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ON THE COVER:
Faith is the driving force
behind everything that Tom
Dautenhahn does. His wife
Rosemarie said, “It’s just
beautiful to see how God
works in every area of our
life.” The family spent time
on the African mission field.
Christina Ryan Claypool photo
department
5 AT our AGe Q&A
7 TrAVeL
A visit to the rock
in the bay, Alcatraz
By John Grindrod
SpoT
9 SporTS
Remember
the Cardinals
By John Grindrod
10 SeASoninGS
Easy Quiche
11 Your MoneY
14 hiSTorY
A look back at
the ‘Jim Twins’
By John Grindrod
for fun
7 CroSSWord
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Inspire
80-year-old tennis player wins gold medal
Story by
Christina
Ryan Claypool
Long-time Lima resident Tom
Dautenhahn won his first gold
medal at the 2015 National Senior
Games this past July in Minnesota. The spry senior is 80 years
young and began playing tennis in
college.
Still, for decades the retired
engineer hung up his racket,
because he kept busy working at
Lima’s now-defunct Westinghouse
Corp. “I didn’t play much tennis
after college. While I was with
Westinghouse, I played more golf
and softball,” he said.
In his early 20s, Tom originally
visited Lima with a college friend
who was about to start his own
career at Westinghouse.
“I came with him to keep him
company for a week, put my
application in … ,” he said. The
Missouri native believes “God
guides us in unexpected ways
[because] just that day the materials engineer had quit, and that day
I walked into the office.”
Another divine appointment
occurred while in training for his
new position. Tom was sent to
Pittsburgh where he met his wife,
Rosemarie. The couple married a
year later in July 1957. They are
grandparents who have two living
children, daughter Dr. Eva Gregory and son Marty Dautenhahn,
who is an engineer like his father.
The family spent time on the
mission field in Africa early in
Tom’s career.
“I left Westinghouse in 1965
[for] Nigeria,” said Tom. He quit
his job, and moved his family overseas. After two years, there was a
civil war and the political climate
became unstable. The Dautenhahns returned to Lima, and the
engineer was employed on a contract basis with Westinghouse.
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of our life.” The family spent time on the African mission field.
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Then Tom felt called back to Africa to
assist the International Red Cross with
relief work on the outskirts of the war
for a year. Returning home, he made
Westinghouse his permanent professional workplace. When he was 53, the
corporate division he was employed in
closed down.
After leaving Westinghouse, he ran his
own business for several years headhunting and recruiting. This gave him a more
flexible schedule and time for sports.
The fit octogenarian admits he enjoys
sports of all kinds, and his free time
allowed him to start playing tennis again.
“I also started playing table tennis and
volleyball along the way,” said the man
who won his first bronze medal in table
tennis at the 2015 NSGA games, too.
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Tom Dautenhahn has been competing in what was
formerly the National Senior Olympic Games now
known as the National Senior Games Association
since the late 1990s. This year he won his first Gold
Medal in tennis in mixed doubles (75-79) division.
Games Association in the late 1990s.
In 2013, Tom and his tennis partner,
Jeanette Tubbs from Texas, won a Silver
Medal in mixed doubles in the Cleveland
NSGA competition.
The duo met through an Internet
resource known as Partner Finder. They
were anticipating playing in the 2015
Minneapolis NSGA games where they
took the Gold Medal for mixed doubles
in the 75-79 age division.
“I thank God for giving me health, and
keeping me strong …,” the Gold Medal
winner said. He realizes that with aging
not everyone is as fortunate. “We all just
keep doing what we can as long as God
gives us the ability to do it. When we
can no longer do it, we adjust, and do
whatever God lets us do, whatever our
capabilities are.”
Rosemarie sees a divine plan in everything. She said, “It’s just beautiful to see
how God works in every area of our life.”
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At Our Age
Social Security
Q. What should I do if I
think someone is using my
Social Security number?
A. If you think someone is
using your number, there are
several actions you can take.
Note that we can only resolve
Social Security number reporting problems on our own
records.
• Review your Social Security
earnings record
Review the earnings posted
to your record on your Social
Security Statement. To get
your online Statement, go to
my Social Security and check
your account. If you see any
inconsistencies, contact the
Social Security Administration.
We consider identity theft one
of our major challenges so we
have joined in government-wide
efforts to prevent Social Security number misuse.
• Contact the Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) to report
identity theft. To contact the
FTC:
Go to www.ftc.gov; Call
1-877-438-4338 (TTY 1-866653-4261); or Send mail to:
FTC, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20580.
• Contact the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for issues
involving taxes. If you believe
someone is using your Social
Security number to work, get
your tax refund, or other abuses
involving a taxes, contact the
IRS.
To contact the IRS: Go to
http://www.irs.gov/uac/IdentityProtection; or Call 1-800-9084490.
• Order a free credit report.
You can order free credit
reports annually from the three
major credit bureaus (Equifax,
Experian and Trans Union).
Make a single request for all
three credit bureau reports: Go
Q&A
to online and fill out the Annual
Credit Report Request Form; or
call 1-877-322-8228.
• File a police report.
File a report with your local
police or the police in the community where the identity theft
took place.
