L toR Vince, Joyce, Christy, Jayce, Mike, holding Hannah, and Jenny

Joyce Newlin Mabert

2601 Trotter's Run

Bloomington, IN 47401

812-339-3765

Joyce and Vince

Joyce

It has been so interesting to read the updates on our classmates. I am looking forward to renewing acquaintances with all of you.

After graduating from DePauw University, I taught secondary history before moving to Syracuse, New York. I taught there while completing my elementary conversion and Master's degree at Syracuse University. (I had become aware that I would be handicapped in getting subsequent secondary teaching jobs in history due to my inability to coach football!)

After ten years, I retired from teaching. Since then I have held a position with the (self-granted) title of Director or Home Management, Transportation, and Inventory Control. That job has been slowly phased out. Vince says that my title now should be simply "Out-of-Work Mom".

Since 1979, we have lived in Bloomington, where Vince is a chaired professor in the Kelley School of Business at IU. His job has given us many opportunities to travel, including living in the Netherlands twice. We continue to enjoy traveling. In fact, Vince will miss the reunion because he is in China, and we will both be going to India in November.

Our son, Mike, is a Purdue engineering graduate. He works for Nestle, and is currently the plant manager of their factory in Danville, VA. (They make Toll House refrigerated cookie dough and refrigerated Buitoni pasta products.) Mike and his wife, Jenny, have a two-year-old daughter named Hannah and are expecting a son in October. We LOVE being grandparents, as I can tell many of our classmates do. Our daughter, Christy, a DePauw graduate, is married and lives in Flagler Beach, FL. She is completing a Master's degree in Elementary Education and hopes to start teaching second semester. She and her husband, Jayce, have no children yet.

Vince will retire in May, 2008. Our lifestyle probably won't change much. We will continue to travel, visiting some places we haven't been and revisiting some places we particularly enjoyed, and will visit our children and grandchildren more frequently. We will probably spend more time on our boat on Lake Monroe - - we have a pontoon boat now, having traded in our ski boat when the kids moved away. We enjoy many of the musical offerings at the IU School of Music, especially the symphonies and the jazz bands, and will continue to spend several nights a week in our favorite seats in the Musical Arts Center.

Vince does beautiful woodworking. He builds furniture, as well as smaller items, and will continue and probably expand that hobby. My hobby is buying fabric. I believe that I have the (dubious) distinction of having the most fabric of any would-be quilter who has yet to make a quilt. And I am sure that I am the only past-president of the Bloomington Quilters Guild who has never made a quilt. I really do intend to get started!

As many of you have expressed, life has been good. We are thankful for the many blessings of (reasonably) good health and wonderful family and friends.