Tag: summer 2022

Remarks for the Riverside High School Hall of Fame Banquet

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Guest Author: Dr. Peter A. Lillback ’70 Editor’s Note: Because Peter Lillback was unable to attend the Hall of Fame ceremony, the Log is providing his speech below. Since his family and friends might not have attended the ceremony, the Log editors, along with Hall of Fame Committee Chair Marijane Watson, feel people should have the opportunity to appreciate Peter’s thoughts. Fellow alumni, administrators and friends of Riverside High School: I am grateful and deeply honored by the opportunity to address you at this auspicious occasion. Congratulations to all as you…

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Observations: Burger Flipper for the World

Gretchen Reed

Causing drivers to make sudden unsafe exits from freeways, eliciting excited screeches from children, making the family dog whine and yelp in anticipation, yanking old men with canes and walkers into snowstorms to meet their cohorts for coffee and other tempting things: Ah! It’s McDonald’s Golden Arches at work. The power this nearly universal trademark has on hungry people makes it seem as if the “M” of the arches should stand for “Magnet.” Possibly the most recognizable trademark in the world, it has been pulling humanity in for enough decades…

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To Pea Or Not To Pea; To Bean Or Not To Bean

Gretchen Reed

Are dogs able to spit? Can they puff up their jowls and force air out like as human’s “p-tui” in response to something disliked? Our coonhound Brutus made me imagine strange possibilities one morning when I picked up his food bowl several months ago. Brutus has always had a hearty appetite, no doubt enhanced by my habit of adding something tasty to my dogs’ kibble meals: a scoop of canned dog food, some chicken skins, some gravy. The previous evening, I had part of a chicken pot pie left over…

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Search and Rescue Dogs Serve Community Part 1

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Guest Author: Debbie Sorber Rosch ’80 (Hall of Fame 2019) On a glorious Sunday morning in May 2022, several members of Burning River K9 Search and Rescue met at Pheasant Run Airport in Leroy, Ohio, to train search dogs. One of our teams, John Swaney and K9 Hogan, were also attempting to earn certification from the National Association of Search and Rescue (NASAR) in live find area search. Other team members would have different training objectives. Sheila Hullihen, RHS class of 1978, would be serving as Hogan’s search subject, hiding…

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Beaver Bulletin Board Summer 2022

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In Memory: Listed by last name, year of graduation from Riverside, and date of death. The obituary link is provided if available. Bailey, Aiden Charles RHS 10th grade 2022 Obituary Bayles, Hank 2006 2022 Obituary Blankenship Bosworth, Rebecca 1964 2021 Obituary Brainard Ryan, Toni Marie 1965 2022 Obituary Frazier Hoover, Ila Joan 1951 2022 Obituary Hammel Smith, Sally 1949 2022 Obituary Hido Downing Carpenter, Jeanne 1965 2022 Obituary Kujala, Andrew Emil  1961 2022 Obituary Martin, John 1965 2022 Obituary Moore Brumbaugh, Donna 1983 2021 Obituary Miltner, Richard L. 1977 2022…

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2021 Riverside Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Dinner

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The induction ceremony and dinner for the 2021 Hall of Fame honorees was finally held on June 18, 2022, at the Holiday Inn Mentor. The complete biographies of the honorees are found in the Winter 2022 Online Log here. Over  65 people gathered to celebrate. Each honoree received a plaque and an honorary lifetime membership in the association. A similar plaque for each honoree will be placed on the Hall of Fame wall within Riverside High School among the past Hall of Fame honorees. The official dessert cake for the…

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