Then and Now

Eventually, it would be nice - at least interesting - to see how "we" - meaning all of us - have evolved over the years. This is not meant to be a jumping-off point for a discussion on the merits of Creationism vs Darwinism. But the fact is, change is inevitable and entropy is a fact of life. In other words: Time marches on and inevitably we are dragged along with it. Nevertheless, we should not be afraid of the inevitable changes. After all, there is only one sure-fire cure for aging...and don't know about you, but for now the writer PASSES on aforesaid "cure!"

And we have our first volunteer, unafraid to reveal his evolution - drum roll, please...heeeere's Chuck Kilbride, formerly known as Brother Ronald, the Wizard of The Bookkeeping Arts. That was then...

From Signum '65 - page 22, if you have your copy and want to look it up.

And yet another vignette, from Signum '65 - this one found on page 83...


The good Brothers could have made a milk commercial as a fund raiser for the school, the marketing side of the blogmeister sez.

Just thought of something upon seeing Mr. Mooney's image on this page - Ricardo, when are you going to tell the Mr. Mooney Story for these pages? Poor Mr. Mooney - he would have agreed with Bill Urbizu's comment about committing hara-kiri. On the other hand, had we young and restless ones gotten out of hand with Brother Ronald - our NUMBER would definitely have come up! But nothing to fear as long as one did not cross certain lines...

Sometimes Brother did have to lay the law down.

As documented on the pages of Signum '66 - page 107, to be exact. You cannot allow the inmates to escape Stalag LaSalle! Just kiddin' - LaSalle was no POW camp - sometimes, in fact, it seemed the inmates were in charge!

Anyway, that was then with Brother Ronald, and this is now with your host, Chuck Kilbride.


Hey, me thinks he's still a good lookin' dude. This tempts one to grab a contemporary photograph of oneself and run it through one of those age-progression software programs, but...

The results would be, to be kind, a little scary...come to think of it, it appears your blogger was the inspiration for the original Yoda, so it is time to have the legal team contact Messrs. Spielberg and Lucas, and demand BACK royalties for the abuse of his image!