I’ve been trying to remember things that happened during the three years plus that we lived in Provo and attended BYU. I may have to get some help from Karen as I don’t remember much.
Let me start by telling you about 3 or 4 people who were significant in my or our lives during that three years. The first was Mel Bodily. He was an older guy like me, only a lot older. He was probably in his late 40’s or 50’s and was going back to school to get his engineering degree. He worked for Thiokol in Ogden and drove down to Provo every day he had classes. We became pretty good friends since neither one of us were in the age group that was common at BYU. We were also both married. He had grown children and I had just Matt and eventually David. I visited him at his house in Bountiful a couple times and always wondered what happened to him. I doubt he’s still alive. He’d be in his 90’s if he is.
Another friend of mine was a guy named Tom Tippits. He worked with me at the KBYU-TV station. He and I worked together a lot and became pretty good friends. At least while we were in school. He was from San Diego, CA and practically every time we worked, he would tell me how great it was to live in San Diego. It’s surprising that I have never been to San Diego. I think he wanted to be a Dentist when he graduated, but I’m not sure.
A couple that lived in Wyview Village near us was Ian and Rona Hyde. He became one of my best friends in school. He was from Australia, I think. At least he talked like it. He said “mate” a lot. It is his fault that I got interested in music in the first place. Well, I had always liked music and so did he. It was one thing we had in common and one reason why we were friends. (Kind of like Mike Sveen and me years later.) One night he and I were sitting around the house just talking and he posed the question: “I wonder if it is possible to get all of the songs which have made the Top 40 in the rock era?”
Continued tomorrow….
Dad