Sally Muhlbach is now Dr. Sally Muhlbach with her doctorate of audiology. She took a two-year course at A. T. Still University which is a part of Arizona School of Health Sciences and will now be a better audiologist.
Jennifer Stover is teaching fifth grade at Wells. This is her first time to teach in the public schools. She will have the same schedule as her husband Rusty Stover, who is the LHS track coach, and more time for Triston their son who is 18 months old.
The new curator of education at the Museum of East Texas is Mary Turner. She was "baptized" starting on June 18 with 433 in art camp this second session. Her home is Tyler, and she graduated from Rice University in 2002. She moved with her husband to Nacogdoches where he is in the forestry program. In Houston, Mary was a technical writer for the Houston Press and also wrote about environment and entertainment. August 27 starts the Art Show Exhibit of the works of the children for the summer. The final Reception will be Sunday, September 9 from 2 - 4 at the Museum.
Jimmie Putnam told me about the website: crystalbeachlocalnews.com which had pictures of the sand castles made by Susan and Kevin Crawford and son Cade; Tim and Rhonda Smith with Tim Coy, Hannah and Jesse; Alan and Linda Smith with Caitlin. Those at the beach helping that were not from Lufkin were Ben Smith, Dennis Coy Smith and Becky Smith. These are Evie Smith's grand children and great-grands. This is their seventh year for the Smith family to get together at Crystal Beach. They make sand castles every year, and someone will run over them with a vehicle in the night. This year one of the guys stayed up with the grand kids and camped on the beach with a bon fire and kept the vehicles off their wonderful artwork. It lasted three days. See if it is still on the web.
Trecina Ilesanmi at Crown Colony Country Club has an engagement ring. I failed to get his name. Teresa Bobbitt, also at Crown Colony, has her three children ready for school.
Edgar Burton is the newly elected President of the Lufkin Rotary Club. I went on Monday to hear Alice Garner from England talk to the club. Mary and Joe Byrd, Leon Manning, Allen and Amy Rush and Jessica McElveen were at my table. Bill Royle introduced Alice.
Floyd Yancy was selling Panther Sideliner shirts at the Transportation Bldg when I renewed my football tickets. Virginia Yancy was in Georgia with Floyd and Lloyd and Dawn Yancy and grandson Chase Yancy.
Kalie Redard's "NaNa", Nadine Mitchell, was selling Panther Pride Drill Team shirts at the Transportation Bldg. Kalie is the sophomore daughter of Trina Redard.
Also renewing football tickets were Margie and Clare Brody, Corey Glover and Del Bridges. Del has sold her house in Louisiana and is moving to Lufkin. She is staying temporarily with her dad, C. D. Lowery. Barbara Davis and Faylene Williams were busy that day that I was there. Go Panthers!!!!
Talk about a Fiesta!!!! Janie McCann threw a 70th birthday party for Pat McCann complete with Mariachis and good food. Some enjoying the "hot" weather and good fellowship were their daughters and family: Sage and Richard Papaloannou with Nicholas and Jake; Liz and Todd Burton with Blake, Kylie and Brett; Barbara and Duncan Cavanaugh, Mandy and David Batson with Alyssa and Drake; Linda Smelley; Jeff and Amy Thomas; Bettie and Marvin Ivie; Kelly Williams; Jackie and Kenneth Crossland, Laddie and Jim Williams, Stacy Williams, Kay and Ernest Langford, Jo Ann and Richard Rainwater, Robbie and Don Wier, Barbara Brookshire, Sandra and Robert Beavers, Oscar Dillahunty, Bill Royle, Milford Ruby, Mack and Linda Coward, Mary Etta and Bill Moreau, Anne and Lance McFaddin, Judy and Dubby Perry, Charlie Havard, Mary Lynn and Len Baxter, Lawana and Jerry Ray, Gayle and Robbie Tompkins, Kathy and John Thannisch, and many more that I did not know. I thought Pat and Janie's grandsons that were out giving directions on where to park cars were priceless. They were getting tips!!!!
Melissa Abeldt is hoping that the rain will stop long enough for them to get the parking lot ready for Abeldt's Gaslight Pharmacy. They are hoping for Labor Day to open in the new location. It really is looking good.
Connie and John Kennedy bought Annon Card's home on Innisbrook and moved the end of May. They are settled after being in their other home for 20 years and enjoying the fantastic view of the golf course. Their son Jack is attending Angelina College and is home there with them. All three of the Kennedys are golfers, and this is perfect for them.
