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What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
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What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Fri, 12/9/11 12:32 PM
As a child I remember hunting for that 'perfect' Christmas tree. We would go to several tree lots where the smell of the freshly cut evergreens made me feel like I was in a forest. Dad would pick out a tree and hold it upright, mom would step back and look at the tree from all sides. Finally the decision was made and 'our' tree was tied on top of the car for its trip home.
Mom would always make popcorn and cookies as a special treat while we decorated our tree with colored lights, tensel, and various ornaments. It was a special moment when its lights were finally turned on and their wonderous glow lit up the room with the expectations of all the good things that were to come during the next few days.
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Fri, 12/9/11 12:59 PM
My favorite is Christmas Eve. Our tradition is to gather the family. I prepare an assortment of mostly Seafood Appetizers & Hors D'oeuvres including several Shrimp dishes, Oysters, Crab Cakes, and other finger foods. After munching, we open presents since all the "Kids" are adults now.
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Fri, 12/9/11 3:17 PM
As a kid----Right before Christmas my Dad would load us boys into the car and we would go off in the afternoon to deliver gifts while my mom stayed home--to wrap OUR gifts i later learned--we would be listening to carols on the radio, and would go to a LOT of relatives--God children--God Parents-Grand parents--at EVERY stop there were cookies and drinks--cider and eggnog--and gifts to pick up and take home to the tree. We would get home after dark,stuffed and happy and exhausted. Give anything to take a ride with my Dad today!
as an adult---now that my kids are grown mu Christmas "high" comes from weeks of being "Santa"--it is the most fun,rewarding and joyful way to get the Christmas Spirit! When you walk into a room full of 4 to 5 yr old's who are convinced that you really ARE Santa--or when I take the time after a nursing home Christmas Party to visit the room of those that cant get out to the gathering and are bed ridden and you see the delight in the eyes of 92 yr old women who HAS to hug you---well that's not bad either :)
but this year there is a bonus--i get to pick up my daughter when she flys in from Brooklyn on Christmas day!!!
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Fri, 12/9/11 5:34 PM
We would go to 8:00 AM Mass, 1 hour of Mass seemed like 2 weeks. After Mass pilling into the car, anticipating my Father opening the family room door which hid the presents, was nirvana...my Father would drive us crazy with different delays, as we scratched the paint off the door, waiting for the moment of deliverance to Christmas present Heaven.
And then it was over...NO MORE PRESENTS TO OPEN?????
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Fri, 12/9/11 9:24 PM
Christmas eve is my favorite. Goes back to my childhood. Mom would set a beautiful table, us kids got a half a glass of wine, and were allowed to open one present.After I got married, it worked out so well that we always spent the eve with my Mom and Dad. Christmas carols on Dads stereo-yes, he never got into cd's, fire in the fireplace, beautifully set table with great food, and the opening of gifts.I miss my parents, and their home.
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Sat, 12/10/11 4:26 AM
experience was very cool.
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Sat, 12/10/11 9:58 AM
My memories of Christmas's past are mixed, some really great ones and some rather 'Blue'. As a result I would not put Christmas at the top of my 'Favorite Holiday list'.
For the past ten years I would label 'Derby-Time' as my favorite celebration. if you have never experienced the live Derby celebration in Louisville, You need to try it sometime. From the opening day Air-Show and Thunder Over Louisville Fireworks show to the volunteers cleaning up the trash at Churchill Downs the day after the race It is a series of community-bonding events that is really a great way for families to share time.
We love the Derby Celebration and the feelings of togetherness we glean from all the time together.
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Sat, 12/10/11 1:56 PM
I enjoy any holday festival but Christmas is sorta sad for me. I use to spend it alone but now on occasion, Iwanago stops by and we go to one of the restaurants, Usually Calhouns's which are open that day.
Actually being retired, every day is sorta a holiday and besides the activities that surround the period, they sorta go by.
Perhaps Thanksgiving is more special to me. Always a reason to give thanks.
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Sat, 12/10/11 2:10 PM
Going out with my family to have Chinese food at Kowloon's when I was a kid. I just loved the pressed duck.
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Sat, 12/10/11 5:09 PM
I love Christmas but truth be told, it rags so many people out, drcorating, going all over to get the "right" gift, disappointment, laughable gifts, much work, then it's over. I'll take Thanksgiving over it. Big family get together, all day/night affair, great chow, inexpensive in comparison, still very meaningful!
