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From Frank Vail, RPR Club President to all the Residents First, I would like to encourage you to go to the Royal Palms Residents Club Estate Sale. This has the potential to be a good fundraiser for the Club. There has been a lot of volunteer effort put into gathering, staging, and pricing an entire home of items donated by the residents. Linda Coronado and her staff of volunteers have put in a lot of time and work to get the sale ready; thank you all. This is an open sale so please let your family and friends know about it. If you (the park residents only) see something you would like but that may be too large for you to take home you can buy it and tell Linda, we can deliver the bigger items to your house. Speaking of volunteers; it is time to remind people that unless it is a special case, pre-approved by the Activities Director, that at a food-for-sale event helping does not equal free food. Summer (warmer temperatures) is nearly here so some of you that avoid the cold may be more apt to want to attend some of the events. If transportation is an issue let us know before hand and we will do our best to get you a ride to and from. If there are not previous commitments the Park will let us use the “limo” (6 passenger golf cart) to transport residents. This includes Resident Club dinners, Bingo, and Bunco. Residents, if you live alone and are not feeling well please let a neighbor or friend know so they can check on you. Neighbors please walk-the-walk for the Golden Rule; if your neighbor is under the weather please check on them and if there is an issue let someone know up to and including a 9-1-1 call. Thank you for all your support!

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The deadline for posting entries in to the Newsletter are on the 20th of each month. After this date the Newsletter will have been sent to the printer. If possible please provide a picture to include in your sale or ask me to take a picture for you. All advertisements are subject to Royal Palms Park Management and the Royal Palms President approval before being posted and printed.

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no denying it. After this my school life was pleasant and I did take Calculus I in my senior year at Bakers-

field High School.

In my Calculus class I made a friend with a fellow student and he invited me to spend sometime with

him during the lunch hour at the Drafting Department where he played the game of Chess. The Chess Club

was chaperoned by the Drafting Teacher. It was very quite and all the students were pared off by twos. I sat

next to him with one of his friends and the teacher brought them a checker board with black and red squares

and a set of plastic chessmen. I watched as they played the game and I also noticed that the students (chess

player) were not speaking English. Some of the students were conversing in French and German with the

teacher. I asked my friend, why doesn’t anyone speak English? He said don’t you speak a foreign language.

I speak Spanish and Latin. He told me when you come here to play chess use Latin and someone will re-

spond to you, and do not use English. All college prep students speak a foreign language. He said it is re-

quired to be accepted into college. When I went home I spoke with my aunt about college. From that day

forward the word college was planted into my mine, and I wanted to know more about it. One day I played

the number one chess player his last name was Folkens and I beat him in four moves (the fools mate which I

learned from an Encyclopedia Britannica at the school’s library) I instantly became very popular in the

chess club and everyone wanted to play me. Every day I went to the chess club at noon and I could average

3 to 4 games before the lunch hour was over.

My friend from the Calculus class was named Hughes and he was Jewish. I asked him what college

he was going to when he graduated. He said he did not think he would be able to go to college. He told me

that he had no one to help him and beside he had one brother and one sister he was taking care of. I always

invited myself to his home which was just across from the High School, and he always said no. One day he

said ok let’s play chess. I was very surprised to find out that there was no electricity in the old home and it

was cold and dark. He asked me not to say anything about the condition of his home at school. I agreed,

later I found out that his parents had left them and that he received some money to pay the rent and buy food

by mail from this father; but there was not enough money to pay the utilities. This was a check on reality

and I appreciated my parents even more.

I graduated from Bakersfield High School in 1963; my father told me that I was to work with him at

Kern Valley Meat Packing Company on South H Street and Berkshire Road to learn his trade in making

sausage and learn about the smoke house and how to run the equipment at the plant unless I was to continue

going to school. I wanted to continue and soon after graduation I enrolled into Bakersfield Junior College. It

was an interesting two years at B.C. I majored in Accounting because of Redwood High School and the sub-

ject was old hat to me, I didn’t even have to study. I found out that there were no restrictions as to what I

could learn. I took 3 different Calculus classes, Drafting, Slide Rule class, Chemistry (first semester inor-

ganic chemistry, 2nd semester organic chemistry), Astronomy, Economics, business law, Surveying which I

liked very much, I learned to use the Sextant, I took math classes that require calculus as a prerequisite, I

studied non-Euclidian geometry (where lines from triangles do not meet), CIS notations (using trigonometry

and calculus to calculate various areas of a circle), and much more. I was in heaven. Then the Vietnam War

started and I was drafted into the military service.

