May equals Art Fair for so many of us, and then we crash for the summer. Before we float away to our respective vacation haunts, here’s the news of those nearest to us.
There are, unfortunately, several goodbyes to be said this June. For, although there are hopefully happy things in stow for them, we will miss the families who are leaving us. Don and Sue Tepas, and Matthew and Katherine, will be moving to Chicago shortly: Don to take on a new position at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Sue to take on a new neighborhood no doubt. We wish them success. Also departing from McPherson are Marty and Margaret Punke, and children Laura and Matt Dahline, who are moving to Wisconsin. They will be missed by many friends and neighbors. Jim and Mary Parker, Teresa and Brad, are moving to Columbia: Jim to work on his PhD there.
The Parkers have been with us for many years, in two different locations on Westminster. Mary, of course, has been a mainstay of Grace Pre-School and a source of sanity for many mothers of pre-schoolers around the neighborhood for a long time.
We hope they will enjoy their new life.
The Parkers have had the good taste to sell their house to neighborhood people we already know and like; i.e., Dan and Jill McGuire, presently of the 5700 block of Waterman. Dan and Jill have two boys, Danny, 8, and John, 1. We look forward to their arrival on Westminster.
The 6100 block of Westminster is also very pleased to welcome Steve and Margie Brammeier, who have bought the Mann’s house. Steve is, of course, busy opening his Animal Hospital on Skinker, too. We are delighted to welcome these two new families.
The 6100 block of Kingsbury has recently seen the arrival of Rick and Gail Hellan and their two young sons, who have purchased the Tilton house. The Hellans moved here from U City, and we hope to be getting acquainted with them very soon.
We offer our condolences to the Horace Busch family. Horace’s mother, Mrs. Vivian W. Busch, passed away suddenly in early May, and we extend our sympathy
to Horace and all his family.
A long list of congratulees, due our heartiest hoorays:
to Dick and Arline Webb, of the 6100 block of Pershing, who are expecting their first baby!
to Dan Shea and Kathy Williams, who are getting married this week!
to Cecily Barker, of the 6100 block of Westminster, who graduated from nursing school at Forest Park College this May.
to Horace Busch II, who recently made lieutenant in the Navy, and to his sister, Karen, who returned from Benedictine College with her varsity jacket and tennis pen.
to Al Nerviani, who appeared on stage in the company of “La Boheme,” performed in May by the St. Louis Opera Theatre. It was as thrilling for Al as for his friends who watched, no doubt, and we applaud his perseverance in the cause of art (and his talent too!).
to Michael Herrmann, Director of the Hamilton Community School, whose flat was one of the dwellings featured on the Tower Grove East House Tour (proving we can at least mention another house tour without hysterics).
And congratulations, too, to the many other graduates who are making their mark this spring. We’re sorry not to know all of you who are finally finishing school and going on to other things. Best wishes to all of you!
Many of us enjoyed the Washington Heights dance on the Friday evening before the Art Fair. The entertainment was a really fine group of young people, many from Skinker-DeBaliviere, and dancing and conversation was shared by people from both ends of the neighborhood. It was a fine evening, and we were glad to see WHN’s President, Wm. Bolden, who had been hospitalized just before the event.
“A column of smoke” — as one local punster put it. And it was just that, literally, at the home of Jim and Carl Metzethin on the 6100 block of Washington a few weeks ago. We were much relieved to know that the column only was damaged and that the fire went no further.
We hope you all have a great summer, and we look forward to hearing every “what I did on my summer vacation” story possible. Let’s try not to have such exciting ones as last summer’s Renard and L’Ecuyer sagas. The Paper can come up with some news without such episodes. We shall return in the fall with all the news, and, in the meantime, whew!
Originally published in The Paper, June 1978.
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Original source: SD_Times1978_06.pdf, printed page(s) 4; PDF page(s) 4.
