What an awesome story. And what a beautiful, bright young lady you've raised!
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Darlene Goodfellow < [email protected]> wrote: > That's wonderful - congrats to her and you both, I know she will be making > many happy memories! > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John Vega > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 1:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [gatortalk] Another Reason to Cheer this Saturday > > Gatortalk has been around for quite a while and so have most of its > members. > While I don't date back to the Prodigy days, the last 20 or so years in > this > forum have been a pleasure and part of my life. > > In early 1995, I had the pleasure of announcing the birth of my daughter > Olivia. This before the days where dads spent the nights in the hospital > room with mother and child, so I was at home alone and Gatortalk seemed > like > a good place for a birth announcement. I think it may have been the first, > but I missed a few years, so who knows. > > In fact, my online handle grew out of that pregnancy. If our child were a > girl, her mother would choose the name. A boy, and the choice were mine. My > top three were Shane Matthew, Zebulon, or Jacob ("Jake"). When given my > choices, my wife looked at me and said that I had better name my online > name > "Zebulon," because she would never let me name a child that. > > Over the years, Olivia has become an accomplished musician, and thankful > that she was never named Zebulon. She has been a member of the All County > Band and Youth Philharmonic on the French Horn, as well as trumpet in the > Jazz band. In her senior year, she became Drum Major at Naples High (home > of > Gators Nick Alajajian and Buddy Schulteis). A picture is here: > > > -- > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorTalk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
