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December 17, 2014
OBITUARIES
FORTY YEARS AGO Palmer Lake MonumentWoodmoor News, Dec. 19, 1974 Palmer Lake Community Library will host a Christmas Craft party at the Story Hour on Saturday, December 21, at 10:00 a.m. Children will make Christmas decorations and receive candy favors. Please have children wear washable clothes. Lewis Palmer Middle and High Schools had a holiday program on Thursday, December 12. Larry Kintz was director of the program. The choirs from both schools and the High School band participated in the program. There is a lot of talent in the two schools. “The Welsh believed that anyone who cuts down a juniper bush will die within the year”. Santa will be at the Mine Shopping Center on Friday, December 20th from 3-5 p.m. and Saturday, December 21 from 10-12 a.m. Come tell Santa what you want for Christmas. Santa will be giv-
ing away a special treat to all girls and boys. Don’t let your holiday mail end up in the “Graveyard of Poorly Wrapped Gifts.“ Many packages end up there due to improper addresses, torn labels and wrappings. Pick up “Packaging for Mailing” brochure at your local post office or order from Consumer Product Information. A sheet of paper with the name and address of the sender and recipient and a list of the contents inside the box will also be helpful. Lewis Palmer Middle School competed in The Math Contest held at Horace Mann Junior High. The 8th grade team won lst place and the 7th grade won 4th place. Randy Warthan, Mayor of Palmer Lake, has appointed a Centennial-Bicentennial Committee headed by Col. Carl Duffner. The Bicentennial will be celebrated In July l976. Many ideas are being considered and the committee will decide on which ones to work on. Two of the ideas
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the El Paso County Register was going and survived until 1889. In 1890, another publication, the “Monument Recorder” lasted less than a year, but about the same time, the “Monument Messenger” arrived and lasted until 1911. A replacement didn’t hit the scene again until “Preacher Sam,” who lived near Monument Lake created the “Lake View Press” in the 1950s. The “Columbine Herald” appeared on the scene about the same time. Then in the 1960s, our forerunner, the Monument Palmer Lake News, which later included the Woodmoor News, was first published by George Kobolt of Castle Rock. This year, we will celebrate our 50th year. Critics of print in general, and our paper specifically, brush us off as relic of some not-to-distant past. They talk of a bygone era where the country editor might
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Main Street was 300 yards long (three city blocks). The Bedford Falls set made use of 20 transplanted oak trees, and for the winter scenes, 3,000 tons of shaved ice, 300 tons of gypsum, 300 tons of plaster, and 6,000 gallons of chemicals. It had a working bank and a tree-lined center parkway. Pigeons, cats and dogs were allowed to roam the mammoth set to give it a lived-in feel. Because the story covers different seasons and an alternate town, the set was extremely adaptable. Filming began on April 15, 1946, and ended on July 27, 1946, exactly on schedule for the 90 day deadline to shoot that Capra told studio heads. Forty-two rings (bells, cash register rings, etc.) are heard over the course of the film. If Clarence Oddbody AS2 (Angel Second Class) - the Angel sent from heaven to help George - is correct, 42 angels (including Clarence) received their wings during the film. James Stewart said that It’s A Wonderful Life was his favorite film he ever made. It’s a Wonderful Life entered the public domain by accident in the 1970s. In 1946, when the movie was filmed, U.S. copyright protection lasted 28 years, and could be renewed for another 28 years by filing some paperwork and paying a nominal fee. However, Republic Pictures (which Liberty Films had morphed into) neglected to renew the 1946 copyright in 1974, so it entered the public domain and was shown by any television station that wanted to broadcast it. It’s A Wonderful Life became immensely popular on television thanks to repeated showings. Stations programmed it heavily during the holidays, paying no royalties to its producers, and more than 100 distributors sold the movie on tape. Republic regained control of the lucrative film in 1993 by flexing a new Supreme
presented are to beautify the area around Palmer Lake into a park like setting with a playground and a contest to design a town flag. The next meeting is scheduled for January 2nd 1975 at 7:00 p.m. at the Palmer Lake Library. Anyone is invited to come and share their ideas. Temple Christian Schools will have their annual Christmas program, Friday night December 20, at 7:30 p.m. at Pinecrest Baptist Temple. “Christmas is a Miracle” is a play revolving around a poor newsboy’s discovery of the Christ Child’s love for him. Mrs. Charles Green will direct the play. Mothers and fathers of the children will provide the costumes and scenery. All are invited. Admission is free. Mr. and Mrs. John Hammond celebrated their 50th anniversary on Sunday, December 15 at their home in Castle Rock.