Q. How do I change my
gender on Social Security’s
records?
A. To change your gender on
Social Security’s records:
Step 1: Gather documents
proving your: Identity
We can accept only certain
documents as proof of identity.
An acceptable document must
be current (not expired) and
show your name, identifying
information (date of birth or
age) and, preferably, a recent
photograph. For example, as
proof of identity Social Security must see your U.S. driver’s
license; State-issued non-driver
identification card; or U.S. passport.
If you don’t have one of these
specific documents, or you can’t
get a replacement for one of
them within 10 days, we’ll ask
to see other documents, including:
Employee identification card;
School identification card;
Health insurance card (not a
Medicare card); or U.S. military
identification card.
We’ll need to see a fullvalidity, 10-year U.S. passport
showing the new gender; Stateissued amended birth certificate
showing the new gender; Court
order directing legal recognition
of change of gender; or Medical
certification of appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition in the form of an original
letter from a licensed physician.
The document must have
enough biographical data (e.g.,
name and date of birth) to
clearly identify you.
If you haven’t established
your citizenship with us, and
you were born in the US, we
need to see proof of U.S citizenship. We can only accept certain
documents as proof of U.S.
citizenship. These documents
include U.S. birth certificate; or
U.S. passport.
If you haven’t established
your citizenship with us, and
you are foreign-born, we need to
see proof of U.S. citizenship. We
can only accept certain documents as proof of U.S. citizenship. These documents include:
U.S. passport
Certificate of Naturalization
(N-550/N-570)
Certificate of Citizenship
(N-560/N-561)
Certification of Report of
Birth (DS-1350)
Consular Report of Birth
Abroad (FS-240), CRBA
Immigration status (if you
aren’t a U.S. citizen).
To prove your U.S. immigration status, you must show us
your:
Current U.S. immigration
document, such as Form I-551
(Lawful Permanent Resident
Card, Machine Readable Immigrant Visa) with your unexpired
foreign passport; I-766 (Employment Authorization Document,
EAD, work permit); or I-94
(Arrival/Departure Record) or
admission stamp in the unexpired foreign passport.
If you’re an F-1 or M-1 student, you also must show us
your I-20 (Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student
Status).
If you’re a J-1 or J-2 exchange
visitor, you must show us your
DS-2019 (Certificate of Eligibility for Exchange Visitor Status).
Step 2: Complete an Application for a Social Security Card.
Step 3: Take or mail your
completed application and docu-
ments to your local Social Security office or your local Social
Security Card Center.
All documents must be either
originals or copies certified by
the issuing agency. We can’t
accept photocopies or notarized
copies of documents. We’ll
return any documents you mail
to us, along with a receipt.
Medicare
Q. How do I sign up for
Medicare?
If you already get Social Security benefits, we’ll automatically
enroll you in Medicare Hospital
Insurance (Part A) and Medical Insurance (Part B). We’ll
mail you all the information you
need a few months before you
become eligible.
Note: Residents of Puerto
Rico or foreign countries won’t
automatically receive Part B.
They must elect this benefit.
If you don’t get Social Security benefits and are not ready
to apply for them yet, you
should sign up for Medicare
three months before your 65th
birthday.
The easiest way to apply for
Medicare is by using our online
application.
If you don’t wish to apply
online, make an appointment
by calling us at 1-800-772-1213
(TTY 1-800-325-0778) 7 a.m. to
7 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Important Information about
Medical Insurance (Part B)
Coverage: Because you must
pay a premium for Part B coverage, you can turn it down. However, if you decide to sign up for
Part B later, your coverage can
be delayed and you may have to
pay a late enrollment penalty for
as long as you have Part B coverage. Your monthly premium
will go up 10 percent for each
12-month period you were eligible for Part B, but didn’t sign
up for it unless you qualify for a
special enrollment period.
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Travel
Story and
photos by
John Grindrod
Part
7 of 8
A visit to the rock in the bay, Alcatraz
No trip to San Francisco
or the surrounding Northern
California area could ever be
complete without a trip out to
Alcatraz Island, so my partner
Jane and I trundled down to
Pier 33 on Fisherman’s Wharf
to board the ferry to the famous
small island with such a rich
history. Before we left for our
trip, we had gone online to get
our tickets, as I would advise
you do. The Alcatraz attraction
is one of the most popular in
the city, and walk-ups are generally shut out.
It’s a 1.5 mile ferry ride to
what has been nicknamed The
Rock, and on the way, we were
treated to a special view of what
is sometimes thought to be the
forgotten bridge in San Fran,
the Bay Bridge, which connects
San Francisco to Oakland. The
bridge is actually older than
the much more famous Golden
Gate by a year, and, after passing through a tunnel on Yerba
Buena Island, is 4 1/2 miles longer than Golden Gate as well.
As we gazed at its wide
expanse, it was, for me, far
more impressive than Golden
Gate. On an earlier side trip
to Yosemite National Park, we
traveled over it at night, and the
bridge lights up spectacularly.
Our ferry trip to Alcatraz
took less than 30 minutes. I was
amazed at how windy and chilly
it got on that mid-April day,
since when we left from Fisherman’s Wharf, the temperature
was in the mid-70s. Again,
when in Frisco, a cautionary
reminder is to dress warmly.
