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October 16, 2010,
Suzy Rhodes Casey
wrote:
Perhaps you will remember our Lamar civics teacher Mr. Grover who
ran for the Republican party (then the liberals!) while we were
seniors. Thus began a legacy of Lamar debaters (not all of us,
I assure you) who became more and more vocal about implementing the
1952 Supreme Court decision.
I was 12 in 1952, living in New Orleans temporarily, and wrote a
letter to Life Magazine welcoming black students to my public junior
high school. One evening I received a phone call
telling me that the letter would be published. As an aspiring
great-American-novel-writer, I was thrilled! However, my father, a
commission-only traveling salesman, was not, and calle
his lawyer who informed Life Magazine that I was a minor and did not
have permission to publish such a letter. Then, my Dad tried to
explaining why he had taught me to be accepting
to all people and that the decision was right, but we could
not let others know that we felt that way, and that it would be an
economic disaster for us as a family.. Pretty tough duty.
By the time I was teaching high school in Baltimore in 1964, there
still was not a single student of color at Rice, so I am not sure
how successful the campaign was. I had a really
outstanding student whom I wanted to apply to Rice, but he just
looked at me and said, "Why would I go through the agony of being
the first black student at Rice in Houston, Texas,
when I can join at least a small group of black students at Harvard
or Johns Hopkins?" Hard to argue with that logic.
I was unaware
of a movement to integrate Rice, but I was really focused on my
studies; with so many geniuses to compete with, I always had to work
hard to maintain good grades.
I made Dean's list for the first time the last semester of my senior
year!
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Errol Kramer
here [writing in late November, 2008]. My recovery from a
'stroke' is coming along just fine. Have completed all Rehab
programs.
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In
late November, 2008, Carol Wilson Van Meter passes along news of
Margaret Mills Eldridge.
She
was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia 10 days ago, and has been
in Baylor Hospital in Dallas ever since. She had one week of chemo
and now will wait a week to see if it was effective or if further
treatment
will be necessary. She will be there at least another 3 weeks. She
really needs our prayers and would love to hear from old friends.
Baylor Hospital, 3500 Gaston Avenue, Roberts Building Room 627,
Dallas, TX 75246, 214-818-7677
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November 2008 News regarding
Judie Craig Harrison
from daughters Tracy and Robyn: I wanted to give you a new update on
my mom, Judie Craig Harrison, who is recovering
from lung cancer.
Great news! Mom came home from the hospital on Wednesday, December
3 (after one month and 2 days in the hospital)! She is doing well
and getting stronger each day.
he is using a walker while she gets her strength back. Mom is a
fighter and is working to return to good health. We have a lot to
be thankful for this year during these holidays.
She would love to hear from her friends via email or cards.
judieh1040@hotmail.com
215
Oaktree Lane, Hickory Creek, TX 75065
Thanks for all the prayers during mom's hospitalization and scary
days in ICU. We appreciate your care and concern for our mom. Have
a blessed Christmas season.
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Maxine Walker Ballard
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Lloyd Armstrong
sends a short bio: I got a B.S, in physics from MIT in 1962, then
went to UC Berkeley, where I received a Ph.D. in physics in 1966,
I married Judy Glantz , a graduate
student in psychology at Berkeley, in 1965. After a year of post-doc
at Berkeley, I went to the Westinghouse research labs in
Pittsburgh. In 1969, we moved to Baltimore, where I
joined the physics faculty at Johns Hopkins University. Judy, who got her
Ph.D. in Psychology from Berkeley in 1969, joined the U. of Md.
Medical School faculty,
later moving to Towson University. I became chair of the Department
of Physics and Astronomy at JHU in 1985, then was Dean of the School
of Arts and Sciences from 1987 to 1993.
In 1993, we moved to Los Angeles, where I was appointed Provost and
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of
Southern California. I remained in that
position until 2005. I have been a University Professor at USC
since then, studying issues facing higher education ( many described
on my blog
www.ChangingHigherEducation.com)
Judy spent her time in Los Angeles reinventing herself as a forensic
psychologist, with great success. I dropped down to half time at USC
this year, and Judy has been cutting
back on her practice so that we can travel more. I also spend a lot
of my time consulting with universities and occasionally, cities, on
issues of higher education and creativity.
