Carl & Nia
Johnson, Germany, spent Christmas in Holland, where
Nia is from. Must be great
traveling around Europe, though there WAS that awful
stormy weather. Nia�s birthday was in Dec. & she
sent me the neatest thank you card for the card I sent! I
love getting "foreign language" cards. When I
was in Amsterdam to me the language was unfathomable in
speech - now I see it�s the same in print. ahaha.
Appreciated their kind words about "the
book!"...Dunka!
Betty Rands, an Iowa City
�98 cohort was down with the flu for some time over
the holidays. What a bad time! (Like anytime is good to
be sick?) She even called & left a message on my
recorder as she was too sick to type. My fall into the
trash can prompted her memory of the day, when she was
learning to ride a bike; she fell into the back of a
sanitary truck that was filled with slimy goop shoveled
out of the street gutters after a storm. She wasn�t
hurt, but was covered with smelly debris & was happy
no one passed her on her way home! GREAT story!
Nephew Mike Marro & fam., Germany, cut down
their own Christmas tree this year & decorated it
with real candles. They graciously thanked me for the
Green Bay Packers loungeware I sent, even though
they�re Vikings fans. ahahaa... Mike enjoyed my
book, said they learned more about the family (his) than
he�d ever known! Some gal who works on his Army
Post, Edwina Bittoe wants to write a review for
the Post paper when she gets back from a leave in the
states. Meantime on 1/10 Mike flew off to Washington
State for a month-long assignment after which he�ll
be in Superior for a week! Yippee! I "finagled"
a meeting
for him with my old friend Marite Butners (former
banking cohort), who at the time was in Washington D.C.
unfortunately. After a few phone calls back & forth I
am hopeful that they still can touch base & Mike will
get to see Marite�s Bainbridge Island home!
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Jaye Bartha, Colorado,
kept me posted on her holiday visit out East to NYC
& New Jersey, emailing me along the way. She saw the
tree in Rockefeller Center & strolled through
Times Sq. at dusk. Also attended a performance of the
Marriage Of Figaro, at the Met. Said, "My nose
bleed wasn�t so bad after all, in the cheap
seats." aaha - She and I have organized the
"Clan of the Strong Broads" to remind ourselves
to keep a stiff upper lip when things start to drag.
Since her return she is deep into her writing, again.
Jaye & I met in Iowa City last summer...a great gal
& lotsa fun!
Helen Huebsch, Iowa City �98
friend, keeps in touch on the computer AND with her great
"Good News" newsletter, which I really love.
She keeps me posted on her "Alpha Writers"
group, who meet weekly. Their book, "The Best
of...." is paid for & - with about $1200. in the
bank for a
scholarship. All the money is being donated for that
cause. They have sold 500 copies. Darn good!
Helen�s
daughter Diane, is a contestant in the Pillsbury Bakeoff,
one of 100 contestants in the nation. Is being flown to
San Fran. on 2/26 for the big bakeoff.
Helen was pretty bogged down over the holidays, what
with her huge family/friends. Yesterday she wrote about a
neighbor friend, who Helen is ministering to - such a
GOOD heart, has our Helen!
Shirley Wick Anderson, high-school
cohort in TX and I have been going back & forth over
the name of a little coffee shop near our old Central
High. I finally got to the library and settled the
matter. It was called CORKY�S AND HARRY�S &
much to my surprise, was only in business from 1948
through 1950, but that would have been right for us.
I�m pretty sure we just called it
"Corky�s, tho. Shirley thought it was called "The Milk
House." Could be that it came later, as we were in
H.S. until 1953 & the other one was gone then. I rem.
going into Corky�s, though.
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