29 Ditto
Sam
Patrick
Swayze
Ghost
1990
30 E.T. Phone home
E.T.
E.T.
E.T.
1982
Gary
Cooper
Pride of
the
Yankees
1942
31 Today I consider myself the luckiest Lou Gehrig
man on the face of the earth.
My Best Movie Lines
641
#
Movie Line
Character
Actor
Actress
Film
Year
32 Tell 'em to go out there with all
they got and win just one for the
Gipper
George Gipp
Ronald
Reagan
Knute
1940
Rockne All
American
33 Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary.
John Keating
Robin
Williams
Dead
Poets
Society
34 Louie, this could be the start of a
beautiful friendship
Rick Blaine
Humphrey Casablanc 1942
Bogart
a
35 I’ll have what she’s having
Customer
Estelle
Reiner
When
1989
Harry Met
Sally
36 As God is my witness, I’ll never be
hungry again
Scarlet O’Hara
Vivien
Leigh
Gone With 1939
The Wind
37 I've been looking for marbles all
day long
Ensign Pulver
Jack
Lemon
Mr.
Roberts
1955
38 Why don’t you come up sometime
and see me.
Lady Lou
Mae West
She Done
Him
Wrong
1933
39 You can’t handle the truth
Col. Nathan
Jessep
Jack
Nicholson
A Few
1992
Good Men
40 Whose on first?
Dexter
Bud Abbott Naughty
Nineties
41 Big Mistake, Big Mistake
Julie
Roberts
Pretty
Woman
1989
1945
42 Round up the usual suspects
Capt. Renault
Claude
Rains
Casablanc 1942
a
43 Well, here’s another nice mess
you’ve gotten me into!
Oliver
Oliver
Hardy
Sons of the 1933
Desert
44 Open the pod bay doors, HAL
Dave Bowman
Keir Dullea 2001: A
Space
Odyssey
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1968
Appendix G
Genealogy
Insert: 1 page on ancestors + 1 page on descendants + what happened on Jan 1 + near dates
Gulley’s story on family rituals
Ancestors of Larry Piper
Descendants of Larry Piper
Hourglass of Larry Piper
Family Dates
What Happened on January 1 (my birth date)
Who Was Born Near Me (about my age)
Appendix G
643
Ancestors
644
Appendix G
Descendants
Descendants
645
646
Appendix G
Family Dates
Family Dates
647
What happened on Jan 1 1
1999
1994
1993
1984
1979
1977
1975
1959
1957
1939
1938
1929
1927
1920
1919
1918
1917
1912
1911
1909
1909
1907
1901
1900
1898
1895
1892
1886
1881
1879
1879
1864
1863
1862
1818
1816
1801
1752
1745
1735
1673
1547
Euro, single currency of 11 European nations, officially goes into existence.
North American Free Trade Agreement goes into effect.
Czechoslovakia peacefully splits into Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Break-up of AT&T as it divests itself of 22 Bell systems.
U.S. Opens diplomatic relations with China, while breaking relations with Taiwan.
1st woman ordained a priest in Episcopal Church of America
John Mitchell , H.R. Haldeman, John D. Erlichman convicted of Water. obstruction.
Dictator Batista is replaced by Fidel Castro in Cuba.
Nancy Lopez, female golfer is born.
European Economic Community (EEC) begins operation. (Common Market)
U.S. Census reveals nearly 8 M Americans are out of work; 36 M collecting benefits.
Army Fokker plane remains aloft for 150 hours with air refueling.
Doak Walker, football player, Heisman Winner, Detroit Lion, born.
Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to Yankees for $125 K.
J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, is born.
Stubby Kaye, rotund comedian (Lil Abner, Cat Ballou) born.
Lawrence of Arabia leads the Arab forces in revolt against Turkey.
Kim Philby, spy in British Intelligence (I Led 3 Lives).
Hank Gfreenberg, Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer, is born.
Barry Goldwater, leading conservative, 1964 presidential candidate.
Dana Andrews, actor, is born.
Passage of Pure Food and Drug act; affected by Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
Commonwealth of Australia is formed.
Xavier Cugat, band leader, rumba king.
Five separate entities: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Bronx now NYC.
J. Edgar Hoover, F.B.I. Director from 1924 to 1972
Ellis Island opened as immigrant processing center.
First Tournament of Roses parade staged by Valley Hunt Club.
AT&T pays first quarterly dividend ($3/share); continues till today.
Albert Taylor, physicist and engineer, he developed radar.
E.M. Forster, author of A Room with a View.
Alfred Steieglitz, father of modern photography, born
Emancipation Proclamation becomes law, signed by Abraham Lincoln.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of modern Olympics, born.
White House reopened after restoration of fire in 1814.
National debt is over $100 M for first time, or $15 per person.
Italian Giuseppe Piazzi discovers first asteroid and names it Ceres (500 mi dia.).
Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy) Ross, patriot, she made the first American flag in 6/1776.
Anthony Wayne, Revolutionary general, born
Paul Revere, Revolutionary patriot and craftsman.
Regular mail delivery begins between NYC and Boston, but takes 3 weeks to arrive
Pope Paul II appoints Michelangelo chief architect of St. Peters.
1 Your Birthday, Jan 1, Natalis Press, 1990.
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