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Username: Linda
Message_For: Rock Med Volunteers
SubjectOther: The Angels of RockMed
Date: 06 Apr 2002
I want to express my graditude and thanks to all the volunteers at the CSNY
Concert at the Oakland Arena on April 4, 2002.
There are no words that express how grateful I am to all of you and a special
thanks to Barney, Ken and Steve, who went way beyond the call of duty.
I have a bad knee and will be having surgery on it soon, with the help of the
angels at RockMed I was able to enjoy the concert and even got a exciting
wheelchair ride to bart afterwards.
You guys are great!!!!!!!
I will bring you all cookies at the next concert I come to. :) Keep up the great
work.
Thank you again
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Big Hugs for you all
Linda
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From: kevin kammer
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 10:37 PM
Subject: Hi,
Hello FRIENDS!!!!
I'll be gone for a week... Going to Vegas in a few hours and when I come back I'll be a married man!!! Talk to you all soon but for now to quote the song "I'm getting married in the morning..." See you all soon.
Life, Love, Hope, Happiness, to ALL
Kevin & Annette
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Message_For: Rock Medicine Staff & Friends
Date: 02 Mar 2002
Comments: OK BOB,,
Its me Kevin Kammer. Just got married in Vegas on 2/26/02, Ran into Emily and
her mom in the casino 2 days after the wedding, her and Mike stood us up for
breakfast!!! Tell ALL my friends at Roc-Med I am MARRIED and expect to see and
meet "the Wife" at ALL events... Buy the way LOVE my new jacket!
AS Always,
Life, Love, Hope, Happiness,,, to ALL
Kevin
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Dear Shirley Hatten
Hello! You may not remember me but I will never forget you what Rock Med did for me.
In October 2001 I had a horrible mushroom trip at the Widespread Panic Show. You were there for me the entire time, right by my side. I can't thank you enough for reaching out and helping a complete stranger. You all are such wonderful people and I just wanted to express my deepest gratitude towards you. I am happy to say my experimentation with hard drugs is over, I now know my limits. I thank you again from the bottom of my heart.
Have a safe happy holiday!
Jane Doe (A patient)
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Hi...Thought you might be interested.
Love, peace and health,
Michelle :)===
LSD pioneer, author Kesey in critical condition
EUGENE, Ore. (Reuters) - Ken Kesey, whose novel "One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest" became a classic of 1960s rebellion and whose rollicking
stewardship of a group of hippies became the stuff of folklore, has been
hospitalized with cancer of the liver and is critical condition, hospital
officials said Friday.
Kesey roamed the United States in a psychedelic tour bus dispensing LSD in a
1964 journey as head of "The Merry Pranksters," a group of his
friends, that became the subject of one of Tom Wolfe's most famous forays into
"New Journalism": "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." The
driver of the bus was Neal Cassidy, the hero of Jack Kerouac's Beat classic 'On
the Road.'
Kesey is also given credit for turning rock band The Grateful Dead on to LSD.
"He is in critical condition in the intensive care unit," Diane
Mattoon, coordinator of Sacred Heart Medical Center, said.
The 66-year-old Kesey was admitted Thursday after surgery two weeks ago to
remove a malignant tumor on his liver, a family friend told the Eugene Register
Guard newspaper. Doctors also removed about 40 percent of Kesey's liver and the
friend said it appeared the cancer had not spread.
Born in Colorado, Kesey grew up in the Pacific Northwest and wrote "One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1962, turning it into a play in 1963. It
was made into a film by Czech-born director Milos Forman in 1975, starring Jack
Nicholson, and won Oscars for best picture, best actor, best actress and best
director.
In 1964, Kesey published "Sometimes a Great Notion," a novel of a
feuding Pacific Northwest family and critics put him in the same category as
contemporaries Joseph Heller and Philip Roth. But writing took a back seat to
life and the then young author was arrested twice for possession of marijuana
and fled to Mexico to avoid a stiff jail term. Kesey finally settled down on a
farm in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, to raise his family.
One of the "Pranksters," Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, died earlier this
week of a heart attack at age 59.
