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Jack Peck '56 #446

Editors,

You guys are doing a super job! Your hard work is appreciated out here in the real world.

I'm two years into retirement, and enjoying golf, grandkids (8, going on 10 by mid '97) and volunteering with "Kids at Risk" one day a week at a nearby high school.

Hey, the new Oak Leaf looks--and is--great. Keep up the good work, guys.

Clifford A. Hui '67 #649

Dear Brothers,

I am woefully remiss in my dues and submit the enclosed to bring me up to date. Use it for the good of the Brotherhood.

Since the last time I caught up on my dues I have changed jobs and domiciles. No longer am I doing biology (primarily dolphin) research for the Navy in San Diego but am working for the US Department of Interior (US Geological Survey) conducting research on the effects of contaminants on wildlife and am living in Davis. This town is certainly a change from San Diego.

Once when I was helping a colleague collect data on his birds on Alcatraz Island, we were having breakfast on the waterfront (Pier 39, actually) in San Francisco (sometimes this field work is tough) before embarking for the Island. Then who should waltz in the door but brother Douglas G. McConnell '67 #636! We were all very surprised but managed to get in a short but intense visit.

Keep the Oak Leaf coming. It helps me keep a balanced look at the world.

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Robert Casady '65 #598

Just returned from eight months in the Caribbean. I taught gross anatomy at the American University of the Caribbean on St. Maarten island. It was great to get back into teaching. I had been an accountant (CPA) for fifteen years and when my youngest went off to college last year, I decided to return to being a medical school faculty member. It was the right decision and now I am looking for another teaching position here in the states.

My wife continues to run our bookstore (Evergreen, CO); my oldest son, Doug, has begun his second year at the Creighton University School of Medicine; my second oldest, James, is in his last semester at the University of Colorado; and my daughter, Erin, is a sophomore at Baylor University in Waco, TX.

I encourage more Nappies from the mid-sixties to write (especially from the class of 1965). If any Nappies pass through Denver, please give me a call.

David L. Painter '95 #1132

After graduating last year, I did not make the effort to gather contact information so as to keep in touch with the fraternity. At this point, as I begin a new job and more or less "head off into the world," I wanted to make sure that I had the names and numbers of a few people back there at Pomona College.

I'm still living in the same area, roughly (Orange County), so I'll show up for a cabin party (or two) and the initiations if someone can drop me a line.

I was really very sad to see the hot tub at the cabin demolished. Although a lot of the time and effort was put into it, the pressure of the forest service was obviously too much.

Oh well.

See ya'll later,

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Aaron Isgar '93 #1046

Greetings Nappies,

I just opened a checking account for the first time since graduation--so here's four years of dues, plus one to carry me through the year.

I've been living in Tonushima, Japan since leaving Pomona. For two years I taught English to junior high school students on the Jet Program. The last year, however, I spent the majority of my time learning Japanese-style gardening.

I should be headed back to Japan this spring--this time for more formal study at Kyoto University. Any Nappies headed my way let me know!

Kyoto address forthcoming...

Cheers,

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Fess Reierson '92 #1033

[Sent dues.]

Marathoner Ben Jones '54 #399 crosses the finish line at the centennial running of the Boston Marathon and his 100th marathon. He keeps going, and going, and going, and going...

Ben Jones '54 #399

It has been another busy year at work. I am still doing Internal Medicine and Family Practice in Lone Pine, California. Managed Care has taken over and there is no such thing as private practice anymore. Instead, I work for the government and for insurance companies whether I like it or not. The way medicine is heading, we will be wallowing in a stockade pulling numbers like at 31 Flavors trying to get adequate medical care. Eighty percent of the work is done in the office seeing mostly geriatric (Medicare and Medi-Cal) and HMO/PPO patients. The rest of the practice is across the street at Southern Inyo Hospital. There are only four beds for acute care, which are unoccupied most of the time, and 33 beds in the Skilled Nursing Facility. There are no more surgeries and no more deliveries as there are only two full-time physicians on the active staff. A contract service takes care of the Emergency Room.

