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Spouse's name: Louise Bailey Horner (married 1964) Children's names: Lenore (b. 1969), Adelia (b. 1972) Education: AB Oberlin College 1961, MA University of Kansas 1963, (ABD 1967) Occupation: My wife and I have been teaching Spanish & French at Northwest Missouri State University since 1967; we both will retire May 1, 2006. Associated professional endeavors: Treasurer, Foreign Language Association of Missouri; member of the board of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and local chair for the March 2007 conference in Kansas City. Other positions: Lay Deputy to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church 2000, 2003, 2006. Since Louise and I are both Oberlin College alums, we especially enjoyed returning for visits while our daughters were there. I wish I had known Mr. Grippi was living on Long Island when we were making annual trips there to visit our older daughter while she was completing her Ph.D. in Physics at Stony Book. Now we have only to drive to Edwardsville, IL, to visit her since she has been teaching at SIUE. We make a longer trip to visit our younger daughter and her husband, who live in the Portland, OR, area. Adelia ("Willi") is a research psychologist at Oregon Health & Sciences University. The four of us in the family all play recorders. Before the girls left for college we played together in the recorder ensemble for the annual campus Yuletide Feaste. Louise and I continue to join the group of students each year for that. In addition, we have played one day during the season for several years at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival, though never all four of us together because we did not start until Lenore was at Oberlin. For a couple of years a student played bass while Adelia played soprano. Now that Lenore is close enough, she joins us to play bass and a member of the music faculty leads us with the soprano. I have been saying that one of my retirement goals is to travel in the south of Spain when it is NOT summer. Since we were last there in 1995, it's about time for another trip. |