50s Martin grads meet
Los Amigos de las Cincuentas of Martin High School will meet Saturday, October 9, at 2560 Smoke Rise Canyon in Bulverde, the home of Jim Young. This organization of MHS grads awards scholarships and this year present three $1,000 awards. So far, they have made awards totaling $26,000.
The October 9 meeting will include a covered dish supper. Jim Young can be reached at (830) 980-4606. Jim is the nephew of the late MHS Girls PE director Ruth Young.
Last year, your reporter attended one such event with Nelda Guerrero Drury and enjoyed seeing so many of her former students.
Bouquets to Kazen
Congratulations to George P. Kazen on the celebration of 25 years on the federal bench.
Carmina Danini, once my journalism student and now chief writer of obits in the San Antonio Express-News , wrote about George, “I used to cover his court, and bar none, he is the finest judge. He has an intellectual capacity that puts others to shame. If anyone deserves to belong to the 5 th Circuit Court of Appeals or the U.S. Supreme Court, it's Judge Kazen.”
Tasting tea in November
So far Christ Church Episcopal survives although it has not had a permanent pastor. But her people are gathered round to carry on and so the famous Tasting Tea is set for November 14 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Tina Treviño and Jamee Romo will chair the event. Tina is in charge of the cook book; Kathy Alexander, kitchen; Jamee Romo, accounting; Destine Holmgreen, media; Triana Sames, tickets; Patricia Keck, bake table; Tammy Summers, decorations and set-ups; and Lorye Glass, children's table.
The deadline for recipe entry is September 26.
La Vaude tours
Olga La Vaude, who gave her home to her daughter, Yvonne, is moving into an apartment in the same complex where her mother lives. Her mother recently celebrated her 93 rd birthday.
Olga must travel with a purse phone book as she called me between planes. She was en route home from Palo Alto , California , where she went to see her grandson, who is doing summer work at Stanford University . She and two friends also toured Palo Alto and San Simeon.
Her letters are full of news, as the 25 th anniversary of Judge George Kazen and the 57 th anniversary cocktail party of Bugs and Sylvia Barrera. She visited with Ollie and Bill Lowry, now in Houston . So many of my pretty blouses were gifts from Olga when she headed Hachar's. Now they evoke compliments from other Meadows residents.
New friend, a celebrity
Making a new friend is most unusual when one is 90, but that happened. She is Naomi Shihab Nye, who is married to photographer Michael Nye, a distant cousin of your writer. Six English boys came to New England on the second boat. Nyes are descendants of them.
Naomi is a writer whose most recent book is This Forever or What Poems and Paintings from Texas .
Her contemporary poetry has great charm, in a new pamphlet entitled, “Cross that Line, On the Sunset Limited Years Ago.” I enjoyed it immensely. She has published more than 20 books, including 19 Varieties of Gazelle, Fuel, and Words Under Words. Naomi says she dreams of the Palestinians and the Israelis making peace.
At a recent luncheon she brought former Laredoan José Ruben de Leon, actor and vocalist, who plans a one-man show September 4 and 5.
Prissy to assume duties
of grandmother
Patricia DaCamara Hancock, former Laredoan married to the mayor of Castroville, has gone to Houston to take care of a granddaughter while her daughter-in-law, Brad Hancock's wife, is involved with the birth of a son.
Prissy reports her sister Pat and husband, Austin Bryan, have moved from Ft. Worth to the Air Force Village in San Antonio .
Good summer for the Glassfords
Chris and Sheila Glassford recently attended an art show for the works of their son, Thomas Glassford, who has a studio in Mexico City . He exhibited 10 pieces at Finesilver Galleries in San Antonio .
Another son, Edward Glassford, and his wife Rosie and son Christopher have just returned from North Carolina . They recently joined Chris and Sheila and Kristina Hanley and family in Port Aransas. William Hanley has been attending a program sponsored by the Episcopal Church in Corpus Christi .
Another Glassford son, Peter, and his wife Luz have been in New York , where she dubbed a tape for presentation at the Bellas Artes in Mexico City .
Lowrys visit D.C.
Ollie and Bill Lowry, former Laredoans who now live in New Braunfels , recently returned from Washington , D.C. , where they enjoyed seeing the sights. They took with them Wade Lowry, who was celebrating his 21 st birthday; Bill and Julie Lowry; their daughter Whitley; and F. J. and Connie Koch. Wade, a senior at A&M in College Station, is completing an internship in the Capitol.
