Zeb...great write up and you both haved aced in this task!!! Go Gators and can't wait to see her pics from the game!
-BadMan On 8/30/13, Shane Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Zeb, > > Thanks for sharing! That is an amazing story... I'm sure Olivia will be > proud to know that she will have the biggest Internet fan club cheering for > her. :-) > > Go Gators! > > Shane > > Sent From Shane's iPhone > Go Gators! & Skol Vikes! > ALPCA #8756 > Europlate #1045 > > On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:55 PM, John Vega <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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: >> >> >> >> Ultimately, she graduated high school with a 5.2 GPA, had the third >> highest SAT in her high school class, and chose to attend Florida; that >> gives an idea of the caliber of UF students these days. >> >> This August, she enrolled at UF. The last few weeks before enrolling were >> full of practicing "Orange and Blue," "Jaws," "We Are the Boys" and the UF >> alma mater on the French Horn. Luckily, as any good father should, I had >> multiple versions of each saved to my music library for her listening >> pleasure. >> >> Last week, she auditioned for the band, and made the marching team as a >> Freshman. I hadn't realized that the entire band doesn't march at >> halftime, apparently marching as a true freshman is a bit of an honor. >> Here is a shot: >> >> <Viva Drum Major.jpg> >> <IMG_9838.jpg> >> >> >> When the band spells out "Gators," please look for her; she will be at the >> top of the "a." >> >> I'm not quite sure of her position in the other formations, but was happy >> to learn that she can now play "You Can Call Me Al." >> >> Be sure to watch the band, and give an extra holler for the French Horns! >> >> -Zeb >> >> P.S. Technically, the marching version of the French Horn is called a >> Mellophone. The bell of the horn faces forward instead of up, and it is >> not played with a hand in the bell. So, if you would rather show your >> support by being "mellow" for the game (you know who you are), that would >> be fine as well! >> >> -- >> -- >> 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. > -- -- 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. 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