It’s extremely hard to believe that the first step onto the surface of the moon was made forty-one years ago this month in July of 1969! I remember where I was at that exact moment – it was the TV room of our family home in South Bend, IN. I had been avidly following the space program ever since the first Mercury flight in grade school. The Apollo 11 flight took place during my high school years. In the previous month of June 1969, our family took a trip to …
Read the full story »I’ve been asked to post a picture of my dad so that my friends might see if there is a resemblance. Dad passed on in 2006 up in South Bend, Indiana. He was a successful businessman, an avid golfer, and great provider to Mom and all of us five kids.Â
Here’s a little golf trivia: on Friday nights back when we were all living at home, Mom and Dad would go out to our country club and play “mixed doubles”…..golf. Mom comes up to #9, a par 3 hole. She tees …
Joe Dion has played a Hammond B3 organ with us at Riverside Church for at least eight years now, and he recently announced that he will be moving to the Atlanta area to start up a new State Farm Insurance agency. Both Joyce and I play within three feet of Joe’s organ speakers every Sunday, and the sound that is generated by Joe in our worship services is great! What a dramatic sound to be playing a quiet low-key area of a song, and then to have Joe come in …
Notre Dame, coming off a 6-6 season in 2009, won against themselves on April 24th at ND Stadium. It was the annual spring Blue-Gold game when the team is divided into a blue team and a gold team. This was also fhe first game coached with Brian Kelly as the new head coach. Watch the highlights at und.com.
A great group of Coastal Computer Corporation veterans assembled for lunch today at Famous Dave’s. Pictured are men who have known each other for over 20 years by working at CCC together. It’s now dESCO and owned by Dean Schreiner. Brothers George and Glenn Slay (Glenn not pictured) founded the company in the mid-80’s.Â
From left to right:Â Harold Leyes, Tim Brooks, Gary Loderhose, Dean Schreiner, and George Slay.