From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jan 23 14:49:58 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0NLnwRc017762; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:49:58 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0NLnwA2014763 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:49:58 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0NJMPFI009062 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:22:25 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k0NJMPgQ009061 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:22:25 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0NJITFI008995 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:18:29 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k0NLjpL8015551 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:45:51 -0700 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Mon Jan 23 14:45:51 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0NLjpRc015540 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:45:51 -0700 Received: from web60923.mail.yahoo.com (web60923.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.251]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k0NLjmtD012782 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:45:48 -0700 Received: (qmail 76469 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Jan 2006 21:45:44 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=PyG8WdDr0iIrLYD92fvMHIFo/ZGhBA53vbYh4rtBrAieKkdtf/PufmvMhPTeiJqRItn8PRUCE4pfzzyi18qHbTAkMLnFLa4r9JZyjFiygbYhsi3JqsKQYa57Q0SSoIcgIfz2NBRKkw8YrnRlwhGF4LW9Wz3iDJ0Yh/JFlETpbw4= ; Message-ID: <20060123214544.76467.qmail@web60923.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60923.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:45:44 PST Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:45:44 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Odle To: Roots Webb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] CHRIST HRONOPOLAS/VAN CALLAS/CHARLES CALIVAS/PETE SELENAS/PAUL ODLE Fifty-Three Years Ago Fifty Three Years ago today on January 23, 1953 my life as I know it had changed forever. I was an Airman second class (Corporal) in the US Air Force stationed at Vance AFB, Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma. For you see my wife HELEN MARGARET CALIVAS was in labor with our first child. Another thing happened that day I had to go pick up my first pair of glasses at Dr. HERBERT SHIELDS office located in the Broadway tower. I raced back home. I do not remember who took us to the base Hospital, as we did not have a car. I know that ART ROMALLO loaned me his car the next day. At 7:30 p.m, that was a Friday night my wife delivered a 7 ½ pound baby boy. We named him Paul Leroy Odle, Jr. My wife was of GREEK descent so we called our baby TYKI (meaning repete, Junior.) This was the first Grandchild on both sides of the family so Tyki’s birth was an important event, plus he was a male child which is rare in GREEK families. The next night the weeklong celebration of my “BIG GREEK BABY BOY” started at VAN and ERNESTINE CALLAS house. All of the GREEK FAMILIES in Enid were there at the CALLAS’ for dinner and Greek dancing. The CHRIST HRONOPULOS, GEORGE HRONOPULOS, CHARLES CALIVAS, PETE SELINAS, VAN CALLAS, JIMMY WILSON’S, TED CONSTANT’S, PAUL OUTHIER and JACK DAVIS FAMILY’S and many more. All of the older GREEK MEN like my father-in-law CHARLIE CALIVAS, VAN CALLAS, CHRIST HRONOPULOS, GEORGE HRONOPULOS and PETE SELINAS were dancing Greek folk dances with silver dollars pasted on their fore head. The Greek wine, the roasted lamb and the feta cheese flow around the room with gusto! The more Krasee (Greek Wine) they drank, and the more houched the old men got the more silver dollars you saw pasted to their fore heads. The rest of the week the celebration went on at my father-in-laws business CHARLIES BAR-B-QUE AND BEER GARDENS. DAD CALIVAS GAVE BEER AWAY ALL WEEK TO HIS CUSTOMERS. Everyone was excited about the new baby. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL JR. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 --------------------------------- What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos