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Winter is finally revving up and Skinker-DeBaliviere is getting ready for all the activities that the cold and Christmas bring. To begin December, we bring very happy news from Westminister. We rejoice with Kathy and Paul Brammeier in announcing the birth of their child, Nathan Mark. He was born November 2, weighing 8 lb. 9 oz., healthy and beautiful. Many of us have glimpsed with admiration Kathy’s patience and cheerfulness during many months of being house-and bed-bound, and Paul’s energetic coping as well. We offer our happy congratulations and look forward to seeing more of the Brammeiers this season.
On the subject of babies, did you discover the answer to our “teaser” last month? Well, in case you’re a bit slow or don’t get around much, Nancy and Ken Cohen are the happy anticipators. Congratulations!
One of our neighborhood’s great ladies, Betty Klinefelter, has just come home from the hospital. We hope her recuperation will be complete by the time you read this, and that “Klinefelter” will be back at Grace PreSchool, where her guidance and happy energy have been much missed.
Horace Busch, Jr. has recently graduated from the Officer’s Training School of the Navy in Newport, R.I., and he is now Ensign Busch and he will be stationed at Athens, Ga. Congratulations!
Home purchasers in the news this month include Mr. and Mrs. Williams, who have bought a home on the 5700 block of Pershing. We welcome the Williams family to our neighborhood. Ed and Mary Bea Stout have purchased their residence on the 6100 block of McPherson. And Mark Gorman has purchased a home on the 6100 block of Waterman. Mr. Gorman formerly lived in the 5900 block of Pershing.
Haven’t you been tempted to indulge in some wallpaper lately? There seems to be a blitz of papering work on Westminister, and the craze shows no sign of abating. We keep seeing our neighbors at Beckers and other places, and so we anticipate more “wallpaper parties” this winter. We really need some new excuses for parties around here, don’t we.
Speaking of parties, hope you didn’t miss the Dinner-Theatre Party. It was a great event, with lovely food, good entertainment, a spectacular cast, and a large crowd on hand to make the party one of the best (and latest) this season. There were many people attending not known to us, and we hope that, whether they were visitors, new neighbors. or prospective buyers, they had a good time and will come again to our many neighborhood functions. The play revealed some interesting personalities—had no idea Rich Lake was so mean, did you? Of course, Cal. . .
We also noticed a skinny John Roach, looking young and slim, certainly a proper endorsement for Weight Watchers. Our new alderman, Vince Schoemehl, is also in process of an apparently effective diet. Vince is surely looking good — though whether a result of diet or success is hard to discern.
Another Schoemehl whose accomplishments are being noted is Lois Schoemehl, [words damaged in source] in two UMSL newspapers as she “retires” from her job as Alumni Director at UMSL. We stay-at-homes welcome Lois to the ranks of neighborhood mainstays.
May the holidays be happy and safe for you all. One of the best gifts we can give our neighbors is caring what happens in their lives, and that includes what happens on the streets of our neighborhood. Let’s all be watchful, willing to aid, and help each other have a splendid Christmas season!
Originally published in The Paper, December 1975.
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Archival transcription note: Words after Lois Schoemehl’s name in the sentence about two UMSL newspapers are damaged. Readable text is preserved with an explicit marker.
Original source: SD_Times1975_12.pdf, printed page(s) 7; PDF page(s) 7.
