RANDOLPH HIGH SCHOOL
ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
DECEMBER, 1988
GLORIA CAMPBELL GALLAGHER ('65)
4676 Barrett Street
Delray Beach, Florida 33445
Hm:(407)498-0157
Wk:(407)997-0095
1-800-327-5894
REUNION 1990
Our next reunion is coming soon. Eighteen months from now we will ALL be back at Randolph to PARTY! The format will be the same unless someone contacts me with a better way of doing it. This precedent was set at the first reunion and it has served us well. Friday night at the Gym to last minute register and bring the kids and show them around or just stroll around the grounds and remember. Usually this breaks up early and everyone goes their own way. On Saturday there is the party by the pool at the Officer's Club (bring the kids) and than Saturday night dinner and dancing for you and your spouse or date. Think a golf game or two can be arranged for Sunday. If anyone has any suggestions please submit them to me and when I create the planning committee we will discuss them. If you wish to be on the planning committee contact me also. We'll try to get out to San Antonio next summer to meet with those that wish to do so. I have tentatively booked a band that plays reunions in the Texas area with their base in Dallas. They play oldies and 60's music. The are also from the class of >65. I don't think there will be much of an increase in price. That all will be decided when we speak with the Officer's Club and see how much things will be there. We have kept the price under $25.00 per person and I don't see a problem keeping it below $30.00.. Thank you again for all of your support and friendship. I am real lucky to have such loyal and caring friends
LOST AND FOUND
LOST: DONNA PIERINI
FOUND: CORNEL WALKER JOHN HINES
DONNA PIERINI TRIEBWASSER - Donna's last newsletter was returned. Her last address was in Rocklin, California and Vallejo, California. If you know where she is. Contact me please.
CORNEL WALKER - lives in Dallas with his wife of 5 years, Lynne Rakestraw. Lynne is a Buffalo from Schertz. They have four children between the between the ages of 8 and 18. Cornel is a lawyer with offices in the "West End" of Dallas. Lynne is a sales representative. Their oldest child began UT this year.
JOHN HINES - John is alive and well in San Antonio doing what he does best.
DONATIONS
Many thanks to all who donated money and/or stamps for this cause. GEN. & MRS. DUSARD, DOUG McGILL, BIL@ BORELLIS, DAVE WAGER, HAYNES BAUMGARDNER, ART NIGRO, PAM McCALL SMITH and DONNA GRIECO MURREL. It is appreciated.
BITS AND PIECES
I did a little traveling this past year to Dallas and San Antonio. In Dallas I attended the wedding of my niece, MARY FRANCES. I stayed with my brother FRED and his wife SHARON. I also visited with PAM McCALL, BARRY CANNADAY in Dallas; MIKE WYSONG and KRIS STRAND MEYER in San Antonio. I also spoke with several of you over the phone.
FRED CAMPBELL - My brother is living and working in the Dallas area with his lovely wife SHARON. Sharon is a legal secretary and FRED works in the security business. FRED still pursues his hobby and second career as a 7th degree black belt in Karate. FRED took me to all the "tourist traps" in and around Dallas and drove me where I needed to go for the wedding parties. We also visited the MALLS.
PAM McCALL SMITH - lives in Arlington, Texas with her two beautiful daughters JESSICA and LAUREN and her father BRUCE. PAM works as a bookkeeper in her home and stays involved with her daughters and cares for her father. PAM and I got out the old annuals and stayed awake all night like we used to when we spent the night together as teenagers. I had so much fun and thoroughly enjoyed my visit.
BARRY CANNADAY - I visited with Barry in his office on the 31st floor in downtown Dallas where he works as a lawyer. He and his wife CINDY live outside Dallas with their new year old son, AUSTIM MICHAEL. BARRY also has two children from his first marriage, JAMIE, 15 and JON, 12.
GENE HOLT - I spoke with GENE on the phone. He was really thrilled to tell me that his wife, JAN's son had made them grandparents. Congratulations. GENE and JAN live in Plano.
BABS CLAY - is trying to sell her home in Dallas so she can pack up and move to Florida. BABS wants to start anew in Naples. She works as a legal secretary. GOOD LUCK.
MIKE WYSONG - We visited with MIKE and his son MICHAEL in San Antonio. My son, KELLY, and MICHAEL renewed their friendship. MIKE still has his nuts and bolts business and also pursues an interesting hobby of organizing cookbooks. Ladies, you want a recipe, call MIKE. He has a dream of opening a restaurant. He is thinking of relocating to a different state. The oil industry in Texas has effected everyone, from builders and their suppliers to the rich and famous. MIKE also did some traveling and went to Georgia and spoke with SUE TURNER NICOLS who is doing well and he visited with SANDY MINOR SMITH.
