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Sports-
I share season tickets to the Los Angeles
Dodgers
Family History- One of my ancestors -- John Clanton -- sailed
from London to Virginia on the ship Abraham in October/November of 1635.
My great great great grandfather Aaron Thomas fought in the Revolutionary
War. Caleb Clark and Ruth (Clanton) Clark were the first pioneer settlers
in Madison County, Iowa, famous (notorious?) for
The
Bridges of Madison County. My great great great great grandmother--Sinoke
Raby--was a full-blood Cherokee, and family legend says another Cherokee
great great great grandmother walked the Trail
of Tears.
Golf- Need I say more.
Music- I play clarinet and saxophone. Taking guitar
lessons; hope someday to play like Joe Pass and Jim Hall.
Other- Reading. Film. Travel. Food.
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Dr. Seuss,
Horton Hatches
the Egg
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland / Through
the Looking Glass
A.A. Milne, Winnie
the Pooh
Henry Fielding,
Tom Jones
James Joyce, Ulysses
Thomas Mann, The
Magic Mountain
H.A. Rey, Curious
George
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Pinocchio
Casa Blanca
The African Queen
To Kill a
Mockingbird
Annie Hall
Star Wars
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Artichokes
Asparagus
Boysenberries
Crème brulee
Dodger Dogs
In-N-Out Double-Double Cheeseburgers
Thai Orchid Garden karee kai
Peach cobbler
Soupe
Bonne Femme
Salad Christine
Tomatoes (vine ripened)
Tropical Mexico cuisine!
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Louis
Armstrong
Joe Pass
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Stan Getz
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Frank
Sinatra
Phoebe Snow
The Beach Boys
Tony Bennett
Linda Ronstadt
Ray Charles
Bonnie Raitt
Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
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Lois
and Clark
Popeye and
Olive
Marilyn
and Jim
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Ortha Morgan,
Standard Elementary School (first grade)
Caroline Sandrini, Lakeside Elementary School (fourth grade)
Effie Farris, Greenfield Elementary School (eighth grade)
Wesley Moore, Bakersfield High School (high school band)
Raymond Sontag, University of California (Berkeley) (intellectual
history of Europe)
Herbert Mohring, University of Minnesota (my Ph.D. mentor)
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My home town
-- Bakersfield,
California
Performing the lead role in a play (a pig in 1st grade)
Going to elementary school with Merle Haggard
Being interviewed on the radio by Art Linkletter in his feature Kids
Say the Darndest Things
Playing in a Dance
Band
Owning an Austin
Healey
Watching Willie
Mays play baseball
The 1970s
Directing the Centennial celebration of Pomona College
Visiting all fifty states (Mississippi, the last, in summer 1999)
Surviving wind chill of -92 degrees
Paragliding
at Aspen
Poverty
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David-
Lives in Beaumont, California. He and his wife Norma are parents to
my beautiful first grandchild, Victoria Elizabeth. University of La
Verne and Southwestern Law School, where he was an awesome student. An
attorney, he's
presently CEO of of ABC Recovery Center in Indio, California. Norma is a social
worker.
Elizabeth- Vivian Webb School '91. Carleton
College '95. Psychology Major and Stat-Queen. Study abroad in London.
Graduated
in 1995. Did consumer research for Leo
Burnett advertising agency. Finished the MBA program at
Northwestern University in 2001. Worked as senior brand manager for The
Clorox Company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Husband Christopher does
investment banking in Silicon Valley. Best of all: they are the parents
of three year old Kate and one year old Caroline, who are perfect in every way.
Andy-Graduate of the physician's assistant program at Duke
University and works in a neurology practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. Undergraduate work at the University of California at Santa Barbara where he
majored in Political
Science. Worked previously as a futures trader on the San Francisco Stock Exchange.
Wife Gail does interior design.
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