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Barney Miller - Joe

June 24, 2014
by Bob Oso

The times we had during UI orientations and signing clients in are good memories.  Ray would give the client a hand-out, explained to fill it out and we would pick them up after the orientation.  It went something like this:

Fill out the top sheet, we will pick them up after the orientation and please have a seat in the room”.  They would say “What, I did not hear you” Ray would repeatFill out the top sheet, we will pick them up after the orientation and please have a see in the room”.   I still did not hear you. Once again Ray repeatedFill out the top sheet, we will pick them up after the orientation and please have a seat in the room”.   Ray would look at me and I would tell the clientFill out the sheet, sit in the room and wait for us to pick them up”.  Then Ray would go back to humming the theme from “Barney Miller” or it sound like that to me since it was one of my favorites.  You just had to enjoy times like those.  Glad I was there.

When are we going to Belize?

June 19, 2014

Ray and I had an ongoing joke that I was going to retire and take him with me to Belize.

He said he would go only if the senoritas had red hair. I told him I would bring wigs with us!!

On June 6th we celebrated the May birthdays (mine was May 2nd).

Ray had signed my birthday card sometime in the month of May.

"Happy Birtday   Belize is calling,  Ray"

 

He beat me there!!

Memories of a brief morning viewing

June 19, 2014

I am a fairly new employee at the workforce center, however, I had the pleasure of being in the company of Mr. Ray on early mornings Mon/Tues @7am. at the popular printer for employees on the floor @ cube 220. He was a busy man and one particular Monday morning, he took the time and stopped at my desk which is next to printer and he joined in on me listening to DickGregory and Paul Mooney for a good ten minutes. We exchanged opinions and our views about the topic at hand and before he left he told me thank you for letting me listen. I told him know problem anytime. Then he welcome me to the workforce center as a new employee. Since then I was a big fan of his.
 

Ray's Birds

June 19, 2014

These are the birds Ray had fed every morning for the past couple of years. Staff have decided to continue the feeding.

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