LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- "Cincinnati Horizons" magazine encourages readers to submit letters. Letters submitted online may be considered for publication here and in the print edition of the magazine.
Impressive array
I had a chance to visit your Web site and thoroughly enjoyed it. Congratulations.
You did a beautiful job on the story "Outside the Lines." It has an impressive array of talent, and I'm humbled to have been
included.
Glenn Kleier, A&S '72
Louisville, Ky.
I just received a copy of the "University of Cincinnati Horizons." I
found that this April
issue of "Horizons" exceeds any UC publication I have
seen in my past four to five years at the university. It exceeds in
its quality and layout, but more importantly,
the message(s) and concept. It truly encompasses all of the arts in
our university "community." Please accept my congratulations on
a truly noble effort in spreading this message.
Jim Rauch, Director Academic
CJ Distance Learning
College of Education
John Bach's piece ["Outside the Lines"]
is quite incredible -- a few familiar
faces and new ones to watch. Thanks for including me in such great
company. Congratulations for highlighting the strength of creative
work that infiltrates
this city.
Carissa Barnard, MFA (DAAP) '97
Cincinnati
Still spreading Sperti
I'm a Carlsbad, Calif., resident, originally from Northern Kentucky,
where I spent most of my childhood and just about all of my summers.
I remember all of my elders covering me in Sperti ointment for everything
from scratches to sunburn.
A few years ago I went on a quest to find some Sperti after my 4-year-old
daughter got a little too much sun. I found it was long gone, and it
seemed like an era had passed, although I still have a couple of tubes
of the old stuff.
Doing a Web search, I found the article you
had done and the readers' comments. Thank
you for bringing back such fond memories of my youth.
Scott O'Connell
Carlsbad, Calif.
'60s Bearcats
I remember my uncle telling me he was at one of the best of five
basketball invitational games between the Cincinnati Bearcats
and the Philippine national team in Manila
sometime after the conclusion of the Olympic games in 1960-61. Was there
really a time that the Bearcats visited the Philippines for this
invitational series?
My uncle says that Oscar Robertson was a member of the team that toured
the Philippines and some Asian countries at that time.
Romy-Carlos "Max" Ramajo
Cincinnati
Editor's note: We are glad your uncle had such fond memories of the game, however, UC's department of athletics was unable to find any evidence of the Bearcats playing in Manila. If Oscar Robertson played during the game, then it would not have been as a Bearcat because his UC career ended in the spring of '60. But since he was later co-captain of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team, touted as the greatest basketball team in Olympic history, it may have been the U.S. team that toured Asia after their gold-medal performance.
