navigationBill McChesney, a giant in Oregon track & field, died. Our profile was in the August 2019 OTC Newsletter.
Bill McChesney, a giant in Oregon track & field, died. Our profile was in the August 2019 OTC Newsletter.
We’re good here.
2020 April OTC Newsletter …Includes our book review on Why Die? The Extraordinary Percy Cerutty, Maker of Champions
Good reads in NYT Running
Stay safe. And keep sane with regular walks and runs.
4th grade, Bushnell Way School in Los Angeles, long time ago. Photo.
The girl in the white outfit, black hair in the second row is Diane Keaton, then known as Diane Hall.
A friend writes: The last time I was at Barnes and Noble, I noticed that Diane Keaton had a new book about her younger brother. I browsed through it and it confirmed that Diane and I went to 4th grade together. Alas, it was only that one year, my first in the neighborhood and her last. The book mentions the blue house, gives its address and she even mentions the tetherball in the back yard. We are both in this picture
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Don here. I was in another class, one semester ahead. Two buddies in Diane’s class said she was interested in me. I sorta knew that but we were both too shy to have a conversation.
Erik Larson: The Splendid and the Vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz
Leo Damrosch: The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
Brian Doyle: One long river of song : notes on wonder
Alan Furst: A hero of France : a novel
Susan Orlean: The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean: The Library Book
Paul Theroux: On the Plain of Snakes : a Mexican journey
Angela Duckworth: Grit : the power of passion and perseverance
Leo Damrosch: Jonathan Swift : his life and his world
Hans Rosling: Factfulness : ten reasons we’re wrong about the world–and why things are better than you think