Great photo opportunities were
certainly taken advantage of by
yours truly, ever the persistent
amateur photographer.
While presently the island is
managed by the Golden Gate
National Park Service, Alcatraz
certainly hasn’t always been a
link in the national-park chain.
From 1846 to 1963, the island
took on many roles — from a
lighthouse island to a military
fort to a military prison to the
most famous federal prison
ever, one which became known
by many simply and starkly as
The Rock. In May 1969, six
years after the federal prison
closed due to rising costs of
maintaining the deteriorating
Alcatraz, as seen as approaching on the ferry.
facility, the island also became
the center of national attention when it was occupied by
a group of American Indians
from San Francisco who were
activists for Native American
rights. In 1986, Alcatraz was
designated a national historical
landmark.
After docking, we were
directed to an open area to listen to an introduction by one of
the park rangers before being
directed up an inclining road
past the outbuildings of the former prison as well as some very
impressive floral displays, once A guard tower at Alcatraz looms over
upon a time, maintained by
the prison.
A cell block inside Alcatraz.
guards and also prison trustees
I heard the tales of Alcatraz’s
and now maintained by the park sea birds.
most infamous inmates, like
When we arrived at the prisservice and volunteers. I also
Al Capone, who carried the
on, we were handed earphones
noted an abundance of birds.
moniker Scarface; George Gun
that we used as we moved
Because of the fish-rich waters
Kelly, more famously known
between cell blocks and to the
surrounding Alcatraz and the
as Machine Gun; Alvin Karpis,
cafeteria and library and other
complete absence of predators
who will in perpetuity hold the
areas
of
what
was
once
the
on an island where the only
distinction of being the very
federal
prison.
The
narrators
I
mammals are humans and one
first Public Enemy No. 1; and
heard
through
the
headphones
small species of innocuous
were both former prisoners and Robert Stroud, the Birdman of
mice, the island has long been
Alcatraz. Altogether, 1,576 men
inundated by several varieties of former prison guards.
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served time on The Rock, most
of whom weren’t nearly as infamous as Capone, Kelly, Karpis
or Stroud. They were simply
prisoners who refused to conform to rules in other federal
prisons or were considered high
escape risks.
Alcatraz offered what many
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Just for Fun
Puzzle answers on page 15
Travel, continued from page 6
other prisons didn’t, a highly
structured routine and a nearimpossible escape possibility, since the prison was surrounded by the turbulent and
bone-chilling waters of the San
Francisco Bay.
On Alcatraz, a prisoner had
only four rights: food, shelter,
clothing and medical care.
Everything else had to be
earned as a privilege. Often
after a year or two on Alcatraz,
much-better-behaved prisoners
could be transferred back to
their original prisons to serve
out their sentences with a new
attitude.
Certainly, I heard enough
through my earphones to decide
the Hollywood fantasy of Clint
Eastwood’s movie “Escape from
Alcatraz” was just that, more
fiction than fact when it came
to the possibility that anyone
could escape The Rock. Regarding escapes, here is the reality
articulated on the official Alcatraz website:
“During the period the federal penitentiary operated,
36 prisoners were involved in
14 separate escape attempts.
Twenty-three men were caught,
six were shot and killed and two
drowned. Five convicts disap-
peared and were never seen
again, but the overwhelming
odds are that they drowned and
their bodies were never recovered.”
By 1963, the prison simply
became too much of a money
pit to continue to operate, and
attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered it closed and
replaced by a new maximumsecurity prison in Marion,
Illinois.
While I was disappointed that
most of the cellblocks no longer
were set up as they once were, I
suppose I understand the need
to keep down costs.
My time on The Rock was
well spent. It allowed me to
scratch the historical itch that I
have always had as well satisfy
that true-crime fascination as
well.
Our Generation’s Magazine | September 2015 | 7
Sports Spot
by John
Grindrod
Part
1 of 3
Remember the Cardinals
Before school consolidation,
the Lima area was fairly bursting with smaller schools.
Many of those blessed with
longevity of life will remember
the powerhouse football teams
of Seraph Pope’s Central High
School Dragons in the 1940s
and the athletic exploits of
South High’s Joe Morrison in
the 1950s before Lima Senior
threw its doors open in 1955,
but that’s just a part of Lima’s
high-school history.
There were also three parochial high schools before there
was a Lima Central Catholic
— St. Johns, St. Gerard and
St. Rose — all schools that, of
course, had their moments that
remain dear to those who once
walked their halls and competed
on their athletic surfaces.
But, for the St. Rose Cardinals, often referred to in the
local sports page as the Rosarians, there was never a calendar
year as glorious as 1951 when
it came to athletic accomplishment. Thanks to John Zerante,
Senior, a key performer in all
three major sports that year —
baseball, football and basketball
— much of the story can be
told of a core group of athletes
who catapulted the Cardinals
to the top of the sports page in
a springtime burgeoning with
new growth, in the fall when the
trees were ablaze with autumnal
beauty and on into the chill of a
winter that leapfrogged into the
first months of ’52.
