Mystery Picture 091115

As promised earlier, if we did not receive any identification of the people in our previous mystery picture group photo within a month, we would move on to a new one. It has now been more than a month, so.... Move along, move along.




We've featured pictures of Grandma with Chief Mountain before, but not a group shot with it. I should mention, this picture is from a slide developed in July 1972. As with earlier group pictures, the first picture can be clicked on to view a much larger image. If you leave comments with the names of the people, I will fill in the numbered list as people are identified.

1 - Michael
2 - Grandma
3 - Lloyd
4 - Angie?
5 - Kenni Lynn
6 - Susan
7 - John
8 - Danny

UPDATE

Susan chimes in with names for #6 (Susan) and #7 (John). Thanks, Susan!

John guesstimates the rest of the names, at least as best as can be expected given who we can see in the picture. I'd say these are probably right, given the year. Thanks, John!

This speedy identification (24 hours!) almost makes up for the apparently impossible earlier mystery group photo. Almost.

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Today is Grandma's 89th birthday! I spoke with her on the phone this evening, and she was in very good spirits. I guess the party was a lot of fun. I wish I could have attended, but Susan posted pictures on her blog, so that helps. Thanks, Susan!

I told Grandma that I wanted to post the only portrait of her I could find, and she knew exactly which picture I was talking about. She thinks it may be the only early portrait of her that exists. Apparently, when she was younger she did not have portraits taken. Grandma said this picture is from the year Tom was born (1944) and is the companion to Grandpa's military portrait, which we posted several days ago for Veteran's Day. I am posting both of them here because, even though they were apart when the pictures were taken, Grandma and Grandpa sure do look great together!




It is difficult to see on Grandpa's picture, but in the bottom right corner he wrote, "All My Love, Darling. Howard." We love you too, Grandma! Happy Birthday.

Mystery Picture 091113

Is that Grandpa in the middle? I do not know who is in this picture (except, perhaps, Grandpa), where it was taken, and what they are doing.


If I had to guess, I would say they are looking at pictures. Planning the content for this blog, perhaps? Probably not.

Sports Portrait - Boyd in Tae Kwon Do

While not a school portrait, these recent portraits of Boyd at tae kwon do are worth posting. Heck, we'll pretty much post anything family related. We're open minded that way. (Either that, or we're susceptible to the Jedi mind trick.)



Send in your current (or past) sports portraits, and we will feature them on GAP.

School Portraits - Boyd and Sam

Today we have our first batch of 2009 school portraits - Boyd (second grade) and Sam (kindergarten) in Arlington, Virginia.


Send in your current (or past) school portraits, and we will feature them on GAP.

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School Portrait - Joe

Continuing our look at school portraits, which previously featured Lori, Kent, Craig, and Tom, as well as some non-school portraits of Grandpa, GAP now presents Joe. I included the information I have from the pictures, and I tried to put them in the correct order. Please let me know if I got anything wrong.

1953 - Kindergarten (Berkeley, California)


Unknown


Unknown


Unknown


Unknown (Provo, Utah)


Unknown


Unknown


1959


1961 - Ninth grade (Orem, Utah)


Unknown


1965 - Twelfth grade (Orem, Utah)


When I put these pictures together, I thought, "Dad in plaid!" Joe is my dad and he does not have a computer, so he cannot read this post. Shhhh -- don't tell Dad. This is my chance to taunt him without going to timeout, being sent to bed without eating anything, or being grounded. "Hey Dad, so that's what you look like with hair!" "Seeing these pictures, old man, remind me just how old you really are!" "If a picture is worth a thousand words, your words would be ears, ears, ears, etc."

New Slides! Thanks John!

A package of slides arrived today from John, and I haven't been this excited about mail since Annette sent me some pictures to scan back in September. Did I mention that I love getting surprise packages with family history to digitize?

These slides are just like the ones Joe, Susan, and Ellen had in their binders. With just a quick glance at some I can see they are from the same rolls of film as the other slides. It is great to see these rolls of film fleshed out with each new package of material. If anyone else knows of a cache of slides or negatives laying around, send them my way and I will scan and return them with a CD/DVD of the scans.

The suspense of what I might find was killing me, so I scanned the oldest slide I could find, which is a picture developed in March 1961 of John and Susan. Enjoy!


UPDATE

Susan writes in the comments:

the story that always went with this picture was that John was saying "let's name her suzy" However, I clearly remember John saying "get me some ketchup"

Thanks for clearing that up, Susan! You have quite the memory.

Announcements

Sunday, November 15, is shaping up to be quite the day for celebration. Ellen has posted announcements about two festivities that day -- Sarah's farewell before entering the MTC for training before heading off to a mission in Santiago, Chile, and Grandma's 89th birthday. Below are the announcements, which were posted on Stutz Barn.

Sarah Landeen will go to the Provo MTC on November 18th where she will begin language training for her mission to Santiago Chile. You are all invited to attend her sacrament meeting "farewell" which will be on November 15th at 9:00 AM at the Westland 3rd Ward located at 7265 South 2700 West in West Jordan. We will have lunch and goodies at our house afterwards.

