Hi Group,
It is hard to believe
that it has been almost fifty years since we graduated.
It really went by in a hurry. I missed the 40th
reunion
due to business reasons, so I haven't seen anyone since our 26th.
In November 2002, I lost
my husband of forty three years to cancer. We had been in
business together since 1981, when he decided to leave education and
enter the oil business. He intended for me to go on with the
business, and I could have run the office, but I don't think I would
have been qualified to make decisions in the field. Thus, I sold
most of my oil interests when oil was about $25.00 per bbl. Had I
only known how high it would go!!!
I am living the retired
life and sometimes I wonder how I ever had the time to work. I
have many hobbies. I design and make jewelry, mount gems and am
enamored with any kind of natural stone. I love to lay tile and
probably have the only double car garage in town that has a mosaic
going completely across the front. I am a volunteer at one of the
hospitals here, and I really enjoy that. I also enjoy
redecorating houses. After I finished mine, I started on my
daughter's. I can even plumb in a sink and set a commode!
On June 25, 2006, I
realized a college dream of mine. I sang in Carnegie Hall!
Instead of being the soloist, as in my college dream, I was very
pleased
just to be one person in a 150 voice choir . I have been so
awestruck just to realize that Tchaikovsky was the first person to ever
play a concert in that hall.
I am very blessed to
have
two of my three children living right here in town. My son is a
Urologist and my daughter is a 6th grade math teacher who also writes
math curriculum for the school system. My other daughter
graduated from Texas Tech and is married to an architect. They
live in Georgetown and have my only grandson, who is two years
old. I have five granddaughters, four of whom live here in
town. All of my grandchildren call me BonBon.
I really look forward to
seeing my old classmates. The bad thing about a class reunion is
that everone there knows how old you are!
I'll see you at the
reunion. Wanda (Cook) McIver
