friend button, from kathryn's LRY archives

LRY listings

updates and contact info for former LRYers
(taken from the housebook)

Chapter Three
December 1999 - March 2000

Carrying the Bright Flame of Spirit

Record 124
Name: Arthur Thexton
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Madison, Wisconsin
Time: 2000-03-31 21:34:23
Comments: In LRY at Unitarian Church in Summit (NJ) 1964-68. Attended Continentals at St. John's College, Santa Fe (1968) and that summer camp near Bremerton, WA (1969). Still own the LRY album and an LRY decal! Still best friends with two of my LRY buddies, Rich and Mike, who I've known now for 38 years: we e-mail every week. Now a YRUU advisor and evangelical UU at Madison's third congregation: James Reeb U-U Cong. I'd love to hear from folks who knew me then!

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Record 123
Name: Mark Kersting
Referred by: From a Friend
From: tampa
Time: 2000-03-31 00:50:01
Comments: So happy to be alive! The years in L.R.Y. gave me a sense of trust and spirit I have carried with me each day. look foward to catching up with so many still keeping in touch with many of my friends from L.R.Y. John Rosett is here as in Twilly. I am in contact with Bruce Jo, John Elrod, Barbara Dykes, Kym Trippsmith, Jamie Gaither, Rod Martin, Barbara Richards, Jamie Murry, Dianne Foley, Linda Turipseed, Danny Blalock. I live in Missoula Montana and have a fourteen year old son named Graham. Mark Anthony and I went skiing together this winter in Washinton. Who knows where Brian Poteat is?

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Record 122
Name: Dick Powers
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Lawrence, Kansas, but originally Kansas City
Time: 2000-03-26 07:28:29
Comments: I was in LRY from 1975-80. I was part of the Kansas City local (MVF). I went to many con-cons during that time frame. I was a member of the "offical" LRY punk band "the Retardos". I also spent a lot of time hanging around Tacovilla in Boston (so much that I am now married to a former "taco". I would lave to hear from those who may have crossed paths with me in the past.

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Record 121
Name: Tom Smith
Website: LeOtis Land
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Huntsville, AL (LSDer or ACiDer, Thanks, Innes !)
Time: 2000-03-25 15:12:59
Comments: Many thanks to S. Buis for directing me to this incredible resource / touchstone. Perhaps those decades old "Where Are They Now ?" mysteries can be solved.


If I could gain access to the extensive (literally shoeboxes full !) Buhmann/Copeland photo archives, a fairly comprehensive early to late 70s photo essay could be compiled and posted.

I've meandered through life, taking it all in, but I've never forgotten that without my co-conspiritors and peer counselors, young adulthood would have been much, much more turbulent, confusing and lonely. So now, thanks to this amalgamam of chips and wires, the global village idiot may reconnect with those blasts from the past and rekindle a friendship or two. The old UU church is still there, cooler than ever, although it's a private residence now.

It was more than just a party, a whole lot more.

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Record 120
Name: Susan Buis
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Olympia, WA, formerly Atlanta, GA
Time: 2000-03-25 00:02:14
Comments: I would love to hear from other southern tri-fed (LSD, Sunco, SAM) LRYers, especially other LSDers. We had a good time, eh?

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Record 119
Name: Layni Martin (craver)
Referred by: Net Search
From: TOAKtm (Arlington, TX)
Time: 2000-03-20 04:51:27
Comments: Ok- so I have to write something or you don't let me in? This is vaguely reminiscent of the Stunt Night thing where we'd put a new person up on stage & stare at them in total silence. Whatever they said/did was supposed to be reflective of their first experience w/a member of the opposite sex. (I'm not sure why "opposite"- I always remember it as that way, so I think the bias was original, not added by me).

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Record 118
Name: Jennifer Dickason
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Detroit
Time: 2000-03-19 00:46:52
Comments: I was in LRY from 69 thru 72. I'm still in touch with a lot of people I knew then. I'm married to Mark Lathers who I met in LRY. It was a very important part of my life.

