Historical September 1984 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Believe it or not summer is just about over.
During the long, hot weeks many area residents have been making names for themselves.
Congratulations to Rosedale resident, Peggy Hermes, 6100 Kingsbury, whose short story “Sorting” was selected out of 200 manuscripts to win St Louis Weekly’s fiction contest.
Her prize is an Olivetti M20 personal computer which she plans to use for writing future manuscripts. Peggy who is a writer and author of the novel The Phoenix Nest (Contemporary Books of Chicago) has served in the past as editor of The Times, then known as The Paper.
Congratulations also go to DeBaliviere Place resident Gregory Freeman who is among 53 residents of St. Louis selected to participate in Leadership St. Louis.
The program which is funded by the Danforth Foundation and administered by the Coro Foundation is designed to make people in leadership positions aware of issues and problems facing the St. Louis area and to train them to take a role in the solution of these problems. Gregory is a City Hall reporter and columnist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Vivienne Dobbs, resident of Washington Heights 5800 Westminster, was among 35 recipients of the annual Hospital Humanitarian Awards given by the Hospital Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.
These awards pay tribute to hospital employees who go beyond the call of duty in performing a significant humanitarian act or in long-term service to the community.
She is also president of the Euclid Plaza Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women and vice president of the St. Louis Chapter of American Business Women. Gerald D. Bolas, another DeBaliviere Place resident, is leaving his position of director of Washington University’s Gallery of Art in Steinberg Hall to pursue doctoral studies in nineteenth and twentieth century American painting at City University of New York.
He plans to return to St. Louis in January 1986.
Congratulations to John A. Brady, 6100 Washington. John graduated August 5 from the University of Missouri at St. Louis with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration and Business Management.
He is the son of Mrs. Ernestine Brady, long-time resident of Skinker-DeBaliviere and owner of University Cleaners & Tailors on Vernon in University City. George and Rose Storey are very proud of their daughter, Susan, who recently graduated summa cum laude from Boston College. Susan is a Phi Beta Kappa.
The Storeys also feel very proud of the successful Golden Jubilee party for Monsignor Peet which they chaired early this summer.
A double congrats go to Mike and Sue McCabe, 6106 Westminster, who were married this past June. Rumor has it that they are also expecting next spring.
We also acquired several new neighbors this summer. Nita and Steve Littlejohn are new residents in 6100 Kingsbury. Steve is in Public Relations at Monsanto and Nita is an attorney in the legal department of Arch Minerals.
The Littlejohns moved here from Pittsburgh.
In the 6100 block of Washington, we have two new families. Ormond Smythe and Tracy Libros and their one-and-ahalf-year-old son Zachary moved here recently from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tracy works with the voluntary school desegregation plan and Ormond is Associate Dean at McKendrie College. Tom and Virginia Klevorn are also new on that block. Tom is senior research biologist at Monsanto and Virginia is a student.
Many area residents have been on some exciting vacations this past spring and summer. Sandi and Rohn Price, 6100 Westminster, were in Europe this spring visiting. Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Italy. Tom and Karleen Hoerr, 6100 Kingsbury, vacationed this summer in Paris and London. Karleen was able to go on a second trip when she joined her sister, Jan Kuhl and her daughter Beth, 6100 McPherson, for a trip to Disneyworld. Roger and Barbara Tinklenberg and their four children, 6100 Westminster, traveled to Washington state this summer and Candace O’Connor and Bob Wiltenberg and their two daughters, 6100 Kingsbury, vacationed in the East. Maverine Wilson (6000 Washington) and her grandson, James M. Hunt, recently returned from a month-long, freestyle tour of the eastern United States on Amtrak. Maverine and James, who is 16, were able to tour parts of Canada, Washington, D.C., and New York.
There were even able to see the Broadway show Dream Girls.
We would love to hear about your interesting vacations and would be happy to include the story in our next report.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September 1984.
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