My son, Jeff, (see photo in 'Look at Us Now') is getting married 5-24-2003 in Santa Barbara to Melinda Smith....I went to Las Vegas last week to celebrate Katie Hazen wedding 5-31, my son's wedding 5-24, (and the recording of Paityn Persson's heart beat...Paityn is expected to be here 8-19 ), on Tucky Hazen's 58th Birthday.....IS THAT BOLD OR WHAT...If you want the web site for my son's wedding or Katie's wedding and listen to the heart beat of Paityn...send me an email...
Ben and I have two children. Barbara (Princeton '91 and UVA Medical School '95) is on the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine specializing in infectious disease. Barbara is married to a medical doctor who is a practicing corporate attorney and, most importantly, she is the mother of our beautiful and brilliant grandchildren, Margaret (5 in August, entering kindergarten at St. John's School in Houston) and Mark (2 in August). Benjamin (Amherst '95 and Harvard Law School '98) is a corporate attorney. He is married to what every family needs, a pediatrician.
Cathryn and I have two sons. Andrew (22) is in the Culinary program at the Dallas Institute of Arts and working in the kitchen of a very nice restaurant(The Bayleaf) in Dallas. Clayton (13) has been accepted to a Math/Science Middle School here in Austin where he will be in the 7th grade. He's involved in Boy Scouts and the band in school.
Marshall...loved seeing the picture of your son (and you) as Elvis.
Doug & I have 3 sons. Jeff, 32, was married 5-24-03 in Chicago (see www.may24wedding.com). He is Art Director for Fox TV in Dallas and has won 2 Emmy Awards for his work. Lance, 30, is an engineer with a power plant in Wheatland, WY, has been married 10 years and I have a brilliant 3-year old grandson. Josh is a senior at OSU where he is Homecoming King, President of OSU Interfraternity council, a pre-med major, working at Deer Valley Ranch in Nathrop, Colorado, this summer as a wrangler.
My 3 children are in Oklahoma (thank goodness) My son Gale is a doctor. He is a neuro-radiologist in Muskogee and is married to a Internal Medicine doctor with a specialty in Arthritis (great for Me!) they have Daniel 7, and Hannah,4. Then my daugther Amy is with the state as Human Relations for the Dept. of Corrections and has a wonderful husband and Kendall 14 and Kyle 11. Melissa, our youngest is 30 and married to a wonderful man with 3 children, Ashley,13, Mikey 11, and Evan 8. She is finishing her teaching degree. All 15 of us just got back from a fun trip to San Antonio together. Life is very rich!!
I have 3 beautiful daughters. Kathy (33) is a pharmacists for Drug Mart. She has a commercial on T.V. and if you use Springer Clinic she is the blond on all the mags! She has a daughter, Kailey age 7 and son, Hunter 4. Expecting a new boy on Thanksgiving Day. Love the stress on the holidays!! Kristy (31) is a Kindergarten teacher in Bixby. She has a son, Josh, 5. Josh weighed 2lbs.6oz. and 14in. long at birth. Healthy from the get go, we were so lucky. Kristy has an unknown allergy and when it hits, she goes to 0/0 for blood pressure and it is scary. That day we had to have a baby and we were so lucky. Last attack she had was just last week. Daughter Karen, is 28 and has a 2 year old girl, Peyton. 10 years ago this month Karen had bone cancer, several surgerys later she is in remission and doing wonderful. She married her physical therp.!!! I won't be able to be at the reunion because of a large party I am catering that night, but I work part-time for a bakery and the bread you will be eating at Tulsa C. Club, I will be making! so I will be there in spirit.
Empty nestors but not yet through with college bills.
Oldest son, Matt, is a Princeton grad who after three years with Google is working on his PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Middle son, James, just graduated from Amherst with a double major in neuroscience and economics and is launching a new product on the internet. Youngest son, George, is a junior at Whitman College in Walla Walla where is he studying psych, sings with the chorale and is captain of the swim team.
Some of you may remember our daughter, Lucy, who was just a toddler at our 30th. She's a rising Junior this Fall at the University of South Carolina - Business major, and plans to study abroad in the Spring Semester in Argentina. She spends her summers as a camp counselor at a girl's camp in Maine. Just saw the pics from the mini-reunion. Miss you all! Hope to be around the for the 50th.