Pooh Bear!

A long lost Skin has been back in touch. I kept in touch with Steve Winney, aka Pooh Bear (Fall 1986) for about a year after he graduated, and it was a very sad day when an email I sent to him got bounced back because his email address was no longer valid. That was back in the 90s. Finally, over a decade later, Pooh is back!

Here is what Pooh has been up to: "I’ve been living in Portland, Oregon for 15 years now. I’ve been married for 12 to Debi. I have 3 kids (7, 8 + 10). The youngest is a boy and two girls. I am actually a Blacksmith and run a decorative metal shop."

His blacksmithing and metalwork web page is very cool. Check out his website www.yardleyforge.com, and be sure to look at the galleries... he is pretty good!

I will update his contact info on the SKN web site, in the alumni directory.

Actives' Social Events Fall 2007

All alumni are most welcome!!
Sept. 15 Sat.

SKN ROCK SHOW!!!
7:00 P.M. doors open, 7:30 band starts
Sept. 22 Sat. 80's Party
Oct. 12-14 Cedar Point Fund Raiser

Oct. 26 Fri. Halloween Hotel
Nov. 3 Sat. Casino Night

Chad & Trish Zediker Have a New Girl

Hi Skins,

I just wanted to write a quick message to let everyone know about the birth of my baby! Both Mom and baby are home from the hospital and doing great. This is our first child and we are very excited to finally become parents! If any of you long time parents have any good parenting tips we would love to hear them.

My wife Trish and I currently live in Greensburg, PA which is about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh. We bought a house there in late March and really love the area. If anyone lives nearby please feel free to contact me and we can meet up sometime. I currently work as a Plastics Engineer for Respironics, Inc. in Murrysville, PA and my wife is a nurse (RN) at Shadyside Hospital. We have been married for 5 years now. It seems like the time has flown by since leaving school.

We are looking forward to the 25th anniversary celebration. It would be great to see everyone. Hope everyone is doing well.

If anyone would like to get a hold of me I can be reached by e-mail at chad.zediker@respironics.com.

Fraternally yours,

Chad & Trish Zediker
Bro Dazed – SP 98

Building a Shed

I have not been blogging much lately. All of my extra time is spent building a shed. I am almost done, so I should spend a little more time on the blog. My goal was to be done with the shed before football season. I am about a week late.

We should have more content on the blog in the coming weeks. Students are back in school, and the actives are going to post here as well. Plus with football season, many alumni will return to tailgate and catch up. I know at least a few are heading there this weekend. I am hoping to make it up for a game this year, but no plans so far. It will likely be a last minute trip.

I have seen a couple alumni since the last time I wrote. The whole family took a vacation to stay with my Mom in Massachusetts. We drove and stopped in Washington DC on the way up there. On the way back we stopped in Chester Springs, PA to visit the Tunneys. Great to see Jon and Kelly, and to meet baby Erin. We also picked up a surfboard that had been taking up space in their garage. This board has a long Skin lineage. Jon and Mike Bailey have had this board for over 10 years, taking it to the Jersey Shore in the summer. Before Jon and Beetle, the board was owned by Jerry Dyke. I am happy to say that it will get lots of use on Pawleys Island.

In July I met up with Steve Dittmer. He and his wife, and a bunch of their family spent two weeks on vacation in Myrtle Beach. I met Ditt after work (about midnight) at the bar in his condo complex. The picture is a great contrast between someone fresh out of work, and drunk vacation boy. We tried to get together again, but I live over an hour from his vacation spot. Next time we will plan better and have you guys down to Pawleys.

Football fans, remember to post pictures and stories to the blog!

Networking and Brotherhood

Almost every day I get requests/invites to join networks (I am a recruiter) but today I got one from Jeff Wilson, my Big Brother.
It got me thinking we could all make our links to the various networking sites so we can help each other out.

So I am going to include links to the two sites I use the most, LinkedIn and Facebook. I am not using MySpace as much due to the amount of crap on it.
I would be open to connecting to anyone on either site
LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/67/264
(I am looking for sales people with a software background in 1) Sacramento 2) Boston 3) Jacksonville 4) Laguna Hills 5) Santa Clara

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705175300

Feel free to include your information in the comments to this post.

Penn State vs Notre Dame Bus Trip (Pittsburgh)

With the 2007 Penn State Football season rapidly approaching, it's time to start thinking about what you are going to do for the most anticipated NCAA football game of 2007 and the most anticipated game in at least ten years for Penn State football: the September 8, 2007 battle with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame!

If you live in or around Pittsburgh (Actives included), we have the answer for you.

Once again, Chuck Behanna (Bro Spaz) and Dan Behanna (Bro Liberty)are organizing a chartered bus trip to this historic event. For a minimal $50.00, you get the following:

1. Beer (all you can drink for the ride to State College)


2. Bus (departing Pittsburgh at 10:00 AM and leaving State College after the game)


3. Beer (all you can drink at the tailgate)


4. Munchies (for the ride up and back) and Food (at the tailgate)


5. Beer (all you can drink for the ride back to Pittsburgh)

Everyone is on their own for tickets. However, in a worst case scenario,you might not be able to scalp tickets and have to watch the game in a bar at State College, which would be the next best thing to actually being at the game.

If you are interested in joining your other Pittsburgh SKN Alumni on this trip, let either Chuck or Dan Behanna know.

Notre Dame fans and significant others are welcome.

GO STATE!

Timmy Gets Married

Last weekend (8/11/07) ago, Tim "Cess" Gilboy got married to Lori Sondenheimer at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Given the hellish weather we have had all summer they could not have picked a more beautiful day. As we speak they are honeymooning, I think in Hawaii. It was cool being in a stadium that holds tens of thousands of people, when there were less than a hundred people there.