Historical October 1984 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
September was a busy month with many vacations wrapping up and kids going back to school. Rick Wilt, 6100 McPherson, returned recently from an August vacation adventure in Peru where he stayed in a jungle camp in the Amazon basin. Rick explained that anthropologists, zoologists, biologists, etc. come from all over to visit the Amazon basin because it is the most biologically diverse area in the world.
He saw many sights and unusual animals including parrots, macaws, caymen, and giant river otters.
He also travelled into the Andes where he had a chance to study native handicrafts and archaeological sights. Rick works at the Arch Museum.
Another traveller from 6100 McPherson is John Nunley who, as a Curator of the Art Museum, has been spending time visiting native artists and collecting artifacts in Jamaica and Trinidad.
These will be displayed at the Museum’s Caribbean exhibition of carnival art sometime in 1987. Orland Johnson, 6100 Westminster, has recently returned from Mexico where he has been doing some ongoing research periodically for the last seven years on the uses of music in the sixteenth century to convert the Indians to Christianity.
He has also been doing some joint work with an anthropologist in an Indian village where approximately half of the Indians are musicians and are doing some of the same things with music as were done in the sixteenth century. Orland, a professor at Washington University, is working on some articles and a book based on his research.
Some neighbors have pursued more domestic travels. Jane and Jim Geer and their daughters Sarah and Susan, 6100 Kingsbury, spent their August vacation in the East visiting family and friends.
Mary Powell, 6100 Westminster, decided to visit an old high school chum living in New Jersey.
She and her sister-in-law made that trip by car.
We welcome some new faces to the neighborhood. Rob and Judy Champoli and their son are new to 6100 McPherson. Rob is the middle school principal at Crossroads School and Judy works at the Art Museum.
On 6100 Washington we welcome Lee Bailey and Sylvia Pedraza-Bailey. Lee is an attorney and Sylvia is a professor at Washington University. New residents as well as newlyweds are Glen Williams and Gail MendelsohnWilliams.
They were married on Sept. 14 and reside in the 6000 block of Washington. Gail is a student at Logan Chiropractic College and Glen works at St. Mary’s Hospital while attending St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
With the arrival of new neighbors, it seems we are always forced to say goodbye to some of the “old” ones.
We wish much good luck and happiness to Rohn and Sandi Price and their sons Daniel and Matthew formerly of 6100 Westminster. Rohn, an architect, has taken a new position in Richmond, Virginia.
They will be missed. Neighbors on their block will be pleased, however, to greet the return of some familiar faces in a familiar place. More on that next time.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, October 1984.
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