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the Eloise tea at the Plaza? A few mementos were found in her suitcase. Barkley Adams Rice took the idea from Caro and took her entire family to Annapolis for the military services for her deceased husband, Robert Rice. The entire weekend was most special and will be long remembered by all. Marietta Scurry Johnson invited herself along so she could visit her grandson, William. He was part of the ceremony for Robert, a thoughtful invitation by Barkley. Oteka Little Ball and her daughter Oteka Lyn Ball Bernard ’85 entered a mother and daughter writing contest in Oklahoma. The title of the entry was The Bra: To Wear or Not to Wear. These two won! This contest was inspired by the book, The Joy Luck Club. Only in Oklahoma! Some bad news: Linda Ashby Crites was in a one-car accident. She was terribly hurt and had surgery on her ankle and injured her sciatic nerve, leaving her immobilized. Very slow recovery, but you can contact her through her daughter, Debbie, at dkcrites@sbcglobal.net. Send me more news and much love to you all! ••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
1958 Class Agent – Communications: Nancy Greene hockaday58@gmail.com An additional credit to Harriet Schock’s new acting career was that she played the female lead in Borrowed Glory on February 16, 2013. She wrote the music for Borrowed Glory as well, and sang the songs that she had written for it during the performance. It is an old-time radio show-type reading. The performance was at the Golden Age Theater in Hollywood. She also performed Borrowed Glory in Florida last year. Penny Taylor Rembe and her family have been involved with the preservation of Los Poblanos for almost 30 years and finally have their own house on the property. Los Poblanos is a 22-room Historic Inn, a store, and a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In addition, they have a lavender business, bee keeping, and an organic
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farm. Luckily, their son, Matt, came back from New York City and he has taken over the helm. All the kids are involved in the business, as well as some of the grandchildren. Three of the kids live within two miles, so Penny gets a chance to go to soccer games and music recitals. She has a pantry full of Girl Scout cookies. She would like you to look up their website (www.lospoblanos.com) to see pictures of Los Poblanos and come stay with them. Say “Hockaday” and get a discount. Suzanne Barbee Crawford sends her fondest greetings. She spent some time in Beaumont last April during our reunion time and regretted not being able to attend the reunion. Marilyn Munger Watson has a new place in South Texas, outside of Harlingen. When she isn’t square dancing, she travels around the country researching quilt barns. She was able to find 350 of them in just the last year. There are tens of thousands of them. She gives talks on quilt barns as she travels. In March, she also attended a “pie camp” in Seattle, Washington. Marilyn reports that Joan Watzek Hargadon has now re-married. Carol Koch Allen vacationed on a riverboat in Holland in April. In June, she took a cruise from Rome to Barcelona. In July, she plans to go to the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu. In October, she will be in Vietnam. When she is home, she is busy with grandchildren and lunching with friends. She saw Merl Meadors Glasscock last March. She says, “Life is good.” Carol Craig Cowan-Lanyon is busy traveling
Mary Jane LeVan Armacost ’58 and her husband on their 50th wedding anniversary
across the country with book-signings now. The book includes quite a bit about Hockaday and later reunions with classmates in Europe in 1960–1961. Margaret Anne Cullum was in New York with the art museum docents in April. She is still doing the two things she loves most: being an art museum docent and traveling. She has been a docent at the Dallas Museum of Art for 20 years and at the Nasher Sculpture Center for 10 years. She says, “These are the best unpaid jobs you can have.” This year she has traveled twice to New York. She also traveled to France, London, and Istanbul. Her grandmother always said that the secret to getting older is to “make younger friends.” Lynda Byrd Sharrett sends her greetings to the Class of 1958. She regrets, “I cannot come (to the reunion), but I know you all will have a great time! I do have many fond memories of my time at Hockaday.” Mary Jane LeVan
Class of 1958 at the Hockaday lunchroom in Spring 2012