In the spring it was time for
baseball, and one of the youngest members of the junior class,
John Zerante, would be counted
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Players pose with the Class B state baseball championship trophy. First row, from left: Ron Willet, Kevin O’Connor, Ernie Bonano and Dave Shanahan. Second row, from
left: Jim Falk, john Zerante, Bob Williams, Coach Harry Schlott, Bill Bourk, Gene Reaman and Don McNamara. Back row, from left: Dick Finn, Don Cygan, Mike GioVinazzo
and Tom O’Connor. Mike Sites and Tom Cunningham are not pictured.
on heavily both as a pitcher and
an offensive contributor on a
Cardinal team coached by Harry
Schlott.
While the 15-year-old Zerante
would regularly toe the slab and
keep opponents off home plate,
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it was senior Dick Finn who was
most certainly the team ace.
Finn, following his graduation
from St. Rose, would go on to
play baseball at Ohio State from
1952-1955 and then work his
way through the coaching ranks
before becoming the Bucks varsity baseball coach from 1975
through 1987.
The Rosarians’ home field,
as Zerante recalls, was Faurot
Diamond 7, an open diamond
in the northeast corner adja-
cent to Bradfield Center down
in the part of the park long
ago dubbed The Hole. The
Dragons of Central also fielded
a fine team that spring and
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Sports Spot, continued from page 8
Courtesy of John Grindrod
The 1951 St. Rose State Class B Championship team.
played their home games
beyond the Rosarians’ right
field in the northwest corner on
Diamond 6.
After finishing the regular
season undefeated, the Cardinals and their ardent supporters
turned their attention to the
1951 Class B State Baseball
Tournament, back when there
were only two divisions placing
Ohio high schools by size. As
was the tournament trail at the
time, St. Rose began by winning
the Exempted Village Parochial crown and duplicated that
championship feat at the district
for a second trophy.
After defeating Deshler in the
regional final, 10-2, to garner
a third trophy, the team that
had yet to taste defeat had
the opportunity to carve their
names — names such as Finn
and Zerante and Bill Bourk and
Mike Sites and Kevin O’Connor
and Ernie Bonanno — into the
mighty oak of Lima school-boy
sports as the first Lima team
ever to win a state title in any
sport.
However, it wouldn’t come
easy against a tough opponent,
Navarre High School.
With Dick Finn on the
mound, the Cards liked their
chances, especially after staking
the hurler to a 2-0 lead. Heading
into the bottom of the seventh
and final inning, Finn was more
than holding his own. As a matter of fact, he had a no-hitter.
Well, if there’s truth to the
adage that nothing worth hav-
ing ever comes easy, this game
would prove to validate it. A
scratch infield single, one that
bounced off home plate and
barely eluded the glove of Finn,
was the match that not just
ended a no-hitter but ignited a
rally.
A Texas Leaguer landed just
behind first baseman Kevin
O’Connor. A throwing error and
an eventual steal of home knotted the contest, forcing extra
innings. With Finn remaining
on the mound in an age where
the only pitch count that mattered was the one when a coach
would intone to a young hurler,
“Make this pitch count,” the
game continued through the
eighth, ninth and 10th with neither team denting the plate.
Then came the top of the 11th
and a rally that would make the
Rosarians kings of the diamond.
The team’s best player Finn led
off with a double. After Mike
Sites was safe on an error, moving Finn to third, Sites stole second. When Jim Falk grounded
to third, the throw across to
first was low, scoring Finn and
moving Sites to third. Walks by
Kevin O’Connor and Bill Bourk
followed, forcing in Sites. Falk
then scored on a passed ball.
The cherry on top of the rally
sundae was a two-run Ernie
Bonanno double to make it 7-2.
Finn finished off his 11-inning
complete game in the bottom of
the inning, and the Cards were
champs, the best Class B baseball team in the state.
Recalls Zerante, “We all
received a miniature gold ball,
and, of course, that two-foothigh championship trophy
destined for the school’s trophy
case.”
Following the state title, St.
Rose actually still had the Lima
City Championship Game to
play in a quirk of schedule, and,
on Diamond 6 at Faurot, the
Cards put an exclamation point
on a magical spring with a 9-2
win over Central, their fifth and
final trophy of that season.
In the 15-0 season, Finn won
ten games while Zerante won
the other five. The top sluggers were Finn, who hit .458;
Bill Bourk, who hit 423; Mike
Sites, who hit .406; and Ernie
Bonanno, who hit .317.
Our Generation’s Magazine | September 2015 | 9
Seasonings
Dairy cookbook salutes farm families, foods
By Arthi Subramaniam
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS)
Rita Kennedy and her husband,
James, have roots that stretch a
long way back in dairy farming.
If you count both sides of their
families, they have been in the business for six generations.
“We must have done something
right as three of our five children
are dairy farmers,” said Rita Kennedy, 72, who co-owns Four Seasons Farm, raising close to 200
Brown Swiss dairy cows, heifers
and calves.
Kennedy’s Rita’s Easy Quiche is
one of the 110 recipes that is part of
“The Dairy Good Cookbook: Everyday Comfort Food From America’s
Dairy Farm Families” (Andrews
McMeel Publishing). The cookbook connects readers to farmers
through stories, photographs and
recipes that are from, or inspired
by, America’s nearly 47,000 dairy
farm families. Each chapter discusses a type of dairy cow and
profiles a family who shares what
life is like on a dairy farm. Recipes
are organized around a typical dairy
farmer’s day, beginning from sunrise, through afternoon chores, and
night-time desserts.