My first day encountering real life, I arrived at the induction center in Los Angles with 100s of other

men. We were examined from head to toe, and then inoculated for every disease known to man; at least it

seemed that way, after this, about 50 of us were escorted to a large room similar to a classroom. While we

were seated four men came into the room; one in a Navy uniform, Army, Marine, and Air Force. The Navy

man walked up to the first 3 rows and pointed his finger at half of them and said follow me. This continued

until the Army man with stripes and medals walked up to the remaining group of men and said “get up and

follow me. You are in the Army now”.

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Fort Ord, US Army home to basic combat, and advanced infantry training for the Vietnam War conflict; it was to became the major training center for our nation. It was 1966 with Vietnam in eve-ryone’s mind. Two years at B.C. where I started the first Chess Club on the campus and now a soldier carrying a rifle and headed to war where it seemed every one was being killed. What a prospect for my future. It was my first day at boot camp and just off the military bus in front of a huge barracks. We were to fall in, that is line up into rows, a small oriental army sergeant standing next to another man with a white apron, addressed the new recruits and said “all those that can type raise your hand”. I thought about this very carefully and remembered that someone told me not to volunteer for anything. Three men raised their hand and the sergeant asked one of them how fast he could type, and he answered 50 words per minute. He said all three of you follow the man with the apron you are in KP (Kitchen Police) peeling potatoes for the rest of boot camp.

MOS (military occupational specialty) because of the two years at B.C., I was offered special training schools all resulting in more military time. The first offer was OCS a military academy school for infantry that would result in 2 years of learning and exiting with a second lieutenant’s commission with 4 additional years of service. The next was a 4 year college degree in engineer-ing at St. Louis University, one of best engineering schools also resulting in a commission. Next was a 2 year military training to learn how to fly a helicopter, and exiting with a warrant officers commission and inactive reserves for 4 years. I did not believe that I would survive the Vietnam War. I was not interested in postponing the evitable. I declined all the offers. These offers came during a period of a week apart while all the other soldiers were training in boot camp. Finally, my recruiter told me that he could not make me take any of the suggested schools, so he would pick something for me that he was allowed. He sent me to Augusta Georgia to be trained as a Radio Operator my MOS. The school would only last 90 days this resulted in a Specialty Fourth Class (SP/4) equivalent to a three stripe sergeant with the same pay grade. Although I went to boot camp I never found out what it was about. All that happened to me was that I was being tested continually. So, I went from a private to sergeant status skipping boot camp. Instead of sleeping with 200 men in a huge barracks I stayed with 3 men in a cadre room with closed doors at night. Our sergeant would come around 7 am and knock on the door to wake us up for breakfast. Then we were escorted to a dinning room with just us three and a staff of cooks waiting for us to pick what we wanted for breakfast. In the evening were told to place our boots and brass (belt buckles, US Army badge, and dirty close) outside of our room. Our close were laundered, our boot shined, and our belt buckles polished this went on the entire time I as a boot camp.

Graduation for my MOS came and I received a commendation from my instructor. We were all

eager to find out if we were going to Vietnam after our school. Our orders came and the class was deployed. Accept one person from the class, Me, I was assigned to stay in Augusta Georgia and teach radio theory, op- eration and repair. I taught for over one year and then I was de-ployed to Bangkok Thai- land and from there to Korat Thailand,

Bangkok Thailand (Thai=means FREE)

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Korat - small town in Thailand – about 300 miles from Cambodia Vietnam

, and from there to Udorn Thailand (about 15 miles from Vietnam) where I stayed for the remainder of my tour. This is called a Hooch where I lived in Udorn inside of a Thai Royal Military Base.

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Village on the Mekong River which separated us from our enemies

There is homelessness, cannibal-ism in the jungle, and killing of Thai peo-ple by Muslins. This was happening dur-ing my stay in Thailand.

In a small village near the Mekong River where I frequent, Cambodians that came across the Mekong River from Vietnam were killed if they were known to be communist, and also Muslins were also killed. The Thai police would not stop or apprehend the people that took the law into their own hands.

During the time of my stay in Udorn I met a young lady her name was Wongchan she was Thai and very

The young women of Thailand

beautiful. The first part of her name means “round” and the last part means “moon”. I added the word “sway mock” which in Lou Thai means “Beautiful”. I was not allowed to stay out of the military base at evening. I always had to return to the base by night fall. I told Wongchan too look at the moon and I pointed to it and said to her sway mock wongchan, and I told her that when I was away from her at night she could look up at the moon and know that I was also looking at the moon and thinking of her. My bride to be …. Continued on next month’s e.newsletter ….

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There is homelessness, cannibal-ism in the jungle, and killing of Thai peo-ple by Muslins. This was happening dur-ing my stay in Thailand.

In a small village near the Mekong River where I frequent, Cambodians that came across the Mekong River from Vietnam were killed if they were known to be communist, and also Muslins were also killed. The Thai police would not stop or apprehend the people that took the law into their own hands.