[We encourage other alumni in the medical field to comment on changes they have seen and their predictions for the future. --Eds.]

Denise had to give up her hair-styling business for the time-being and now works full-time in the office. The Internet has been a challenge and very interesting. See the e-mail address listed below. I plan to put up a web page for endurance athletes wanting to know about Badwater to Whitney information.

I ran my one-hundredth marathon in Boston in its centennial year.

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Dr. Thomas K. Wood '43 #240

[Sent dues.]

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Mr. Jack Kemp '60 #524

[Sent dues.]

Jim Tesitor '52 #367

[Sent dues.]

Diane Decker '91 #1019

Enjoyed spending quality Nappie time with alums and actives last spring. I occasionally find Alfie Shird '91 #1013 sitting on my porch in Denver when he needs a dose of civilization after months in the colorado mountains.

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Howard P. Allen '48 #309

Here are my dues and some more to help wherever you want.

Ken Smith '33 #138 calls me and keeps me up to date. He is a wonderful man.

I retired from Edison in 1990 after 37 years of service and 10 years of being President or Chairman and CEO. About that time I learned my body was not making red cells and since 1990 I have been going to the hospital one day a week to get a refill of red cells. Recently I found out I had early stages of Parkinsons. The Parkinsons medicine seems to be helping with the extreme fatigue from the anemia. I feel fortunate in that my anemia hasn't gotten worse and I feel better today than I have for the last 5 years.

Dixie and I live in the same house in Claremont where we have lived for 30 years. Our daughter teaches elementary school, is married and has a 2 1/2 year old boy who is the joy of our lives.

Dixie and I have been married 49 years and it is 49 years since I graduated from Pomona. We spend some time at our home in the desert, but mostly are in Claremont.

Considering everything, we are very fortunate.

Robert I. Tilling '58 #499

Things are pretty hectic in my new job, but I won't be going to Iceland--at least not any time soon. For a small country, Iceland has first-rate volcanologists. So they are handling the current eruption just fine; incidentally, the subglacial eruption apparently has stopped, but the scientists are still expecting some possible flooding from the melting of the glacier ice. A good friend of mine, Dr. Gudmundur Sigvaldason, is the Director of the Nordic Volcanological Institute at the University of Iceland.

Recent travels (too much!), however, have taken me to Hawaii, Alaska, Colorado, Arizona, and (of course!) also to USGS Headquarters in Reston, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.). Next year, I'll be heading to Mexico, Washington State (Mount St. Helens), and, possibly Japan.

Aloha,

Bill Bowie '75 #762

I'm at Bear Valley, above Arnold on Highway 4 above Stockton--apparently, I've learned, there are at least four Bear Valleys in California!

Amigos de los Americas still sends volunteers to vaccinate in Central and South America. It was an outstanding experience for us volunteers, but more importantly an opportunity for Latin Americans to meet North American volunteers outside of the usual tourist capacity.

I haven't seen the maggots you mentioned, except Brent Adamson '75 #759 who apparently is a hand surgeon/orthopedist in Madera as of a few years ago!

But I do see Rich Espinoza '76 #772 and David Estrada '75 #766 regularly--Rich works for LA County Health Department while David is an attorney in Orange County. I like the mountains, especially cross country skiing! Hence I like to stay close.

All the best,

Doug Buckmaster '54 #388

[Letter 1. --Eds.]

Enjoyed the Pomona Alumni Alaska Wildlife Expedition cruise with Bob and Nancy Ringle (he '38 #169; she '41) and Ken and Soni Wright (he '56; she '59).

[Letter 2...damn he's quick. The article Doug refers to will be written up in the next issue. --Eds.]

I wanted to forward the enclosed article on Dave Leighton '54 #401 which was forwarded to me by Dick Strong '54 #413 from Oregon. Dave did indeed have his first abalone farm just 10 miles south of Cambria. It is still doing extremely well, selling abalone to the Japanese market for $36 per pound--up there with caviar substitutes, I guess.

