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Nadine Bruns

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The Dash Nadine Bruns May 8, 1935 – October 4, 2024 About the dash . . . We live in a world dashing from one thing to another . . . school, work, the gym, weekend activities. All smashed into our weekly schedules. No wonder we dash here and there . . . The dash . . . the dash that expresses the expanse between life and death for each of us is only about an inch long on the marker of the person’s grave -- Mom’s grave -- but it represents almost 89 ½ years full of life. And she made that dash count with work, vacations, school and raising Elaine (me). Her life started in Eugene, Oregon with a mother who had contracted Polio while pregnant with her, and a father who was working in another town and could only visit his sick wife, with child, in the hospital occasionally. When Nadine was born on May 8, 1935, to Delmar and Ellen Lynch, they were very happy with their new healthy baby girl. In the late 1930’s, life was not so hectic, especially for a little girl. Before Nadine started school, she would dash to the local fishing hole and catch more fish than she could count (she could count to 10). Nadine also made dashes to the store for her mother who could not walk easily. Her tasks were to buy one item at the store and return home with the item. As she got older, the daily dash included two items. Her days were simple and I’m sure being a little girl, she thought time moved slowly, but looking back, time dashed away. One day, one week, didn’t stand out for her or Dorothy (her aunt who lived with them and was more like a big sister than an aunt) until Christmas day in 1941. She awoke to the brand-new bicycle she had been staring at through the general store’s window each time her father found her after school. It was right there in her tiny living room with her name on it. Both Nadine and Dorothy rode that bike up and down the dirt road for the entire day. The next day, Nadine’s father brought home another bike for Dorothy’s gift. It had not been there on Christmas day, but it made the Christmas fun last a little bit longer. On December 27, 1941, just one day later, the ban on rubber for private use was issued. The United States of America needed all the rubber to build the equipment needed for World War II.  People asked Nadine’s father, Delmar, if he had had prior knowledge before the rubber ban. Her father would just smile and walk away. Primary school years dashed away in one room schoolhouses in Mapleton, Swiss Home and Sweet Home. Some years, she was the only student in her grade, but still surrounded by the local boys and girls who were also going to school for the year. In 1953, her family moved to Junction City. She found herself at a high school with multiple rooms in the “big city” and the girls wore “fancy” skirts. To fit in, she bought one yard of fabric, sewed the raw edges together making a tube, used one selvage end as her hem, and put an elastic waistband in the other selvage end so it would flow down from her waist to below her knees. At some point in Nadine’s dash to graduate from Junction City High School, she was hired at the Junction City Safeway. One day after finishing her Saturday shift, she dashed down to Eugene for some shopping with her friends. While there, she saw a University of Oregon football victory parade that the fraternities and sororities had organized. The party parade was so exciting that Nadine decided she needed to be part of this community. The next year, she was a student at the U of O. That student kept learning by taking night classes, when she could afford it, all the while working full time. Dashing to a bachelor’s degree took Nadine 40 years to complete. When Nadine was 24 or 25, she changed her life dashing to Los Angeles where she started a job at a local bank. While there, she married James Bruns. Their relationship was a rocky one. Nadine was pregnant and alone in Los Angeles, so she dashed back home to Eugene. Her short work history, at the bank in L. A., allowed her to get a bank job in Eugene. On October 24, 1961, Elaine was born. When I was about seven, Mom started working at the University of Oregon. She worked in many departments from the Education department to the library, and even the President’s office. Her yearly employment was a dash to pay bills, save for vacations and the endless vacation called retirement. Mom worked at the U of O for about 30 years. At 59 ½ years old, her work dash ended, and her endless vacation dash began. Vacations were just small dashes in our lives, but some of the most memorable times. There were many road trips in my grandfather’s