Hi, Judy:
I would like to add that you are also the daughter of Maddy (Madeline or Magdeline) Balzer Wiegert who died in 1984, also from Mankato, Minn.

Some of this is probably wrong. It's the best that I could do.

How are you? I know that I dropped out of your lives over 35 years ago; however, I think of you often. Jerome and I trade emails about once a year.

Is Zel doing okay?
How's your health?

I managed to communicate with Larry the same year that his health failed (the last time). It was by email. I feel really bad about him.

I am 60 years old. Can you believe it? All I have managed to do in my 40 years of adult life is to get my B.A., my teaching credential, my master's degree, my administrative credential and teach. 38 years so far. I teach English and journalism (advising student publications). I am married (28 years in June 2010) and I have one son (Edmund, 22) and one daughter (Arianna, 21). Both of them are in college. And both of them will probably graduate with bachelors' degrees in June 2010. Edmund looks just like me---he believes he is the most like me (of the two of them). Arianna looks like her father and thinks like him, too.

I hope you will communicate with me. I'd love to see you one day soon. I am in the San Jose area for a couple of weeks every summer. My beloved aunt and uncle (both in their eighties) live in San Jose.

Best wishes,
Lou Ann