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We would have got into more trouble if we hadn't already been having so much fun. Mark had (and still has) an innate musical talent, and wrote several ragtime songs, based on the time-honored "Buoy Aka Nagasaki Butcha Dinka Doo" formula. Mark was a founder and former paretner of NeoTek, a graphic arts business in Irvine. He sold his share and is now teaching high school in Murrieta, Ca. He and his wife Sue live in Murrieta, and have two sons, Chad and Brad. Here are some old snapshots we found in shoeboxes in our attics.
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Mark Ackley was Rick's next
door neighbor in Forest Park, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati) from 1960 until we both joined
the Navy during the Vietnam War. We attended Greenhills Junior High and High School
together, played baseball, built forts in Winton Woods, built 1/24th scale model cars,
attended Redlegs games, swapped baseball cards (Vada Pinson, Frank Robinson, Chico
Cardenas, Gordy Coleman, Gus Bell, Wally Post, Ted Kluszewski, Joey Jay, and the rookie
Pete Rose), ran track and cross-country, ran a lawn service, restored vintage cars,
watched certain TV shows (Twilight Zone, the Outer Limits, The Millionaire (John Beresford
Tipton or John Bears Firtipton?), and The Untouchables), and generally got into the kind
of trouble boys that age get into.
