Late morning. You are at the Szechuan House –
on Rt. 42 just south of the I-275 interchange waiting for Rich G.
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hours. I have not been here before, but Rich recommended it saying he wants the
Chinese Buffet so that’s what we’re having as it is fine with me.
Rich should be here shortly. When home we
can work on Brothers Ten. I’ll help you cut it down. Later, dude. – Amorella
You
had a good longer lunch and conversation with Rich G. and Dave W. When home you
found Carol sitting on the deck reading under the umbrella. After a short while
you were both running errands then Carol took time to walk at the community
center. More errands and now you are in the shade on the front porch. Carol is
still working on Bones and Ashes. Once online you found you old friend
from Kindergarten through high school, within renewed kinship since the fifty-year
reunion, Donald ‘Bill’ Miller, died today. Jean had sent the notice. You had
not gotten up to see him like you had attended to do and feel bad about it. –
Amorella
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hours. We were friends through the grades. I lost touch with him when in the
Fall of 1960 Bill went to Miami University at Oxford while I was working full
time at Foseco’s (foundry technology) in Cleveland. In 1967-68 I worked with
his wife (as a fellow teacher) at Whitehall Yearling High School on the East
Side of Columbus. We ran into one another at the 100-Year Anniversary of
Westerville Schools in the 1990’s I believe, but it wasn’t until the year
before our 50th Reunion that I saw him pretty regularly – six times
a year or so at bi monthly suppers. Bill, Fritz and myself almost always sat
together at the close end of the table where he could most easily manipulate
his electric wheelchair. Jean usually sat near us on the other side of the
table. Jean and I had weathered K – 12 together also. Miller Noble and Orndorff
– we were pretty much always in the same class row in all our shared classes.
Bill ran track and played the drums in the band. He focused on math and science
and eventually became the head of the physics department at Ohio State. His parents
(Don and Rachel) were best friends with Eugene [Gene] and Francis Schick, (my Uncle
D and Aunt Fran). When Bill was at physics conferences in California he would
stop in and see them (sometimes pulling up in his electric wheelchair). It is
fitting (to me) to put their names here with his. I think Bill would have liked
that. Being a part of old Westerville – friends and families are intertwined through generations.
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Don
Miller
1942-2015
Faculty
Emeritus,
Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The
Ohio State University
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