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Joseph m. bagoonya j ; p ■■■ i ) • ffi I f ' r - Pictures of Joe ' s life in Cleveland. Above. Joe ' s brother Chico (watering) and cousin Paul Fortuna (growing) Upper left. Joe took this action shot of his father driving their neighbor ' s car around the corner from their house. Bottom left. Some of Joe ' s friends over for their weekly Tuesday afternoon bridge game. ent, Only you atch and the fire prevent forest fir nt out behind hir ' Joe has saved But his forestry morals and ethics usually ■•■- such job was at an old Western style saloon. ' but got fired for repeatedly sweeping up the sa With his musical interests pushing forward, Joe next was a roady for a sound company. He was dismissed because he was always climbing the lighting trees. Another memorable job which was planned to be a summer job was i Dayton at the Mead Co. Papermill. Joe saw every phase of production froi.. incoming trees to outgoing college lined paper. Alas, poor Joe was fired for crying all day. In fact one day after a mind-racking 3-hour hunger strike (for cruelty to trees -- what else?) Joe got desperate for the cause. He laid down in front of the buzz saws and demanded the company develop an artificial pulp- like substance to make their products. It didn ' t work. Ironically, Joe spent much time reading. He had to. Nobody would talk to him. His favorites were Forestweek and Forestry Illustrated; the latter hav- ing great pictures, he thought. Not to be denied, Joe also kept under his mattress the latest issues of Girls of the Forest, Woodchuck and Lumber Jack. These also had some great photography, Joe thought. Which reminds us, Joe did have a pet dog. He tried for quite some ti teach him to fetch a stick. But every time Joe threw it away, the dog, i name was Pinecone, would yawn and stay still so Joe had to go and pick it up. After a month of this, the dog thought he had Joe well trained. Another warm spot in Joe ' s memories of his youth was his first love. Her tuously and deeply i ' lan biology class, loment in his life he ah i ior a pencil. Joe kner ' ' id for a writing utensil. He took this seemingly r er subconscious meaning. He just knew that she shared with him a love for trees and their children such as pencils, desks, doorknobs. She was perfect for him. He loved her so that he could hardly pass a telephone pole without thinking of her. But, alas, fate was to be cruel and love was to be lost. After three gloriouis years it was over. Joe found out that during these three years Ramona had been seeing Bo Kinney, the captain of the football team and lifelong member of the Sports Lounge. Joe would have learned this much sooner if he only had talked to Ramona. He never could bring himself to talk to her, though once he asked her the time. When she replied, 1:35, he thought that meant she loved him. How cruel love can be at times. One of the most important people in Joe ' s life, was his cousin Mary (better known as Matilda) Bagoonya. Mary was the founder of 84 Lumber Co. She was how the Bagoonyas spelled success. She was the mold they wanted all Ba- goonyas to fill. Why can ' t you be like your cousin, why can ' t you be like your cousin, why can ' t you be like your cousin, is how Lola woke Joe up every morning. Perish the though, Joe cried in his pillow, I ' ve got to get out of e. Joe had remembered the expression, Go east young man, from leone famous, (or maybe it was his dad). But East It was and so he headed for the land of the middler. Northeastern University.
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Nice hair, eh? That look of confidence Drawing by Joe Big Guy Dougherty spring ler status. Throughout this edition of The Cauldron we will be covering the life of Joe and how he comes to deal with eality of himself, life at NU and trying to discover if dogs really do talk to ans. But first we must fill you in on Joe ' s background . . . tvcr since Joseph M. Bagoonya was dropped off in a basket on a doorstep Ohio (he ' s believed the stork story ever since) life was rough. usually replied. slowly built up his vocabu- And so, life began for Joe rather abruptly, as I lary. He also developed a keen sen ' e Joe around the neighborhood, usually until Joe reached the one and only tree on the block. He panted to himself once, I wish there were more frees around here. And that ' s when his love for forestry began. itly. They had to be. Their home was a small, log cabin in the heart of downtown Cleveland. Joe was forced to ... .he bathroom where he had the most unusual alarm clocP- quite effective: he either got up or he ' d drown, and if that didn ' t mother would just start to take her shower on hi couldn ' t afford those slip grip shower mats so I guess Joe would have to do. For Joe this was a great foretelling of his life ahead. You see his father was a male stripper who worked every joint on Prospect Avenue, but eventually called the Pink Flamingo Lounge home. It was said that in his prime the elder Bagoonya had great legs. Lola Bagoonya, Joe ' s mom, was a slightly portly woman of 430 lbs. and an accountant at a small advertising agency. Kevin, Joe ' s oldest brother, was a former member of the Hare Krishna thing. He happened to be the first person ever suspended from this Eastern activity. His suspension came after his arrest for possession of heavy quan- tities of Preparation H. He later insisted it had nothing to do with his feelings toward the group. Kevin is now an account executive at the same agency that employs his mother. Like his brother Bob, Kevin changed his surname so as to avoid any familiar link with the Bagoonya family. Chico (Bob Gross) was Joe ' s other brother. Bob led a somewhat neglected childhood. At four he ran away from home at the urging of his parents. To make ends meet he held various part time jobs including elephant mainten- ance at the zoo, sweeping the floors of the Cleveland Press and a brief stint of teaching swimming in Lake Erie.l He would ' ve tried his luck at the Flamingo Lounge but his father insisted he didn ' t have enough hair on his chest or any tattoos in those special places. Joe himself was somewhat industrious. But it seems he could never hold a job. There was always some conflict of interest. You see Joe had pledged himself to work for the welfare of trees throughout the world. Hence his I forestry my life. He lived his pledge daily by ver since he saw the Smokey the Bear ( the most ■ercials, where
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