RUSSELAVAGE
July 11, 1952-Nov. 26, 2014
Born Fort Belvoir, VA, July 11, 1952, died in Colorado Springs, November 26, 2014 after a brief battle with cancer. Mary had been a Monument/Palmer Lake area resident for several decades, making her final home where direct and extended family have lived and congregated since the early 1900’s. She was the Treasurer of the town of Palmer Lake in the 1990’s, and most recently the Utility Billing Manager for the town of Monument from 2000 until 2013. Through her life, Mary was able to see the world, living in the Washington HAMULA
Court ruling that determined that the holder of a copyright to a story from which a movie was made had certain property rights over the movie itself. Since Republic still owned the copyrighted story behind It’s a Wonderful Life, and had also purchased exclusive rights to the movie’s copyrighted music, it was able to essentially yank the movie out of the public domain. Republic claimed that since It’s A Wonderful Life relied on these copyrighted works, the film could no longer be shown without the studio’s blessing. In 1994, Republic signed a “long-term” deal granting NBC exclusive rights to broadcast the movie, and the network typically does so between one and three times a year. It’s A Wonderful Life won’t re-enter the public domain until well into the 21st century as some copyright laws last for up to 95 years. According to an interview with Karolyn Grimes - the actress who played Zuzu the name Zuzu comes from Zu Zu Ginger Snaps. George Bailey makes reference to this near the end of the movie when he says to Zuzu at the top of the stairs, “Zuzu my little Ginger Snap!” It’s a Wonderful Life was Donna Reed’s first starring role. The cry-your-eyes-out ending of the movie in George’s living room originally ended with the song “Ode to Joy.” not “Auld Lang Syne.” Mr. Potter never gets punished for stealing $8,000 from Uncle Billy. Capra said that he wanted to remind us that sometimes bad people get away with doing bad things. In 2004, BBC TV listings magazine “Radio Times” conducted a poll into the Best Film Never to Have Won an Oscar. It’s a Wonderful Life came in second. “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) came in first. Shawshank also failed at the box office, but is now considered one of the greatest films of all time.
D.C. area, Great Britain, Hawaii, Guam and California. She very much loved Hawaii and returned as often as finances and time would allow. Mary most recently returned from one final glorious trip just a few weeks prior to her death. Mary was Blessed with many great friends in Colorado, her family is thankful to all who were so supportive in her final days and showed great friendship during her lifetime. She is preceded in death by her parents Betty and Victor Russelavage, her husband Kevin Cullen and her sister Veronica Kelley. She is survived by her three children whom she
loved dearly. Daughter Cameron Gross of Wichita, KS, son Jeffrey North of Rhonert Park, CA and son Ryan North of Monument, CO. Surviving siblings are sisters Karen Pelzman of Colorado Springs, Jeffrey Normoyle of Middletown, MD., and Victor Russelavage of Manitou Springs, CO., 3 grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. A Celebration of life will be held at 12 PM Saturday, December 27, 2014 at Cowboys for Jesus Church, 11 North 22nd Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, officiated by Pastor Vern Thomson.
