Doc . because life
long learning persists .
Happy Harv . The sailor
suit smile of age three anticipated what was recognized a decade and a
half hence by a completely different context.
Other would-be nicknames but
off the mark -- Mr.Thrifty, the expert worker --
In
the 1950s, the anchor slot on the score sheet of the "kids" bowling team,
which won the men's league championship, read "Happy Harv". My bowling
ball and bag were identified with H2o, for Happy Harv Otto. An H2o, or
water ball, has a special meaning in bowling circles. Water doesn't knock
down bowling pins in an effective matter. Yet my average pushed the 200
mark.
I pleasantly rediscovered a
few saved notes about mine and my son's bowling. I had given him my bowling
equipment for his birthday one year. He has saved the equipment along with
my golf equipment which I also handed down. But his current golf equipment
puts mine to shame.
And there was another team
of yester years, that of sand lot baseball. We made the front page of the
state's largest paper.
