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The Baugh clan decked out for a back yard luau in August 2004. Standing (l to r), Claire Baugh, Jack Bertram, me, Phyllis (aka Karen) Todd, Skylar and Jarrod. In front are Becky Baugh and Derek Chee.

Pictures of my family at our Thanksgiving dinner. Top left is my dad, Robert Baugh, top right (l to r) are my sister, Claire Baugh, my husband, Jack, and me. Below are (l to r) my son Jarrod, daughter Skylar and twin sister, Becky Baugh.

UCI Staff Picnic September 1999 I worked in the Dean's Office in the School of Humanities from 1996 to 2006. Skylar and Jarrod (left to right) and Becky (far right) are watching Herb Killackey get dunked in the dunk tank at our annual staff picnic. The kids were very good at hitting the target and since there weren't many kids there, the people running the dunk tank gave them several free tries. You can't see the kids tee shirts very well but they say HUMANities in large black letters across the front. Jack and I were wearing the same thing. (This was my rebellious reaction to the official shirt design which was chosen the year or so before.) Actually Jarrod suggested that the shirt have a manatee on the front with a word balloon saying "Hi! My name is Hugh." [Get it?? Hugh-manatee(s)] 

I'm taking a break on May 14, 1990 watching Jack play with the kids. 

UCI Founding Faculty and Staff Event On October 11, 2005 the UC Irvine Alumni Association held a 40th Anniversary Founders' Day Reception at the University Club. This was done in conjunction with the 40th year celebration for the campus, which opened in 1965 as the ninth campus of the University of California - the only UC in Orange County. To my surprise, my twin sister Becky and I are considered founding alumni because we were students in the '60s - just barely. We started as freshmen in Fall of 1969 so we just made it into the "founding" category. I am the red blob on the right and my sister is almost dead center above Jean Aldrich. If I had known almost everyone else was going to dress in black, gray or beige, I would have, too. Some of the people in the picture are founding faculty. I wasn't sure if I would know anyone besides Becky and Spence Olin (back row) but to my surprise Gordon Smith was there. He is in the top row, above and just to the lef...

Laurel and Hardy (sort of) This my sister Becky and me.  I don't remember the exact year this was, but probably around 2000.  I had been wanting to dress up for the Staff Halloween Contest with Becky.  I wanted us to be Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.  I even volunteered to be Dum but Becky suggested Laurel and Hardy which sounded good to me.  Becky got her suit and our shoes (men's shoes) from Salvation Army.  The hats were just cheapo Halloween stuff.  I borrowed the shirt, tie and suspenders from my husband.  The pants were mine.  We went to the contest and won!  We had rehearsed one of the cute little song and dance routines from one of their movies, Way Out West, I think.  We performed it for my father and he was thrilled.  We were too chicken to perform at the contest but Beck and I had worked out some mannerisms that made people laugh.  You can get an idea of them here.  I would twiddle my tie and dig my toe in ...

This is a picture of an adult manatee cow that I "adopted" at a reserve in Florida. It gave me a very maternal feeling to support such a large but gentle creature. I also adopted a calf but unfortunately it did not return to the reserve the second year. That was devastating to me as they all have names. I will see if I can find a copy of the publication with the names of my adopted "children."

Strawberry Moose Blossom (aka Blossom) was our first "child". We bought her before we got married with the assumption (erroneous) that we would continue living in the house on Louise Street with Jack's mom. There was a big back yard so no problem for a medium sized dog. These are pictures of Blossom in the back yard of the Louise St. house in January 1979 - she was 11 weeks old. She was a pedigreed red and white female Bassett Hound. She was a very sweet dog. Her only problem was that she peed much too easily. This was quite apparent when we got to hold her at the pet store but we didn't mind. Jack and I had always wanted a Bassett Hound ever since we saw the tv show "People's Choice." These are pictures of Blossom as an adult dog. I'm not sure of the dates but the one on the left is at my Mom's house at Christmas time and the one on the right is in our apartment. These were probably taken when she was three or four years old - 1982 or 1983. T...