Albert Rist Curriculum vitae (Comments in italics are not Albert Rist’s words, but were added by the translator as explanations.)((So if you’re keeping score – This is written by my grandfather, translated from the original German by my father, and then posted by me…)) I was born in the rough November days of the year […]
Category: stories
The History of Old Cutler Bay Development.
Karsten Rist, 12/19/02 The History of Old Cutler Bay Development. In July of 1987 developer Raul Planas filed a dredge and fill application for a large golf course development east of Old Cutler Road and south of the Burgerking headquarters building. The project, called old Cutler Bay Estates, included plans for a Jack Nicklaus designed […]
Recollections of World War II by Carol Byrd Rist
Recollections of World War II by Carol Byrd Rist Fort Lauderdale during World War II was totally involved in the war effort. We felt that the war was on our doorstep, especially when we went to the beach in the evening and saw burning cargo ships and tankers, which had been torpedoed by German subs, […]
Huff Post – Early Voting Numbers Climb In N.C., Mostly the Work of Obama Volunteers
Carol Rist, an Obama volunteer passing out a Democratic slate, said many people stopped to chat on their way out. “Most people seem happy, and African-Americans seem downright giddy,” she said. “One woman told me she’d gone to her family’s ancestral home, collected soil from the ground where her grandparents had walked, and rubbed a […]
Eagle-eyed Auduboner Keeps Golf Course Off Wetlands, May 1991
From the Audubon Activist, May 1991 BY LARRY WIILLIAMS In November 1988, the Environmental Protection Agency drew a line through a tract of coastal mangroves 15 miles south of Miami. The owner of the land wanted to build a 253-home resort community, the centerpiece of which was to be a “championship” golf course designed by […]
To save Dade’s wild places
THE MIAMI HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1991 To save Dade’s wild places Appointee Carol Rist, seasoned conservationist, sums up her new, unpaid job thus: “I feel as though it’s the most important thing I’ll ever do in this field.” Could be, for Ms. Rist and the other six members of Dade’s just-appointed Land Acquisition […]
Let Floridians enjoy Birch Park forever by Carol Rist, 12-9-1991
Carol Rist, 12-9-1991 To The Editor: Hugh Taylor Birch State Recreational Area in Fort Lauderdale is a treasure for all Floridians. It has enriched my life immensely. In Birch Park I ran in relay races as a Girl Scout, organized relay races as a den mother, saw my first spotted breasted oriole, and discovered […]
Computer Simulation for Solution of a Mine Transportation Problem
by Karsten Rist Mining World – December 1961 by Karsten A. Rist Mr. Rist is long range procedures engineer for Climax Molybdenum Company with headquarters at Climax, Colorado. Computer Simulation for Solution of a Mine Transportation Problem In recent months the mining industry has devoted a great deal of attention to computers and […]
Common language a cornerstone by Karsten Rist
Karsten Rist, 7-11-1988, Miami Herald To The Editor: Sylvia Crespo-Tabak indicated in her July 2 letter that she is not in favor of the “official-English” amendment. Crespo-Tabak and I are citizens of the same country. For this reason it is important in principle that we be able to discuss matters that concern our common […]
A Word from Rainer
Rainer Joehnk As some of you may know I was sent to this country in 1986 by the German Soccer Federation to teach soccer to the local native population. So for the last thirteen years I have tried my hardest to teach some of you the intricacies of playing football or as you call it- […]
The boat Möve by Karsten Rist
The boat “Moeve” Our property in Langendorf was about six acres in size. Three acres made up the lower portion and reached to the street which wound its way through the village of Langendorf. The next acre was a steep slope, the natural edge of the Biele river flood plain. Then there were two flat […]
1978 – Visiting the White House by Karsten Rist
Karsten Rist Jimmy Carter was little known outside of his home state of Georgia, where he had served as governor, when he announced that he would run for president. During his primary campaign for the democratic nomination his victory in Florida was of special significance because it gave Carter’s campaign a much needed boost and […]
The End of World War II by Karsten Rist
Karsten Rist In the spring of 1945 my mother, my grandmother, my sister Inge and I were living in a small apartment in Hirschberg (Silesia) in an apartment house which was owned by my grandmother. We had fled there in January of the same year when a russian offensive had overrun Upper Silesia (Oberschlesien) My […]
Paris or Bust! by Karsten Rist
