By P.
Monthly this column will explore the new, the juicy, the red hot items in the neighborhood…or the hidden old secret that may slip from a neighbor’s lips!!! Whatever comes to our notice and yours. We invite you to join a grapevine, form a network to plug us into the secret recesses of your block. Write us anonymous notes c/o The Paper, 6008 Kingsbury…call 862-5122 and give us tips, leads, or just plain gossip. This noisy, nosey snoop will love and print it. This month we’re going to expose all the new families we’ve heard about who have moved into the area since about last May. We’ve searched for the names of new homeowners, flatowners or building owners who are making a contribution to the neighborhood by purchasing, renovating and living amongst us. If we’ve missed a new family or individual you know about, let us hear.
The 5800 block of Pershing welcomes the Wilkersons and the 6000 block of Pershing, Mike and Monica Orlando and the Bynums, Karen and Ted. Karen Bynum is the new Ad Manager of The Paper and has offered to provide free babysitting to anyone interested in laying out The Paper monthly.
The 5700 block of Waterman has 2 new families, Mr. & Mrs. Council Smith, both teachers, and Mr. & Mrs. John May.
The 5800 and 5900 blocks of Waterman gained three new houseowners this summer: Sandy Rothschild (who was State Rep Steve Vossmeyer’s Campaign person) in the center, The Lakes, Rich and Venita on the East and Janice and John Woods on the West. John is a teacher at the New City School.
The 6100 block of McPherson has witnessed the largest turnover in the neighborhood…Gene & Dolores Hoefel and three medium sized Hoefels are renovating their 3-story home from top to studio garage. Gene has come from a Chicago Advertising job to teach Design and Graphics at Washington U.
Rev. Bill and Betty Danker (the parents of Beth Mann on Westminster) have led another Seminex family, the Dahlines, Dave and Margaret onto McPherson, so that after some years renting in the 6000 block, they purchased a home on the 6100 block.
Ann & Bob Martin will be moving from Parkview into a home they recently bought.
Joshua and Rubina Patton have added true pleasure to the McPherson pedestrian with the exterior and apparent-from-the-sidewalk interior decorating they have done to a long neglected home on the block. As this is his speciality, we hope to add his name to the list of talented neighborhood contractors.
The 6000 block of Kingsbury has 3 new owner-occupants…Jim & Darla Templeton moved in just in time to give birth to their second child, Hannah. She joins 3 year old Gabriel. Jean Canfield, a Grace & Peace friend, has bought a flat in the center of the block and George and Miriam Green are responsible for more hard-working, just-beginning-to-show renovation on the East end.
Bob and Linda Hagood have moved from South St. Louis onto the 6000 block of Westminster with their 3 children. They are interested in the idea of turning their flat into a single-family residence. The Giddings (he is a psychiatric social worker) are also moving into a flat on that block. Their 2 small children will keep Madge busy.
More master renovators have moved onto Westminster…the 6100 block welcomes Bernard and Cindy Bodewes who face a formidable rehab job in coming months… good luck. John and Ann Geers have moved into the center of the block (John teaches at Childgrove) and Jeff and Nancy Shelton are also new residents. The Parkers on Westminster introduced them to the neighborhood. Jeannie Morrissey and Sue Goodenough (she’s Kathleen Hamilton’s sister) complete the new resident list on the block.
Remember, if anyone’s missing let us know for next month, and the next…Another birth…Colleen, born June 17 to Bill and Nan Thomas on McPherson…Congratulations. And 2 recent pregnancies uncovered…aha. Francie Couch and Debbie Bracey, both on Kingsbury, both due in March. Aha. A minor snooper’s scoop…a trash citation is coming to a particularly messy backyard on the 5800 block of Pershing.
We’re so glad to have Anna Busch back from the hospital, walking about and receiving Honors with fellow neighborhood resident, Suzanne Hart. And Mike Harleman, after a long back bout, and operation, also shows signs of movement and improvement. Good wishes to you both. Whooooo knows more???? the shadow do…. and we would like to too….
Originally published in The Paper, October 1974.
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