Patrick Thomas:
CLASS OF 1968
Eisenhower High SchoolClass of 1968
Rialto, CA
Patrick's Story
Worked at McDonalds in 1968, graduated married Shirley 1970, Shirley almost divorced me in 1973, lived in a 14 ft Trailor for 1 year with my girlfriend. ( Shirley objected to that arrangement) sold cars in 1974.. Mazda's! Yeh! Joined peace corp. went to africa to work with Jean Pierre Hallet a now famous game warden in the Mosi-OA-Tunya national park in Zambia for 2 years. While there we received word of a Pygmy Tribe near the Zambezi river was suffering severe food shortage so we took the land rover with a 10' John boat, nets and dynamite to help them out. After initial greetings we went to a small nearby lake with the chief and 20 men and women with weaved baskets, launched the boat, gave the nets to the men went out 50 ft from shore and dynamite fished. Half sticks of dynamite with 8 second twist cap fuses. Aft every explosion the pygmies would yell " kaimme ye tenanee" . I did not know at the time what that meant, Jean Pierre said they said " do it again" but I fo...Expand for more
und out later they were praising us for saving them. Like " our heros or something like that. After they collected the fish we went back to camp and had a nice meal when the chief came up to Jean Pierre and wanted to give him a gift, Jean Pierre said something and pointed to me. I am like " yeh maybe a spear or something but it turns out it is custom to give away the first born daughter to the " hero" . After learning this and seeing the 19 year old daughter ( who was very pretty) I told JP no thanks, but JP said I better stay at least for awhile because the whole situation could change if we insult the chief. Fast forward 3 months later after a brief tribal ceremony Naoimi and I were married, she got pregnant, I baled and went back to US. I did the right thing and sent $5.00 a month for 18 years as support. His name is Timothy Patrick In Quee Quee, tallest in tribe! Reconciled with Shirley went back to work at McDonalds in 1975.
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