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Love A. Looney!🤗

Wonderfully written! What a life Doyne has had!

Anne, thanks for the article, and for all you do for the RVM Library. Your review of Daniel Mason is welcome since I am often on the lookout for offbeat fiction.
-Sophia

Excellent issue. The COVID story is especially appropriate for the time.

Thank you Betsy, for sharing your experience in the Peace Corps. It must have made an impression on you through your life.
Tom’s brother after he retired spend two years in Peace Corps.
Sophia

Carolyn and David, what rich life experience you both have had, to do this mid life…that is daring. Love reading about it. Thank you for sharing. Sophia

Dave and Carolyn,
I am very happy knowing you had a rewarding experience in Ecuador and able to travel to visit my country, Bolivia, and Peru and Chile. Traveling by bus probably was something very different for you than here. You were very brave doing that. Kudos to you!

Dave and Carolyn,
I am very happy knowing you had a rewarding experience in Ecuador and able to travel to visit my country, Bolivia, Peru and Chile. Traveling by bus probably was something very different for you than here. You were very brave doing that. Kudos to you!

Reina,
¡Maravillosas fotos! Estaba muy agradecido de disfrutar de nuestro regalo de Nochebuena de una hermosa y suave nevada.

And, yes, we Rummikub players definitely want our game to be included in the 2024 offerings, especially as they are being held in Paris. Oui? And what about including line dancing as a senior sport? Physical and mental sporting, you know!

Thank you, Bob.

Thank you, Anne.

Funny!

Thanks, as always for the energetic journalism, Joni. I had no idea the Russy and Anita were involved so early in the history of PC; veritable Founding Mothers and Fathers they were!

Thank you, Joni, for another beautiful article in the Peace Corps series! -David & Asifa

Brilliant! Thank you.

I want to commend Anne Newins for her well-written, informative article on my favorite place on the whole campus–the Manor library. I am one of the lucky volunteers who gets to spend time every week amongst the huge collection of books from the classics and mysteries to contemporary non-fiction. Anne reminds us of the dedicated volunteers who work hard behind the scenes to maintain the library. All of us who use the library greatly appreciate their hard work and dedication.

Excellent explanation, Bob. Thank you for making it clear that this is a work in progress and there is room for some flexible solutions.

Excellent explanation, Bob. Thank you for making it clear that this is a work in progress.

This is a wonderful article about David & Asifa’s experiences with Ramadam. Our world could be a better, friendlier place.

Excellent and important topic.

And it is no coincidence that the Memory Support Center is located just above the intersection of Malama Way and Lake Village Drive and Lake Village Drive and Lake Village Drive.

Reina, gracias por esta hermosa muestra de arte y cultura material de América del Sur. ¡Mano de obra y belleza excepcionales!

Great fun! I hope everyone enjoyed the plastic bowels from the Dollar Store.?!
Typos happen/

This entire topic of Emergency Preparedness is a wonderful example of neighbors helping neighbors. Kudos to Bob and the other organizers. As a side benefit, this encourages interaction with neighbors who may be somewhat isolated.

Reina is a wonderful jewelry maker her pieces take hours to produce but she works on and on and does not care how long it takes the result, works of art.

My goodness! Am I ever impressed?! Congratulations on your amazing achievements.

Reina que muestra tan linda, felicitaciónes.

When I was in Colombia with Reina, she proudly showed me many examples of indigenous art. Her knowledge of her country’s history, coupled with her own exquisite taste in art, make her a great ambassador.
Thank you, Reina, for sharing all this beauty!

Reina is an amazing, seamstress, quilt, jewelry, art collector, craft making anything, photographer, decorator, diverse art lover but mostly, the best friend in the wirld eith the biggest heart for our whole world. Beautiful displays!

Thanks, Joni. I had seen the dog videos but it was very special to learn the back-story behind the training!

Happy birthday to you wonderful folks, who enrich our lives with this great publication.

Hi Eleanor,
What a good idea “yearly birthday review” . Thanks

This Comment was from Doyne Mraz, and was transferred from its original site to accompany the other comments on the Dave Cochrane article

I lived in Los Altos, CA, before we moved to Oregon. One day in 1970, my front door bell rang, and it was Barney Oliver, the Vice-President for Research at Hewlett-Packard. How I came to know Barney is not the intent of my message. He did hold in his hand an object which seemed very strange to me. He found a wall plug in my living room and plugged in this strange machine. Then he said, “Give me some outrageous numbers to add, subtract, multiply and divide.” Barney was not a person to scoff at; he was always serious in his endeavors. So I gave him some numbers; he touched keys in the machine, and surely the results were significant, but not clear to my non-engineering mind. Barney said, ” This object will change the world.” Of course, he was serious; I passed it off, thinking Barney had been drinking in the middle of the day. I offered coffee. We talked. Indeed, it was the first attempt at a calculator made by Hewlett-Packard, and it was earth shattering. That machine now lives in the Hewlett-Packard museum, unless the Smithsonian has escaped with it. My story surrounds Dave Cochran, whom Barney Oliver taught algorithms and who worked with Barney on the Bart system in the Bay Area. It’s a very small world, and one never knows if another person knows someone close to you. I loved Dave’s story.

