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June 1, 2013
Indonesian students perform traditional Indonesian dance at SolBridge
The annual Multicultural Festival at the SolBridge International School of Business is one of the highlights of the semester and the school year for students, whether as a performer or a member of the audience. The festival celebrates the school’s diversity but it’s through this diversity which makes all of the students, faculty, and staff at SolBridge one.
For nearly 90 minutes the audience was treated to a variety of performances, including a Tae-kwon-do demonstration, Korean and Vietnamese fashion show, traditional songs and dances, and even a Psy number.
One of the performances during the festival was this traditional dance performed by the Indonesian students at the school.
Enjoy.
May 31, 2013
This Photo Rocks!
I normally don’t pat myself on the back for the photos I take, you know, let the photos speak for themselves (a picture’s worth a thousand words, that sort of thing) BUT this photo that I took during SolBridge International School of Business’s Spring 2013 Multicultural Festival, ROCKS!
May 30, 2013
You’ll love this story
Why Ice Cream Headache?
Why not.
This story works on many different levels, but what I wanted to show with this novella was a microcosm of America in 1968 that had already been turned upside down by the Vietnam War and the assassination of Martin Luther King. And there would be so much more before Apollo 8 circled the moon on Christmas Eve.
There is a lot of history in this novella, but it is not a historical novel per se. It is a drama of sorts keeping in the tradition of Peyton Place. There’s a lot of bad stuff going on behind the scenes; behind closed drapes.
Panama Red — Panama, 1978
Trying out my best tough guy pose near Galliard Cut along the Panama Canal in June or July of 1978. I was stationed at Howard Air Force Base in the Panama Canal Zone from 1976-1978.
Not so sure about keeping my hair length with 35-10 regulations, though.
I’ve always looked back fondly on those two years I was stationed in Panama. It was, without question a very interesting time. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
May 28, 2013
War Remains Cracks Amazon’s UK Top 20 Charts
Now I know how The Beatles felt when they cracked the US charts in the early 60s!
Spring 2013 International Market Research Competition — Finals
The finals for the first International Market Research Competition were held in SolBridge International School of Business’s fourth floor auditorium on May 28th.
The four teams gave stellar presentations which examined investment opportunities in APEC nations.
May 24, 2013
Welcome Home, Pfc James Constant
It’s only fitting that a soldier listed as missing in action from the Korean War for nearly sixty years will finally return home this Memorial Day weekend.
It has been a long, convoluted trip but finally, 63 years after he was killed in action during the Korean War, an American soldier returns to the Indiana soil.
Pfc. James L. Constant, Beech Grove, was 19 when he died while defending an area near Changnyong, in what is now South Korea.
His funeral is Saturday at 1 p.m. at Beech Grove High School, 5335 Hornet Drive, with visitation from 11 a.m. Burial will be in New Crown Cemetery. The public is welcome.
Constant was killed Sept. 8, 1950. His body was recovered almost immediately. But it wasn’t recognizable. The remains were buried in a cemetery in Miryang, South Korea. Later, they were transferred to the United Nations Cemetery in Tanggok. Then they were moved yet again, to the U.S. Army’s Central Identification Unit in Kokura, Japan, for laboratory analysis.
After the lab failed to make positive identification, Constant’s remains were transferred to Hawaii, where they were interred with many other unidentified Korean War casualties in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl.
Following advances in lab analysis techniques, such as the advent of DNA testing, another attempt at identification was made in 2012. The attempt succeeded. Scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, or JPAC, determined the remains were Constant’s.
Remains of hundreds of deceased soldiers are recovered each year, from Korea, Vietnam, even Europe, left from World War II. Between 80 and 100 are identified each year.
Constant is survived by his two sisters, Betty Kelley and Margaret Rigdon, and by many nieces and nephews. They declined to comment for this story. He was preceded in death by his parents, William Thomas and Jessie “Lula” Constant, five brothers and two sisters.
One more American has made the final trip home from a forgotten war.
Families with loved ones still missing from the Korean War who have read War Remains have told me that my story about Bobby Washkowiak could have been the story about their father, brother, or uncle who never came home from the conflict. That is such an honor for me when someone tells me how much my story has resonated in their lives and how it has helped them.
Welcome Home, Pfc Constant.
May 23, 2013
Korean Maemi
Starting to feel like summer in Daejeon which means summer is just around the corner and the return of the Korean maemi (cicada).
They are noisy little critters.
May 22, 2013
War Remains Cracks Amazon’s Top Ten
And I am in some great company.
I know it’s only for a while (by now the book has probably slipped out of the Top Ten) but it was a good feeling while it lasted.
May 16, 2013
Soda Fountain Drinks
In Ice Cream Headache, Billy stops in at the Supreme Dairy Bar for a milkshake. While the owner of the dairy bar, Ray, is making the milkshake, Ray thinks back to when he was a child and went to the soda fountain at Adkins’ Drug Store with his father and sister for malts and ice cream sodas.
How many of these fountain drinks have you tried? Are there any I might have left off?
Soda Fountain Favorites
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Soda Fountain Favorites
What are your "ice cream headache" favorites?
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Green River
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Root Beer Float
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New York Egg Cream
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Ice Cream Soda
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Chocolate Milkshake
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Strawberry Milkshake
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