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Melissa

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Melissa works as a behavioral therapist at Patterns Behavioral Services in their Denver, Colorado location. She is also attending the Metropolitan State University of Denver, pursuing a degree in Psychology. Melissa graduated from Arapahoe High School in the Littleton School District. She previously attended the Art Institute of Colorado, in their Culinary program, with a specialty in Baking and Pastry. Melissa enjoyed going to her dance classes when she was younger, at the Academy of Colorado Ballet. She performed in the Academy’s presentation of Handel’s Messiah in November 2006 (above) and a production based on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in May 2006 (below). See more pictures here. Over the summer, Melissa played a part in the Academy of Colorado Ballet Musical Theater group’s adaptation of Grease, Jr. Melissa got to play a small part in the Colorado Ballet production of Dracula on October 19-22, 2006. Some backstage pictures can be found here. We also scanned some photos from one of the performances, courtesy of Colorado Ballet. She was very excited to have gotten two parts in the David Taylor Dance Theatre production of The Nutcracker that was presented at Lakewood Cultural Center in December, 2006. It is lots of hard work, but very rewarding! Several years ago she was one of the “Polichinelles” in the “Mother Ginger” scene in the Colorado Ballet production of the Nutcracker at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Center for Performing Arts. Melissa and some of […]

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Eric

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Eric manages transportation for Ergon Asphalt in Jackson, Mississippi. Eric has previously worked for Halliburton in Houston, Texas,  Montana Rail Link in Missoula, Montana, and prior to that worked as a Train Master for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) in Montana. He graduated from the University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, with a dual major in Aviation Management and Air Traffic Control. One of Eric’s interests in high school had been with Flight Simulator. He found that there are virtual airlines online that connect to virtual air traffic control, link to real weather conditions, and fly the same routes as the commercial airlines. He had been involved in the Virtual Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center as a virtual air traffic controller, trainer, webmaster, events coordinator, and Air Traffic Manager. Thanks to my uncle, Bill Yantiss, Eric had the opportunity to spend a couple of hours in a full-motion Boeing 757 flight simulator at the United training center in spring 2006. He also had the opportunity to spend some time with a long-time friend and neighbor, Chris Habig, in an Airbus A320 simulator during some training exercises.

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Jeannette

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At Work: Jeannette runs Mountain Peaks Studio, a needlework design and instruction studio, located in Parker, Colorado, along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, to create original needlework designs and instructional classes for students of all skill levels and experience, from beginner through advanced. She is currently enrolled in The National Academy of Needlearts Teachers’ Certification Program, a three year program addressing all aspects of embroidery instruction including the development of teaching and presentation skills, study in design and color, and development of supplemental materials that enhance and support the successful teaching of needle arts. Jeannette also works part-time at the PACE Center in the Town of Parker. Click here to send an email to Jeannette.

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Fraktur

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Jessie Dambach has previously posted on one of the Ancertry.com/RootsWeb forums about a sample of Pennsylvania German Fraktur by Adam Dambach from Lancaster County, PA in 1779 that is owned by the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Adam Dambach is an early member of the Tombaugh family, still using the more Dutch/German, un-Anglicized variant of what later became the surname Tombaugh. I’ve been in contact with someone from the museum, who let me know that the September, 2005 issue of “The Magazine Antiques” has an article on the materials used in making fraktur. The article includes a color photograph of Adam Dambach’s piece. I have attached a PDF document from Winterthur with more details, including the original German text and an English translation if anyone is interested…

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State High School Marching Band Competition

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24 October 2010 – 9:49pm Yesterday we went to the Colorado Bandmaster’s Association State 4A/5A High School Marching Band Finals held at Falcon Stadium at the Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs. First I have to say how amazing each and every band performed! I’m very impressed by the level of performance shown by all of these kids. I think that are far above where I remember my high school band, and possibly college bands at the time as well. I was planning to take pictures of Arapahoe’s band and color guard during the semi-finals, since it was during the afternoon when there would be plenty of natural light. We got a phone call from one of the color guard parents asking for help moving the large props that are used during the performance, as not all of the volunteers that they had arranged for had been able to make it. We were happy to help out, but it was a lot of work to wheel them down the hill from the parking lot, and into the tunnel leading to the field. It turned out that the tunnel wasn’t quite as tall as they expected, and the candy cane tubes were slightly taller than they thought, so they were a few inches too tall! We tipped a couple of the at an angle to get them through, but decided that was taking too much time. We discovered that removing one of the tie-down straps that attaches the tube to the base allowed the top

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Genealogy

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I used to have a Tombaugh Family Tree, published on-line on my web site, but it became too hard to keep current with the one published as a public tree at Ancestry.com. For the latest genealogy updates and online family tree, please visit my family tree on Ancestry.com. Perhaps the most famous member of the family is Clyde W. Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930. Clyde Tombaugh’s personal papers have been archived at the New Mexico State University Library. We’re fortunate that our family had a historian, Reno G. Tombaugh, who was able to trace our family history, and roots, back to our earliest known immigrant ancestor, who left Germany for Holland, then the new world in 1728. The findings were published into a book in the 1930’s. The contents of the book have later been published electronically by Wendell C. Tombaugh and his wife Jean Cragun Tombaugh, who have published a number of genealogy works. I have been working to update the contents with additional information, correcting some errors, and adding references. The Tombaugh History (PDF) and other works have been made available through the Fulton County, Indiana, Library. Wendell has also written his autobiography, Every Day an Adventure (PDF) with a tremendous amount of detail of some of the history of the day, and several accounts of my grandfather, who was Wendell’s cousin, as well as my great-grandfather and his father. I’ve converted the written history into a family tree, and have been adding updated and

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In Memory of Charles Junior Gaede 1920 – 2009

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My father-in-law, Charles Junior Gaede, passed away on 24 February 2009 at age 89. He was born in Richmond, Indiana on 11 February 1920 to Ruth Vera (Gehring) and Charles Louis Gaede. In 1936 he quit high school and performed odd jobs. He also painted houses for his father for $35 per week. From 1939 to 1941 he worked in a camera shop in Richmond, Indiana. This was an important position for Charles, as it became his goal to own his own camera shop.

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Coppélia

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Melissa will be performing in the Colorado Ballet production of Coppélia at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Center for Performing Arts. We start with “once upon a time” and end with “wow!” A children’s tale, perhaps. But this is really a magical event for everyone with an imagination and a funny bone. This classic ballet is filled with magic and mayhem. Start with one eccentric toy-maker, throw in a plan to bring a mechanical doll to life, and mix well with a red-blooded young lover, a jealous fiancé and an array of mischievous maidens. You end up with a wild mix of abracadabra, spooky adventure and plenty of old-fashioned love. Don’t miss this enchanting tale and playful choreography! Click here for the Coppélia Study Guide.

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