Gary Korsgaard

60th reunion. My proposal is I will provide the location iin Federal Way at Belmor Mobile Home Park where I live. The club house will hold up to 150 with full kitchen. Go to belmormhc.com to check out. Only $50 instead of $1700 for the cove. will need more help with food, drinks and decorations. Will have cash donations at the door.Bill Hamilton and I will not do mailing or fancy name tags. My favorite dates so far are June 8, 15, 29.

Tom Nixon

Gary, your suggestion to hold the reunion at Belmor Park is excellent. I'm sure there will be adequate parking and to allay some of Al's fears, I'd suggest the last date, June 29th, when all kids are out of school and is historically the best weather day of June in the Pacific Northwest (ok, the last part I made that up for Al). Cheers! Tom Nixon

Karen Buck (White)

Gary - You and Bill have done such a great job in the past of getting a fantastic reunion together for our class that I completely trust your judgement and appreciate your willingness to continue to help with this production.  I would be more than willing to help with whatever projects you may need help with and I am sure there are many others who would also be glad to donate their time, energy, ideas etc.  

Bill Engelhardt

We'll continue this discussion after a brief break.....

Carol Tucker (Schnorr)

I think Gary has come up with a great and cost effective location for our 65th reunion.  My brother in law graduated in 1973 and they are having their reunion at the Cove in Normandy Park and the cost per person is $75.  Al,  while hotel accomidations in July are costly their are many close and within a reasonable distance from the Federal Way location.  Thank you, Gary for taking on the task of keeping our class in contact with each other through this forum and for you and Bill for continuing to help in making the arrangements for class reunions.

Al Peffley

RIP Jimmy Buffett

Key West and the Florida beaches' night life scene (been there, done that) will never be the same without you, brother. Cheers to no more suffering, no more pain. Home is where your Father is.

Al Peffley

Here is an interesting and self explanatory article on electric vehicles (EV's) that I recently discovered on the Algora Blog channel:

https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2023/09/07/3-sinister-reasons-with-the-big-push-for-ev

Any interest, comments, or discussion?

We bought a German technology, 2012 turbo diesel injected car some years back. It gets 42-50 mpg and 10,000 miles per oil change to conserve on fuel and fluids consumption. It has allowed us to live more comfortably on a retirement income and also go on extended road trips to visit our family who live out of state. it does not use DEF. It has very low carbon emissions compared to our older cars and trucks that are gosoline-powered. It performs significantly better on the freeways and paved country roads than our other vehicles. I would have chosen a Toyota hybrid car but they carry less volume for about the same mileage range (the grandchildren are getting bigger and our siblings'/friends' are more back seat "flexibility"-challenged.) The diesel car also has a big trunk with a fold-down back seat. Traveling to our Eastern Oregon property in an EV would not be practical for our needs. Our Austrian mechanic's shop is located over in Joseph, Oregon. He performs all the tasks a dealership normally does plus he uses only European replacement parts. The car's computer software has never been modified or "tweeked", and it will never be altered as long as we own it. We purchased the diesel car in Portland and use a VW dealership in Beaverton for incidental repairs and recall maintenance using genuine German OEM parts. It is the best foreign import car that I have ever owned, and I have owned a lot of different performance vehicles and utility trucks, foreign and domestic. it is not a luxury model, so it is a lightweight sport sedan car with a manual 6-speed transmission. The automatic transmission models get lower mpg, different emission results, and lower performance.

Ed Hesner

Al Peffley

Ed,

I also have a 1997 Chevy truck that had factory-installed rectangular halogen headlight assemblies in a transition headlight system year. Bulb replacement required the whole grill to be removed to change out the separate headlight bulbs. I replaced the factory headlight assemblies with aftermarket assemblies when the headlight bulbs (that run constantly when the engine is on) burnt out. The compromise now in my truck is removing the failed Asian-made bulbs by removing the truck's batteries. I have a friend who owns a newer, high-end Jeep Cherokee that requires the grill to be removed to change a bulb ($125 cost at a Chrysler dealer the last time a Chinese-made bulb was changed!) Cars today are assembled in factories by robotics using preassembled subassenblies that are not always modular or fastened together by screws.

