Ardis Heacock - 1985 Biography
Thank you for the second opportunity to tell you about our family. We have grown in a rather irregular way. T.J. now has four parents. We are blessed because we really like each other; and, while it's not bridge every Sunday, it is fun - if incestual - to go to the ball games together. Tom married Annie, a marketing executive for the new Long's Clarion Hotel and I married James Lounsbery, a corporate manager for Motor Wheel (Goodyear) from South Dakota. The junior here is pushing 6' 9", looks, walks, and jokes like the big guy you may remember. Last week he played Baskerville Holmes in our high school gym. He's been dating "other" girls, but I still delight in his paintings and dancing.
(Work)
I taught first, third, and fourth grades in Charlotte after "earning" my M.A. and Ed. S. here at state. Teaching is the most important job; but one becomes too cowardly for such possibilities as head lice. James says the "ink" was barely dry on the marriage license when I retired six years ago. I'm now the volunteer coordinator for about 130 parents at East Lansing High School and I do various "assignments" on behalf of the principal and P.T.A.
(Interesting things)
The interesting things which I have done are either illegal or not being printed until 25 years after my death. It would be satisfying to have a small-very-small dinner party with you; but I am terrified at the prospect of being surrounded by a large group of Republicans or Catholics. Thank you, Judi, for your sincere and exhaustive labors. If I ever grew brave enough to come, it would be after dinner with tubes of glucose in my veins. It's just too emotional.
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