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Reply to: "Tracy Bell" (tbell@Stlukeslifeworks.org)

Looking for my Father James Hoves Bell. Last known location of my father is 
Port au Prince Haiti: Caucasian male in late fifties early 60s and goes by 
the name Captain Jim ( Boat Captain). Haven't seen or heard from him in 12 
years not even sure if he's still alive... So I'll keep checking your list 
to see if he shows LOL... Tracy

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Reply-To: Jac470_2000@yahoo.com
Subject: Searching for a Jim Bell

Hi Jim:
 
I was searching for an old friend and came across your page, very unique, nice.  Maybe in your seaches you 
have come across my friend James Kimsey Bell.  Different middle name, can't be too many out there.  I met Jim 
oin college in Michigan, Schoolcraft Community college in 1968-1969.  We was then drafted into Navy and went 
to Pensacola naval base, statione in DC, and a few other places.  His family, at the time he went to college 
in Michigan ,lived in Ohio.  They lived there for a short while and then moved back to Holden Massachusetts 
and Wooster area.   I lost track of him in the 70's.  Jim would be around 59-63yrsold. 

If you have come across any info, please feel free to send it along to my e mail address 
Jac470_2000@yahoo.com.   My name is Jacqui Hewson, back then I was Jackie Prpich from Livonia Michigan
 
Thanks much,
Jacqui

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I am seeking an old pen pal named Jim Bell (James R. Bell), here in the East Bay of Calif. 
He wrote while he was in Vietnam, from 1970-1971, then a note when he got home.  We were always 
going to hook up, but alas....  life happened in between!
 
Travelaura@aol.com

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:18:04 -0500
From: "James Bell" 

Hey Jim Bell, it's me, Jim Bell.
 
I need your help tracking down a retired US Navy pilot and former POW, James Franklin 
Bell.  When I last visited your site last Summer, I read a brief bio on him.  It seems 
to now have been removed.
 
I'd like to contact him, and tell him how his name has actually had an impact on my 
life and career choice.  Let me explain...
 
In 1988, I was in the Navy, and entered a special training called SERE School, in 
Brunswick, ME.  This was a mock POW camp, wherein Naval Aviators are made to feel 
what it's like to be shot down behind enemy lines, captured, and if possible, try to 
escape.   I noted a plaque on the entrance doorway into the auditorium where we sat 
for the class work part of the training.  It was a list of POW's who had actually 
gone through that school.  At the top of the list, with 8 years in the Hanoi Hilton, 
was a LtCDR James F. Bell....me!

I was obviously, well, pretty freaked out by it, and tried not to see this as some 
sort of omen.  It made for an interesting story in the years to follow.
 
I never heard anything else about him all these years, until I happened to discover 
your web site.  Please help me track down this particular Jim Bell, obviously no easy 
task in a Universe seemingly brimming with Jim Bell's.
 
Thanks, Jim.
 
James F. Bell, M.A.
Dept. of Psychology
Georgia Regional Hospital
Savannah, Georgia
jfbell@dhr.state.ga.us


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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:46:06 -0400
Subject: Missing Jim Bell
From: "Smith, Joe" 

I am looking for a friend that I have long ago lost track of. James G. Bell lived in Norristown, PA in the 1970s. Had a son, also Jim bell and another son, Kevin Allen Bell.
Desperately searching for my old best friend.
 
Joe Smith
jsmith@bluetruck.net


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From: Kenn L Szablewski 
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:12:41 -0500

Hi--My Name is Ken Szablewski and Iam looking for a old shipmate of mine
who served on board a submarine named the U.S.S.Sea Robin SS 407
which at the time was stationed in New London, Conn (Subase)
I found a lot of J.Bell on www.switchboard.com and I Email about 33 of them
and one of them came back with your web site and email address. Looked
thru it, but no state address.  The last rumor
I had was that he work for the DOT state of Maine in the 60-80,s
    His stats:: James Bell  EN3/SS
   Nick name: (Bumper)
Served aboard 1962-64
His family(Mom & Dad) lived in Augusta, Maine(At the time)
Reason for trying to find: Ship's Reunion October 16-20 ,2000 Atlantic City N.J.
If you have any info on the one that Iam looking for, sent it to me.  
And THANK YOU
                             
