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Welcome to those of you who have never visited this site -- including 3AW listeners in Melbourne. Tarlau.com covers the latest about our family
in California (Barbara, Bob and son David) and in Australia (daughter Amanda and Ian and children/grandchildren Bridget and Henry). There's another branch of the Tarlaus online -- the East Coast Tarlaus as we call them. We haven't figured out how we're related.
But Jimmy Tarlau (in Mt. Rainier, Maryland) has a website: www.tarlau.org. So it's ORG for them, COM for us. Please visit us both.

AFLOAT IN MICHIGAN
David and his Beta Theta Pi fraternity brothers canoe on a river
in Michigan in August during a break from
studies at Kettering University. L.A. EMMYS 2009
Bob & Barbara at Los Angeles Emmys night on August 29th. Bob snared two... for two half hour specials for KTTV Fox 11.

     Bob retired from KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles on January 6, his 66th birthday. He had been a senior news producer there for the past 15 years. There was a wonderful newsroom sendoff-- and here's a link to some of the photos.
     The next morning, David flew back to Flint, Michigan to start the 2nd academic term of his sophomore year at Kettering University.
     Bob traveled to Washington the week of Jan 10... touring various federal facilities in a trip arranged by the Drug Enforcement Administration's Citizens Academy -- of which he is a board member in Los Angeles.
     2009 was quite a year -- ranging from David's success at Kettering, his role as a brother in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity there and his fulfilling co-op job to Bob's race to the retirement finish line. David's latest work term finished on Dec 18. The unique Kettering program alternates three months of employment with three months of academics. His co-op job is ideal... it's with AC Propulsion in San Dimas (an hour's drive from home), a designer of drive trains for electric cars.
    David formed the Aerosciences Club at Kettering last term... and will lead a small team coming to L.A. in early March to compete in a very challenging engineering competition, SAE's Aero Design West. It's a weight lifting competition using radio controlled model planes to lift increasingly heavy lead weights.
     In Australia, granddaughter Bridget turned 11 and Henry's a robust two. Plus Amanda landed a job as a book designer at a major Aussie publishing house.
     Bob will continue his weekday reports on American developments for 3AW Radio in Melbourne, Australia. He has been involved with Aussie radio since 1976.