closing out 2011 - memories dear - future dearer!

Dear Friends,

First off, I am thrilled to tell you that Wabun's 2011-12 Newsletter is online as of this afternoon - you may access it through -  http://wabun.com/newsletter.html  There's a better way, but I will need some help in getting that information to you - later, I am hoping.


Marg and I have enjoyed a fabulous Holiday Season with our kids - Jess flew in from Austin on Dec. 17th (her husband, Lukin, was obliged to stay in Austin and administer testing to his students).  She and I then enjoyed a Sunday, pre-Christmas get-together with Marg's siblings and their spouses here in New Hampshire at mid-day on Sunday.  At festivities' end, Jess and I hotfooted it down to Boston to attend a gala Christmas songfest get-together with Hardin and Gail Coleman in their exquisite apartment in Kenmore Square - what a fabulous treat!  Hardin serves as the Dean of the School of Education at Boston University and has grown comfortably into an impressive professorial presence - truth be told, many years in the formulation.  There, Jess and I met up with Andrew Stachiw and Ally Sterling, Andrew's mom, Nancy Mabry, Alden Mahoney, and the younger Coleman men, Aaron and Jesse, (yielding much recollection of our 2011 summer together staffing).  What FUN!

Rollicking good time for the Wabun contingent - Joy To The World!

The food was magnificent and bountiful, the libations loosed the vocal cords, and much musical merriment defined the evening - Gail leading from the ivories!  This was the Lewises second attendance, and hopefully only the most recent installment.

Quite a serious crew - feigning the less-prevalent austerity

The young bucks, Aaron, Alden and Jesse

Two Lewises sympaticoed in song!

Jess and I returned to New Hampshire Sunday night and were joined by Jason  on Monday - the nuclear Lewises then enjoyed a pre-Christmas, Christmas week together.  Jess left at week's end to join Lukin in Silax, Missouri for Christmas with his family, and Ali joined Jason, Marg and me in Hopkinton for a New Hampshire Christmas.

2011 has been a grand year for us all - Jason and Ali back in New England fresh from their California experience, Ali now as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Jason as a Middle School Head, both in Connecticut, Jess and Lukin married on June 11th, all of us enjoying a great Wabun 79th season, and now looking forward to our first grandchild via Jess and Lukin in May - passages,  transitions, and additions - wonderful stuff.

Happy New Year Friends - wishing you every happiness and success in 2012 - -