During the time of my stay in Udorn I met a young lady her name was Wongchan she was Thai and very

The young women of Thailand

beautiful. The first part of her name means “round” and the last part means “moon”. I added the word “sway mock” which in Lou Thai means “Beautiful”. I was not allowed to stay out of the military base at evening. I always had to return to the base by night fall. I told Wongchan too look at the moon and I pointed to it and said to her sway mock wongchan, and I told her that when I was away from her at night she could look up at the moon and know that I was also looking at the moon and thinking of her. My bride to be …. Continued on next month’s e.newsletter ….

Village on the Mekong River which separated us from our enemies

There is homelessness, cannibal-ism in the jungle, and killing of Thai peo-ple by Muslins. This was happening dur-ing my stay in Thailand.

In a small village near the Mekong River where I frequent, Cambodians that came across the Mekong River from Vietnam were killed if they were known to be communist, and also Muslins were also killed. The Thai police would not stop or apprehend the people that took the law into their own hands.

During the time of my stay in Udorn I met a young lady her name was Wongchan she was Thai and very

The young women of Thailand

beautiful. The first part of her name means “round” and the last part means “moon”. I added the word “sway mock” which in Lou Thai means “Beautiful”. I was not allowed to stay out of the military base at evening. I always had to return to the base by night fall. I told Wongchan too look at the moon and I pointed to it and said to her sway mock wongchan, and I told her that when I was away from her at night she could look up at the moon and know that I was also looking at the moon and thinking of her. My bride to be …. Continued on next month’s e.newsletter ….

Village on the Mekong River which separated us from our enemies

There is homelessness, cannibal-ism in the jungle, and killing of Thai peo-ple by Muslins. This was happening dur-ing my stay in Thailand.

In a small village near the Mekong River where I frequent, Cambodians that came across the Mekong River from Vietnam were killed if they were known to be communist, and also Muslins were also killed. The Thai police would not stop or apprehend the people that took the law into their own hands.

During the time of my stay in Udorn I met a young lady her name was Wongchan she was Thai and very

The young women of Thailand

beautiful. The first part of her name means “round” and the last part means “moon”. I added the word “sway mock” which in Lou Thai means “Beautiful”. I was not allowed to stay out of the military base at evening. I always had to return to the base by night fall. I told Wongchan too look at the moon and I pointed to it and said to her sway mock wongchan, and I told her that when I was away from her at night she could look up at the moon and know that I was also looking at the moon and thinking of her. My bride to be …. Continued on next month’s e.newsletter ….

Village on the Mekong River which separated us from our enemies

There is homelessness, cannibal-ism in the jungle, and killing of Thai peo-ple by Muslins. This was happening dur-ing my stay in Thailand.

In a small village near the Mekong River where I frequent, Cambodians that came across the Mekong River from Vietnam were killed if they were known to be communist, and also Muslins were also killed. The Thai police would not stop or apprehend the people that took the law into their own hands.

During the time of my stay in Udorn I met a young lady her name was Wongchan she was Thai and very

The young women of Thailand

beautiful. The first part of her name means “round” and the last part means “moon”. I added the word “sway mock” which in Lou Thai means “Beautiful”. I was not allowed to stay out of the military base at evening. I always had to return to the base by night fall. I told Wongchan too look at the moon and I pointed to it and said to her sway mock wongchan, and I told her that when I was away from her at night she could look up at the moon and know that I was also looking at the moon and thinking of her. My bride to be …. Continued on next month’s e.newsletter ….

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1 8:00 AM 2nd & last Sat 5/14 - 5/28 Golf Club Course Danny Katano 477-2381

3 9:00 AM 2nd Saturday 5/14 Resident's Club Meeting OCH Frank Vail 317-6953

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8 1:00 PM Sundays Every Phase 10 OCH LouAnn Wisseman 748-1014

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10 6:00 PM 2nd Thursday 5/12 Bunco (Public) OCH Victoria Darringer 869-1797

11 6:00 PM 3rd Thursday 5/19 Residents Club BINGO OCH Linda Coronado 448-5573

12 6:00 PM 4th Thursday 5/26 Residents Club BUNCO OCH Donna Nelson 301-4600

13 6:00 PM Tuesday 5/31 Pic Tic OCH Joe Coronado 448-5573

14 6-7:00 PM 2nd Friday 5/13 Birthday Party PCH Sherri Crabtree 633-9921

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16 6:30 PM 2nd Tuesday 5/10 Bunco (Private) OCH Jeanne Kunce 869-1214

17 6:30 PM 3rd Tuesday 5/17 Bunco (Private) OCH Susan Escalante 869-0776

18 6:30 PM 3rd Wednesday 5/18 Bunco (Private) OCH Joyce Shankle 869-1264

19 7:00 PM Wednesdays Every Line Dance PCH Tom Allen 916-1596

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