Graduation Day

I was 25.

A third of my life had been in college resulting in BA and DDS markers. I was soon underway, in three weeks, to be a federal prison USPHS dentist.

But my signature recall of all my scholastic events was my Dad,withered at 55, bound in a wheel chair, looking deeply into my eyes as if a throw, saying two words. "Congratulations Doctor."

Like a baby turtle in a tar ball gulf, the annual skim of smokers soon took my Dad away, and an uncle and others.

Debate Champion

Congratulations to our grandson, Peter of Houston, on winning 1st place in a national middle school forensic debate.

Do a google search for "Peter Oathout debate" and there are various comments about the debate and his active Lanier Middle School. The finals were held in Des Moines this year.

HIP HIP HOORAY !!!!!!!

Presidents Who Died on 4th of July.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of Independents Day July 4, 1776.

James Monroe died 5 years later on July 4.