By: W.C. Reader

Madelon Davila was a pretty picture while wearing her Santa Claus cap and serving her customers at Wal-Mart during the Christmas holidays. ----- Ran into old friend John Cooley a couple of weeks ago and told him it had been so long since we had seen him that we almost had forgotten how to lie. He replied that if we would start coming down to the café and drinking coffee with them again, he and Calvin Koenig would take are of that little flaw in our character. ----- Sharon Mika seems to be a pretty good judge of character. While out at the Kaiser Hospital recently, she told us, in front of several other people, that we are a pretty “cool dude”. We can hardly wait to tell Paul Bordovsky and Charley Ruckman. ----- Well, as he promised, Troy True came in with the big buck this hunting season, but when we questioned him about the size of the antlers, he reluctantly admitted that those on the buck taken down by his junior hunting partner were larger. ----- We understand that our good friends, Dalton Metting and Janie Metting have pulled up stakes in Yorktown and moved to Victoria. And what was the magical thing that brought this on? Two granddaughters, we suspect! ----- By golly; this grocery shopping isn’t what it’s cracked up to be, as far as we are concerned. We’ve had to take over those duties from Mama the last couple of weeks while she has been “benched” with a bum leg, and if it wasn’t for assistance from that courteous staff at HEB, along with help from good friends like John Le Leus, Marg Huff, Tobe Ricks, Georgia Johnson, and others, we still might be in there looking for things at closing time.  ----- Surely was nice to get back in the mainstream of exchanging Christmas cards, letters, and telephone calls with people who have been dear to us down through the years. Just a few of the many are Margaret Schaefer Schulte (classmate in the Kenedy Public Schools for all eleven years), Allen Albrocht of Hallesville (our college roommate), cousins, Nona Kay Scales and Peggy Duncan of Sequin, Evelyn Barth Ronshauser (student at Poteet), Leon Gorden and Joyce Carr Gorden (students at Stockdale), George Haggard and Doris Haggard (he being our H.S. Prin. in East Texas, and Ana Maria Sosa (whom we recommended for her first teaching job in San Antonio) along with others, they still remain very dear to us. ---- Any of you folks have our old friend, Amos Harden, tailing us? Seems like every time we come out of Wal-Mart, Amos seems to be lurking in the background. ----- We’re mighty proud of former neighbor and student, Colleen Zezula Berger, who recently was featured in a supplement to the San Antonio Business Journal as one of the rising stars in San Antonio’s business community. Colleen has risen through the ranks to become vice president and controller of Catholic Life. She is the daughter of Barbara and Albert Bily of Runge. Congratulations, Colleen. ----- Kenneth Foster and Myrna Foster keeping pretty busy these months following the activities of the Dallas Cowboys and their son-in-law, Dat Nguyen, who is an outstanding linebacker on the defensive squad of that team. Good luck in the playoffs!

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