Community Life

Vicissitudes

By Jo Ann Vatcha

September 1976

Launching The Season in Skinker-DeBaliviere, the Paper welcomes all those returning from great and glorious vacations and those who had quietly pleasurable summers at home. Our busy social/civic/ political life during the winter seems to leave us with a need to have a summer hibernation. And why not? We will try to fill you in on some of the newsworthy items you may have managed to live three months without knowing. And if we haven’t heard your tidbit yet, we’ll hear from you before October, surely!

Gino and Betty Scariot have sold their home to retire to Florida. They’ve lived on the 6000 block of Pershing for fifteen years. Gino also owned and managed several apartment buildings on that block. He has been a hard worker for St. Roch’s and Scariot Hall was named for him in gratitude for his contributions in time and labor to the parish.

The Scariots will certainly be missed. We wish them well in their new life in Florida. The Scariots’ house has been sold to Barbara Dulick. Barbara teaches at Sumner High School and has a young son named Jason. We welcome them to our neighborhood.

Joe and Linda Edwards of Parkview, who are the successful young owners of Blueberry Hill, are expecting their first child in March. Linda grew up in our neighborhood (Bynum’s house, to be exact!) Congratulations!

In the news about houses: we welcome Mario and Mary Gioia and their sons Stephen and David to the 6100 block of Kingsbury.

We are delighted to have them here. And taking a short hop to the south. Pat Mensing has bought the Harleman’s home on the 6100 block of McPherson. The Harlemans have moved to Kirkwood, but we hope to be seeing them frequently, as they will surely be missed. Mike and Kathy have been among our neighborhood’s finest workers and we are genuinely sorry not to have them a part of the group anymore. Their eventful summer also included the birth of their fifth child Julia. Congratulations and hope we see you soon.

And in other hello/goodbye news, we said our farewells to Matti and Marie—Elena Koskela early this summer, and we are now happy to report that Dennis and Donna Johnson, who had exchanged homes and jobs with them in Finland, have returned to the 6100 block of Westminster and are planning to stay with us yet awhile. Welcome home to the Johnsons—who are also expecting a second child soon!

Fantastic news for Don and Francey Couch of the 6100 block of Kingsbury: they are being transferred to Germany for three years and will then be returning to their home here. We hope they will enjoy this tremendous opportunity and write us often of what interesting things they’re doing and seeing. We have a feeling that Francey will look and be just perfectly in tune with those she will be among, and we know it will prove a wonderful experience for all the family. Good luck to the Couch clan.

Vacation quickies we’ve heard: Mary Boyts has a lovely tan from Hawaii (as well as Ohio), and Mike McGinn was fortunate enough to be able to go to Ireland. We hope to be hearing details of those and other fantastic voyages very soon.

The 6100 block of McPherson has recently welcomed new neighbor Carolyn Toft, who works for the Landmarks and Urban Design Commission and has been very much involved in the Historic District movement in our city. We look forward to meeting her and having her involved in our neighborhood’s activities soon. We are delighted to be able to inform you that Lurline Hogsett, owner of Typographic Studio, who does the typesetting for The Paper, will soon be moving to the 6000 block of Westminster. The Paper staff and the neighborhood welcome you!

McPherson’s Frank and Betty Burke had a baby girl on August 17. Her name is Christine Ann, and baby and family are doing fine. Congratulations to the Burkes!

And we’ll end this month with a friendly but stern reminder to all those who haven’t yet paid their Rosedale dues. Do it!