four-door Rambler to various states with bench seats full of passengers. Grandpa would drive, Grandma would sit in the middle, and my mom would sit on the passenger side with me on her lap. However, the year we ‘dashed’ to Alaska, Grandma and Grandpa sat in the front and Mom and I sat in the back with the other half of the back seat filled with clothes and snacks. In July 1969, the Alaskan highway was 1200 miles of a winding, muddy, gravel-road through west Canada. It took us one week to drive up, one week to drive back and one week to do our sightseeing. Grandpa drove us around the Cook Inlet arriving back at our little motel every evening. There was a small restaurant in front of the motel and Mom, and I loved the homemade ice cream scoops the restaurant served. Almost every night, after midnight, we would get some ice cream with the waning daylight. One day, we drove all the way down to Homer, where we bought a quart of large, cooked shrimp from a local street vendor. We ate the shrimp out of their shell as we drove back to the little motel. Our dash to Alaska put three holes in the Rambler’s windshield, three holes in the gas tank and an inch of mud on its metal body. Grandpa got the gas tank fixed in Alaska and drove back at 35 miles an hour; 10 miles slower than he drove up as recommended by the repairman who fixed the gas tank. Making it back to pavement in Canada, we went through a car wash that advertised a free car wash with a fill up. Grandma and Grandpa were worried the American car couldn’t hold enough Imperial gallons in the tank because an Imperial gallon is five quarts and an American gallon is four quarts. Eight Imperial gallons were a stretch to get in the tank to receive the wash, but the gas station attendant said we could go through the car wash anyway. When the car exited the automatic car wash machine, Grandma opened the door and mud ran down the door sill. She took a paper towel and wiped the mud from the sill. Grandpa said the car would get better gas mileage without the 200 pounds of mud. Our Hawaiian vacation dashes happened many times in my life, starting when I was just seven. It was a University of Oregon chartered flight that employees could pay a fee to ride on for a one week stay on Oahu. It was spring break and Mom took advantage of the ‘low cost’ to go. When we arrived, we were welcomed with leis as we got off the plane. Mom and I saved our leis even though the clover buds were the only thing that survived the week. We had pineapple every morning for breakfast, sunbathed on Waikiki beach, and got sunburns (mine on my feet). We had the best time, even when it rained. Afterall, we were from Oregon where rain is a part of life. As life goes, some dashes are not of our making. Mom had a number of dashes that turned her life in a different direction. The first was when I got married to Michael J. Girard. He became her son-in-law and over forty plus years, one of her favorite people. The second was meeting Henry “Hank” Parnell. Their love for one another lasted the rest of Hank’s life. The third (and fourth) was becoming a grandma . . . twice. She has two granddaughters, Michelle (Girard) Oborn and Katherine Girard. The fifth was when Michelle married Clint Oborn giving her another grandchild (in-law). The sixth through tenth were her great-grandsons: Oliver, Eliot, Anderson, and Ingram. During all of these new dashes, we still went on vacation with Mom, visiting Alaska, England, Hawaii, Ireland, Scotland, Disneyland, Las Vegas and many other places. Mom also was an avid University of Oregon fan. Whether the Kamikaze Kids playing basketball on T.V., women’s basketball, or sitting in the stands watching the Oregon football team (before Oregon football was not a national power house), Mom loved watching “her team” play. When Oregon had won enough games to go to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana, she bought tickets for Hank, herself, Mike and I to go. She got sick before the game and had to bow out. Mike and I went and watched as Oregon won! When Oregon went to the 1995 Rose Bowl, their first Rose Bowl in decades, we all went (Mom, Hank, Mike, Elaine, Michelle and Katherine). Dashes to subsequent bowl games including two national championship games were gifts she gave each of us. Finally, Mom was a cat lady. For most of her dash through life, she seemed to have a cat at her side or on her lap. From Snap to Sparkle to King Kat, who now resides at our house, she loved each of them. So that dash on my mom’s grave marker may be measured by a ruler, but it represents all the life she lived and all the memories she gave us. I love you Mom.

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