1951 Symphony, Chillicothe Yearbook [11]
1951 Band, Chillicothe Yearbook [12]
1935 Eleanor M Bond was born on November 3, 1935, in Butler County, Ohio. Her father was Roger Bond. (Birth certificate: 1935082908). [1]
1936 Ramond [sic] Edgar Wolfe, son of Ranald Wolfe and Julia Good, was born on July 1, 1936, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Indianapolis, Center Twp, Marion County, Indiana. They lived at 1526 Mills Ave. Ranald had been a research director at N.Y.A. [National Youth Administration?] for 6 months. [2]
1940 Ramon E Wolfe (age 3, born in Indiana, single), son, lived in Westerville, Franklin County, Ohio, in a household with Ranald M Wolfe (age 33), Julia M Wolfe (age 30), and Douglas A Wolfe (age 7/12). [3] [4]
1940 Eleanor Margaret Bond (age 4, born in Ohio), daughter, lived in Lemon Twp, Butler County, Ohio, in a household with Roger Bond (age 41), Ruth Bond (age 38), Dorothy Elizabeth Bond (age 11), Rath Marlan Bond (age 9), John Roger Bond (age 7), Joseph Edwards Bond (age 2), and Charles Russell Swanson Bond (age 2/12). [5]
1945 Ramon Wolfe (age 8) was listed with his family in the Florida census for Duval County. [6]
1950 Ramon E Wolfe (age 13, born in Indiana, single), son, lived in Scioto Twp, Ross County, Ohio, in a household with Ranald M Wolfe (age 43), Julia M Wolfe (age 40), Douglas A Wolfe (age 10), Donna M Wolfe (age 7), Judith A Wolfe (age 5), and Robert A Wolfe (age 3). [7]
1950 Elenor M Bond (age 14, born in Ohio), daughter, lived in St Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia, in a household with Roger M Bond (age 51), Ruth S Bond (age 48), John R Bond (age 17), Joseph E Bond (age 12), Charles R Bond (age 10), and Ethelyn A Bond (age 6). [8]
1952 Eleanor Bond was a Junior in Mrs Bailey's class at St Albans High School in St. Albans, West Virginia. She was a member of the Y-Teen club. From the Dragonian yearbook. [9]
Ray achieved excellence at both basketball and playing the trumpet by the time he graduated from high school in Chillicothe. [10]
1956 Doug arrived at Ohio State University for orientation in his Freshman Year. Ray lived and worked at the Westminster Foundation and invited Doug to a party at the house. When Doug entered the front door, Ray was there with a friend. Ray introduced them: "Ellie, this is Doug." and "Doug, this is Ellie." Ray then said that he had something he needed to take care of and left with the suggestion that Doug should dance with Ellie. [14]
1957 Eleanor Margaret Bond, of St. Albans, West Virginia, was a student at Ohio State University, with a B.Sc. in Home Ec. She was in the Home Ec. Club and the Westminster Found.
c 1957 Ellie stayed in the South room at 412 Belleview Hill in Chillicothe. Ellie majored in home economics and was an expert in the design of kitchens. [15]
1958 Ramon Wolfe and Eleanor Margaret Bond were married on June 14 in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Trinity Methodist Chapel was the setting for the wedding of Miss Eleanor Margaret Bond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Moore Bond, St. Albans. W. Va., and Mr. Ramon Edgar Wolfe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ranald M. Wolfe, 412 Belleview Ave. The Rev. Benjamin F. Judd Jr of the First Presbyterian Church performed the 3 p.m. ceremony Saturday, June 14, before an altar decorated with white carnations and palms.
Miss Patricia Trese of Columbus was the organist for a program of traditional wedding music. Mrs. John Miller of Plainfield. Ind., the bridegrooms' aunt sang "O Perfect Love."
Escorted by her father, the bride wore a full skirted gown of silk organza over taffeta. The bodice featured a bateau neckline, long sleeves and a pleated cummerbund. Her bridal bouquet was white carnations.
Miss Kay Littler of Andover was maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Nancy Meeker of Berea and sister of the bride Miss Ethelyn Bond of St Albans. The attendants wore sleeveless gowns of aqua silk organza designed with full skirts and wide sashes. Their accessories were white. The maid of honor carried a bouquet of yellow flowers, while the bridesmaids' bouquets were of pink carnations.
Mr. Douglas Wolfe served as best man for his brother. Mr. Dave Hoffman of Columbus and Mr. Edgar Russell of Reynoldsburg, seated the guests.
Immediately following the ceremony, a reception for 75 guests was held at the home of the bridegroom's parents. Assisting hostesses were Miss Virginia Bond and Mrs. Dorothy Bond Shomon, sisters of the bride, Miss Donna Wolfe, sister of the bridegroom and Miss Dorothy McClintock.
