Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Suchan remembers 1971 yule party

Tom Suchan remembers the 1971 yule party. See also the comment from Janis Froelich on the earlier post. Tom writes:

Yes, I remember the party. A lot of fun.

Here's an update on the kids:

Matt, our oldest, turns 40 next year. And that means I'm older than dirt. Professionally he helps keep the computers running smoothly at Cessna Aircraft here in Wichita. He and his wife, Dorothy, have four children, including a wonderful young lady, Juaquina, who they "adopted" when she was 18. (She's 28 now and still calls me Grandpa.) Dorothy teaches English at Andale High School, a suburb west of Wichita.

Matt's great love is soccer. After years of playing in AYSO and at Newman College, he now takes his weary bones on the road weekends to referee high school and college games.

Jeff is a project architect for Law-Kingdon, a Wichita firm. His specialty has been designing nursing homes for Alzheimer's patients. Currently he's getting into hospital additions and shopping malls all over the country. He is married to Diahann, and they have two children. She is a counselor and most recently has been working with ex-cons who have sexuality issues. (And there are a lot of them.) He is a graduate of Kansas State University, and it still throws me when I see KSU in a headline. I think it refers to Kent State.

I'll give you info about our other two .... after you publish a picture of them.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Tom, of course, is part of BJ lore for coming to work with one black shoe and one brown shoe. He would have to be Polish.

When I gave the Polish party in our garage, and encouraged everyone to dress accordingly, Tom outdid everyone by coming as himself.