ALUMN I N EWS
Winter 2016
(left to right) Eric Venditti, Sarah Mitchell '98, G.A. Purcell '91, Ellen Smith '91, Molly Dougherty '68, Jenny Cook Purcell '89, Phillip Doig '81 and Carey Gunn Venditti '86
Alumni Dinner at Texas French Bread — Austin Austin area alumni had a wonderful dinner at Texas French Bread Restaurant, owned by Murph Willcott ’79, on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. Good food and fellowship — a great experience for all!
great minimalist artist Donald Judd had on this former water-stop in far West Texas. The book will be out next October for all of you planning Christmas gift-giving two years in advance.”
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community needs. We've got a great mix of 15 American and Spanish natural resource students. I visited Cape Town earlier in the summer for an academic conference and got in a couple of days of really wonderful birding in the Western Cape. Klara and the boys are well, and our life in Seattle is full. St. Stephen's remains the key formative experience of my life.”
R A N D Y PA R T E N
jrparten@parten.com
Emory ‘Kim’ Cantey, wrote, “I am retired now at 68 years old except for my CW antiques and Western antiques business. Life has been good! Have a home in Fort Worth and summer homes in Edisto, S.C., and Gundogan, Turkey. We still travel a lot. My wife and I are doing fine, thank God! Married to same great lady now for 37 years! My son, Andrei, graduated from UTA with a B.S. in computer engineering and communications in May 2015. Working on master’s as well. He designed my website at www.canteymyerscollection.com.”
1968 ROB HENDERSON
rehenderson@nvcc.edu
Greg Hicks reported that “our family continues happily in Seattle. I have been focusing recently on building a partnership between the University of Washington and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and that's going great. I've just been named UW Law Foundation Professor of Law, an endowed professorship.” Greg also wrote about Class Rep Rob Henderson: “Thanks so much for taking the lead on reporting our alumni news and giving us all a needed push. You've tracked me down in a small town in Picos de Europa National Park in northern Spain, where I'm teaching a course with Spanish colleagues on conservation of rural and wild landscapes, thinking of
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Brocky Brown reported that “there appears to be a few marriages being planned around ’68ers. I’ll add another one: I am very pleased to share with you that Mary Chalmers and I are engaged and planning a wedding celebration in November. I joined in on her college reunion earlier this year and am looking forward to her joining in on a St. Stephens reunion. You will fall in love with her just as my parents, daughter and son-in-law have.” Brocky also told us about St. Stephen’s history, happenings in LABEC (L.A. Becker’s English Class), and many of you came up in discussions with Laurence and Rosanne Becker recently. “The Beckers were able to stay here in Speedway, Ind., a night while on their way back to Austin from the 2015 Shaklee convention. The weather was excellent, and they had time to play croquet with Mary, her teenage son and me. Later, Laurence and I rode bikes through the town. Laurence is as competitive as ever and is eager to turn 80 so he can get into the 80 and over tennis tournaments. They are an amazing, energetic couple!” Molly Dougherty told us, “In December Kip and I had a blissful time in St. Thomas. Afterward my doctor told me she had never seen me so relaxed and recommended a minimum of one vacation a year. After the slimmest of science background in school, I seem these days to be focused on preventive health care through my volunteer work in El Salvador and my home-based businesses here. And as something totally new, I've recently gotten interested in gold.”
Margaret Shephard Halcomb posed the question, “Where has the time gone? I’ve been retired for five years now, and I love this chapter in my life. As a speech/language pathologist working for Poway Unified School District, my days were long and filled with many left-brained activities. I loved working with the children and knowing that I was making a difference in so many lives. It was a very rewarding career. When I retired there were so many simple things I wanted to try — beginning with sitting down to drink a relaxing morning cup of coffee, traveling in seasons besides summer, and tapping into the right side of my brain. Many cups of coffee later, after many wonderful trips and hours and hours learning new crafts, I can say I have not been disappointed with retirement. The big news for my family is that my son has moved back to the U.S. after living in Japan for almost a decade. Now that he’s living and working in the Bay Area, we are getting to see him so much more often. Whoopee! Both my son, Scott, and my daughter, Whitney, are single, but my daughter has a most wonderful four-year-old son, and he is the light of our lives. Whitney lives in Austin, so I travel to Texas every couple of months to visit them, my dad, and my many siblings. I’m trying to reconnect with old friends who touched my life. I would love to meet up with folks from the Class of ’68. There’s no doubt that life on The Hill had a tremendous impact on my life.” John McFarland told us that “Clarke Heidrick’s oldest son and my godson, Rob, announced his engagement in April to Emily Teachout. He will be the first of the Heidrick clan to fall to the nuptial knife. My two sons, regrettably, are still single. We’re still fighting for truth and justice in the music capital of the world. Check out my blog, www.oilandgaslawyerblog.com.” Robert Henderson reported from Virginia that “our oldest daughter, Rachel, the police officer, is engaged to a wonderful guy, Sameer, also a cop. A small wedding will be held in May 2016 in the Virginia Mountains. Wedding planning is a stepchild of organizational logistics with layers of emotion. It will happen… somehow. Leilani and I recently met the prospective inlaws, are delighted, and look forward to the event.”
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JHarrisonLaw@aol.com
Mary Bachman Burke reported that “Alan Fenton and I are well; however, we won't be at Reunion this year. I have a conference in Chicago I must attend, and Alan and I are taking advantage of my travels there to enjoy a tourist weekend beforehand. I've never spent any time in Chicago, and I look forward to exploring a new place! Alan and I continue to travel a lot! We had a wonderful trip to India last February and hope to be in Vietnam this coming winter. That's the most exotic of our adventures, but we manage to get to Europe too, and in September will have a couple of weeks in England.