Linda and Russell Mehlenbacher on their wedding day.
Nancy and Alan Goldenhar
Alan was Tom's best friend in high school and quasi-adopted by Doug & Pat since his mom was seriously ill and died during those years. Alan spent much time at the Lent household and traveled with the Lents on many trips. Alan met his future wife, Nancy, when he was living with Tom in Philadelphia while attending medical school. Alan and Nancy now live in Maine where he is a podiatrist.
Ecology
An ecology button.
Camping Trip
Camping in the Rockies in 1969. Jodi, Tom, Pat, and some new friends they met along the way.
Your Square
New Yorker cartoon: “Excuse me, sir. I am prepared to make you a rather attractive offer for your square.”
The Game of Life
Peanuts cartoon. Charlie Brown to Linus: “You know what? Yesterday I was almost happy… For one brief moment I thought I was winning in the game of life…But there was a flag on the play.”
U.S. Intervention & Apartheid
A badge reading “Stop U.S. Intervention in Central America & End Apartheid in South Africa, Oct. 4, 1987.”
Wedding Dancing
Oh how we danced! Jean Mehlenbacher, Steve Mehlenbacher, Tom Lent, and Pat Lent at Russ and Linda’s wedding. (You can see the bride and groom in the background.)
It's Tuesday
George Price cartoon, probably from The New Yorker.
Man in bed, woman announcing, ”It’s Tuesday. Act I, Scene 1.”
Project Hope
Button with outstretched black and white hands, from Project Hope: "Detroit was still smoldering from the 1967 riots when a small band of people, led by Father William T. Cunningham and Eleanor M. Josaitis, pledged to unite a community that was sharply divided on racial and economic lines." https://www.focushope.edu/about-focus-hope/#history
War is Not Healthy
Poster: “War is not healthy for children and other living things.”