Best wishes and congratulations to the team publishing the Oak Leaf these days. Most enjoyable.

P.S. I just sent Pomona College a check, made payable to the Nu Alpha Phi Memorial Scholarship Fund, for an Associates membership. You might mention again in a future Oak Leaf that gifts to the Scholarship Fund count for 1) your alumni gift to the College, 2) your class gift, 3) your membership in the Associates, Torchbearers, or whatever group, and, 4) added growth to the Scholarship Fund which continues to impress the Administration.

Frank Baum '49 #330

[Sent dues.]

Henry Flores '81 #882

From: Henry Flores <email_deleted>
Organization: LA Unified School District
To: editor@nu-alpha-phi.org
Subject: Lost and Found

Well it's taken me a couple of years but I'm somewhat online. Henry Flores '81 #882 sends his best to all the Nappies out there who he hasn't been in contact with for 15 years. Chris Frost '83 #888, my mom often asks me about why you don't call about making salsa. Guess you finally got it right. My Maggot # is somewhere next to Peter LeCompte '84 #883 and Chris Totten '83 #884 as far as I can remember. Living and dying in L.A.is still what I'm doing. Hope to be in touch with the organization a lot more often. Maybe twice in 15 years...'til then do a "B" for those who can't.

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Toast '90 #994

I'm way behind on my dues, but since I'm still out of work, they'll just have to wait. I can't remember my maggot number either, but hopefully, the editor will be able to look it up for me.

Since I left Pomona in early 1990, I've been out of work. It's really tough on cats these days. I lived in the South Pasadena area until 1994 when I moved to Santa Clara. I lived there until last summer, 1996, when I moved to Alameda.

I was sorry to hear about the passing of Charlie Drizzlebutt (whose person was Kate McKinley '90 #1012 and have lost touch with...boy my memory is fading in my old age...the cat who's person was James Johnson '89 #1005. I didn't like him much anyway. He would chase me around when all I wanted to do was nap. I do miss that old seventh street house across from the Theater offices. There were a lot of brothers and sisters there with whom I had great times. Boy, what a summer 1988 was! I can't begin to tell you about all the parties we had. Out of control!

South Pasadena was usually pretty good for me besides the lack of work...which sometimes depressed me...I know because I exhibited one of the classic symptoms: excessive sleep. I would wake up pretty early, but as soon as I'd eaten, BAM. Right back to sleep. I was napping all the time. In the living room, in the backyard, jeez, even on tables and the floor. The overwhelming urge to nap can be so irresistible. I think it's chronic.

Anyhow, I did have one very rough year, medically, in South Pasadena. It all started as a result of my people's desire to fight fleas (which were pretty bad in South Pasadena...so were ants, actually, but they didn't bother me as much as they seemed to bother my people) using non-chemical, "green" methods. There were Eucalyptus oil, pods, leaves all around the house. They got me a spice collar that was supposed to repel fleas and ticks. What a couple of nuts! But hey, I let them try their thing. Anyhow, I started losing a lot of weight, thanks to the fleas, and they finally noticed and took me to the vet which I absolutely hate. Well, it's not the vet him or herself, it's that damn drive. See, they don't like me to rip and tear around the car while they drive so they put me in this tiny little box. Harumph. Can you imagine?

Anyhow, as it turns out, I had anemia, so there was a special diet for a while. All of the organic crap went into the trash and they started dipping me and blasting the house with the flea equivalent of Sarin gas. Much better! Phew. Well, ok, I didn't really like the dipping part, but it helped.

Also during that year, I got into a couple of different fights and ended up with abscesses that had to be lanced and some nasty antibiotic medicine I had to take. Yick, they don't make cat medicine, so this stuff is for human kids and tastes like bubble gum...ick...why not tuna? Then, one of the antibiotic shots I received caused a growth in the muscle on the back of my right rear leg. The vet thought it might be cancerous, so I had it removed. Fortunately, it turned out to just be the aforementioned reaction to the shot.

