In Memory

Randy Stevenson



 
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06/08/21 05:19 PM #1    

Rod Warren

Randy left a big impression with me when I met him in junior high school.  He was off the charts energetic uncontrolled high voltage can't sit in a classroom zipadeedodah YIKESZEE!!! Randy tested math teacher Mr. Koch's patience to the breaking point every day.  Randy owned his dance/beat to a different drum with a passion.  I even remember our relative seating locations in that class.  He was 2 rows over to my left as we sat and about 1 row back from my row.  Somehow Mr. Koch made it through the year with no bodily harm dispensed to our classmates although I have to wonder if medicine played a part in his patience.  best thoughts to the Koch families and the Stevensons.


06/09/21 08:39 PM #2    

Philip MacDonald

Randy was in my catechism class at Augustana Lutheran Church for several years.  He was also a serious electronics nerd, as was I.  He knew lots more than I did about electronics so I befriended him over that.  

Further, we were both crazy into bicycles, riding over 40 miles per day in the summer of, probably, 1968.  I lost ten pounds that summer!  Only ten pounds?  Sheesh.

We rode our bikes up and down unfinished portions of I-65! 

It was Randy who turned me onto this craziness.  It was AWESOME, to have this stretch of concrete at our feet, unencumbered by automobiles!!!

We had to be careful when we came to overpasses, as they were not all complete.....  think about that?


06/10/21 12:37 PM #3    

Rod Warren

I love the reference to I-65 PC.  That paved but not yet opened road was where my dad would take me to practice driving.  It felt pretty weird to be going on a banked curve at only 30 mph.  It felt like the car should slide down the slope towards the median because of a lack of centrifugal force....


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