Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
From: Jim Gaikema (jgaikema@batsonassoc.com)
Date: Wed Jun 03 2009 - 08:00:59 CDT
Ann,
As I remember, you were the only one in the car who was hospitalized. My
parents forced me to go look at car the next day. It's a miracle no one was
killed. The motor was pushed into the front seat, right where you were
sitting. I also remember having to go and apologize to the parents of
everyone in the car. I will never forget "the accident". I'm sorry for the
terror I caused in your life, but I'm glad you've recovered.
I'm looking forward to seeing you and Tom in July!
Jim G
-----Original Message-----
From: ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu
[mailto:ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu] On Behalf Of Davis, Ann
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:11 AM
To: Ottawa Hills - 1959
Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
I so well remember that night. I believe Tom was the one that opened
the door just before the slap. I was in that accident and will never
forget it. I was in the front seat in the middle and was pinned under
the front seat according to Tom. I do no remember anything until after
my parents arrived at the hospital and I had been caught in a lie
because I had told my parents that I was going to Tom's house for a
party. I was not allowed to go down to the lake at night. Sure was not
worth the lie. I think I was out of school about 2 weeks and terrified
of driving around curves for many years.
Ann Davis
Clerk Treasurer's Office
571-2414
-----Original Message-----
From: ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu
[mailto:ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu] On Behalf Of David Gaskin
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:44 AM
To: Ottawa Hills - 1959
Subject: Re: Sam was a Duck?
Hi Steve and all -
Great to know that you and Alex will be coming to the reunion. Love your
idea about the "rocking chair memory" book. Could that stolen turkey
"event" have been at my cottage at Ottawa
Beach near Holland. I recall we stole a turkey and did as you
described and not knowing how to cook a turkey - we let it soak in a
pail of water for a long time and then cooked it - it was pretty
gross. Didn't we also go back and steal another turkey from that same
farm and let it loose during halftime at an East GR/Ottawa football
game?
And speaking of my cottage - THAT party would not be one I'd want to
remember in the Book of Memories. That night was more a nightmare! I
still feel the slap on my face, the humiliation and to cap it off -
the accident!
Nope - not a night to remember.
Regards,
David Gaskin
On May 29, 2009, at 6:47 PM, skonklesr@aol.com wrote:
> Oh my God!!?? Sam was a Duck!!!? How could I ever forget that song,
> and Tom with that silly ass grin singing it.? You will have to
> forgive me, I am just getting on board with all of you guys, having
> been in the Witness Protection Program for several years, but dam if
> Dave Furtney didn't find me this week, so now I'm back on the street
> and flying without a net.? I called Dave Tooker last night, and he
> "made a long story short" for about 3 hours, and told me about this
> web site.? I've been looking at photos, reading letters and your
> emails all day.? I haven't been so moved and emotional since I stood
> and watched my wife take the Oath to become an American Citizen last
> year in August.? You all will meet my dear Rosario Alejandra Lopez
> Guadelupe Konkle, or "Alex" to all of us Gringos at the Reunion.
>
> I am so glad to have the chance to go back and see all of you, and
> so proud to have been a part of the "Class of 59".
>
> The whole flashback created by those four little words, "Sam was a
> Duck", prompt me to make one small suggestion for our Reunion
> festivities.? Why not create a little exercise which I would
> entitle, "Things I Still Remember" from the Class of 59.? We could
> all bring with us one 8 x 10 sheet of paper upon which we would
> document those few special things we still remember from our days
> together at Ottawa Hills, many of which like "Sam Was A Duck", may
> very well bring back smiles, and laughter, and even tears to our
> fellow class mates.? All the papers could be copied and bound
> together and sent to each of the people who attend the Reunion as a
> "rocking chair memory" of our time together at the Reunion, and our
> times together as classmates 50 years ago.? I know that I for one
> would love to have something like that to keep.
>
> Mine of course would include the memory of puking my guts out
> learning to siphon gas from School Buses with Tom Reed by sucking on
> a garden hose.? Or standing outside Dan Gantos garage door listening
> to his brothers beat the shit out of him after they caught us
> steeling?his dads?blue ford station wagon?when we?went joy riding.?