Out-of-town guests were from Los Angeles, Calif., Annapolis, Md., Pittsburgh, Pa., Chicago, Ill., Indianapolis, Ind., St, Albans, Berea, Reynoldsburg, Worthington, Dayton and Ashland.
The bride chose a traveling outfit of aqua cotton and dacron blend with a portrait collar, short sleeves and a bouffant skirt.
Mr. Wolfe is a graduate student in electrical engineering at Ohio State University. Mrs. Wolfe is a graduate of the College of Wooster and OSU. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe Wolfe are living in Columbus. A wedding trip to California is planned for August.
1958 Brother Bob remembers Ray driving away to California in his Lincoln convertible with Ellie after their wedding. Bob and Richard Teegarden remember being at Ray's wedding as the last meeting they had before meeting again in 2019. [18]
Ramon got a degree in 1958 from the Electrical Engineering Department at Ohio State. After graduating from college, he moved to Southern California with Ellie.
Ramon started Photosonix and became its Chief Executive Officer. Ramon was a computer engineer and inventor.
1962 Ray visited with the family in Tokyo, Japan. [19]
1973 Eleanor M Bond and Ramon E Wolfe were divorced in March in San Diego, California. [20] [21]
1980 Ramon Wolfe and Valerie Truscott were married on November 22 in Los Angeles, California. [22]
1982 Ellie's mother visited. Grandmother Good visited in 1982 and hung her corset to dry on the open garage door. Ranald and Julia were on their way to Japan with son Robert and Judy and stayed at Ramon' shouse in San Deigo. Ray had hidden his alcohol under the house so that the older generations would not know of it. Ranald and Ray had to crawl under the house to fix something and Ranald discovered the stash. [23]
1988 Eleanor M Wolfe died on June 27, 1988, at age 52, in Snohomish County, Washington. Eleanor M Wolfe had lived at Snohomish, Washington. [24] [25]
Ellie was born in Middleton, Ohio to a family with seven children. Ellie recounted being told not to listen to the radio, in part because it had commercials for beer. Although the family was strict, Ellie was a fun-loving person. Ellie always hoped that Girl Scout Camp would be scheduled during the same week as Bible Camp so that her parents would send her to GS Camp and then she could miss Bible camp. Ellie was trained as a home economist at Ohio State. After graduation, Ellie lived with the Wolfe's in Chillicothe for a year while Ray finished graduate school. Rays' Aunt Elsie shopped for a wedding dress with her. Ray and Ellie were married in Chillicothe, Ohio. They drove off into the sunset to California in a Lincoln convertible. Their three daughters were born in California. Ellie worked as a Girl Scout leader for many years, starting in about 1975. Ray's brother Robert and Robert's wife Janet recount enjoying a hilarious afternoon with Ellie while they visited one Christmas and picked the lemon tree in the backyard nearly bare in order to enjoy a series of margueritas. Ellie and Ray were divorced. Ellie had breast cancer in 1981, which recurred about 5 years later. She moved to Lynnwood, Washington in about 1985. There, she and her friend Arnie refurbished houses for resale. While her health deteriorated from cancer, she still enjoyed life and fudgesicles, although her daughter Karen admonished her to eat healthier food. Ellie kept working and continued to direct the remodeling of houses, even after she was in a wheelchair. She died near Seattle, Washington. [26]
1988 and later. Ray loved climbing mountains and had a list of 14,000 + foot crests that he had climbed. He was a member of the Sierra Club and led hikes to peaks in the Sierra Mountains. He was listed as a new member of the Sierra Peaks section in 1988. In 1990, Ray achieved Sierra Club’s 100 Peaks Section (HPS) emblem status by climbing Mayan Peak and achieved Emblem status in Sierra Club’s Desert Peaks Section (DPS) on Mt. Inyo. In 1999, Ray achieved the 200 Peaks Bar (in 100 Peaks Section,
HPS) with Suicide Peak. Ray climbed or walked the high points in many states across America. Ray's last state high point might have been King's Peak in Utah in 2008. Ray climbed Mount Baldy repeatedly, often with friends. Ray eventually stopped mountain climbing due to a heart condition. [27]
1993 The Photosonix Galaxy was offered for sale.
2004 Photosoniz products were described.
2017 Photosonix was identified as an innovative company.
2017 Photosonix received funding as a start-up company.
Ray was president of Photosonix, which produced sight-sound technology equipment.
