People I have met and/or worked with during my life-time.

10/09/2022 | self

[sodpoodle]

In 1953, Queen Elizabeth drove around and waved to crowds of school kids lining the streets.

I attended that school with Maggie Thatcher’s Secretary of Education- Gil Watts.

1963. Worked for Jim Brown, mayor of Tybee Island, Ga

1965 Worked with John Rousakis in Savannah. GA - in insurance - he became mayor of Savannah, Ga.

2012 Johns Hopkins - my physician’s and Ben Carson’s reception areas were adjoined.

Tony Snow was being treated in the DC physician’s office where I worked.

Atty.Gen. William Sessions and I, nearly got hit by a car while jay-walking in DC.

Father of the Metro = Carlton Sickles. gave me his 38 year service pin when a colleague told him I used the Metro every day.

I made a phone call to The Washington Times and Wesley Pruden answered it - we chatted a while - nice man.

2003. Worked with Patrick Hope, now a Dem rep. for Virginia.

Flew on a plane with Cal Ripken.

Saw Gerald Ford up close.

Saw Billy Idol up close at a local TV station - he was sweet.

We all share the oxygen with people who are alive NOW - Enjoy those moments!!

[hole_n_one]

• Met boxer Oscar De La Hoya in an elevator at a physical therapy office
  
• Stood next to Stephanie Zimbalist (Remington Steele) at the checkout line of Blockbuster video store in Encino, Ca.
  
• Saw Vincent Price and Lionel Ritchie (not at the same time) walking on Rodeo Dr. in Beverly Hills
  
• David Hasselhoff at PI McFly's in Sherman Oaks
  
• I hit boxer Jerry Quarry in the stomach in a bar...he asked me to.
  
• In high school, I threw out future Heisman Trophy winner Charles White of USC trying to steal 2nd base...he tripped
  
• Also in high school, was flagged for a late hit on QB John Elway who was playing for Granada Hills high.
• Rode the elevator multiple times with Don Ho who lived in the penthouse suite of the Hilton Lagoon apts on Waikiki..always had 2 blondes on his arm

[DesertRhino]

Sounds about right. Sure he spent most of the rest of his life watching for some bozo to try to even the score or to get 15 minutes of fame.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Dale Murphy was in my little sister’s class in high school, two years behind me. I don’t remember him from then.

[PLMerite]

My father met either Charles Lindbergh or Eddie Rickenbacker (I forget which, he was a big fan of both).

He saw Queen Elizabeth in the late 1950s when she passed through Maryland and toured our local Super Giant grocery store.

I was a few feet away from Muhammad Ali when he opened a grocery store one street over from where my dad saw the Queen.

I met Barry Goldwater in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee when he was shown my ops floor. I had advance warning so I had my Goldwater ‘64 pin on.

[Big Red Clay]

OK I’m gonna give this a try

Entertainment
Shook hands with Hank Williams Jr. and got an autograph
Met Lee Greenwood and talked to him for a long time. Was stranded in Dallas on a spring break trip and met him at the Hyatt Regency (my buddy’s dad paid for our room) and told him our situation. We were eating dinner in the diner at the hotel and he was there with his manager and picked up the tab for our food. Very nice guy and very interested in our plight.
Met and chatted with Fred Thompson at a campaign event in ‘08
Met a bunch of the guys from Survivor who were staying in our hotel after a show we went to including the original lead singer
Shook hands with Michael Anthony and got a hug from Sammy Hagar
Went pee next to Steve Perry at Arrowhead Stadium at a Chiefs game
Met comedian Joey “Coco” Diaz at a comedy club.

Politics
Sarah Palin (shook hands and talked to her at a rally in ‘08. Very nice and beautiful woman but very tiny)
Karl Rove
Mike Johanns
Dave Heinemann
Ben Nelson
Kay Orr
Bob Kerrey
Charlie Thone
J.J. Exon
Deb Fischer
Chuck Hagel
Lee Terry
Pete Ricketts and Joe Ricketts (Pete was my boss at one time and Joe was the CEO of my employer)
Jeff Fortenberry (former co worker)
Jim Pillen (former co worker and soon to be Governor of Nebraska)
Got to be friends with Shane Osborne (who landed the plane in China) and hung out and had a lot of beers with him. Pretty good dude.

Sports
Bob Devaney
Tom Osborne
Frank Solich
Joba Chamberlain (he was best friends with my nephew and they were on many sports teams growing up together, many of which I coached with my bro in law)
Was friends in college at Nebraska with Neil Smith who was the #2 pick in the NFL Draft. I lived next door to him in the dorms in summer school and was friends with him when he was a nobody so he was always very nice to me. Great guy.
Atlee Hammacher (mlb pitcher)
Jeffrey Leonard (mlb)
Robin Yount (mlb hall of famer)
Danny Manning (KU Basketball and NBA)
Armon Gilliam (#2 pick in the NBA Draft. Was my buddy Bret’s roommate in juco)
Andrew Luck
Tommy Frazier
Mike Rozier (heisman winner)
Johnny Rogers (Heisman winner)
Dave Rimington (2 time outland and Lombardi trophy winner who has a trophy named after him now. Greatest center in the history of college football)
Charlie McBride and Milt Tenopir. Charlie was the d coordinator for the NU national championships in the ‘90s Milt was perhaps the greatest offensive line coach in history)
Gary Albright former HuskerNCAA wrestling runner up to the national championship and professional wrestler.

[chaosagent]

Eleanor Roosevelt
Margaret Mead
(Met them at lectures at Peabody College in Nashville with my mother when I was 10-11)

Werner Von Braun
(Met with my father when he worked at Boeing in Huntsville during the late 60’s on the Apollo project.)

