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Other Celebrations
WSCO board member, David Shelby, was inducted this past autumn into the Upper Arlington Educators Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was started in 2005 to honor retired teachers and administrators for their lasting influence on their students and fellow teachers. Dave started his career as a physical education teacher and concluded it as a principal at the high school.
In November, Jeanne Jones Jindra was named by the University of Rio Grande as the new Director of the Madog Center for Welsh Studies in Rio Grande, Ohio. Jindra had served as the assistant director since December of 2006 and, before that, worked in several different positions for Rio Grande and did volunteer work for the Madog Center. Her paternal gg-grandparents came to America from the Cardiganshire area of Wales – Penbryn Parish, Llandysul, Llanilar, Llanddeinol, and Tregaron. Jeanne, a WSCO board member, is a triple-Davis, a double-Jones and a Henry, and they still own the original Jones family farm in Gallia County.
Becky Crownover, daughter of long-time members Joe and Peggy Morgan Speakman, will receive a "Master's of Science in Education" degree with a Specialization in Reading and Literacy for Elementary Education on March 15, 2008. Becky will then be studying to take the Georgia Department of Education test to be a Reading Specialist. She is a second grade teacher at Corley Elementary School in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Becky is a member of St. David's Welsh Society in Atlanta, Georgia and a proud member of our own WSCO.
Llongyfarchiadau (congratulations) to each of you!
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Sick Bay
Autumn and early winter was a busy time for WSCO members:
Nancy Ewing, wife of Bill Ewing, a long-time board member, is sporting “two new hips.”
Carole Edwards Haley, mother of board treasurer Tegwyn Lantz, had cataract surgery in November and December. I’m sure she’s looking forward to seeing all of you on St. David’s Day. (sorry, Carole, I couldn’t resist)
The female half of the WSCO Membership “Chair” Team, Pam Jones, (wife of board member Evan Jones) had knee surgery.
WSCO president, Homer Williams, was scheduled for a total hip replacement November 20th. I know the Welsh folk dancing teacher is expecting great things from him at this year’s picnic.
And the folk dancers may need him! Two of the regular folk dancers had surgery. Barb Perry should be back dancing soon, but Patti Jones will be out for a couple months after her foot operation.
Bob Donaldson, board member and former board president, popped into the hospital for several days for a “tune-up.”
We hope everyone was healthy for the holidays.
Straddling the line between…
The newsletter editor received a message too late to update you in the last issue as to what has been happening with WSCO member Joe Sooby -- it was reported in the Jan.-May 2007 issue that he was moving to Michigan. Joe wrote to tell us that while he was condo shopping in Ann Arbor he ended up with a severe triple-break of his left leg and was stuck in that area for about four months. He subsequently decided to not move out of Ohio but put his condo in Dublin up for sale and is living in the Victorian Village area in an apartment owned by WSCO members Gareth and Marjorie Jones. At the time of his note to the DT editor, Joe was using a walker but was expecting to be back to normal by the end of the summer. We hope that, by now, he has dispensed with the walker and is out of Sick Bay and is truly On the Move.
On the Move
Marilynn Miller, WSCO board member, spent ten days in Scotland attending a wedding and celebrating the Christmas holidays. She was seen dancing the night away with kilt-clad young men. Marilynn welcomed the New Year “somewhere over the Atlantic” during her return trip.
In Russia the New Year is a big celebration so on Jan. 1st there was almost no staff to help process board member Stacy Evans and his fellow-travelers through the airport when they arrived. The “Christmas Team,” sponsored by Stacy’s United Methodist Conference, had flown over to help celebrate the Russian Christmas holiday on Jan. 7th with gifts for the 35 children and 30 staff members of an orphanage in Samara, Russia. Because their incoming flight to Atlanta, Georgia, was delayed by fog, the travelers had only twenty minutes to get to their connecting flight to Moscow. Their luggage went on a different flight and ended up stuck in Moscow for the eight days that they were in Samara but was waiting for them when they returned for two days of touring Moscow before flying home.
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