thoughts of good ol' Charlie Brown

shared by Andrew Beall, her brother-in-law

Today is the 60th anniversary of Peanuts. On October 2, 1950, Charles Schulz's comic strip debuted in seven newspapers across the country. What does this have to do with Cindy? Not much in some ways, but a lot in others.

Cindy enjoyed Peanuts growing up. She had a close enough relationship with Peanuts that when it was time to choose her "camp name" when she was a counselor in UCLA's UniCamp, she chose Snoopy. Our friend Paul has previously written on this blog about how that happened, so I won't get into the details of how that came about. But I always loved hearing someone call her that. She ended up using the name for other activities she did in school and other places. You can also find a picture that Marlo posted in February of Cindy standing next to her USAC board that used Snoopy and Woodstock to campaign for her election.

I still have Cindy's Peanuts books that are now a part of my collection, and her USAC sign is sitting in our garage. But probably our most prized piece is a drawing that Cindy did at a young age, of good ol' Charlie Brown. It proudly hangs in our home. It's a good representation of things that Cindy enjoyed and also displays her talent for arts and crafts.

So while I am happy today for Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and all the other characters of the Peanuts world, I am mostly going to be thinking about Cindy, Marlo and I dancing our Peanuts' dances in our apartment...the fun we had drawing her USAC board...Cindy and I reciting lines like "I got a rock" and others from the Peanuts specials.

We miss you Snoopy.