Visited my mom and dad - Edward & Janet Costello

Dear FM Classmates. An update to my last blog post. We did visit with my mom and dad...from Mothers Day to Fathers day. We had a great time. We parked our motorhome at Green Lakes for 2 weeks, then spent a week at Henderson Harbor, then back to Green Lakes for another week While there we visited Alexandria Bay, whereas we visited Boldt Castle. What a difference. NY state is doing a great job preserving the castle.

Obviously we spent a lot of time in my old neighborhood ... Homewood. Note - they changed the spelling of McLennan Drive to McClennan drive. Strange. I stopped by Town of Manlius offices and they could not tell me why. McClennan drive now has a fourth block...with one home being constructed while we were there. The road starts on the right side of Platt Wheelers previous home.

We did a lot of chores for the folks, who continue to live in their "Starter Home." How the 5 of us lived in that home for so long is beyond me. We plan on visiting mom and dad about every 4 months as the time is slipping away. My two brothers are Greg and Doug.

I also saw quite a few friends...one being someone I worked with at Carrier...Dave Hatch. I believe some of you know him as a neighbor on Salt Spring Road. We had breakfast at Hullers. We also saw Rick Schaefer quite a few times...once at the old bar called "The Chalet."

Well, we are back at New Bern, NC, where it is very hot. Our daughter and 2 grandchildren from St. Louis with visit soon. Have a great summer everybody. Please keep posting on the Blogs....great keeping up with my FM friends.

Oh yeah...we did visit the Swan Pond as well. Quite the story. God Bless! My email is budman34@embarqmail.com

Kate Wilbur

Some of you know, I live in Los Angeles, work at USC, my husband is retired and I have two daughters in their mid-20s. I was thinking that I didn’t have anything to write in response to Deb’s email, but on further reflection several strange and somewhat exciting things have happened in the last few months. The first “news” happened in December, when my onesie pajamas made an appearance on the Craig Ferguson show. If you want to see for yourself—here is the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygxzls05IxQ. Fortunately, I was not in the pajamas at the time. They had been pilfered from my closet the week before and appeared on TV without my knowledge or permission. Because it didn’t feel right, lounging around in celebrity pajamas, I donated them to the young man in the video. A second exciting and equally if not more strange thing happened in February. My youngest daughter, who freelances for LA Weekly (LA’s Village Voice) was asked to write the cover story on “pimpc
ups.” To research this story she got to hang with Snoop Dog and a bunch of rappers and hip hop artists that I had never heard of with lots of Z’s in their names. If you want to learn more about pimpcups (although I can’t imagine why most of you would), you can check her story at: http://www.laweekly.com/2012-03-08/art-books/pimp-cups-bishop-don-magic-juan-snoop-dogg-iced-out-gear/. Also on the list, her boyfriend won a Grammy for best album (Adele’s 21); he was the sound engineer for “Someone Like You.” Her day job is working for an organization that serves low income seniors so both activities were forays into a completely different side of LA. Finally, my older daughter is getting married in July so we are looking forward to hosting my entire family (my 6 siblings and their kids) in Los Angeles for the wedding.

Kate Wilber

Dave Eckerson

All good things have to come to an end. I have left the Pearl of
Africa and moved on to my next assignment in the United States. John Mark Winfield is now Mission Director. I can be reached by cell phone in the USA at 571-216-0590 or by email at davesbirthday@gmail.com

Jim and Marsha Myers

Photos from their trip to Hawaii this past May.

Gordy Webb

Gordy with his daughter Lindsay at her wedding a year ago 6/19/2011