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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SAD TO KNOW WE ARE BOTH AGING. I was recently in Topeka and had coffee with D. Nelson, who said that during Covid only locals had a reunion. Up here in Canada, we are facing a backlog of Americans trying to get Canadian Citizenship, like I got decades ago. Contrary to HPHS bigots, I did not avoid the draft, I came to Canada for my MA & PhD after doing my BSc at KSU, then stayed here as a Professor>>retired at age 60.when Dean, search Committee, and my Psychology Department rejected the candidates applying for Chair, >>THEN asked me to become chair. Wife and I decided early retirement was the Better Option, as I had been Deputy Chair for 25 years, Chair of BA program Committee, Chair of Board of Undergraduate Committee which reported to Senate, and then chaired the Open Learning Committee (early version of Distance education programs given via internet). Early Retirement was excellent choice, time for daughters (single), time for global month long trips, time for each other. Best decision we ever made, especially when looking back when turning 80 (July 6th). I am currently President of The Guelph Wellington's Men's Cub, a club of some 300+ professional men, average age of 80.5. We meet once a week, with a presentation each week (global speakers using Zoom. I have given 4, last one on my science specialty (Biological basis of Learning and Memory). Given that topic is related to aging, I then started a hiking group, biking group, and discussion group (keeping mentally active) under heading FIGHTING AGING. Discussion Group Topic 1: IS US DEMOCRACY AT RISK: I WILL BE ARGUING YES: GOP primarily rural = poorly educated, racist, antisemitic, Evangelical, and in general being very unchristian in terms of how they relate to "others:"(Nonwhites, non-Christians, transgenders, the well educated>>>and antisemitism is on the rise badly (See capitol insurect5ion of those carrying rebel flags and Nazi Flags. Daily US news up here is a touch like getting reports on a War Zone.
Stay well but stay far from those on your left, as usual>>>sorry you lost hero RUSH L>

Hi, John. Dr. Jim Mottin here. Moved to Toronto Canada to go to Grad School. Became a professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Retired at age 60 when my Psychology Department wanted me to become Chair after 25 years of being Deputy Chair, and over the years being chair of BA program committee, chair of the Board of Undergraduate Studies, Chair of Distant Education, member of university Senate, and a number other less important committees and specific review committees. Retired at age 60 to have more time with wife and two daughters. Wife and I prefer month long travels (UK, Greece, Ireland, Costa Rica (3 times, month each), etc., including winters in Arizona (My old Chair has a Winter home in Phoenix, so we visit with him when renting in Tucson. AND NO, I DID NOT COME TO CANADA TO AVOID THE DRAFT, CONTRARY TO ASSHOLE CLASSMATES LIKE CHARLES SAMPSON, ETC. 5 OF US AMERICANS UP. HERE IN GRAD SCHOOL DROVE DOWN TO BUFFALO TO ENLIST WHEN THEY CHANGED THE DRAFT LAW DUE TO NEED>>>>BUT WE WERE TOLD TO LEAVE>>>WE ALL HAD 2 DEGREES, WORKING ON 3RD, AND OFFICERS WERE BEING FRAGGED AT THE TIME.>>SO FLEW BACK TO TOPEKA TO MEET WITH HEAD OF DRAFT BOARD, AS I WAS MARRIED AT THE TIME AND ATTEMPTING TO FINISH GETTING THE PHD. hE SAID GO BACK, NOT TO WORRY (HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE MEANT, BUT NEVER DRAFTED. We are noticing climate change very much here, generally more rain this winter. Have a Kansas relative who is married to a Kansas Senator, and who teaches>>>she tried to convince this science trained cousin that CLIMATE SCIENCE IS NOTHING BUT A LIBERAL POLITICAL PLOT>>>YES, I READ ABOUT SUCH THINGS>>>KEEPS THE MIND ACTIVE>>A MAJOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REAL SCIENCE AND SITES & BOOKS PUT OUT BY OIL AND GAS COMPANIES. i AM ON FACEBOOK & EMAIL IS jmottin@uoguelph.ca (still have my UoG email). What is LLC? give me investment advice, I have two different investment advisors, one with a bank, the other part of CIBC investments.>>>>wife says we have too much money, but I have already set side too much for the two daughters, and I have only one collectable car (1931 Ford Model A Roadster, 4 bikes, etc., but I am simply an 85+ yer old boy, need my toys still. Good to here from you, I am still in contact with couple of "girls" who were sophomores when we graduated {one I dated, one who says she had a crush one me>>>both cheerleaders, neither the one Paul Derda spoke of at a reunion, his BOY TALK was that were it not for the panty block he would have finished screwing her>>>I will not name her, though when I once called her for a date she laughed t me>>>did not know she was having "sex" with Paul. I had more sex at HPHS via "boy talk" than otherwise, but assumed it would stop once some graduated, but not, and even names are used. I was always the silent type, even at university where I learned to never take girl to a Frat party and then to a local motel lest Frat brother spot the car and come knocking and calling your name, Anyway, hope you are enjoying retirement in the South. Keep in touch while we still can. Oh, and when in Phoenix I stopped in to see Sandy Stetler, who loaded us up with oranges and grapefruit from her yard. Later her policeman husband died, last I heard from her. stay well, and well invested---did you retire at age 55?