In the book, Kennedy said she “is
always looking for meals that are
quick and easy, and that call for lots
of dairy products, and makes anything with a lot of cheese.” So the
biscuit-crusted quiche fits the bill.
The quiche stands out because
it is easy to make, and it is different from the usual mac ‘n’ cheese,
Kennedy said. If there’s any leftover
ham or bacon, they are tossed into
her quiche, as well.
She and her family are serious
milk devotees. Glasses of whole
milk to be specific. “We drink more
than a gallon a day, and always have
it with our meals, be it breakfast,
lunch or dinner,” Kennedy said.
When her five children were
young, Kennedy used the farm’s
milk to make vanilla ice cream and
served it with a chocolate fudge
topping. She churned the ice cream
in a 6-quart electric maker almost
every weekend in winter “because
it took lots of snow and/or ice to
make it, along with rock salt.”
Her son, Jeffrey, daughter-in-law,
Janice, and grandson, Jordan, now
take care of the farm operations,
but the older Kennedys still help
out in the fields and run out for
parts when needed.
The Kennedys do everything to
keep their cows, which are milked
twice a day, comfortable. Apart
from feeding them, giving them
fresh water and a clean area to lay
down, they use fans to keep the animals cool, and provide them mattresses to rest on.
“We do need contented cows,”
Kennedy said.
Rita’s Easy Quiche
Larry Roberts/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS
RITA’S EASY QUICHE
Ingredients
Nonstick cooking spray
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup biscuit mix
6 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled slightly
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup diced ham or cooked crumbled bacon
1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
1/4 cup thinly sliced green onion or chopped yellow
onion
1 cup shredded Swiss cheese
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9-inch pie pan or glass pie plate with nonstick cooking spray; set aside.
Beat the eggs lightly in a medium mixing bowl. Add the milk, biscuit mix, butter, salt and pepper. Whisk until smooth.
Pour into the prepared pan. Sprinkle with ham, mushrooms and green onion. Top with cheese.
Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until puffed and golden brown.
Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
Makes 6 to 8 servings.
“The Dairy Good Cookbook: Everyday Comfort Food From America’s Dairy Farm Families” (Andrews McMeel Publishing,
2015; $25)
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Your Money
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Some homeowners rent
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to wait out a sagging housing market, while others
see renting their homes as
a long-term commitment
to their financial futures.
Being a landlord has its
advantages and disadvantages, and the decision to
rent out a home is one that
homeowners should not
take lightly. The following
are a handful of factors
homeowners should consider as they try to decide
if renting out their homes
is the right move for them.
Time: Being a landlord
is a 24/7/365 commitment,
as tenants will expect their
landlords to be on call
at all times. Tenants will
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of the night, and landlords must be available to
answer such calls no matter how inconvenient they
become. If you are not willing or able to devote the
time necessary to tend to
tenant needs, then being
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Maintenance: Whereas
homeowners may be able
to delay making certain
repairs in the homes where
they lay their heads, such
a luxury is not afforded
when they are renting out
their other properties.
Repairs and maintenance
of rental properties cannot
be put on the back burner
while you save money to
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even minor repairs typically pose a problem for
you, you may soon discover that hiring a handyman or discounting rent
for live-in supers is cutting
into your profits or making it difficult to pay bills.
Before deciding to rent out
your home, determine the
potential costs of maintaining a second property
and use that information
to decide if renting the
property is a sound financial investment or one that
might put you in the red.
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who have rented have a
horror story or two about
an absentee or indifferent
landlord, but landlords
also have their own such
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tenants. When mulling
whether or not to rent out
your home, consider who
your prospective tenants
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steady stream of renters
you will need to pay your
mortgage and bills without
jeopardizing your finances.
The last things first-time
or even experienced landlords want are tenants who
cannot pay their rent and/
or those who are disrespectful of their neighbors
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pool of renters before
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home.
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Events Calendar
Tue Sep 1, 2015
Prayer Meeting
7:00 pm Lima Seventh-Day
Adventist Church, 1976
Spencerville Road, Lima. The
Seventh Day Adventist Church in
Lima will hold a prayer meeting at
7 p.m. at the church. 419-235-8630.
Free.
Aging Color Exhibition
All Day University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Wed Sep 2, 2015
Aging Color Exhibition
8:00 am University of Findlay,
Findlay.
English High Tea
4:00 pm ArtSpace/Lima, 65-67
Public Square, Lima. $30. 419-2221721.
Middle Eastern Hors D’oeuvres
5:00 pm ArtSpace/Lima, 65-67
Public Square, Lima. 419-222-1721.
$30.
Middle School Open House
6:00 pm Elida Middle School,
Elida.
Elida High School Open House
7:00 pm Elida High School-OH,
401 E. North St., Elida.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Thu Sep 3, 2015
Cup Produce Da ys
8:00 am Parking Lot, Corner of
Pierce and Spring St., Lima. Bring
a photo ID.
