WEWER KEOHANE (Dee Wewer '65)

Hi Gloria --- Here's the latest picture (right before it started snowing) of me and my wolf, Isabel........wishing you a Happy New Year.....Wewer wewer@sopris.net

CARL MEADE'S FAMILY - Merry Christmas

Pictured are Carl's sons:

David Meade and fiancee, Anna

Jacob and Michael Meade

SANDY, JUDY & NANCY MINOR

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL FROM THE MINORS !

Christmas 2007, left to right, Sandy Minor Smith ('63) ssmith@mjcpa.com, Judy Minor Villari ('66) jvillari1@comcast.net and Nancy Minor Fullilove.


















The Minor girls and Chaplain (Col. Ret) Wayne and Lea Minor.

ssmith@mjcpa.com Sandy's email

"Mr. Porter", Jackie & Jeff Anderson and Bill Borellis

Sharon Moorhead Woods

Christmas Card from Sharon Moorhead Woods JMoorh2850@aol.com

Bonnie Horne McKeever '64

Bill and Jan (Rimmer - '65) Muske

Merry Christmas from Mike Berish

Craig & Lynnette (Walker) Allen - Counselor

Geoff & Teresa DeArza ('66) Gauger

Merry Christmas from Joseph Scroggins - faculty

December, 2007 - MERRY CHRISTMAS

My card for this year is a still life of my mother's pressed and etched glass pieces. I do not know how old they are, but they must be over seventy years old. My mother would be 112 this year. The vase was a gift from her sister Emilia who gave a similar vase to another sister, Jozefa. The ceramic tree was purchased at a store on Presa Street in downtown San Antonio on a hot summer day for $10 over 30 years ago. There is a music box in the base which plays "O Tannenbaum."

This is my thirtieth photo-Christmas card. I started in 1976 and skipped two years after I returned from Saint Louis.

Dear Gloria,

I hope all of your family are well and enjoying the Holiday Season. I am fine. I have been on 3 train trips this year. In February I went to St. Louis to visit friends and former co-workers. I had not been back since I left in 1995. In March I went to Las Vegas to help a friend who had broken his shoulder. Although he was in pain a lot, we did quite a bit of sightseeing. Although Las Vegas is not the kind of place I would ordinarily go, I really enjoyed the chance to see it. Last month I went to Del Rio, Alpine and Marfa, TX. (I passed through New Braunfels on the train on these last two trips.) I enjoyed the 1886-7 courthouses in those towns, as well as the oldest winery in Texas in Del Rio. I really enjoyed Alpine and Marfa in the Jefferson Davis Mountains. They are both very urbane, friendly, and sophisticated. Both have beautiful near-100-year-old hotels where I stayed. El Paisano in Marfa is where Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean stayed during the filming of Giant. I stayed in Dean's room. He is still an icon there.

I am planning on putting my condo up for sale in February. I am hoping to move to the Wellington Retirement Community in San Marcos, Texas, and be your neighbor. It is a beautiful facility for independent living with buildings with 4 apartments scattered around a large campus. I have been downsizing and am ready. I am excited about living there, but I dread what I have to go through to get there.

Jack Posey is in Fort Worth. He may move to a retirement place there in February. He and I are planning a train trip to Chicago in the spring. I want to take other train trips next year, but I don't think it is wise considering my move.

I wish all of you a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Joe Scroggins

Dallas, TX

Merry Christmas from Phil Moseley '64

Gloria and Danny --

We do indeed have email -- and I'm sorry we've lost touch. I promise to follow up more later with what we've been doing over the past several years, since seeing you up here, but here are a few highlights.

Norah and I have been very fortunate in our nearly 34 years of marriage. I retired as chief of staff of the House Ways and Means Committee at the end of 1996, went downtown as a tax consultant for a number of years as a partner at Ernst & Young, and then retired for good at the end of 2005. Norah beat me into retirement by five years -- ending her own career at the Ways and Means Committee in 2000 (we worked together for a number of years, as you may recall). Now we split our time between our homes in Alexandria, Virginia and Southport, North Carolina where we built home a couple of years ago in golf and boating community. She has become a golf fanatic, winning her ladies' group championship two years in a row at Army Navy Country Club.