You are an engineer. This is just poor engineering with little or no consideration for long term use, ease of maintenance, or human-engineered accessabliity  features. The dealers want you to take your car into their Service Department for everything. The manufacturers want you to go to their dealers for all maintence tasks (no matter how simple) and buy a new car often. The Europeans are not that much different in their designed car features. Headlight assemblies are not installed with bezels and fastener screws. Bulb connectors are not mounted in easy to see and reach places, especially with front wheel drive vehicles. The older we get, it seems that the harder it is to use our hands and fingers in tight places, and especially with poor accessability features.

They all now think at the subassembly and not the part replacement level of maintenance tasks. Parts that are constantly used and replaced are no longer manufactured in the home country or factory. Government regulations and initiatives like Agenda 21 and 2030 yield designs that discourage private ownership of cars and trucks and the long term use of carbon based fuels. The plastics used to decrease weight and build disposable subassemblies are produced with carbon fuel biproduct chemicals! The WEF wants us to limit our travel and for us to not own our own personal vehicles. This globaltransportation policy and regulations impacts vehicle manufacture strategic sales planning and design of future individual vehicle use products that is counter to peoples' cultural habits, mobility, and individual freedoms. Yes, as we get older and further into the war with the WEF and Climate Change cult we will need to ask more maintenace and functional operation questions if we buy a new vehicle. The Reset and Green New Deal goals are to discourage you from owning a private vehicle and only using public transportation in a Mega City culture (where we will own nothing and be happy.)

Thanks for the adult discussion about your real-world vehicle experiences. Everthing we discussed won't go away with an all electric, computer-contolled vehicle...no matter what the government regulations are or who makes the vehicle. Chevy EV's have not been a success. Notice that all of our isuues we discussed involve electrical and/or plastic parts assembly/failure. Have a great week, buddy.

Bill Engelhardt

Taken the night before 9/11.......

Al Peffley

September 11, 2001

I was attending a Future Combat Systems Review Meeting at Boeing facilities in Anaheim, CA, with US Army Program Office personnel from Michigan and Army Headquarters' Flag Officers directly reporting to General Jack Keane. (ref.:https://generaljackkeane.com/   We watched in a manager's office next to the meeting room live videos of both towers being attacked with the hijacked commercial airlines' planes. It was the asymmetric attack that we were planning the transformation of the DoD's Armed Forces to respond to after such unconventional, fifth generation warfare attacks. It was surreal to watch the NYC attack live on TV. I will never forget seeing the Trade Towers just like Bill's photo shows before the attack on another business trip for the same program. I will never forget the non-stop drive with three fellow Boeng employees (except for fueling and eating) from Southern California back to SEATAC on deserted roadways and past blocked and closed airports along the way. The only aircraft flying that day after the attacks were armed military aircraft. Later on a business trip I would view up close the damage to the Pentagon surrounded by surface-to-air Army mobile launchers with armed stinger missiles while they cleared the debris. I can assure you from witnessing the attack sites and reviewing the after official action reports that it was all real and not graphically-created like some conspiracy theorists have promoted. The following anthrax mailing events and Beltway sniper attacks were also very real.

The day that we lost many of our Constituional freedoms for "public safety" reasons (which are still leveraged by some state leaders today.) Fear and resultant [dictated] public safety "proclamations" (recent NM Governor AND WA Legislative actions) often destroy liberty and "God-given" rights that are clearly described in both state and federal constitutions of our Republic. We are not a "Democracy"; we are a "Republic".

Please pray for the surviving family members and first responders who were exposed to toxins at the 9/11 attack sites. Like follow-on tremors to a devastating earthquake, the follow-on attacks of terrorism on the east coast were also destructive to your individual freedoms. Honor those who responded to the call of defending your right to be free in the face of planned terrorism acts, death, and lethal attacks on our nation. The Covid-19 bioweapon release and recent Infratructure attacks are just a continuation of the same evil. Do not let the evil ones win or divide us. Never surrender your rights for fabricated emergency safety reasons. The truth shall keep you free men and women. God bless you.