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From
Elizabeth (Liz) Sherar Gammon...I
want to respond to the invitation. I cannot attend the reunion this
year. I was involved an accident recently and two finger
tendons were cut, so I'm receiving therapy, and can't leave Austin (could
have been worse).
Two years ago I retired from my long time job as an ARD/IEP
Coordinator at the Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired,
and am about to finish renovating/ urbanizing
(to sell) a house near the new Dell Children's Hospital in Austin.
My husband Sam and I live above Barton Springs Pool in Austin (68
degrees), and we love to swim there,
it is the fountain of youth! Our oldest, Laurel, 46, lives with her
husband in N.W. Austin, near Lakeline Mall. Her sister Lauren, 22,
wks for Austin Chamber of Commerce. My youngest daughter,
Robin, 38 and her husband both work for Apple and live in
Pflugerville. We had an extended family too. Sam and I were Lay
Eucharistic Ministers at St. David's Episcopal for many years,
& are retired now. In the 70's we met two Laotian refugee boys there
who came and lived with us for about 5 years they were 14 and
16 at the time... we met at church and they were very
lost & afraid because some Vietnamese refugee gang-type boys had
threatened them with knives at the nearby halfway house...The older
one knew French and had gone to Jesuit school,
and since Sam had a smattering of French, it worked...They attended
schools, grew up, got jobs and ultimately found family in Seattle.
We also love to travel, and were able to do 2-3 wks a year for some
years. Our hope...is that we will travel again too...We love
Colorado near Creede (over the mountains from Pagosa Springs). Regarding the recent hurricanes... Sam (retired from the housing
industry) is working in Galveston as an inspector for FEMA (the
subcontractors are PARR and Parsons
Brinkerhoff). Sam worked extensively at Vero Beach, FL
("Frances", 2004). After "Gustav" hit, he was sent to
New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Then the greater storm "Ike" hi
and he was re-deployed to Galveston. He reports that all of
the homes in East Galveston received at least two to four feet of
water. Obviously it will take the Galveston
area folks a long time
to recover
from "Ike", so please keep them in your prayers.
Have a wonderful reunion...and thanks for all the work the committee
has done to make it work!
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Here's
Richard Harris' short version:
Caltech 58 61 (engineering major, no degree). U. Wisconsin
Madison 61 63 (B.S. in psychology). Stanford 63 68 (M.A.,
Ph.D in psychology) MarrieD
Mary Margaret Bierman (fellow Stanford psychology graduate student) June
14, 1965.Mary and I were the faculty of the Departments of
Psychologyand Sociology at Talladega College, AL the 1965-66
school year, then returned to Stanford to complete our degrees. Mary
and I taught at the University of New Mexico (social psychology and
research methods/ statistics) for 32 years, then I took a
position as Director of Research for the American Societyof
Radiologic Technologists. Just switched to part-time (two days a
week) this past June. Ive authored two statistics textbooks;
Mary, one that outsold both of mine by a wide margin.
Daughter Jennifer (born in 68)
is a child psychiatrist in the Boston area and (together with
son-in-law David) the source of grandchildren Ryan (96), Liam
(99), and Maggie (03).
Older son Christopher (70) is a partner in his Manhattan law firm.
Younger son Alex (86) is in his first year of law school at
Stanford.
Hobbies:
Finding missing Lamar 58 classmates and marathoning (270 marathon
or longer races so far; first one in 69; unlikely to make it to
275.)
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Lynne Hunzicker Austin
reports: I graduated from Stephens College in 1960 with a AA degree,
from U. of Houston in 1963 with a B.S. in biology. While working at
the lab at U.of H. I
coauthored a paper titled " The Effect of Agar on the Inhibitory
Activity of Phenol", which was published in the 1966 Dutch Journal
of Biology and Serology. After graduation from college
I worked in a lab at the Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M
University and was a member of the scientific team doing research in
the Antarctic Ocean aboard the USNS Eltanin., I
received my M.Ed. from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia in
Instructional Technology. I just completed the three year Howard
Hughes Medical Middle School Initiative for
middle school science teacher and I am a candidate for the National
Boards. In 2007 I was a participant in the zero gravity flight
sponsored by Northrop Grumman,
floating weightless was awesome. For fun I have been on two national
championship tennis teams at the senior level.
