Dear Friends,
We had such good intentions this year about getting our Christmas cards mailed early! As usual, procrastination won out! However, we have received several cards with new addresses from old friends, so maybe there’s a method to our madness.
This has been a very busy year for us. Deb has been finishing her college work at Trinity (San Antonio) in the Theater Department and will graduate this Friday, December 18! What excitement for all of us! She intends to remain in San Antonio after graduation and is beginning to look for a position for the new year. She has been taking many interesting courses from ‘deviant behavior’ to geology to comparative religions to playwriting. What fun!
Ken is a freshman at Texas A&M this year, majoring in electrical engineering. He is kept busy with the Newman Club, Century Singers, College Bowl quiz team, etc. If it weren’t for the 18 class credit hours he’s taken this semester, he’d probably be doing even more! It’s nice for us to have him only 1 ½ hours away by car.
Kip is a junior at Westfield High School and has just finished another season as varsity football manager. At the present time, he is earning some spending money a a ‘sacker’ at Randalls Supermarket. We think he has some idea of buying a car in the near future. Meanwhile, he’s having a good year.
Pat and Karen are very involved in church work these days. Pat was elected to the first Parish Council at Christ the Good Shepherd and Karen is a worship coordinator for Sunday Masses. We are also involved in teaching and coordinating a preparation class for young adults interested in Baptism, Confirmation and first Eucharist. We have put many of our Marriage Encounter commitments on the back burner for the time being, but are still active in our sharing circle. Pat has moved his office at work to the main Baylor building and is having a ball ‘playing’ with his new computer. Karen is still working in the Office of Vocations for the Diocese of Galveston-Houston. We are busy, happy – and now and then – tired! We really enjoy our life in Houston, but we do wish more of you would make the trip down here to visit. We traveled home to Ohio this past summer – now it’s your turn!