Favorite Professors, Teachers And Mentors Who Made A Difference
Václav Nelhýbel
Althea Raymond
Dr. Max Dalby
Walter Kindt
Rudolph Poecker
Beth Facer
Stephen Feinberg
Joe Davis
Bill Schmidt
"Swede" Hansen
Don Castleton
Helen Servoss
Dr. Dante Cantrill
Dr. Brenda Broadbent
Carl Willie
Herman Miller
Max King
Brent Howard
Dr. Barre Tolkien
Denton John
Myron P. Sorenson
Devere Harris
Moyle Facer
Mary Zundell
Deon Hansen
Mabel Hartley
Dr. Denzel Smith
Pauline Beuhler
Dr. Steve Siporin
Dr. Ona Siporin
Dr. Ford Swetnam
Dr. John Byrnes
Dr. Elenora Cervantes
Gordon Crowther
Pearl Davis
Pearl Williams
Wendel Smith
Cles, Lydia & Kristin On The Beach
The Early 80's in California
Splash Mountain
Disneyland in 1994
Buschgarden
The Late 90's
Pop Pop's Favorite Potential Travel Spots
Disneyland
Santorini
Pompeii
Rome
Yellowstone National Park
Friedrichshafen
Pisa
Yosemite National Park
Wales
Venice
San Diego
Florence
Athens
Tuscany
Dillingen an der Donau
Paris
The Bahamas
Regensburg
Munich
Berlin
School Photographers
My Favorite Cles Moment
Lydia
Pop Pop's Favorite Picture Of Lydia
The Strawberry Kid
Pop Pop's Favorite Picture of Kristin
A Great Family Picture
Good Times At Grandma & Grandpas
Great Television--Pop Pop's Favorites
Cheers
Eli Stone
Frasier
Gunsmoke
Latenight With David Letterman
Lost In Space
MASH
Mission Impossible
Monk
Rawhide
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Saving Grace
Seinfeld
The Closer
The Dick Cavett Show
The Honeymooners
The Soupy Sales Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Steve Burns, Pop Pop & Stan Palmer
Thanksgiving at Grandma Liza's
Annie & The Smith Twins
The Fourth of July
Riding His Horse in Our First House
Cowboy Cles
Lydia and Kristin & the Snapdragons
The 80's and those Awful Haircuts
Things You Didn't Know About Pop Pop
I read Mad Magazine when I was young, and I still regret not buying the complete set on CD-ROM when it was available a few years ago.
I always dreamed of being able to write poetry when I was in high school.
I published several poems.
Once I felt confident with my poetry, I seldom missed writing a poem for my Annie on her birthday or on Valentines Day.
I will always wish I could say I had voted for Jimmy Carter.
I enjoyed buying Annie flowers and drying them for her too.
My favorite comic was Fantastic Four.
I only sensed that my father was really angry with me twice.
I admitted to my dad that I donated $25 to Save The Whale Foundation.
I admitted to my dad that I voted for Michael Dukakis.
I loved my dad and viewed him as one of my best friends.
I love to fish.
I hate guns.
I am a collector: a keeper of things that remind me of friends and memories.
I owned two pistols, three shotguns, and four rifles: almost all of them given to me by my dad.
I saw the Rolling Stones live and didn't lose my soul or my hearing, although my ears rang for four days.
I outlived a number of people who thought I was the one who was going to die.
I once did extensive volunteer work for the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. as a member of their Regional Education Corps.
I was just a tractor driver.
I was just a teacher.
I loved Rock dances, especially the slow dances that let me cuddle with my Annie.
I never clogged.
I loved reading comic books, especially The Fantastic Four.
I believe that developing a taste for Chinese food means never being able to look at cats the same way again.
I had an elementary teacher who told me that I was "retarded."
I will always hate my Fourth Grade teacher.
I finished my MA in English with a 3.97 GPA.
I loved to debate in my college classes.
I almost chose to become a lawyer.
I taught in my hometown for nine years before I learned two important lessons: never live where you teach, and never teach in your hometown.
I experienced Pink Floyd live and didn't lose my hearing.
I read Pride and Predjudice.
I hated Nineteenth Century Bronte Sister Literature.
I skinny-dipped in the hometown indoor public swimming pool late at night with a group of high school classmates in 1971 as often as we could sneak into the pool late at night.
I once drove domestic cars.
I chose not to attend a Grateful Dead concert, because it was the night before my first day of teaching school in my hometown where they never appreciated anything any teacher did.
I once cut a Graduate English class to attend a ZZ Top concert on campus.
I voted for Ronald Reagan twice before becoming an avid Democrat.
I actually voted for Richard Nixon once.
I once ran the 400 meter sprint in 57 seconds, and that after my senior year as a starting interior offensive lineman.
I played baritone sax at the university in both an elite wind ensemble and their jazz band.
I am afraid of flying.
I refused to see Star Wars when the first one opened in theaters.
I hated riding horses.
I was once a Republican.
I actually once admired Charleton Heston and enjoyed his movies, and then came his leadership in the NRA and his political agenda.
I loved listening to the sounds while we fed cattle in the evening.
I actually liked cats as pets when I was a child.
I hated Lawrence Welk, and his little bubble machine too.
I once loved camping.
I found my first year of German difficult for the first month or two.
I loved school, especially graduate work at the university.
I never knew how to swim until I was in high school.
I was shy, finding it difficult to talk to people or look them in the eye.
I grew up on a family farm near Snowville, Utah, learning a lot about work, character, loyalty.
After graduating from Malad High School, where I studied when I absolutely had to do that unbearable thing, I followed my sweetheart to BYU, the only reason an Aggie would do something like that.
High school memories were of playing sports, especially football. And I played baritone sax--first in high school bands, All-State groups and finally university symphonic and jazz bands.
Character means remembering who you are, regardless where you may be or who might be with you.
Look both ways before you cross a street.
It's better sometimes to bear the pain than the shame.
You must always be bound by your word.
The bigger they are the harder they fall.
Never do business with someone who tells you how holy they are before they make the sale.
People don't need to know your business. When those, who don't like you, hear that things are going well, it is upsetting to them, and if they hear that things are going badly, it delights them. Don't give them the satisfaction.
Don't brag!
Plant wheat when the moon is growing.
Always avoid filling a large fuel tank during the heat of the day.
Be a 100 percenter!
Two "wrongs" never make a "right."
Children are to be seen and not heard.
Choose a mark in the distance, work toward it and keep your wheelmarks straight.
Don't do anything that will damage the good name generations of honest men have given you.
Always buy a car with a full frame.
Don't ever be a quitter!
Don't race the horses, but don't lose either.
Don't take any wooden nickles.
Hit all of them to get the right one.
If you offend someone for good reason, find out exactly what you did or said, so you can do it the same way next time.
If it's not worth doing well, it's not worth doing.
If someone hits you, hit them in the nose, and if they get up for more, hit them until they stay down.
If you come home with a scab on the end of your nose, you have to show me the scabs on your knuckles.
It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought of as stupid than saying something and not leaving anything to doubt.
Some married couples deserve each other; there's no point in ruining two more lives.
The secret to a successful marriage is letting her think she's boss when she really isn't.
There are no shortcuts to doing the job the right way.
There comes a time when the only solution is telling someone to kiss your ass.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
You can draw more bees with honey than you can with vinegar.
You can scratch your backside, but you don't have to make it bleed.