MySource:Dennischap/McPherson Collage newsletter

Date: May 1963

Alumni Newsletter Class of 1923, published May 1963 McPherson Collage, McPherson, Kansas

Marietta Byerly 107 South Burris Tishomingo, Okla.

Old time, old memories! First Roy's reminder of the June reunion. Then Orvill's Promise of a "Memories" edition in May it calls back the years.

And the years have been good. I taught home economics in the Murray State Agriculture College for 23 years. By that time my roots were well down in Tishomingo, and just before retirement in 1960 I built a home here. I'm happy in the home that isn't too big nor too little and happy also in the community that is just right for my living.

As for grandchildren, I have a substitute, a flock of nieces and nephews (first, second, and third rounds). Some are near and some farther away. They satisfy.

What do I do? Well first of all there is church - Sunday School teaching, choir, official board, Women's Society, teaching mission study classes. Then Business and Professional Women's Club and Delta Kappa Gamma takes some attention. I've served each of these as president for two-year terms. There's lots of good reading to do, puzzles to work, Forty-two to play with friends, and of course homemaking and entertaining. I feed birds in winter and give time to garden and lawn in season.

So life is still very good. Everywhere I go there are former students to greet; they make another substitute for family.

I wish the best of everything to all of you and, if possible, will see you in June.