The happy and busy holiday season is about to arrive, and we hope your Christmas will be a wondrous one. November has brought us the smashing success of the Dinner-Theatre, where stars were born, as well as many other grand events. We’d like to inform you as best we can about some of those activities.
From the 6000 block of Kingsbury, we have learned that Lee Hall, Jr., son of Lee and Liz Hall, has entered the Air Force and is presently in Basic Training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He has just been made a Squad Leader and will soon be on his way to Chaplain’s School. We share in the pride Lee and Liz have in their son and wish him the best of luck in his new career.
Liz also tells me that there is to be a musical benefit for the Alpha Omega Prison Ministry, in which the Halls have been interested and involved for some time, on December 4 at Memorial Presbyterian Church at Skinker and Wydown at 8 P.M. Tickets are only $2 to this worthwhile event, sponsored by the Grace and Peace Fellowship. We hope that many of you will be able to attend.
We are happy to note that Sue Tepas, who was hospitalized suddenly this month, is now at home recuperating from surgery and looking forward to resuming her many interests. It’s a good thing, because many of our neighborhood groups might grind to a sudden halt! Glad you’re better, Sue.
The ambitious rehab-ing project done on the 6000 block of Kingsbury by the Roach-Hoefel-Kohn-Marcus group has won an award recently. The HomeBuilders Association of Greater St. Louis awarded a “Homer” in a special category for excellence in rehabilitating multiple family structures. We congratulate the designers and hard workers involved in this project. We also want to note here that Peter and Maggie Marcus have recently moved into one of the newly finished townhouses. We wish them well there.
Also on the move are Cal and Gee Stuart, who have purchased the Marcus house on Kingsbury. Isn’t it interesting that this month our “new” neighbors are also “old” neighbors? This neighborhood must be doing something right!
As Cal and Gee move to Kingsbury, there will be new neighbors on McPherson. The purchasers of the Stuarts’ home are Jim and Ruth Irwin. Jim works for the St. Louis Public School System as an Art teacher, travelling to various elementary schools. The Irwins have three children and are moving here from Laclede Town. We welcome them and hope they will be happy among us.
One exciting event that took place in November was the midnight supper and surprise birthday party for Mike Buckley that Kitty arranged, held at St. Roch’s on Nov. 13. We understand that it was a lovely party, and it was certainly a terrific idea!
From the 6100 block of McPherson comes news that Bill Thomas has undertaken a new job as an investigator for the Circuit Attorney’s office, working with the newly elected Attorney, George Peach. Congratulations and good luck to one of our favorite people.
Our Magnet School news this month concerns Stix School, whose function is to provide an “investigative learning center.” We understand that they are coming up with some unusual and interesting ways of teaching and that the children we know have found it a good experience so far.
We were able to discover several children from our neighborhood who are attending Stix School, some who are trying the public school system for the first time.
They are: Teresa Parker, Michael and Kevin Bowe, Ben and Julianne Creighton, Sandy Schwartz, Brian Krippner, and Jeremy and Gabriel Marcus.
We are also happy to add the name of their bus driver, who seems to be someone special—Mr. Raymond Earl Washington.
Originally published in The Paper, December 1976.
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Original source: SD_Times1976_12.pdf, printed page(s) 3; PDF page(s) 3.