Village of Harrod Council
Meeting
7:00 pm Allen East Community
Center, 9520 Harrod Rd., Harrod.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Aging Color Exhibition
All Day University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Fri Sep 4, 2015
Aging Color Exhibition
8:00 am University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Lima Astronomical Society
Summer Program
8:00 pm Schoonover Observatory,
670 N. Jefferson St., Lima.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Sat Sep 5, 2015
Country Style Breakfast
7:00 am Alger Social Center, Main
Street, Alger. $7.
Aging Color Exhibition
8:00 am University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Delphos Market Fest
10:00 am 10740 Elida Road, 10740
Elida Road, Delphos.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Sun Sep 6, 2015
Food Pantry
8:00 am Lima Seventh-Day
Adventist Church, 1976
Spencerville Road, Lima. Firsttime visitors need to bring a photo
identification, proof of address and
birth certificates of those living in
the home. 419-235-8630. Free.
Star Spangled Spectacular
3:00 pm Faurot Park, South Shore
Drive, Lima.
Back-To-School-Bash
5:30 pm Lima Community Church
of the Nazarene, 2945 N Cole St,
Lima.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Aging Color Exhibition
All Day University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Mon Sep 7, 2015
Auglaize Township Regular
Meeting
7:30 pm Regular Meeting, 7726
Bellefontaine Rd., Harrod.
Aging Color Exhibition
All Day University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Tue Sep 8, 2015
Westinghouse Sundstrand
Retirees Meeting
11:30 am Western Sizzlin
Steakhouse, 2721 Elida Rd., Lima.
Prayer Meeting
7:00 pm Lima Seventh-Day
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Adventist Church, 1976
Spencerville Road, Lima.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Aging Color Exhibition
All Day University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Wed Sep 9, 2015
Aging Color Exhibition
8:00 am University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Thu Sep 10, 2015
Cup Produce Days
8:00 am Parking Lot, Corner of
Pierce and Spring St., Lima. Bring
a photo ID.
Kalida Pioneer Days
6:00 pm Downtown Kalida,
Kalida.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Aging Color Exhibition
All Day University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Fri Sep 11, 2015
Aging Color Exhibition
8:00 am University of Findlay,
Findlay.
Kalida Pioneer Days
6:00 pm Downtown Kalida,
Kalida.
Arts in the Park
7:00 pm Downtown Ohio City,
Ohio City.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Sat Sep 12, 2015
Kalida Pioneer Days
7:30 am Downtown Kalida,
Kalida.
Historic Barn Tour
10:00 am Hancock Historical
Museum, 422 W Sandusky St,,
Findlay. $0-$15.
The King Car Show
1:00 pm Faurot Park, South Shore
Drive, Lima. $15. Preregistration
at cdrprod@hotmail.com. Proceeds
benefit The Salvation Army Lima.
Whistling Goat Music & Arts
Festival
All Day Shelby County
Fairgrounds, 655 S Highland Ave.,
Sidney. $20.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Sun Sep 13, 2015
Kalida Pioneer Days
7:30 am Downtown Kalida,
Kalida.
Children’s Treasure Hunt
1:00 pm Mercer County Historical
Museum, 130 E. Market St.,
Celina.
Canal Days Queen Pageant
7:00 pm Delphos Jefferson Middle
School Auditoritum, 227 N
Jefferson St, Delphos. $6.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Thu Sep 17, 2015
Cup Produce Days
8:00 am Parking Lot, Corner of
Pierce and Spring St., Lima. Bring
a photo ID.
Financial Peace University
10:00 am The Church at Allentown,
4900 Allentown Road, Elida.
Register at Allentownchurch.org.
ALS Support Group Meeting
6:00 pm Maple Crest, 700 Maple
Crest Court, Bluffton.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Fri Sep 18, 2015
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Mon Sep 14, 2015
Sat Sep 19, 2015
Coffee Connection
9:00 am Birchaven Village, 15100
Birchaven Lane, Findlay.
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at Allentown,
4900 Allentown Road, Elida.
Register at Allentownchurch.org.
Monthly Breakfast
8:00 am Lima Masonic Center,
2165 N. Cole St., Lima. $6.
Ride of Hope
9:00 am Camp Roberts, 4200
Beeler Road, Lima. All proceeds
benefit the Lima Rescue Mission.
$15 for a single rider, $25 for two,
includes lunch.
Delphos Market Fest
10:00 am 10740 Elida Road, 10740
Elida Road, Delphos.
The King Car Show
11:00 am Perry Township
Administration Building, 2408 E.
Breese Road, Lima.
Water Ball Contest
12:30 pm Delphos Fire Station, 125
E. Second St., Delphos.
15th Annual Turkey Cook-Off
All Day American Legion Post
395, 104 W. Wapakoneta St.,
Waynesfield.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Tue Sep 15, 2015
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at Allentown,
4900 Allentown Road, Elida.
Register at Allentownchurch.org.
Prayer Meeting
7:00 pm Lima Seventh-Day
Adventist Church, 1976
Spencerville Road, Lima.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Wed Sep 16, 2015
Veterans memorial Civic Center
Board of Trustees
3:30 pm Veterans Memorial Civic
& Convention Center-Lima, 7
Town Square, Lima.
