Guy MUELLER Mueller

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Guy MUELLER
Residing In Madison, WI USA
Spouse/Partner Marsha Raudabaugh Mueller
Occupation Retired
Children Emily (1978) is an archaeologist and has a daughter named Etta. Melissa (1979) is the directoress of More…Isthmus Montesorri Academy and has four children: Roman, Polly, Sonny, and Oceania
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After WHS, kept on going to school, ISU, then Wharton Grad. Drew a high draft number, paid taxes, but did not "serve." Married Marsha. Raised kids. Went to work: 7 years as a city planner then process controls--sales and management--for the next 30+ years. Served on some boards and commissions during retirement and also picked up a few projects as a landscape designer—a hobby job—but these were put on hold/ended when we moved to and built a new house in Madison,WI to be closer to children and grandchildren.

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I stayed after school for some activity and then went to look for my mother's VW Beetle, which, in the morning, I had squeezed into WHS's last available student parking space with annoyingly little room to spare on either side. Actually, it was a a partial parking space. It was really tight, bookended by two other parked cars, and I honestly don't remember how I got out of the car. Maybe I crawled out through the window. But the car wasn't there--where I had left it in the morning. It had been picked up--presumably by the brute force of the annoyed neighboring drivers--and deposited on the adjoining lawn next to a small tree. The joke was deservedly on me, but the car was fine, and I drove across the lawn, over the curb, onto the pavement, and laughed all the way home.

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May 15, 2024 at 2:05 PM

Happy BD Tom. Hope everything goes well in your next trip around the sun.

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May 15, 2024 at 12:45 AM

In the summer of 1965, my family and I moved to Cedar Rapids, and even though I was a nobody in school and an unknown in the neighborhood, which is to say I didn't know a soul, Ralph welcomed me. We carpooled to HS together, we played football together—he on the field and I on the bench, we sang together, we hung out and fooled around together, and from washing windows at Quaker Oats to detasseling corn and baling hay, we shared summer jobs together. But in what now seems like a blink of an eye, our paths led us to different parts of the country and to wives and then families of our own--two fine sons for Ralph and two daughters for me, yet for those few brief years, I felt as though Ralph and I were family, as though he were my brother, the brother I never had. 

In our youth, Ralph and I had some lofty (crazy?) expectations. We were going to aim at northing less than making the world a better place--getting us out of Viet Nam, ending racism, saving the cities, making rivers like the Cedar swimmable again--just for starters.  We had some good debates about what "better" meant, too.

Not surprizingly, it wasn't long before I realized that altering the fate of the planet with respect to its eight billion inhabitants might be a peak well beyond my climbing ability. Just the same, my memory of Ralph reminds me that a little grace now and then is possible, that we can make a difference, even if it’s only face-to-face and one person at a time. I know this is true, because it was Ralph; it was he who shared his grace with me. 

Ralph, my friend, I wish you eternal peace.

--Guy Mueller

 

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May 15, 2024 at 12:45 AM

In the summer of 1965, my family and I moved to Cedar Rapids, and even though I was a nobody in school and an unknown in the neighborhood, which is to say I didn't know a soul, Ralph welcomed me. We carpooled to HS together, we played football together—he on the field and I on the bench, we sang together, we hung out and fooled around together, and from washing windows at Quaker Oats to detasseling and corn and baling hay, we shared summer jobs together. But in what now seems like a blink of an eye, our paths led us to different parts of the country and to wives and then families of our own--two fine sons for Ralph and two daughters for me, yet for those few brief years, I felt as though Ralph and I were family, as though he were my brother, the brother I never had. 

In our youth, Ralph and I had some lofty (crazy?) expectations. We were going to aim at northing less than making the world a better place--getting us out of Viet Nam, ending racism, saving the cities, making rivers like the Cedar swimmable again--just for starters.  We had some good debates about what "better" meant, too.

Not surprizingly, it wasn't long before I realized that altering the fate of the planet with respect to its eight billion inhabitants might be a peak well beyond my climbing ability. Just the same, my memory of Ralph reminds me that a little grace now and then is possible, that we can make a difference, even if it’s only face-to-face and one person at a time. I know this is true, because it was Ralph; it was he who shared his grace with me. 

Ralph, my friend, I wish you eternal peace.

--Guy Mueller

 

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RF--Bonnie James says that you are a "pretty good" poet. Would it be possible to share a few of your lines with me or, if they are published, let me know how/where to obtain them? Thanks.

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Mar 13, 2022 at 5:49 PM

I am so sorry to hear of his passing. Bruce was a kind friend to me when I was a new kid in town. 

Jan 29, 2022 at 12:44 PM

Happy BD dude. 73 is getting to be a large number. I'll catch up with you soon.

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Feb 08, 2017 at 1:46 PM

I have been notified of your upcoming BD, so may it be totally happy!

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