December 25, 2015
© MMXV by Bob Dean
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FROM
BOB & LIZ
Once again, it wasn't possible to gather the family in time for the Christmas Card, so we took a picture while enjoying our August vacation at Pine Knoll Shores in eastern North Carolina and supplemented it later.
When the photo was taken, Chloe was enjoying her first days at her new school: Longleaf School of the Arts. She teaches mathematics and a Special Ed group and counsels the Feminist Club. Nick, 16 has a driver's license and his own car. Despite these acquisitions, he's still a successful Junior and a fine cellist at Enloe High School.
Smith, 11, lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. With his sister, he raised pigs in the 4-H club. He's also an avid and successful 6th grader and soccer goalie and an enthusiastic snow-boarder on the nearby mountain.
Anna, 13, is an A-level eight-grader who continues to develop her piano skills with lots of practice and well-received recitals. She also designed the Christmas decorations in their Steamboat Springs home.
Liz and her husband still plan to move to the Cardinal Retirement Community next year. While waiting, she continues her activities at Curves, several knitting assemblies, a local choral group and is a paragon of exemplary household management.
Bruce is still working for Weatherford Laboratories in Houston from his home office in Steamboat Springs. Still an active cellist with local music groups, he joined with a local contingent which traveled to NYC to join a 500-voice choir singing Handel's Messiah on Thanksgiving weekend. Jim still enjoys working with North Carolina State students as he manages the shop full of the latest equipment in the College of Design. He continues to improve his own home and to inch forward on the restoration of his Triumph GT-6.
Bob has ceded some of the traditional homeowner's duties, like lawn mowing, to his wife and turned to books, his computers and joining Liz for lifelong learning classes at NCSU. This year he completes his 20th year as editor of The Poland Place News. No awards were given.
Paul was returning to LSU from a short trip to North Africa when the group photo was taken. He's still an associate professor of typography and graphic design at the University and an active participant in the Baton Rouge art scene.
We've been assured, for at least the last 10 years that, after 51 years at Poland Place, our 2016 Christmas card will come from our next address: the Cardinal, about a mile away. We're confident enough in that assurance that we're moving our salutation to the veranda of our fifth floor apartment:
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR FRIENDS
from what used to be the Poland Place Deans
