The holiday season produced many reasons to be jolly in our neighborhood, and we hope you enjoyed the many gala events. Among them, there was a fine New Year’s Eve Party at McPherron’s (which threatened never to end); more recently, WHN and RNA jointly sponsored a “Fun-Raiser” at St. Roch’s, which was enjoyed greatly, despite the bitter weather. Attending, besides the bulk of the regular neighborhood partygoers, was a group of students from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter’s, Minnesota. These young men and women, accompanied by Don Ostrom, a former resident of SkinkerDeBaliviere, are here to learn about “recycled cities”, an interesting topic and an appropriate site for it. They stayed with the Krippners, McPherrons, Newshams, Roachs, Cohens, and Dan Schesch. We hope they’ve enjoyed and benefitted from their stay.
One recent party that wasn’t very happy was the Fitzpatrick Pharmacy “Wake”. Most of us will really miss the convenience and the people of that fine store, and we will be hoping for and working towards another such store for our neighborhood. We thank Bill Fitzpatrick for trying and wish him well for the future.
New Neighbors: A large, busy, and basically young group joins our neighborhood this winter. Nearly every street has at least one new family working and living on it. Here’s a brief report on those we were able to run down this month.
On the 6100 block of Washington, the fantastic pace set by the Mitchell and Mensing renovations has recently been added to. We welcome Mike and Ginger Rigdon and Jim and Carol Metzenthin to that block and our neighborhood. A third new homeowner on that block is Roy Bell. Welcome to all our new neighbors who are adding so much to Washington.
The 6100 block of Westminster welcomes Nick and Denise Gollubske, another hardworking pair. And again we must mention Tom and Mary Jo Consiglio, who have been working so long on their home, we were beginning to wonder if they would ever really move in and live there. Welcome!
Washington Heights is very fortunate to be welcoming Police Officer Eric Smith to the 5900 block of Waterman. It’s encouraging to know a police officer would choose to live here, and we hope he will be happy and feel welcome in our area.
On the 6100 block of Westminster, Georges and Yolanda Johannes have just moved in. We hope to be meeting them soon, and we wish them well here.
Renting a home on the 5900 block of Pershing are Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hillman He is a photographer for the zoo and she works for the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council. We hope they will enjoy living in our neighborhood.
We were really sorry to hear of the death of Roxanne, the well-loved dog of St. Roch’s School. We extend our sincere sympathies to Sr. Leo Ann and to all the children who were able to share Roxanne and enjoy her exuberance.
We are happy to report that Bernadette Magrath, daughter of Mike and Betty Magrath, is now at home after having open-heart surgery. We understand that she has recuperated quickly and is already back at school.
Michael Goldsby, son of LaSalle and Dorothy Goldsby of the 5700 block of Pershing, has recently entered the Marine Corps. Congratulations and good luck to Michael.
From the consistently news-making family of Horace and Anna Busch, we hear that Debbie has just returned from an exciting trip to New York city with the Seniors of Nerinx Hall.
In case you missed the colorful and intriguing article in the Post-Dispatch, a group of paintings by our neighbor Bill Kohn, of the 6100 block of Kingsbury, a professor of art at Washington University, are being shown at the Terry Moore Gallery. The paintings are combined with electronic music written by composer Tom Hamilton and the whole effect must be exciting.
Well, are you ready for a real finish this month? No fewer than four pregnancies have been discovered. Due very soon in Parkview: Thomas and Christine Knoten of the 6300 block of Pershing are expecting in March. Christine is the sister of McPherson’s Bob Martin. Congratulations! And on Westgate, Barbara and Warren Flynn are due to become parents too. Our best wishes to the Flynns. Moreover two of McPherson’s busiest ladies are reported to be expecting. Our congratulations to Frank and Betty Burke and to Mike and Kathy Harleman. Lovely news for all! . .
See you next month with all the news.
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Original Vicissitudes illustration. The Paper, February 1976, page 5. Illustrator not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1976.
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Original source: SD_Times1976_02.pdf, printed page(s) 5; PDF page(s) 5.