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Marilyn Miller Cox writes, "I am a retired High school
librarian and realtor. I still do real estate and am an active
duplicate bridge player."
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Carol Elizabeth Clark reports, "I have been the co-owner
of a gift shop here in Houston, Heart's Delight, with another Lamar
grad, Edith Harriman Gilman, since 1982....even though Edith
has retired to mountains of Colorado, I am still here in Houston
running the shop.
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Serge Chernay tells us he's a retired AF Col., USAF
Pilot,, who participated in nuclear weapons negotiations with
Soviets (SALT), Served as executive Secretary START Delegation in
Geneva.
After retirement from USAF, he created Chernay International,
medical equipment export company. He retired in 1998 and currently
provide international trade consulting services.
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Ron
Woliver tells us he is a 1965 grad from Georgia Tech with
BIE Co-Op degree, now "Retired!"
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Gerald Joe White says "I have been blessed all my
life. Good friends, good family and fantastic memories."
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Lucy Snyder Hanley provides this brief biography: I
lived and worked in San Francisco, California, during the turbulent
sixties. I met and married my husband in 1964 and settled into
marriage and motherhood
with two children. We lived a few years in a picturesque, artsy town
named Issaquah, east of Seattle, Washington. In 1972, we moved to
Westlake Village, 40 miles west of Los Angeles, 10 miles over
the mountain from Malibu. We've enjoyed years of community
involvement and volunteerism in our little-8,000-population town. I
earned my Masters in Business Administration degree( summa cum
laude)
at Pepperdine University and worked in various projects but for the
last decade, I've put my major in English to work as a professional
writer/journalist. I've researched and written over 40 books,
including
25 regional cookbooks in a series called Keepsake Series featuring
the best, basic recipes of particular travel destinations. Other
tourist books include such variety as seashells in the Carolinian
Province;
wildlife in the Rocky Mountains; Gettysburg and various Civil War
Parks; Amish Country picture books; American lighthouses on the east
and west coasts and Gulf of Mexico; as well as a half-dozen
Colorado guide books and some scenic, historic city books. We've
traveled around the world and several times in Europe with a few
cruises including a recent trip around Cape Horn at the tip of South
America.
Our two children and grandchildren live nearby and we are very involved
with the nine-year old girl and six-year-old triplet boys.
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From
Philip B. Smith: Following is a short summary of my
life following Lamar. I am an attorney currently practicing in
Paris, Texas, which happens to be in Lamar County. After Lamar High
School, I attended and
graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina, which almost made
the "Final Four" in basketball this year! (Unfortunately, we didn't
do so well in basketball while I was attending the College).
David Dakin of our class of '58 also attended and graduated from
Davidson while I was there. We were the only 2 students at Davidson
from Houston. David was an excellent soccer player on the Davidson
team. Following Davidson, I served 2 years in the army (armor
branch), and then returned to Houston to attend law school at South
Texas College of Law. After law school I worked as an associate a
ttorney at Vinson & Elkins in Houston for 5 years, and then moved to
Dallas to join Locke Purnell Rain Harrell, where I practiced law as
a shareholder for 20 years. In 1996, my wife, Jo and I semi-retired
and moved to Paris, Texas, where I limited my law practice in Paris
to real estate, probate and business contracts. We live on a small
ranch just outside of Paris. Jo and I are active in the Baptist
Church,
and I will be President of the Paris Rotary Club beginning in July
of this year. During these years we raised 3 wonderful children, now
grown with children of their own.
