“Let Us Entertain You” read the invitation. It was sent by Ginny & Fred Hess – and boy did they! – entertain us, that is. When guests arrived at Yankee Trace Golf Club last Friday evening they were entertained by a fabulous singer who strolled the crowd all evening singing ‘favorites’ from the fifties, sixties and… the singer was backed-up by an equally entertaining keyboardest.
Marty & Bob Wind were there and Marty kept being told she should ‘sign’ the singer for a gig at the Fraze. ‘Inky’ & Rosie Reagan, Shelly Charles, Carolyn Young and Lorraine & Bill Quinlivan all added to the fun. The Bob Harris’es chatted about their upcoming trip to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand…sounded super exciting.
Dr. Samia Borchers was the ‘official’ photographer and must have taken multiple photos of everyone there. “Mother’s in Lebanon (Mother is Laurance Warwar) for a month visiting her mother…Grandmother is in her nineties.”
Samia was told by everyone who drives to Dayton Country Club via Thruston Ave. that they’d loved her Halloween ghosts in her front yard – (white sheeted figures of a father, mother, daughter, and Dalmatian dog!)
Marty & Fred Ohmer had to leave before dinner cause…”we’re going to Roger & Barb Farley’s party…told them we’d be a little late!” And dinner was delicious – roast loin of pork, al-dente veggies..etc. and a sundae of ice cream, chocolate syrup, nuts…loaded with calories, carbs, and everything fattening and there wasn’t a morsel left in anyone’s dish!
Anyone driving up Runnymede Road past Houk Stream late last week had to have noticed the new, white, rock, ‘road’ bulldozed along the west side of Houk Stream. All the nosy neighbors conjectured about …’how many houses…wonder who…
Well, it’s good news! Afia I. Naqvi, MD and his wife Tahir Naqvi, MD have bought all three acres along the stream. They plan to build their house about where The Van der Hooven’s tennis courts were. “We love the trees and don’t want to cut any more than are necessary for the road and the house…we have two children grade school age and we want the Oakwood School system for them…”
‘Top Ten Women’ 2005 list has been announced by the DDN. Two ladies of Oakwood are on this prestigious list. And, two outta ten ain’t bad, as the saying goes. Oakwood’s Jean V. Woodhull is deservedly on the list for her development of the Metro Park System and the founding of the Cox Arboretum. “Jean is lovingly referred to as ‘Green Jean’ for her firm belief that preserving green space is but one requirement of a civilized, progressive society.”
And Judy Cook, Mayor of Oakwood, is also one of the top ten. Her friend, Joyce Young, a former ‘Top Tenner’, said of Judy: “Her reliable, dependable presence on the many boards and councils on which she serves is testament to her conscientious sense of responsibility.”
Nick and Bea Davis just got back from a short sight seeing trip to Boston. While on their way to see the Prudential Tower they passed Trinity Church and decided to stop to see an art collection that was to be auctioned off in a couple of days.
As they were walking around one of the hostesses asked where they were from and they said Ohio. She said she grew up in Dayton, Ohio. She started talking about the Mead Paper Company and what was happening to it. They said that they knew of Elsie Mead and all that she had done for the Children’s Medical Center.
She then said that Elsie was her mother and that she married and moved to Boston. Her name is Mariana O’Brien. She said that she came back to Dayton when the Little Exchange celebrated their 50th Anniversary a few years ago. As they were talking her daughter came in and we met Elsie Meade’s granddaughter-Elsie Mead O’Brien Aubrey.
Mariana wanted to be remembered to all her friends in Oakwood and Dayton. What a small world!!