Paris or Bust! Karsten Rist After graduating from high school in Moers my friend Werner Moehlendick and I worked for a year under the supervision of the German Bureau of Mines as “Bergbeflissene”, a requirement for admission to a Technical University to become mining engineers. We worked in different mines to get a well rounded […]
Mine Simulation – The Early Days by Karsten Rist
Karsten Rist I could hardly believe my eyes. The e-mail on the computer screen in front of me came from a PhD student in mining at the University of Porto in Portugal. He asked: ”are you the author of a paper Computer Simulation for Solution of a Mine Transportation Problem? I am trying to locate […]
Life as a child in Langendorf by Karsten Rist
Miami, March 30, 1993 Dear Andy: Your birthday is approaching quickly and I thought about what I might do to mark this special day. The problem is, as we both know, that you are now taking care of yourself quite nicely and that you hardly need any of those things which might be bought and […]
Memories of the factory in Langendorf by Helmut Rist
Erinnerungen an die Fabrik in Langendorf. Helmut Rist (Karsten’s translation…) I you walked through Langendorf on a business day you would surely see wagons carrying wood to the factory. These wagons were part of Langendorf and symbolic of the role of industry in our village. The rich forests of the Altvater (Old father) mountains were […]
Erinnerungen an die Fabrik in Langendorf – Helmut Rist
Helmut Rist Wer in früheren Jahren an Werktagen durch Langendorf ging, begegnete unweigerlich Fuhrwerken, die Holz zur Fabrik brachten. Diese Fuhrwerke gehörten zum Bild des Dorfes, charakterisierten sie doch die Bedeutung der Industrie für unser Dorf. Für die Entwicklung der Industrie im Bieletal war der Waldreichtum des Altvatergebirges als Rohstofflieferant eine wichtige Voraussetzung. Von der […]
Cross Country Skiing to Camp Hale by Karsten Rist
Cross Country Skiing to Camp Hale Spring 1960 Karsten Rist One of my good friends at the Climax Molybdenum Mine was Gene Grossman. He was a mining engineer and lived with his wife Ruth and their three small children in Leadville. Gene liked the outdoors and enjoyed exploring the mountains and valleys which surrounded Leadville. […]
Computer Memories by Karsten Rist
Karsten Rist In the summer of 1959 I returned from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Leadville, Colorado. I had just finished my first year of MBA studies at the University of Michigan. I had a summer job with the Climax Molybdenum Company to do surveying in the mountains surrounding the Climax mine. On one of my free weekends I decided to […]
Coming to America – Karsten Rist
Coming to America Karsten Rist In the summer of 1955 I worked at a tungsten mine in the town of Yxsjoeberg in Sweden, an experience which broadened my outlook and motivated me to want to see more of the world. What better place to go than America, the leader in the mechanization of mining work, […]
College days in Aachen, Germany by Karsten Rist
Karsten Rist An aspiring mining engineer in Germany is required to work for one year in a variety of mining operations under the supervision of the bureau of mines (Bergamt) before starting four years of study at a technical university. Once enrolled at the technical university we were pretty much left to our own devices. […]
Adventures with Section 404(b)(1) Guidelines by Karsten Rist
Karsten Rist Adventures with Section 404(b)(1) Guidelines. In October of 1980 we moved from Plantation to Miami. I continued my involvement with Audubon which had started in Broward County and became active in the Tropical Audubon Society. In July of 1987 developer Raul Planas filed a dredge and fill application for a large golf course […]
A SUMMER IN SWEDEN by Karsten Rist
Karsten Rist March 22, 1994 As the summer of 1955 approached I was about to complete my third year of studies in the field of mining engineering. In the previous years I had used these summers to work in a number of different mining operations, as much to make money as to learn more about […]
2008 – At Southwest Elementary Obama got 15,379 votes – Carol Rist
As you know I spent many hours at the Southwest Elementary early voting site, wearing my Obama pin, showing a sample ballot to the voters waiting in line and handing them information on the judges endorsed by the Democratic Party (who all just happened to be Democrats, although the judicial races are “nonpartisan”). On weekends […]
1992 HURRICANE ANDREW REPORT – Carol Rist
HURRICANE REPORT Carol Rist We apologize for having waited so long to thank all of you for your phone calls and other expressions of concern after Hurricane Andrew blew into our lives on August 24, 1992. Although it took Andrew only three hours to virtually demolish South Dade County, recovery will take years, We knew […]