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From
James E. Simmons, Jr., "I am sorry
to say that I am an invalid and will not be able to attend the
reunion. Due to Parkinson's disease with dementia I can no longer
remember my high school days. I appreciate
the work that Richard Harris has done and the lists have jarred my
memory some, Thanks for those Richard. Jimbo
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Dorothy Kathleen Ray Egge reports "After leaving Lamar, I
finished a secretarial course at the Downtown Branch U of H Business
School, and went to work as secretary-bookkeeper. Following that, I
took a
year in vocal music at U of H, then transferred to Hardin-Simmons
University in Abilene, and graduated with a music education (BMEd)
and English minor degree. Highlights of my college life were choir
tours, madrigals, SAI (Sigma Alpha Iota) professional fraternity
productions and projects, and opera workshop. I spent college breaks
working as an office temp, and evenings sang and danced in stage
productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Most of my work has
been with non-profits, including teaching and tutoring at a private
church-school, and office work and volunteer support for a rescue
shelter
director in Louisville, KY. Last January I retired from being senior
administrative assistant to eleven people with Kansas Long-Term Care
Ombudsman statewide program. My husband and I live in
Carbondale, KS, where Ford enjoys pastoring a church, and is active
in Lions Club and Amateur Radio Club. Our daughter Jennifer's
husband Ernie is currently based in Iraq, and it's our prayer
he will safely return.
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Judy Polinski Franklin writes, "Bill and I retired to
Waco after over 30 years of teaching in Houston. Our son, Rick and
family live nearby, and we love our visits with him, Brenda, and our
grandchildren. We spend
summers in Bellingham, Washington, where we went to graduate school.
We bought some property in nearby Acme and built a cabin among our
beautiful firs, cedars, and hemlocks. We have rented the
cabin to a local boy - a marine back from Iraq, and we stay in our
condo in Bellingham. We enjoy hiking, and taking photos of that
lovely part of the world. We love to travel - have made several
trips to Mexico,
and spent 3 wonderful weeks in Italy in 2004. Back home in Waco, we
are active in our church. I'm in two interesting book clubs, and a
garden club. Our acquired hobby in retirement is art. I paint in
watercolors,
Bill in oils. I currently serve as president of the Central Texas
Watercolor Society, and Bill is Webmaster of the Art Guild of
Central Texas. You can view examples of our art work at
www.artguildct.org.
I look forward to our reunion next fall Later: BA, Texas Woman's
University; MA, Western Washington University, Retired from teaching
Spanish, 4th & 5th grades in Houston & Spring Branch
elementary schools. We spend summers in Bellingham, Washington."
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Judy Pauly fills us in: I decided to go back back to
school/college, got my degree and state certification to become a
substance abuse counselor which I was for many years. Had a son
with Tommy, who is
now deceased.
I remarried once after Tommy for less than a year, divorced and been
single ever since. In 1989 I began raising exotic birds and animals
(Llamas, Peacocks, Parrots, etc.) of which I still do to this day,
only since my bypass, I've had to downsize a bit on the work load.
I still do substance abuse counseling on a limited basis when needed
in jails, and for people in need, etc.
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From
Margy Kuebler: My husband to be,
Larry Waldrip "roped me " (literally at the Houston Fat Stock Show
in February of 1955.)I must have given him my name and address
... because I received a valentine
soon after that! He soon came for a visit... to pass the parental
approval test. He passed with flying colors. As we dated and made
plans to marry, my parents said that was fine... if I would get my
college
degree FIRST. Well. I hurried through Lamar and graduated in January
1958. I went straight to Austin to UT. I took my last final exam
August 4th , 1960 and we married on August 6, 1960.
Larry was finishing veterinary school. I taught Spanish, English &
geography for two years in Bryan. In 1962 we moved to New Braunfels,
where he began his veterinary practice. Our three sons
Dibrell, Darrell and David were born between December 1963 and March
1966. All three sons still live in New Braunfels. Dibrell is a state
district judge. He was our district attorney for about ten years.
Darrell is my partner at our bed and breakfast, the Kuebler Waldrip
Haus & Danville Schoolhouse bed and breakfast. I started the bed and
breakfast in 1987 and Darrell joined me in 1991. Our third son
David is a property appraiser and loves working with cattle. The
main house at the bed & breakfast is our restored and enlarged 1847
hand-hewn limestone home, with five rooms & five baths (2 Jacuzzis).
