Historical June 1997 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Maverine Wilson, competing for the first time in the St. Louts Senior Olympics at Strike – n – Spare Lanes, Lindbergh and Schuetz, received a Silver medal for her efforts Wilson, of the 60XX block of Washington. recently retired from her home-based day care service to devote more of her time and energy to bowling. Former Resident Terri Robinson Performs Well in Georgia Terri Robinson left Skinker DeBaliviere for DeKalb County. Georgia in 1993.
She began running after she moved to Georgia and made the track team.
The togetherness of the team made her adjustment to a new home an easier one. Robinson placed in the state meet in her freshman season. and, as a sophomore, was fourth at state in the long jump.
As a junior, she won a state championship in the 200 meters and in the long jump.
She was second in the 100 meters.
As a senior now. her sights are on becoming the top girl performer in the state Her grandparents. William and Clara Robinson of 58xx DeGiverville are extremely proud of her and the 58.xx DeGiverville block unit shares in that pride Neighborhood Attorney Elected to National Board Marvin Nodiff of 61xx Westminster has been elected to a 3-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Community Associations Institute and has received CAl’s top honor for meritorious service in 1996. CAI is the country’s only national nonprofit organization that provides education services for leaders of community associations such as condominiums• planned communities and cooperatives. Nodiff is a charter member of CAls College of Community Association Lawyers and a founding member of the St. Louis Chapter.
He will serve this year as chair of CAI’s public policy committee.
He also has been selected as editor of a new legal publication. the Journal of Community Association Law. Forslund Becomes Professor Catherine Forslund, past president of the Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council and longtime beautification committee member, received a Ph. D in history at the May commencement of Washington University.
She wrote her dissertation on Anna Chennault, a practitioner of informal diplomacy and a key participant in the October 1968 attempts to have the South Vietnamese join the Paris peace talks. Forslund spent time conducting research in Washington, D.C. and Taiwan and also visited the Ford and Johnson presidential libraries.
During the course of her research, she became acquainted with William Bundy and Jules Witcover, other authors writing about the same period. Forslund has been heavily involved in neighborhood activities for over a decade as has her husband. Roy Roncal.
However, her presence will soon be missed because she has accepted at teaching position at Misericordia College in Dallas, Pennsylvania However, she leaves us with many memories of shared activities and a record of improvements to Skinker DeBaliviere. Longtime Resident Raymond Shields, Jr_ Passes Away On April 30, 1997, Ray Shields, Jr..a resident of the 6100 block of Westminster for approximately three decades, died. Ray was well known as an auto mechanic who loved racing cars and restoring vintage cars.
He and his wife, Gwendolyn Berry, raised their family here and have seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.
We extend our sympathy to the Shields family.
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Terri Robinson. Photograph from DeKalb Extra.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1997.
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