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| Angela Powers Trentham Dear Class of 82: Below is a copy of the annual newsletter that we sent out to family/friends. this year. Since I've been salck on keeping up with my submissions to the class website, I'm sending this to Sherry to let you know what we're up to. Frankly, I'm not sure why you would be interested in all this; but I do love to read all about each of you! 'Many thanks to those of you who sent comments and photos from the reunion this year! Best wishes for a happy new year, Angela Late December 2002 Merry Christmas to each of you! Can it be possible that we now have a child who is a sophmore in high school? It seems we can't be older than 28 ourselves! And yet, when I turn from my work to look down and speak to Jonathan, I find myself looking at kneecaps. Jonathan is taller than I am; and Garrett is about the same height as I (Angela, not Kevin, thank goodness). Jonathan is 15 years old. He ran a successful lawn mowing business during the warmer months this year. We are looking into plans to purchase another commercial mower so Garrett can work alongside. Jonathan has started taking karate lessons again, and has acquired some materials to study ninjutsu at home. He keeps excellent grades at school, with mostly accelerated classes. Currently, he's interested in technical fields llike intelligence collection, computer architecture, robotics and a wide variety of techno-gadgetry. Last school year's problems with migraines are a thing of the past for him. We believe decongestants were the trigger for the migraine headaches; discontinuing those medications appears to be successful. Garrett is 12 years old. He was one of five sixth-graders on the Page Middle School football team this fall. He played on the defensive line, and enjoyed it very much. He continues his artwork practice. He is particularly good at drawing waterfowl and wetland habitat in pencil or colored pencil. Garrett also keeps excellent grades - usually straight "A"s. He fractured his elbow last month, giving us our first cast to deal with (did you know casts come in UT orange now?). Kevin stays busy at work. In the next 6-7 months, he will be focused on a number of projects including implemently new data/voice networks and likely moving their data center. He is currently interviewing for additional staff before the New year. He's been working for 10 years for Universal Lighting Technologies, serving as the Director of Information Services. In October, he took his third annual trip to Canada to hunt waterfowl. The hunting was outstanding (980 total) for the group of 7 hunters. It is a 32 hour drive from Nashville through the Dakotas to northeast of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Up there, waterfowl can cause crop losses as they congregate in very large flocks to feed after starting their migration south. Farmers are delighted to have the hunters come up and harvest ducks and geese from their fields. It is difficult to transport birds back into the USA; but is not a problem to find people to take the birds. Back home, he's made a couple trips to Otter Slough in southeast MIssouri. Kevin's dad, his brother Steve, Garrett and Kevin had a very enjoyable duck hunt together last month at Otter Slough. Also, Kevin had a great weekend pheasant-hunting in Iowa with this brother Pat, and friend Bill Muller (police officer from St. Louis). College friends of Kevin's will be surprised to learn that he broke down and bought himself a decent used car this fall. Earlier in the year, Kevin totaled the '84 Oldsmobile and in October the '86 Century got rear-ended when it was unoccupied. Now he's driving a white '96 Lincoln Continental - can you believe it? Our Chevy Blazer 1500 is coming up on 200,000 milees - that's what we like! We took a fabulous vacation to Gulf Shores, Alabama a couple of months ago. I had located a beach house for rent at Kiva Dunes golf course (we don't golf, but the price was right and it was nearby an access to a private beach). It was a perfect spot - fully equipped kitchen, decks, TV, grill. All the boys went in-shore fishing one morning and caught grouper and red fish. The hit of the day was a 30 lb. red fish that Garrett reeled in! From the beach near the house, we saw pods of porpoise and huge manta rays. At night there were fiddler crabs to chase with flashlights. We highly recommend this place: www.greatrentals.com/AL/3031.html. I'm still doing nutrition education and selling Junice PLUS+. I chaperone field trips and do household stuff. Kevin and the boys are a big help. We have a couple of animals around, too. Bailey, our black lab, is great fun for all of us. She's an outside dog, and enjoys going duck hunting. We bought three turkey poults in the spring to raise for meat. They grew to be huge! We had one for Thanksgiving dinner - 32 lbs. after it was cleaned and ready for the oven, and delicious too! One is in the freezer. The last one will be put away by Christmas. The boys are guessing this one will approach 40 lbs. Birds are messy animals to raise, let me tell you. My parents, Wendell and Laquita Powers have just moved. They lived in Beaumont, TX for several years. Now they are in Huntsville, AL. They found a lovely brick house northeast of town with a breathtaking view of the Appalachian foothills off their back deck. Monica and Kim are still in Minneapolis attending seminary and doing chaplaincy work. Stephanie has moved to Tanzania (east coast of Africa) for a couple of years to database management for a Harvard research project on the effects of nutrition supplementation in HIV-positive expectant mothers. Melissa married David Lee in May; they live in Austin, TX where David works for 3M and Melissa teaches English -as-a-second-language (ESL) at Univ. Texas. My grandmother, Pauline Inmon, had a heart attack on Monday, December 16. They installed stints to open three blocked arteries. She is improving and doing some physical therapy back at her home in Memphis. Kevin's parants are continuing to enjoy retirement in Jackson, MO. Kevin's mother, Carrie, broked her upper arm in the spring. She has a long recovery and her arm is still mending. Kevin's parents spend their time keeping up their house and property and garden, helping on the hospitality committee at church, and driving to St. Louis to help out with grandkids. Kevin's grandmother, Sadie Trentham, passed away in March. All the family was able to come and visit with her prioir to her death. Both of Kevin's brothers, Steve and Pat, are police officers in St. Louis County. Pat and Rachel bought a house in Hazelwood earlier this year. Kevin, Steve and their parents all helped with the move and numerous projects on their nice home. Rachel manages a very busy QuickTrip gas & foodmart; she and Pat ahve Tailor Marie (9) and Hunter Freeman (1 1/2). We live a charmed life. God is always a gracious provider, protector, and guide. We pray that your Christams celebration will be filled with joy, family, and warmth. In the words of the Apostle Paul when he wrote to the church in Ephesus: "For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened wiht might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to somprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height - to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that yo may be filled with all the fullness of God." Angela (Powers) Trentham |
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