THE KINKAID SCHOOL
Kinkaid tradition as our oldest grandchild enters pre-school. Happy summer everyone! I wish you good health and happy living. Adrian Turner Ross
1963 Calanne Koenig Choate Pearland, Texas mayamom@hotmail.com Hello, all Classmates of the Class of 1963! It’s already summertime. Our 50th reunion has come and gone already! Time really flies! The party was absolutely the best it could have been. Our three wonderful organizers, Mary Nell Jeffers Lovett, Lana Lee Cureton and Jan Stockard Cato really did a marvelous job of finding, organizing and updating our class list of names, addresses, and emails. They even managed to find some long-lost class members! Our stellar hosts Pam and Cal Adger opened their beautiful home to us for the party. What a party it was! We enjoyed a sumptuous Mexican buffet and wonderful drinks. It just doesn’t get any better than that! We dined at lovely tables in the Adgers’ spacious garden area, enjoying time to visit and catch up. It was so much fun to watch our special Class of 1963 slide show accompanied by music of those days on the giant TV! Everyone was busy taking pictures and we all enjoyed looking at Kinkaid yearbooks from our years in the school. We all left with great “party favors”! Carlton Carl had thoughtfully printed our senior class photo for all of us to take home, and we helped ourselves to Kinkaid Alumni travel cups as we left. It was so much fun to see all the people who attended. In the interest of space, I will name the Kinkaid alum plus spouse. Please don’t be offended if I don’t mention spouses’ names. My hubby and I met Howard Rambin and his lovely wife in the street and we went in together. Kari McGuirt Seger came with us. Then it got crazy…lots of screams, smiles, and hugs all around for the rest of the evening! I first saw Bob Morse and Carlton Carl visiting. Then came David Shaver and his pretty wife. My dear friend Catherine Belt Jacob MacLaughlin (aka Sister Elizabeth) came with Ellie Hutcheson. In addition Ricky Parker, Betsy Parrish, and Janet Boyle attended. They all looked great! Patty Milner Marvel came from Tennessee, and Joe Conlon brought his sweet wife from Illinois. Mary Eastham King was there, as were Ab Fay, Billy Davis and Browne Rice. Annie Owen Portez ’73 was with Jane Wadsworth Mason. Lucy Clark Shaw, Mariella Haas Allard and Janie Rommel-Eichorn came from 46
far away. Mike Gilbert looked great, as did John Adams and wife. Ruth Eastham Flournoy was there as was Chap Hutcheson and his wife. Carol Horsey Katz attended with hubby. Marian Strange Cheatham was there. Peter Elliott was there. Jack Sorcic was there. I visited with Betty Burke Clyburn and her hubby. Mary Anne Stone Brauer and I had a great visit. The same with Annette Wainscott Birk and Pam Powell. Beth Wheatcroft Schmid and hubby looked great. Bill Rothermel was as funny as ever! Vivian Collier Pinard, Ronnie Hankamer, Bill Griffin and Alice Respess Splawn were all there. Betsy Bowen Phillips was there with hubby Bobby Phillips ’62. Randy Meyer and wife attended. Ernie Cockrell came also. David Searls and wife were there, along with Gaile Bering Withers and her hubby. I saw Leigh Weld and wife, also Beth Robertson, Steve Pearce and Mary Ammerman. Tony Kupersmith was also in the crowd. All in all, it was so wonderful to see so many old friends again after many years. I do apologize if I have left out anybody. It was a fantastic evening and all present agreed that we must do this again for our 55th! Some of us have already volunteered to organize the effort. So…enough for now. I have many more email addresses now, so please plan to let me hear from you as usual in the fall for the next issue of the alumni newsletter. Also remembering all those who were not able to be with us for one reason or another. We did indeed miss you guys, as well as the too large number of classmates who are now deceased. God bless all of you. Have a super summer! Love to all! Calanne
1964
REUNION YEAR 2014
Claire Andreae Murray 3913 Rickover Rd Silver Spring, Maryland 20902 301.946.2184 claire.murray@verizon.net ‘Tis summer at last and hopefully the frolicking begins as winter’s toils and troubles fade with the warming winds. Sultry nights and balmy days await all who dare venture forth on a Tom Sawyerish adventure into the unknown. The prevailing winds are nudging at least one of us this summer towards basking on the rivers of Europe and hiking in the Alps, albeit if mostly in cable cars I trust and pray… Not to be outdone Bebe Hatchett shares her own particular summer de-
light in her great nieces, Megan Hatchett, Camille and Emma McFarlane. Speaking of basking, our illustrious Reunion Committee (Lorna Allen Sorley, Rocky McAshan, Mike Rose and myself) have been bitten with the enthusiasm bug and are vigorously on the trail of a most superlative venue befitting our 50th Gala affair. We also have a wondrous committee consisting of JB Jones, Tony Geiselman, Pati Mengden-Eckhardt and Katherine Howe who are enthusiastically manning the phones and reaching out to one and all. So far we have had a wonderful affirmative response for attendance on April 5, 2014, so be sure to mark your dance card accordingly…All those wishing to participate in any which way, you have merely to say… On a sadder note, we have unfortunately lost one more of our classmates, Ricky Biehl, in July of last year. We will hold all our fallen in our hearts and minds as we move into our 50 plus years together.
