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Sue and Bill Oelman on Judy's boat this summer.

Suzanne Eller Oelman

Personal:
1. I’ve hardly left home – 15 miles away in Hinsdale, tear down capital of the world.
2. Madeline is 22 months and Amelia is almost 4 months – a handful for mom Heidi and dad Jon (our son)
3. retired – what does that mean???? It doesn’t mean I’ve stopped working!
4. I could work in my garden all day long if it weren’t for heat and humidity and an aching back by the end of the day; don’t even mind weeding!
5. Bill and I still hit the downhill slopes each winter………trying to get to the “free lift ticket” age!
6. My favorite travel spot was Tibet in 1992; fascinating and a destination I had yearned to see since visiting the Field Museum in the early 1950s when they had an exhibit on the Dali Lama
7. None of the above – BUT I have kissed Robert Redford!
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10. I volunteer at a consignment shop that benefits The Wellness House, a cancer patient’s resource center; I do the computer work for the shop and learn what’s going on in town if I’ve been away.
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12. Naperville was a wonderful small town; everybody knew everybody basically and I loved the fact that we still had telephone operators (Berby) – so quaint compared to today; I still have my arrowheads dug up in our yard and at Fort Hill.
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14. “Tales of a Sheltered Youth” (This is actually the title of an autobiography my mom wrote but it would aptly apply to my youth as well though she would not agree I’m sure!)
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16. “Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, as long as ever you can (from Shaker Rules)l
17. My parents built their home in 1935;sold it in 1985 and it has changed hands 3 times since then.

Memories:
1. It was a fabulous place to grow up; freedom to roam around; everyone knew everyone – parents tattled so you had to behave.  Slumber parties, band concerts, the “beach”
2. Broeckers was THE BEST; but Marguerite Henry brought ”Misty of Chincoteague” to Ben Franklin’s once and I saw the pony – SO special.
3. Could anybody beat Mr. Stevens; oh, those multiple choice tests to see how many dates and names we could memorize; he was an inspiration!
4. Chuckle? Not sure.  I do remember well getting wounded by a cat fish, being hospitalized with blood poisoning for a week and thinking I was a goner when my dad cancelled a trip he was to take but Suzie Greer became my roommate when she lost parts of some fingers in the gearshift of a rider mower she was using; I was the lucky one with no permanent damage.
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6. Peg had a ’41 Ford; I had my granddad’s ’41 Chevy named “Humphrey” and Westlunds’ had an old car too if I recall.  I got to have my car painted and Egizio let me choose from a book with 1” paint samples.  I thought I’d picked a “nice” robin’s egg blue but it was really eye-shocking turquoise – hard to miss.
7. White Bobbie sock and saddle shoes – SO,SO cool.
8. Candy Kitchen for Lime Rickeys (what were they, does anyone know?) or Ozzie’s for phosphates (what were they?)  Tasty Bakery for potato rolls, The Rafter House and Why Not out on Ogden and Washington.
9. Church, church and more church!!!
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12. I had to memorize the names of all 153 graduating classmates and call them off as they crossed the stage.  Perhaps I’ll recall them all again when I reside in “the home.”
13. The Galousha sisters who lived in the old house on the SW corner of Jefferson and; there were 3 and one didn’t speak to the other 2; when she thought the Lord didn’t want her to live anymore she threw herself out of the third floor window; since she didn’t die she decided the Lord wanted her to live.  The Swap Shop lady out on the corner of Ogden and Columbia –can’t recall her name.
14. Picking up sticks in our back yard; mangling my dad’s dress shirts!
15. Loretta Young was BEAUTIFUL and SO lady-like.  Roy Rogers and Dale Evans had the perfect marriage and beautiful horses as well.
16. “Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco,” “Johnny calls for Phillip Morris” – Sounds like I was a smoker??? Snap, Crackle and Pop.
17. Dwight Eisenhower, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Sonja Hennig
18. The awful wrecks of cars that were on view at Netzley’s and Ange Gale – who wasn’t frightened of her???
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20. Miss McDermand, my first grade teacher, pulled out everyone’s loose teeth while pretending they weren’t ready to come out yet.  Such a look of glee on her face as she handed you your tooth!
21. I spent most of my summers in the back seat of a car with my brother traveling with our parents; we would pretend to play the piano on the back of the front seat and not get our hand slapped by the other one when we reached to far (for a high or low octive) – pretty dumb pastime.  I also tried smoking pencil shavings during one of those early trips – must have been the commercials we were listening to.