KRIS STAND MEYER - KRIS has now moved to San Antonio and is staying with her parents with her two youngest children, JUSTIN and LAUREN. Her older daughter, MELLISSA is in college in California. KRIS has enrolled in San Antonio Jr. College and is pursuing a degree. KRIS had lunch with MIKE and I and we also telephoned and spoke with SANDY HOLT LYDA and SUSAN FRANCES who was visiting SANDY. SUSAN is just going through a divorce and was thinking of settling in San Antonio and teaching first grade. SANDY was well and looking forward to seeing everyone again at the Reunion. MIKE also showed us the video he took at the last Reunion.
I have heard from the following and this is what is happening in their lives:
BONNIE HORNE FLICK - is now single and living in a new home and starting a new life in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She is taking accounting classes and is making new friends. Her three sons are with their father and for the first time in a long time, BONNIE is getting to know herself.
DAVE WAGER - DAVE and his wife AUDREY now live in Huntington Beach, California. They have two children, ALICIA 16 and RUSSELL 21. RUSSELL just graduated from the University of Texas. DAVE is President of a large advertising agency. AUDREY is a national marketing prospects manager with Subaru.
SHARON MOORHEAD WOODS - and her daughter ALEXIS just moved to Port Charlotte, Florida. I don't know what in the world she is doing there as I haven't talked with her and her note did not say. SHARON, please contact me.
BILL BORELLIS - BILL and his wife NANCY live in Canoga Park, California with their two daughters JADE 7 and RACHEL 3. BILL was just promoted to Vice President of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Group. NANCY is an office manager for a law firm. BILL has been traveling a lot visited with SUE TURNER NICOLS who lives in Marietta, Georgia and BETSY NORMAN KEHOE - lives in Atlanta with her husband JOHN and children JOHNNY and SHANNON.
ART NIGRO and his family are on the move again. This time to SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. I don't think he could be any further away do you? He of course is now with Sheraton Wentworth in Sydney. For those of you going to Australia for a short jaunt, I believe Art can put you up for a good price. A group rate?
My husband DANNY and I drove over to Sanibel Island on the West Coast of Florida in September and visited with DOUG McGILL in Cape Coral. DOUG lives with his daughter MEGAN who is 9 years old and in the third grade and a very enchanting little girl. DOUG took us sailing on the river - a first for me and Danny and really a lot of fun. DOUG is enjoying retirement as best as he can. MEGAN and DOUG are now learning sign language because of MEGAN's hearing difficulty so that she will be able to communicate later on. They are hoping for an operation that will cure her, but in the meantime, it is fun communicating in sign because she considers it a secret language.
CAROL RANKIN ZULLA - has finished one year of college with two to go for her Masters. She works as a research assistant and lives with her two sons in Tampa. One of CAROL's sons is learning disabled and she also works with his therapy.
SANDY MINOR SMITH took the plunge and purchased her first house in Macon, Georgia. She is an office manager for an accounting firm.
HARRY JOHNSON and his wife BARBARA live in DeSota, Taxas near Dallas with children BEN and JENNIFER. HARRY is now Vice President of Risk Management.
I spoke with BILL KEM on the phone and he reports that all is well with his family. The children are pursuing their entertainment careers and BILL and SUZANNE are the drivers. BILL, did I ever send you the information you asked for?
CAROL TURNIPSEED HABERLE - lives with her husband DAVID, a manager of a basket factory. They have had several moves in the last 10 years and have settled back in Jacksonville, Texas. They have two children, MAY, 17 and FRED, 10. CAROL has been real involved with the Girl Scouts in the past but for now, is taking it easy and relaxing after their recent move back to Jacksonville. CAROL has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. CAROL wishes us all a Happy Holiday Season and when you are thinking about donations to your favorite cause this year she hopes that you will consider contributing to Multiple Sclerosis research to help find a cause and a cure ... ...
LINDA JOHNSON GONZALES and her husband HARRY have been doing interesting things. A few years ago after practicing law in Texas they went to Delaware and opened a Mexican Restaurant. After 2 1/2 years they are back in Houston building the law practice back up. Their son ANTHONY graduates next year from high school. HARRY is a Buffalo from Schertz also and they have been married for 22 years! LINDA works as a legal secretary. Their daughter MARCY is 12.
