CONCERT
TO HONOR JONES MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER SUZIE MATTHEWS
AND TO BENEFIT THE STEFANIE SPIELMAN BREAST CANCER
RESEARCH FUND
By
supporting the Stefanie
Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research
and by honoring Ms. Suzie Matthews,
a teacher at Jones Middle School,as
one of their own, the Upper Arlington Community
can contribute their efforts in the fight
to find a cure for breast cancer. We would
like to invite all of you to the concert
Notes for Hope where
together, we can help find a cure.
UA
NOTES FOR HOPE: A Piano Concert to honor Jones
Middle School teacher Ms. Suzie Matthews
and to benefit the Stefanie Spielman
Fund for Breast Cancer Research
Please
email
Duy Phan, one of Suzie Matthews'
students, for further information.
UAEF
GRANT HELPS TO SPONSOR LECTURE BY DR. LISA MACHOIAN
After
receiving a grant from UAEF in January, one of
our Upper Arlington High School seniors has scheduled
a community lecture by Dr.
Lisa Machoian, an expert on teenagers and
mental healthwho consults to families, parents,
teens, schools, programs, and organizations across
the country. Dr. Machoian has authoried several
publications, and her lecture at UAHS will focus
on her most recent book, "The
Disappearing Girl: Learnign the Language of Depression."
According
to TeenDepression.org,
20% of teens will experience depression before
they reach adulthood. Dr. Machoian will discuss
the signs of teen depression and help parents
and teens alike understand what they can do.
The
UAHS senior raised money for her senior Capstone
Project through requests to several community
organizations, including the Upper Arlington Education
Foundation.
Dr.
Lisa Machoian will speak at the UAHS auditorium
on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 7:30 pm.
The public is invited.
ATTENTION
REUNION PLANNERS!
To
help you with your reunion party planning, we
have received official word from the UA
Civic Association that the 2010 Fourth of
July events, including the parade, UAAA Block
Party, and fireworks, will take place on Saturday,
July 3, 2010.
If
you are a member of any of these classes, please
click your class year to go to your reunion page,
or go to the Reunions
2010 page for details about your parties.
Most classes begin to post plans after the first
of the year.
BOB
EDMONDSON, CLASS OF 1972, RELEASES SECOND CD
Bob
Edmondson, a member of the UAHS
Class of 1972 who currently resides in Santa
Rosa, California, has released his second
CD, entitled "I Came From You."
The collection of music contains thirteen
songs ranging from ballads to rock-n-roll,
and features a host of other great musicians
and vocalists.
In
addition to the yearbooks, the library also has
digitized vintage Norwester magazines.
This monthly publication served the Upper Arlington
community from 1917 through 1922 as a resource
for historical, cultural, architectural, and genealogical
information. Now you can search these archives
and read about and view photographs of Upper Arlington
back in its formative years.
The
UAArchives.org
Web site is constantly evolving and will expand
to include collections from the Upper Arlington
Historical Society, as well as personal histories,
letters and maps gathered from UA residents.
Joanie
Dugger, '80, Executive Director of the UA
Education Foundation and the UA Alumni Association,
commented, "The Norwester projects
the views and ideas of eighteen-year-olds from
each year of UA Schools' long history, and through
each yearbook's photos and commentary - even the
advertisements - we see life as it was then, from
a student perspective. It is the personal voice
of the students for that year."
The
Upper Arlington Library Staff has given us an
invaluable gift in producing these archives, and
at the Alumni Association, we hope that you will
enjoy traveling back in time through these wonderful,
beautiful old Norwesters, each of which
presents an individual flavor of its era, and
gives us the students' perspective on life during
each year from 1923 to the present.
We
recommend that you explore each button on the
menu to the left, and read about how to use the
archives to maximize your experience. We hope
that you enjoy the UA Archives at UAArchives.org.
NOTE:
Although ALL Norwesters have been scanned, the
online collection goes up to 1999; the contract
between the schools and the library provides that
the most recent ten years of yearbooks will not
be offered online. As a result, one new yearbook
will be added per year. Currently, you can view
yearbooks from 1923 through 1999 on UAAchives.org.
The
Alumni Association wants to thank ALL our members!
Your membership dues
and contributions allow us to do all that we do,
including providing this Web site for your use
- always at no charge to you!
We
would like to extend a special THANK YOU
to those alums who have chosen membership at the
Life and Golden Bear levels. Your generosity
enables us to provide services and opportunities
for UAHS grads that would not otherwise be possible.
On
September 19, the UAHS Class of 1967 held a group
60th birthday party at the Arlington Cafe Complex
on Henderson Road. The class gathered to dance
to the music of the Pat
Malloy Band (the Fifth Order Reunion Band)
and catch up on all that's happened since their
40 year reunion in 2007.
DR.
GREGORY BROCK, CLASS OF 1979, RECEIVES FULBRIGHT
GRANT
Dr.
