So what did you do during your junior year in high school?
Stanley Hiller enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley. So what did you do during your senior year in high school? Hiller dropped out of Berkeley, designed, and flew his on helicopter (“Hiller Copter”). Guess this shouldn’t have surprised anyone, since in 6th grade he started a company making mini-race cars, and ended up making $100,000 per year. Better than a paper route.
Hiller died of complications of Alzheimer’s at age 81 years.
For those of you whose Friday night routine somewhere in the period of 1970 to 2002 consisted of watching Louis Rukeyser on Wall $treet Week, (can there be any better indication of either being married or otherwise needing a life than watching PBS on Friday nights?), Rukeyser is dead at age 73. The cause of death was multiple myeloma, a.k.a. cancer of the bone marrow.
”Good evening. I’m Louis Rukeyser and this is ‘Wall Street Week.’ Welcome back.”
Rukeyser’s opening line on every show.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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May 4th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
In my junior year of high school … I think I celebrated the two-year anniversary of my most recent haircut, probably got suspended once or twice, kept up my C+ average, and played lots of softball and basketball and smoked too much of whatever people were smoking back then.