John and Carolyn Haney attended graduation of grandson John Trey Haney from Texas State University in San Marcos. He is the son of John and Amy Haney. They had several condos rented on the Comal River for the family plus Michael and Anna Haney, Jean and Bo Fisher and Amy's parents the Barretts from Huntsville. They had been telling Carolyn that she was going to have to tube on the river. Since she did not want to tube, she slipped down her stairs and was in an air cast from a bad sprain. Shame on you Carolyn!!!! I know that you really did not do it on purpose. Trey received his BS in Geography with a concentration in Geographic Information Systems. He is working for Fugro Oil Company in Houston and actually using his major.
Martha and Ray Carswell, Jim Carswell, Jon and Jill Carswell with Emma and Abby enjoyed vacationing in Galveston. Martha gave me the list of places they ate and recommend: the new restaurant at the San Jacinto Monument called Monument Inn in LaPorte, Shrimp N Stuff Seafood Restaurant on Avenue O in Galveston, Tortuga, and Gaido's. The group played 18 holes of miniature golf at the Magic Carpet and Martha hit a hole in one on the first hole. They enjoyed going to La King's Confectionary and Ice Cream Parlor on the Strand and the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum. Martha stayed with the girls while they walked through the Peanut Butter Warehouse. They enjoyed the IMAX Dino movie at Moody Gardens and the Aquarium, the San Jacinto Monument and they rode the Lynchburg Ferry. Jim, who is the manager at the Restoration Hardware in Dallas near the Galleria, brought Martha several belated birthday gifts from the store.
Edith Carlton and her sister-in-law, Beth McMullen, were out in the heat last week eating at Ray's and going to the cemetery.
Jean and Ray Jayroe enjoyed their vacation on South Padre Island with family: son Stephen Jayroe, daughter and husband, Deanne and James McGaha and children Hannah and Hunter and also Hannah's friend Stacey Thomas. The "young folks" enjoyed parasailing, Schlitterbahn and the beach while Ray and Jean shopped. Some of the guys went fishing but the only fish they had were from a restaurant. All had a good time.
LaNell Johnson and Floyd Marsellos will be married August 25 at the First United Methodist Church. Best wishes to them!!!!
Valena and Kyle Spradley celebrated T.J. Wheat's 24th birthday and Olivia Spradley's 4th birthday last week with one cake and all the candles. Valena has found some people that will loan her football tickets.
Bernice Maberry played "Happy Anniversary" for Ernest and I on our 38th anniversary. Thanks Bernice !!!!
Happy Birthday: Debbie Pittman, David Smith, David Austin, Dan Carter, John Cole Brandenburg, Tamesha Jumper, Justin Looney, Sue Rolf, Thelma Bryant, Peggilu Watkins, Jim Wark, Kristi Martin, Betti Carpenter, Jane Johnson, Elizabeth Westerman, David Hicks, Nancy Ramsey, C. D. Lowery, Tana Weiss, and Laura Kelley.
Happy Anniversary: Paula and Bob Samford, June and Sonny Clement, Elizabeth and Tucker Westerman, Susi and Mike Miller, Martha Lou and Marshall Dailey, Sarah and Earlon Williams, Mary Ann and Neal Naranjo, Abban and Robert Lastovica, Betti and Lyle Carpenter, Carrie and Jason Camp, Kelley and David Moore.