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Sat, 12/10/11 5:38 PM
I like Christmas. As a kid it was at my grandparents' house with all the aunts and uncles and cousins. We would spend Christmas Eve at home, go to the midnight candlelight service......all the good music, the lights, the candles, it was magnificent. Then Christmas Day, off to grandma's house. It took 1/2 hour to do all the hugging and kissing. Then there were more presents and tons of food, food, food. Beautiful.
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Sat, 12/10/11 6:22 PM
My favorite holiday experiences are many but one stands out -
Thanksgiving 2002
. To get our far flung family (three children and SOs) together we all decided to gather in Washington, DC. Eight of us in all. My son-in-law, being in the hospitality and convention business, had enough connections to get up very inexpensive hotel rooms and reservations at the Sequoia DC restaurant overlooking the Potomac River for Thanksgiving dinner. This was the first time ever for me to have Thanksgiving dinner in other than a family home. The Sequoia has a dining room with solid glass two stories high coming to an acute angle point in the corner. We got that big round table in that corner. What was special about that dinner? That's when my wife and I learned we would be grandparents for the first time.
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Sun, 12/11/11 3:34 AM
I have several Christmas memories, disasters and good ones both.
The first one was Christmas Eve 1973, I was eight years old and we had moved from Apex, NC where we were the only Catholics in the area and we went to a small Catholic church in Cary, NC that did a simple Midnight Mass to Overland Park, KS where that church seated 600 comfortably and did a more elaborate service. We were seated on the aisle and at the start of the service the junior priest came by swinging the incense burner, something we had never seen. My little brother was four and he got one whiff of the incense and threw up all over my nine year old sister. My sister and brother were crying and we left the service to go home. I thought it was funny and couldn't stop laughing.
Christmas morning 1977 was epic in our neighborhood, my Mom had used her Avon money to buy the Atari game console the first year it was out. We were suddenly the most cool kids in the neighborhood and at school. We couldn't figure out why Mom and Dad were so tired Christmas day until they said that they had never gone to bed because they were playing it themselves.
Christmas day 1978 we spent the evening at the hospital emergency room getting the end of my Dads thumb sewn back on because of a turkey carving accident.
The next year my Dad started baking Cinnamon Rolls on Christmas morning. To this day, we have freshly baked Cinnamon Rolls and Champagne at my parents on Christmas morning.
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Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Sun, 12/11/11 3:37 PM
Decorating the tree. Years ago we had those colored bulbs, (c6?) some that blinked, and bubble lights. My mother would painstakingly apply each icicle strand by strand, and my brother and I would pick up a clump and toss them, really just to annoy my mother - then there was this felt elf that if I remember, came on a box of Whitman's chocolates, which every year we used to nestle on the top of the branches. It had a little bell on it's cap which would set the dog off into a barking frenzy.
Fast forward 20 or so years later, I tried to duplicate the same thing, down to the icicles, which ended with a 4 AM trip to the emergency pet clinic when the cat ate the icicles off the tree... but that's another Christmas memory.
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Location: Golden Valley, AZ
Re:What is your favorite holiday experience of the past or present ?
Mon, 12/12/11 8:10 AM
I came from a very economicly(sp) strapped family, we were broke all the time, we couldn't afford much, but Christmas WAS special. Dad would go out after we kids were all in bed and "find" a Christmas tree, then Mom and Dad would decorate the tree. As we thought at that time, it was Santa the 'brought the tree.' Actually, as I found out much later in life, Dad would find a lot that was closed, then talk someone out of a tree. Some were pretty bad, but some were very pretty. And the gifts they somehow managed to get us kids were terrific, some purchased used, some refurbished, and some (not many) new.
We were allowed to open ONE present before Mass. Then after Mass we would go to each of the Grandparents homes, exchange gifts, food, and hugs, then off to the 'other' Grandparents, and FINALLY home, usually about 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon to open our own gifts.
Mom and Dad are both gone now, but I still have some pretty good memories of times past.
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I love the NHL playoffs not only for their nightly life-or-death drama, but also because they remind me of what's best about the sport of hockey. And no, I'm not talking about the officiating.