Our second building, the Danville School, is a restored and enlarged
one-room school. It now has five rooms & five baths (1 Jacuzzi). In
2000, our barn became our Deer Haven Cottage, with three bedrooms,
a full kitchen and one bath with Jacuzzi and shower. This is our
21st year for the bed and breakfast and we enjoy seeing many repeat
guests. We are located on 43 peaceful acres in New Braunfels, just
2-6 minutes from the rivers, Gruene, Schlitterbahn and Downtown New
Braunfels. My inspiration for starting the bed and breakfast was
Casa Gonzalez a wonderful bed and breakfast in Mexico City...
which is still going strong too! All family still lives in New
Braunfels. Come see us!
www.kueblerwaldrip.com 800 299 8372 I
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Sally Jane Neuhas writes: "I was married to Tommy Loftus
for 16 1/2 years, divorced and moved to the country outside of
Somerville, Texax."
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Errol Kramer reports he's now retired. Schooling included
the University of Houston grad (1977), (2) Masters (1996) (2005),
He's now an Adjunct at Lone Star College-CyFair, instructing
Logistic courses.
He and his wife celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary May 2008.
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Kathleen Kelley Bowen writes: I moved to New Jersey
and attended Fairleigh Dickinson University. I then worked as a
Promotional Assistant for Power Magazine which was a McGraw-Hill
magazine. I married in
February of 1963. After six months of marriage my husband as one of
the last men to be drafted before President Kennedy stopped drafting
married men, was sent to Germany where I joined him. He was a
Chaplain's Assistant and I did not work while in Germany. When we
returned from Germany, we had our son Alan, Jr. I have spent most of
married life working on fund raising for non profit organizations.
I enjoy working with children and the homeless. My husband Alan, was
a Senior Buyer for Stern's Department stores for 40 years and the
week after he retired in 1999, he began to study CPE (Clinical
Pastoral Education). After graduating from the course, he became a
lay chaplain and has worked at several hospitals. We started a small
business for assisting the elderly in whatever way we could.
The company was called "Caring Neighbors" Alan is now employed 20
hours a week as a chaplain at Renaissance Gardens a Assisted Living
facility. He loves his work. I continue to work with children
and am working with a group called "Read Now" reading to preschool
children on a regular basis.
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Jim
Hammer reports that he Graduated University of Houston,
BBA Degree and is now retired.
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John W. Focke is a Fellow of the American Institute of
Architects.
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Jeanne
Earle reports that she and husband John Humphrey
"are currently in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico."
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Pamela Ann Dexter writes "Retired, still divorced, living
on Lake Conroe, and loving it!"
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Louise Wright Robertson sends this:
After I graduated from
UT and married Gordon (Robertson grew up in South Side Place and is
also a Lamar graduate. 1953), we hit the road - Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Arizona, and finally California where we've been since
1967. Our son Dave is a physics and astronomy professor at Otterbein
College in Ohio - married and two children child - Will,
who is now 3, and Marion, very soon to be a year old. Our daughter
Kitty and her husband own a small electronics manufacturing company
here in Monrovia (the small town in the LA metroplex
where we now live). They and their two children , Julia
(almost 14) and John almost 11) live just down the street from us so
we
benefit from easy and frequent family connections.
Both Gordon and I
finished Masters degrees at Arizona State University and our move to
California was for him to do Ph.D. work at UCLA,
Our plan was "just a few years in California." Notice how
long we've stayed. While
he went to school, I supported the family as a school librarian
(junior and senior high school) and then moved into
administration, spending the last 21 of my 33 year
s a central
office administrator for the same mid-sized school district. Gordon
did his thing at UCLA and went back to work as an aerospace
engineer for TRW - now Northrop Grumman.
He stayed with them until
he retired. I continue to do some consulting work for the Western
Association of Schools and Colleges and the California
Department of Education. With both of us retired
(since 2000),
we're enjoying not being on freeways or under pressure deadlines or
facing unsolvable problems presented by parents or the Air Force.