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at Allentown,
4900 Allentown Road, Elida.
Register at Allentownchurch.org.
Sun Sep 20, 2015
Food Pantry
8:00 am Lima Seventh-Day
Adventist Church, 1976
Spencerville Road, Lima. First-
Allen County ESC
6:00 pm Allen County Educational
Service Center, 1920 Slabtown
Rd., Lima.
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at Allentown,
4900 Allentown Road, Elida.
Register at Allentownchurch.org.
Living Through Loss
7:00 pm Blanchard Valley
Hospital, 1900 S Main St., Findlay.
Tue Sep 22, 2015
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at
Allentown, 4900 Allentown
Road, Elida. Register at
Allentownchurch.org.
Prayer Meeting
7:00 pm Lima Seventh-Day
Adventist Church, 1976
Spencerville Road, Lima.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Wed Sep 23, 2015
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at
Allentown, 4900 Allentown
Road, Elida. Register at
Allentownchurch.org.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Thu Sep 24, 2015
Cup Produce Days
8:00 am Parking Lot, Corner
of Pierce and Spring St., Lima.
Bring a photo ID.
Financial Peace University
10:00 am The Church at
Allentown, 4900 Allentown
Road, Elida. Register at
Allentownchurch.org.
Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian
Grass
7:00 pm Wright State University
Lake Campus, 7600 Lake Campus
Drive, Celina.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Fri Sep 25, 2015
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
SAT Sep 26, 2015
3rd Annual Susan G. Komen
Race for the Cure
9:00 am Findlay, Main Street,
Findlay.
Bluffton Family Recreation
Open House
9:00 am Bluffton Family
Recreation, 215 Snider Road,
Bluffton.
Bluffton Fall Festival
All Day Downtown Bluffton, 154
N. Main St., Bluffton.
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Sun Sep 27, 2015
Robert Millard-Mendez Exhibit
All Day Wassenberg Art Center,
214 S. Washington St., Van Wert.
Mon Sep 28, 2015
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at Allentown,
4900 Allentown Road, Elida.
Register at Allentownchurch.org.
Tue Sep 29, 2015
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at Allentown,
4900 Allentown Road, Elida.
Register at Allentownchurch.org.
Prayer Meeting
7:00 pm Lima Seventh-Day
Adventist Church, 1976
Spencerville Road, Lima.
Wed Sep 30, 2015
Toenail Clinic
1:00 pm Adult Day Care Center,
1151 Westwood Dr, Van Wert. $10.
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at Allentown,
4900 Allentown Road, Elida.
Register at Allentownchurch.org.
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Our Generation’s Magazine | September 2015 | 13
History
By Greg
Hoersten
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A look back at the ‘Jim Twins’
LIMA — With a simple
“yep” uttered in February
1979, Jim Lewis, of Lima,
and Jim Springer, of Dayton, landed in the middle
of the age-old argument
over why we are like we
are.
Mike Lackey recounted
the moment in a Feb. 19,
1979, story in The Lima
News. “The two men had
talked on the telephone
for a couple of minutes,
asking careful, tentative
questions,” Lackey wrote
of the Feb. 5, 1979, phone
call. “Then James E.
Lewis took a deep breath
and asked, ‘Are you my
brother?’
“At the other end of
the line James Springer
answered, ‘Yep.’ And,
nearly 40 years after their
birth, the identical twin
brothers were reunited.”
The “Jim Twins” story
caught the attention of the
national media and, more
importantly, University of
Minnesota psychologist
Thomas Bouchard Jr.,
sparking a major study
of twins reared apart and
the impact of heredity, as
opposed to environment,
on such things as personality, intelligence and
interests.
Lewis and Springer
were born Aug. 19, 1939,
at Piqua Memorial Hospital to an unwed 15-year-
old immigrant, who
immediately put them up
for adoption. The brothers
were separated four weeks
later when one of them
was adopted by Ernest
Springer and his wife
Sarah, who brought him
to their home in Piqua.
The second boy was
adopted two weeks later
by Lima schools employee
Jess Lewis and his wife,
Lucille.
“Neither the Springers
nor the Lewises ever met
the 15-year-old (unwed)
mother of their sons, and
both couples were told
that their adoptive child
had a twin who died at
birth,” according to a
story in the May 7, 1979,
edition of People magazine. “Then one day, when
Jim Lewis was 16 months
old, his mother visited the
Miami County courthouse
to settle the adoption
paperwork, and an official
remarked offhandedly,
‘they named the other
little boy Jim, too.’ For 37
years that hint tugged at
Mrs. Lewis, who occasionally urged her son to find
out if it was true.”
“I knew all those years
that he had a brother,”
Mrs. Lewis told Lackey
in February 1979, “and I
worried whether he had
a home, and whether he
was all right …” When
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The Lima News file photos
James E. Lewis, from left, Lucille Cheney (mother of Lewis) and James A. Springer pose for a photo in 1979 after they were reunited after 39
years of separation. They held an open house to introduce the families.
the chance came later to
adopt twin brothers, she
rejected court officials’
suggestions that she take
only one. “’I’ve already
got one boy separated
from his brother,’ she
told them. ‘I don’t want
another.’”