DONNA GRIECO MURRELL writes that all is well with her and she is still working as a medical receptionist/assistant manager and has been taking medical classes. Her dream is pre-med or physicians assistant. Her and her husband own UC Ironworks in Universal City. Between them they have eight children! The recession has also hurt their business but things have been picking up lately. DONNA says that from reading about of all us that she has come to the conclusion that with the extremely wide variety of professionals from our group that we have everything necessary for an incorporated city, from laborer, to the Senate. All we need is a derelict. Any volunteers?
GAIL STEED McILHANY and her husband MAC and son CHARLIE live in Bristol, Virginia. GAIL is self-employed as Office Manager and Archaeological Assistant. Her husband is an Archaeologist and is working on his PhD. They do Archaeological Consulting in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina. Their son CHARLIE is a senior at Virginia Tech and will graduate in May 1989 with a BA in History and then he plans to go to law school.
TONI BUCHERT SKINNER is living with her husband ROBERT in Ft. Worth. Between them they have five children. TONI's two children now live and work in New York City. TONI is still in sales for the Pilot Pen Corp. of America and travels quite a bit. ROBERT works for Hermes Abrasives. TONI enjoys bowling and needlepoint and now enjoys her three new stepchildren. (You did say you enjoyed that right?) TONI wanted me to tell everyone how old she was but I couldn't be that tacky. Sorry TONI.
MICHAEL WAGNER has been busy with his new projects - HOOPERMAN and COLUMBO. He says that he has to admit that he enjoyed the writer's strike and going back to work was depressing. Well that says a lot for showbusiness. MIKE'S wife TERRY and daughter RICHON are lovely as ever and proof is the picture I have.
I TOOK LOTS OF PICTURES ON MY TRIP, BUT THEY ARE NOT PHOTOCOPYING WELL AS I PLANNED. SO YOU WILL HAVE TO COME TO THE REUNION TO SEE WHAT EVERYONE LOOKS LIKE AND SEE MY SPECIAL PHOTO ALBUM. PLEASE SEND PHOTOS.
HAYNES BAUMGARDNER and his wife CHERYL (Buffalo too) are now living in Washington DC. Haynes has been a LtCol since 1985 and has over 19 years active duty and marriage. He is working in the Pentagon and is the military assistant for Eric M. Thorson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Readiness Support. CHERYL is working for a bank and their daughter NATALIE entered her senior year this year. Son, TREY is a sophomore. He reports that Schertz is planning a reunion for that same year, so hopefully our reunion plans will coincide with theirs so those of you with a mixed marriage can make them both. I have friends in high places (other Buffalos) so I will see what we can do.
Lastly, I received a letter from BRUCE ZIMMERMAN who attended RHS from 1966 to 1969. He ran in to Coach Mickler and his wife, LOUISE in Miguel de Allende, Mexico this summer. BRUCE is a writer/novelist and is latest is entitled BLOOD UNDER THE BRIDGE (not a comedy). He also writes screenplays. Thank you for your letter, BRUCE and I hope you and MIKE met up for a beer or two.
SO, from BRUCE's letter we found out just what Coach has been up to. He leaves Randolph and goes to Mexico. I hope you and your wif e got in some relaxation between the golf and beach.
