Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
From: Monette Park (monettehp@q.com)
Date: Wed Jun 03 2009 - 13:00:29 CDT
Good thing you don't live here in Colorado. Curves AND heights! Actually, here in Denver it is only hilly plains but I've been on many a frightening road west of here. Monette
> Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:11:10 -0400
> From: Adavis@carmel.in.gov
> To: ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu
>
>
> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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