Kesey's condition is complicated by a diabetes and a slight stroke suffered
in 1997.
A one-time champion wrestler and creative writing student at the University
of Oregon, Kesey's life took a dramatic turn when he participated in drug
experiments at Stanford University to earn extra cash. In that program Kesey
took drugs including LSD and mescaline and reportedly wrote parts of
"Cuckoo's Nest" while high on drugs.
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Novelist, 60s Icon Ken Kesey Dies
By JEFF BARNARD
.c The Associated Press
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Ken Kesey, whose LSD-fueled bus ride became a symbol
of the psychedelic 1960s after he won fame as a novelist with ``One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' died Saturday morning. He was 66. Kesey died two weeks
after cancer surgery at Sacred Heart Medical Center to remove 40 percent of his
liver.
``We're all going to miss him,'' said Eileen Babbs, a family friend. ``He's
gone too soon.'' After studying writing at Stanford University, Kesey burst onto
the literary scene in 1962 with ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' followed
quickly with ``Sometimes a Great Notion'' in 1964, then went 28 years before
publishing his third major novel.
In 1964, he rode across the country in an old school bus named Furthur driven
by Neal Cassidy, hero of Jack Kerouac's beat generation classic, ``On The
Road.'' The bus was filled with pals who called themselves the Merry Pranksters
and sought enlightenment through the psychedelic drug LSD. The odyssey was
immortalized in Tom Wolfe's 1968 account, ``The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.''
``Anyone trying to get a handle on our times had better read Kesey,'' Charles
Bowden wrote when the Los Angeles Times honored Kesey's lifetime of work with
the Robert Kirsh Award in 1991. ``And unless we get lucky and things change,
they're going to have to read him a century from now too.''
``Sometimes a Great Notion,'' widely considered Kesey's greatest book, told
the saga of the Stamper clan, rugged independent loggers carving a living out of
the Oregon woods under the motto, ``Never Give A Inch.'' It was made into a
movie starring Henry Fonda and Paul Newman.
But ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' became much more widely known, thanks
to a movie that Kesey hated. It tells the story of R.P. McMurphy, who feigned
insanity to get off a prison farm, only to be lobotomized when he threatened the
authority of the mental hospital. The 1974 movie swept the Academy Awards for
best picture, best director, best actor and best actress, but Kesey sued the
producers because it took the viewpoint away from the character of the
schizophrenic Indian, Chief Bromden. Kesey based the story on experiences
working at the Veterans Administration hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., while
attending Wallace Stegner's writing seminar at Stanford. Kesey also volunteered
for experiments with LSD. While Kesey continued to write a variety of short
autobiographical fiction, magazine articles and children's books, he didn't
produce another major novel until ``Sailor Song'' in 1992, his long-awaited
Alaska book, which he described as a story of ``love at the end of the world.''
``This is a real old-fashioned form,'' he said of the novel. ``But it is sort
of the Vatican of the art. Every once in a while you've got to go get a blessing
from the pope.'' Kesey considered pranks part of his art, and in 1990 took a
poke at the Smithsonian Institution by announcing he would drive his old
psychedelic bus to Washington, D.C., to give it to the nation. The museum
recognized the bus as a new one, with no particular history, and rejected the
gift. In a 1990 interview with The Associated Press, Kesey said it had become
harder to write since he became famous. ``When I was working on `Sometimes a
Great Notion,' one of the reasons I could do it was because I was unknown,'' he
said. ``I could get all those balls in the air and keep them up there and
nothing would come along and distract me. Now there's a lot of stuff happens
that happens because I'm famous. And famous isn't good for a writer. You don't
observe well when you're being observed.'' A graduate of the University of
Oregon, Kesey returned to his alma mater in 1990 to teach novel writing. With
each student assigned a character and writing under the gun, the class produced
``Caverns,'' under the pen name OU Levon, or UO Novel spelled backward.