I'm talking about watching players rise up and take command of a game – even (and especially) those who are long overdue. I'm talking about wincing as individuals physically sacrifice their bodies on behalf of their teams, often with gruesome results. I'm talking about sitting stunned as the Holy Ghost of Goaltending once again possesses a netminder in a Canadiens' sweater.
The intensity of the playoffs also reminds me of what I dislike about hockey. Now I'm talking about penalties, especially the senseless ones. And this brings me to my yearly internal debate about the value of counting PIMs in fantasy hockey.
PIMs in Hockey…It's Complicated
Hockey's a tough sport, and I like that. You probably do too. And as I was recently reminded during a minor dust-up with a MLSE front office executive over the Marlies' 2009/2010 advertising campaign, many think that it helps sell the game.
Unlike the other big professional sports in North America, hockey doesn't have much of a college campus pedigree behind it. While there were those early scrimmages at the University of McGill, much of hockey's youth was spent in the backwoods, and it was often played by hard men who made their living in lumber camps or frontier mines. That's how we got famous teams with names like the Trail Smoke Eaters, or the Dawson City Nuggets – who had to travel from their hometown in the Yukon to Ottawa, partly by dogsled, to play in the 1905 Stanley Cup (and the Red Wings thought their playoff travel schedule sucked). Any of those guys would be probably as likely kill you with their pick-axe and eat you as answer today's common interview question of 'so, are you a cards-guy, movie-guy or a videogame-guy when travelling?'
Even amid the private jets and glamour of today's NHL, there are many players that we idolize specifically because of their ability to drop the gloves and lay it down on behalf of their teammates. Particularly in Canada, a player who can combine skill with an ability to brawl is quickly lionized – especially if they are polite and unassuming.
Consider Jarome Iginla. I have no problem imaging myself trapped within a burning building (figuring I've written my last bit of hockey heresy), and seeing the Calgary captain emerge smiling and unscathed from a wall of flame in front of me before saying, "Hello, my name is Jarome Ignila. Do you mind if I rescue you from this blazing inferno?" For reasons I don't fully understand, this little scene plays out Simpsons-style in my head.
Even if you now think I'm crazy, just try saying 'Gordie Howe hat trick' out loud without smiling. Angus-Reid recently showed that 84% of hockey fans can't do it (within 3% error, accurate 19 times out of 20). So maybe the MLSE exec was right, at some level we all love our thugs.
But the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of penalties in the NHL aren't heroic, despite any efforts to paint them as such. Often a pro-penalty fantasy argument goes something like this: 'yeah, but he scored twenty goals and sat for 180 minutes last season, what a multi-cat stud!' Implying that the 180 minutes of sin-bin time somehow made the individual a more complete player. To me, this sometimes seems a bit like suggesting that your cousin is an upstanding guy, and he illegally parks in handicaps spaces. Capital fellow.
Further complicating the issue, hockey is peculiar (maybe unique) in that most of us can agree that there is such a thing as a 'good' penalty. The tricky part is to reach consensus on what that is exactly.
As a starting point, most of us can probably agree that anything that prevents a goal is 'necessary', while anything Todd Bertuzzi does is 'heinous'. Maybe we could create some sort of rule to differentiate between good and bad penalties. But as soon as I consider that possibility, I hear my inner James Duthie and Bob McKenize arguing about 'distinct Bertuzzi-like motions'. I know there are some dedicated poolies out there, but in my opinion, there just is no practical way to separate penalties into categories like 'good' and 'bad' for purposes of tabulating pool results. PIMs are a take-it-or-leave-it kind of deal.
I happen to love the elegance of a points-only pool, but don't mistake that as the statement of connoisseur…it's likely just nostalgia for the questionable Hockey Star pools introduced to me by the Toronto Star at a tender young age. But I also love the complexity of more complicated formats, and so I can't just walk away from the embedded practice of counting PIMs.
Should We Abandon PIMs in our Pools?
A hockey outsider probably couldn't understand why we ever started competing in our pools over something that is generally considered a negative aspect of a player's game.
The contradictions explored above notwithstanding, I think it may have happened because of a lack of options.
