Historical February 1988 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
The holidays are great, but aren’t you glad when they’re all over and normal life has resumed? Of course, normal life never stays the same. Read on…. Marvin Nodiff and Marcia Kerz, 6100 Westminster, and Clare Kerz, 6100 Washington, traveled to London over the holidays.
They were gone from December 25 to January 2.
While in London, they were fortunate to get tickets to see Phantom of the Opera, which they found quite outstanding. Other highlights of their trip included a visit to Kew Gardens, shopping at Herrod’s, and Trafalgar Square on New Year’s Eve. London is also the current spot for 6100 Kingsbury’s Chuck Larsen. Chuck, an English professor at U.M.S.L., is spending this semester there with the Missouri-London Program.
This program, which involves several Missouri colleges, allows students to pay fees for their own home school and spend a semester in London attending classes. Debbie Larsen, Chuck’s wife, was planning to go with Chuck for the semester, but a career move interfered. Debbie, who is also an English professor at U.M.S.L., has been the Acting Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since last fall.
She plans to join Chuck in London later this spring. Also in a new position is Sam Green, 6100 Westminster. Sam recently joined Feinberg Real Estate as a commercial agent. Kingsbury, as well as the rest of the neighborhood, was sorry to lose Jane and Jim Geer and daughters Sarah and Susan in December.
The Geers have moved to Ladue. Into the Geer’s former home we welcome John Sappington and Mary Carr. John is coowner of West End Wines at Pershing and Belt in the DeBaliviere Place area.
Mary is an attorney at Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel and Hetlage downtown.
Mary and John are expecting their first child this spring. Also expecting this spring are Bob and Heidi Dowgwillo.
The Dowgwillos reside in the 6100 block of Pershing. Bob was one of the many neighbors who organized caroling groups this holiday season. Bob led the St. Roch’s Contemporary Choir, which he also directs, on a caroling walk around Rosedale and Parkview. Roy Bell and Claudia Lorenz organized a group to carol on their block of Kingsbury. Dee Hayes and Mary Schmit led their group on McPherson.
This writer would like to personally thank all those who joined the Westminster carolers this year: Paul Kurtz, Peggy and Andrew Droege, Brad Weir and the Schoenfelds.
Thanks guys!
Congratulations to Raymond Breun, Ph.D., 6100 McPherson! Ray completed his dissertation—Federal Land Laws and Early Education in St. Louis—in October and graduated on January 3.
We expect that explains the recent absences of his articles in The Times and hope to see their return. Ray was also recently elected to the board of the Lewis and Clark Trails Heritage Foundation.
Dan Shea, 6100 Kingsbury, appeared at Washington University in November, in a British play, The National Health.
This production placed fifth in a regional competition for college theater.
Speaking of theater, be looking for more news about a Skinker-DeBaliviere Dinner Theater coming this April. Anyone interested in participating should call Nancy Farmer at the SDCC office.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February 1988.
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