Posts by Steve

This emerged from a box of letters I wrote my parents… written in 1970 when I was 17 and a freshman at Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute (now Rose-Hulman). I am stunned that I had the audacity to send this to them… they must have been horrified. This is the only written account of…

I’m just parking this here in the archives to help anyone who is researching Seneca High School history (Louisville, Kentucky)… This was my graduation year. I was Mr. Sowerberry in Oliver, the superbly produced senior play, and helped a bit with producing the student paper, but otherwise, my interests during this time were mostly in…

Note: the photo above (by Cathy Seebert Dusel) is a plaque in the lobby of my old high school, since I was inducted into the Hall of Fame. This makes me smile, as I was often warned a half-century ago that my various behaviors would go into my permanent record. I guess that was true!…

One of the more formative and worthwhile endeavors of my high-school years at Seneca (Louisville, class of 1969) was this wonderful senior play — largely because the director, Eugene Stickler, was brilliant. I was Mr. Sowerberry, the undertaker, and sang a solo that still resonates in my head nearly a half-century later (“He’s a born undertaker’s mute.…

Photo above: STEVE ROBERTS, son of Household Refrigerator employee Ed Roberts, demonstrates his exhibit at the recent Louisville Regional Science Fair held at Jeffersontown High School. Steve’s project, “A New Method of Electronic Speech Compression,” won him six awards and a number two spot at the fair. This article appeared in the weekly General Electric…