“Just Chillin’ A little History...& More About Marvelous Folks


py story in the Brit- ish paper Daily Mail a few weeks ago about George Kirby, age 103, and Doreen Lucki, age 91, planning their wed- ding for this June 13th. They mentioned they met and fell in love instantly in 1988. The proud bridegroom-to- be was quoted: “It’s not to acquire the title of ‘The Oldest Bridal Pair of the World.’ We love each other and it is the right decision.”


Even


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ I did some pacing lately, like a nervous, expectant parent, because, af- ter several years of admiring its deep green leaves, an old orchid plant decided to sprout blossoms


again. Six exotic


white blooms arrived happily. Amazing and marvelous. Also marvelous is the hap-


sweeter, revealing his sharp sense of humor, was Kirby’s comment that he proposed during St. Valentine’s dinner,


but, he added, he didn’t go on bended knee, fearing he might not be able to get up again. Happy, long life to George and Doreen! Let’s wish Angela Ahrendts- Couch a Happy 55th Birthday, June 6th! Just in case you missed it, Ahrendts is Apple


Inc.’s only female senior ex- ecutive and earned $82.6 mil- lion last year, with the added promise


of $105.5 million


“pay package” for awards she left behind when leav- ing Burberry in 2013. Thus she was the highest paid female ex- ecutive in the U.S. in 2014. Among her many awards is the


Most


Excellent Or- der of the Brit- ish Empire, surely based on credit given


her for increasing the Burberry Co value from 2 billion to 7 bil- lion while with them. An In- diana native, she’s the third of six children. No doubt about it, middle positioned children have to learn a lot of negotiat- ing skills to get on in life. Far more marvelous to me was the


UPBEAT TIMES • June 2015 • 5 Weird Facts & Fun Trivia - 2 By Ellie Schmidt • eschmidtty@sbcglobal.net


unusual pleasure and privilege to have been a patient of the legendary Dr. Connie Myers Guion in NYC, when my moth- er asked if we could be added to her roster of patients


after


our grand old Texan, Leipzig- educated family physician had passed on. In my eight and a half decades of life, I have nev- er met a more brilliant,


good-


humored, com- passionate, out- spoken woman, except for my own mother.


Dr. Guion had known our old family doc and had heard about my immigrant mom who had “on-the-job-training” by him to be his nurse. She took us on, on top of her patient overload in 1949.


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Draftsmen have to make over 27,000 drawings for the manufacturing of a new car.


An ostrich egg would take four hours to boil.


The chemical name of caffeine is 1,3,7 trimethylantihine.


Pennies are made of 95% copper and 5% zinc.


Banana oil never came from a banana; it’s made from petroleum.


A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.


Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s defi nition of your life;


defi ne yourself. Harvey Fierstein


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