Proud New Addition to the LSC-North Harris Library Family

The Library is proud to announce its newest member, as of Tuesday, July 28th, weighing 9 lbs 2.3 oz., Ahalya Drepaul. Proud parents are Norma and Zeff Drepaul.

As you can see, she is wise and healthy and will make a great librarian after her mandatory training period.

Virginia

The Library is proud to announce its newest member, as of Tuesday, July 28th, weighing 9 lbs 2.3 oz., Ahalya Drepaul. Proud parents are Norma and Zeff Drepaul.

As you can see, she is wise and healthy and will make a great librarian after her mandatory training period.

-Virginia Rigby

LSC-North Harris Summer Vacations

While some of us played at home this summer participating in “stay vacations,” quite a few of our LSC-North Harris family members were up and about gallivanting the globe.

Sherry Banks

I am attaching a picture from my stay in South Africa.  The photo is of a village we visited called Zola.  The attached photo is me with an elderly man and his sister-in-law who is caring for him.  His shanty is approximately 50 sq. ft.  We purchased food staples for three families that we visited that day and spent the equivalent of only $32!  This included at least a pound of meat, bread, vegetables, sugar, tea, etc.  It still amazes me!

Larry Brillhart

Rita D. Cinquemani

Rita Cinquemani and husband Paul on Catalina Island California summer 2009.

Gary Clark

Gary Clark visited Big Bend the past summer. If you would like to see some wonderful photos, go to flickr.com/photos/texasbirder and view the photos he took with his Leica Dlux-3 point-and-shoot camera.

Dorothy Dixon

My family travel to New York on July 7th and stayed until July 13th.  It was an AWESOME vacation because my birthday is July 10 and my husband’s birthday is July 8th.  My husband works for ABC and was able to get us special treatment (in the Good Morning America studio, VIP guests in Central Park, green room guest at GMA, etc.) on my actual birthday!!! Queen Latifah was performing that day in Central Park.  I even had my girls to write essays about their trip.

Milanie Hillburn

Gary Clark

Gary Clark visited Big Bend the past summer. If you would like to see some wonderful photos, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/texasbirder/ and view the photos he took with his Leica Dlux-3 point-and-shoot camera.

Tom Hobbs

For vacation my family went to Columbus Isle Club Med on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas and had a great time.  We will go again.  The water really is that color.

Karen Russom

Karen and her son visited China this summer. Here she is on the Great Wall.

Ursula Sohns

Here’s a picture of me enjoying some quality times with 2 of my sons.  We’re in the Bahamas at Blue Lagoon Dolphin Encounter.  Awesome!!!

C.C. Sutphen

My husband and I like to scuba dive whenever we can. Here is a view of our dive boat leaving the dock in Cozumel Mexico.

There is nothing like being under the water (with a supply of air…of course). It is truly an amazing experience seeing everything from seahorses to eagle rays.

Am I so different from you?

By Velma Trammell

I may be older but I have had a lot more experience.  You have your youth, your energy, and your hopes for the future. My youth and energy slipped away through the years but I have my hopes for the future – even though it will be a lot shorter than yours – but no less hopeful.  So, are we so different?

I love new cars, movies, television and all of that kind of “stuff”.  But I don’t have to have the newest, the fastest, the latest and greatest, etc.  I like myself and I don’t need “things” to impress others – you only need this if you don’t like yourself – thinking maybe others will like you better.
Love yourself first; it makes it so much easier for others to love you.

Looking back and it seems like yesterday things were so much simpler.  Change is wonderful and many great things have happened but we have lost so much through the years.  One thing we have lost is patriotism (some don’t have the vaguest idea what that means), I’m sure your grandfathers could tell you many amazing stories – but did/would you want to hear them? Other lost concepts are respect for others, being ethical and working as a team player.  These traits have mostly been replaced by productivity at-any-cost, efficiency, issues of equality and establishing relationships both in the work place and personally.

If we could take all of these wonderful traits and bundle them together what a great relationship, we would have – the young and the old.  Are we really so different?