As I end this time, I want to add this. Basically there is something that is tying us together -- Whether it is my obsession with keeping us all together or the love we have for each other -- I don't questions it anymore. We have all been through a lot in the past 23 years -- Ups, downs and just getting by. Some of us did better than others, some of us lost our way, some of us discovered our true selves and some of us are hidden forever. Wherever you are at this moment, we all have the SAME past and the SAME future. We have lived through the devastation of divorce, cancer, deaths of family members and we have survived them all. We also have been faced with chronic illness, strikes, lay-offs, etc. We have also lived with happy memories. Kids graduating from college, births of our children as well as the new generation of grandchildren, beginning new lives and starting new jobs. We all fight our battles of physical pain, mental anguish and financial disability. We also enjoy our successes and triumphs and the successes and triumphs of others. I feel through this newsletter we can do that and f eel that we are not alone. Some of us seem to have everything, yet have nothing and some of us seem to have nothing, yet have it all. Some of us have to stand on the sidelines and cheer the others on, no matter how much our own hearts are breaking. We need to stick together and help fight the battles such as CAROL's new fight with Multiple Sclerosis, MEGAN's fight with deafness, BETTY's years' long struggle since her stroke, PAM's parents' death and illness, and my own alcoholism. I feel your love and I know you feel mine.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
GLORIA CAMPBELL GALLAGHER
ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
DECEMBER, 1988
GLORIA CAMPBELL GALLAGHER ('65)
4676 Barrett Street
Delray Beach, Florida 33445
Hm:(407)498-0157
Wk:(407)997-0095
1-800-327-5894
REUNION 1990
Our next reunion is coming soon. Eighteen months from now we will ALL be back at Randolph to PARTY! The format will be the same unless someone contacts me with a better way of doing it. This precedent was set at the first reunion and it has served us well. Friday night at the Gym to last minute register and bring the kids and show them around or just stroll around the grounds and remember. Usually this breaks up early and everyone goes their own way. On Saturday there is the party by the pool at the Officer's Club (bring the kids) and than Saturday night dinner and dancing for you and your spouse or date. Think a golf game or two can be arranged for Sunday. If anyone has any suggestions please submit them to me and when I create the planning committee we will discuss them. If you wish to be on the planning committee contact me also. We'll try to get out to San Antonio next summer to meet with those that wish to do so. I have tentatively booked a band that plays reunions in the Texas area with their base in Dallas. They play oldies and 60's music. The are also from the class of >65. I don't think there will be much of an increase in price. That all will be decided when we speak with the Officer's Club and see how much things will be there. We have kept the price under $25.00 per person and I don't see a problem keeping it below $30.00.. Thank you again for all of your support and friendship. I am real lucky to have such loyal and caring friends
LOST AND FOUND
LOST: DONNA PIERINI
FOUND: CORNEL WALKER JOHN HINES
DONNA PIERINI TRIEBWASSER - Donna's last newsletter was returned. Her last address was in Rocklin, California and Vallejo, California. If you know where she is. Contact me please.
CORNEL WALKER - lives in Dallas with his wife of 5 years, Lynne Rakestraw. Lynne is a Buffalo from Schertz. They have four children between the between the ages of 8 and 18. Cornel is a lawyer with offices in the "West End" of Dallas. Lynne is a sales representative. Their oldest child began UT this year.
JOHN HINES - John is alive and well in San Antonio doing what he does best.
DONATIONS
Many thanks to all who donated money and/or stamps for this cause. GEN. & MRS. DUSARD, DOUG McGILL, BIL@ BORELLIS, DAVE WAGER, HAYNES BAUMGARDNER, ART NIGRO, PAM McCALL SMITH and DONNA GRIECO MURREL. It is appreciated.
BITS AND PIECES
I did a little traveling this past year to Dallas and San Antonio. In Dallas I attended the wedding of my niece, MARY FRANCES. I stayed with my brother FRED and his wife SHARON. I also visited with PAM McCALL, BARRY CANNADAY in Dallas; MIKE WYSONG and KRIS STRAND MEYER in San Antonio. I also spoke with several of you over the phone.
FRED CAMPBELL - My brother is living and working in the Dallas area with his lovely wife SHARON. Sharon is a legal secretary and FRED works in the security business. FRED still pursues his hobby and second career as a 7th degree black belt in Karate. FRED took me to all the "tourist traps" in and around Dallas and drove me where I needed to go for the wedding parties. We also visited the MALLS.
PAM McCALL SMITH - lives in Arlington, Texas with her two beautiful daughters JESSICA and LAUREN and her father BRUCE. PAM works as a bookkeeper in her home and stays involved with her daughters and cares for her father. PAM and I got out the old annuals and stayed awake all night like we used to when we spent the night together as teenagers. I had so much fun and thoroughly enjoyed my visit.
BARRY CANNADAY - I visited with Barry in his office on the 31st floor in downtown Dallas where he works as a lawyer. He and his wife CINDY live outside Dallas with their new year old son, AUSTIM MICHAEL. BARRY also has two children from his first marriage, JAMIE, 15 and JON, 12.
GENE HOLT - I spoke with GENE on the phone. He was really thrilled to tell me that his wife, JAN's son had made them grandparents. Congratulations. GENE and JAN live in Plano.
BABS CLAY - is trying to sell her home in Dallas so she can pack up and move to Florida. BABS wants to start anew in Naples. She works as a legal secretary. GOOD LUCK.
MIKE WYSONG - We visited with MIKE and his son MICHAEL in San Antonio. My son, KELLY, and MICHAEL renewed their friendship. MIKE still has his nuts and bolts business and also pursues an interesting hobby of organizing cookbooks. Ladies, you want a recipe, call MIKE. He has a dream of opening a restaurant. He is thinking of relocating to a different state. The oil industry in Texas has effected everyone, from builders and their suppliers to the rich and famous. MIKE also did some traveling and went to Georgia and spoke with SUE TURNER NICOLS who is doing well and he visited with SANDY MINOR SMITH.