``The life of it comes from making people believe that these people are
drawing breath and standing up, casting shadows, and living lives and feeling
agonies,'' Kesey said then. ``And that's a trick. It's a glorious trick. And
it's a trick that you can be taught. It's not something, just a thing that comes
from the muses.'' Among his proudest achievements was seeing ``Little Tricker
the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear,'' which he wrote from an Ozark mountains
tale told by his grandmother, included on the 1991 Library of Congress list of
suggested children's books.
``I'm up there with Dr. Seuss,'' he crowed. Fond of performing, Kesey
sometimes recited the piece in top hat and tails accompanied by an orchestra,
throwing a shawl over his head while assuming the character of his grandmother
reciting the nursery rhyme, ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'' Other works
include ``Kesey's Garage Sale'' and ``Demon Box,'' collections of essays and
short stories, and ``Further Inquiry,'' another look at the 1964 bus trip in
which the soul of Cassidy is put on trial. ``The Sea Lion'' was another
children's book, telling the story of a crippled boy who saves his Northwest
Indian tribe from an evil spirit by invoking the gift-giving ceremony of
potlatch.
Born in La Junta, Colo., on Sept. 17, 1935, Kesey moved as a young boy in
1943 from the dry prairie to his grandparents' dairy farm in Oregon's lush
Willamette Valley. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the
University of Oregon, where he also was a wrestler. After serving four months in
jail for a marijuana bust in California, he set down roots in Pleasant Hill in
1965 with his high school sweetheart, Faye, and reared four children. Their
rambling red barn house with the big Pennsylvania Dutch star on the side became
a landmark of the psychedelic era, attracting visits from myriad strangers in
tie-dyed clothing seeking enlightenment.
The bus Furthur rusted away in a boggy pasture while Kesey raised beef
cattle. Kesey was diagnosed with diabetes in 1992. His son Jed, killed in a 1984
van wreck on a road trip with the University of Oregon wrestling team, was
buried in the back yard. On the Net:
Kesey information: http://www.intrepidtrips.com
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:23:31 -0800
From: hal \"Phoenix\" Muskat` <hmuskat@igc.org>
Reply-To: hmuskat@igc.org
Organization: Rainbow Puddle Liquid Light Psychedelic Projections
Subject: Ken Kesey
Apologies to the very few of you who may have recieved this mailing twice.
I've created some pages to the memory of Ken Kesey containing newspaper coverage
of his death and funeral, obits, and personal recollections. Some of the Eugene
Register Guard links have pictures. thanks to bsarles and his list for much of
the content.
"Since we don't know where we're going we have to stick together in case
someone gets there."
Ken Kesey 1935 - 2001
His memorial was classy, trippy, tearful, joyful and his death too fuckin
damn too soon! Bagpipers serenaded us as we entered the newly refurbished
McDonald Theater in downtown Eugene. University of Oregon President Dave
Frohnmyer spoke elequontly of his relationship to Ken. Kesey's literary agent,
Sterling Lord recalled some Kesey Moments and read selections from
"Sometimes a Great Notion."
Zane Kesey put together an excellent video retrospective of his dad's life.
From the Eugene Symphony came "The Water is Wide," and "Of Time
& Rivers Flowing." His long time best friend and co-conspirator Ken
Babbs spoke beautifully for an hour and could have gone for a few more save for
the old folks and youngsters needing diaper attention. Babb's daughter Rachel
sang
"Amazing Grace," and the program was completed with Garcia and the
Dead in an incredible "We Bid You Goodnight." Spilling onto the
sidewalk on a blocked off Willamette Street in downtown Eugene, over 1,000
family members, friends, Pranksters, community and UO people, fellow school
board reps, other dairy farmers, ageless hippies and young dreaded people gasped
in awe as Babbs took the stage and gently twice rapped the Prankster dipped
coffin. The knock was returned.
Fifty years prior, in this same building we were informed, Kesey had
preformed magic tricks. His dipped coffin was center stage and orange,
purple and green light lie dormant on the screen behind. Chuck Kesey said,
"Ken said he'd help fill this place," and ineed he had.
After loading Ken onto the back of Further, his last police escort led the
caravan towards the Farm.
http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/kesey.html
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 21:23:36 -0700
To: Friends@rockmed.org
From: Dawn Michelle Cauthen
Subject: The Announcement!!!