Gregory Brock, Class of 1979, a professor
of Economics at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro,
Georgia, was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialists
Grant to teach and do research at Universidad-Veracruz
in Jalapa, Mexico during May and June of 2010. The
Fulbright Program is the flagship international
education exchange program sponsored by the US government
and is designed to increase mutual understanding
between the people of the United States and the
people of other countries. The Fulbright Program
provides participants, who are chosen for their
academic merit and leadership potential, wsith the
opportunity to study, teach and conduct research,
exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions
to shared international concers. CONGRATULATIONS
to Greg Brock!
JUDGE
ANNE TAYLOR, CLASS OF 1969, NAMED "BEST JUDGE"
The cover story in the September issue of Columbus
Monthly, "Municipal Court - Rating the
Judges," details a poll by the Columbus Bar
Association. The article answers the question
- who are the best and worst judges in the state's
busiest court? And tied for The Best is UA69
alum, Anne
Taylor. CONGRATULATIONS, ANNE!!!
On
Sunday, September 13, our Golden
Bear Water Polo Team defeated St. Charles
Preparatory School to capture the Ohio Cup Trophy.
The competition took place at the Thomas Worthington
Aquatic Complex in Worthington.
Twelve
teams competed for two days, resulting in the
Bears' reign as Gold Medal Champions. The results
of the Ohio Cup Competition are as follows:
Gold
Medal: Upper Arlington High School Silver Medal: St Charles High School Bronze Medal: Thomas Worthington High School
Congratulations
to our hard-working, select crews who proved themselves
to be among the best in the nation with outstanding
performances and top 5th place finishes in races
against seasoned, competitive crews from around
the country at the SRAA National Championship
Regatta held at Mercer Lake near Princeton,
New Jersey, May 22-23, 2009. All three of our
competing crews at Scholastic Nationals rowed
hard and made it into their finals with both the
Mens Junior 8 and Womens Senior 4
crews finishing 5th best overall in the country.
The Mens Senior 4 boat finished 5th in their
Petite Final and placed 11th overall among the
nations top teams.
UAHS
Class of 2005 alum Joe Dewey is featured
in the Senior Spotlight section of the
VirginiaSports.com Web site for his work with
the children of Nicaragua. Through Love,
Light and Melody, an organization directed
by his sister, KC Dewey, UAHS Class of
2000, Joe made his first trip to the impoverished
nation and felt he could make a difference in
the lives of the children there through the game
of lacrosse.
MIKE
HOLMAN LAUNCHES ONLINE RADIO STATION FOR UPPER ARLINGTON
From
local resident Mike Holman: My wife and
I recently launched an internet radio station
devoted to the City of Upper Arlington. WUAR
is a full service station featuring music, news,
weather and sports. We also broadcast a high school
game of the week. We rotate between UAHS and Bishop
Watterson. The games that we have broadcasted
are also available for replay on the station archives
section.
We
do feature a weekly show (Thursdays at 10:00 am)
called "he Upper Arlington Chamber of Commerce
Talk at Ten." It is also available on the
WUAR archives. One other show that would be of
interest to UA alumns is our "City Insight
Show" with the City of UA. This airs the
first Friday of each month at 10:00 am. We replay
it on the first Sunday of each month at 7:00 pm.
This show is also available on the WUAR archives.
The
station and web site carry local news reports,
weather, and also provide archives of Upper Arlington
and Watterson ball games.
Please visit WUAR online!
MEMBERSHIP
DUES SUPPORT THIS WEB SITE!!!
THANK
YOU to all our alums who support the Upper
Arlington Alumni Association with their membership
dues. We appreciate your interest in the organization
and your contribution to the maintenance of our
Web site, Bearalums.com. Your membership dues
are the reason our site is FREE and AD-FREE!
Many
of you have elected to become Life
Members or Golden
Bear Members, and we thank you for your generosity.
Annual membership dues are $15, and as one alum
recently pointed out, in just seventeen years
of paying annual dues, a person has paid the equivalent
of a Life Membership!
Making
the one-time payment for the Life or Golden Bear
Membership ensures that long after those seventeen
years have passed, you will continue to receive
every issue of Traditions and you'll be
a member forever, without the necessity of paying
additional dues!
We
now offer Paypal
to make paying your membership dues easier, faster,
and very safe. See details!
Read
more about the various levels of membership and
please consider becoming a Life or Golden Bear
Member like your fellow alums who have already
chosen these levels. THANK YOU for your loyalty!!
STEVEN
HOLLOWAY, CLASS OF 1969, PUBLISHES SECOND BOOK
Steven
Holloway,
UAHS Class of 1969, ,has published his second
book, Canadian Foreign Policy: Defining the
National Interest. Though designed for college
courses on foreign policy, the book serves as
a good general introduction to Canada, its role
in the world and its relations with the US.
Steven
Holloway is currently chair of the Political Science
Department at St.
Francis Xavier University, in beautiful Nova
Scotia. StFXU is a small liberal arts college
(about 4000 students) which has frequently been
ranked as the best small university in Canada.
More
information about the book and ordering can be
found on Amazon.com
or on this
link.
THOMAS
CHOWN, CLASS OF 1961, PUBLISHES NOVEL
WOLVES
AT THE DOOR is the first novel written
by Thomas A. Chown, UAHS class of 1961.