Norah

I'm not much of a golfer, thanks to increased double vision problems as I get older, but I am enjoying the heck out of my boat, the "Yellow Rose". Friends and I frequently go 60 miles out into the Atlantic before dawn to chase tuna, wahoo, mahi-mahi, sailfish, king mackerel, and all sorts of other fish in the beautiful blue gulf stream waters along the continental shelf. We had the 19th largest king mackerel among the more than 2,000 weighed in at this year's U.S. Open King Mackerel Tournament held there in Southport.

Phil and Clay

Our two children are doing very well, and we're awfully proud of them. Son Clay (finally stopped growing at 6'6") is on track to graduate with honors from the business school at UNC Wilmington this May (35 miles from our Southport home). It has taken a while for him to find his way, but he's now had four "straight A" semesters in a row and recently was the leader of the university's ethics debate team in a regional competition. He kicked Clemson's ass single-handedly! He's also a fine golfer, all-around athlete, and my favorite fishing buddy. Our daughter Kendall is an internal medicine physician at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Always the overachiever, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rice, went on to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston for med school where she graduated near the top of her class, then on to Hopkins for residency. Hopkins asked her to stay on for a three-year fellowship in endocrinology which she'll start this summer. I suspect she will spend the rest of her career there -- especially if she and her surgeon boyfriend get married. Sure won't get any complaints from her proud parents. Norah and I still wonder how we created these two.

Kendall and Clay

My father is still living in Universal City with his wife (my mother died in the mid-80s). Ford retired in northern Virginia, too, so we see him and Nancy frequently. Eric is living in East Texas with his family. John is in Schertz, just off of Natural Bridge Caverns Rd.

All the best to Danny and the family. It was great to see your pictures.

Phil

pmoseley@cox.net

Merry Christmas from Gary Erickson '64

Merry Christmas !!

We hope this finds you well and in good spirits.

It's twenty degrees here and the hills and trees are covered with snow. The fireplace is roaring and Sue is fixing our Xmas dinner.

Next week we wil be on the snowmobiles enjoying all that the National Forest has to offer in the way of wonderful groomed trails, an occasional moose, and beautiful vistas.

2007 was a bad year for us; we lost three of our parents. Sue's Mom and Dad and my Dad as well. Sue put her Dodge Durango on its' roof to save wear and tear on the tires so we got her another car. She is still sore and attending physical therapy twice a week.

Times like this cause one to really appreciate the support of family, friends, and neighbors to get us through it. Thanks, everybody!

We know that 2008 will be better for us and we sincerely hope that it brings you many good things.

Help keep the "Christ" in Christmas although it is becoming unfashionable to do so. Be an upstart radical and even do a manger scene in your yard! There are more of us than there are of THEM!

Gary and Sue

weblvr@yahoo.com

BTW: there is nothing more therapeutic than a purring kitten to help you thru a crisis. Trust us on this..........

"Odie"

ROBIN HOWELL WEST '63

I'm well, but busy!! Nothing like turning 60++ and starting a business … we do consultation and training in managing nonprofit organizations and work with corporations in developing their people resources. So far our work has spread from Austin and the Hill Country down to the Valley, so lots of travel. Gave me the incentive to buy a new car and the courage to cover the silver in my hair and go a flaming auburn for a while!

I think I came too late to even be in the ’63 yearbook and all school records probably list my birth name Senja Howell anyway, not Robin. My class spread so quickly after graduation I lost touch with most of them. But I was pretty close to some of Forrest’s classmates and friends … Jeannie, Bunnie, Sig, Pepi, David Wager, and for a time after, Art. That’s why I so value your efforts to keep several classes up to date … its a wonderful tie to the past!

I’m meeting my sister Karen in San Antonio in January and will call for lunch … and cocktails!!!


Robin Howell West - Class of '63
rwest@stx.rr.com

Merry Christmas from Gloria Campbell Gallagher '65

LINDA TUCKER PRATER '66

Linda Tucker Prater ('66) with her husband, Richard Prater (Schertz '64) and their family.