What a touching story! I am proud to have been a part of it.
John Hermanson
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From: "Kelton Rhoads" <krho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus List" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:45 AM
Subject: [OM] Story: A Special Birthday OM
| "We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are
| threescore and ten . . . "
|
| Sorry to write such a long message, but this is important to me.
| Yesterday was my dad's 70th birthday. His name is Gayle, which means
| "her father's joy." (I guess my grandparents didn't do their research.)
| Fathers come in all varieties, and among other things, mine was one who
| was enthusiastic about just about anything that caught my
| interest--including OMs. When I spent nearly my entire bank account on an
| OM-1 and 50mm lens as an 8th grader in 1976, he was the one who found
| something extra for the 75-150mm and later, a 24mm Zuiko. As I was
| rediscovering Olympus in the early 1990s, Dad obligingly shared the
| interest again. As an educator, his time was a little more flexible than
| most, and he could occasionally slip off to a morning swap meet. In the
| pre-eBay years, he snagged a couple of bargain Zuikos and gave them to
| me, including a couple of 50s, a 100, and a 200. One day, however, he was
| exceptionally lucky and found a chrome OM-2 sitting on a seller's
| blanket.
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