Synchronized flashes and tones help people relax
By Howard Millman New York Times
Have you ever been led into serenity by the flickering firelight of a fireplace? Can machines that produce flickering lights and synchronized audio tones similarly help you relax? Yes, say the users of sound and light machines, some of whom become so relaxed during a session that they fall asleep. What is less verifiable, however, are claims that the machines boost creativity and help alleviate attention deficit disorder, dyslexia and migraine headaches.Sound and light machines, sometimes called mind machines or light-stim devices (as in light stimulation), produce computer-generated patterns of flashing lights synchronized with binaural tones that practitioners claim can calm an agitated mind. The pulsating lights are generated by a ring of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) encircling each eye. The LEDs, embedded in the lenses of opaque goggles, are bright enough to shine through closed eyes. Sounds come from a headset.
The pattern and speed of the LED's pulsations and the beat of the binaural tones are controlled by a palm-size programmable module. Prices of most units range from $100 to $400.
While practitioners tend to agree that computer-generated lights and sounds can help people feel better, they do not fully understand why. They theorize that the lights and sounds influence the frequency of the brain's four waveform states. Beta waves, in the 13-40 Hertz range, signal an alert mind; Alpha (8-12 Hertz) indicates a relaxed state; Theta (3-7 Hertz) suggests serenity; and Delta (0-5 Hertz) indicates sleep.
Curious to see if I could sample some of the benefits the technology promises, I donned the glasses and plugged into a Photosonix Inner Pulse machine ($224, www.dynamind.com) for three 20-minute sessions.
I liked the kaleidoscopic light show but quickly lost interest in the binaural audio. I fixed that by connecting a personal stereo player through the module's audio-in connector and listened to Brahms instead of beeps.
The most noticeable result was that I slipped into pleasant semi-consciousness and had to keep from falling asleep.
I was not overcome by a sense of increased creativity or problem-solving skills, but I concluded that the machine could at least help me meditate more effectively because the flashing lights provided a focal point.
Dr. Badri Rickhi, a psychiatrist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Calgary, affirmed that idea.
"These machines help stop your mind from wandering during meditation," Rickhi said of the light-stim machines. "We know that, if you can stay focused during meditation, your brain wave patterns will change. If these machines can accelerate, or help, someone to alter those patterns, that could be the relaxation mechanism."
Whatever that mechanism, Robert Stinson, 35, says that light stim also helped him overcome a career-limiting shyness, including a fear of public speaking. Stinson, a salesman who lives in San Antonio, reinforces the machine's effect by mixing his own voice recordings in with the tones. "While I'm relaxing, my mind is open to suggestion," he said. "So, for example, I'll set a goal for the number of customer contacts I will make each day. When I do that, I find that I reach those goals."
The simplicity of sound and light machines might help people to relax where more traditional techniques fail.
"Light stim is passive; you need not do anything more than to relax and let the machine do the work," said Ruth Olmstead, 41, a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Olmstead, a light-stim software developer and advocate, says that a light stimulus raises the brain's phosphate levels, increases the brain's metabolism and helps build new neural pathways, a process called entraining.
Jim Radican, 50, initially bought a machine to overcome dyslexia. "I tried it as an experiment," Radican said. "It worked. Then I went on to use it as part of an overall program for well-being." Lately, he and his wife, Patricia, who are both flight attendants for United Airlines, have been using the machine for stress reduction.
Rickhi said that, while light and sound machines warranted more research, he hesitated to endorse them as curative.
His caution is supported by the Federal Trade Commission. "The art of overpromising, for example, saying that a medical product can alleviate or cure more than a single illness, is almost a guarantee that fraud may be involved," said Richard Cleland, the assistant director of the commission's Division of Advertising Practices and the supervisor of Operation Cure-All (www.ftc.gov bcpconlineedcamscureall), a federal and state law- enforcement effort aimed at exposing fraudulent health claims on the Internet. Cleland advises consumers to be especially wary of ads that offer many testimonials but few independently verifiable facts.
A PHOTOSONIX INNER PULSE machine costs $224.
JIM AND PATRICIA RADICAN say light therapy works for them. Both are flight attendants and use the machines for stress reduction.
2021 Ray Wolfe died on March 16 in Garden Grove, California.
2022 Family and friends gathered in Portland Oregon for a memorial service for Ray in June.
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[2] Indiana, Birth Certificates, 1907-1940, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
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[10] Personal communication from Doug Wolfe.
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[12] U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2013, [AncestryRecord].
[13] U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2013, [AncestryRecord].
[14] Personal communication from Doug Wolfe.
[15] Personal communication from Bob Wolfe.
[16] Chillicothe Gazette, Chillicothe, Ohio, June 17, 1958, page 9, [NewspapersClip].
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[18] Personal communication from Bob Wolfe.
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[26] Personal communication from Doug Wolfe.
[27] Based on notes from Doug Wolfe.
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[29] Pensacola News Journal, Pensacola, Florida, April 20, 2004, page 9, [NewspapersClip].
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