The NHL didn't always track all the statistics that is does today, but along with goals and assists, penalties have been tracked from the beginning. Over the course of a game, these are all easy items to mark down on a scoresheet for a ref, and they are often the only stats tracked in today's beer-leagues. Yet, it's easy to forget that the professional NHL didn't always track these numbers. For instance, if you start to ask innocent questions about Howe's faceoff percentages during the Wings' 1955 Cup run, or Bobby Orr's number of blocked shots in the spring of 1970, large men in dark suits show up at your door bearing bulky cease-and-desist orders.
We're not completely ignorant of these numbers, but the NHL simply wasn't as enthusiastic about tracking statistics as the many other sports were until very recently – perhaps partly due to its backwoods ancestry.
The plus/minus category wasn't officially tracked until after the original-six era ended in 1967, while shots-on-goals weren't tracked by the NHL until the early 1980s. And it wasn't until 1997, when the Real-Time Scoring System (RTSS) was implemented, that the league started to track the now seemingly indispensible stats of: hits, faceoff percentages, blocked shots, give-aways and take-aways, and ice-time. If you're under the age of 20, you might well wonder how the colour guys on TV ever filled the airtime during breaks in the action before everyone had access to these statistics.
Sp poolies can perhaps be forgiven if we have clung to PIMs as a competitive category longer than we should have. For a very long time, we didn't have much of a choice. But since the RTSS was launched, we now have a much higher resolution picture of what transpires on the ice (statistically speaking anyway). And as a result, we now have so many more unquestionably positive aspects that we could use to compete over in our pools.
It was a long road from Dawson Creek to here, but if the ever-conservative world of professional hockey can evolve, maybe we poolies should to.
Richard J. DAngelo said:
My league has been around for over 20 years and we don't count PIM - never have, never will.
However where I think most fantasy leagues are deficient is in not including SHP. The shortie is special and before computers (when we did this all by hand) we would count a shortie goal as 5 compared to 1 for a regular goal.
Now we simply give it its own category. And unlike SOG, where you find that you're 150 points behind the guy in front, your SHP position can change quickly.
brad phillips said:
James said:
Vasilios Christopoulos said:
We have had a rotisserie style pool going since 1987 and I even remember having to do the stats by manual process, keeping 2 3" binders with all the players having their own pages, but that was then, and I thank IBM for the computer every time that we do the stats now. We have a 19 team keeper league and what we do with the PIM category is rank all the team PIM's from low to high and award the most points (19) to the team in the "sweet spot" position which would be the median. In a 19 team league this would be position #10. There would be 9 teams above and 9 teams below. We then peel away from this position and award 18 points to whoever is closer, either higher or lower then 17 points to the next closest and so on until all the teams have points awarded from 19 points to the team furthest away either high or low being awarded 1 point. I have tried describing this to Fantrax and I am hoping that they will implement it for the upcoming season. With this method you are rewarded for being tough, but not too tough and it does promote activity as well as trading. It does throw a bit of a wild card factor into the mix as well.The pansie teams will have to pick up some toughness to get into the sweet spot area.
Just some thoughts from a long time commissioner who has made "The Alpha Hockey League" a labor of love. If you like this idea email Fantrax and it might help get it implemented because as it is now this part is being done manually and the stats are adjusted weekly
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Ryan Van Horne said:
My league counts penalties as a negative. It uses a PIM ratio and the lower your ratio the better.
All players points count, but you designate one guy as your goon (guy on your active roster with most PIMs) and a Designated Hitter or DH (guy on your active roster with second-most PIMs)
You add up all your other players' PIMs, then subtract your goon's total from that. Your DH's PIMs don't count at all. (Say it adds up to 300 PIMs
Then, you add up the games played of everyone on your active roster and divide PIMs by games played. (300/1500 = .20). A PIM ratio like that would usually lead my league.
Basically, if you have a guy who takes a bunch of stupid minors, he hurts you. You get one guy whose PIMs help you and one Mulligan (your DH) whose penalty minutes don't count.
I like the way this works and this was one of the reasons I found the league so appealing when I joined in 2000. We've had this type of system in our league since it started in 96-97 and we've only made a few minor modifications.
Mabus said:
Where do we go from here - one step at a time we systematically remove PIMs as a positive stat. They used to represent "toughness" much like stolen bases represent "speed" for fantasy baseball. At the time, PIM was the only stat published that could easily translate toughness, so it was used. Now with all the available stats, it makes no sense to continue to use it as a toughness metric. If you want to count toughness, include fights or body checks (although I admit I am skeptical at the way body checks are calculated).
