…By the time I was ready to graduate from high school, I was interested in going to college to become an architect. The designer in me was my core being, and I appreciated art and history, having a special love of ancient architecture. I headed to the University of Colorado in Boulder to enter their […]
Month: October 2014
excerpt CHAPTER 5 – THE WICHITA HOWARDS
…As I reached high school age, my parents had enough financial resources to join a country club. Prior to that, we belonged to and therefore swam at the Wichita State Shocker Club, then the eastside YMCA. When we were able to join the Crestview Country Club, it was a real treat. Tennis, swimming, and golf, […]
excerpt CHAPTER 4 – BILLY and BOBBY
“…Our dad, Carl Lewis Howard, attended Kansas State University (KSU) in Manhattan, Kansas. His brother Frank and Dad each pursued a degree in Agriculture Engineering. To do this, he taught rural school every other year to earn money for his college expenses the next year. Both Uncle Frank and Dad were in ROTC. Dad was […]
excerpt CHAPTER 3 – LETHA, AGNES, and ETHEL
…Aunt Agnes tried so hard to be a good aunt! She always gave us Christmas presents, and paid for them out of her left-over grocery money, as frugal homemakers did back then. It never occurred to me to think about what she didn’t purchase for herself, in order to be able to bless us with […]