mom's day
sigourney weaver advises the williamstown film festival in our hometown (temporarily closed) because so many famous actors had learned their chops from nikos psacharopoulos at the williamstown theater festival
bob ware (williams '70) was instrumental in starting steve lawson's (williams '71) film festival - bought a subaru all wheel drive from the wares for $400 - great car - saw ms ware crash into another car after she passed me on my miyata 18 speed mountain bike just before cumberland farms where the gas pump handle came off on a customer once while i was cashier and gas poured all over the parking lot while jay galusha walked up to the door smoking a marlborough -
the chick who was training me fortunately thought of shutting off the red emergency pump shut off button i didn't even know about on the wall behind us that saved us
former williams college president james phinney baxter lll was president when williams college's mr renzi (played basketball and football w his son john at mt greylock) helped nikos begin his theater festival on the williams college campus
president baxter was from portland -the son of former portland mayor james baxter
the mayor of south portland, maine now is deqa dhalac
she is the first somali-american mayor in the united states
'Despite the name, South Portland was never part of the city of Portland, but rather part of Cape Elizabeth. It broke off in 1895. However, both Cape Elizabeth and Portland were once part of Falmouth. Cape Elizabeth, then including what later became South Portland, broke away from Falmouth in 1765.'
- south portland, maine, wiki
mom worked for professor wyckoff in the job placement department and according to dad, could type 200 wpm
i didn't believe him because the recorded record i found at the time was a little over 100 wpm, but that was before i could google professor wyckoff and remington rand
she and her sisters eleanor (who became a teacher in north adams) and hazel (j h maxymillian's mom) taught themselves how to be secretaries and worked for professor wyckoff at the pentagon during ww2, who might have been working for former williams president james phinney baxter lll, who headed the oss's office of strategic services, as baxter and wyckoff both graduated williams the same year with honors and co-edited the williams record
doris day once lived on route 2 near the base of notch road, where eleanor lived
zoolander mind control movie gasoline fight:
professor william osmond wyckoff had the exact same name and was from the same town as the founder of the remington typewriter company, which first introduced the qwerty keyboard to keep the typists from typing too fast and jamming the keys
remington typewriters became remington rand, then sperry rand and are now unisys
the williams college science department had a univac computer, which were made by sperry rand and sperry rand had a building where cole avenue met north hoosac road
'The highest typing speed ever recorded was 216 words per minute (wpm), set by Stella Pajunas in 1946, using an IBM electric typewriter. Currently, the fastest English language typist is Barbara Blackburn, who reached a peak typing speed of 212 wpm during a test in 2005, using a Dvorak simplified keyboard.'
- cnet july 1st, 2016
'the first woman to get a degree at williams was dean's office secretary beatrice acly in 1931, - 5 years before baxter became college president'
'Women's suffrage is voted down in Williamstown. On August 18, the 19th amendment is ratified, guaranteeing all American women the right to vote. Williams College grants its first degree to a woman, Beatrice (Wasserscheid) Acly.
1958
'Doris deKeyserlingk comes to Williams to reorganize the Russian Department. She is the first tenured female faculty member at the College.'
'Women at Williams: The College's Road to Coeducation.'
(first pdf google search result):
mr sweirad was our mt greylock typing teacher and reading teacher
kelly and i were in mr sweirad's reading class
we were friends and i really liked talking with her during class
had a problem with remembering people's names
the names i wanted to remember, i used to say them 3 times over and over to try to remember them
then sometimes i still would forget
the reason i remember the girl who gave me a ride back from connecticut's name was because it was the same name as the girl in front of kelly in this pic
the girl was the first girl i ever kissed and i think she wanted to learn about small towns, like the one i was from
tim was close friends with pacita, the girl on kelly's lower right's brother al and kelly's brother dave was dating, sarah, the girl to kelly's lower left in this pic
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when she started dating our star cross country runner people said kelly dumped me !
since we were just friends it shouldn't have bothered me, but then i started worrying about it
then many years later after i had gotten amnesia - i started to believe it!
(i have had an argument with myself since i began this post whether pacita's brother was al or eric baker, because when i was a freshmen another al or eric baker was our cross country team captain - and i am still getting them mixed up in my head which was which !!)
found out about 3 years ago we were literally ordered not to worry
i began thinking she only wanted to be my friend because i was the high school quarterback, which is some kind of cultural icon i didn't understand at the time - and it hurt but a few years ago after seeing a post of mr sweirad, i began to remember something sad
i was a year ahead of kelly and most of the rest of the reading class, and mr sweirad made a special subclass within the class to test how fast the readers who could read faster could read
i was having fun and enjoying reading at the same time when i was sitting with kelly and we'd chat, talking about our books and stories, but something about this subclass made me feel like i had to prove something about poor people...
so i joined the subclass to show that poor people were good at things too, even tho i knew it would hurt kelly's feelings
it was always like that through school and life these weird unnecessary decisions i would have to make
they now look like tests
or a science fiction story
of course there is always more to the story...