I also don't see why this is even a debate anymore. Does any true fantasy fan actually use default rules for their leagues? Nobody in my league likes PIM as a stat, so we don't use it. I suggest you do the same for your league. I bet I'll see a Canadian team win the cup before I see Yahoo, CBS or ESPN change their default settings to something that makes sense, so you need to do it yourself.
Markus said:
With Minor Penalties negative, it makes sense to include Hits as another category, to make up for the hit in value the prototypical Power Forward will take experience. But honestly - from a GM's viewpoint, the most valuable Power Forward is one who Hits without causing too many penalties...
Veritas0Aequitas said:
Jon Dey said:
I am very good at tracking good PIM players, but I have always wanted a free pool hosting service that allowed for reverse scoring in PIMs, meaning in yahoo rotissirie that you would get 12pts for having the least amount of PIMs. They are called PENALTIES for a reason. Your team is penalised for essentially cheating on a play. The argument for good penalties is preposterous because it is an argument for the merits of cheating or deliberately doing something you are not supposed to in order to save your team from being scored on, or put in a spot where there is a chance the opposing team could score. That's not smart play that's lack of skill or ability, and you are penalized for it. Which results in your team being put in a worse position for a duration of time. It is not a good thing, but pools reward it as such. It also makes certain players fantasy relevant even though they play less time then they are penalized for. A goon can step on the ice have a charge a guy from behind, get in a fight, and get a game misconduct for 30+pims or so in one infraction, and yet played less than 5min of hockey. I would much sooner support hits, face-offs, or blocked shots becuase they create, start or stop plays. Penalties is just rewarded cheating that has nothing to do with skill.
James said:
doulos said:
Just as a quick fyi, I live in Dawson Creek (which is in northern BC) and it is a different city then Dawson City (which is in the Yukon).

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Remembering Tom Holce '59, '93; Don Iverson '59; Dr. Roy Clunes and other Pacific graduates.
Donald Iverson 1959 (Obituary)
Don "Ivy" Iverson passed away Feb. 14 after battling a brain tumor. He was 74. Iverson was a teacher, basketball coach and later a vice principal for Vancouver, Wa. schools. After starring in basketball and football at Vancouver High, he was offered scholarships from three colleges, but chose Pacific in 1954. He played football for the then-Badgers, earning all conference honors, and was scouted by the Baltimore Colts. He loved golf, his fully-restored blue 1967 Ford Mustang and sailing. He was also quite the storyteller. A favorite was how football teammate Tommy Thompson rushed in so fast on one play that he intercepted the other team's hiked football and ran it in for a touchdown. Another story involved an eerie happening at Knight Hall where his fraternity was housed. Late one night he was awakened by the opening of a squeaky door and footsteps proceeding up the stairs. The footsteps continued up into the room, but with no visible owner. Don had just encountered Vera the ghost!
Dr. Roy Clunes (Obituary)
Dr. Roy Clunes, One of the key contributors to the founding of the College of Optometry, Dr. Clunes died May 27 at age 93.
Born June 5, 1916 in Scotland, Clunes immigrated to the United States in 1937 and graduated from North Pacific College of Optometry in 1939. Clunes and two other optometrists purchased the college in 1941.In 1945, the college merged with Pacific University.
Clunes joined the U.S. Navy and became a U.S. citizen during World War II. In 1941 he married Helen, who passed away three months prior to his death. He served on Pacific's Board of Trustees from 1956 to 1974, then was an honorary trustee. He also served ten years as a clinical contact lens instructor. Clunes practiced optometry for almost 50 years, first in Albany, Ore., then in Corvallis, Ore. He traveled many times for eye care projects with the Christian Medical Society and was a contributor and member of many professional optometric associations.
Thomas Holce (Obituary)
1959, Honorary Degree 1993
Thomas Jefferson Holce
Tom Holce, one of Oregon's leading technology entrepreneurs, died July 14 at his Jantzen Beach home after a long battle with cancer. He was 81.
Holce, who grew up in a logging family in Mist, Ore., was a key figure in the growth of Pacific. He served on the Board of Trustees from 1983 to 1992 and was the group's chairperson from 1991 to 1992. He served on all the Board's subcommittees and led the University's first comprehensive capital campaign, which ended in 1993 after raising $24 million.
