THE KINKAID SCHOOL
working as the middle school athletic coordinator at a private school in San Antonio. She also coaches volleyball, basketball, and track, but still finds time for her two beautiful sons. Her oldest son Collin will be attending the University of Alabama in the fall on a full four-year scholarship.
Chad Kuriger ‘88, Chuck Scofield ‘88, Grady Lee ‘89, Todd Litton ‘88, John Semander ‘88 and Nick Phillips ‘88 in San Diego
years now, have no children but two Norfolk Terriers they treat like children. They live in San Francisco and he works for Trinchero Family Winery in sales. Rebecca has her own wine consulting company. He recently bought a house in Nantucket, MA and is starting to split time on both coasts. He is an avid disc golfer and his goal is to quit work and play the Disc Golf National Tour. For real! Linda Jordan Willard thought it was wonderful to see a good part of our class at the April reunion- what fun! After that, her family logged a lot of air travel this summer- they went to back to France, then to the Pacific Northwest and Nevada. They have been really busy this fall with all the kids’ activities, work and school activities, and they are missing the quieter family life they had in France. Please let them know if you are ever in the D.C. area - they love to have an excuse to visit the monuments and museums they rarely see outside of having visitors! Amy Knight Miller is the Director of Client Relations and Marketing for Cox Smith, is married to De Miller, and has two kids, Avery (13) and John (ten). Diana Munson Kayser, along with her husband and daughter still live in Dallas, but they try to visit family in Houston and San Antonio as often as possible. Anna is in first grade at The Highlands School. Alan Owens is retired and living in Europe, though he does come back to Texas during the winter months. That’s all the news he has for now, but he is looking forward to reading all of the updates in the winter Kinkaid magazine. Christine Papadakes is enjoying teaching third grade at Kinkaid. This year she has Mary Moreland’s son in her class. Christine says it is such fun to reconnect in such a special way! Elyse Spector Kalmans manages the employment services program for Jewish Family Service, a 100 year old United Way agency. She is also busy driving carpool to and from Kinkaid
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for her three girls, Aerin (12), Kendall (11), and Talia (eight). She and husband Lewis will be celebrating their 16th anniversary this spring. David Tett is currently Geoscience Supervisor for the Shenzi field (deepwater Gulf of Mexico) with BHP Billiton Petroleum in Houston, where he has worked for almost eight years. He and his wife Saralyn live in Cypress, and spend much of their time in activities with their kids Alex (13) and Daphne (12). The whole family is active in scouts; David is an Assistant Scoutmaster with Alex’s troop and just completed two intense weekends of Wood Badge training for that role. Joel Weber has news about two Kinkaidians: himself and his Mom, teacher Bettie Weber. “Mrs. Weber” taught many of you English in the sixth or seventh grade. Joel lives in Pensacola, Florida, with his wife Pam and their three kids. Joel (a Rice U. graduate) has been working in manufacturing for 20 years, as a Chemical Engineer and Process Excellence Leader. He is with Pall Corporation, making medical and lab devices. Joel’s work has taken him to new places including: Pasadena TX, Delaware, Florida, Puerto Rico, and Long Island, NY. Your teacher Mrs. Weber is doing great, now also lives in Pensacola and keeps up with news about all of you! Joel went back to Houston most recently in October of 2008 to attend the wedding of Stephen Eubank. It was very happy, and he also caught up with Aaron Weinberg ‘88 at the event. Laura Westmoreland De Vega is still selling residential real estate with Allie Beth Allman and being mom to Lila (nine) and David (six). She and her husband Nelson keep up with several people from Kinkaid who live in Dallas. She loves how tight the KHS community is, even all these years and miles later. They come back to Houston often and hope to see everyone one of these trips home. Lyssa Williams Watters is currently
As for your class correspondents: Ashley Brunson Clark is in Houston with her husband George and children Elizabeth (junior) and George (freshman) who both attend Kinkaid and still keep her busy. Doug Rosenzweig and Jennifer Jones Rosenzweig live in Houston, have been married almost eight years, and have two boys, Zachary (almost six) and Jacob (four). Doug is the Editorial Director at Jones McClure Publishing and is going on his 15th year there. Jennifer is a pastry chef and has her own business—The Sweet Tooth. She prepares specialty birthday cakes and other cookies, deserts, and tasty treats. Please keep your updates coming— send them in to us anytime.
1988 John Semander Cypress, California cperiod@hotmail.com Fourscore and negative seventy-five years ago, our alumni office brought forth in this magazine, a new class update, conceived in selective memory, and dedicated to the proposition that all entries would include mention of a non-1988 Kinkaid graduate named Grady Lee ‘89. Now we might not be engaged in anything as serious as a Civil War, but this once dedicated class updater can no longer endure, and must retire to greener pastures, where the carpal tunnel is not quite so painful, and the similes flow like... uh, like... well, uh... like something more creative than water. It’s been a wild ride, and I truly appreciate everybody’s attention span during my tenure here, but this decision was ultimately made while posing for the attached photograph in San Diego (from left to right, Chad Kuriger, Chuck Scofield, Nobody Who Deserves a Second Mention, Todd Litton, Yours Truly, and Nick Phillips), at a Second Annual Mini-Reunion instigated by Tripp Piper (who was ironically not in attendance). You see, it was around this time that I realized I wasn’t so much having conversations with the boys, but more like interviews, always wondering if
what they were telling me was being stated for the record or not. Look closely, you can see it in my beady little eyes, how I am not smiling in the moment, but rather, smiling at the inevitable opportunity to make fun of those around me, specifically the happy camper to my immediate right, who would end up wearing that very same outfit all the way up to, and then well past, dinner time. Therefore, please take solace in knowing that there will be no threat of me digitally recording your every unfiltered word at the 25-year reunion on April 20, 2013, to be used for shameless fodder in a future update. Applications for my replacement will be accepted at any time during the reunion weekend, either in writing or, as was the case with me, foolish alcohol-induced utterances. So without further delay, let’s wrap up my updating career in the usual unorthodox fashion, where I will now construct the longest run-on sentence ever delved from a Kinkaideducated brain: Ladies and gentlemen, please take a deep breath, and leave everything but your commas and ellipses at the door, because Marc Sumerlin won this installment’s coveted first responder award, aided immensely by his employer’s automated response system, which immediately let me know he did not have access to his email, thereby tainting this award since he technically didn’t personally respond to anything, much less first, but it did all happen before I heard from... ...rookie responder Alan Luther, who was no longer trusting Thomas Halverson to report his rumor-swirling whereabouts, officially confirming his Wyoming residency for the past 12 years, with wife Lesli and kids Beau (12), Alexa (nine), and Knox (2), where the shaved ice business is not exactly booming in Jackson Hole during the winter, so he hopes to move back to Texas as soon as there is a demand for orthopedic surgeons who did not attend medical school, joining another classmate who recently... ...returned to Houston, as reported by a third party source not named Halverson, and therefore reliable, so everybody welcome back Hoggie Kim, who comes home to Texas after a Jersey stint with his wife and three kids, and speaking of... ...three kids, there was an appropriate number of third births around the class, three to be exact, starting with Page Shaper Haun’s aptly named Baby number three, Jason Hendricks similarly titled contribution to the world population (“Third