We travel, read, do some volunteer work
(local library), try to keep
our minds and bodies active (gym and yoga for me), , be good
grandparents to our intelligent, witty, and wonderful four, and stay in touch
with friends.
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Laura Jean Cooper Fiore moved to Paris after high school
for 3 years, was a runway model for 11 years and then moved to New
York City where "I currently reside. Graduated from Pratt Institute
with a degree
n Environmental design and opened my own Interior Design Business in
1980. My husband, Richard, and I split our time between our 1907
bank building loft in Manhattan, which he developed,
and our farm in Bucks County, PA."
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Carolyn Joyce Burnett Crutchersays, "We spend six months
of the year in Whitefish Montana, where we have a resort hotel and a
home."
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From
Patricia Jo Breidenstein Looper:
"It was heartbreaking when I learned my father's position required a
move to Dallas in February of our Junior year. And, a half-century
later, it was a joy to find the
Lamar '58 website. How kind that you have said I could consider
myself part of the Lamar '58 class. I'm a retired United Methodist
Minister. Along with my husband we are
co-pastoring a small church in our retirement. In addition to the
four sons, two step-daughters, and 18 grandchildren, I still managed
to obtain a masters and a doctorate degree. I
n my spare time, I write, play lots of bridge, and read."
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Connie Biaggini says,
"I was at Lamar only for my sophomore year because my father had a
job transfer to San Francisco at the end of that year. I'm still in
SF. Will be fun to come to the 50th reunion
as I often wonder about my classmates at Lamar."
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Galyn Barr reports he
is retired from Gulf Oil/Chevron. Part Time working at DFW airport
for Korean Air Lines.
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Monroe Luther and wife Kay are partners in what he
describes as a "small newspaper business, the Prague Post, a weekly
newspaper published in the
Czech Republic. Check out their website at
Prague Post . You can also
read about the newspaper and its history in
Wikipedia.
The paper celebrated its
15 year anniversary on October 1, 2007.
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Marsha Harris Solomon's watermedia work
will be on display at the Archway Gallery April 20 - May 31, 2008.
If you're in town, there's a reception
Saturday, April 26 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. |
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Charles Summers writes "I fulfilled my military
obligation in the Army, spending two years in Germany before
returning to Houston late in
1964 to work
until 1973 when I moved to Matagorda County, and started making land
improvements while raising beef cattle on family land
which I later
purchased. Along the way I established and operated several related small
businesses, under the name of Caney Conservation
Company,
correcting the drainageproblem at Rio Colorado Golf Course, and improving waterfowl
habitat for the State of Texas at Peach Point,
under Justin Hurst,
for which the habitat is now
named. Other jobs for the county, LCRA, and individual clients, we
worked until
I retired to just ranching care in November of 2005.
For recreation between 1975 and 1990, I owned
several Harley Davidson Motorcycles, before they were so popular,
and was wide traveled across many
of the lower 48 States, camping out much of the time, satisfying my
interest in geography and American history. I still enjoy travel but
by automobile and no
longer camp out. My most recent trip was last fall as a repeat of
several previous trips along the historic Oregon-California trail,
mostly visiting Nebraska
to Wyoming, and am making plans to visit Arizona this year, if all
goes according to plans.
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Charles sends along
this photo and memory: The "Pride of
West University" was this 1927 Seagraves pumper which was purchased
new for $1.00/pound, and sold in the early 1960s.
It was painted Red, as I remembered it, and for several years sat in
a used car lot on Washington Avenue in Houston. A sad ending for a
proud Lady. As kids growing up, we used to be entertained by
watching the volunteer train with the hoses on Tuesday nights and
visiting the fire department while enrolled at WUP Elementary.
I was involved with the fire department, first
as a volunteer, and latter as a paid fireman.
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Lloyd Armstrong served as USC's Provost and Senior Vice
President, Academic Affairs, 1993-2005. He's now
an Emeriti
Administrator.