Chown and his wife, the former Barbara Bain, 1961
Bishop Watterson HS, both graduated from THE Ohio
State University in 1965, then moved to Venice,
Florida in 1973. After raising their two children
there, they retired to Dunnellon, Florida in 2003,
where Tom embarked on a writing career. WOLVES
AT THE DOOR is a fictional story of the real
life wanderings of Tom's ancestors as they homesteaded
across the Great American Plains in the 19th Century.
It is the first in what will be a three book saga,
bringing the family from participation in the
Civil War's Battle of Westport ( 1864 ), frontier
living and town building through the turn of the
century, coal mining adventures and an epic move
"back east" in the early 20th Century,
and eventually in the third book, life in 1950's
Upper Arlington.
Why has no one ever thought to do this before?
Of the 3,237 characters identified in the Bible,
nearly half of them share their name with at least
one other Bible character. For example, there
are two Samuels, three Ezras, five Johns, six
Marys, 13 Josephs, 20 Meshullams, and, would you
believe, 31 Zechariahs! Most often, it is easy
to tell them apart, but, when it is not, it may
be a real problem to tell these same-named characters
one from another. It took almost three years,
but I have added subscript numbers to the names
of all 1,443 of these same-named individuals so
that you can instantly know, for example, that
"the other Mary" mentioned in Matthew
28:1 is Mary(3), the mother of James. But then
you may ask, which James is this? As a Minister
or as a Bible School teacher or student, how often
do you have or face such questions as, "Which
James is this?" With this handbook at hand,
you will know immediately 1) that there are four
different persons named James in the Bible and
2) that this particular James is James(2), the
Apostle James, also known as "James the Less."
This truly unique Bible handbook contains an Index
of Bible Characters providing brief biographical
information about every one of the 3237 different
characters identified in the Scriptures. They
are all listed alphabetically with the same-named
characters sub-listed by subscript number. As
I said above, why has no one ever thought to do
this before? This book fills the void obvious
in every other one of the many Bible resource
books found in Christian bookstores across the
country.This
book, including the electronic Bible download,
is available at WinePress
Publishing/Pleasant Word for just $19.99.
To
order this book (including a free download of
the searchable KJV Bible), call toll-free (877)-421-READ
(7323) or go to pleasantwordbooks.com
DENNY
DICKE, CLASS OF 1969, AUTHOR OF UNLEASH THE CHAMPION
Denny
Dicke,
UAHS Class
of 1969, has published a book entitled Unleash
the Champion, which is designed to help
athletes reach their full potential. Those of
you who live in the Columbus area can find the
book and audio book at Frontrunner on West Lane
Avenue. The book can also be ordered through the
Web site, UnleashTheChampion.com.
A
motivational speaker, businessman, and coach,
Denny was an outstanding athlete in numerous sports
at Upper Arlington High School, where he was the
starting running back on our football team that
won two State Championships in the 1960's. He
was also captain of the varsity basketball team.
In his sophomore year he won the State Championship
in the 400 meters, in his senior year he was State
Champion in both the 400 and 200 meters, and he
became a high school All American by placing third
in the nation in the 400 meters. More than 35
years later, he still holds the UAHS record in
the 200 and the 400 meters.
Because
of his passion for sports and working with young
people he found time to coach football, soccer,
softball, baseball, basketball and track and field
over the last thirty years.
JON
AGEE, Class of 1960, PUBLISHES NOVELS, ADAPTED TO
SCREENPLAYS
I
graduated in 1960. I have written two published
suspense novels, NOMAD/Y The Moon Base Project
and The Doorstep of Depravity
--- a tale of lawyers, heirs, greed, deceit, lust
and death. Both have been adapted to screenplays.
Because there is a writer of children's books with
the exact same name, I write under the nom de plume
Noah Bond. Please visit my web sites:noahbond.com
- Information about the novels and the author, including
links to purchase books through Amazon.com, which
site contains reviews. moonbaseproject.com
- The first five chapters of NOMAD/Y The Moon Base
Project with accompanying photos and information.
GRETCHEN
SILBERNAGEL HIRSH, CLASS OF 1960, PUBLISHES 3 BOOKS
From
Gretchen Silbernagel Hirsh, Class of 1960: During
2006-2007, I'll publish three books. The first,
which was released in October 2006, is Talking
Your Way to the Top (Prometheus Books); the
second, which will be released in June of this year,
is A Love for Learning: Motivation and the Gifted
Child (Great Potential Press); and the last
is The Complete Idiot's Guide to Difficult Conversations
(Alpha Books). It will be released September 4,
and yes, it is one of those books with the orange
cover. It's been a busy year!
BRIAN
KLEMESRUD'S FILM, "STATIC" ACCEPTED INTO
FILM FESTIVAL
Brian
Klemesrud, Class of 1997, has been busy
with his film production company, Galatrax
Pictures. His latest film, Static,
has been accepted in to the Newport
Beach Film Festival, one of the top international
film festivals in the US, which will be held from
April 19-29.
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