Vicissitudes

Historical February 1990 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.

Thank heavens we don’t publish this paper in January. I’d then feel obligated to offer you New Year’s Resolutions.

Now I don’t have to tell you about them, because I broke ’em all.

However, some folks out there apparently decided this was the year to start those cards and letters coming in.

So I am going to start out by thanking Ottie Edwards, Mary Ann Shickman, Heidi Dowgwillo, Debbie Genung, Sue Rothschild, and Mary Vanicelli (yes, my wife) for helping me with goodies for this month’s column.

This is the first issue of the new year, so we have to start with babies. Tom and Ginny Klevorn, still exiled to Belgium from their true home on 61XX Washington, had another baby (#2), but details didn’t come in by presstime. Joe and Nancy de Bettencourt of 62XX Washington became the parents of a little girl, Catherine Ann, on January 25th.

This is their second child, as well. Kathy Duckett became a grandmother for the first time in January. It’s a Sign of the Times that a baby shower had to be held for the grandmother-to-be.

Oh, sure. they had a baby shower at work for Kathy’s expecting daughter-in-law.

This young lady, however, is an engineer; can you imagine the things that her co-workers bought her?

Well, I’m sure Buckminster Fuller will be proud of the swingset design, etc., but it seems the guys came up a bit short in the Baby Buntings department.

Some of the local ladies, to assure an adequate supply of more traditional New Baby Necessities, held this Grandmother Shower for Kathy. Malcolm Lloyd, who lives right across the street from the Kingsbury Kiosk, received his second Phoenix Award from Mayor Schoemehl in December.

For those of you who may have missed Mary Ann Shickman’s profile of this accomplished paramedic a couple of issues ago, the Phoenix Award is given to a person when he successfully revives someone who is clinically dead. Imagine, snatching back another human being who had already passed through Death’s door.

Now imagine doing this twice. Congratulations, Malcolm, on your award. Nobody could ever ask anyone for more. Those of you who attended the Edible Art show at Four Corners will undoubtedly remember the Corn Dog Mysticism exhibit, which traced this venerable and ancient cult back through the veil of time. Bill Christman of Christman Studios (6014 Kingsbury) is currently showing this terminally tongue-in-cheek work in Boston.

It is on exhibit at the Charlestown Working Theater, where Bill also designed the set for a play running there at press time. Nita Littlejohn, perhaps better known as The Jersey Lilly from 1988’s SDCC melodrama West of Pecos, is a lawyer in real life.

She was recently promoted to Division Counsel at the McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Division. Shannon and Dale Purves of 63XX Pershing will be moving to Chapel Hill, NC. Shannon will be an editor at the Algonquin Press; Dale is the new Chairman of Neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center. Debbie Genung of 63XX Washington rates a double mention.

Not only has she started a new business, she has located her office in the SDCC area.

Her firm, GilbertDolan Group, is located at 325 DeBaliviere, Suite 323.

The company markets advertising specialty/promotional items and executive gifts.

This young outfit already lists several major firms as clients and Debbie assures me that she can provide a promotional product to fit almost any program.

While all this was going on, Dee and Gary Hayes of 61XX McPherson went to Puerto Vallarta over Christmas. You folks may remember that Dee is the prosecuting attorney who obtained a conviction in the purse-snatching/ murder outside Talayna’s last year. Dee and Gary also went through the joyous but exhausting experience of adopting a baby from south of the border last year. Guess they deserve the break. Meanwhile, the Hayes’ next-door neighbor Mary Schmit is recovering very well from surgery and is already back to work on a part-time basis.

She has to get in shape fast, as the Schmits will be hosting an exchange student from France in a few weeks. Ottie’s Corner: Ottie had an experience the other night that goes to show how deceiving appearances can be. Officer Edwards observed a young man walking through the area and observing the houses carefully.

Since this man’s method of observation bore a resemblance to a procedure known in some circles as “casing;’ Ottie stopped the individual to ask him some questions.

A passing female pedestrian stood by and listened while Edwards heard the man assert that he was a student, into electronics, and active in Job Corps.

At this point, the woman interrupted, identified herself as a lawyer, and berated the officer for harassing this fine well-dressed (he was wearing a $200.00 jacket with matching slacks) man of such obvious good antecedents.

She then departed in a huff. Edwards finished hearing the man’s story and escorted him out of the area.

The next day, this chap was caught in a house where he did not seem to belong.

He was into electronics, all right; the television, VCR, and a stereo system from this house were all in his possession.

A record check, however, upheld his claim to be an electronics student.

For five years he had attended a special school where he repaired televisions, etc., for other inmates. Officer Edwards regrets not having taken the name of the lawyer mentioned above, but since she seemed to be a local resident, he hopes she will recollect the incident and contact him.

This way, he can get her in touch with this upstanding electronics student, who seems to be in need of a good lawyer.

Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February 1990.

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