The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 17, 1961 Page: 2 of 20
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THE BELLAIRE TEXAN
Wednesday, May 17, 1961
Snakes Alive! Herpetologist
Speaker For Westbury Club
It'll be snake-eyes for real
Thursday evening in Westbury
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Hermann Park Zoo, and his
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It'll be allright to bring the
kiddies as Curator Wcrlcr will
be accompanied by some of his
live subjects for demonstration
purposes.
Scheduled speaker for the
June 15 meeting is Dr. John W.
McFarland. Superintendent of
Schools for tire Houston Inde-
pendent School District.
In order that Dr. McFarland
may know what subjects most
interest Westbury residents.
President At Clements of 5627
Bankside. suggests that you
.write questions and submit them
to him at this Thursday’s meet-
ing.
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Mother’s Day has been the
week’s predominant feature, with
end-of-school activities snapping
at it’s heels like a half-grown
and sometimes sharp-toothed
puppy. With daughters graduat-
ing from both Jane Long Junior
High School and from Bellaire
High School this year, Bob and
I are beginning to have a new
respect for the beautifully
alliterative — and now fully
understood — term, “Senior Ci-
tizen”, which we had heretofore
regarded as a useful tag to den-
ote someone in the envious stage
of life where one look back
tenderly at yesterday from the
safety of tomorrow’s chair,
golf links or wherever you plan
on spending those lovely, lazy,
days of retirement.
Not so! It means, my naive
friends, the state of utter ex-
haustion and demoralization
reached only by the parents of
one or more “seniors” after you
discover that there are indeed
only twenty four hours to each
day; that the graduation you’d
so casually assumed still con-
sisted of two absorbing and fair-
ly formal ceremonies at school
and church can actually involve
as many as forty invitations to
teas, formal dances, picnics, and
in-betweens (multiplied by as
many graduates as you can
crowd into a family!) AND the
thoroughly frightening discov-
ery that the daughters you’d
thought so trim and sweet (and
had planned on buying a few
of the cute little ready-made
clothes shown in the shops to
cope with the problem of mama
being a working gal and unable
to devote her usual amount of
time to sewing — aren’t even
normal. Hours of fruitless shop-
ping have convinced me I’m the
mother of a pack of midgets and
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ing machine to turn out two
whole spring wardrobes in size
next-to-nothlng — (and could
you lake the waist iu just a
little bit more,, mama?) What’s
sleep?
By way of unsnarling niy
tired nerves, the family took
to the beach at Galveston on
Mother’s Day. I was enjoying
a wonderful relaxing tine
fishing and was just beginning
to feel guiltily that I'd pos
sibly over-dramatized the
entire situation — then re-
affirmed by affinity for the
embarrasing incident by
choosing to cast ai the exact
moment a (teenage?) gull
lloated past in a dreamy aerial
ballet — anu came within a
quarter-inch of being brained
with about a quarter pound of
flying lead on the end of my
line. The bird’s shook was
nothing compared to mine —
and that of half a dozen sea-
soned gulf fishermen who
made it quite clear that one
simply doesn’t dream of knock-
ing the sea-gulls senseless-it
isn’t considered sporting. I
just put down my pole (I de-
moted it from the “rod” class
immediately following ihe un-
fortunate attack on the gull),
stalked off and sat on the end
of the pier until my shamed
family took me home and hid
me.
The only reason I’m out and
writing about the ordeal is that
since then, they’ve been observ-
ing other mother’s and dads of
seniors and have decided that
it’s only, please God, a phase
that parents — senior citizens if
you please — pass thru . . .
When they let n!e out by my-
self again, I’m going to send
sympathy cards to all the “gra-
duating” parents I know — and
two to the unfortunates like
the Claude Fosters who have
both girls and boys graduating
the same year — at least I can
ignore the men’s shops!
Seriously — if you find hap-
pier, prouder parents than those
of us with a pair of graduates,
they will undoubtedly be boast-
ing of elementary and college
level graduates to go with the
other pair!
Getting the jump on the
crowded vacation schedule —
Pat and Jim Gohn and friends
Hone and Vern Sierman —- who
send stay-at-homes cards from
Padre Island taunting us with
the news that they plan their
next stop in Mexico!
MYF “Family Field Day” tick-
et sales spiraled upward Sunday
when Reverend Keith Kellow,
pastor of Gethsemane Methodist
church in Sharpstown, announc-
ed that in order for every one
to be able to attend the field
day without having to go home
and change clothes, informal
sports attire would be considered
“correct” at Sunday, May 21 ser-
vices. (He also added a smiling
reference to his indecision be-
tween his two red shirts, ac-
cording to my MYF informants
— but if we tease him about it
lie’ll probably feel compelled to
be the only uncomfortably dres-
sed member present — so I’m
pretending I didn't hear them!)
Favorite pastime —- cruising
about Sharpstown and marvel-
ing at all the new building
going on — tile continuing inter-
est ol the “old” residents in im-
proving their property — the
big new shopping center that’s
growing like a well-fed child —
the speed with which the new-
est Sharpstowners establish
lawns and flowers to make
homes of their new houses —
and join in civic, church and
school affairs; the shock of meet-
ing someone you take to be a
new addition to the friendly
group out here — and finding
out they moved into their home
at approximately the same time
you did — 7-28-55! I believe
the most gratifying thing of all
is the number of residents who,
finding their homes too small to
accommodate growing families,
have either enlarged their pre-
sent homes to fit their needs —
or bought larger ones in Sharps-
town
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to a degree never before
thought possible. And what
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Norton, Mary. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 17, 1961, newspaper, May 17, 1961; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521751/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.