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Record 117
Name: Lara Hanson
Referred by: Net Search
From: Los Angeles - Now Berkeley
Time: 2000-03-12 05:03:53
Comments: Hi all, I found this site by accident, but what a wonderful accident. I was in LRY in the LA/Santa Monica area from 1984-1988. LRY created a community for all of us political, radical freaks in a time of bad hair, new wave music and the prom. I'm looking for old friends and to connect with others that made it through the hell of high school years surrounded by their gang of LRY outcasts.

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Record 116
Name: Jamie Garde
Referred by: Net Search
From: New York City
Time: 2000-03-09 19:54:46
Comments: I was active in the Metro NY and Long Island chapters and Middle Atlantic region of LRY in 1966 - 1970. LRY was the best part of my life in those years and I am very greatful it existed. I was surprised to find this site - I was actually trying to find the site for the Unitarian Camp Homestead. Does LRY still exist? I have not been in touch with any of my friends from that time, but would love to re-connect.

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Record 115
Name: Lee Eriksen
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Massachusetts
Time: 2000-03-08 19:56:58
Comments: I was involved in LRY, New England Regional Organization, 1969- 71 or so. I even attended a continental conference in 1970(?) somewhere near the Finger Lakes in New York. For 3 years LRY was my life !

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Record 114
Name: Bob Voges
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Winchester MA: SMF/NERO 1969-1972
Time: 2000-03-07 17:31:53
Comments: I was active in SMF (Southern Middlesex Federation) of NERO (New England Regional Organization) from 1969-1972. I lived in Winchester, attended fed conferences (SMF, CMF, and other Massachusetts feds) in Franklin, Sudbury, Worcester, Attleboro, and no doubt other places that I don't remember just now; attended NERO Midwinter at Goddard College 1969 and UMass Amherst 1970 or maybe 71; attended NERO Star Island conference once, probably summer '71, and NERO Springthink at least once. I was a director of SMF in 71/72 and Chaired the SMF Spring conference in Lexington, also in '72.


Have not been in touch with other LRYers in many years, with the exception of a brief email exchange with Lee Ericson a couple of years back. Now living in Arlington, MA, with my wife and daughter; trying to get reinvolved in the UU church there; working as a Software Engineer.

LRY was a profound influence on me in high school; I had some wonderful experiences and some that I regret. Over the years I have drifted somewhat away from the spiritual/activist ideals that I learned in LRY, but I'm trying to get back there now, and glad to know that the community of old is reconnecting. Anyone from SMF/Nero 1969-72, email me and I'll email you back.

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Record 113
Name: Betsy Asfeld (now Robinson)
Referred by: From a Friend
From: then: Unity Church, St. Paul Mn - now Tacoma WA
Time: 2000-02-23 01:04:02
Comments: This is soooo cool!! I hope others from ST Paul, MPLS visit and sign in . . . actually others from the District would be great too. I was in LRY from 65-68, my sister Joan from 64-67 and brother Jeff from 61-64 (i think). LRY has definitely left a favorable mark in my life.

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Record 112
Name: David Bryce
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: New York/Connecticut
Time: 2000-02-15 21:48:37
Comments: Good to see this. I was in MAF (president 1967-8), on MARC, served on Continental Exec 1968-1969. Also, Homestead for several years, Star Island a few times. Now my 18 year old daughter is in YRUU. Yeah, it's different; but the kids in our area are a lot like we were.

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Record 111
Name: Debra Faulk now then Debbie Cocklin/Debbie Jo/JoJo
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: then Monteal/TO now Victoria BC
Time: 2000-02-09 01:54:17
Comments: The common experience of faces flooding in - memories - and the excitment of reading the guest book and maybe finding one of those faces connected to a name and place. Was in LRY 1963/ 4 - 1970. Attended every Saint Lawerence District conference there was & Unirondack too! Have met a few old LRYers in my continued UU involvement as a DRE & a 'dolt on Continental Youth Council. Lookin' forward to hearing from people.

