10/14/2012 (1619)

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Condolences to Mark and Colette Pigeon Schimetz
From David Slyter (’70):   Sabin, Mn
 
Gary:
My condolences to Mark and Colette on the loss of their father.   It is never easy.  May he now rest in Peace in Gods arms.
Also I want to say how great it was to see the picture of Jack, and Patty Woods.   I use to clean Jacks office when he worked at the University in Bottineau.   What a nice man and a good teacher he is.   Patty was great friends with our folks back in the day.   They both look great and still sporting the young look.  :)
Trish Larson, what a beautiful picture of you and the white horse.   Keep on riding.  :)

Dave Slyter (70)

 
 
Robert Kofoid & Clifford Halvorson
Picture provided by Neola Kofoid Garbe:  Bottineau & Minot, ND
 
When I saw this picture I did a little research to figure out the connection between these two guys. Robert Kofoid was married to Thelma Slyter who was a first cousin to Clifford Halvorson. Thelma Slyter was related to Richard, David and Bobby Slyter too and Robert Kofoid was a first cousin to Neola’s father, John Kofoid and my dad, Bob Stokes. What a tangled relationship maze.
 Gary
 
 
Posting of the day
Posted by Blanche Wicks Schley (’42):  Grand Forks, ND
 
Maybe something you did not know?

 

IN THESE PAST FEW HOT DAYS, THANK GOD FOR THESE BROTHERS!
Did you know????

The Goldberg Brothers – The Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner.Here’s a little factoid for automotive buffs or just to dazzle your friends.

The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram,
and Max, invented and developed the first automobile
air-conditioner. On July 17, 1946, the temperature in Detroit
was 97 degrees.

The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford’s office and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were there with the most exciting innovation in the auto industry since the electric starter.

Henry was curious and invited them into his office.

They refused and instead asked that he come out to the parking lot to their car.

They persuaded him to get into the car, which was
about 130 degrees, turned on the air conditioner, and
cooled the car off immediately.

The old man got very excited and invited them back to the office, where he offered them $3 million for the patent.

The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but they wanted the recognition by having a label, ‘The Goldberg Air-Conditioner,’ on the dashboard of each car in which it was installed.

Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti-Semitic, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg’s name on two million Fords.

They haggled
back and forth for about two hours and finally agreed on $4 million and that just their first names would be shown.

And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show —
Lo, Norm, Hi, and Max —

on the controls.


I can hear your groans from here. Control yourself!!!

A buddy sent me this, and I was sucked in, too!

Just forward it.