Concordia didn't have proms. Why? I don't know, and I don't remember any discussion about it.
We did have something unusual.
We did have a jail. It was used to lock up captured slaves. That's all I know about it.
We did have a homecoming queen. She selected me as her escort, which I was proud of.
I was homecoming king in some respects.
A friend of mine in Defiance and I went to Ft. Wayne on date with a couple girls. Her whole family left her house on the night we had the date.
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I liked experimenting with electricity. I had a car horn. I would hook up the positive terminal to a battery, and when I hooked up the negative terminal, the horn would blow. Years later, when I was around thirty years old, I built a stereo amplifier, out of a kit. The amplifier had tubes, and they glowed with blue flickers, when playing.
Andy Wolfrum ran an electric line to our house. I wired our house with a plug, and two light fixture outlets, when I was about fourteen. I did it all by myself without any help. Nobody asked me to do it. I paid for it.
I worked for a farmer while I was in grade school. He had a device in his chicken house, which turned on the lights early in the morning. It was an alarm clock which dropped a handle, and turned on a switch, when the alarm went off. It impressed me.
I looked forward to Grandma Wolfrum’s cooking and baking. Her dandelion salads appealed to me, and her sugar cookies also.
My grandfather, Andy, would take me along, when he got food ground up for the animals. He would go to the bar, while he was there, and take me with him.
Thank you Nancy for the kind words.
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Don Wolfrum, October 23, 2022
My answer is based on this Wikipedia article:
HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/PARENTING_STYLES
Four styles are discussed in the article:
Authoritative, Authoritarian, Neglectful, and Indulgent/Permissive.
I choose the Indulgent/Permissive style.
I choose my grandfather Andy Wolfrum’s style.
I knew a girl, whose life was harmed by an authoritarian mother.
I think my wife, Mary Ruth, agrees with me on this.
Angelo Fonzi from Pittsburgh, PA was a famous person, who my wife and I knew.
His business was located in Hammond, IN at the end of his career. Hammond IN is near Chicago IL His freight terminals were in Hammond IN, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia,
This is intended to show the size of Great American Lines, and is not precise. It does show that Angelo Fonzi’s life touched many lives over a wide area.
Universal Am-Can Ltd is the name of the company, which bought Great American lines.
Frank Miglioroto, Sfaceat Kiyway on Facebook, is a former driver for Great American Lines.
Fonzi’s wife Ellen sold their house in Dyer IN for $900,000. She has moved to Pittsburgh PA.
Angelo Fonzi obituary:
HTTPS://WWW.LEGACY.COM/US/OBITUARIES/NWITIMES/NAME/ANGELO-FONZI-OBITUARY?ID=11866987
We lived in a Devlin’s Pointe Townhouse in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, which is a Pittsburgh suburb.
We ate at King’s restaurant often.
Joseph D. Gizienski and Donna ate there too.
Joe bought his dog hamburgers at the restaurant, and he paid for our meals.
One of his early accomplishments was he started a truck he had bought, which had been underwater. He was an owner operator in the trucking business, and had employees working in the freight trucking business. He owned a garage in 1972, where he salvaged 18 wheeler type tractors. He built a truck garage near his home about the same time. He bought stationary diesel engines in the US, shipped and sold them in South America. He bought a farm, which had a vein of coal in it, removed rocks, and sold the coal. Tesone Trucking Company in Allison Park, helped to remove the rocks.He bought and constructed a tankfarm tank on his local gas station. Estimated price to fill the tank; millions of dollars.
Our daughter Vicki Callender was 12 years old in 1972. She was a babysitter for Joe. He had five daughters. Tammy, Terry, Tracy Theressa, and Tina. Joe supplied the daughters with cars. They dove the cars as a team, when they were three to ten years old. Tammy, the oldest, would steer, and Tina the youngest would push down the gas pedal.
Our daughter Vicki is now 62 years old, and is secretary at East Union Presbyterian Church. West Deer police still meet at East Union Presbyterian Church, and Tina Gizienski is in West Deer law enforcement.
Joe lives in a recently built home. It has an elevator to take passengers up from the basement.
