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The Pantagraph Sunday, November 10, 1996 JJJ -TIPS From CI neighborhood, at the office and other places where you spend much of your life. Most of all, have fun. Include quirky, amateur shots in photo albums too they reflect innocence and personality. riii i i ir 11 j7l about deceased family members. Include any photos or information about your family's homeland, relatives' citizenship papers, war memorabilia, diplomas, degrees, or membership in organizations.

Your parents life before they had children: stories of where they grew up, how they met, their wedding, their daily life before children. Your arrival: the story of when, where and any surrounding circumstances and conditions. Your childhood: playmates, trips, associations with your brothers and sisters, health, diseases, unusual happenings, visitors in your home, visits to grandparents or other relatives, religion, economic conditions. Courtship and Marriage: Special dates, worst dates, meeting your partner, first impressions, what influenced you in your choice of spouse, how the question was popped, meeting your in-laws, parties, showers, the wedding, receptions, gifts, the honeymoon, moving into first apartment or house. Your children: feelings and thoughts of parents when mother first found out she was pregnant, names, dates and places of arrival, health of mother before and after, how father fared, characteristics, habits, smart sayings and doings, firsts, growing up, accomplishments, likes, dislikes, hobbies, schooling, accidents, sickness, marriage and vocation.

Advice and counsel to descendants: hopes for them, family traditions and activities, your feelings about family, your most cherished ideas and values. Tell your story in plain and direct language. Write truthfully. Include memories of joyful and inspiring experiences as well as sad and painful ones and everyday occurrences. Remember to use some humor.

Include news clippings, top songs or movies and which ones you liked and dis-liked. From Cheryl Chrisman Creative Memories Consultant Materials to use in creating a scrapbook: Avoid magnetic albums. The quality of the cardboard in these albums gives off peroxides that can cause yellow staining in the whites of the prints in both black and white and color prints. Look for archival quality albums. These albums should offer acid-free paper pages with photo corners, or plastic pocket pages.

Encase your album pages with scratch-resistant, clear Mylar sheet protectors or clear polypro-plyene pages. Spray newspaper clippings with a special bottle of preservation spray that can be found in art stores and through companies such as Light Impressions of Rochester, New York. Bookkeeper Deacidification Spray protects news clippings from yellowing and can be mounded with a non-toxic glue stick in a scrapbook. Test the acid content of paper materials with a pH Testing pen. The pen contains a chemical ink that changes color when applied to paper.

If it turns yellow, the paper has a high acid content, green indicates there is some acid present and blue means its acid free. Such pens sell for less than $5 each. Look for special writing tools. White pencils, Gold Metallic pens and fine tip pens are available for writing on album pages, papers and plastics. Once you've created your album, store them in the same temperature that you enjoy, not the extreme heat or dampness of the attic or basement 4 i Don't store cameras in purses that also contain make-up.

Tips from Debra Risberg, art curator at Illinois I State University's University Galleries, I and David Proeber, Pantagraph photo editor Glossy or matte? Glossy prints are sharper but if you hand them around, they're likely to be covered in fingerprints. Also, if you put a glossy picture under a glossy plastic, you get a double gloss. Scrapbooks themes and ideas: Scrapbooks don't just have to be about families. Con- sider keeping a book of photos of the following: The best meals you've cooked Your garden; before and after or put the seed packets next to photos of your actual results. Your favorite outfits, Halloween costumes over the I years or signature items such as pins, hats, socks or gym shoes.

Create a book honoring your friendships. Fill it with poems, journal entries, letters, stamps, maps, lists of vari-i ous addresses, favorite jokes or sayings, the story of how you became friends, ticket stubs from concerts or theatri- cal productions you enjoyed together. Holidays, of course. Dress up pages with designs cut I out on acid-free paper. Consider cutting photos into cir-j cles and other shapes and creating pumpkins, trees, snowmen, tree ornaments out of pictures of your family and friends.

I Sporting events. Decorate with confetti (made of acid-free i stickers, use colored felt tip pens or calligraphy pens for jTecprding information. Use oval, hearts and geometric templates for tracing over photographs. Birthdays. Decorate pages with balloon stickers, con- party invitations and anything that reflects the party itheme or person's personality.

Design album pages to honor seasons. Cut out of leaves, spring flowers or snowflakes and add them to the page or around photos. School days. Frame photos in designs made from colored paper. Use your school colors.

Include hall passes, report cards (optional), teacher's names, lock- 'er' combination, cafeteria menu, popular songs, record the najor news events, words from a cheer and humorous 'ariicdotes. Include photos of friends, special activities, sporting events and of course, graduation. Your vocation. Include photos from your job, infor-mation about promotions, companies, salaries, associates, achievements and your own business. Record all the basic facts for each photo.

Describe photos and include the names of people you've known years. Someday people will look at the photos and not 'recognize all the subjects. Info to include A family tree Your impressions of relatives, stories you've heard Armistice Day events well attended armistice from peace," the first commander of the Louis E. Davis American Legion post declared. "The warfare of preserving inviolate our constitutional mandate, the Bill of Rights, our individual privileges goes on without cessation, and our enemies brook no truce," the prophetic speaker added.

In 1954, after yet another defense of those rights and privileges, Armistice Day was redesignated as Veterans Day, honoring service personnel of all wars. Although the field of honorees has expanded with new wars, turnouts for current observances are meager compared to those days when every school boy and girl who stayed awake in class knew the significance of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Write Smedley in care of The Pantagraph. 301 W. Washington Bloomington.