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Record 110
Name: Jim Hermann
Website: Jim Hermann's Lame Home Page
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Louisville KY from 1967 to 1976
Time: 2000-02-08 19:34:34
Comments: LRY at First Unitarian Church of Kentucky in Louisville during 1969-1971, attended Ohio Valley LRY Conventions.

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Record 109
Name: Catherin Gregory
Website: Personal Home Page
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Now in Victoria, BC ... originally from Toronto
Time: 2000-02-05 02:35:10
Comments: Today I was telling a friend that I was going to make some chili for the first time in years. "Don't you like chili?" he asked. "Naw, I haven't been able to look at the stuff since my days in LRY, when crusty pots of the stuff would be sitting on the church stovetop for days and days and days."


"What's LRY?" he said. Rather than get into a lengthy explanation I thought I'd just do a Google search in hopes of finding anything, perhaps some dusty reference on some UU page somewhere. Well, was I in for a shock when I came across the LRY Memorial Site! LRY online? How absolutely fantastic! I suddenly dropped into a time warp and all those wonderful warm memories came flooding home.

I was in LRY from 1968. I had been a UU Sunday School kid earlier, but it was the first year of UNICAMP, in Honeywood, Ontario that really got me back into the fold. And such a fold, such a time. Somedays I wonder if it was just a dream because I look around me today and everything seems cold and vicious. Did it really happen? Of course it did, and LRY online is proof of those halcyon days and nights. Ah, the conferences, the sleeping bags and gear piled in corners, the warm embraces of friends upon meeting, the overcooked chili, the stories, the explorations of bodies and thought, the tears shed when then end finally came. I can still remember the smell of a few church hall floors.

I want to know what happened to everyone. Where is Jeff from Evanston, they guy who made me drool with hunger? Where is that naughty boy Ian? And where is Fred the Head from Detroit? I saw Frodo from Toronto some years ago, but where did all his Acme Duck Pharm people go? And Alice, beautiful Alice from Kalimazoo whom I lusted over in a jail cell in Crystal Beach one afternoon? Reading all these guestbook entries, I know it wasn't a dream. I've often thought if it wasn't for LRY I'd be dead, addicted, or in jail. LRY was soooo important to me I can't even begin to explain it. Whereever you are, what ever you are doing, I love you all.

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Record 108
Name: Sandy Rosenberg
Website: Dolphoto Photography
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Originally - Massachusetts Now - California
Time: 2000-02-04 18:03:19
Comments: So glad to have found you all! Now I have to spend my weekend scanning. Plenty of yummy LRY/COG stuff to add! Love and miss you all, Sandy

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Record 107
Name: Jim Sechrest
Website: Jim's Home Page
Referred by: Viewing another Guestbook
From: Urbana, IL
Time: 2000-02-03 04:32:21
Comments: Hey There, It's good to see Nan Warshaw, Mark Sewell, and Star Straf on here! I was (and am) from the Central Midwest District. I was in LRY in 75-79. Served on the CMF LRY Board (Executive Committee). LRY was definately a big influence in my life. I've always been very independent minded and still am. I'm sure that LRY had a lot to do with that.


I remember some really magical moments at LRY cons that were the beginnings of my spiritual development. You know... that feeling that you're in the middle of a spiritual event and you can feel the energy around you. Just walking through the sanctuary of a church where I had been to an LRY worship at is enough to get those feelings rolling a bit.
I'm a YRUU advisor now. We just had a con in St. Louis (at Eliot Chapel) for 170 youth. It does not seem as deep spiritually to me, but I'm sure it can be, for the youth, now. My local YRUU is hosting a smaller "mini-con" (50-70 youth) in 3 weeks and we are trying to get ready for it. Sometimes, these YRUU cons are in churches that I had LRY conferences at, which is pretty wild, as a juxtaposition.

