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Donna Mancini Remembers Randy Atcher

As so many of us Locals can attest...... I made my television debut with Randy Atcher and "Cactus" Tom Brooks, on T Bar V Ranch Time.

I can still remember the occasion vividly. It was my 6th Birthday. I had a new dress, bobby socks, and a Shirley Temple doll . What more could a little girl want in 1957?

I remember nervously going on the stage, holding my doll, and Randy Atcher telling me not to cover my face with my doll, as the camera focused on me.

I got to wave into the audience and say hi to my mommie, and daddy, my two sisters, my grandmothers, and a pet or two. My parents had a photographer there to mark this historical occasion, and to this day I keep the picture on my mantle in my living room.

There is something about the innocence and naiveté of childhood that makes me want these old relics to clutter up my house. After all, life was beautiful !!

At age 6, I had never suffered any "losses" and knew of no evil in the world. I had heard my dad talk about World War 2 a little, but that was very abstract to me and I had never experienced any violence or killing. On TV, which was a relatively " new" invention, I watched Howdy -Dowdy Time and Babes in Toyland!! My mother stayed home, my father brought home the bacon, and we played with the kids on the street and had big birthday parties and always invited everyone. We ate fish sticks. I had never heard of broccoli in those days! Talk about BLISS!!

Contrast the world 2002.....

On a daily basis I wait for e-mail from my loving son David who is serving our country in the Air Force in Korea. Thank you Bill Gates for giving me a home computer,

and Thank you Randy Atcher for giving me my 30 seconds of Fame on my 6th birthday, in the "good old days". May your soul rest in peace.

Speaking of Peace, I would sure like to see a little more of it going on in America and around the globe today !! But that's another essay, altogether.

Donna Walker Mancini

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