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Re: [ARSCLIST] recent newsletter article
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From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel@xxxxxxxxx>
Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
Yes, t'was me. You shoulda seen the beard I grew for the 2008 ARSC
meeting at Stanford. I thought Biel would be there and worked hard on
having more magnificent shrubbery than I thought he would! First time
I met Mike and Steve Barr (at my first ARSC meeting in Madison, WI) we
were immediately dubbed the Three Wise Guys, mostly because we were
the only ones there in full facial regalia. I was intent on upstaging
that.
I was telling Leah about the three of us after she saw that picture in
the newsletter. Actually last year I had let my beard and hair grow
real long as a practical joke for her because she had not seen me since
we had done the interviews for her documentary the previous summer. We
had not gotten around to recording MY interview, and I was going to
record it while she would be on the phone and unable to see me. I
figured she would freak out when she started the tape!!! Those of you
who attend ARSC this May will see the out-take start of the interview
with my shaggy self, and then I pretend to re-set the camera and sit
down again with my hair and beard relatively neatly trimmed. (I was
still shaggy when I was in the hospital after my heart incident, and I
must have looked like a homeless tramp. I kept on explaining that this
shaggy look was a practical joke . . . And I knew I HAD to survive to
do that interview!)
It's getting into spring now and I'll be cutting it all off. I'll look
almost academic.
Mal
It would have been interesting to compare our shaggy selves last
year!! Maybe we'll take that picture of you and compare it with the
shots of my shaggy personage and the shots of Steve Barr that we took
for the documentary. Anybody have the stills that were taken of the
three of us in Madison? Maybe Steve Ramm? I'll try to check the
viedotapes of that conference and see if we had someone use my camera
while the three of us posed. And I wonder if Leah got any shots of you
at Stanford last year.
I grew my beard in about 1973! It was a reaction to four years plus in the
USAF...where one's facial hair HAD to meet AFR (#?)!! Then when I
came back home from bumming around Europe in 1972, I wound up
security-guarding for Wackenhut (who also banned beards!). Around
'73, they figured out that IF they were going to hire student help, they
COULDN'T ban beards...and never, since then, has a razor touched
my face!!
Steven C. Barr