From 1988-1996 I was active in UUYAN, the UU (18-35) Young Adult network. Some former LRYers were involved. It seems to be taking off as an organization, now in a bigger way than before. I still post email on the UUYAN-L email list. (I'm always kicking up little philosphical debates). My life has been very unconventional for a while now. I've been working on wildlife projects seasonally since getting my masters in Biology (Ecology) in '93, which turned out to be a vow of poverty. A year ago, I was trapping, tagging, and radio-collaring black bears in Alabama and Arkansas for a conservation project. I've worked on raccoons in Illinois and desert tortoises in the Mojave Desert (at 115 degrees). Mainly, I'm interested in a biological take on conciousness. As in, the evolution of conciousness. That's a sideline to the conservation projects. There's no money in it. It's good to hear from you guys!

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Record 106
Name: Gay Ramsay
Referred by: Viewing another Guestbook
From: South Peel/Toronto Then Cranbrook, BC Now
Time: 2000-01-31 05:51:57
Comments: Thanks for doing this. I found this site from the egroups lry room. Glad I did. I would like to hear from lots of old friends. I was in LRY in South Peel/ Toronto, 68 to 70. Toronto Conference Canadian Thanksgiving 68 Ottawa, Christmas 68 and Montreal Spring of 69, Went to CampUnirondak, in NY in 68, Camp Motto that year. "If you touch it you gotta eat it." Moondoggie was there and RobinHood from Montreal, Carol from Ottaw.


I went to Star Island with my mother in 66? or 67? I also often think of Glen and Leslie Vockeroth, Glen was from Thornhill, Leslie was from Montreal, they married around 70 or 71. How about Fred the Head from Detroit, am in touch with Dickason's and Lather's from Detriot, how about Michael Ragglin, Mike Shaw from Oshawa, and many others whose faces I can see and my memory won't let me recall their names.

LRY was a huge influence in my life and I don't even know why or how I stopped going. The last conference I was at was in Detoit in 1970 or 71 just around the time that we lost our beloved friend Scott Kabram, I still have his book and read his poetry. Love and Peace be with you.

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Record 105
Name: Claudia Center
Referred by: From a Friend
From:
Time: 2000-01-30 10:20:24
Comments: Would love to hear from: Rachel Bunker, Chris Bunker, Sarah McGinnis, Robyn Young. Also, Jane Park -- I lost your phone number.

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Record 104
Name: Laurie Lindsay; earlier, Pearl Knight
Referred by: From a Friend
From: CMF; then east (Vermont, elsewhere), long since in Seattle.
Time: 2000-01-29 20:09:14
Comments: Started in LRY at Milwaukee's First UU Church, 1971, got involved in CMF, did lots of conferences; first Continental was DeBenneville Pines, '72 (?). Moved east, never again had a local or fed., but was in close contact and went to lots of conferences and visited a lot in Boston. Lived around the east til maybe '79, rarely missing a Continental or Triangle. Beloved days! Been in WA state since then. No shortage of former LRYers here. Have been going to Orcas conferences. I recognize a fair number of names on this site. Particularly interested in Mark Sewell's (Milw. West Church) recent posting offering a list of bios for 30 old (well, we're getting there) CMFers. Anybody have updates for Steve Meinrath or friends and sibs? And there are so many others. I'm really glad to see this here. Mark, I'd sure like those bios. Don't know yet how to fully access this site. Best wishes, Laurie

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Record 103
Name: Brian Hugessen
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Montreal/BC/now Perth,Western Australia....
Time: 2000-01-29 12:47:47
Comments: Wow, holy eLRY Batman....I've come to this guestbook via the LRY reunion site and what a wonderful experience LRY was for me in the early '70s in Montreal. Seems in reading this guestbook that LRY was a very powerful experience in many other peoples lives. Love to hear from anyone from then that remembers....

