[Magdalen] My favorite name...recently

[Christopher Hart]

Alicia de la Rocha is indeed a names that just sounds great, and it reminds
me of a similar one, the actress Alana de la Garza.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
wrote:

> Well, my 10th grade History teacher was one Donald Duckles. Fortunately,
> he was a great teacher, students liked him, and so the name didn't seem to
> cause too many jokes, etc.
>
> I also knew a Sue Hogg once.
>
> A not-uncommon first name for (older) men up here is "Perly". So there's a
> parishioner in the parish in Lyndonville where Lee often does supply named
> Perly Dinsmore.
>
> However, my favorite name is the pianist Alicia de la Rocha - it just
> seems to roll right off the tongue.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Grace Cangialosi
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 11:31 AM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] My favorite name...recently
>
>
> When I was in college there was a voice person, maybe a teacher, named—and
> I am not making this up—Dingwall Fleary.
>
> On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:52 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I thought Brianna was the Susan of this generation.
>>
>> There was a gentleman in the area where I used to live whose name was
>> Pleasant Vineyard. I loved that name. And a lady of 93 years who was
>> apparently quite a lovely soul recently died in my former home town. Her
>> given name was Providence Mary.
>>
>> OTOH, there was an elderly African-American gentleman we used to get as a
>> patient whose name was Brown Fanney. That never failed to provoke giggles.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:36 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Read an obit recently. One of the granddaughters surviving :
>>> Christian Faith [surname]
>>>
>>> I wish my mother had named me Christian Faith.
>>>
>>> Taylor is this generation’s Susan, I think.
>>> -M
>>>
>>> On Monday, March 5, 2018, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nebraska has a player named Nicea Eliely. (Last name is pronounced
>>>> e-LIE-ly, in case you wondered) But Nicea? Wow.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>


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