'Bull' Connor
(Was Birmingham Police Commissioner while my father was a Police Detective)

Deke Slayton
(Was my late best friend’s brother-in-law)

Deng Chao Peng (Chinese Chairman)
Barbie Benton
Richard Feynman
Jim Oberg
(Met while they were visiting NASA-JSC when I worked there from 1978-1988.)

John Glenn
John Young
Bob Crippen
Walt Cunningham
Neil Armstrong
Ed Aldrin
Scott Carpenter
Gordo Cooper
Sally Ride
Anna Fisher
Bill Fisher
Story Musgrave
(Met at NASA-JSC when I worked there from 1978-1987.)

*** Challenger 7 Crew ***
Dick Scobee
Mike Smith
Judy Resnik
Ellison Onizuka
Ron McNair
Greg Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe
(Met at NASA-JSC when I worked there from 1978-1987.)

Col. Sanders
(Met while working at a new KFC while in college in 1967. This was when he still visited every new store.)

Willie Mays
Jesse Owens
(Met while working as a Broadcast Engineer at a black radio station in Birmingham. And I'm white)

Fanny Flagg
(She was my babysitter when I was a kid. Her real name is Patricia Neal. Her family and mine were close friends.)

Sean Connery
Katherine Ross
John Saxon
Leslie Nielson
Robert Conrad
(Met them while I was at White Sands for the STS-3 Shuttle landing. We were all staying at the same hotel in Alamogordo while they were filming “Wrong is Right”.)

The Mamas and Papas
Gene Watson
Chet Atkins
Floyd Cramer
Boots Randolph
Al Hirt
(Met while playing in bands in Nashville in the mid 60’s)

Kenny ‘Snake’ Stabler – Super Bowl-Winning Quarterback
(Played High School football with him at Foley High School, Foley, AL, and my mother was his tutor in some subjects after school.)

Bear Bryant
(My uncle played pro ball for the Pittsburgh Steelers and coached High School Football in Alabama, and introduced me to him.)

Jimmy Buffet
Almost certainly met him as a kid when he used to surf at Gulf Shores, AL while I grew up there. In his books he talks about surfing at Alabama Point. My friends and I surfed there too, and talked to the kids from Mobile. He’s about two years older than me.

Two Degrees of Separation:
When living in Colombia, South America in the early 60's met a young British girl about my age (14) and we hung out together.
Found out a couple of months later when I met her mother that Sam was actually Lady Samantha, and her mother was a Duchess.
AND that they were actually Royalty. Her mother was Queen Elizabeth's 2nd cousin, and Sam had been at the Coronation when she was 6 or so.

[luckystarmom]

I was in Sunnyvale during the Loma Prieta earthquake.

[DoodleBob]

That’s Bobby’s wife, Diana.

[Big Red Clay]

Forgot one.

Met Debra Winger when she was dating Bob Kerrey and spending a lot of time in Lincoln. Stunnigly beautiful in person. All my juvenile brain could think of when I shook her hand was “I saw your boobs in Officer and a Gentleman”

[dfwgator]

All my juvenile brain could think of when I shook her hand was “I saw your boobs in Officer and a Gentleman”

[luckystarmom]

My grandparents met Bonnie and Clyde. They asked them for directions in Beaumont, Texas.

[Gaffer]

It was a scary time. The place really shook badly and those elevated throughfares and backfilled land areas really suffered.

[x]

Impressive. But ...

Found out a couple of months later when I met her mother that Sam was actually Lady Samantha, and her mother was a Duchess.

There are an awful lot of grifters out there ...

[Big Red Clay]

Forgot another one-

Met Frank Zappa at a lecture he gave about censorship at Nebraska Wesleyan University. He autographed my Drowning Witch album cover which was promptly stolen during a party. Would love to have that now.

[real saxophonist]

I've met a whole bunch of people from the Music world. Played with a couple of them.

When Jimmy Carter was president, a family member somehow got us invited to attend church with him in Plains. Shook his hand afterward.

Sonny Rollins is THE NICEST person I EVER met.

[wardaddy]

A leggy blonde actress met on a diverted flight forward class in 87

My only extremely brief affair with a celeb

It was something wild

She had legs and more legs

When I heard The Birds chirping next morning it was over and awkward

She had seemed to have accumulated very handsome men as husbands

Have no idea why me however briefly

I knew Waylon Jennngs fairly well

And my LA pal these days was very well known a few years back from his girlfriend but he’s not on the acting end of show biz

That’s it

Now notorious people

There I could write a book

[wardaddy]

Died in prison first

[martin_fierro]

I MET CONSTITUTION DAY!

I MET TIJERAS_SLIM (dude would not take the dolphin costume off. On porpoise.)!

[7thson]

Who were the most important people I have met in my life?

The team of doctors at the intensive care unit that treated my wife for blood clots in her leg and lungs, and they saved her life.

General Raymond Davis, a Medal of Honor awardee during the Korean War. He was the main speaker at the commissioning ceremony of the USS Chosin. Later, during the reception, my wife and I, spoke with him and I got to hear his thoughts concerning Jane Fonda.

While working at the Pentagon (2009-2019), I met many military people who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, some with Purple Hearts. Worked with a E-5 buck sargent (Army) who was awarded a Purple Heart. Some of the finest men I ever met and to me, deserving of the title of hero.

[married21]

I deposed Zsa zsa Gabor as part of her bankruptcy proceedings. Also met Linda Hamilton that way.