Robert Michael Dooley, 59 Robert Michael Dooley passed away on October 16th, 2012. Robert, known as Mike, was born on July 11th, 1953. Mike attended Drake University to earn a BA in history. He loved to read about history and he often used it to make sense of the world. He loved his horse Rosemary. He was a storyteller and made everyone around him laugh. He never spoke out of anger and hardly ever raised his voice. His sudden and early passing will leave a void in many lives, but memories of him will serve to fill that hole with joy and laughter. He is survived by his mother Jane; his sister Diane; his wife Sharon; his three daughters Brooke, Kara, and Alex; his two sons Nate and Joe; and six grandchildren. An informal gathering will be held in celebration of his life at the Solon Station Bar in Solon, IA on October 22nd beginning at 4 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made out to the Community Mental Health Center for Mid-Eastern Iowa.

---submitted by Jim Myerly

He only went by Mike. He was a very clever writer. He wrote a parody of 3 of our most notorious teachers at Franklin for a 9th grade English class assignment, that I still remember elements of today: Cecil Bench (kind of a stiff) "Cecilian Benchhook", Carol Thune(super uptight math teacher) "Thunesian Spoonbill", and Irwin Kaworsky (PE 'teacher')' but I don't remember what Kaworsky's name was transformed into. Mike made Kaworsky into a monkey for the thing he wrote. The teacher, Mrs. Dorothy Brinkman (nice lady) wouldn't let Mike read it aloud in class since it was just too spot-on about her colleagues. We bugged Mike after class and we all read it then. Thune squawked "Double 5! Double 5!" in it. Mike was VERY clever.

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