February 19, 1891

Dear Joan, Sandra, and J. E.,

    What a thrill to return home today to find your letter.  Of
course, I had been expecting it since Mother mentioned one of you
had called recently to get my name and address.  Your idea of getting
the '61 and '62 classes together is good, and we will plan to be
there.  I'm glad you got the word out now, as we had been planning our
annual treck to Texas in April.  We'll just delay it a bit.

    I can help you find one on the lost alumni list and give you
some clues on how to find a few others.  Ruth McNiel Garner,
husband Chuck, and kids Scott, Erin, and Mark can be found at:
   
       4411 56th
       Lubbock, Tex. 79414

In fact Ruth was out here on business in November and spent a little
time with us.  We were discussing the fact that someone in our
class should work on a reunion.  I had intended to work on the
alumni who are still in College Station when we went home in April!
Glad you beat me to it!

    Sallie Sheppard should be able to give you Betty Ivy's address;
if not, try Pearle Tanzer (the fifth grade teacher and Ivy family
friend) who lives at 1005 Welsh, C. S.  Jody Rush called me a few
years ago.  At that time he lived in Seattle, however last time
I was in Seattle (a few days after the Mt. St. Helens eruption),
there was no listing for him in the phone book.  His brother, Gene,
has a store in College Station (called something like Rush & Co.)
in that new shopping center on Hwy 6 next to the Huntsville hwy.
Neil Sperry writes a column for the Dallas Morning News.  You
should be able to get his address from Jeanne Sperry McLeod
(cousin) or Jeanne's parents.  Mother thinks she remembers that
Linda Riat lived with some people named Cramer and that they
are still in C.S.  You've done a great job in finding all of
us but these!  Hope you get enough leads to find the rest.

    If there is anything I can do to help from this distance,
please let me know.  My spouse, Dick, is a computer scientist with
Xerox and has access to some pretty sophistocated text
preparation hardware and software if we can be of any help in
putting together a directory with the info you get back from the
questionnaire.  We'd be glad to compile such and run enough
copies for distribution to all on the list.  Feel free to drop me
a line or give me a call some evening or weekend at (415) 321-9039, 
if you're interested.

    Now a little bit about the Sweet family--Dick and I met as
Freshmen at Southwestern Univ. in Georgetown, Tex.  We married
after graduation in 1966 and headed off to graduate school at
the University of Kansas.  After a couple of years in Math, Dick
realized computer science, a field to which a small school like
Southwestern gave him no exposure, was what he was more interested
in than pure math.  We  spent a third year at K.U. finishing
Master's degrees (mine in accounting --and I swore I would never
follow in my father's footsteps!)  We then took off for sunny
California and Stanford Univ.  Until that time, we had always
thought that when we finished school we would return to Texas
to settle down.  Well, a couple of months in California cured
that notion.  Now, almost twelve years later, we are confirmed
Californians.  My parents and Dick's (who live in Houston) still
remind us of the virtues of Texas in a effort to change our
minds!

    After a suitable period of marriage (8+years) and long after
our parents had given up hope of Sweet grandchildren, our Emilie
was born.  Three and 1/2 years later Marjorie was born.  Emilie is
now 6 and in the first grade; Marjorie is now in the Terrific Twos,
but will be three by the time you meet her--thank heavens!  What
treasures they both are.  I must admit I've noticed a few gray hairs
lately though.

    As for me, I came to Stanford intending to work long enough to
get Dick through graduate school and then retire to motherhood.  
I got hooked on Stanford, however, and am  now an Assistant Controller
responsible for University  costing policy.  As such I manage a
group of cost accountant/financial analysts who handle overhead and
other rates which Stanford charges the government for its extensive
research activity funded by the Feds. It's frustrating work most of
the time, but somehow it is all worth it when a breakthrough in
medicine or physics or engineering, etc. is announced and my group
realizes in some small way, we were a part of making it happen.

    Well, enough for now.  I would love to hear what you folks are up to.
Thank you three for organizing the reunion.  Let me know what I can do to
help.  I'm enclosing a check to help defray some of the costs in
this endeavor.

                             Love to you and yours,




                             Janet Durst Sweet