After catching up, and running up Danny's phone bill, he sent me a couple of the old newsletters with updates and photos of everyone, and, as you can imagine, it was great to see what people were doing and where they live, etc. I plan to send out several e-mails to people, just to see what they have been up to. The reunions really look like a lot of fun and I will certainly plan to attend the next one.
I'm living in Plano, TX (just north of Dallas), and other than going to college at Louisiana Tech in Ruston, LA, have lived in the Dallas area since returning to the States in 1978.
I studied architecture in college, but began working for an investment firm, and in 1987 (just before the stock market crashed) got my license and became a stockbroker. Despite my bad timing I have stuck with it and twelve years later I'm still going strong.
I met my wife on a blind date in 1989, and Linda and I were married the following year. Linda has lived in the Dallas area since she was a baby and has been a nurse at Presbyterian Hospital here in Dallas for over ten years.
We have two wonderful kids . . . . . . Emily is almost six and will start first grade in the fall; Ben is two, and is a typical 'wild man' as most two year olds are."
Season's Greetings
As this will be the last Newsletter of 1998, on behalf of the entire staff at the Class of 79 Newsletter I'd like to wish you all a terrific holiday season. Best Wishes for an outstanding 1999.
Mark Skutnik, Lindsay Dew and Doug Johnston.
Kim Nix-Hurlbut left Dhahran in 1977 when her family transferred to ASC in Houston. She went to high school in Houston and then attended Baylor University, where she earned her BS in biology in 1986.
Then the real fun began. She went to medical school at the University of Texas at Houston, graduating in the spring of 1990. During her last year she spent a month in Zambia, working at the Luwapa Mission Hospital, which is an eight-hour drive from Lusaka. Conditions were a bit primitive. They only had four hours of electricity per day, and the nearest telephone was two hours away. The doctor at the hospital was an avid game hunter, a circumstance that lead to some interesting culinary experiences. During her stay Kim enjoyed meals of wildebeest, hartebeest, and sable and a series of vegetables she'd never even heard of.
In April of 1990 she married Bruce Hurlbut, a law student she had met on a blind date. Shortly after, they moved to Little Rock where she did her residency at the University of Arkansas. Kim is now a pediatrician in private practice part-time. She chose pediatrics because she wanted to see eye to eye with her patients. Bruce is an attorney at a small law firm. Kim's full time job is being mom to Joshua (4) and Aaron, who arrived in November of last year. Congratulations go out to Kim and Bruce.
Despite their demanding professional lives, Kim and Bruce do travel from time to time. They spent two weeks in London with Gen Johansson-Sullivan and her husband in 1995 and have spent a week or two in Mexico and Jamaica doing development work each year for the last few years. They also go camping in the Ozark mountains a few times a year.