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.

We're pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for the UA community! The UA Archives initiative has been selected as one of only 60 worldwide participants to join The Commons on Flickr. They'll be among some impressive company, as this group includes the Library of Congress, the U.S. National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, and the New York Public Library -- as well as several overseas national heritage institutions.

What is The Commons? Flickr Commons was launched in 2008 as a partnership between the Library of Congress and Flickr. The two main purposes of the project are to showcase the world's publicly-held historical images and to provide a forum for the general public to participate in the description of those images.

What does this mean to UA? Our community's historical photographs will receive international exposure as examples of Midwestern suburban daily life in the early 1900s. We will also be inviting the public to help describe these images. Members of the Upper Arlington community as well as a broader group of worldwide users will be able to contribute comments or tags if they wish to share information about the photographs. Information obtained from these comments may help to enhance information about people, locations, architectural details, and activities depicted in the images.

The UA Archives will be added to The Commons in the coming months. In the meantime, you can see the UA Archives photostream as it's being assembled on Flickr.

Our Messageboard is a handy way to stay in touch with other alums. It's easy to use, and attracts a steady group of visitors.

You can find out what's going on in the community, learn about reunion activities, and just chat with longtime friends. Please visit the Messageboard and post something for the rest of us to read!

Holly Bright Mayfield, Class of 1973, sent us this photo that she found in her parents' slide collection.

Holly isn't sure what year the picture was taken, but maybe you can help us identify this Miss Arlington and her Court from one of the UA Fourth of July Parades? If so, please email us. Thank you!

"My twin brother Jon and I started in Kindergarten at the Barrington Road school in the room at the west end of the building. Ms. Stewart was a pretty redhead teacher. It was 1942 and we had been at war for only 10 months. Things got tougher, but all the mothers, and teachers rode above the tragedies starting then, and protected the kids from terror but not fact. First grade with Ms. Wooster had inkwells in the desk slots. I think I dunked Susie Humphrey's long braid into mine and got into trouble for it. In third grade, on the second floor of the building, the brown box speaker in the corner of the room announced President Roosevelt's death. The kids all knew about him, and rare solemn silence gripped the classroom at that time. Often during recress out in the spacious playground, B-17 Bombers from Lockheed AFB trained in the skies overhead. In fifth grade we moved from the Barrington Road sanctuary to the bigger High School Building facing city hall between Arlington Avenue and Guilford Road. In fifth grade we played softball in the tennis court areas, because no one could hit the ball any further than the surrounding fence. The "hangout" was the solid wall by the tennis courts that was used for practicing rebound shots. Three super drugstores nearly adjoined the school, plus and Isaly's Ice Cream store, ergo plenty of phosphates for 5 cents, cones for a dime, and sundaes for 20 or 25 cents. We grew up in a very pristine neighborhood of Andover Road north of Lane Avenue with tons of woods and fields to play in then. The best memories include the high school football games and all day Fourth of July activities with free good humor type goodies from any bicycle ice cream cart vendor you good find. The fireworks were sensational to any kid from 5 to 50 with super finalies of multiple air rockets and a closing display of a fireworks type red, white, and blue American flag at the end of the football field. Everyone burned with patriotism then."

Joel Pettegrew, UAHS class of 1955

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.

Red White and Boom will take place on Friday, July 2, 2010 downtown.

The following classes will be holding their reunions this summer, during the Fourth of July weekend, 2010:

1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2005.

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.

The Upper Arlington Public Library, in conjunction with the Upper Arlington City Schools, has completed the enormous task of digitizing every page of every Norwester, going all the way back to 1923!

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.

Visit the UAArchives.org 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!!
  

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.

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!!!

Read the article here
You can email Anne here

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

Read the article on USAWaterPolo.org

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 Men’s Junior 8 and Women’s Senior 4 crews finishing 5th best overall in the country. The Men’s Senior 4 boat finished 5th in their Petite Final and placed 11th overall among the nation’s top teams.

Read the entire article about the UAHS Crew Team

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.

Please read the entire article here, and find out more about Love, Light and Melody and how you can help.
  

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!
   

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.
   

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.

You can purchase the book on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com. It can also be requested at your local bookstore.
  

Which, of the 31 Zechariahs, Is Which?

To readers of the Word of God,

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, 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.

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.

Brian's current project is a feature-length film called , to be produced by Black Bay Entertainment. See more about Brian and other films he has made.