News Of Neighbors（英文）

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Historical Summer 2015 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.

Summer is here and as usual, our neighborhood friends have been busy as ever. Let me put the word out now that we would all appreciate hearing about your summer adventures. Be sure to send them to me, and for neighborhood youth; make sure (parents – this burden is probably on you), to tell us about the amazing adventures you will be having over the summer.

I already know of some pretty exciting plans for neighborhood kids, but we will wait and share that in the next issue.

Now for the current News of Neighbors, which not surprisingly, includes news about our talented youth and adults. Last year we reported that filming was taking place with four St. Roch students for “Sci Girls” a PBS program. Well, the first airing of their episode took place on May 1st with a second airing scheduled for June 12 at 4:30 on KDNL, Channel 9.

The episode called “Frog Whisperers” features St. Roch students; Clara Barton (of Parkview), Madison Fuller (of the 6100 block of Waterman), and Amanda Willingham and Alanna Hopson-Morris. Isaac Parker of the 6000 block of Kingsbury is playing as an alternate in the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra.

He started playing percussion in the 8th grade in his school’s concert band and the obsession only grew from there.

He joined his school’s brand new percussion ensemble during his freshman year, and performed as a guest artist with the Community Music School of Webster University’s (CMS) Young People’s Symphonic Orchestra (YPSO) in 11th grade. Isaac graduated from McKinley CLA in May. Proud parents are Jon Parker and Shelly Goebel Parker. Congrats to Isaac, we look forward to enjoying more of your talents in the future! Two of our neighbors, Shauna Cunningham of the 6000 block of Kingsbury and Desiree Speed, of the 5900 block of Pershing shared the honor of receiving the Saint Louis Public Schools Pettus Award of Excellence for High school counseling. Kudos to you both and thank you for your dedication to your students! Robert E. Wiltenburg, PhD, who has served as dean of University College in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis for nearly 20 years, has announced that he will step down as dean at the end of the academic year, June 30, 2015. Bob, a long time resident of the 6100 block of Kingsbury, will be on sabbatical until January and then will teach for a last semester before retiring altogether. Congratulations Bob, enjoy! Making history of his own… Warren Rosenblum of the 6100 block of Kingsbury is being promoted to full professor at Webster University in the History Department.

He is also planning to be spend the fall semester on leave, working on his next book. Congrats Warren and good luck with the writing.

We will try to keep things quiet on the street while you are writing! Breaking news from Hollywood! Jack Hart recently began a new job with Lionsgate Entertainment working on corporate strategic initiatives.

As if this isn’t enough excitement, he topped it off with a sunset marriage proposal at the end of the Santa Monica Pier to Meredith Moukawsher who works as an attorney in Los Angeles. Congratulations to Jack and his proud parents, David Hart and Mary Zabriskie of the 6000 block of McPherson. Jack is an alum of St. Roch, SLUH, and University of Dayton.

It seems all these kids are growing up far too fast… I believe one of Jack’s first jobs was as our babysitter when we first moved to the neighborhood. That probably never made his resume though. Closer to home and with the same proud parents, Patrick Hart graduated from Washington University’s Olin Business School in mid-May with a major in finance and a minor in history.

He has accepted a job with a national, publicly traded residential real estate development company focusing his efforts on identifying and acquiring property. Travel plans are coming together for an epic road trip before his working life begins.

Here is hoping Patrick will share some of his adventures with us in the next issue. Congratulations Patrick!

We have some young Missouri Scholastic Chess Champions living in the neighborhood. Isabel Thomas Brieler, a freshman at Metro Academic and Classical High School, won an individual trophy for eighth place, Board 2.

Her team won third place. Sophia Thomas Brieler, a seventh grade student at Grand Center Arts Academy, won an individual trophy for seventh place; ninth grade and under.

Her team won fourth place.

The tournament took place in Columbia, MO on March 28. Their father, Jay Brieler, has coached both girls and their school teams since grade school at New City School (where the girls played Tom Hoerr at NCS in school championships). Isabel began playing in second grade and Sophia began in third grade. Proud mother, Michelle Thomas, has provided many hours of support at many local, state and national championships.

The Thomas family lives on the 6000 block of Westminster and the proud grandparents are Jim Shepard and Mary Roberts of the 5900 block of Kingsbury. Parkview resident Gerard Craft is not only pleasing palates but also making history! Craft recently received the James Beard Foundation award. Craft was named Best Chef: Midwest today at a gala ceremony in Chicago.

This marks the first time a St. Louis chef has landed a James Beard award, the culinary world’s preeminent honor. Craft is the chef-owner of Niche, Pastaria, Taste and Brasserie, and a six-time finalist for a Beard award.

The Best Chef category recognizes chefs who have “set new or consistent standards of excellence in their respective regions,” according to the Foundation’s website.

Also notable in the culinary world was Sauce Magazine being named the Great Plains Magazine of the Year.

The 109-year-old Tulsa Press Club, one of the oldest press clubs in the United States, announced the winners of the 2015 Great Plains Journalism Awards, which annually recognize the best newspaper and magazine journalism in eight states: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota. Sauce was also a finalist in three other Grain Plains Journalism award categories: Profile writing, entertainment/specialty blog and page design. Ligaya Figueras of the 6100 block of Washington serves as Executive Editor of Sauce.

A home-going celebration for Jimmy Shields was held on January 17 by his family and friends at Calvary Missionary Baptist Church following his death on January 9th. Jimmy and his wife Sindria raised their nine children on the 6000 block of Kingsbury after moving here in 1969.

He was well known and loved throughout the neighborhood, often being a father figure to some and a dependable source of information and vigilance about the local events.

He worked for twenty years at Vestal Laboratories and after retirement volunteered regularly with Reverend Larry Rice, helping those in need. Longtime neighbor Pat Kohn said, “His gentle presence and kindness, how he looked out for all of us, are greatly missed.” Tom Hoerr isn’t the only retiree at New City School. Sally Boggeman taught there for 31 years.

She and husband Jim have lived on the 6100 block of Washington for many years, serving as master deliverers of the TIMES “forever”. Carla Mash Duncan and her husband live on the 6100 block of McPherson.

Her teaching career includes 30 years at New City School. Boggeman and Duncan are retiring this spring, along with two other teachers, Eileen Griffiths and Susie Burge. Congrats to all the great NCS faculty! Congratulations to State Senator Joe Keaveny and wife Karen, who have their first grandchild, MIchael Joseph. Proud parents are Shannon Keaveny and Michael Hartwig. Do you have news to share?

Please send your submissions via email with the subject line News of Neighbors to rachelb@sdtimes.org or drop off a note to the attention of Rachel Boxdorfer at the Skinker DeBaliviere office. Be sure to mark it “News of Neighbors”.

We love to hear about neighbors accomplishments, awards, travels, weddings, anniversaries, births, and more!

Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Summer 2015.

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Archival transcription note: Source PBS station given KDNL Channel 9, inconsistent identifiers retained. Grain Plains magazine award wording retained.

Original source: SD_Times2015_06.pdf, printed page(s) 3; PDF page(s) 3.