[rollei_list] Re: Acknowledgement and Thanks
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:44:20 -0700
Don,
The sheets were fine cotton, not silk. But everything else was as
you stated. The nurses were super, too.
Yes, I knew John Thornton. The founders of Wavetek, were
Joel Naive and Bill Zonker, who, with John, were in on it.
They were also very active in the Porsche Club, as I was then. I
remember visiting Joel and Kathy Naive at their home on Bordeaux
Rd, and seeing the early developments of the wave form generators
which Joel and Bill built in the Naive garage. I used my garage for
building Porsche racing engines.
Jerry
Don Williams wrote:
> At 07:04 PM 7/19/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Don,
>>
>> I was, but that was then, and this is now. I have been home for a
>> while.
>>
>> I can highly recommend the facilities of the Thornton Hospital
>> Cardiac Care Unit of UCSD.
>>
>> Jerry
>
>
> How did you like the silk sheets, walnut interior, glass atrium,
> custom menu, etc?
>
> It even has a nice visitors cafeteria which is worth dropping by when
> in the area.
>
> I usually go to the [Cecil and Ida] Green Hospital at Scripps Clinic
> Torrey Pines. Cecil Green founded Texas Instruments and passed away
> in the hospital last fall. Green hospital is nice but doesn't have the
> class of Thornton.
>
> You were in the top of the market. You probably know John Thornton.
> He founded Wavetek on Balboa during the good years and has since sold
> it to Terry Gooding, the founder of Maxwell Labs on Balboa. John and
> Sally now concentrate on their winery up HY15. They used to own the
> bottle shop in downtown La Jolla but my kids tell me they sold it.
>
> John and Sally Thornton also funded a charter school, linked to UCSD,
> just off Genesee and near the hospital.
>
> Sorry for all the local chatter but I have the feeling that most folks
> have been through this town at one time or another. I promise I will
> stop now.
>
> Don Williams
> La Jolla, CA
>
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