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Robert
Bike

Licensed Massage Therapy #5473
Eugene, Oregon

EFT-CC, EFT-ADV

Teaching Reiki Master

Life Coach

541-465-9486

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Reiki
Private classes.
Biblical Aromatherapy
Therapeutic Essential
Oil Massages
Member
OMTA & ABMP
President of the Oregon Massage Therapists Association
2008-2010
& 2012-2013

I graduated from Freeport (Illinois) High School.
I'm a Pretzel!

FHS Reunions

Copyright 2002 - present

Latest Copyright
March 28, 2013

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Remarkable Stories,
Volume 1


by Robert Bike

Remarkable events have happened in Freeport and Stephenson County, Illinois, and remarkable people have lived there. These are stories gathered about people and events from 1835 through World War II.

By no means complete, these are overviews of lives and events which shaped our country and our world. From events in the lives of Tutty Baker, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Guiteau, Leonard Colby, Jane Addams and Bob Wienand come stories that will amaze you. Welcome to Volume 1 of our living history.

The author lives in Eugene, Oregon, and works as a Licensed Massage Therapist and Life Coach. An amateur historian, parts of these stories and many more appear on this website.

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Biblical Aromatherapy

by Robert Bike

The Bible mentions about 232 plants by name, or closely enough to figure out what plant is meant. Of these, 24 are aromatic plants; that is, parts of the plants can be pressed or distilled to get an essential oil. Essential oils are the lifeblood of plants and have tremendous healing capabilities.

The healing power of plants is the basis for modern medicines.

Biblical Aromatherapy
discusses how the plants were used in biblical days and how you can use the essential oils from biblical plants.

Originally published in manuscript form in 1999, I completely revised the book and added illustrations.

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Publicity!

Olga Carlile, columnist for the Freeport (Illinois) Journal Standard, featured this website in her column on January 19, 2007.
Here is a jpg scan.

Harriet Gustason, another columnist for the Freeport Journal Standard, has featured this website twice. Click to see pdf of articles:
June 29, 2012
November 3, 2012

 

"My Life Purpose is to inspire my friends
and clients to achieve
success, health,
wealth and happiness
by empowering them
to reach their potential,
while living in harmony
with each other, animals
and our planet."
Robert Bike

Robert Bike, LMT, LLC

The Polaris is the high school annual from Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois.

All text and photos Copyright 2002 - present Robert L. Bike, except for direct quotes from the Polaris, uncopyrighted material in the public domain.

The Class of 1900

Lancaster Burling,

Theron Goddard,

Chester Hoefer,

Florence Reitzell,

Susan Rosenstiel.


World War I Veteran from the Class of 1900

Susan Rosenstiel served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I.

Susan Grace Rosenstiel was born February 11, 1882. After graduating from FHS in 1900, Susan attended Lake Forest College and Mount Holyoke College. She took nursing classes at the University of Michigan and graduated from the Chicago Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1909. She worked at Cook County Hospital for a few years.

Her sister Mary Rosenstiel was a doctor in Freeport for many years. Susan worked as a nurse in "The Little Hospital" that the two established at Stephenson and Cherry.

When the U.S. entered the First World War, Susan volunteered with the Army Nurse Corps. She cared for many soldiers during the great flu epidemic. She reached France just before the Armistice was signed.

After she was discharged from military service in April 1919, she stayed in Europe, doing health examinations on children in France and Belgium.

In July 1919, she joined the American Red Cross and served in Poland. She was mentioned in a Saturday Evening Post article for her bravery as she helped evacuate 700 Russian and Polish refugee children from Bialystock. "Two American girls proved their bravery. Miss Susan Rosenstiel of Freeport, Ill., and Miss Stella Matthews of Milwaukee, chief nurse of the American Red Cross in Poland. A few hours before the city fell to the Red Army, the women marched the children aboard cattle cars and accompanied them to Warsaw. The American women, calm in the face of danger, were able to avoid a panic among the frightened children who, in spite of the crowding and intense heat in the cars, entered Warsaw in perfect order, singing."

Susan late worked in Albania, where she worked in a clinic serving women and children. There she married Dr. Nicholas Popov. He had been a doctor in Russia. He was a refugee on a ship in a Greek harbor. He tossed a note onto the Red Cross ship, offering to work for them. The Red Cross worked for his freedom, and after securing it, sent him to the clinic where Susan was working.

In 1922, Susan and Nicholas returned to America with their two children, Boris and Mildred. After divorcing, Susan and the children moved back to Freeport.

Around 1930, Susan Rosenstiel and Maggie Davenport (Class of 1908) bought a horticultural nursery they called Port Rose Garden. Rosenstiel later bought out Davenport's share. Source: The Freeport Journal Standard August 20, 2005

Susan studied landscape gardening and horticulture at the University of Illinois, and planted many gardens around Freeport before dying of cancer in 1947.


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Freeport High School

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such as postcards, people and events from that year.

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