Then, right after I moved up north, I was hit by a car. It was pretty bad, but honestly, I was really lucky. I had the classic symptom of a car-strike: Shredded and bloody claws (well, rear claws, I'm declawed in front which reminds me, it was also during this time period that I had a problem with a dew-claw that was not completely removed. It essentially become ingrown, tender, and bled a little bit. It was a relatively simple procedure but a drag nonetheless). Anyhow, this car strike thing didn't really do much except strain an old joint injury. The vet said that the joint showed degenerative damage...and that can only happen on a very old injury. The car had just put a lot of stress on the joint and exacerbated the original injury. I don't remember ever hurting that leg, so it must have happened when I was only a kitten.

Well, I made a near full recovery from that, surprisingly. On cold mornings, my right rear leg is a bit stiffer than the left and it aches when it's going to rain.

I really enjoyed Gina Maranto's article in the last Oak Leaf. It was really nice to read about the woman who opened NAP's doors for women. Without her bravery, I wouldn't be writing this letter.

Well, I hope to hear from some other brothers and sisters who lived in that seventh street house, I seem to have lost track of a lot of them. Maybe if I can cut back on my sleeping and get a job, I'll actually be able to pay my back dues next time. Cheers!

Felinally,

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Adam Doerr '97 #1136

[Adam sent the following in response to your editors' request for letters from Active seniors. It is our hope that you, our connected friends, will contact these seniors moving to nearby locales or with similar interests and do that networking thing. Introduce them to social, artistic, and business opportunities in your geographical, philosophical, or professional area. Any interested seniors should submit letters. They will most likely be published after graduation...so provide, if you can, accurate post-graduate address information. The Oak Leaf will act as a go-between where that information is not available at press time.]

From: Adam Doerr 
Subject: Re: Any Graduating Seniors?

I'm looking for a career, possibly in public relations, advertising, or publishing, in the Los Angeles area.

Give me a call or e-mail me.

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Bob Moyer '34 #132

Seeing people live longer and longer, including many good friends here at Rogue Valley Manor who are 90 to 95 makes me feel my wonderful wife Ellis Clokey was happy to go early as she wanted to--at 79.

Reading about brothers no longer with us makes me wonder if I'm alone in suggesting the Oak Leaf publish the names and addresses of those in classes from '30 to '35 so we could correspond without fear of causing sadness in our tardiness instead of only reading the bad news.

[We published the names and addresses of alums who graduated between 1923 to 1939 in the printed Oak Leaf. Thanks for the excellent idea, Bob. Thanks also to Lee Harlan '55 #147 for his gracious cooperation in providing this list from the Pomona College alumni database. --Eds.]

A little golf makes me realize that many muscles aren't what they used to be and trying to "load" floppy disks on my Digital convinced me to leave this computer world to more Nimble Minds. As you see, I don't even own a word processer--or is it or?! ["or"... --Eds.]

Bob Dozier '23 #3

[This is actually excerpted from a letter to Zibby from Bob regarding his article, Tradition, published in our last issue. We didn't notice it then, as much of the letter was dedicated to editorial comment. --Eds.]

Major Vogdes loaned $1,000 to NAP on the basis of his friendship with Clive [Johnson '21 #(C)harter member]. We paid it back within two years. It was used to buy lumber, corrugated iron roofing, the services of Preston "Press" Taylor, the mason, and his mortar.

Ted Anderson '54 #387

[From the "Temporarily Lost in the Shuffle Void." This is excerpted from a letter to Zibby written shortly before last year's Alumni Weekend. --Eds.]

You asked about my books. I have written three. One is Peyote: The Divine Cactus, the second is Plants and People of the Golden Triangle, and the third is Threatened Cacti of Mexico. Do you want me to bring one (all three) for the memorabilia table?

I would also like to say a few words at the Brunch. My Dad helped build the cabin and told me many things about that. Also, I may be the only member to have a Fraternity brother who is also my daughter! So there are three generations of Nappies in our family.