During the most difficult period of my life, I wrote this short story for an evening writing class that I took trying to keep busy and trying to …
1964- 1969 My time at University of Wisconsin was a varied experience. I lived in a different place each of the four and one-half years that I …
Happy 55th Wedding Anniversary, Richard & Ardis Loeber, August 26, 2022 One of my best friends, Dick Loeber, married a wonderful Nebraska …
I went through the school of engineering before the days of even calculators, let alone computers. The only way to do the high-level math at that …
The summer between my freshman and sophomore year in college, my dad bought a small, used Cessna 172 single engine plane. The intention was that …
During my high school years, when my brother and I were barely old enough to drive, my dad bought a 1964 Corvair Spyder convertible. At first, my …
1961 - 1964 Green Bay East High School Things I remember about high school. My memories of high school are generally good. I was not the …
My only claim to fame in high school sports was that I broke the five-minute mile in track and field twice. Unfortunately, I only won one race. I …
My dad bought a used 1957 Chevrolet my brother and I exactly as pictured. He bought it so we could get to school ourselves. It had a 3 speed manual…
During my junior high years, I had a neighborhood friend named Chad who lived two blocks from us on Madison Street in Green Bay. I never understood…
I look back on my high school days with mixed feelings. I somehow had a good group of friends and generally good memories, but I was painfully shy …
Summers during high school were great times at our summer home in Shore Acres, 17 miles northeast of Green Bay. There were four families with …
My first crush was actress Natalie Wood after I saw her in a musical called "Gypsy" during my late middle school years. I was way too painfully shy…
During my middle school years, I served as a candle lighter with a lifelong friend at the First Methodist Church in Green Bay Wisconsin. Every …
1959 - 1961 Things I remember from Washington Junior High in Green Bay. Shop Classes I think I enjoyed the shop classes as much as any …
Though it took longer than it should have, I finally got the last required merit badge to be considered for achieving the highest honor as an …
I know my sister Lisa still fails to see any humor in this story. As I reflect on this, after raising my own children, it does seem a bit …
One of my most vivid memories from the late 1950s was the night that I was inducted into the Order of the Arrow at Bear Paw Boy Scout Camp. …
My mother was the Cub Scout den mother for my brother, me and most of our friends. To this day, when I run into people that were in that den, …
1952 - 1957 Howe Elementary School, Green Bay. I remember those years well. We still lived on our original Green Bay home at 912 South …
Continuing from the previous year. Here is the 1956 version of the family Thanksgiving movie with the Austin family. This one is based on what …
Every family Thanksgiving in my childhood was with my parent's good friends, Drake and Rick Austin and their kids. They were roughly the same age …
I was between four and six years old. We lived in Tokyo, Japan from 1950 to 1953 on an Army post. We faced a quadrangle that had a common area …
I am not sure of the exact date, but I believe my father was stationed in Tokyo, Japan, just three years after the end of World War II, He had …
About this time in my life, I was somewhere between two and three years old. In fact, my first memory was being scared by curtains blowing in my …
My father was stationed as an Army doctor in San Antonio, Texas and then in Hot Springs, Arkansas where my brother was born August 20, 1947. This …
I was born not long after midnight in Madison General Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. My father was interning there as an Army doctor. My parents …