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Record 102
Name: Dan Gediman
Website: Dan Gediman's Home Page
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Boston area originally, now in Louisville
Time: 2000-01-24 18:26:05
Comments: I'm at a bit of a loss for where to start. Like many of you have written, LRY was my salvation when I was a teenager (hating school, hating the kids in my hometown, bored, generally screwed up). I first got on the LRY/UU path at age 11 going to Homestead Camp in 1972, the next year I went to both Ferry Beach and Rowe Camp in an effort to find my perfect niche. Rowe Camp became that for me and for the next 4 years I went every year.


A friend at Rowe in 1975 told me about LRY and I started going to conferences around New England between 1975-1978. I ended up being president of Mass Bay Federation, going to board meetings, hanging out at the Taco Office in Boston, generally being consumed with all things LRY.

I then went to Antioch College (recommended by another LRYer) and getting into public radio, which as been my world for the past 20 years. I have been a DJ, produced documentaries, radio dramas, feature stories (for various NPR and PRI news shows) and now I am goofing around with print journalism, writing for the local papers here in Louisville, my home for the past 15 years. I also have pursued music pretty steadily for the past couple of decades, with 4 albums recorded so far and another on the way (I've got some album cuts on my website at www.songs.com/dan if you are interested). I would love to hear from old friends from my Rowe/LRY days. Cheers!

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Record 101
Name: Retta Hendricks
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Lawrence, Kansas
Time: 2000-01-17 14:24:50
Comments: What an interesting fun site. I'm from the Midwest. I attended conferences in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota and Illinois, as well as continental conferences on both coasts. Many of the names in this house book are familiar. Some go way back. Good work thanks for getting it together!

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Record 100
Name: Bonnie Ramsay
Referred by: From a Friend
From: ECF South Peel (Toronto) now Portland OR
Time: 2000-01-13 12:59:31
Comments: I was in LRY in the mid to late 60's, but you know what they say..."If you remember the 60's you weren't really there." }:-) Actually since I visited the reunion site this morning I have been flooded with faces and names I haven't thought of for a very LONG time. So here is a list of folks I would love to hear from or about, not complete by any means.


So if you know what these folks are up to, or if you are one of these folks, or you remember me, do drop a line. RANDY REYNOLDS, JOHN REYNOLDS, JOHN BOROWIN (sp?) PETER BOROWIN (sp?), PAM CORTOUE (sp?), STEPHANIE CORTOUE (sp?), GARY ? from Oakville, CATHY from Calgary who doen't give a damn about a green back dollar, ARNOLD THAW, minister of the South Peel church, the guy who skateboarded down the New York thruway, or so it was told, SAMMY or was that Samantha from Buffalo. I would also like to know whatever happened to the folks in Scott Stutzmans post here number 36.

This may be a little long, but I thought I should put in a little info. about where I have been, low these many years. Like many I hitched my way across Canada for awhile, finally winding up in Vancouver for over 20 years. Then 10 years ago this weekend, mid January 1990, I met and fell in love with my partner, in Portland OR. She is an activist who hails from Montana. We have one child named spike, (a middle aged toy poodle) who we adopted just this past summer. I still don't know what I want to be when/if I grow up, but generally I am happy. Ok Ok, I know, that any of you who were in and around Toronto in 1967 want to know and the answer is YES! I have been reunited with my son, without the aid of Oprah or Maury thankfully. He lives near Toronto, and we email occasionally. One last thought, though I haven't explored the reunion site extensively and have no idea what plans may be afoot for a live reunion, how about Las Vegas for a continental reunion???

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Record 99
Name: Julie Ide (Hendricks)
Referred by: Net Search
From: McLean, VA
Time: 2000-01-12 16:21:49
Comments: I was in MVF in Kansas City in the mid-70's. I've been in the DC area for about 15 years. Lately I've been wondering what old friends from LRY are doing now. I'm married and have one daughter, Kyran, age 3. I'm working at home now -- raising Kyran and starting to think about what I will do next. Hope to hear from others from our old group.

