ALUMNI NEWS
friends from different phases of our lives living nearby. Besides, if you are situated at the navel of the universe soon or later everybody else will show up…right? Meanwhile, we both are still on the faculty at Michigan, but I am on leave for the 2016-17 academic year (courtesy of a Guggenheim fellowship I got some years ago) so I am settled in NY for the next 15 months. For American suburban standards the apartment is small of course but this is a happy and convivial way of downsizing I’d say. We just hope we won’t get tired of looking at New Jersey.” I got some great notes from four classmates who hadn’t checked in for a while. Let’s start with Robin Singer Mowrer (fs). Robin writes, “I will be turning 64 in August and am constantly working on staying healthy. I plan to be around for a long time to enjoy our kids and grandkids. I just became a grandma for the second time. My son Eddie and his Japanese wife Emily, who live in Denver with my grandson Oliver (2), just had a new little boy named Hiro, meaning generous and prosperous, and he surprised us all by surviving. They detected hydrocephalus when Emily was three months pregnant and said it was very severe. We were on pins and needles for the remaining six months. He was born so beautiful and healthy. He is doing great and we are all so happy and excited to have him in our lives. My daughter Briana got married in February and is happily living in beautiful San Diego with her husband Dan. She is an ESL teacher at the university there and he is a chemical engineer and has a flourishing business. My youngest son Kyle is graduating from Soka University in Aliso Viejo, CA and will stay there to work and go to graduate school for music education. He is an awesome trumpet player if I do say so myself and he loves to teach so I believe he will be happy and successful with that career. We spend as much time as we can going back and forth to Colorado and California. My husband Dale and I still live in Dallas and are partners in real estate. If anyone needs to buy, sell or invest in real estate in the Dallas area, I would love to help. Wishing you all an awesome summer!” Next up is Sally Weld Frost (fs). We’re Facebook friends but getting this email gets us all up to date! “All is well in the Weld/Frost camp. Carl and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary with a trip to Harbour Island off the coast of Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas – standalone bungalow, huge private deck, gorgeous sand dunes and a pinksand beach. The Goombay Smash cocktail was awesome too albeit very, very strong! This May I went to Kinkaid to stand in memory of my dad during the Middle School Honor Assembly. Since all of my siblings
work I always go to this alone. I attended countless times with my dad and now I have attended nine years without him. It always makes me a bit teary when they award the Leigh Weld award to the outstanding sixth grader. This year in the introductions/explanations of the awards they gave very personal descriptions of the people they were honoring like Dad, Art Goddard, Jack Hanagriff, etc. It was a very special ceremony. Our daughter Sarah is in California with her two children, our grandson (8) and granddaughter (5). She remarried an absolutely wonderful young man two years ago and they are now expecting a brand new little one to add to the family in December of this year. This new son-in-law is absolutely over the moon about our daughter, our two grandkids and now this new baby. We are so thankful that he entered her life and ours. Our son Andrew, after working in the air conditioning/heating field for the past 12 years, is opening his own company in Houston, Arctic Frost Cooling and Heating, LLC. He took and passed the air conditioning/heating contractor licensing exam recently so he is on his way! His number will be 713-724-3954 so if anyone in the Kinkaid family needs experienced, expert, honest HVAC help, give him a call. We made a big change this year and sold our beloved oceanfront penthouse in Upper Baja Mexico between Tijuana and Ensenada just south of San Diego that we had for 8+ years. Carl just felt that it was a little too cool for him and he wanted to find someplace more tropical. God and everyone knows that 99.9% of the population thinks that San Diego weather is perfect and it is but you do have to put on a light jacket if you want to eat outside at night! We have kind of been eyeing an oceanfront home in Puerto Vallarta but we’re not really sure where we will end up.” Betty Ericson Jones (fs) and I have corresponded over Facebook for several years. Back in 2012, Betty was seriously injured in an accident. While alone she had fallen backwards down the stairs in their condo in Rockport. She was life-flighted to Methodist Hospital in Houston with a broken neck. I am happy to report in her own words, “I am recovering well…just slow. Mike and I will celebrate our 44th wedding anniversary in June. Our middle son Chase lives in Vancouver, B.C., and I spend as much time in Whistler as I can.” Betty, who reminded me that she started young, shared that she has a great grandson! Another Facebook classmate is Sheryl Lynn Coles Mays. One of her posts indicated she was getting ready to move from San Antonio to Vintage Oaks, a beautiful new development in New Braunfels. She wrote that she would be enjoying
ANNUAL REPORT SPRING SUMMER 2015 2016
Washington DC Alumni Party January 14 at Lincoln Restaurant
Jason and Roseanna Baber Hill ‘99 with Mary Beth Tyler ‘03
Eric and Stacy Sweet Patlovich ‘00 with Greg and Bridget Murphy Nikodem ‘97
Julia Lovett ‘07, Jennifer Orr ‘11, Jesse Steinmetz ‘11
Bob Morse ‘63 and Sujit Raman ‘96
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