Monday, November 7, 2011

More Tom

More than anyone expected
     Law student and OC Reg columnist Frank "Soft ball" Mickadeit visited Chapman law school on Saturday. He was there to attend the 150th anniversary gala celebrating Chapman’s founding. (The founders were Druids.)
     While there, he heard news about SOCCCD trustee Tom Fuentes (Absent alumnus Tom Fuentes hanging in there):
     The joint was littered with influential faculty, alumni and benefactors … but I was reminded that one member of the Chapman family wasn't with us this night. Another tablemate, former Chevy dealer Woody Oklejas, asked, "How is Tom Fuentes doing?"…..
     If you read my columns on the cancer-stricken Fuentes in August, you'd have thought that we'd have been to his funeral by now. But shortly after that, I started getting reports of random Fuentes sightings. I just saw Tom at the Balboa Bay Club. ... You should have heard Tom's speech trashing Schwarzenegger. ... Tom snuck a beer last night. ... I saw Tom doing Jell-o shooters at ...
     You get the picture. God has been having second thoughts about calling him home, so Fuentes is making the most of it. As it happens, just hours before Oklejas' question, I'd gotten an email from Fuentes (and I don't even email when I have the flu), so I had an update.
     He still spends most of his time in bed, and he has finally decided to take morphine. But, he writes, "when there is an occasion to attend something special, I rest for several days in advance. Then, usually, I can get myself up and to the event." Last week, for example, he gave the invocation at a private dinner for Gov. Rick Perry. He's resting up to give the invocation for a dinner for Rep. Paul Ryan at The Island Hotel Saturday. You need an invocation? I say book him.
     With the haste of a really slow glacier, the Lariat is finally on the “Amy Ahearn” case. See English instructor missing and 'at risk'

2 comments:

I fear no fish said...

If you'd posted this a few days ago I would have thought it was a Halloween story.

Anonymous said...

Perry, and then Ryan. The man keeps astoundingly poor company.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...