THE KINKAID SCHOOL
Class of 1980 and friends — Matt Shaffer, Ned Barnett ’80, Cliff Roberts ’80, Carter Overton ’80, Marshall Adkins ’80, Jim Westmoreland
man Meyer, Bob Greg, Chris Jones, Missy Jones, David Martin, Rene Bell and Robert Bradley.
this reunion was to rediscover that bond and connect with long-lost classmates. We did exactly that!
And as well as some others that prefer to remain anonymous.
Stay in touch… Sandy Howard Turner
I hope everyone has a great summer! Pam Francis Wilson We also have a special write-up below from Sandy Howard Turner who helped plan our 40th Reunion. I am still commenting on how much fun we had celebrating our 40th reunion! There were 35 graduates at the gathering, lots of spouses, some significant others, and even Trey Hoffman’s precious, newly married daughter. Bart Brewer and David Martin get the prize for coming spur of the moment, each from California. Pam Dilworth flew in from California, too. Janet Weingarten Batista and Lisa Bernell Rostad came from Maryland, Marion and Cadell Liedtke came from Midland, Judy Sud Morris and Sarah Whitmer Jones drove in from Austin. Kathy Kaufold Briggs came from Oklahoma. Lots of Houston folks were in attendance. Classmates from earlier school years were Perry Haynes Baraban, Joady Bock Rubin, Mark Rauch and Jerry Maltz. It was fabulous to see them. George Hover, Chip Nichols, Mac McClure, John Knight, Karen McCarter Wellspring, Jane Staub Towler, Cline Young, Dana Lyon, Susu Zimmerman Meyer, Marilyn Hill and Missy and Scott Jones were unable to join us because of more pressing responsibilities, such as traveling to Hawaii, Arizona, Costa Rica or Vienna, suffering a broken foot, or awaiting the birth of a grandbaby. Unbeknownst to our adolescent minds forty years ago, we all shared a common bond forged by attending The Kinkaid School. The essence of
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1974
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Madeleine Topper Sheehy madtop1@aol.com
1975 Judy Levin jude118@aol.com
1976 Laura Byrd Herring Houston, Texas laura.herring@bgllp.com
Alice Berry Houston, Texas missformicadinette@yahoo.com
man this coming Fall. Larry is looking forward to attending lots of UT football games this year.
Despite our best intentions, your class agents have not been as active as we would like to be in aggressively keeping up with and reporting on all the recent doings of our classmates. Not being an active Facebook user (at least in the case of one of your class agents) does not help with our ability to carry out these responsibilities. Needless to say, we strongly encourage all of you to email us with any and all updates and tidbits you have on you and your families as well as other classmates you come across. All that being said, we have had a few sightems over the recent months. Jim Goettee has been seen regularly honing his tennis game at the Houston Racquet Club along with class tennis legend Ted Erck. Kathy Cullen McCord was in attendance at some of the recent Museum of Fine Arts Florescence events. Charles Cooper has recently joined CypressOne as Senior Sales Manager marketing offsite date storage and other technology services we do not understand. We hear that Arthur Davis has moved back to Houston after many years in Maine, but we have not had a confirmed sighting yet. Lastly, William Gorden, who currently lives in Kuala Lumpur, has been spotted in Houston a couple of times in recent months on business (but we think the primary purpose of his trips has been to get his Tex Mex fix at Molina’s). That is all for now.
This past winter, Anne Elise Mumford Matthews reported that they were doing fine in Princeton, NJ despite all the crazy weather and were focusing on taking their oldest daughter to look at colleges. “When we looked at Dartmouth it was 12 degrees outside” she wrote, “but my Yankee daughter loved it - good grief! I was excited to get back to skiing this year after tearing my ACL (while skiing) last winter and having knee surgery to repair it. With three kids still at home, I’m busy, busy, but enjoying the chaos. Hope to get to Houston sometime soon! Love to all!”
Have a great, safe summer. We look forward to hearing from you all. Steven, Evans and Alice
1977 Lucy Hutcheson Barrow Houston, Texas lhbarrow@gmail.com
1978 If you are interested in volunteering to be the class correspondent, please contact Advancement Associate Laura Renaud at 713.243.5054 or laura.renaud@kinkaid.org.
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Steven Arnold Houston, Texas sda@3lmc.com Evans Attwell Houston, Texas eattwell@gmail.com
1980 Marcela Chavez Houston, Texas 2marcela@email.com Emily Tuttle Wilde Houston, Texas ewilde@sterlingandassociates.com Happy Summer 2013 everyone! I, Marcella Chavez, am happy to share a bit of news from several classmates that have corresponded with me since February until May of this year. Since the first of the year, Larry West has been working as Managing Partner of his law firm. His family is also celebrating the fact that they will have two sons attending the University of Texas at Austin. Their oldest son Dillon will be a junior and their second son Harrison will be a fresh-
I’ve also been able to correspond with Heidi Davis Barnes since she returned to North America. She is a Residential Realtor in West Vancouver, Canada with Prudential. Her youngest daughter Catherine is in 11th grade and both sons, Nick and Austin, attend Capilano University in British Columbia. Heidi’s husband Phil is the Resident Vice President of the Fairmont Hotels. They moved back from Dubai three years ago, after several years in Vancouver. “Previously” Heidi remarks, “we lived in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. No plans of moving again!” Warren Meyer wrote, “I have run my own business for about 10 years in Paradise Valley, Arizona. We operate about 175 public parks and campgrounds, helping to keep them open when the government runs out of money to operate them. In my spare time I write a column at Forbes.com and have a couple of political blogs at Coyoteblog.com and Climate-skeptic. com. A few years ago I wrote my first novel (BMOC, still on Amazon!) and am working on my second. Most of these activities began with a mid-life crisis 10 years ago when I quit my safe corporate job. The crisis also involved buying an electric guitar, but my teacher said I have the slowest, fattest fingers of any human he has ever met so the guitar mostly hangs on the wall (but looks cool). My son Nic is a weird trick of genetics in that he is a three-sport athlete, and is currently playing varsity baseball as a freshman at Amherst College. My daughter, who is still in high school, and I have taken up running half marathons together. The only dark cloud in an otherwise good year was the passing of my father Randall Meyer, long-time Kinkaid supporter and a former chairman of the Board of Trustees.” Becky Miller Boucher remains busy keeping up with her husband Jerry who is a chef on a private yacht that