Are you ready for November?
Don’t forget the major production of the season coming up later this month, the 3rd annual Dinner Theatre. Let us hope that many of you will also volunteer to help in whatever way strikes your fancy.
There are many additions to the population this month: Dan and Jill McGuire welcomed their second son, seven pound, eleven ounce John Broughton Thomas McGuire, on October 5. Congratulations to the McGuire family.
Incredible, but true—with all our grandparently news last month, there’s still more! We are delighted to announce the birth of Bryan David Gerard, born on May 7 to Tina and and Bryan Gerard, who live on the 6000 block of Pershing. The happy grandparents are Jean and Vincent Eberle of the 6200 block of Waterman.
On Westminster, Judy and Utilis (Vince) Vinson are enjoying their new baby girl, Rachael Elizabeth, who was born on September 22, weighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Rachael is the second Vinson granddaughter of Phyllis and Bob Towns.
Just across from the Towns/Vinson home on the 6100 block of Westminster, Cindy and Ben Bodewes are due for their second child in December. Look for news of this coming attraction.
From the 6000 block of Pershing, we have learned of two new babies. Ida and Jerry Dale had a baby boy in October, named Jarrell. And Bonnie and Nick Barnes had a girl in July, named Nicole. Congratulations to the Dale and Barnes families.
There are a few grown—up additions to the neighborhood of late as well. On the 5800 block of Pershing, a Brown-Mensing rehab effort has been sold to Dorothy Roper. Newly arrived in Parkview are Stephen and Margo Jay, who have bought the Deppe’s home on the 6200 block of Waterman. Dr. Jay is working with the music school called CASA (The Community Association of Schools for the Arts). Welcome to the Jays, and to Ms. Roper. We look forward to meeting all our new neighbors at the Dinner Theatre. Welcome!
Lovely news has reached us that Sally Storey, daughter of Waterman’s Rose and George Storey, and Terry McGinn, son of Pershing’s Jim and Ilene McGinn, plan to be married here next summer. Sally and Terry met in Kansas City, where they are both working. Congratulations!
Our magnet school news this month includes the news that we have another principal in our midst. He is Jerry Buterin of the 6100 block of Waterman. Jerry is now principal of Ames School, located at Hadley and St. Louis Avenues, near Highway 70. Ames is the P. L. A. N. (Program for Learning in Accordance with Needs) Magnet School, a fascinating and ambitious experiment in which daily information about each student is fed into a computer center in Iowa City. The computer works at night and each morning returns to the teachers a “prescription” for each student in each subject, including information on which text would be of most help to the student in understanding a particular skill. The basic non-competitiveness of the system is an important feature of PLAN. Interestingly, this is the only magnet school which is presently oversubscribed by both black and white students. Jerry and his PLAN coordinator, Dr. Doris Harrington (who has three years experience with a similar school elsewhere), invite any interested residents to visit the school.
We are happy to inform you that Mrs. Lillian Hood, of the 6100 block of Westminster, is now at home, following a two week hospital stay. We hope that she continues to improve and that we are able to see her again very soon.
May we also devote a moment to the future students hereabouts. If you aren’t aware of it, there is a fine pre-school story hour program at the Des Peres Branch Library. Children 2½–5 are entertained by stories and short, usually animated, films, at 10:30 AM on Friday mornings. There is coffee and conversation for the mothers as well. This is a long-standing program which many of us have taken advantage of, but we could use a little expansion! If you can come this is an excellent way to introduce your child to a relaxed child/teacher setting while you are securely close by, enjoying a few lazy moments of your own. And the kids love it!
And one more short plug—for the Ha’s Family Bi-Rite Store, in the old A & P location. Those of us who have complained about the lack of a neighborhood grocery store now have a decent one, and we ought to be using it more. It’s a clean, well -stocked, friendly store. The people are very helpful. the milk is fresh, and I think you’ll be impressed. Please don’t overlook this badly needed service. Even if you have a constant car, it’s closer, easier, and cheaper to go only a few blocks. Give it’a try!
Don’t forget to let us know any news you would like to see included in this space next month.
Original photograph caption
Above, Karen Busch, who has been selected as captain of the Nerinx Hall Hockey Team. The proud parents are, of course, Horace and Anna Busch. The Paper, November 1976, page 3. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, November 1976.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Archival transcription note: Printed and and Bryan Gerard and constant car retained; PLAN school description is contemporary reporting, not an independent assessment.
Original source: SD_Times1976_11.pdf, printed page(s) 3; PDF page(s) 3.