Hey All!
On July 27th at 7:32am, after 4 hours of labor and on his estimated
due date, Danny Jack Cauthen (better known as DJ) was born! He weighed
in at 7lbs 3oz and was 20 inches long. I've attached a pic so you can see
he's the cutest baby in the whole world.
The water birth was very helpful, getting in the water took all of
the pain out of my back. The whole process still hurt like hell, but my
back was better. The labor was hard and fast, but I'm told that's the best
kind. My water broke at about 3am, the contractions started about 3:30.
We went to the birthing center at about 6am. The nurses didn't think I
was going to go so fast, in fact my nurse asked me if I wanted her to check
me or did I want to wait until the Dr got there. I told her I wanted to
be checked NOW and if she told me I was 3 centimeters, I was gonna kill
her. She checked and said, "Oh! Have you had the urge to push?" Then they
called the Dr and told her to hurry up. A midwife came in the room to stay
with me, in case the Dr didn't make it in time, but she did. Jack's parent's
almost didn't make it in time, but they were there, as was Jack's sister,
Melissa, my mom, and my dad and step-mom. They all waited in the hall while
I was in the tub. Jack was a huge help, he even climbed in the tub with
me and we both helped to catch DJ and pull him up out of the water and
onto my chest. After I got out of the tub and into a bed, all of the family
waiting outside came in to say hello to their newest family member. 
Jack, DJ, and I stayed in the birthing center until the next day. I
was ready to come home even though it had only been a day since DJ was
born. The first 5 days were really tough because DJ was colicky. It was
so hard for me to listen to him cry in pain, and nothing I did made him
feel any better. Turns out he's sensitive to cow's milk in my diet, which
is common in babies. As soon as I cut that out of my diet, he's been a
much happier baby!
I have been wanting to get this announcement out sooner, but until
yesterday, I didn't have a lot of email addresses that were at work. And
those of you who have been home with a newborn will understand that there
is no time to get things done. Everyone tells me to sleep when the baby
sleeps, but that's when I eat, shower, and try to get other important things
done. I'm sorry if I've hurt anyone's feelings by not calling them as soon
as he was born, but I just have not had time or energy. I look forward
to any advice you have to offer and I also want to thank everyone for the
good thoughts, they really helped!
Love,
Dawn, Jack, and DJ
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From: Kelly P. Murphy
To: Friends@RockMed.org
Subject: Returns
I have been super busy since I got back from
Papua New Guinea again.....the summer project was quite successful
and we're ready to move on to phase II of the work......there were no major
problems the whole trip until leaving the country when I blew out my left
air from barotrauma.....I had surgery when I got back and now have some
hearing back, and the ringing has slowly been improving but is still constant....more
like a computer hum than an alarm clock now though......the ear folks predict
full or near full recovery by September, otherwise I'll be just like dad....I
may not be allowed back on a plane
until November, and will need special earplugs to return to Rock Med
in September......things are already heating up at Stanford as far as next
summer with our starting a new medical program in Viet Nam, or just across
the border in Laos....I can't wait for this one.....I've already had multiple
students/MDs/nurses say they want to go along.....we also will be expanding
our area of contact to the Highlands of PNG, so next summer I may be gone
for a few months.....now if I can only get more funding to pay the
bills, and triple the amount of drugs/supplies that we've been getting
donated......as I re-settle in there doesn't seem to be much else that
is new, just the international stuff, my lack of hearing, and tons of bills
to pay - I hope all is well with everyone else....let me know how everything
is going......Kelly
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Click for the full story
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On the Cover:
George “Skip” Gay, MD ’61, watches over a crowd at an outdor concert
in Sacramento, Calif., in the early 1980’s Gay helped create Rock Medicine,
a program that provides health care at concerts, and pioneered the treatment
of drug abuse at the free clinic hr helped establish in Haight-Ashbury.
Now 70, he remain a leader in Rock Medicine and an inspiration to hundreds
of volunteers who follow his philosophy for health care. |
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Sorry to Announce
Joseph "Jose" Bordas, Jr., a former
Director of Rock Medicine, passed away on June 30, 2001.
