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Table of Contents:
| Title | Author | Class | Title | Author | Class |
| Enduring Symbols | Dan Sherrill | 1962 | OHS is Truly Blessed | Arthur Hemmingway | 1978 |
| Manuel O Morales | Manuel F. Morales | 1961 | O'side 100 year Celebration | Bob Selby | 1960 |
| Memories of Growing Up in Oceanside | Frank Elston | 1941 | Panel 22E, Line 103 | Dan Sherrill | 1962 |
| Mike Merritt's Death | Bruce Veteto | Small Town, OHS | Zoe de Crevecoeur Erickson | 1968 | |
| Oceanside in the Vietnam War | Dan Sherrill | 1962 | Then and Now | Dan Sherrill | 1962 |
| OHS Alumni in Iraq | Michael Aguirre | 1978 | Tony Zale | Dan Sherrill | 1962 |
| OHS Alumni Life Adventure | Debbie Martinez Scott | 1981 | Year Books, Tattered and Torn |
Jim Peterson
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| OHS Honors to Include Aviatrix | Tom Morrow |
Then and Now, Dan Sherrill, class of 1962, submitted August 6, 2007
In the spirit of “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” I offer up this account of adventures past and current. Sten Ravhed (the majority owner of T-Kartor) and I traveled to the Czech Republic (CR) at the end of May 2007 to celebrate the 15 year anniversary of T-Mapy, our sister company there. When T-Kartor celebrated our 15th anniversary in 2005, we celebrated in a reasonable and responsible fashion by guzzling generous quantities of Swedish beer and sampling locally-produced Absolut vodka.
Czechs on the other hand avoid the reasonable and prefer participating in feats of endurance and hazard. Events on Saturday 26 May 2007 were organized by a Czech outfit called Outdoor Discovery (Czech it out!). From 0900 to about 1900 we mountain biked around Doksy, CR participating in feats conjured by one of CR’s imminent poets, KH Macha in his 19th century epic poem Mai (an English translation can be found on Wikipedia).
Then: A young Dan Sherrill, SP4, on rappel Mission Gorge near San Diego, CA (32° 49’ 21” N, 117° 02’ 24” W), 1967 or 68, during Special Forces Mountain Training.
Now: An old Dan Sherrill on rappel, 26 May 2007, near Doksy, Czech Republic (50°35’ 15” N, 14° 39’ 15 E).
Then: A young Dan Sherrill, SSG, on 3-line rope bridge, near Black Rapids, Alaska (63° 32’ N, 145° 51’ W), July 1969 during Special Forces Mountain Training.
Now: An old Dan Sherrill mounting a 3-line rope bridge, 26 May 2007, near Doksy, Czech Republic (50° 34’ 29” N, 14° 35’ 52” E).
Then: The “A” Team. Part of Operational Detachment ODA 232, Captain Jim Kelly, SSG Raúl García, SFC Harry Black, SSG Dan Sherrill. Outside of Black Rapids Mess Hall, Alaska (63° 32’ N, 145° 51’ W), Special Forces Mountain Training, July 1969.
Now: Zeleny Tym or "zeleni” for short (Green Team)(sans cigars), Lucie Trnavska "LuTr" (Prague office), Ales Pecha (Hradec Králové office), Tomas Hulek "ToHu" (HK office), Tomas Novotny "ToNo" (HK office), Petr Samek "PeSa", "Sam" (HK office), Pavel Machac "PaMa" (Prague office), Dan Sherrill (T-Kartor Sweden); 26 May 2007, Hotel Grand, Doksy, Czech Republic (50° 34’ 03” N, 14° 39’ 15” E). Note Budweiser umbrella in background (the original Budweiser or Budvar beer).
Notes:
http://www.discovery.cz (Czech it out!)
From: http://www.mesto-doksy.cz/index.php?par=8*1*58*1*0
One of them is to be mentioned in more detail, because it is linked to a Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Macha. It used to be a wine taproom, which was set up by a Doksy native, Jan Nepomuk Kampe, at the beginning of 19th century on Klucek peninsula, lying to the northeast of Macha's Lake. On the southern slopes of Klucek there were excellent conditions for growing vines. The nearby destinations of romantic wanderings (the not far-off ruins of the Castle of Bezdez, the ruins of Stary Berstejn and Jestrebi) made the Klucek taproom always a lively place. Not only delicious wine was served there, but there also used to be a swimming area with a boat rental in the Brehynska zatoka (Brehyne Bay) of Macha's Lake. In 1825, Antonin Tietze, Jan Kampe's son-in-law and later, after Jan Kampe's death in 1811, the taproom barkeeper, had a summerhouse built on Myší ostrůvek (Mouse’s Little Island), which became a popular for pleasure trips. Boats used to take guests to the island and back. In the year 1828, the summerhouse was destroyed by a gale. The taproom’s beauty spot on Klucek disappeared between 1839 and 1841.
One of the visitors of the taproom used to be Karel Hynek Macha, a jurist at that time. He visited Doksy for the first time in August 1832, being invited by his friend from university Edward Hindl, who was working on the Waldstein farm and lands. The hilly country, full of mysterious gulches, surrounded by hills with castle ruins, deep woods, in which famous highwaymen used to rage was a place close to the poet’s romantic soul. Edward Hindl acquainted his friend with the local myth of the robbing knight Pancir. The barkeeper Antonin Tietze told Macha the tragic story of a patricide caused by unhappy love, which happened in May 1774 in Duba, in the family of a rich farmer, Schifner. Tietze knew quite a lot about those matters, because he was blood-related with the Schifners' family. Macha used the character of the barkeeper in his poem Maj (May). The only witness of the tragedy was the statue of St. Prokop, whose original today stands in front of the Museum of K.H. Macha. In the living memory of local inhabitants, there also used to be the inglorious end of a redoubtable robber, Vaclav Kumra, also known as Czech Vasek, who was apprehended in one of the Doksy pubs in 1798. All these stories and myths, and the lake, which didn't used to be hidden in shady shrubbery at the time, the ruins of the Gothic castle of Bezdez and the romance of the whole region got projected into Macha's lyrical-narrative poem Máj (May). As the author said himself, ‘The plot of the poem takes place near the town of Hirsberg, among the mountains, on which the castles of Bezdez, Pernstejn, Houska and Roll in the distance, point eastwards, westwards, to noon and to midnight.’
The team members from left to right:
- Lucie Trnavska "LuTr" (Prague office)
- me, probably (I haven't seen myself without glasses yet)
- Tomas Hulek "ToHu" (HK)
- Tomas Novotny "ToNo" (HK)
- Petr Samek "PeSa", "Sam" (HK)
- Pavel Machac "PaMa" (Prague)
- you, obviously
The Green Team = "zeleny tym" or "zeleni" for short.
Year Books Tattered and Torn, Jim Peterson, class of 1966, submitted March 1, 2007
Have you wondered what will become of all the yearbooks that have been carried to the ends of the earth. The millions of stories told to children, grand-children, friends and fellow classmates.
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