KRIS STAND MEYER - KRIS has now moved to San Antonio and is staying with her parents with her two youngest children, JUSTIN and LAUREN. Her older daughter, MELLISSA is in college in California. KRIS has enrolled in San Antonio Jr. College and is pursuing a degree. KRIS had lunch with MIKE and I and we also telephoned and spoke with SANDY HOLT LYDA and SUSAN FRANCES who was visiting SANDY. SUSAN is just going through a divorce and was thinking of settling in San Antonio and teaching first grade. SANDY was well and looking forward to seeing everyone again at the Reunion. MIKE also showed us the video he took at the last Reunion.
I have heard from the following and this is what is happening in their lives:
BONNIE HORNE FLICK - is now single and living in a new home and starting a new life in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She is taking accounting classes and is making new friends. Her three sons are with their father and for the first time in a long time, BONNIE is getting to know herself.
DAVE WAGER - DAVE and his wife AUDREY now live in Huntington Beach, California. They have two children, ALICIA 16 and RUSSELL 21. RUSSELL just graduated from the University of Texas. DAVE is President of a large advertising agency. AUDREY is a national marketing prospects manager with Subaru.
SHARON MOORHEAD WOODS - and her daughter ALEXIS just moved to Port Charlotte, Florida. I don't know what in the world she is doing there as I haven't talked with her and her note did not say. SHARON, please contact me.
BILL BORELLIS - BILL and his wife NANCY live in Canoga Park, California with their two daughters JADE 7 and RACHEL 3. BILL was just promoted to Vice President of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Group. NANCY is an office manager for a law firm. BILL has been traveling a lot visited with SUE TURNER NICOLS who lives in Marietta, Georgia and BETSY NORMAN KEHOE - lives in Atlanta with her husband JOHN and children JOHNNY and SHANNON.
ART NIGRO and his family are on the move again. This time to SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. I don't think he could be any further away do you? He of course is now with Sheraton Wentworth in Sydney. For those of you going to Australia for a short jaunt, I believe Art can put you up for a good price. A group rate?
My husband DANNY and I drove over to Sanibel Island on the West Coast of Florida in September and visited with DOUG McGILL in Cape Coral. DOUG lives with his daughter MEGAN who is 9 years old and in the third grade and a very enchanting little girl. DOUG took us sailing on the river - a first for me and Danny and really a lot of fun. DOUG is enjoying retirement as best as he can. MEGAN and DOUG are now learning sign language because of MEGAN's hearing difficulty so that she will be able to communicate later on. They are hoping for an operation that will cure her, but in the meantime, it is fun communicating in sign because she considers it a secret language.
CAROL RANKIN ZULLA - has finished one year of college with two to go for her Masters. She works as a research assistant and lives with her two sons in Tampa. One of CAROL's sons is learning disabled and she also works with his therapy.
SANDY MINOR SMITH took the plunge and purchased her first house in Macon, Georgia. She is an office manager for an accounting firm.
HARRY JOHNSON and his wife BARBARA live in DeSota, Taxas near Dallas with children BEN and JENNIFER. HARRY is now Vice President of Risk Management.
I spoke with BILL KEM on the phone and he reports that all is well with his family. The children are pursuing their entertainment careers and BILL and SUZANNE are the drivers. BILL, did I ever send you the information you asked for?
CAROL TURNIPSEED HABERLE - lives with her husband DAVID, a manager of a basket factory. They have had several moves in the last 10 years and have settled back in Jacksonville, Texas. They have two children, MAY, 17 and FRED, 10. CAROL has been real involved with the Girl Scouts in the past but for now, is taking it easy and relaxing after their recent move back to Jacksonville. CAROL has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. CAROL wishes us all a Happy Holiday Season and when you are thinking about donations to your favorite cause this year she hopes that you will consider contributing to Multiple Sclerosis research to help find a cause and a cure ... ...
LINDA JOHNSON GONZALES and her husband HARRY have been doing interesting things. A few years ago after practicing law in Texas they went to Delaware and opened a Mexican Restaurant. After 2 1/2 years they are back in Houston building the law practice back up. Their son ANTHONY graduates next year from high school. HARRY is a Buffalo from Schertz also and they have been married for 22 years! LINDA works as a legal secretary. Their daughter MARCY is 12.
