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January 2001 Bulletin Board |
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January Forum Topic |
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Winter Weather |
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 By Grant Olson, Pocahontas ninth-grader who excels in many things, including mock trial, cross-country running and video games. Grant often can be found drawing cartoons and science fiction warriors. He lives on a farm south of Pocahontas with parents Ben and Sylvia, brother Sky, dog Peggy, and cats Georgie and Cynthia. Ben graduated from Poky circa 1960. |
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 Twins and the December Forum Topic In December, we posted the photo on the left from the 1957 RHS annual of twin sets in hopes of stimulating some forum discussion about siblings. The only person who wrote in was Clara Gunderson Hoover of the class of 1960 who guessed most of the names correctly. Sorry, no ribbons, trophies, or chocolate rewards. |
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| The students are front row, left to right: Norma and Norman Buechle, Joan and Joe Boeckholt, Donald and Ronald Erickson. Second row: Dennis and Dale Wagner, Rachel and Raymond Heald, Marshall and Michael Brinkman. Third row: Janet and Judy Shimon, Marilyn and Marlene Peterson, Teddy and Twila Ranger. Fourth Row: Greg and Gary Kaiser, Joel and Brian Ives. | ||
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Then Bruce Beckord, a medical doctor from the class of 1961, sent a second photo of twins, this one from the 1951 annual. Bruce noted in his physician hand-writing about how 60 percent of the twin sets were of the same gender. (Wouldn't it be nice if doctors wrote more legibly so we could know what his big word was for these twins?) Also notice the look alike outfits and poetic nature of the first names. | |
| The students are first row, left to right: Raymond and Rachel Heald, Twila and Teddy Ranger, Brian Ives (Joel was absent), Judy and Jane Allen, Dale and Denny Wagner, Joe and Joan Boeckholt. Second Row: Gary and Greg Kaiser, Jeanne and Jeannette Flaherty, Fay and May Anderson, Marlene and Marilyn Peterson. | ||
| It would be interesting to know if any of these students have ever participated in a twin study. If so, it would be fun to hear about it on the forum page. So far, participation in the forum has been pretty much nil. However, you readers can change that by sending in your thoughts. | ||
RHS Book of Essays is Off the Press click
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| Photo Credits Top right photo from Mary Jane Hunter Dow. Top left photo from Lulu Perigal White. Cornstalk mailbox near snow covered field is at Reigelsberger farm, photographed by Helen Gunderson. Red barn in winter is at former home of Velma and Verle Howard, photographed by Helen Gunderson. All rights reserved on these photos and Grant Olson's cartoon.
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