Ken Szablewski, CS3/SS  1963-63
PO Box 361  Voluntown, Ct. 06384
69 Burdick Lane  Griswold/Norwich Ct. 06360
H# 860-376-5238   Fax# 860-376-0540
Email- KennSzab@juno.com  -or-  kszablewski@snet.net


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From gseranch@netins.net Tue Dec  7 15:18:01 1999
Reply-To: "Holly Oglesby" 
Subject: looking for a james bell
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:16:34 -0600

i am looking for a james lynn bell. i am not sure of the spelling of his 
middle name.  i have been told that he was in the air force in 1966, and 
that he was from arkansas. i do know he dated a woman named carol from 
missouri. i believe that she may have been 10-12 years his junior. the 
man i seek is my birth father, and i want nothing from him that he is 
not interested in except a medical history. I am 32 soon to be 33 and i 
have four children of my own, and i would like to gain medical history 
to help in caring for them.  of course i would be thrilled to have a 
relationship with him, but do not expect it nor would i push the issue. 
i do not even know if he know i am alive.my birth mother grew up in 
lewiston missouri and gave birth to me while visiting her aunt in 
peoria, il. any infor i might get would be of great interest to me and a 
great help. i always hope every year before x-mas that i could find him, 
it would be the ultimate present. thank you for all  you help and have a 
merry x-mas too!!!


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From dawneden@panix.com Fri Aug  1 02:58:32 1997
Subject: In Search of "Jim Bell"

Dear Jim,

     I was doing a search for a different "Jim Bell" on the Hotbot 
search engine and your page was first on the list. I read your Jim 
Bell page and found it very amusing. Perhaps you could help me find 
the one I'm looking for. I couldn't pay you, except by reimbursing you 
for any phone expenses you might incur, but you would earn my eternal 
gratitude.

     I am a Sixties rock historian. For the past decade, I have been 
researching the life and work of the late Curt Boettcher. Who? Curt 
produced the Association's first album, including their hits "Along 
Comes Mary" and "Cherish." He is best known among fans of psychedelic 
rock for his production, songwriting, and singing with two classic 
groups, the Millennium and Sagittarius. He was an artist on the level 
of Brian Wilson and Phil Spector and was very much ahead of his time.

     I am very happy to say that my published articles on Curt 
Boettcher have spurred record labels in America and England to reissue 
the Millennium and Sagittarius albums this year. With so much interest 
in his music, I am redoubling my efforts to track down people who 
worked with him. One of them is Jim Bell.

     Jim Bell is from Colorado. He moved to L.A. in the mid-Sixties 
and formed a country-rock group called the Poor, which included Randy 
Meisner, later of the Eagles. He sang and played flute in the group. 
They, too, were ahead of their time. Not a lot of groups were playing 
country-rock in 1966, two years before the Byrds released their 
landmark "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" LP.

     In addition to the Poor, Jim Bell was in a quartet with Curt 
Boettcher called the Ballroom. While they only had one single out, on 
Warner Brothers, many of their recordings were later passed off as 
Millennium and Sagittarius recordings on those groups' albums.

     Here are some other things I've been told about Jim Bell that 
might help you identify him: He left the music scene in the late 
Sixties (was only in it for a few years) and is said to have gotten a 
degree in marine biology. He was married to Melody Clinger, but I 
believe they are divorced.

     I realize that you have plenty of work to do at Cornell without 
tracking down a Jim Bell for a complete stranger. I am writing this in 
the hope that perhaps you already have come across a Jim Bell who fits 
those qualifications, or perhaps he has found you via your page. Like 
I said, if there is any way you could find him for me, you would earn 
my eternal gratitude. I would even take the train to Ithaca and 
personally give you one dozen roses, though I can't promise they'd be 
the expensive kind with a real scent. BTW, Cornell is my grandmother's 
alma mater.

     Thanks very much for your attention. I look forward to hearing 
from you. Even if there is nothing you can do, I wish you all the 
best.

Cheers,
Dawn Eden