1965 Tami Fox Brau Austin, Texas tazmazan@gmail.com There’s a lot of updates from the Class of 1965. Clearly it has been a busy year. Nancy Cooper and her husband Andy are still enjoying the farm life in Indiana. She spends a lot of family time in Louisville with her daughter and her husband. Nancy reports, “Son still single. I guess I will have to adopt someone else’s grandchildren.” Roy Flukinger has been quite busy as usual. His recent University of Texas exhibition -- Arnold Newman: Masterclass just closed with a finale on Mother’s Day. From here it travels on to the San Diego Museum of Art. The opening at the UT Ransom Center was its first American venue, after it opened last year in Germany and Belgium. Roy’s book, Arnold Newman: At Work, was published this year by UT Press in time for the exhibition’s opening here last February. Roy’s wife Martha is still hard at work on the Franchise Tax law for the Texas State Comptroller. Daughter Erica continues to work for the Oskosh Corporation (in Oshkosh, WI) where she has organized and conducted programs for them everywhere from the East Coast to China. Sperry Hunt has great plans for the rest of 2013. He will be sailing around the Puget Sound in the summer. In the fall, he is taking a writing sabbatical from his job at the Fred Hutchin-
son Cancer Research Center to write his next book, a pirate novel for middle-graders. And the best news of all… Sperry is waiting for grandchild number two who is scheduled to arrive in June. Susan Fantle sends news from California. She bought a smoker and reports, “James and I are eating like Texans again and loving it.” They have also been playing tourist in California and are out seeing all the attractions that are within driving distance. Susan’s birthday present this year is a big one -- partial retirement. With the extra free time, she plans to spend weeks at a time on their sailboat “Big Easy” this summer (instead of just weekends). Anna Horton sends great news from Maryland. Following the death of her husband and our classmate, George Horton, Anna sold their home in New Braunfels and moved to Baltimore to be near their daughter who is a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins (Neuro Psych). She is living in a tiny row home, circa 1920, within walking distance of the main hospital and within sight of the Chesapeake Bay. Anna writes “I want to let you all know - There will be another George Horton.... sort of! Our daughter, Campbell Sullivan, is due to deliver a baby boy in September, our first granddaughter Beatrice Sewall Sullivan will be four by then. Campbell and her husband announced on Mother’s Day that he would be named George. Yes, I cried.” I received a lot of wonderful news from Hal Martin. On April 5th, he married his girlfriend of five years, Amy Robinette. The ceremony was held in Houston, and then they left for Punta Mita, Mexico, surprising 70 friends with a party and announcement. Everyone was there to attend the 3rd annual Gourmet and Golf event in Punta Mita at the St. Regis and Four Seasons. Amy and Hal have no kids, just each other and an American Staffordshire named Honey that travels to Mexico with them. They have a second home in Punta Mita and try to spend as much time as possible there during the season. Hal’s business that famous watch and jewelry store, Hal Martin’s - is doing well and has grown to be the largest watch store of its kind in Texas. Hal shared another interesting bit of information. He is one of three owners of a martial art Dojo on Westheimer under the name of Nations Aikikai. Hal holds the rank of Sandan, which is a third degree black belt. He says, “Between the aikido, golf and the gym I stay in pretty good shape for an old guy. I still scuba dive and this year took up surfing (probably should have my head examined) and stand up paddle board, called SUP, which is a lot easier.”