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Linnie
Garner-Mower received the 2007 Mary Bull Mason
Outstanding Alumnae Achievement Award from Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
The award
honors an alumna for unselfish service to others and for being
active in community organizations. A member of the Alpha Zeta
chapter
of Alpha Delta Pi at Southern Methodist University, colleagues
describe her as "not only a world class soprano, but a warm and
charming lady." Trained at the Julliard Opera Center, Linnie has
sung more than 30 lead soprano roles, performed internationally,
and won numerous awards. Linnie is a vocal instructor at Alcorn
State University in Mississippi. She uses her singing talents and
background to encourage and instruct students and to help them
succeed in the vocal and performance industries. Linnie
extends this commitment to public school students as she speaks with
them about being an opera singer.
Details from the Winter 2007-08 edition of The
Adelphian of Alpha Delta Pi.
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October 2006,
Richard Harris
spent time in Pasadena, California. That
meant he and
Louise Wright Robertson
could connect
personally after two years of e-mail and phone correspondence and NO
recollection of either from our high school days. We had two days
of good conversation and good food, including wishing we'd known
each other way back then. We'll see you at the Cadillac Bar October
17, 2008! |
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Urban Playground
watercolor on paper
30x22 inches |
Marsha
Harris Solomon's art will be
featured in an exhibit of works from the Water Color Society from
July 13 to
October 2, 2006.
One of her works for the cover of the
invitation. Pretty exciting! Details of the exhibit are on the back
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We had a wonderful Christmas at our house and
hope that all our fellow Lamarites did too.
Wishing you all the
best for the new year.
Maxine
Walker Ballard
2005
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Bob's Watershed
Ginny (left) carving pumpkins. |
Bob Wright
lets us know he and his wife Ginny are alive & well in the beautiful
mountains of North Carolina. "As I write you this morning it is
45
deg outside and the fall leaves are bursting into full color. We are
active in the small town of Highlands, NC. This morning I am on my
way
to speak to the Franklin, NC Rotary about the benefits of a new
floodplain ordinance that I helped write. My days are most often
occupied as
the volunteer business manager & Treasurer of a
wonderful child development center for preschoolers we helped build
a couple of years ago.
I love to tell people about my "65
grandchildren" in the center. I am currently in the process of
building a 'NASCAR Trike-Way' for the children with
volunteer
materials & labor. Its a place to ride their big-wheelers on the
playground - great fun and many personal rewards."'
We were married 48 yrs ago
this December (1958). Our two children include Lisa & family who
live in Atlanta & has 2 daughters.
Chip & family live in Austin &
have a daughter 2 yrs old.
I graduated from Texas A&M in aeronautical engineering. Then, the
Air Force had me for three years. While in the Air Force, I got my M.S. in
Aeronautical
Engineering from the Air Force Institute of
Technology residence school at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. For 10 years, I worked on the
Apollo
Lunar
Landing Program in Houston working for TRW Systems. Then,
21-22 yrs with M. W. Kellogg (now Kellogg Brown & Root) in the
petrochemical & refinery
design and construction biz.
When I retired in May
1997, we moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of western NC.
Highlands is a very small town (official population 1,000 -
summer
population 25,000) about 2.5 hours North of Atlanta and
an hour South of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We
live at 4,000 ft in a small
community outside town & absolutely
love it.
We're looking forward
to the reunion in '08!
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Charles S. McMurrough
Sr.
writes
in October 2007, "After retiring from the Airlines in 1999 I
thought running a trap line, hunting and fishing would
satisfy my love of adventure. Well it did for awhile, now I am
flying a Medivac airplane out of a Bush village, Kotzebue to be
exact. (Note: This native Alaskan
village is
located 33 miles
North of the Arctic
Circle on Alaska's Western coast).
The definition of a Bush village is one with no road to it,
everything must
come in by Air or Water. When people get sick, have a severe injury,
heart attack or need medical help right away we fly them to
Anchorage. Oh well,
enough of that, we can talk at the reunion. Thank you for keeping us
all informed and together for this great event, if the Good Lord's
willing and the
Creeks don't rise I will be there." |
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