Donald deserves a rose! On the swim team, as I remember, Don was the best. He could swim faster than any of the rest of us. He so wanted to be a winner. And by the time of our senior year he had risen to his own expectations and become a winner among winners.
Don taught me: we become the stories we tell ourselves. Don got a mere 20+ years. A lifetime, indeed.
For many of us, we, too, have as many years left. In tribute, I say, dream big, just like Don.
Don Haynor died in 1965. He died a week after visiting me in Ann Arbor. We were best friends at the time. He had gotten out of the Marines and passed away in a car accident. He had reenrolled at Michigan State and I think was seeing Kip Anderson. He was just getting back on his feet after 4 years in the Marines, last station Adac, Alaska after reassignment from swim instructor at Camp Penadleton. Reassignment due to run in with officer at a party. He liked to come to Ann Arbor to socialize because he didn't seem to fit in at State. We had a lot of fun together and connected in California after High School. Ralph Heikkinen and I presided at his funeral probably the saddest event of my life because of the suddeness and way he passed. I will always remember him and still think of him often. Frank Whitton
Douglas J. Searles
Donald deserves a rose! On the swim team, as I remember, Don was the best. He could swim faster than any of the rest of us. He so wanted to be a winner. And by the time of our senior year he had risen to his own expectations and become a winner among winners.
Don taught me: we become the stories we tell ourselves. Don got a mere 20+ years. A lifetime, indeed.
For many of us, we, too, have as many years left. In tribute, I say, dream big, just like Don.
Francis H. Whitton Jr.
Don Haynor died in 1965. He died a week after visiting me in Ann Arbor. We were best friends at the time. He had gotten out of the Marines and passed away in a car accident. He had reenrolled at Michigan State and I think was seeing Kip Anderson. He was just getting back on his feet after 4 years in the Marines, last station Adac, Alaska after reassignment from swim instructor at Camp Penadleton. Reassignment due to run in with officer at a party. He liked to come to Ann Arbor to socialize because he didn't seem to fit in at State. We had a lot of fun together and connected in California after High School. Ralph Heikkinen and I presided at his funeral probably the saddest event of my life because of the suddeness and way he passed. I will always remember him and still think of him often. Frank Whitton