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Oct06

Pinnacle Peak People: Halftime Shows Start in Scottsdale

Posted on Oct 6, 2015 | 0 comments

By Robert G. Rogers Impresario is a fancy word for the guy behind the curtain, the one who pulls the ropes, and makes the show go on. More accurately, it’s the person who organizes, manages, promotes, and underwrites entertainment acts and entertainers of all sorts. There’s no shortage of these showbiz types along Sunset Boulevard or high above Broadway. But one of the biggest is a Pinnacle Peak resident, and he goes places one...

Oct03

First Day in School: Everything’s Different

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 | 0 comments

By Manual Daniel Germano Prologue After the long drive from Bristol, Rhode Island to Watertown, Massachusetts, the author and his family have arrived at Perkins Institute for the Blind, Germano’s new, permanent home. He would rather be any other place on Earth, but this is where he must live for many years to come. Les Conklin, Editor Part Four. Everything’s Different Ma and Pa had never been to Perkins. Speaking in Portuguese,...

Oct03

First Day in School: Longest Ride

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 | 0 comments

By Manual Daniel Germano Prologue Relatives have visited to say good bye. After they leave, Germano endures a night tossing and turning in his bed, after which he eats breakfast with his family. The car has been packed. The author and his parents pile into the front seat, his sister and her friends load into the back seat as they prepare to leave. Germano does not want to go to the dreaded Perkins School for the Blind. Les Conklin,...

Oct01

Harrington and Wilkinson Receive Peak Award

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 | 1 comment

Recognized for Re-establishing Fraternity Chapter House By Claude Trottier and Les Conklin Members of the Biking Sig/Road Scholars presented The Peak Award to Dale G. Harrington ’58 and Donald P Wilkinson ’64 at the group’s December luncheon. Harrington and Wilkinson were honored because of their efforts that resulted in the construction and opening of a new Sigma Chi fraternity house at the University of...

Oct01

Rolling Thunder in Scottsdale

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 | 0 comments

By Mark Berent I came to Arizona in 1996 because there was hangar space at Deer Valley airport for my airplane, a WWII trainer named Rolling Thunder. Rolling Thunder was the operational name for an ill-fated bombing campaign against North Vietnam that began in 1965 under President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Rolling Thunder is also the name of the first book in my five-book Wings of War series. (See...