DON (DONNIE) WILLIAMS

I have been a Floridian since 1973. I miss the hills of Tenneseee, the change in seasons, and the people. Folks in Tennessee tend to be more friendly, more polite, and more helpful.

I don't miss cold weather.

What have I been up to? I work around the house in my retirement. I have been band leader and sound man in bluegrass bands. I am now playing electric bass in an oldies band. The band is named after a Willie Nelson Song. "Not Dead Yet."
I still motorcycle, but have become a fair-weather rider since I retired.

Everyone may remember this, but here goes:
John Rukavina was a great math teacher. He could be a comedian as well. This is the only funny story I remember him telling and after about 52 years, it may not be exact. Remember his facial feature similar to Jimmy Durante's? Anyway, he could speak Polish when stationed in Poland. In uniform on a public bus two ladies were talking about his large proboscis. He understood, so upon leaving the bus, he said his adieus to the ladies in perfect Polish. He told our Geometry class that they looked like they wanted to crawl under their seat. ha ha!

From the dictionary, for those with a limited vocabulary:
A proboscis /pro??b?s?s/ is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. In vertebrates, the term is used to describe an elongated nose or snout.