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#WaybackWednesday - this archive photo shows sailors being inducted in into service during WWII. Photo/USC University Archives
#WaybackWednesday - to the 70s, when Amy Lee joined Biochemistry - she is now Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, and the Judy and Larry Freeman Chair in Basic Science Cancer Research. Photo/Michael Stallcup
Wayback Machine - 1951
Frank "Wilburn" Waters, a very dear friend of my parents, died last Sunday. It got me thinking about the enduring nature of friendships.
He went to high school with my mom, and became one of the closest friends my dad ever had. He and his wife traveled a lot with my folks over the years. Their son and I shared playpens together as infants.. and it was really nice to see him again this evening, despite the sad circumstances.
One of the things that moved me the most last year when my father died, was seeing Mr. Waters... very ill, and almost unable to walk himself... come through the door to say his goodbye to a lifelong friend. They had not seen each other much in the last years.. and the many adventures together had become memories rather than future plans.
But friendship endures. True friendship always does. And good and decent people are never forgotten.
John Mellencamp - Longest Days
It seems like once upon a time ago
I was where I was supposed to be
My vision was true and my heart was too
There was no end to what I could dream
I walked like a hero into the setting sun
And everyone called out my name
Death to me was just a mystery
Cause I was too busy raisin up Abel and Cain
But nothing lasts forever
Your best efforts don’t always pay
Sometimes you get sick
And you won’t get better
That’s when life is short
Even in its longest days"
Wayback Machine - 1940s
Royal Gorge as seen from Point Lookout along US Highway 70.
Photo by Arthur Joe Hemphill
Point Lookout was a popular stopping point and overlook on old U.S. 70. It was founded in the 1920s and in its heyday featured an observation platform and a restaurant.
#WaybackWednesday - Priscilla Perez, Human Resources and Payroll Coordinator at Davis, sharing a smile with our photographer in between duties back in 2019.
Found this scanned photo of some of my mother, four of my aunts, one uncle, and one cousin (I am guessing circa 1960).
#WaybackWednesday - Patty Dechow, Robert R. Dockson Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Accounting, giving a class lecture back in 2018. Photo/Chris Flynn
Way Back Machine - 1940's
Mom (in back) and a high school friend soak up some sunshine at Devil's Courthouse in the Shining Rock Wilderness. Just another perfect way to spend a day of your summer vacation.
Wayback Wednesday!
Kelly and I went to Hawaii for her sister's wedding in 1989, and we did some fun things. It was my first time to attend a luau, first time I ate sushi, first Thai food,and first yacht ride (pictured). We toured the Dole pineapple canning plant and visited the Arizona memorial.
#WaybackWednesday - Oshawa Smith, Administrative Assistant in Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, checking over the week's schedule back in 2019.
Devils Tower Landscape Ladder
There are some contradictions in this image of the landscape leading up the the Devil’s Tower. Viewed from the northwest, this image has green fields with cut hay bales on top. This last fall of 2019 capture resulted from a very well rained on summer. Wet late in the high borderlands of MT/WY.. Captured in August, it ALL should be brown. The grass was a green as the spring in the sub-irrigated fields overlying the Fox Hill Sandstone aquifer . Usually the sub-surface geology controls the vegetation on the surface.
That 5112 foot tall Devil’s Tower National Monument is standing 1267 feet high above the surrounding ground. This country is big. The high ground looks pretty close but those mounds of phenolytic porphyry are pretty big. The Tower buried by thousands of feet of sediments, stands unsupported. Those rocks surrounding them and supporting the hard rock volcanic neck up thousands of feet higher than it is now.. The soft sediments were removed all by the action of the Little Missouri River plus the Belle Fourche River Drainage. Those two drainages providing the bulk of that work locally. The soft rock is removed while the harder material makes mountains. That’s pretty much the way it works all over the planet.
The Devils tower about 40 from my vantage point on the Pass to Rocky Point Wyoming on Trail Creek Road. I’m standing Campbell County Wyoming.
This is the view that tourists never see as they are all on the other side of those hills. You can see South Dakota from this site on a very clear day…completely across Crook County Wyoming. That is a BIG county 80 miles wide anyway.
Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana border (Wyotana).
Title: Devils Tower Landscape Ladder
#WaybackWednesday - all the way to 1999, when Psychiatric Pharmacy faculty posed for this photo celebrating 25 years of their residency program. From L-R, Drs. Glen L. Stimmel, Michael Z. Wincor, Mary A. Gutierrez, and Julie A. Dopheide.
#WaybackWednesday - Mitchell Ross, Facilities Assistant at the Information Sciences Institute, working in his Marina Del Ray office back in 2018.
Memories ... so happy we have photos to remind us of life before, when we were carefree and all we had to worry about was having fun ... and there was no worrying about that. Ah ya!
#WaybackWednesday - Maryam Karimi [R], Accounting Systems Analyst in the Office of the Comptroller, taking a photo op with outside consultant Annalise Jennings at the 2019 Culture Champions Facilitator Meeting. Photo/Finance
Wayback Machine - 1964
New Orleans, Louisiana
Photo by Wilma Blankenship
Dad talks with an an artist in Jackson Square in New Orleans. He bought an oil painting of the bayou which still hangs in my study today... and also had a charcoal sketch done of my mom. She was not too crazy about that idea, but dad insisted.
#WaybackWednesday - Sibyl Wickersheimer, Associate Professor of Scenic Design and Head of Design, sharing a project concept with students in a scenic design class back in 2019. Photo/Dramatic Arts
Autumn Mud Hills Overlook
I am literally standing on the Montana/Wyoming border taking this shot. This is a favorite overlook of mine. A view to the north of the Mud Hills which is the first range north of my ranch across the Ranch Creek Drainage.
We call this place the “treed” pasture as it’s about a square mile of mixed pine trees and grassy hills and gullies. It is a land of many uses: Cattle grazing during the summer pasture is a major use here obviously. Cattle can’t be pastured around pine trees in the winter as they will eat the needles. Those needles contain turpentine which will cause the pregnant cows to spontaneously abort. Several hundred cow/calf pair hang out around here for a month or two during Late May through Early July.
We move cattle out of this pasture in early July. This facilitates the Wyoming Tactical Rifle Championship courses 3 and 4 use. This ground has been home to a nationally ranked Team Tactical Rifle Championship for 18 years. Almost 4 miles of groomed rifle courses in 16 shooting stations. All exposing 150 fixed reactive steel Targets out to 1200 yards. This location is the last (or first) station on course 3 lolol. Snipers nest with literally thousands of precision rifle shots at those reactive steel targets down range.
There are a few dozen locations (I’ve found so far) within this “Pasture” that has Hell Creek/Lance Formation. These rock contain dinosaurian (and others) fossils. I found my first dinosaur tooth in this pasture 18 years ago. I knew they were here, I just didn’t know where. You do have to look though occasionally I stumble on dinosaur bones laying in the grass. Just like any other stone in the middle of the prairie lol.. I have found several fossil locations that way. You can’t find them if you can’t see them lolol.
We even have had a nationally released 4×4 video in 2008 filmed here. Peterson’s 4 Wheel Drive and Off Road Magazine filmed part of their “Ultimate Adventure” video series here that year. It’s out there if you want to watch several high end jeeps flip over. All trying to climb out of some of the soft sandstone lined gullies. As I say, a land of many uses…
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Autumn Mud Hills Overlook
#WaybackWednesday - Nikhil Chaudhari, Data Management Coordinator for Gerontology, working in his office back in 2019 and boosting Engineering with his apparel as well!
#WaybackWednesday - Michael Coombs, Associate Professor of Clinical Management and Organization, enjoying teaching his class back in 2009! Photo/Marshall
#WaybackWednesday - Connie Park, HR Coordinator in Facilities Management Services, checking her email first thing in the morning in her office back in 2014.
#WaybackWednesday - to August 2019 when Seilka Carrazco, Assistant Research Administrator in the Davis School, was happily at work in her office.
#WaybackWednesday - Kaveh Houshmand Azad, Operating System Director at Keck Medicine, making sure all systems are up and running back in 2017.