Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
From: Davis, Ann (Adavis@carmel.in.gov)
Date: Wed Jun 03 2009 - 14:44:00 CDT
You are absolutely right Harry. I second the KUDOS!!
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 hrosenzweig@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:01 PM
To: Ottawa Hills - 1959
Subject: Re: Sam was a Duck?
All,
Seems to me the "Memory Book" is here, now, in the making with these streaming comments and reminiscences kept in digital reproducible form via this site. Beyond 'beer and blond bombshells,' there are moving moments being submitted, from both the past and present, and there are tributes perhaps yet to be offered on those we have lost, and more . . . .
All that's required are continuing participation with comments, questions and responses or whatever, and after the reunion with perhaps more graphic material available and someone[s] volunteering editing and organizing, using the existing site as the basis, you have a package on line, disk, and/or print-out for the armchair and/or monitor screen . . . . including individual contact info.
. . . . and again kudos to Furt and Jim for their time, attention and digital facility . . . .
Harry
--- On Sat, 5/30/09, David Gaskin <dgaskin@planeteria.net> wrote:
> From: David Gaskin <dgaskin@planeteria.net>
> Subject: Re: Sam was a Duck?
> To: "Ottawa Hills - 1959" <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
> Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 10:44 AM
>
> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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