I met Bob Whaples when we both became apprentices in the pressroom in 1960. He rode his Triumph motorcycle to work and parked it near Rick’s roach-coach. We worked together on and off until I went to the University of Oregon to complete my undergraduate and graduate degrees. I visited him and several of the other pressmen following completion of my anesthesia residency. We all went to Victoria Station for prime-rib and had a wonderful time. That was the last time I saw Bob. I think of him often as I do all the pressmen I had the honor of working. I have fond memories of my time at the then “Times/Mirror Newspaper” with Harrison Sparks as the superintendent. I am now retired from anesthesia and my wife is retired from her medical practice. I have just completed my 22nd novel if you care to check them out at Amazon.com /JW Kelley The best to all of the LA Times pressmen…
James W. Kelley, Jr, Colonel, USAF (Ret) jkcrna@yahoo.com
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I met Bob Whaples when we both became apprentices in the pressroom in 1960. He rode his Triumph motorcycle to work and parked it near Rick’s roach-coach. We worked together on and off until I went to the University of Oregon to complete my undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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I have fond memories of my time at the then “Times/Mirror Newspaper” with Harrison Sparks as the superintendent. I am now retired from anesthesia and my wife is retired from her medical practice. I have just completed my 22nd novel if you care to check them out at Amazon.com /JW Kelley
The best to all of the LA Times pressmen…
James W. Kelley, Jr, Colonel, USAF (Ret)
jkcrna@yahoo.com