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And a very well known one at that. Sdythe's husband was the Boy's Advisor at the school and was the hero of the school. I thought that Sdythe and he had done very well for themselves and was very glad to see the progress that they were making. Edythe's husband was Athletic Instructor and his football team had won the League Championship three years in succession. I made a very favorable report on that school and resolved to make it in my future stops again. While talking to Edythe,I found that Caryl Watts was a nurse at the All Sainte hospital in Boston. Since I was around that way, I decided to look her up. The waiting room was cool, white, and impersonal as all hospital waiting rooms are. People of all types were there. Sitting, standing, pacing back and forth or Just shifting their weight from one foot to another in anxious expectancy. When the desk nurse came back from seeing Caryl she motioned me to go into a small cubicle off of the main waiting room. After what seemed to be hours, Caryl came in. She was much the same in appearance, tall, willowy and graceful. She seemed much more composed and serious than when I knew her last. She said she liked her wcrk verv much and had never felt better. Carvl had auit nursing when she married but like so rany loyal women of the nursing profession, she had returned to help out during the acute shortage of recent years. She and Paul had been married six years oefcre she returned to the hospital. Their snail son spends his winters with Mrs. Watts in Kadras, and eich suraner returns to Boston to be with his parents. Caryl told me she would nev r five up her profession alto-ether, but the long hours do not let her be a real wife and mother. While we saw each other, Caryl and I were able to dd hn awful lot of talking. Caryl told me about Joanne Lewis and that is why I made my next visit to Oregon via the American Lake Hospital. Joanne's life has been sucessful but not as quiet as some. She ie now recovering from a serious accident but Tex will soon be able to go home and do routine duties in about eight more months. When Tex graduated from college, she went on a tour from Seattle to Philadelphia, playing the piano in every well known concert hall in the U.S. Playing night after night gets to be quite a strain on a person and they sometimes have to draw on extra reserves of stamina and nerve. Sven Joanne's hidden reserves had their limits and in the middle of her concert she became ill. ’When Tex went to Florida, believe me, she needed the vacation. Meeting Ray Laird on her vacation was about the best thing that could have happened to her at that time. She knew him way back in the high days when she and Joan Hedfeoeth went to Tulelake to visit. Ray was a big financier and offered to back Tex in all the rest of her concerts. She accepted, but that was not th« extent of their relationship. On March 14, 1955, they were married. Everything went along fine, Tex stopped driving herself so hard and she regained her health and a few added pounds. She had a new tour coming up and this one really had to be good. If you remember, Tex is a sure cinch for cars, and Ray bought her a new one Just before the tour. The papers called it a freak accident, I call it bad luck. Anyway, Tex had concussion and she didn't recover like ehe should have. Ray brought her back west and she ie now in the American Lake Hospital. I went up to see her and she looked pretty good to me. She will be out in a few months and is going to retire from the concert world and Just be a plain housewife. I wished her lota of luck in her new career and knew ehe would make good. 3ack home again. Seems good for once. The day I get back, I got into the car and went up to see mj old friende the Hottles. I knew I was welcome there and anyway, I had seme presents for the children. Donna met me at the door with a wide grin on her face and a quick hello. Danny, six and Kessler,Jr. , 3 me at the door too. Leslie Ann wms only five months old and was sleeping peacefully in her crib. Donna's mother Mrs. Ramsey was there and we exchanged greetings and then I began telling Donna and her mother of all the old classmates I had seer, in the past few months. The time went swiftly and before we knew it, Kessler Hottle, Donna's husband was home for dinner, Donna's mother left and I accepted an iaritation to what I knew would be an excellent meal. Here was one old classmate that I knew would always be in Madras. A farmer’s wife is not a glamorous occupation, tut it fit Donna well. Three children, a modem home, a devoted husband and a brilliant future was a life to be proud of. When I left the Hottle's I decided to go home and write all that had happened so you too can see the r-suits of ten years on these peoples lives.
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