Earl Medley, wrestler

Earl Medley and his son....Earl wrassled at U of I

Plumbing Stack

...in the frat basement...

Factory truck

This is one of the trucks I drove---the

claw at the front grabbed a bottom part

of the gigantic spools, which were on 

wheels, and the spools were moved

from station to station in the 

manufacturing process.

Western Electric workers

I worked with these guys at the famous

Hawthorne plant of Western Electric the

summer after high school.  I didn't start this

sketchbook though 'til I was in college, so

obviously I returned to the plant to visit (unlikely)

or I worked over semester break.  It was the

night shift and I drove forklifts and other cool

propane powered vehicles, moving gigantic

spools of cables from station to station.  I

got the job, I'm sure, because my awesome

great-uncle Les was a mucky-muck at WE.

Jeff Greenberg

I recently learned this fraternity brother 

died last year.  He was quite a character

and I am grateful to him for having once

driven to Danville to pick up Brett, Randy

& I, stranded, hitchhiking from Nashville.

Bud and Winand

These guys lived across the hall from me...

had one of onyx chess sets....

Frat room objects

Decorative elements in the room next

door...I think the furry pelt on top of

the fridge was orange....Brett and

Greenberg were the residents.

Brett

...smoking a cheap cigar....sassy....

Bota

ballpoint pen sketches from a

college-era sketchbook

Concrete critters

...at least that is the idea

to be painted on concrete,

but they didn't take the bait!

Susan Robinson

This is a rejected mural proposal...

the folk singer, Susan Robinson,

originally picking the banjo.