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(Eagle Scout and all the patches, medal, letters, and rosy cheeked blond haired boy that he was. Why

assorted awards that went with it.) She was always Tio-Spanish for uncle? His sister could not say
impressed that I had hundreds of boy’s fiction his name-Roeloff Corvall Pauw-and it came out
books, toy soldiers, military and police medals like “T-O.” Then I remembered my Cub Scout
and badges-and the list went on. She had lived den members, “Hawaii” Ted Turner-never wore

in the area during the war and rode the caboose shoes or long pants it seemed. “Red” Fred Smith,
to Auburn for work. She went to San Francisco, the twins “Specs” and “Hollywood,” Gene and
met her husband, and had two children, a girl, Dean Koch.
and a boy. It was with her son Roeloff Corvall “Canada” Russ Goodwin, Ned “Baseball”

Pauw III that I went to school with every day as Yost, and our den chief “Jumpin’ Jimminy” Jim
“Bus 12” chugged the 60-mile route during high Houghton. I glanced down at the card once
school. They lived opposite the community pool, again with the “C of C” from Stella and began to
my summer afternoon hangout, while I lived laugh myself. I even had a nickname that I had

“downtown” in “Merchant Row” which was by my bestowed upon myself at age four. One day during
era only four houses. We had a summer buddy the sermon in church, ever paying attention to it
that came from Southern California that lived (not) and doodling upon the bulletin, I had drawn
across the street from me. Down the rabbit hole of something and was so proud at my effort, like all

time and memories I sank, and soon,
needless to say, I was done sorting
through the box for the day. People,
places, and events came flooding

back. Names or their nicknames
came to mind of former Scouts and
school friends. I began to wander even
further down memory lane as

other rabbit holes a plenty
presented themselves.
Roeloff was called “Tio,”
an unusual name for a

Dutch heritage boy as
he was the epitome of
the Dutch Boy Paint logo
without the haircut but the

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