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Record 98
Name: Anastasia (Stacey) Bamford
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Minneapolis, MN...but I've lived in Duluth for 15 years now.
Time: 2000-01-10 20:04:27
Comments: It's good to find you!

Record 97
Name: Claudia Center
Referred by: From a Friend
From: San Francisco, New Hampshire
Time: 2000-01-08 21:30:22
Comments: I've signed in before, but I just wanted to say how great the site is looking! Thanks, Kathryn -- it's really cool. Also, I'm not much of an internet idealist, but this site and some related LRY internet places have definitely made me feel thrilled and inspired -- how great to be able to find old friends and reconnect with old memories!


Reply: And thank you, too, Claudia! It's great to have you here! --k

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Record 96
Name: Carl Dickason
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Detroit
Time: 1999-12-27 02:32:36
Comments: thanks.

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Record 95
Name: Nan Warshaw
Website: Bloodshot Records web site
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Evanston, IL
Time: 1999-12-24 03:52:39
Comments: Hi all. I have been a bit apprehensive about writing here, because I haven't identified with a hippie lifestyle or attitude since I was high school aged. However, LRY had a huge fucking impact on me when I was young. I got an awful lot out of my time traveling the country/world to see friends, attend conferences, and living and working in Boston for LRY. I wouldn't be doing what I am today, if not for LRY. I really gotta thank you all who exposed me to country music (even if though folk). I prob'ly would have found punk rock on my own, but I definitely give my old friends in LRY credit for turning me onto hard country music. I now have a job I love; I own a small indie record label (Bloodshot Records) which began as a hobbie 6 years ago, then turned into a business. I work with bands and artists I respect and whose music moves me. If you're into music with a thread of traditional country running through it, yet informed by punk rock, check out our bands or our web site. Holiday Cheers!

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Record 94
Name: Claudia Center
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Bay Area, California
Time: 1999-12-19 03:55:01
Comments: Yes, shivering and weeping and waiting for the dawn by a dying fire listening to a very drunk Doug Hewitt play and sing. Oh, the glamor.

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Record 93
Name: matt sohn
Referred by: From a Friend
From: CMF-Evanston
Time: 1999-12-18 18:56:42
Comments: I can't tell you how much I miss you folks

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Record 92
Name: Samantha Star Straf
Website: Star's Home Page
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Prairie Villiage, Kansas SMUU
Time: 1999-12-14 12:16:08
Comments: Was at SMUU from 76 to 82, then ran away to college in IL. Now back in Lawrence Kansas living a block away from another LRYer.

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Record 91
Name: Marcus Greek
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Then: Peoria, IL, Now: Chicago, IL
Time: 1999-12-13 16:57:14
Comments: I was around the midwest roughly from 1972 to 1976, commonly called Nieko at the time. Expect to have that maturity thing down any day now.

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Record 90
Name: Mark Sewell
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Cambridge, Wisconsin
Time: 1999-12-11 19:51:53
Comments: I was in the Milwaukee West Church local from 72-76. That be in the Central Midwest Federation for all you coasters. LRY really took the place of an ordinary Highschool life for me. I have a list of about 30 CMFers with brief bios if anyone is interested.

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Record 89
Name: Norm Kittleson
Referred by: From a Friend
From: Evanston, IL now living in Michigan
Time: 1999-12-09 21:58:17
Comments: I was active in LRY in Evanston from approximately 1972-1977 or so. I had a lot of good times and I have a lot of good memories. I'm now middle aged and middle class, but I like to think that I've held true to the values that all of us shared as LRY members. I'm doing my small part to make the world a better place as a high school special education teacher. If any of my old buddies from the old days would like to contact me, please do so. I would love to hear from you. If any of you remember Steve Kistler from the Evanston group at the same time I was active, he died earlier this year from the side effects of chronic alcoholism.

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Record 88
Name: bob eichenberger
Referred by: From a Friend
From: louisville, ky
Time: 1999-12-08 22:39:07
Comments: Commas: basement, first church, louisville ky, circa 1974...

