ALUMNI NEWS
going to be grandparents in September. Our oldest Katie and her husband Paul Bosman are expecting a baby girl named Emery. You might remember his dad Bill who was a couple of years behind us at Kinkaid. Paul is an executive with an oil and gas company that makes downhole drilling equipment. Katie is a closing officer for a title company.” Ed Neuhaus and wife Graham are neck-andneck with the Schwends when it comes to grandkids. Ed stated, “We had the number four and the number five grandchild this past fall! #4 is Madison Elizabeth Neuhaus born to William and Jennifer Neuhaus, and #5 is Henry Kessler Peterson born to Laura and Kyle Peterson who just moved to The Woodlands from Beaumont in April. Things are good for our family.”Irene Moody Riviere also loves life as a grandmother. There was a great shot of Irene on her Facebook page this past Mother’s Day with one of her two sons when he was a baby. Irene has “just been busy helping my daughters-in-law with grandkids and end of school stuff. Lots of fun!” Our final grandchildren segment comes from Katherine Thompson Jordan. She shared, “My biggest news is the coming birth of my second grandson in September. Our daughter Katie is really busy now practicing child psychiatry, and she is pregnant again. Luke, her first, is 21 months old. Her husband Spencer Skelton will graduate from his general surgery residency in June and will begin a UT fellowship subspecialty in colon and rectal surgery in Houston. Husband Roy and I have been traveling recently to Alabama, Florida and North Carolina visiting friends and family. In late May we took Caroline, my youngest, to South Padre before she started to work as a videographer for the summer at Laity Lodge camp near Kerrville. Chris, my oldest, is deep in law school in Phoenix; he wants to have his own practice.” I also asked Katherine what she knew of her cousin Roy Cullen and her brother Erwin Thompson. She filled me in with these updates: “Well, I only see Roy Walter rarely. I did see him at his dad’s [recent] memorial service. He still lives in the Memorial area. Erwin is good; he is still in Houston, still working as a CPA for a small firm, and still married to the same wife Margaret. Their son Erwin, Jr. got married in December, and they moved to Houma. He’s a maritime lawyer. He graduated from Texas A&M Galveston in marine business and attended law school at South Texas. Stephen, brother Erwin’s youngest, is getting married in August. He’s been working overseas in London for BP for a few years and now is back in Houston working for them.” Phil Salvador, now living in The Woodlands, updates us on what he’s been doing now that he’s a Texan again: “We have almost completed a full year back in the US, and we are enjoying our new surroundings. Son Lucas has one more year to go at The Woodlands College Park High School before college and is now starting to think of places he might like to go. Daughter Carla still has three more years to go in high school. Christiane, my wife, is fully occupied with house and
children’s projects. We have added a lot of things to our house to make living more pleasant. Likewise, I have almost completed a full year with my new employer. I mostly do my work from The Woodlands, but I have gone to Iraqi Kurdistan three times now and will be there again this July for business related to the field I work on. The future looks very busy on every front.” I was thrilled to hear from Marilyn Pyle Johnson after many years. Marilyn caught me up on her life: “We have lived in the Dallas area since 1979 when we moved here from Philadelphia. My husband Kent Johnson is an attorney at Texas Instruments. I have three children. Katie Hamilton went to Furman University and lives in the Houston area. She is married and has a two-year-old boy and is expecting her second in August. Lauren, our eldest daughter, who went to Wake Forest and Reformed Theological Seminary–Charlotte, lives with us. Finally, our youngest Kent, Jr. goes to the University of Arkansas and is an architecture student. We spend a lot of time running to Houston to spend time with Katie, our son-in-law David and our grandson Brad. We will see if we can make it to next year’s Reunion. It must be a mistake, right? 45th! It can’t be that long ago.” Also it had been a while since I caught up with Tomoko Masuzawa, and she talks about the school year winding down and starting a second and eventual retirement residence back east. Tomoko says, “We’re just entering into the summer, classes over and dissertations and such sewn up for the season... Phew. As you no doubt heard, this past winter was truly awful and arctic: mounds of snow, some mornings at -20°F, and the University of Michigan, my employer, cancelled classes for the first time in 35 years owing to the cold. Meanwhile, our pleasant new venture – with our hopes for the future happily ever after – is that we got ourselves a little pied-à-terre in Manhattan. 30+ years of life in academics has meant for us forced provincial living for as many years; for me, beginning with two years in Vermont, 13 in Chapel Hill and now 15 in Ann Arbor. So, we’re finally (but gradually) making our way back to where we belong. Well, sort of. My husband Don grew up in DC, and I in Tokyo, so this seems a fair compromise. Amazing how many of our friends from different phases of our lives (and all over the world) are now living in or moving to NYC. It’s very exciting.” I had lunch with Ron Bernell recently, and he and wife Carolyn plan to spend quite a bit of time at their vacation home in the Colorado Mountains. Daughter Katie who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area is in training for a 14,000 foot mountain climb to raise money for breast cancer research. Her goal was $6,000 for this summer’s coming trek, and she has reached that goal. Good luck on that climb, Katie. Ron also shared some news on fellow classmate Mike Robinson, who was just elected to the Kinkaid Alumni Board.
SUMMER 2014
Richmond Guard Reception March 25
Betsy Bowen Phillips ‘63 (fs), Bob Phillips ‘62 and Annette Wainscott Birk ‘63
Brooke Tucker ‘62 (fs), Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton ‘62 and Trish Chambers
Joan Herrin Lyons ‘47, Jane Gwathmey Frost ‘47, Martha Matlock Coskey ‘47 (fs) and Mary Bain Haralson Pearson ‘49
Lana Lee Cureton ‘63, Cherry Rather Curlet ‘61 and husband Nigel
Out of West Texas (and often New Mexico) comes word from Betsy Mickley Sheets,
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