Boone Duo's Book is Available on Amazon

     Ah yes!! Time certainly does fly.
     Remember that 1992 movie, "A League of their Own?" It featured a real all-star cast of, among others, Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Tea Leoni, Jon Lovitz and, of all people, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell. It was all about an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and one of the most famous lines in the movie occurred when some crying by the girls prompted Hanks, the team manager, to say, "there is no crying in baseball."
     Right here in Boone, Iowa we have some folks who claim, "that movie didn't do these women justice. This is about far more than sports. Plus, these women, in REAL life, weren't on-field clowns. They played to win."
    The end result of the Booneites concern is now complete.
     Boone authors Tom Owens and his wife, Diana Star Helmer, began collecting tales from Girls League veterans, beginning in 1988 and now, Friday, May 15, 2015, will release their book, "Belles of the Ballpark: Revisiting the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League." It's the complete story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from it's origins during World War II, through it's 12 seasons, to it's resurrection, thanks to the 1992 film, to it's current cult status among fans of baseball and Americana.
     Diana and Tom have written over 40 books each.
     Their newest, a collaborative effort, is already listed on Amazon and is also available in kindle form.
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     The Kornerman referred to classmate Roma Achenbach Hare, BHS-53, in the last edition. After a long period of absence, we finally connected via email recently.
     I remember Roma's dedication to music while at BHS and correctly remembered that she was a cello player. In reply, she wrote, "I went to Music Ed at Drake, majoring in cello and minoring in piano and playing in the Drake - Des Moines Symphony. After two years, I switched to Elementary Education until graduation. In the late 1960's, I took up my cello again and joined our local Fairfax Symphony and played with them for 10 years.We even had the thrill of playing a concert in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. During the summers we would play outdoor concerts down in the Shenandoah Valley for a week. Finally, I had to give that up because my work life was too demanding. I did continue to teach private cello lessons to beginners for the better part of 30 years. I don't play anymore and I miss it. I do play the piano though. I had studied piano for 13 years, two years from my mom, who was a piano teacher, and then she took me over to a professor at Iowa State for study through the 12th grade and then I had two more years of it at Drake."
     Roma has been a longtime resident of the Washington D.C. area and has been a longtime assistant to famous network news anchor Jim Lehrer, who, for many years, provided us with daily worldwide TV news via his Newshour on public television. Lehrer retired from the daily TV rigors in 2011 but is still very active and, in fact, Roma still works with him a couple days a week.
      In her role as a top assistant to one of the most respected television news anchors in the business over a 36-year period, you can imagine the numerous, famous newsmakers including U.S. Presidents and various world leaders she has been in close contact with during that time.
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     While on the subject of Washington D.C., both Jerry Manriquez, BSH-57, and Mike Loehrer, BHS-64, have recently shouted praises of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall there. It honors those who died in the Vietnam War.
     According to the twosome, "in this regard there is really an amazing web site. Someone spent a lot of time and effort to create it."
     On the site, you click on a state. Then scroll down to the city where you went to high school and look at the names of those who served from that conflict from your city. It gives details of the veteran's death, a picture, or at least their bio and medals.
     Here's the site: http://www.virtualwall.org/index.html
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     Boone Area Deaths: Jane Knepper, 60, Boone...........Katherine Reichert, 94, Monroe, WI. Born in Boone and attended school here. Parents were Harry and Fannie Worsing. A service veteran, she later worked as an RN............Helen Mullenbach, 85, Ames. Born in Gilbert. GHS. Among survivors is a sister, Mary Smith of Boone........Gladys Anderson, 92, Madrid. Formerly of Boone. Worked at Bourns in Ames from 1961-87. Boone area survivors include son Brian Anderson and daughters-in-law Janis Anderson and Bev Anderson all of Boone..........David Murray, 57, Dayton. DHS-77. Among survivors is a sister, Betty Jones of Boone.
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