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Record 87
Name: paul erickson
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: southeast
Time: 1999-12-02 23:24:35
Comments: never left simply worked my way thru life, missing all and waiting for reunion

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Record 86
Name: Malcolm D. La Plante
Referred by: From a Friend
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Time: 1999-12-02 15:49:35
Comments: It was with some trepidation that I decided to put my name here. When I saw Aaron's (aka red), I was brought back to many wonderful memories (singing the National anthem in front of the Amherst Police station) and some painful ones (some earned and sorry, some not earned and hurt).


My involvement in LRY was from 72 - 75. While I would not say that LRY was a fundamental force in shaping me, when I do think back on that time, a swirl of faces runs through my mind, many of whom I would like to meet again. For those of you who knew me, I know that you have heard many strange tales of me since 1975. The most creative being a drug addict on the lower east side. Well, while my life had some difficulties (as most do) that was not one them. Eventually I graduated from NYU and am now living in Ct. happily married (10 years) with 2 children (2.5 and 5) and working as a Developer/DBA. To paraphrase Elmer Fudd "HI, my name is Malcolm La Plante, middle class wage earner, I own a split ranch and a Harley (plus two used cars)". Let's see where this goes....

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Record 85
Name: Jim Watkins
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Nashville
Time: 1999-12-02 15:17:40
Comments: Hard to believe the authorities haven't rounded us all up and shipped us off to a reeducation camp for subversives and malcontents. (Or maybe they have been doing that--and using this website as a snare to trap those of us who have escaped capture until now.)

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Record 84
Name: Chantal Sager Reilly
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: California
Time: 1999-12-01 18:01:57
Comments: I belonged to the Ohio Valley Federation of LRY from 1963 until 1967. Would love to know what happened to old friends from Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.

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Record 83
Name: Susan McCoy
Referred by: Net Search
From: Huntsville,AL;RockIsland,IL;Miami,FL;Gainesville,FL
Time: 1999-12-01 15:49:25
Comments: Ha, ha, and the funny part is now we are all OLD!! Yes, I still have my purple and blue LRY button, and other memorabilia. And I have lots of incriminating photos that prob. should get scanned, and posted, from Froggiemore and Nashville conferences of yore. Hmm, what else can be said that hasn't already been eloquently posted here? It's beautiful that we all hold our LRY memories so fondly, and for the most part we still keep in touch with the fragmented LRYers scattered globally. Inside our hearts, it's still our LRY family, and no one can take that away. I would love to hear from you rascally critnors! Keep on truckin'!

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Record 82
Name: Chris Wise
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
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Time: 1999-12-01 04:12:18
Comments: I was in LRY/YRUU 1981-1987, and I've been going to Star Island for some reason or another every year since then. You can find me there this year from June 16-19, as I'll be running the "Young Adults" conference. It should be a good time; drop me a line if you'd like more info about it. All are welcome, age range is 20s-30s. It sure is great to see so many old friends.

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chapter one
Sep.'98 - Sep.'99
chapter two
Oct.'99 - Nov.'99
chapter three
Dec.'99 - Mar.'00
chapter four
Apr.'00 - Aug.'00
chapter five
Aug.'00 - Present

Editor's note

The above is a more permanent record of the entries in our guestworld guestbook (aka The Housebook). Some people have had trouble accessing the guestworld site, so I'll be regularly uploading the entries here, as well.

If you don't have a webpage yourself (or even if you do), but have jpeg or gif images you'd like to include with your comments, send them along and I'll post them here. To immediately add your thoughts, links, etc. to our housebook, go here. If you can't access that site, e-mail your comments to me and I'll upload your messages directly onto this page. To write a private message directly to one of the authors above, simply click on their underlined, blue name in the opening of their message.

If you don't know your e-mail address, but would like others to be able to contact you, click here. A box should pop up on your screen. Simply fill in what you want to say and paul or I will decipher it and help you figure out your e-mail issues.

Happy ranting, happy re-connecting, glad to see you all.


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