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    My Untold Stories: 98 Years of Fond Memories
    My Untold Stories: 98 Years of Fond Memories
    My Untold Stories: 98 Years of Fond Memories
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    My Untold Stories: 98 Years of Fond Memories

    By Tom Langevin

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    This is a storybook collection of twenty-two anecdotes reflecting the memories throughout the life of a ninety-eight-year-old Christian gentleman. It is a blend of famous biographies with autobiographical overtones. Some are humorous, like “A Christmas Story” and “A Colorado Fishing Trip.” Some are humanistic, like “A Trip to Remember” and “Elba in the Storm.” And five of the stories deal with association with the rich and famous in actor Ray Bolger, President Harry Truman, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, news anchor Bill Moyers, and comedian/actor Bob Hope, to name a few. There is no rhyme or reason to these stories, just off-the-cuff remembrances from a well-established man who has lived and just about seen it all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 27, 2020
    ISBN9781664149854
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      My Untold Stories - Tom Langevin

      Copyright © 2021 by Tom Langevin.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 12/22/2020

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      CONTENTS

      Dedication

      A Christmas Story

      A Colorado Fishing Tale

      A Trip To Remember Early November 1945

      A Visit To Nasa In Houston

      Algo D. Henderson

      Arthur M. Ahlschwede

      Beth Anna Mekota

      Bill Moyers

      Bob Hope

      Elba In The Storm

      Hubert Humphrey

      Jack Meets Bear Cub

      James L. Sellers

      Lavern Franzen

      O. P. Kretzmann

      President Harry Truman

      Ray Bolger

      Riverboat Days

      Sally Rand

      Teddy

      The Rev. Barry Hunteman

      Yvonne Condell

      DEDICATION

      A S AN AUTHOR, I dedicate this book to Pearl Mattfeld Langevin, my loving wife and partner for just under seventy years. Should God had not taken her home unexpectedly in February 2009, she would have been coauthor. Pearl was involved in everything I have done. Pearl also had a life and memory of her own as a teacher and social volunteer in many things she shared with me.

      Not only did we fall in love that lasted a lifetime but we shared a common mission in our lives as Lutheran teachers—she in elementary school, and I with students at the college and university levels.

      We shared our religious faith in the Triune God—our Father the Creator, Jesus Christ our Savior, and the Holy Spirit. She was the cofounder and co-owner of the creation of Thomas H. Langevin & Associates in 1978. She managed the company during my higher education consulting career of over twenty years.

      If she were here to read this book, she would not only recognize my memories, but she would have been a part of most of them. May God bless her spirit.

      A CHRISTMAS STORY

      T HIS STORY TOOK place at Faith Lutheran Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, a Missouri Synod Church with a school. I recently checked on the church and school, which today has several hundred students. It has a kindergarten through fifth grade and has a fairly large preschool program as well. Years ago, my wife, Pearl, taught at that school for two years, 1950 and 1951. We were in Lincoln during that time because I was working to complete my PhD at the University of Nebraska in 1951. During that two-year peri od, Pearl, a fully trained Missouri Synod Lutheran teacher, taught there. One of the periods in her twenty-five-year career took place in Seward, Nebraska.

      That is the background. Here is the story:

      Pearl was in charge of the part of Faith’s Christmas program, which involved primarily kindergartners or perhaps some first graders. I do not remember the whole program exactly, but the story I am telling has to do with two kindergarten boys. There was an audience primarily of parents in the school’s auditorium. As the first part of the program, Pearl had the children lined up in a line fully across the stage. Each child had a piece to say one after the other. Pearl was standing by to help with any memory forgetfulness if it showed up. As it started with each child saying his or her piece, it worked well. However, about in the middle of the line, a boy said a piece, and the boy on his left loudly shouted, YOU SAID MY PART! and concurrently with his anger, he hit his neighbor with his fist right in the nose. The audience of parents was quiet. Both boys were now crying—one because he was hurt, and the other because he was angry. Pearl of course immediately intervened, and as some time went by, she negotiated on her knees between the two of them to secure a peace treaty. Pearl told them they were going to start the whole line again, and so they did. Obviously the audience now focused especially on the hitter. He spoke up well and clearly, and here is what he said: Peace on earth, good will to men. Immediately the audience just broke out in laughter.

      A COLORADO FISHING TALE

      T HIS STORY IS pretty far in the past going on our first real family vacation in the early 1960s. Pearl, Dennis, Tim, and I were off to Southern Colorado to go to a guest ranch—a place that eventually Tim insisted on going to as a guest ranch—named the Sleepy Cat. We decided to go horseback riding. Tim at that time was small enough to have to ride on the lap of the ranch hand. He fell asleep for most of the ride.

      One day early in the week, we let the hands there take care of our boys, so Pearl and I went on a fly-fishing trip on the stream, which was entirely on the ranch. We were going to do dry-fly casting. Each of us being fairly close to each other, perhaps twenty yards or so apart, in order to give us room for casting the rod. Pearl had a beautiful new, small, six-foot rod. Mine was an eight-and-a-half-foot bamboo rod. We were dressed well—nice fishing jackets, a good hat, and each had hip boots.

      As we started fishing, Pearl started ahead of me upriver so I could be backing her up for another way so that we could cast a fly rod, which takes at least thirty feet or more distance in order to work the cast. So Pearl went right ahead of me. She had her hip boots fully extended to the top of her legs, at which time I still had my

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