Historical June 1987 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Congratulations to Rick and Venita Lake, 5800 Waterman, who celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on June 2.
The Lakes have really been in the celebratory spirit because Rick was recently promoted to full professor at Florissant Valley Community College, and he also just graduated Washington University with a Masters in Liberal Arts. Venita is also pursuing a Masters at this time, in addition to working full time and being The Times layout chief. Ginny Klevorn, 6100 Washington, graduated from St. Louis University in May.
Her mother, Thelma Lehr, was in town visiting for the occasion.
She was also visiting her daughter, Ginny’s sister, Robin Stoecklin, 6100 McPherson. More congrats to DeBaliviere Place resident, Dena Gilby. Dena is a recent graduate of St. Louis University, majoring in Art History and Classical Humanities, who was awarded the Kleist Greek Award for excellence in the study of Ancient Greek language and literature.
She will pursue graduate studies in Art History next fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Also graduating from St. Louis University was Danny Hamilton, 6200 McPherson, son of Kathleen and Alan Hamilton.
Speaking of Kathleen, she was honored with a Tres Bien Award for alumnae achievement from the Villa Duchesne, City House Alumnae Association.
The annual awards are presented at the annual spring meeting and luncheon. Kathleen’s mother, Helen O’Connell, was on hand to see her daughter receive the award and it was particularly special for her, since she herself had received the award in 1982.
Mrs. O’Connell was a resident of Parkview for 36 years and now resides at the Dorcester on Skinker.
Another daughter, Susan Krasniewski, husband John and children Karen and Mark were in town over the Memorial Day Weekend, visiting from Decatur.
The Krasniewskis are also former residents of Parkview. Bill and Mary Christman enlarged their family last month when they adopted Kevin George Christman. Kevin is nine months old and is a new brother to Sam 4, and Keeley 17. Mary, Bill and Sam went to Mexico to get Kevin and were able to have a family vacation while they were there.
The Christmans, you may recall, recently moved to University City; however, Bill’s studio remains at 6000 Kingsbury.
A belated welcome to Ola Fincke and her husband Stephen Mulkey who moved onto 6000 Westminster last fall. Both Ola and Stephen are biologists. Stephen is a professor at University of Missouri-St. Louis; Ola is currently at home with their five-month-old son, Andrew. Grace Methodist held an Ice Cream Social on May 14 and celebrated the eleventh anniversary of the Breitmeyer Ministry.
The Young Missouri Singers were on hand to entertain the guests.
If you’ve ever met Art Santen, 6100 McPherson, you know he’s quite proud of his can/ bottle opener collection.
Well, so he should be, since his display of openers won first prize at the Opener Collectors convention in Chicago in April.
His display was entitled How Dry I Am — Around the World, Openers from 80 countries, and is quite an unusual collection of openers.
Congratulations to Mike and Mary Jo Biondo on the birth this past spring of their daughter Emily.
The Biondos live in the 6100 block of McPherson.
The neighborhood and parish of St. Roch’s was pleased to honor a very fine lady in May. Sister Leo Ann Bubb celebrated twenty years as principal of St. Roch’s School.
A special Mass and reception was held in her honor. More neighbors in the news. Artist Bill Hawk was featured as the cover story of the Riverfront Times Live section. Bill lives in the 6100 block of Washington. That’s all from here until the fall. Have a great summer! I appreciate all the feedback I get about the article and how much you enjoy reading it. It’s fun to write too, but sometimes a little difficult to gather material.
I know there are a lot of stories out there — graduations, promotions, vacations, awards, births, deaths — but many of these stories will never be told, unless you call me, 863-0947. Think about it over the summer and let me hear from you in the fall.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1987.
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