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And from the boomtown of Midland, Texas, Betsy Mickley Sheets checked in with very ‘moving’ news and a new love for the Land of Enchantment. “I retired this past summer! I am well into 60. Don’t feel it! I sold my home in Brownsville along with everything else and have moved to Midland. Why Midland? My sister Terry and her family live there, and I wanted something new! I am spending a lot of time in New Mexico. (Let you figure out why!) So it’s closer. My boys are both in San Antonio, and I didn’t want to be in there way and let them establish their lives without Mother in the way. I don’t want them to feel like they have to take care of me yet! I am substitute teaching when I feel like it and need extra money. So here I am. I am kind of starting a new life! So far, so good!”
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for a two-year extension, and one ending in a July, not April (for kids’ school reasons), but the offer is for one more year, to next April. I will probably be accepting it.”
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Sam Collins was literally in the air when typing his note on his iPhone. Sam shares, “I’m on a flight to Vegas as I write this, a 60th birthday celebration surprise by my wife Andi. We’re sharing with another couple who are longtime close friends. My birthday was actually February 16, and though I had requested nocelebrations, I was told that just wasn’t in the cards. Yes, I’m 60, but so lucky to have made it this far – many have not. The road ahead is much shorter, but as it’s been said, ’It’s the journey not the destination that counts.’ To all, here’s to the rest of the journey.” Cathy Austin Wyatt and I ran into each other at Mr. K’s, THE watch repair guy in the Rice Village area. She’s one of the young ‘uns in our class, but she had some thoughts on nearing 60 and some great news. “I’m convinced time really does speed up the older you get. The last 10 years have gone by quickly, and I’m thinking that means the next then will fly by even faster. So I’m just trying to appreciate life right now. Friends have always been one of the most important things to me, and that is still true. Being open to change and not limiting my thinking are also important, and it’s still important to have things to look forward to. So even though I thought I did not need to be married again, I’m now engaged. And just as everything at our age is kind of different than it was in the past, I’m determined that ‘different’ can mean ‘better’. May we all be much
happier and more enlightened in our 60’s than we were in the 1960’s.” Congratulations on your engagement, Cathy! And while we’re on the subject of marriage, I got this email from Neal Anderson on February 7: “For those of you who don’t believe in miracles, at 10:30 this morning, Judge Bill Harmon joined Neal Bruce Anderson and Elaine Minor Maxson in the bonds of holy matrimony. Elaine said, ‘It’s only fitting I got married in a Criminal Courthouse.’ My best to all our friends!” And as promised a little more detail on the Browne Baker and Robin Bradley wedding back in late September. There was a party hosted by Tio Suman and wife Anne in their lovely new home for the lucky couple. The next night we celebrated at Browne’s and Robin’s reception at Cohen House on the Rice campus. They had been married at Rice earlier in the day. Ed Little served as best man, giving up an Aggie home game, which showed you what a BIG occasion this was! The guest list was full of Class of 1970’ers, including Ron Bernell, Cary Gates, Tom Hale, Larry Jacobs, Tio Suman, Galen Younger, Martha Adger Magit, Lynne Barlow Bentsen (both of whom as you all know we have adopted into our class), and I’m sure more that my soon-to-be 60 year old brain has temporarily forgotten. All were there with their lovely wives, husbands and dates. Browne and Robin seemed so happy, and to attest to that, I have barely heard a peep out of Browne since the big day! He did write when Alan Gerger, Ron, Larry and I were putting a video together for Selby Schwend’s 60th birthday event. So I know he’s alive. Personally, I can’t wait to go to dinner with these newlyweds and get a chance to know Robin better, but Browne is definitely a lucky man! Trey Lander checked in for the first time in a while. He shared, “Things are good with the Lander clan. Daughter Lizzie is engaged and getting married in August in the mountains of the Sierra Nevadas in California where they live-- Mammoth Lakes. Son John is currently in Bangkok. He keeps telling me he can run his Internet business from anywhere, but we’re ready for him to get back to the States. Hopefully, when he gets here for Lizzie’s wedding, he’ll stay. Son Houston is living with us right now, which has been great – free babysitting for my puppy dog.