DONNA GRIECO MURRELL writes that all is well with her and she is still working as a medical receptionist/assistant manager and has been taking medical classes. Her dream is pre-med or physicians assistant. Her and her husband own UC Ironworks in Universal City. Between them they have eight children! The recession has also hurt their business but things have been picking up lately. DONNA says that from reading about of all us that she has come to the conclusion that with the extremely wide variety of professionals from our group that we have everything necessary for an incorporated city, from laborer, to the Senate. All we need is a derelict. Any volunteers?
GAIL STEED McILHANY and her husband MAC and son CHARLIE live in Bristol, Virginia. GAIL is self-employed as Office Manager and Archaeological Assistant. Her husband is an Archaeologist and is working on his PhD. They do Archaeological Consulting in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina. Their son CHARLIE is a senior at Virginia Tech and will graduate in May 1989 with a BA in History and then he plans to go to law school.
TONI BUCHERT SKINNER is living with her husband ROBERT in Ft. Worth. Between them they have five children. TONI's two children now live and work in New York City. TONI is still in sales for the Pilot Pen Corp. of America and travels quite a bit. ROBERT works for Hermes Abrasives. TONI enjoys bowling and needlepoint and now enjoys her three new stepchildren. (You did say you enjoyed that right?) TONI wanted me to tell everyone how old she was but I couldn't be that tacky. Sorry TONI.
MICHAEL WAGNER has been busy with his new projects - HOOPERMAN and COLUMBO. He says that he has to admit that he enjoyed the writer's strike and going back to work was depressing. Well that says a lot for showbusiness. MIKE'S wife TERRY and daughter RICHON are lovely as ever and proof is the picture I have.
I TOOK LOTS OF PICTURES ON MY TRIP, BUT THEY ARE NOT PHOTOCOPYING WELL AS I PLANNED. SO YOU WILL HAVE TO COME TO THE REUNION TO SEE WHAT EVERYONE LOOKS LIKE AND SEE MY SPECIAL PHOTO ALBUM. PLEASE SEND PHOTOS.
HAYNES BAUMGARDNER and his wife CHERYL (Buffalo too) are now living in Washington DC. Haynes has been a LtCol since 1985 and has over 19 years active duty and marriage. He is working in the Pentagon and is the military assistant for Eric M. Thorson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Readiness Support. CHERYL is working for a bank and their daughter NATALIE entered her senior year this year. Son, TREY is a sophomore. He reports that Schertz is planning a reunion for that same year, so hopefully our reunion plans will coincide with theirs so those of you with a mixed marriage can make them both. I have friends in high places (other Buffalos) so I will see what we can do.
Lastly, I received a letter from BRUCE ZIMMERMAN who attended RHS from 1966 to 1969. He ran in to Coach Mickler and his wife, LOUISE in Miguel de Allende, Mexico this summer. BRUCE is a writer/novelist and is latest is entitled BLOOD UNDER THE BRIDGE (not a comedy). He also writes screenplays. Thank you for your letter, BRUCE and I hope you and MIKE met up for a beer or two.
SO, from BRUCE's letter we found out just what Coach has been up to. He leaves Randolph and goes to Mexico. I hope you and your wif e got in some relaxation between the golf and beach.
As I end this time, I want to add this. Basically there is something that is tying us together -- Whether it is my obsession with keeping us all together or the love we have for each other -- I don't questions it anymore. We have all been through a lot in the past 23 years -- Ups, downs and just getting by. Some of us did better than others, some of us lost our way, some of us discovered our true selves and some of us are hidden forever. Wherever you are at this moment, we all have the SAME past and the SAME future. We have lived through the devastation of divorce, cancer, deaths of family members and we have survived them all. We also have been faced with chronic illness, strikes, lay-offs, etc. We have also lived with happy memories. Kids graduating from college, births of our children as well as the new generation of grandchildren, beginning new lives and starting new jobs. We all fight our battles of physical pain, mental anguish and financial disability. We also enjoy our successes and triumphs and the successes and triumphs of others. I feel through this newsletter we can do that and f eel that we are not alone. Some of us seem to have everything, yet have nothing and some of us seem to have nothing, yet have it all. Some of us have to stand on the sidelines and cheer the others on, no matter how much our own hearts are breaking. We need to stick together and help fight the battles such as CAROL's new fight with Multiple Sclerosis, MEGAN's fight with deafness, BETTY's years' long struggle since her stroke, PAM's parents' death and illness, and my own alcoholism. I feel your love and I know you feel mine.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
GLORIA CAMPBELL GALLAGHER
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