On the Monday of our trip up east to visit the Herde family, Michael rented a motorboat and he skied on Lake Champlain, George and Isabelle tried to ski. Isabelle finally later in the day was successful and skied. Sarah rode in the biscuit; we call them tubes, and then shared time with George in the tube. Isabelle had her turn in the tube and Michael drove and really spun Hannah from side to side and made her scream. Michael took a turn on the tube and then skied. With 10 minutes left 8-year-old Sarah declared that she wanted to ski. She tried several times and finally was on the water in a squatted position but on top of the water. She was determined. Lots of happy squeals and laughter came from those riding the tube. Tuesday was camp day. We took 11-year-old George to Camp Dudley in Westport, NY. This is the camp's 123rd season. George was the first to get to his cabin, Rensselaer. He is a cub and the stages from there are: plebe, junior, senior and aide. There were 65 cubs this year. In his cabin were four counselors and seven boys. Michael noticed that George was the only boy to make his own bed. The mothers made the beds for the other boys. The weather was cooler at night in the mountains and when we were at Westport it was unusual for us to think of wearing long sleeves in July. We left about 12:45 for the girls' Camp Dudley at Kiniya via I 87 over into Vermont. We ate lunch at Gus' Red Hots in Plattsburgh, NY famous for their Hot Michigans, which was a hot dog with chili. Their hot dogs are with sauerkraut or with pickle relish and onions. We rode the ferry on the upper lake and arrived at the camp at Colchester, Vermont and checked 12-year-old Isabelle into her Hernandos cabin. The bunks were selected for the girls and Isabelle had a top one. Holly and Laurel were her counselors. They have 115 campers and 50 counselors on 134 acres. There were six girls to a cabin and two counselors. We left about 4:50 p.m. for the 314 miles back to Connecticut. We drove through New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut on our five and a half hour trip. Sarah said when I asked if she missed George "NO! he is disrespectful, obnoxious and steals her money". Back in New Canaan on Wednesday, Sarah had reading camp at 8 a.m. Hannah and Ernest picked raspberries along the road in front of the house. Nancy and Ernest went to get Queenie from the boarding kennel. Libba Griffin came for lunch and helped Nancy hang pictures that she had framed at the Geary Gallery in Darien. Libba's parents are Barbara and Buck Hooker who own the B&B Captain's Castle in Jefferson, Texas. Libba and Nancy were friends at Texas A&M. She and her family, husband Jeff, and children Olivia, Amelia, Henry and Andrew, live in New Canaan. We picked up Michael at 5:30 for the Indian Harbor Yacht Club Race. Hannah, Ernest and Michael came in 5 th in 3 races and 4 th in the last sail boat race. Sunset is at 7:17 p.m. Sunrise is at 4:44 a.m. We had dinner on the patio overlooking Long Island Sound. Thursday was Sarah's last day of reading camp and Hannah went to her job at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk. Nancy, Ernest and I drove to the Waveny Manor, which is the house of Palmer Cortlandt on the tv soap opera "All My Children". The Lapham family gave many acres and their house to the city of New Canaan, which has made a park with baseball fields, soccer fields, hiking trails, golf range, and a community pool. The schools are on this acreage. The Stamford, CT hospital is the one shown on "All My Children". Just fun facts for those that watch the soaps. We collected Sarah and drove to Norwalk and had lunch at Chocopologic, which is owned by Fritz Knipschildt, the chocolatier, originally from Denmark. We watched the making of the chocolates from our lunch seats along a hall with windows looking into the kitchen. Ernest ate a Croque Monsieur (ham and gruyere cheese); Nancy had an Angus bistro burger on brioche; I had a baguette with smoked salmon, arugula and herbed cream cheese. Boy were we fancy. Sarah had chicken strips. After we picked up Hannah at the aquarium, we saw the Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk that was featured in the two movies "Stepford Wives". Then it was on to Stew Leonard's Farm Fresh Foods, the Largest Dairy Store in the World and in Ripley's Believe It or Not. Ernest looked and looked at all of the baked goods, dairy products, meats, produce, cut flowers, and prepared foods. They have animated figures that sing and dance along the maze through the store. He even heard the cow moo when we checked out with our groceries. Michael baked chicken in the Aga for our dinner. Hannah observed that there were three generations, Hannah, Nancy and me, cleaning up the kitchen. On Friday, Nancy, Sarah, Ernest and I went to Darien. Sarah said, "Peep would go as long as they have seats" (she meant benches for him to sit upon). We had lunch at the Country Cupboard downtown New Canaan. In the afternoon Ernest and Hannah sailed and he rated her from 1 to 10 as an 11...the best. Michael and Bill Young sailed in another boat. Bill and Katy Young with Billy and Sarah and the six of us enjoyed the menu at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club of steamed lobster, flank steak, steamed mussels, scrod, corn on the cob, potato salad, three bean salad and various other salads plus desserts and fruit. Forrest, our server, cut the last two lobsters because I asked if he would help a Texas girl since I had trouble with the first one getting the claws. A fun fact: At 8:20 p.m. they ring a bell and everyone stands quietly to attention. A cannon fires and the U.S. Flag is retired from the pole. At the command "carry on" all sit down. This happened on Wednesday when we were there after Michael, Hannah and Ernest were sailing, but we did not know the routine. Bill Young said that all Yacht Clubs do this at sunset. I still have more to tell and will finish as I have room. Catch you around town.
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