MORE CRAZY HANDSTANDS!
These from
JIM FULCHER

Charlie Jackson..talking points

1995-2005 Clear Creek County Board of Adjustment reviews variances to Zoning regulations.
1998- FEMA part-timer; worked in Miss. for Hurricane Katrina in 2005;
1977-2000 High Altitude Revegetation Committee
1998-1999 summer forest technician with the USFS in Idaho Springs
1997-1998 Consultant services to US mining
1996-1997 Environmental with Echo Bay Gold mines in US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.
1995-1996 environmental due diligence for mining in the US and abroad (Canada, Peru).
1993-1995 Environmental for Cyprus Amax Minerals Company of Englewood, CO
1989-1993 Environmental for AMAX Inc. in Golden, CO working in the US and Canada.
1977-1989 Environmental for Climax Molybdenum Company's Henderson molybdenum mine
1976-1977 Planner for the Sheridan Area Planning Agency in Sheridan, WY
1974-1976 Genge Environmental Consultants working near Buffalo, WY
1973-74 Helicopter pilot in Johannesburg, Rep of South Africa
1973-74 Helicopter pilot in Johannesburg, Rep of South Africa
1972-74 working holiday/honeymoon (NZ, Australia, So Africa, E Africa, India..
1970-1972 Outdoor Recreation/Natural Resource Administration (MS), Colorado State University.
1969-70 Salesman for IBM in Office Products Division. with headquarters in Casper, WY
1965-1968 Officer/helicopter pilot U.S. Army; RVN (silver star, air medals, purple heart).
1961-1965 Fishery Biology (BS), Colorado State University
1961-65 gymnastics at Colorado A & M; my friends went to CU;
1961 grad of Aurora High School; gymnastics there with Coach Don Robinson; did the xmas vacation trip to Sarasota, FL with coach twice; one of the highlights of my life;
1960 winter (I believe); gymnastics demo in Hoxie, KS high School while Art White was coach there; first time I had Mexican food cooked by coach White’s wife;
Family; Wife, Katie for 36 years; son 33, daughter-in-law, granddaughter.. Jackson, WY; son 30 not married yet in Denver, CO;
Recreation; skiing, hiking, backpacking, travel (Peru, China, Italy, Costa Rica, Belize, Kansas..) biking, golf


It's still not too late to register for the banquet. In the last couple of days Steve Iannicito, Charlie Jackson and Bob Poston have all signed up. And you don't have to register for Saturday afternoon although it would be helpful to know how many are coming. I'm also bringing my 8/Super 8 mm projector on both Friday and Saturday so bring your old movies.

Here's a couple of offerings that pick up on themes from earlier blogs - crazy places we showed off our gymnastic expertise and "Beauty and the Beast" photos. C'mon guys add a few of your own!

FROM TERRY TRUMAN

This photo is August 21, 1966, on a concrete platform 40 feet out over the canyon leading to the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone.

My U of Washington friend, Larry Gray, said, “Terry, a perfect place for a handstand.” I shook the fence to be sure it was relatively solid, stepped over in the void, put my tippy-toes on the raggedy, broken concrete at the bottom of the fence, and pressed up.

One woman screamed the entire time. When I turned out of the handstand onto the platform, an elderly man walked up to me, grabbed my arm and shook it, and said, “G**damn it, we thought you were going to jump.”

This photo made the short list for the Patagonia clothing “adventure” catalog circa 1987-1988, but lost out to real adventure-seekers, such as one guy in Australia free-climbing very high up, hanging on with five fingernails and ten toenails and drinking a bottle of Cooper’s Ale with his other five fingers.

FROM JACK RYAN

I have my own “superman” photo and I can’t be outdone by Pat (see article below). These are kinda like “before and after” but without the “way after” (see Key West photo when our wives escorted us to Southern South Florida for some snorkeling). Seeing the photos reminds me that we (my side horse buds in high school and college) were involved in a change in the sport. Every year we would go down to Tucson for Christmas break and see what others were doing new and different and show them “a thing or two”. Back then the cutting edge was to “go behind your back” where the trick was blind. Now a days everything is behind the back but back then everything was out in front of you. I still believe that I won my senior year because I had two or three tricks that were cutting edge (it helped that I didn’t fall off which I was prone to do once in a while). So when you compare my superman picture with my before pic, its not the change in the body as much as the change in position on the horse. Looking forward to catching up with all of you.

Cracker Jack

Guys (and some gals, I suppose),
I know a lot of you are enjoying looking at the blog and remembering the psychedelic days of the 60's but as I've warned before I've run out of material other than all the Boulder Daily Camera reports about Fairview and CU with my name underlined in red ink (courtesy of mom and wife). I refuse to print anymore of those so until a few of you contribute bios, pic's, articles, memories, and such the rest of us will just check in and immediately leave disappointed that there is nothing new to read or look at. Now aren't you ashamed you haven't contributed anything?

Only a little more than a week away!
I had my daughter create map links for the events so go to the left-hand column and click on the addresses to be shown a map to each event.

I'm really bummed. Terry Truman has told me some clients have insisted he be in meetings with them next weekend so he'll miss the reunion after all the help he has given me with the blog.

Nevertheless, here is a nice unsolicited note about Terry that came in from Rich Jaouen this morning along with a current photo of Rich.

Pat,
I have run into Terry Truman about a dozen times over the last 30 years and each time he knew my name and what I was doing. He is truly amazing. I ran into Terry at open clinics at Aurora Central in high school. In college he knew my room mate and has kept in touch with him since. I was really a nobody in gymnastics but Terry always knew my name and went out of his way to say hi whenever we were at the same event. He would always up date me on what other gymnasts were doing. What a terrific guy.
Rich
PS: here is my current picture. The plane is a Fokker DVIII. I helped build the wing.

REMEMBER - TO ENLARGE ANY PHOTO OR ARTICLE JUST CLICK ON IT.

I need fresh meat for the blog so send me some more stuff to post.
Until you do I'll ramble on again. I started wearing glasses in fourth grade and had a correction change every nine months until I finally got contacts in 10th grade. By then my glasses resembled the fabled coke-bottle bottoms. And they were usually broken and taped either at the bridge or at the hinges. My mother bought clothes to last the full school year so our jeans always had a four inch cuff the first half of the year. My dad cut my hair until I was in late high school - I hope you're getting the picture of how cool I looked through all my early teen years!

Now all of us have pictures we hate because we can't imagine we really look like that; we simply couldn't look that awful and I have plenty of those. One of them is below but if we're fortunate we also have a few photos that make us look pretty good - in fact much better than we do in real life. I'm also going to post one of those. In fact it's one of my all-time favorites. But I have to be honest. When I first saw it I didn't think it looked like me at all. I knew I was nowhere that good looking; the thick, dark wavy hair, that chiseled jaw, those determined eyes, the sculpted muscles - Why I LOOKED just like Superman. No wonder my girlfriend lusted after me! Of course the reality is that I looked somewhere in between the two photos shown below. I hope you can tell which is which. And the one immediately below the two was taken yesterday after a hard day of updating the blog showing how I look today.
























More scrapbook clippings of an old team mate.