[msb-alumni] Re: [Bulk] Re: Randy Formenti Dies at 62
- From: "joanne" <houseofmusic3345@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:58:46 -0500
Boy I can identify with the part where you said you just saw him on email and
it just seems even more eerie because one day he's writing to the Bard group
and the next I hear this. I briefly met him when he was with Charlotte, which
brings me to the question is anyone in touch with her and has she been told?
They definitely had a weird relationship I'll tell ya.
But yeah it's just so sad, and it was the same with Jim Prather--sending emails
and seemingly doing okay one day, and the next he's gone just like that.
From: Marcie Brink-Chaney
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 12:16 PM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: [Bulk] Re: Randy Formenti Dies at 62
Maybe I'm getting so immune to all of these losses that I didn't cry this time.
However, I still can't believe that Randy is gone! Terry said that Randy wasn't
one of his favorites. But I think Randy was the kind of person that you had to
really get to know to understand that he was a good person. I counted him as a
friend of mine. He was just on the Window Eyes list commenting or asking about
something a couple of days ago and I don't think I erased the message like I
usually do because I wanted to hear what he had to say and when I heard about
his dying, I couldn't find it. I really can't figure out how to search in
thunderbird. Anyway, I really enjoyed him in band and somewhere I have a tape
that he made I think with bob Hill and others. THERE WAS A PART WHERE SOMEONE
CAME IN TO BAND AND SAID, "Mr. Chard your nuts are on your desk," and Mike Hall
and a bunch of guys in the back row of the band cracked up laughing. I think it
was Randy who taped it. He played I Wish I Were An Oscar Myer Wiener on his
cornet and a lot of other things were on that tape (just crazy stuff). This
whole thing makes me appreciate even more how perishable we are and that I'm so
grateful I'm still here! I never met Inj. But if you are still on the list, I
extend my deepest sympathy to you. I know how it is to lose a partner and it is
awful!
On 1/22/2015 3:56 PM, Steve wrote:
Yeah, I am still getting over it, even though its been several years since
we've talked. I probably should let LMF know as well, since he is back in East
Lansing now.
I remember in the late 70's, Larry Allman and Randy challenged each other on
our local repeater net to a pancake eating contest at Uncle John's Pancake
House near Frandor. That was one of the bigger turn-outs of the ham radio guys
that used to gather there after the net. Larry and Randy mutually agreed to
stopo after each had eaten 19.5 pancakes.
I did let Larry Allman know yesterday. Back in the mid-60s, we had a study
group every week--John Sheldon WA8MVH/sk, Larry ex-WA8QCW now N8WR, myself,
Randy and it was all led by Hal Bell WA8LAY/sk. I'll tell you, John, too many
damn SK's around here now.
For those of you who aren't ham radio ops, SK means Silent Key; i.e. denoting
when a ham dies that they can no longer send code.
Steve, K8SP
----- Original Message -----
From: John J Jacques
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 8:36 PM
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Randy Formenti Dies at 62
Steve, thanks for the message about Randy, this is deffinatly a shock.
He was one of the first Hams I met when I came to the school, along with
you and Paul Hunt!
R I P, N8KL
John Jacques
Amateur Radio Station: KD8PC
"Whare Cat Is, Is civilization!"
Robert A Heinlein
http://www.johnjacques.weebly.com
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