Warren Hamula
Compiled by Linda Case
lead varied life, with useful knowledge in every subject, good debater, good listener, and instructive talker; generous to the limit of his ability. “He had been from devil up to pressman in a printing office,” wrote M.V. Atwood in “The Country Newspaper” describing this individual. “He could sweep floors; clean cuspidors, set type; make up forms; run job press, cylinder, stitcher, binder, or engine; could repair them all if they got out of order; could write news, or editorial; correct proof; and sell papers on the street. He learned all he knew in the office. The modern efficiency and ‘specializing’ methods have eliminated this relic of olden times, but there is just as much to be learned in the printing office, as there was then,” wrote Atwood in 1923. Don’t count us out in the innovation arena, and be careful of, and perhaps show respect for, the idea that there is just as much to be learned in the local paper today— as there ever has been.
Mary Alecia Russelavage
June 9, 1928 – Nov. 28th, 2014
Warren Hamula, a long time Monument resident, went to his Lord and Savior on November 28th, 2014. Born June 9, 1928 to Alexander and Betty (Schenker) Hamula, Warren grew up on the “lower west side” of Cleveland, Ohio. The only child of a Hungarian immigrant, Warren found friendship and the joy of discipline in sports at a young age. When he was president of his High School class, his prowess in basketball was noticed by many college talent scouts. But Hamula chose nearby Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. There he set a school record that lasted 50 years for making the most continuous shots from the field, nearly tying the NCAA’s record. In 1950 he was named to the All-American college basketball team which toured the United States playing the Harlem Globetrotters in various cities. On the baseball diamond, Hamula had a career batting average of .385. Upon graduation from college, Hamula was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies. The dental profession was the winner when instead he chose to study dentistry at Western Reserve University. He earned his DDS there in 1954 and his MSD from Indiana University in 1958. Between those professional degrees, he served his country during the Korean War as a Captain in the US Air Force. Dr. Hamula was an internationally renowned orthodontist who was in private practice for over forty years, first in Fort Wayne, Indiana and then in Colorado
Springs and Monument. He was a charter member and active member of the American Board of Orthodontics and was a contributing editor of the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics for 37 years. As the founder and president of Modern Orthodontic Designs, he designed over 600 offices worldwide. Dr. Hamula was on the Orthodontic Staff at Indiana University for over a decade and was a guest lecturer at many orthodontic schools plus numerous State, Regional and National meetings. He designed the orthodontic department at Colorado and Indiana Universities among others and he authored over 80 articles on orthodontic treatment and office design. He has several patents pertaining to orthodontic equipment, cabinetry, and unique orthodontic appliances. Dr. Hamula was a past President of the Indiana Dental Association. In 1968, he received the American Association of Orthodontists Research Essay Award. In 1991, Dr. Hamula was inducted to the Baldwin Wallace Letterman’s Hall of Fame. Two years ago he was honored by his alma mater when he received its Alumni Merit Award. Warren was larger than life. He was a maverick in his profession with unbounded intellectual
curiosity. He loved sports, reading, nature and was an avid amateur photographer. Warren was also active in politics and a ‘fitness bug’ with keen interest in health and nutrition. In his retirement to Carmel, California, faith in his Lord Jesus and love for his wife Marcia carried him on during recent health challenges. The aid and special care from the faithful at Carmel Presbyterian Church added to his spiritual growth even during his final earthly verse. A celebration of life was held in Carmel on December 3, 2014. Warren is preceded in death by his parents and his wife Ruth C. Schenk. He survived by his second wife Marcia, three children- Dr. Sharon Burow and her husband Mike of Hartford, WI; Gail Gross (husband Frank, deceased) of Hartford, WI, Dr. David Hamula and his wife Keri of Monument, CO; three grand children – Matthew Burow and his wife Jodi of Slinger, WI; Kate O’Keefe and her husband Ryan of Hartford, WI; and Steven Hamula of Monument, CO along with three step children and six great grand children. Memorials to celebrate Warren’s life can be sent to: Wisconsin Lutheran College; 8800 West Bluemond Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226 for the Hamula Hungarian Foundation Mission Fund. Warren was instrumental in establishing this fund that services young children with physical challenges in Pecs, Hungary. His family travels there every other year to oversee the program and to run a summer camp.
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