Bob, I love your style of writing, informative and very entertaining! Thanks

We at RVM are honored to have TWO men that worked on the HP-35.
The second one is Paul Williams.

It was an amazing machine.

Dave is incredibly intelligent but even more so, he is humble. In the many conversations I have had with him, Dave eluded to his “contributions” to the HP-35 project. He kind of skipped the part where he was the Project Chief! Simply an amazing person.

I know this is an old post but maybe still worth a response. Jan Rowe has given 2 or 3 presentations at RVM on medical aid in dying. When Dr. Prulhiere was here at RVM we specifically asked him if he would participate as a doctor – and he said he would not. So at least we knew. This is worth a discussion with your doctor.

I lived in Los Altos, CA, before we moved to Oregon. One day in 1970, my front door bell rang, and it was Barney Oliver, the Vice-President for Research at Hewlett-Packard. How I came to know Barney is not the intent of my message. He did hold in his hand an object which seemed very strange to me. He found a wall plug in my living room and plugged in this strange machine. Then he said, “Give me some outrageous numbers to add, subtract, multiply and divide.” Barney was not a person to scoff at; he was always serious in his endeavors. So I gave him some numbers; he touched keys in the machine, and surely the results were significant, but not clear to my non-engineering mind. Barney said, ” This object will change the world.” Of course, he was serious; I passed it off, thinking Barney had been drinking in the middle of the day. I offered coffee. We talked. Indeed, it was the first attempt at a calculator made by Hewlett-Packard, and it was earth shattering. That machine now lives in the Hewlett-Packard museum, unless the Smithsonian has escaped with it. My story surrounds Dave Cochran, whom Barney Oliver taught algorithms and who worked with Barney on the Bart system in the Bay Area. It’s a very small world, and one never knows if another person knows someone close to you. I loved Dave’s story.

I’m so happy to know more about Dave. His eyes sparkle when we talk about his career and the time he met Joni. Good article!

Thanks Dave. I’ve used my Hp-12c since 1976 and about a year ago I bought the Hp-35S for its engineering functions. I also used my Hp-48x programmable calculator when I was working at a civil engineering office. What I always liked about Reverse Polish Notation was that if somebody picked up your calculator to use it for a minute, you got it back right away… they didn’t know how to make it work if it didn’t have an “equals” button. Thanks Dave. You guys turned out great products.

Dave was a pioneer in the technology that we take for granted today. Great article and homage to Dave and his HP-35.

I enjoy reading the Mirabella magazines and the Nit-Wit Newz is very funny.
Keep up the good work!

Thank you, Joni, for a farewell story filled with love and gratitude for all Father Joel contributed to our community. He will be missed, but his love lingers through our memories.

David is an inventor but also a wonderful human being. Fun to talk to, good sports. It has been an honor to have had Dave in my house, talking to my family and teaching us about all types of subjects. We love you Dave!!!

That was a great article, Pratiba. I borrowed your book from Pru, and intend to read it. Right now I am reading Michelle Obama’s autobiography, so after that I will read your book.

I was at the Penthouse today. Your pictures are lovely, Reina. One bonsai has bloomed out even more since you took those pictures. It is spectacular. go take a look.

Connie and Bob B’s stories are worth our attention and concern. I commend the ‘unnamed committee’ and hope that they will be able to help foster better communication and access to health care when we need it. As a non weight bearing person right now, I hate to think of the pickle I would be in if I didn’t have my husband’s help.

It is now June 9th. I have been told the widening of the off ramp has been completed. But there has been no change — it is still only 3 lanes. Oh, one new upgrade: they have repainted the existing lanes. HUH??

After reading Russy’s clear and stimulating article, I find myself gut-reacting to his inevitable optimism. He is, without doubt, a living example of what we mostly want to achieve in life on this planet. The big “but,” however, comes in my response to the ambivalent and caustic disasters created by so many people living in our divisive and cruel world. We look to China, Russia and say what disastrous dictatorships those people have to live under, and Hong Kong is a prime example, a clear and present danger. But we also must look at the numbers of mass killings and destructions existing in the USA, no better than those countries we condemn. The history in Russy’s essay is flawless, but we still have to live under threat of dictatorship in our present situation. And it gives me pause. I am here today; I exist in a too-cruel world in the little town of Medford, an insignificant dot in the world. I am pessimistic, and I don’t believe the pendulum can swing fast enough to save our democracy. I fought for it in another meaningless war, and I have always been proud to serve my country, but I grieve for what it has become. It is now a place where our president has to go into world meetings trying to speak courageously about the superior plan democracy holds. I am pessimistic about that. We are holding on by down-to-the-stump nails to a barely recognizable republic in a disastrous capitalism which destroys the lower and middle classes. Russy is a fantastic historian, and his extensive readings have created his astute personality. I live in a different world, one of disaster, cruelty and without redemption, at least until the pendulum swings far enough to assure all people, EVERYONE, the bliss of “by the people, and for the people.”