Irv Celebrates 75th Brithday

Irv's 75th birthday begins with service to God. This is our Saturday to help clean the church so we head out to Big Pine at 8:30am. We always reward ourselves afterward with breakfast at Coco's or The Cracked Egg. We chose Coco's. Irv had "the works" and I had a grilled cheese on Cuban bread... Yum!!!

He spent the afternoon trimming shurbs and bushes. In Laurel, he earned the name, "Irv, the ripper" as he pruned fearlessly. Seriously, he's the best with plants inside or out.





Thanks to Sharon, Arno and Lucas who took the birtday boy to EL Siboney (his choice)for dinner. Irv and Arno shared Paella for two. It was a hard job to eat it all but they did it!

I picked up a cake at Publix and took it to EL Siboney in the afternoon. The server brought it out as the whole staff sang "Happy Birthday" accompanied by various latin instruments. Really great!

Irv tells everyone he has lived three-quarters of a century and... is looking forward to the next quarter. What a guy!!! As Julie says, he's a keeper!!!

Thanks to all for the great cards!

Some interesting facts about his birth year,1935...

U.S Events:
•Roosevelt opens second phase of New Deal in U.S., calling for social security, better housing, equitable taxation, and farm assistance.
•George H. Gallup begins the "Gallup Poll." In 1936 the poll will successfully predict outcome of the presidential election.

U.S. Economics: Unemployment: 20.1%; Cost of a first-class stamp:$0.03

Sports: World Series, Detroit d. Chicago Cubs (4-2);

Science:
•Du Pont chemist Wallace Hume Carothers creates nylon, the first completely synthetic fabric.
•Aircraft-detecting radar is pioneered by Robert Watson-Watt in England.

Entertainment:
•Although a primitive, two-color process was first used in 1922, audiences weren't impressed by Technicolor until a three-color system appeared in Becky Sharp.
•George Gershwin combines black folk idiom and Broadway musical techniques in Porgy and Bess.

World Events:
•Nazis repudiate Versailles Treaty, introduce compulsory military service.
•Mussolini invades Ethiopia; League of Nations invokes sanctions.
•Persia becomes Iran under Reza Shah Pahlevi.

Nobel Peace Prize:
* Karl von Ossietzky (Germany)... 1889–1938, German pacifist. Leader of the peace movement in Germany after World War I, editor of the antimilitarist weekly Weltbühne from 1927, and imprisoned (1932) for articles exposing secret rearmament in Germany. After Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Ossietzky was sent to a concentration camp. Suffering from tuberculosis, he was removed (1936) to a prison hospital shortly before the announcement that he had been awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize. The German government protested and barred all Germans from future acceptance of a Nobel Prize. Still imprisoned, Ossietzky died two years later.

“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” - Winston Churchill