Goines On: Go be gone

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When his Father’s Day card arrived addressed to “Grandpa Go,” both Goines and his wife did a double-take. “‘Go’?” Mrs. Goines exclaimed. “I thought the only people who called you ‘Go’ were your college chums.”
    It was sort of true. Before Goines moved into the freshman dormitory in college (51 years earlier), the only person who had called him “Go” was Goines himself, when he made up that 8th-grade campaign poster with the slogan, “Get mo’ with Go!” – his second draft, after rejecting “Mow with Go!”
    “Get mo’ with Go!” had seemed to work – he won the election to become student body president. But “Go” hadn’t thenceforth become his nickname, although a certain wise-cracking friend in high school might occasionally refer to him that way.