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2024

In early August, 2024 we visited Jeff and family and while there we celebrated Steve's 24^th birthday - Steve lives and works in the Boston, MA area. The following slide show contains pictures from this event. The 🎂 was made by Lizzie and was very delicious.

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2022

Our Grandson Stephen graduated from Bentley University, Waltham, MA on May 21, 2022 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance. He completed course work in December 2021 and started working for Fresenius Medical Care North America as a financial analyst in January 2022.

2021

Our Granddaughter Elizabeth graduated from Smith College, Northampton, MA on May 30, 2021 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering with an emphasis in Chemistry. She earned an overall grade point average of 3.89/4.00. She received membership in Tau Beta Pi, the preeminent engineering honor Society based upon her excellent scholarship and exemplary character. Membership in Tau Beta PI is by invitation only.

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2018

Our grandson Stephen graduated from Gorham High School, Gorham, ME; the 2018 class had 196 students.  The Commencement Exercises were held at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, ME on June 10, 2018. In the Fall he will attend Bentley University, Waltham, MA; Bentley University is one of the nation's leading business schools.

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2017

Our granddaughter Elizabeth graduated from Baxter Academy for Science and Technology, Portland, ME on June 3, 2017. Baxter Academy was organized in 2013 with a total enrollment of 134 students equally divided between freshman and sophomore students. The class of 2017 is the first class that attended the Academy four years; 77 students completed the four years of study. Lizzie will be going to Smith College, Northampton, MA this fall where she plans to major in engineering with a humanities minor in Chinese Mandarin language.

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2013

We celebrated Steve's 13th birthday on July 28th.

On July 7th we celebrated Jean's birthday with a dinner at a local seafood restaurant with Jeff's family - meaning both of the grandchildren attended. Lizzie ordered two lobsters and she finished both of them! A chocolate cake with blueberry icing was made for Grandma by Lizzie from scratch. The cake was wonderful! The dinner, birthday cake and hugs were a wonderful birthday gift for Jean.

Yes, our grandson, Steve, is six feet tall!

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2011

We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary this past September. We elected to make it a simple affair consisting of a blessing offered by Pastor Stephen Damos followed by a reception on the church patio with our Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church family as the honored guests.

Steve plays on the Gorham, ME 10-year old Cal Ripken All-Star baseball team. The district tournament concluded June 29th with the Gorham team winning the tournament. Steve pitched four innings of the championship game giving up three hits, four walks and two runs; the Gorham team won with a final score of 9 - 2. For the entire tournament the Gorham team outscored their opponents by 20 to 2. The team moves on to the State of Maine tournament, which will be played in Belgrade, ME starting July 9th.

Steve played first base and pitched for the Gorham, ME 10U Cal Ripken All-Star team. Although the team finished in second place, we are very proud of the quality of the entire team's play. We enjoyed watching all the games. Congratulations to the Gorham 10U All-Star team, and special congratulations to Steve.

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2009

July 2009

Our grandson, Steve, played on a U9 Cal Ripken All-Star Baseball team this summer, and the team won the 2010 Maine State Championship. Congratulations Steve! We are so proud of you and this accomplishment. Steve is second from the right in the second row of the team picture. Update August 10^th: The Gorham, ME All-Star team played in the New England Regional Tournament in Springfield, MA and finished in 4^th place; pretty good considering that at the start of summer about 300 teams entered competition for this regional tournament.

Jeff, Maureen, Lizzie and Steve joined us for a long weekend at Bar Harbor, ME. We had a wonderful time! We had a picnic lunch at Otter Point. Jeff, Maureen, and Leon rode bikes on the carriage trails - the old man survived a 14 mile ride.

October 2009

January 2009

We celebrated the 50th anniversary of Pat and Russ Saunders, friends from Whitewater, WI with a mock wedding on January 29, 2009. The ceremony was led by Pastor Don, United Redneck Church, Trailer Trash Division.

The wedding celebration continued until the start of the park's quiet hours - everyone had a wonderful time dancing, drinking, and laughing. This party was a real hoot!

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2008

Christmas 2008 was spent at the Victoria Palms RV Resort, Donna, TX. We had wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinners with friends we made during our stays at Victoria Palms.

Steve enjoys playing games. We introduced him to Mexican Train Dominoes, and he grasped the strategy very quickly. After playing the game for about a month he has become a formidable opponent. He also likes to play monopoly; it is difficult to beat him in this game as well.

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2007

We celebrated Christmas with friends from Whitewater, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada. The weather was warm, the wine excellent, the food wonderful, and the friendships cherished.

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