Newsletter 2012 - Francis Holland School

Sally PRYOR (nee SAMSON) (left 1970) “My husband Don and I live in
the Hill Country in Texas. We are in an election year here in the United States.
I am sorting out a ‘Meet the Candidates 2012’ event. ALL the candidates for the
upcoming elections who will be on our ballots have been invited. This means from
the local level right up to Washington and the Presidential Candidates! I went last
week with two other ladies from the Republican Party, to book our hall for the
event. The 2010 census showed the population of Kendall County (where we live)
has increased to 35,000 from 33,000 and the city of Boerne to 13,000 from 9,000. So
the voting districts have changed, which has caused some problems.
Work on our property is coming along slowly. I think that is perhaps that we are
a little older we don’t quite have the “get up and go” we used to. We got a good jump
start over the Christmas holidays when a couple of the boys from the local High
School soccer team, who helped us in their summer holidays came back to work
again. We took 6 loads to the county brush site and one to the landfill and one to the
scrap metal place. The later got us enough cash to pay for the other loads. We also
finished the water line out to the goat station and the barn. It is super to finally have
water out there and saves a lot of carrying back and forth.
We have had the well house and well covers made, and are waiting for the metal
sheaving to come in for that to be done. We are not doing that ourselves. Basically
it is a galvanized corrugated metal siding we are using which will cover the well
house, pump box, garage and our house too. Our house is half limestone and half
wood siding. There are couple of houses we have seen using this method and it
combines the old and the new very well and is also a cheap and long lasting way to
clad the outside of your home. Plus no paint needed!!
If anyone ends up in our part of the world please come and visit.” Sally@17oaks.com
Katie STAIGHT (nee ELLERINGTON) (left 1974) “I have just hit the big 50
which is strangely liberating. Our twin boys are both at Durham (I know – very
twinny) and our daughter is gapping prior to Bristol. I am living and doing assorted
jobs both paid and unpaid in Fulham.”
Luly WAHL (nee Villalba) (left 1979) “I have a son Luis (ten years) who is at
Colet Court, a daughter Antonia (8 years) who is at FHS and a daughter Stephanie
who is hoping to go to FHS in September 2012.
I have an Austrian husband, Philip. We met in New York and lived in Vienna for
five years before coming back to London. I have met up with many old girls from
my class: Venetia Powell-Brett, Stephanie Longworth, Angelie, Caroline Gorman
and Candia Carr.”
Eleanor WOOD (left 1974) “I am still living in California but spend the summer
months in Norfolk when my husband can get away from his job teaching sculpture
at California State University, Stanislaus. From next year, we will be able to divide
our time almost equally between the USA and home. I continue to commit my
time to my artworks making abstract works on paper. I exhibit at Don Soker
Contemporary Art in San Francisco, and at JayJay in Sacramento.”
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