HAPPY BD> WHERE ARE YOU NOW? I AM STILL At, jmottin@uoguelph.ca

Happy Birthday soon, old woman. Are you still nasty as ever. I do not like being this age at all, slows down my biking, hiking, etc., even reading. Here we face a drivers test at 80 (July for me), and perhaps I should show up in my 1932 Ford Roadster as a distraction during testing?? Hope all is well in (un? )vaccinated land!. Our News up hear seems to still be Full of Trump, US racism, and the US rise in Antisemitism--even in Florida. (( have a close buddy who is Jewish, and he is writing about Scientific Racism in the context of some American research that needs some serious review by a scientist from my University Department up here. Enjoy the celebration of surviving this long...hope I make it to July..

Happy BD...where are you now? I am in same place, make contact....

Happy Birthday. I assume you are looking forward to Trump's return to the Presidency.

Happy Birthday...have a great year too. I note neither of us have managed to slow the clocks down.

HAVE A GREAT BD AND YEAR TO FOLLOW. ENJOY HAVING YOU ON FB.

Sammy, given my shared manuscript dedicated to the class of 60's 60th reunion I planned on not attending, I have now posted the following on all Facebook accounts of Americans, including classmates, on with me as friends. Read this item and my comment to understand why someone who spent decades in science training and university would do something nasty like this, almost as nasty as the manuscript I shared directly with you. PLEASE, PLEASE SHARE WIDELY, AS IT APPEARS THAT AMONG DEVELOPED NATIONS THE USA HAS A HISTORY OF LOW MATH AND SCIENCE SCORES OF THOSE OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AGE, AND CURRENTLY DOES NOT RANK WELL GLOBALLY AMONG DEVELOPED NATIONS ON PUBLIC EDUCATION, ADVANCED EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, AND IS KNOWN TO HAVE A RIGHT WING POLITICAL PARTY, SUPPORTED DIRECTLY BY A MAJOR NEWS SOURCE (FOX NEWS), ALL CLAIMING THAT ADVANCED EDUCATION DAMAGES THE NATION BY CREATING LIBERAL ELITES WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR APPRECIATE COMMON (POORLY EDUCATED?) HUMANS...WELL I am said to be an educated elite with three degrees where the motivation to get them came from my family that included my father the Mechanic, with no high school diploma and my Great Grandfather on my Mother's side who was a sharecropper....common folk all...... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/?fbclid=IwAR1oqa0M-erGwHtpEUeijqtW1IB9KQvOG4MXl2XxY6Zb5DR3ZZ6YXFql8wI

have a great day and year---and stay safe given you live in US known for its record Covid Pandemic.

Have a great day and year.

Happy BIRTHDAY, from Dr. Stupid...I hope you read my shared manuscript: "MY SLOW WALK TO HELL: Dedicated to my HPHS 60th class reunion." Have yet to submit the edited shorter version to the New Yorker, awaiting election results.

Have a great BD and year, I note it is now called reaching a milestone, though left undefined. Doing great other than bitching about getting old. Hot up here, but at least we are free of COVID here and stores are open if you wear a mask and social distance based on floor markings of routes through store and for line ups. Card purchases only.

Happy birthday, hope you are having a good one, even with social distancing in place.

Posted on: Mar 19, 2020 at 6:46 AM

Take care of that car, you are both getting old.