"Joe was the most generous man I've
ever known," says Glenn "Raz" Raswyck, current Director of Rock Medicine.
Joe's ability to make each volunteer feel special and appreciated carried
the organization through one of its greatest growth periods, from covering
not just a dozen or so Days on the Green and New Year's shows, to over
200 events in a year at numerous Bay Area venues.
Developing a dedicated core group,
Joe allowed each individual to attain his/her own best level of expertise.
He also supported the entry of Rock Medicine into the computer age, encouraging
computer-oriented volunteers to struggle with the less-than-adequate databases
of the day to create staff lists for the shows.
Joe will be missed by all who knew
him.
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Other Departed Rock Medicine Volunteers,
Such a long trip:
Joseph "Jose" Bordas, Jr http://www.RockMed.org/Joe.htm
Jack McCloskey http://www.RockMed.org/Jack.htm
Dr Pat Connell http://www.RockMed.org/PatConnell.htm
Pat Roth http://www.RockMed.org/PatRoth.htm
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:48:47 EDT
Subject: Re: Rock Medicine 2001.06.15 LAST ISSUE (2)
To: Bob@rockmed.org
Bob:
Thank you for all your work in keepng up the show list all these years!
Melissa and I have been glad to be a part of Rock Med and want to express
our thanks to you, keep up the good work!
Robert & Melissa!
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From: Mike Browne
To: "'List@RockMed.org'" <List@RockMed.org>
Subject: RE: Rock Medicine 2001.06.17 LAST ISSUE (4)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:03:53 -0700
Bob,
Thanks for doing this for all these years. Hard to believe it
was 6 years ago!!! Good idea to post on the website.
Mike
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From: "Marguerite Etemad"
To: List@RockMed.org
Subject: Re: Rock Medicine 2001.06.15 LAST ISSUE (2)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:45:28 -0000
Hey Now, I'm sad to see it go and I'll bookmark the site and thanks
for doing it all these years, it's been one of the ooh yeah pieces of mail
in my inn box. I'll see you soon I imagine... I'm working 6/1 Phill
Lesh & The Wharf on the fourth.
Till then Happy Trails
Love you, Marguerite
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 00:37:20 EDT
Subject: Re: Rock Medicine 2001.06.15 LAST ISSUE
To: List@rockmed.org
Will miss hearing from you but can understand the reasons behind now
doing ALL the email. Hope to see you at the shows now and then and bring
some goodies when i am at a show for you to share with staff.
elizabeth..tiburon
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From: Andie Rice
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:12:05 -0700 (PDT)
To: bob@RockMed.org
Subject: newsletter
I just wanted to say thank you for all the time & effort you have
put in to keep the newsletter going!!!
Again- THANK YOU!!!!
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:03:26 -0800 (PST)
From: janice
Subject: Re: Rock Medicine 01.02.09 Friday - Unofficial eMail Newsletter
To: List@RockMed.org
I am a student in Sayre, Oklahoma at SWOSU. I am so sorry to hear
of your losses --Big Bob Woods and Larry Winterbottom. I am always
delighted to receive your
newletter on my email. I am studying to be a Medical Lab Technition,
spend time in Peace Corp and very much hope to be part of an organization
very much like your
own if not your organization. I am very excited on my educational
journey to reach these goals. I will absolutely be in touch with
you when I am ready to be considered to join your group. I have the
same concerns with medical assistance to be available to everyone whether
the need be at public functions or gathering as well as communities for
everyone. Once again, my condolences to you all. My thoughts
and prayers are with you. I have faith the good work most definitely
will continue. I only hope I can be apart of it before too long.
Sincerely,
Janice
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New Sections
The Rock Medicine Old News and Information you need to know before eMailing
or calling the Office to book shows. http://RockMed.org/ShowListOldNews.htm
Bad Tast Jokes and other Internet Poop (Not from Rock Medicine) http://www.RockMed.org/ShowListJokes.htm
Show List at: www.RockMed.org/ShowList.htm
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