Over the years, he gave well over $1.5 million to the University. Holce came to Pacific after a stint in the Air Force at the recommendation of his first wife Joyce, who preceded him in death in 1992. Although a self-described poor student in high school, at Pacific he quickly blossomed into a top student in math and physics. While still at Pacific, he began work on an electron microscope in his Forest Grove garage that was the genesis of his first company, Pacific Instruments. He later sold the instrument to Doug Strain and Electro Scientific Industries, and went on to found several more technology firms and record over 20 patents.
Holce is survived by his spouse, Gretchen Holce; sister, Irene Jones; half-brother, Robert Mathews; son, Kent Holce; daughter, Tonya Holce-Owens; stepsons, Mark and Ryan Griffin; stepdaughter, Heidi Griffin; and seven grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Joyce; and brother, Wilfred.
Billy Gene McComb
Billy Gene McComb, a former Pacific University employee, died Aug. 6, 2013, at age 80. He was born in Talala, Okla., and entered the U.S. Army in 1953. He married Mary Simmons in 1962, and they later divorced. He retired from the military in 1973, as a staff sergeant. He married Frances Ann Martin in 1974, while both worked at Pacific University. He later worked at George Fox College. He was a member of the Cherokee Nation. He is survived by his wife and stepdaughters, Laurie Skoog and Kathy Hays.
Louis B. Perry Hon '64
Louis B. Perry Hon '64, a former Pacific University honorary trustee, died Sept. 28, 2013, at age 95. He received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Pacific University. He was the former chairman and president of The Standard Insurance Company and the eighth president of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., from 1959 to 1967. He served on several boards and also worked for the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Dawson Perry; son, Robert B. Perry; daughters, Barbara Perry Rutzer and Donna Perry Jones; eight grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Trixie (Johnson) Wortham '28
Trixie (Johnson) Wortham died Feb. 13, 2013, at age 105. She was born in Tillamook, Ore., and attended Pacific University, before earning her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Oregon. She taught in several Oregon schools, then moved to California, where she met her husband, Jim Wortham, and continued teaching. She is survived by a niece, a nephew and many great- and great-great-nieces and -nephews.
Howard F. Horner '40
Howard F. Horner, recipient of the 2008 Pacific University Alumni Achievement Award, died Aug. 12, 2013, at age 94. He earned honors in high school as the state champion tuba player. At Pacific, he played football and was an all-league fullback. After graduation, he taught at The Dalles (Ore.) High School before being drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served for five years before retiring as a first lieutenant. He went on to become principal at Estacada (Ore.) High School, then at David Douglas High School in Portland. In 1968, he became superintendent of the David Douglas School District, where the auditorium is named in his honor. He retired in 1981. He is survived by his sons, James, Robert and Gregory; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and his brother, George Walter Horner '44. His wife, Grace (Boyles) Horner '41, died Dec. 20, 2013.
Grace (Boyles) Horner '41
Grace (Boyles) Horner died Dec. 20, 2013, at the age of 95. She had a great love of music, was an excellent pianist and an outstanding soprano. She sang in many choirs and earned a letter at Pacific University as song queen. She earned her degree in education and worked as a substitute teacher. She was an avid gardener, member of many garden clubs and successfully competed in many flower shows. She served on the board of Cherry Park Methodist Church and, in 1961, was named "Mother of the Year" by the David Douglas High School Girls League. She and her husband, Howard Horner '40, wrote and edited The History and Folklore of the David Douglas Community. She was preceded in death by her husband. She is survived by her sister, Ruth Maxine (Boyles) Petrasso; sons, James, Robert and Gregory; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
David R. Walt OD '49
David R. Walt OD died July 1, 2013, at age 87. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Sue; three children, Wendy Thingvold, Cindy Kirchem and Scott Walt; 11 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Harold Whitbeck '49
Harold Whitbeck died Sept. 7, 2013, at age 93. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces during World War II, serving in Africa and Europe. He served more than 50 missions, was shot down twice, imprisoned once and earned a Purple Heart. He attended Pacific University after the war. He taught science and coached at Springfield (Ore.) High School for 27 years. He was preceded in death by his wife, Leona. He is survived by four daughters, Glenna Johnson, Barbara Whitbeck, Sally Donovan and Kathy Cotton; son, Rob; 16 grandchildren; and 10 great grandchildren.