> And then there was that wonderful time that we were at Benj Corels
> cottage in the fall (I think Tom Davis was there with us, and maybe
> Gantos) and we stole a Turkey from the turkey farm and decided to
> cook it.? Davis tied it to a beach chair and whacked at it's head
> with a dull ax trying to kill it.? I can still see that dam turkey
> dragging that beach chair down the sand dune with his head flopping
> while all of us peed in our pants laughing.? Yup, those are the
> times I hope I never forget, but of course I probably
> will..........unless we all write them down for posterity.
>
> Love you all,
> Steve Konkle
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davis, Ann <Adavis@carmel.in.gov>
> To: Ottawa Hills - 1959 <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
> Sent: Fri, 29 May 2009 4:50 am
> Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
>
>
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>
> You betcha and according to Tom the best piece of music written. I
> think all
> the grandchildren know how to play it. He really has such good
> memories of
> those camping trips. We have a picture that was in the Press of you
> boys
> camping on a very cold night!!!
>
> Ann Davis
> Clerk Treasurer's Office
> 571-2414
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu
> [mailto:ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu
> ]
> On Behalf Of harry rosenzweig
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:54 PM
> To: Ottawa Hills - 1959
> Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
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> Ann,
>
> Was "Sam was a Duck" composed on a camping trip to Tom's patch of
> land up state
> with Terry Schilling, Dan Gantos and I in maybe the 7th ot 8th grade?
>
> Harry
>
>
> --- On Thu, 5/28/09, Davis, Ann <Adavis@carmel.in.gov> wrote:
>
>> From: Davis, Ann <Adavis@carmel.in.gov>
>> Subject: RE: Class Song
>> To: "Ottawa Hills - 1959" <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
>> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 1:12 PM
>>
>> Tom never gives up the chance to play it on the
>> piano.? However his grandchildren don't find it the masterpiece that
>> all of you have, mostly they laugh!!
>>
>> Ann Davis
>> Clerk Treasurer's Office
>> 571-2414
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu
>> [mailto:ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu]
>> On Behalf Of jd3_41@yahoo.com
>> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:01 PM
>> To: Ottawa Hills - 1959
>> Subject: Class Song
>>
>>
>> Hi Larry,
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what you have in mind as "the class song," but as
>> far as I personally am concerned it was that marvelous little ditty
>> "Sam Was a Duck" with music (kazoo or jew's harp) and lyrics by that
>> Irving Berlin of Ethel Street, Tom Davis. I think Buck Marris may
>> also have been part of the highly talented creative process. I was
>> but an awe-struck bystander albeit one who joined in the first
>> singing of the song. During the 1950s whether in school, summer camp
>> or just hanging out, whenever in need of a laugh or a lift we would
>> sing "Sam Was a Duck."
>>
>> After we all graduated and went our separa
> te ways, I often visited
>> remote places yet to be blessed by electricity and television. At
>> night there usually were only three options: drinking, singing and
>> that third thing. I always have been a terrible singer, but when my?
>> turn came up it would have been impossibly rude to prevaricate with
>> excuses. Rather than choose "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall," I
>> always have given a boisterous rendition of "Sam Was a Duck." In
>> certain longhouses along the Mekong and Irrawaddy Rivers, in Thimpu
>> teahouses, at gatherings on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and in towns on
>> the edge of the Taklamakhan and Gobi deserts, Sam now is not unknown.
>>
>> Did anyone else take this song in different directions?
>>
>> Best,
>> John Dolfin
>> ? ?
>>
>> --- On Thu, 5/28/09, eljay1@bellsouth.net <eljay1@bellsouth.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> From: eljay1@bellsouth.net
>> <eljay1@bellsouth.net>
>> Subject: Re: Trivia question
>> To: "Ottawa Hills - 1959" <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
>> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 12:28 PM
>>
>> Another trivia question.? Who wrote the Class Song, and
>> can anyone remember the opening? line(s).? No fair if
>> you had anything to do with its creation.
>>
>>
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