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   FlyingTypers’ Editor/Publisher Geoffrey Arend was born in Toledo, Ohio, and spent the better part of his childhood there.
   During the late 1940s, Geoffrey attended DeVeaux Elementary School near the family home at 2212 Georgetown, just off Sylvania Ave., about a half mile away. His mother, Jane, taught kindergarten there.
   The Arend family and relatives were quite active in city life.
   Geoffrey’s Dad was a pilot who spent many happy hours above ground making lazy circles in the sky above the family home.
   Uncle Ed Searles, who lived over on Dorr Street, at one time served as President of the Chamber of Commerce.
   His grandfather, Ralph Charles Stowell from nearby Sylvania, Ohio, joined the Stanley Motor Carriage Company in 1920. Stanley Motor Carriage built steam-powered automobiles, which are today known as Stanley Steamers (not to be confused with the carpet cleaning company).
   A pioneer auto salesman, Ralph was later part of Nash Motors and Willy’s Overland Motors.
   Willy’s is best remembered today as the company that invented and produced the iconic Jeep, which some 75-plus years later has moved into the hearts and minds of car lovers worldwide and is still a best seller today.
   Toledo was also home to Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company; in addition to manufacturing auto glass for Detroit factories sixty miles up road, Libbey-Owens-Ford also manufactured glass block.
   Geoffrey and his mother Eleanor Jane Arend were featured in this 1942 advertisement for Libbey glass block.
   “We were paid maybe 50 bucks for the shoot,” Geoffrey recalled.
   “My Mom in a ‘Dorothy Dress’ (made famous by Judy Garland as Dorothy in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz) and I also received several cases of glass blocks, some of which are still with me today, serving as replacements for the basement windows in our home in New York.”
   “I love Ohio,” Geoffrey said.
   The song “Ohio” shares that feeling.
Flossie