Grandma Stutz's 89th birthday will be on Sunday November 15th. Remember to call her or drop her a card. Those who can come are invited to gather at their home Sunday afternoon from 3:00-5:00 for cake and ice cream.

Thanks for keeping us posted, Ellen, and congratulations to Sarah and Grandma!

Veteran's Day Follow-up

After yesterday's Veteran's Day post, Andrew provided some additional information about the unidentified Canadian soldiers in two earlier mystery pictures, describing their uniforms as being from the Royal Canadian Engineers. Alas, we still do not know the soldiers' names.

Thanking Our Veterans

To have courage is to have the strength to do the right things, especially when they are not the easy things. Serving in the Armed Forces is never easy. Our family is privileged to have a number of veterans who have served the United States in the Armed Forces. Today, on Veterans Day, we give our thanks to these courageous family members who have served, we reflect on the sacrifices they have made for all of us, we honor their service and hard work, and we pray for their well being.

We honor all family members who have served in the Armed Forces, including Howard (U.S. Army), Kent (U.S. Navy), Craig (U.S. Army Reserves), Tom (U.S. Army), Joe (U.S. Marine Corps), Todd (U.S. Army), and Brian (U.S. Air Force).

We honor Michael, currently serving in Iraq, and pray for his safe return.

We honor Joseph, who has enlisted in the Navy, and pray for his safety in his upcoming tour of duty.

Please let us know of any other veterans, or any additional or corrected information about these veterans, that we should include.

Although GAP does not have uniformed pictures of all of the veterans, below are pictures of the veterans we do have. Submission of additional pictures is encouraged and appreciated.

Howard - United States Army


Kent - United States Navy


Joe - United States Marine Corps


We also remember and honor our friends and ancestors who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States and Canada, including several who remain unidentified.

Family Blog Roundup 091110

It has been nearly a month since our first FBR. Oy! Let's highlight some recent activity from the extended Stutz blogosphere.

In Stutz Barn we've seen several updates on Grandma's, Grandpa's, and Karla's medical conditions, which we discussed earlier. Shirley there must be more events and announcements of interest to post about! (cough -Sarah's mission- cough.)

The Stutz Wiki may, or may not, have new information added. It is kind of difficult to tell at a glance. It would be great to see the entries filled out (in?)!

Pricilla's Pantry now has recipes for Swiss Cheese Fondue -- perhaps we can call this "Stutz fondue"*? -- and Lemon Berry Tartlets. Yummy!

Struttin' Our Stutz has an update with cute pictures, a cute video, and an obligatory Halloween post with cute costumes. The costumes are so cute, in fact, that we're stealing borrowing a picture and posting it here to announce a pair of 2009 GAP Halloween Costume First Place Award (ages under 2 category) winners!


Over at Villa Villekulla there are tons of pictures, including an H1N1 survivor shot and a celebrity cameo, and even more costumes, which also win a 2009 GAP Halloween Costume First Place Award (ages 2-5 category)!


Around the globe the Stutzfamily blog thingie has a vacation summary, posts about life in India, and still more costumes, including two additional 2009 GAP Halloween Costume First Place Award (ages 6+ category) winners!


Wyoming Toomer serves up historic Brian and recent family pictures, which include the 2009 GAP Halloween Costume First Place Award (multi-age category) winners for their kids-dressed-as-kids-with-jack-o-lanterns entry!


Dropping by Susan's ex gratia we find way too much to summarize (check out the whole blog), some of which is baseball predicting (to get the subsequent bragging you have to check out Susan's Facebook entries, though!), award awarding (congrats!), way deep philosophizing, snowfall sweetness, and other punny pictures.

And, at Stutz Ohana we're still waiting for that update!

We should also note the two 2009 GAP Halloween Costume Honorable Mention Award (way-too-old category) winners: Hugh Hefner and ... um ... the Girls Next Door?


Thanks for all the updates, folks! If you know other family blogs that need links, be sure to let us know, too!

*"Stutz fondue" is -- at least, until this blog post is indexed by Google -- a googlenope. It is also a great name for a blog. You know: Stutz, cheesy, etc. Consider this non-trademarked name GAP's gift to the world.

Found On The Interwebs - Grandma's Short Stories

In this edition of FOTI we have two short stories by Grandma. Well, not exactly the short stories. Rather, we found citations to short stories Grandma wrote for Relief Society Magazine, which was discontinued in 1970. The stories are Compromise, The Relief Society Magazine 36 (1949): 151-154, 213, and Anniversary Alms, The Relief Society Magazine 38 (1951): 199-201.

Has anybody read these stories? Does anybody have these stories or access to the magazines? It sure would be fun to track these down and read them!

Mystery Picture 091110

Hi, Grandpa! What the heck is going on here?

Mystery Picture 091102 - Revisited

The earlier mystery picture sought the "where and when" of a picture of Grandpa and two other people. As discussed in today's mystery picture, I may have gotten the names wrong. As a result, I think the picture is of Grandpa, Ila Terry, and a third, unnamed boy in the background. Here is the highest resolution scan I have of that boy.


Does anyone know who the boy is? While we're at it, can anyone guess what is going on, besides the obvious?