III. 61702-2907. By GENE SMEDLEY With World War I a vivid memory, Armistice Day observances drew big crowds to the McLean County Courthouse in the 1920s and '30s. The 1930 gathering, pictured here, left barely enough room on Main Street for the streetcars to pass. Stars of the program were the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans Band arrayed in brilliant red coats performing patriotic tunes and the McLean County Fife and Drum Corps heading a contingent of high school students with flags and banners.

The day's featured speaker, Dr. Harry Howell, warned his listeners to guard against a false sense of national security. "While there is an armistice from war, there is no Hew names Emily RuthAnn Dittus, was born Oct. 11, 1996, to Lyndon L. and Nola A Dittus of 37 Edgewood Court, Bloomington.

The 7-pound, 12-ounce baby is a sister of Riley Victor, 4'2. She is named for a maternal great-great-grandmother and paternal great-grandmothers. Her middle name is for her mother and maternal grandmother. Grandparents are James and Betty Swinger of Forsyth, and Victor and Shirley Dittus of Atlanta. Robert and Holly Gold of Eureka are parents of Trevor Benton Gold, born Oct.

24, 1996. The 9-pound, 3-ounce baby is a brother of Kalla Nicole, 2H. George and Fern Knapp of Goodfield, and Bob and Jan Gold of Eureka are grandparents. named for a great-grandmother, Karin Johnson, 97, of Chicago, and middle-named for a great-grandmother, the late Lillian Felth. She has a brother.

Kevin, 5. Ed and June Feth of Park Ridge, and Sue McCall of Oilman are grandparents. Kayelynn Sue Wellman is the name chosen for the first child of Gary and Kandice Wellman of 6 Willedrob Road, Apt. 5, Bloomington. The 7-pound, 6-ounce baby is a granddaughter of Ken and Shirley Kirk of Farmer City, and Steve and Teresa Whitlock of 101 North-field Drive, Apt.

J-l, Normal. Great-grandparents are Laura Russell of Wel-don. and Tom and Margaret Frost of St Louis, Mo. Great-grandparents are Marie Goet-zinger of Goodfield; Guy and Edna Gold of Eureka; and Emma Jean Leezer of Toulon. Krystle Marie Koe, 18 months, joins her parents, Frank and Katy Koe of 1905 Hackberry Road, Bloomington, in welcoming Kendall Franklin Sy Koe, born Oct.

24, 1996. The 8-pound, 3-ounce baby is a grandson of Jimmy Sy and Ang Hua (Benita) of Manila, the Philippines, and Kim Koe of Bolingbrook. So-Sie of Manila is great-grandparent. Seven-pound, 13-ounce Karin Lillian McCall was born Oct. 24.

1996, to Bill and Cheryl McCall of 3125 Eagle Creek, Bloomington. The new arrival is MEMORIES 'from C1 -if Lisa Faulk of Bloomington worked 'bn individual scrapbooks for her twin sons Mason and Mitchell, 4, so they could see their differences. "It shows up in photos," Faulk i says. "One will get in a ride. One won't When they look back, they can see who was the dependent one and i who was independent" i Laura Amble of Hudson worked on an album of her 1-year-old daughter, Eva.

"All my pictures before were in boxes," Laura said. "This way is so much more organized. It's nice to open an album and just flip to a page. Plus, it's nice to do. It's enjoyable." The McLean County Historical So-! clety keeps about 200 scrapbooks in a basement storage room.

The books date back to the 1860s and reflect changes in history and economics, One personal scrapbook showed everything from the tags from a cou-! pie's wedding in 1915 when gifts such another $1,000 for the software necessary to scan photos on computer. Dale Nitzel, owner of Jiffy One Hour Photo in Bloominton and a photographer since since 1950, said lots of his customers are interested in digital imaging. But like others, he doesn't think prints or scrapbooks will ever go out of style. "People do like the image in their hands something they can pass around," Nitzel said. "I see it increasing.

As we get into more of these things, people find more use for pictures." Bob Stefl, a photography instructor, says people may enjoy storing photos on a thin plastic floppy disc as opposed to boxes, but he too agrees they will always enjoy looking at prints. "There really is something nice about the tactical sensation of turning pages and that hand-eye sensation you get from a book," Stefl said. "The electric screen is a little more remote and it may have a sense of magic in it but it's that tactical sensation of holding a book that will make the scrapbook last" as soup spoons were the norm to the get well cards sent to the man before his death in 1948. Although it covers the couple's life span together, there is no photo of the woman who likely made the scrapbook. At the historical society, preserving photos is an on-going discussion.

Director Greg Koos said his staff prefers color photos while he likes black and white. "If people want their great-grandchildren to see their photos, they should take black and white," Koos said. Of course, our great-grandchildren may simply turn on their computers to see photos of us in the future. Digital cameras are already becoming more affordable, selling for about $350 to $400. Several local camera shops can turn digital images into prints.

Fewer people are scanning their photographs at home, although the technology is now available. In McLean County, about 39 percent of the population have home computers but people would have to plunk down BoH Prtct Doe Not Apply To Ptrcenlagai OH. 1X9 OU OFF Regular Marked Price On Selected Items SALE PRICES GOOD SUNDAY NOV. 10 THRU SATURDAY, 16 Entire Stock Wool Wool Blends Huge Selection Harvest Decorations Accessories IndwUng slnaiTuy rlboonjwooms, gourds, picks, wreaths, candles, bells, Huge Selection Christmas Decorations. Accessories Greenery In dudes ornaments, picks, ribbons, wreaths, garland, candtos, candl Includes Worsted, Coating I turkeys, cornucopias, rries, harvest leaves, Fancies.

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