Lewis couldn’t explain
why, at the age of 39, he
finally took up the search
for his brother. “The
continued urging of his
mother, and then of his
fiancée, Sandy Jacobs,
had something to do with
it, but there was more,”
Lackey wrote.
“’I can’t tell you why,”
Lewis said. “It was just
like the time was right.”
The “Jim Twins” were
reunited Feb. 9, 1979,
at Springer’s home. “We
both said the same thing
— we didn’t know what to
say,” Lewis told Lackey.
Bouchard, the University of Minnesota psychologist, knew what to say. He
contacted the twins.
“Lewis confirmed today
that he and his identical
twin, separated shortly
after birth more than 39
years ago and reunited for
the first time last month
are leaving Sunday for
Minneapolis,” the News
wrote March 6, 1979.
“We’re almost positive
they’re the best case (of
monozygotic twins reared
apart) in the literature,
especially since we’re
going to be able to study
them so soon (after their
reunion). This is the kind
of opportunity that comes
along once in a generation
of psychologists,” Bouchard told the News.
The “Jim Twins,” it
turned out, shared much
more than genetic makeup
and a given name. Each
married and then divorced
a woman named Linda.
Their second wives were
both named Betty. Each
man grew up with an
adopted brother named
Larry, and during childhood each owned a dog
named Toy. Their firstborn sons are named
James Alan Lewis and
James Allan Springer.
Both had law enforcement training and had
worked part time as deputy sheriffs. They shared
many common interests,
such as mechanical drawing, block lettering and
carpentry. Both said their
favorite school subject
was math while spelling
was their least favorite.
They vacationed at the
same three-block long
beach near St. Petersburg,
Florida, both getting there
and back in a Chevrolet.
Springer in 1979 told
the New York Times
magazine the similarities
were “downright spooky.”
Lewis added that “we
even use the same slang.”
In May 1979, Bouchard,
visiting Lewis in Lima,
told the News, “If somebody else brought some of
this stuff to me and said,
‘this is what I’ve got,’ I’d
say I didn’t believe it.”
Publicity about the “Jim
Twins” drew more pairs of
separately reared identical twins into Bouchard’s
study. “The latest pair to
volunteer for the study
Jim Lewis discusses test results in 1979 with Tom Bouchard Jr.,
University of Minnesota psychologist. Bouchard was studying twins
raised apart, looking into nature versus nurture.
or a gene for marrying
Bouchard’s twins-raised
women named Betty, such
apart, they focused on
spectacularly similar pairs, coincidences are statistical
The former Sandy Jacobs leans on her husband, James E. Lewis, shaking hands with his twin brother,
anomalies, as Bouchard is
like the Springer-Lewis
James Springer.
quick to acknowledge.”
twins. But those twins
Lewis and Springer
turned out to be outliers
to political views. The
called Bouchard after see- researchers to conclude
are 75 now. Lewis lives
in the Minnesota study.
similarities are partly
ing Springer and Lewis on that at least 50 percent
in Elida and Springer in
Most of the other twins
the product of similar
Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight’ of the twins’ personDayton. They’ve stayed in
weren’t
nearly
as
alike.
upbringing. But evidence
alities are genetically
show last Thursday,” the
touch.
Furthermore, since no
from the comparison of
determined, rather than
News wrote. In addition
one is claiming there is
being determined by their twins raised apart points
to Carson, the brothers
Reach Greg Hoersten at TLNinfo@
a gene for flushing the
rather convincingly to
appeared with David Hart- environment,” the AP
civitasmedia.com.
toilet before you use it,
genes as the source of
reported.
man, Mike Douglas and
Lewis and Springer told a lot of that likeness. In
Dinah Shore. They also
the most widely publiwere guests on many local the AP their similarities
cized study of this type,
shows, the news programs had not grown stronger,
PUZZLE ANSWER
launched in 1979, Univeralthough they now saw
of the major networks.
sity of Minnesota psycholeach other every few
People, Newsweek, Time,
ogist Thomas Bouchard
Look, Us, Reader’s Digest months. They were, howand his colleagues have
ever, still amazed by the
and Good Housekeeping
similarities. “Other people chronicled the fates of
magazines all did articles
about 60 pairs of identipoint it out to us,” Lewis
on them.
cal twins raised sepatold the AP. “We don’t
The twins returned to
rately. Some of the pairs
spend a lot of time studyMinnesota in Novemhad scarcely met before
ing each other.”
ber 1987 for the second
Bouchard contacted them,
Others did that for
phase of the study, which,
and yet the behaviors and
them. In an article titled
according to a Nov. 5,
“The Mysteries of Twins,” personalities and social
1987, Associated Press
the Washington Post Mag- attitudes they displayed in
story, examined how
lengthy batteries of tests
azine, on Jan. 11, 1998,
twins change as they age
noted that “statistics have were often remarkably
and whether those changalike.”
shown that on average,
es occur at the same time
As for Lewis and
identical twins tend to
and in the same way for
Springer, the article
be around 80 percent the
both twins.
noted, “When journalists
same in everything from
“The first phase of the
first began interviewing
stature to health to IQ
project has led university
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