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Memorabilia and "The Chair" |
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As the committee members put a lot of work into the details of our 50th reunion, it is only proper that the individual items be pointed out to everyone.
The Booklet. This was designed and assembled by Mary Lu Bonnetti and Marie Ferrario Timmer and Mary Keech. Various internal pages were handled by other committee members.
The Bookmark. Designed and produced by Mary Keech
The Wine Bottle. From the Concannon Winery (where else!), donated and with hand-painted gold lettering done by Nina Concannon Radisch.
The Paper Clip (held all the goodies together) researched and procured by Bob Stefanoni. The picture shows Stef's gold-plated job with an ordinary office paper clip for comparison.
The Committee Cap Awards Invented, designed and manufactured solely by Marie Ferrario Timmer. Everyone had an appropriate title for the job we had done. Several wore their caps to the picnic, with the designer modeling her own as Dave Rierson stares in disbelief and Mary Keech with her title hidden.
And finally, tho' not something handed out to everyone, we come to "The Chair." This was a school chair that someone - no, it wasn't me...hmmm, wasn't I (?) - took it to the woodshop and carved a dedication to Carolyn "Cookie" Cook for her work in directing our Senior Play, Annie Get Your Gun. Some time before Cookie passed away in 2004, she told Marie Timmer to watch for a "package" which turned out to be a huge box with the chair inside.
As Cookie never had children she told us at the Centennial celebration in 1991 that we were all her children. I guess the chair might be called our inheritance, and a rather nice one at that, because its return to our midst brings back memories of many of the things she taught us.
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| This shows some of the wording carved on the chair. | Cookie and a congratulatory bouquet by the "stairway" in The Man Who Came to Dinner - 1954...I think! Picture was taken by the late Keith Fraser. |
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These shots show the carving, see below for details. |
And a final resting place, in full view of Mt. Diablo and a high-tech bird feeder. |
On the carvings, the back side consists of all of the initials of the participants in the play. The line across the bottom is "Approved by 'Old Marblehead' (RTW)." For those of you who may have forgotten, that was Ralph T. Wattenberger, our principal, who had to account for the loss of a school chair.
But, you might ask (or might not if you don't worry about this sort of stuff!) why did Jim Jardine wind up with the chair? Well, when it was my turn to get my booklet and wine I was called back by Larry Mustain and told that for doing the job of chairman - which, of course, I hadn't! - I was to get the chair as a reward.
But I don't get it! Is this the American justice system at work? I mean, you work hard on a project and then you get the chair?!? J
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