Bill Engelhardt

Night falls on Manhattan....

Bill Engelhardt

A trip to nostalgia now and then is good for the spirit...

Ronald Goodmansen

Thanks Bill, that put a smile on our faces and a few laughs.

Bill Engelhardt

News that didn't make the news....

Gary Korsgaard

Save the date for 60th reunion on Saturday June 29, 2024.in Federal Way.

Will let you know about a date to get together for those who live close and wants to help at the location.

Bill Engelhardt

Afternoon rush hour on 5th Ave., 1958. 
Iconic landmarks -- Ivar's 5th Ave., and the Blue Mouse, Coliseum and Music Box theaters. 
On the back of the bus is a campaign sign for Seattle lawyer Walter T. McGovern, running for election to a seat on Seattle Municipal Court. 

Al Peffley

There's a lot of old cool cars in that 1958 photo, Bill. It brings back good memories to me of living in Burien and the Mason Lake recreational life with my mom and dad. We had a 1952 Pontiac in 1958. It was like a "limo" compared to the 1949 Chevrolet my folks owned prior to the big Pontiac my father bought off the lot new in 1952. I learned to drive with my father in the '52 Pontiac on logging roads around Mason Lake in 1958... The Pontiac would later become my first car at 16 years old when my folks bought a used 1958 Chevy station wagon in 1960. Cars were more simple and easier to maintain if you could turn a wrench and screwdriver back then. No computers to fail and much fewer plastic parts.
 

Gregg Wilson

The war in Israel is expanding. Now includes Hezbollah and Syria. Will grow more. Very likely we are headed to an Arab oil embargo.

Biden has been selling off our strategic petroleum reserve. It is now good for 20 days. He has, of course killed oil exploration and oil pipelines.

Our conventional stockpile of bombs and artillery rounds is the lowest it has ever been. Biden has been giving those reserves to Ukraine. Supplies to Israel are very limited.

This is what you get when the president is an idiot.

Bill Engelhardt

Brace yourself -- flu season is coming....

Al Peffley

Does anyone know why all of these "In Memory" notifications are suddenly appearing in emails? Is there someone doing obituary searches as a research project? Just wondering...

Stay away from flu shots that include mRNA shot ingredients. You have been warned. You are better taking an occasional shot out of the liqour stuff on the shelf in Bill's photo.

We are helping to fund ($300M) the blossoming attacks in Isreal (and Gaza). There is so much disinformation and flat out lies that you know it's being orchestrated by the evil ones to spread more fear and division on the earth. "Rule of the Savage" is being forced upon innocent people throughout the region, and it is also being spread to other nations like us. We had a pre-planned staged insurrection at the National Capitol this week.The UN is causing this uprising of international terrorism through the WEF. It's time for the Peace Maker to return and replace rotted oatmeal brains (and I sure don't mean "Giggles".) Resist Communism and NWO Socialism. Be freemen and freewomen. WW III is real. We need to help stop it by not funding it or supporting it. Be vocal about the lack of law and order and human decency.

Ed Hesner

To all of my Highline friends, I'd like to pass along  a little info that I hope will interest some of you. I've been reading a book the last few days called "The Late Great United States, What Bible Prophecy Reveals About America's Last Days", written by Mark Hitchcock. I've currently just finished 9 out of the 11 chapters, and have found the information to be very interesting. The book was published in 2010, so it's already several years old, which makes it all the more amazing to me that we're all still here, as I'm sure the information discussed by the author has become all the more relevant over these last few years. The information is well researched, easy to read and understand, and I believe will really open up your eyes as to where our nation stands in this world today. The book is available on Amazon at a little under $13 with free shipping if you have Prime. If you'd like reading something that will put a little bit of fright into you, get yourself a copy of it and do some reading. Then let me know how you liked it.

Bill Engelhardt

Bill Engelhardt

Gregg Wilson

I had forgotten this.

And tomorrow is Armistice Day. It belongs to the Doughboys.

Corporal Wilson