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When It Comes To SEC Basketball Jobs, Who's Better And Who's Best?
April 18th, 2014 01:15 PM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink
║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Tags: Final Fours, NCAA, SEC, Upside Strong
Mick Cronin. Ben Howland. Chris Mack, Tim Miles, Archie Miller and Richard Pitino. For kicks throw in Gregg Marshall and Shaka Smart, too.
With the Tennessee and Missouri jobs now open, you can expect to see many of the same names on the Vols' and Tigers' lists of coaching candidates. From our list above, expect Howland to push for both UT and MU, though there's a reason he's been passed over by Cal, Marquette, Boston College, Wake Forest, Tulsa, and everyone else he's contacted this year. (The reason is likely this.) On the other side of the coin, Marshall and Smart aren't likely to being going anywhere at all this offseason (but never say never).
That means Mike Alden and Dave Hart will be probably end up chasing those other guys. Aware of that fact, Cronin, Mack, Miles, Miller and Pitino will be able to drive up their salary demands accordingly. Two jobs in the same league open? It's called "leverage" and coaching candidates will have it.
But which school has the better basketball program? Which school is the bigger draw?
Below we present you with our ranking of all 14 SEC jobs as if they were open right now. We based our selections on facility size (fan support), stability (recent coaching turnover), and overall tradition (titles and tourneys). We're not just throwing out names from the top of our heads here.
Coaches would kill for…
1. Kentucky
All-time: 53 NCAA tourneys, 16 Final Fours, 8 national titles
Last 15 years: 6 Conference titles, 3 head coaches
Arena capacity: 23,000
Upside: Limitless
UK is clearly the top job in the SEC and it's in a group of just four or five schools that could make a legitimate claim to being the best gig in the country. We believe it probably is tops in America, but schools like North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, UCLA and Indiana are all terrific.
2. Florida
All-time: 17 NCAA tourneys, 5 Final Fours, 2 national titles
Last 15 years: 6 Conference titles, 1 head coach
Arena capacity: 11,548
Upside: Limitless
Billy Donovan has turned Florida into a national power. Now, whoever replaces him will have to survive in a legend's shadow. But the UF athletic department has been incredibly stable, the recruiting base is large, and most of the heat in Gainesville gets directed toward the football coach. If Donovan left today, Jeremy Foley could have a new coach by suppertime.
Coaches would be interested in…
3. Arkansas
All-time: 29 NCAA tourneys, 6 Final Fours, 1 national title
Last 15 years: 0 Conference titles, 4 head coaches
Arena capacity: 19,200
Upside: Strong
Arkansas eeks into the three-slot based mainly on what's happened there in the past, just not in the recent past. The arena is top-notch and the recruiting base includes Memphis (if a coach can tap into it). When the Hogs are rolling, a good case can be made that UA becomes a basketball school. It's also hard to ignore a place with six Final Fours and a national crown. There's plenty of upside in Fayetteville and Jeff Long has shown that he'll spend whatever cash the Razorbacks' biggest boosters will give him.
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How to derail your sketchbook: Mix two parts international move and one part holiday "break" with no access to a tablet and most of the rest of your art supplies somewhere on a boat in the middle of the Atlantic. Shake well and serve.
So... goodbye Iceland. Hello Atlanta!
The good news is I get to work two feet away from a few very talented individuals from the forums, which is already proving to be an awesome learning experience.
To get back into the swing of things, I worked up a little piece for this week's CHOW, mostly over lunch breaks. Hope to be posting more soon!
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Thanks guys. Jesart, the move to Atlanta was so I could continue working for the same company, same project, etc. and still be able to live with my girlfriend (when the economy tanked in Iceland, she wasn't able to find work and eventually her visa ran out)
Been pecking away at this.. almost ready to call it done. But thought I'd sleep on it and get some feedback and any last minute suggestions.
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contrast could be a little higher though
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Hideyoshi- Thanks man! Always good to hear from you. What have you been working on lately? I keep dropping by your sketchbook in hopes of updates
jedininjaman- I think you're right.. I put a little more contrast into the final here, hope it helped.
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Here's a few more.. finished version of that last piece, some female figure studies from ref trying to work on my weak points and break things down into simple shapes, and a little doodle. Wooha!
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