Hi, Gloria. While the Ro-Hawks are gathered in San Antonio, Bob and I are going to be in Bastrop at the annual meeting of the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists. As he is a past President, it is a command performance.
We moved to Sugar Land in 1976 when it was still a small company town. We spent 21 years in one house, then downsized when the girls left home. We've been in another house ever since. Having moved so frequently as an Air Force brat, I never dreamt I would put down such long term roots. I am shocked at how much stuff (read junk) we've accumulated since being settled in one place. Remember how our families traveled light, keeping only the items we needed at the time? We rarely even had any furniture of our own, which is why my mother always made friends with someone at Base Operations as soon as we arrived at a new assignment.
Bob retired from the operating room in 1990 after his illness, and is now a half-time medical director for a large hospital system in Houston. I spent many years volunteering for various charities and sitting on the Foundation Board for the same hospital system, until someone realized that I was eleven years into a nine year term. Since then, I try to do as little as possible.
We moved to Sugar Land in 1976 when it was still a small company town. We spent 21 years in one house, then downsized when the girls left home. We've been in another house ever since. Having moved so frequently as an Air Force brat, I never dreamt I would put down such long term roots. I am shocked at how much stuff (read junk) we've accumulated since being settled in one place. Remember how our families traveled light, keeping only the items we needed at the time? We rarely even had any furniture of our own, which is why my mother always made friends with someone at Base Operations as soon as we arrived at a new assignment.
Bob retired from the operating room in 1990 after his illness, and is now a half-time medical director for a large hospital system in Houston. I spent many years volunteering for various charities and sitting on the Foundation Board for the same hospital system, until someone realized that I was eleven years into a nine year term. Since then, I try to do as little as possible.
Our elder daughter, Pippa, is a high school counselor married to an English teacher. They had a baby girl on 8/8/08, and named her Emeline. Our younger daughter, Chelsea, passed the bar exam three years ago, but rarely puts on her lawyer hat. She works for a large commercial mortgage company putting industrial investors together with deals. Despite the current economy, she is surprisingly busy.
Bob and I enjoy travelling and do as much of it as we can. So far we haven't made it to the Far East, but that is about the only place we've missed.
Please send my fond regards to our classmates. Some of those who graduated in 1967 might remember my brother, Bill Pratt. He didn't graduate from RHS, because our parents had been sent to Germany by then, but he was there for several years. Bill died in 1995.
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I enclose some photos: my elder daughter Pippa, Chelsea with her boyfriend, Emeline as a newborn, and one of me taken a few weeks ago in Pensacola.
Love to all,
Pam Pratt Viles '65
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