our kicker, strong side safety and backup qb would have also been our star cross country runner, but for a very strange situation in his family i never quite understood, and this story about a high school kid who broke the world record in the mile last week made me want to write about it
bret was one of the most amazing distance runners i'd ever seen run, and i had lived next door to maine's primal kitchen entrepreneur and nutrition expert mark sisson
we used to have to do these horrific running exercises at the end of each double session football practice called 'gassers'
4 laps across the 50 yard wide football field in full pads with maybe a minute break in between sets of these
scott and george were two of the fastest sprinters at the school george could run the 40 in 4.0 i forget which of the 3 of them, scott, bret or george used to win the 'gasser' races, i just remember usually coming in last, or second to last
- the thompson twins 1980-81 hockey champs bret & bill
coach william girard
coach girard was our coach when i ran track and cross country in the 7th and 8th grade
he was the cross country coach which is the same season as football
when we had our first double session our junior year, i finished second in the mile race coach allen had us run to see our endurance without pads
bret finished first
first in the mile run
the mile run was 4 laps around the 1/4 mile track around the football field
i finished second
bret had lapped me
bret lapped -all of us- in the mile run !!!
after the race coach girard showed up in the locker room and asked another kid who was playing football that had run cross country the year before why bret won
the kid said he had come in second - but he was confused
coach girard asked me why i didn't come in second and i told him 'i did...bret lapped us !'
we started at each other for a moment
i knew kind of what it meant to coach girard not to have bret on the cross country team and coach girard knew what it meant to me to have bret trying to beat me out for the qb position
only both of us knew there was some reason bret, who loved running much more than playing football, wasn't on the cross country team
Johnny Bosco
i guess you all never found out it were the rockefellers' standard oil, headquartered in cleveland, that used to set the cuyahoga river on fire because it did not pertain to any of you, until you started finding out about how much control that family had and possibly still has over your lives
the rockefellers owned and controlled chase bank, whose founder lived in the town next to pittsfield, mass
the stanley in morgan stanley was the son of the stanley who invented the transformer and created the ge transformer division in pittsfield mass
jp morgan created g e
after jp morgan's funeral jd rockefeller made a disturbing quote:
"He owned all of us and he wasn't even that rich"
’Chase was primarily a wholesale bank dealing with other prominent financial institutions and major corporate clients such as General Electric,[17]: which had, through its RCA subsidiary, leased prominent space and become a crucial first tenant of Rockefeller Center. They rescued that major project in 1930. The bank is also closely associated with and has financed the oil industry, having longstanding connections with its board of directors to the successor companies of Standard Oil, especially ExxonMobil, which are also part of Rockefeller holdings.'
alan freed worked for rca when he coined and made famous the phrase 'rock & roll' in cleveland, ohio
president taft's family were from cincinnati, ohio and his brother owned the radio station the call letters 'wkrp' were named after
president taft broke up standard oil with an antitrust suit begun by the theodore roosevelt admin in 1906, the year gramps's dad, william henry taft, was crushed between two railroad cars in williamstown/north adams mass
j d rockefeller was caught in 1908 hiding from the standard oil antitrust suit subpoena in pittsfield, mass
the rockefellers funded the eugenics records office 'that kept little yellow tags on everyone' (actually, they were index cards) in cold spring harbor, long island, new york
the thompson that co founded chase bank went to the college in williamstown richard helms, who controlled the mk ultra operation, destroyed the cia's copies of the mk ultra files, and then got caught lying about it to congress and fired, also graduated from in 1935 and whose grandfather was ceo of chasebank
after he graduated college, helms went to work for the same newspaper kurt vonnegut worked at before ww2 and had been granted an in person interview with adolph hitler, because his granddad became the ceo of the b i s bank
owen young, the first ceo of rca and the head of the rockefeller foundation, created the bis bank as part of the young plan to have germany repay the world for starting ww1 that made jd rockefeller the world's first billionaire
i haven't begun finishing writing about bret in this blog post below because it may involve the chase bank founders who were thompsons, one of whom thompson memorial chapel in williamstown is named for
freddy, bret's dad, was back up qb to steve grogan at kansas state, and bret's mom said she dated grogan
freddy had created a legal search engine before there was a google
i am not sure yet, but the search engine might have become lexisnexis
the summer after his sophomore or junior year, bret had worked at an oil field out west somewhere
'He developed questionnaires that were taken from door-to-door by trained workers who recorded the characteristics of individuals in the families interviewed. These were stored on index cards that by 1924 numbered 750,000. '
https://www.cshl.edu/archives/institutional-collections/eugenics-record-office/
'It was founded by biologist and eugenicists, Charles Davenport (1866-1944) and was under the directorship of Harry Laughlin (1880-1943). The institute was funded by Mrs. Mary Harriman, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Carnegie Institution of Washington (Archives at CSHL, 2014).'
https://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/tree/5233cf7b5c2ec500000000ac
https://tinyurl.com/mvwnm6pt
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