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02-08-2011
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RIP Wally
RIP Captain Wally
Walt Bohren has passed on to the next life....I am very sad. Sail on sailor
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.  "Think very carefully, because if you ever start, you will never be able to leave it alone" Sir Donald Campbell, CBE
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02-08-2011
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Re: Very Sad News
Quote:
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The Boss: "Wally, what are your goals for the coming year?" Wally: "My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
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02-08-2011
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Re: Very Sad News
I heard about this just hours ago, and my family wondered why I had turned so sad so quickly.
I remember one of my very first Skip Barber programs in 1998, a 1-day corporate in Homestead in July. As you can imagine, it was really hot! Wally suggested I drive a formula car to do some low-speed lead follow with the corporate guests. In my youth, I thought it was a great idea. It would be years before I realized Wally was more than happy to let a young exuberant new instructor do the sweaty work. I once thought he was just a old-timer slacker like I had seen at Disney. Then one day someone told me he did not bill Skip Barber a day of salary for more than 14 years. That's when I knew the guy had his heart in the right place, and I was forever a Walt Bohren fan. I'm too young to have made the kind of friendship with Wally that guys like StevieD, Ray Scott, Peter Argetsinger, Bob Dotson, and many others have. I know we will all miss Wally dearly. We knew he had already gotten the dream job of his life when he started his boat charter business. A dream job made in heaven, where he is certainly now residing with many other great people. RIP dear Walt. 
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Gerardo Bonilla Professor of Comedic Slip Angle Use 
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02-09-2011
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Re: Very Sad News
Very sad day. I will miss him and will never forget him..
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"Nothing good has ever been reported about the full rotation of a race car about either its pitch or roll axis. " Carroll Smith
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02-09-2011
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Re: Very Sad News
A tribute to Walt on his retirement from Skip Barber Racing, shown as the final chapter
of the 2007 Midwestern Series Banquet video. Thanks to Susan Auriemma, Ashlei Lunneberg, Todd Snyder, Kelly Deneen and everyone else who helped me round up some great stills of Wally's world for the edit. Full size version on Facebook, can be viewed by everyone .
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. "Think very carefully, because if you ever start, you will never be able to leave it alone" Sir Donald Campbell, CBELast edited by cdh; 03-19-2011 at 01:19 AM.
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05-12-2011
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Re: RIP Wally
Walt was always at every event I did, whether racing or flagging, and he ALWAYS had time for me. I did my most recent race as a driver at Daytona in April 2007, when Walt retired and he was honored at the banquet. That was the last time I saw him. A man of very good character who will be missed by everybody
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