Santa Rosa High School
Class of 1965
Rick Van Krugel
| Residing In: | Victoria, BC Canada |
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| Spouse/Partner: | Linda Rogers |
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| Occupation: | Author/Poet |
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Posted on: Feb 28, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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I got to know Judy under an unusual circumstance going out of Fremont Elementary. Judy and I were the winners in some sort of art competition (you who knew me in elementary school no doubt recall me as “that kid” who was socially pretty awkward and couldn’t compete in anything BUT art!) in sixth grade, and the prize was a summer art class at the home of an absolutely lovely woman whose name I believe to have been Elizabeth Quandt. Judy and I spent more than half that summer meeting a day or two a week and being taught to make a relief sculpture from cast concrete aggregate, a completely new and unique experience to us both at the time. Was it 1959? We worked in clay to form the shape of what was to be cast, copied the clay sculpture in reverse with plaster of Paris, then mixed and poured the concrete into that form, and fine tuned and filed the concrete as it was mostly set and still workable. Judy made a little swimming fish and I made a swimming turtle. Neither one of us was the type for the other to have normally socially mingled with in the usual context of school, but we got on like a house on fire doing art together that one Santa Rosa summer, and I’ll come out for the first time today to say I was left with a mighty twelve year old crush on that girl! I see the word “lady” being used to describe her in people’s memories of her, and it fits perfectly. She was a beautiful lady already at 12. My condolences to those close to her and R.I.P. to this lovely lady.
Posted on: Jul 02, 2021 at 1:33 AM
Posted on: Jul 02, 2019 at 1:34 AM
Wonderful video and amazing photography. It really captured the connection you and Linda have so lovingly built and maintained over the years. Congrats!
The slideshow won't display on my profile here, but it now plays from the classmate videos link at the top right of the page. Thanks Paul Quistgard, for letting me know.
Posted on: Jul 12, 2015 at 10:10 AM
1973 - Da blues: At Victoria's Royal Theatre with John Hammond Jr. Never mind the beard...just dig the shirt!
Posted on: Jul 12, 2015 at 9:55 AM
My Monday night ritual southern style old-time string band jam, a.k.a. "redneck meditation"...playing tunes until each dies of natural causes, just because we can, and of course because it feels good!