1987 – Weekly Letter on the Robbery and more
Carol Rist November 18, 1987 Dear Carl, Lisa and. Andy, Well, here I am back to my mistake-filled typewriter written letters. As Andy learned when we talked to him on the phone, we were burglarized a week ago. It was on the Monday I spent up in Broward County at a conference on the U.S. […]
Quiet Woods by Aunt Marilyn (Marilyn Byrd Darling)
Quiet Woods Aunt Marilyn, Sept. 6, 1989 Dear Rists, We enjoy the Rist family letters so much, I decided I’d better, at least let the letter writer know of our appreciation before I get crossed off the list! Shall include all the Rists just as she does. Carol, we particularly enjoyed the beautiful letter about […]
2001 Greece Trip by Carol Rist
Carol Rist, Spring, 2001 In mid April we flew from Miami to Athens for our first Elderhostel experience. We landed in Athens at the brand new airport, built to serve the multitudes expected for the 2004 Olympics. Near the airport are many of the venues being built for the Olympics, and the road from the […]
1999 Australia Trip by Carol Rist
Carol Rist, 1999 In the middle of September, 1999, Hurricane Floyd was bearing down on the east coast of the United States. We weren’t eager to desert our house with a hurricane approaching, but knowing that Curtis and Julie had had ample experience in post hurricane clean-up and repair, we put on our hurricane shutters […]
1998 – BYRDS, DINOSAURS AND MOUNTAIN LIONS by Carol Rist
Carol Rist, SUMMER 1998 On July 4, 1998, the extended Byrd family gathered at the Lago Mar Resort on the beach in Fort Lauderdale for a family reunion. Tom Byrd, Jr. was the only family member who couldn’t make it. All 23 of us, from 3year-old Robin Graney (Marilyn’s youngest grandchild) to the oldest Byrd […]
1997 – Kenya (by way of London) by Carol Rist
Carol Rist, 1997 Preparation for a trip to Kenya begins well before the plane takes off, with a visit to the travel doctor. If the lecture on how to avoid diarrhea, the shots for diphtheria, tetanus, typhoid and yellow fever and the dreaded anti-malarial pill, Larium, don’t dissuade you, you’re in for a real adventure. […]
1995 Lake Baikal Trip by Carol Rist
Lake Baikal Carol Rist September 1, 1995: It was a sweltering day in Miami but we packed our bags with our warmest clothing before heading out to the airport. We were on our way to Siberia. Luckily our tour group met in San Francisco. That gave us the opportunity to spend the weekend with Andy […]
1994 China Trip by Carol Rist
China Trip Carol Rist, 1994 Quite early on Sunday morning, June 26, we gathered at the Miami airport along with Bob Merkel, Debbie Safford and the rest of the Florida International Art Exchange Group and embarked on our three week visit to the People’s Republic of China, led by David Chang, native of Shanghai, artist, […]
1991 – A Trip through East Germany by Carol Rist
Carol Rist June 1991 We left the Berlin airport in a rental car with the navigator (me) totally lost. As we were trying to get our bearings, Karsten saw a sign that said “Ploetzensee Memorial.” Some 2,500 persons were put to death by the Nazis at the Ploetzensee Prison, including many of the participants in the […]
1990 – Our Vacation in Quebec by Carol Rist
Carol Rist August 3, 1990 We really enjoyed our vacation in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick two years ago, so this year we decided to visit a different part of Canada. To say that Quebec is different from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick is an understatement. The only thing that was the same was the […]
1989 Galapagos Trip by Carol Rist
Carol Rist, July 20, 1989 Dear Marilyn, Phil, Carl, Lisa and Andy, Marilyn and Phil, you must think I have stopped sending you my offspring letters. Actually there haven’t been any. Carl and Lisa have been en route from Yakima to Durham, and Andy has been in England and Norway and then moved, so I […]
1988 Vacation in Nova Scotia by Carol Rist
Carol Rist September 23, 1988 Dear Carl, Lisa, and Andy, We are finally getting settled back into the old routine after two weeks of a totally different existence. I am enclosing a map which I copied from the atlas, on which I have marked our trip. I’m sorry that you can hardly tell land from […]
1987 Bar Harbor to Bal Harbor – Maine to Miami Bike Trip
Carlisle and Rist arrive in way south Miami, summer 1987 Rist and Rist somewhere in Germany, Summer 1957
1936 TOUR OF EUROPE as told by Mr. R. E. Dye
1936 TOUR OF EUROPE as told by Mr. R. E. Dye of Fort Lauderdale, Florida in his letters to the Free Press of Fort Lauderdale PLAN TRIP ABROAD R. E. Dye, prominent real estate developer and Mrs. Dye, well known for her civic and social activities, are anticipating a delightful cruise abroad which will take them […]