OU Posties – Athens

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Bruce
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Nothing’s Changed…

Except the Hair Color

Memorial Day weekend was the Frontier Room Patio-Doug Hill Memorial Reunion 2011 in Athens. OU Posties from the early 80s got together to remember and reminisce the glory days of the Post gone by. Before the days of computers to put the entire paper together, we output copy on photographic paper and pasted it up on full-size pages to take to the printer.

Posties and all college students at the time could drink beer at 18. Oddly enough, six-packs of beer found their way to The Post office from The Frontier Room in old Baker Center. Thankfully, The Frontier Room was down the hall from the old Post office.

There is a video link on Facebook (click HERE) that show us in our opening Friday beer drinking fest.

As a reference to all of you – Doug Hill was married to one of our Postie alums and died several years ago. This was in part to remember Doug. Here’s to you Doug. We were thinking about you.

We also celebrated Aaron’s birthday early by taking him and some of his friends out to Casa Nueva for lunch on Saturday.

For a smattering of photos from my perspective,  click on any of the photo links below to see the full frames.

 

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Thanks to All

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Bruce
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To My Friends…

I wanted to take this post to thank all of you who have been reading my posts. Whether it’s photography or the personal things going on in my life – thanks!

You’ve helped me in both of my spring classes. In the marketing class, I want to thank Pat, Pauline, Mark R., Ruthy, Betty, David W., Mike G., Art, Kirstin, Kristin, Carol, Mark D., Susan C., Phyllis, Chris, Larry, Mimi and Richard. You answered some questions either on the phone, via email or a survey. You guys helped me get an A in the class.

My advance media management class was a very interesting class and this is where this blog originated from. All of you helped me on this just by coming to the blog and reading something, even for a short period of time. To everyone – all of you – thanks! I got an A in this class too.

Now – as I have publicly stated and will do so here again – I am rolling, ever so slowly, on my masters project. My goal is to have it finished by the end of the year and graduate in December or next May. In any case, the end of the year is the deadline.

The idea behind the project is looking at best business practices in student media and looking at how different student media organizations are handling their revenue streams. How can we apply those ideas to what is happening at Kent State. I will be looking at what they do at KSU and what is going on outside of KSU. I hope my project will help to revive some lost revenue streams. Hopefully, we can take some of those lessons and apply them to the mainstream media as well.

This Blog

I am not planning on abandoning this blog. I’ve found some neat interesting things to write about at least weekly, so check back or if you like use the “Follow me via Email” sign up on the right hand side of the page.

Again – many thanks to all of you. If Mom & Dad were still around, they would be proud of me too. I was never really a good undergrad, but – well – as we know, hindsight is always 20/20.

Cheers!

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Wally

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Bruce
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Wally Kirkman – RIP

Susan’s dad passed away in December while at his place in Florida. We were down there but on the wrong coast to get over and see him before he died. This past weekend, his wife Shirley had a memorial service for him in the Dayton area.

It was a very nice memorial service, but I have decided that all us non-believers are going to hell.

I say that in all seriousness and jest as the preacher who was there said it. Many of you know, I am not a reborn Christian or even a Christian. I love reborn Christians – I have relatives and friends who are reborn. I know that Wally accepted Christ in his life and I respect that. I just don’t like people telling me where to go if I don’t accept their way or the highway. He was the old style southern fellow who really got his speech rolling to a thunder. I was sitting next to Susan’s cousin David and we both thought some bolts of lightning were about to hit both of us while the preacher was talking.

Wally was also an interesting man – a smart man who did the best he could and worked hard to support his family. He had his flaws, mostly bigotry, but mellowed with age and was not as bad as when I first met him almost 29 years ago. You could imagine how he felt about me at the time. Over time, we had a cordial relationship when we were together or talked on the phone.

I think in some ways, Wally had his own reawakening to the fact that under it all, we’re all the same. I hope he is somewhere where he has an understanding of that thought.

Rest in Peace Wally.

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