From Susan Wiltshire:
In many ways Susan’s life seems a straight-line from Mrs. Johnson’s
third-year Latin class in Vergil’s AENEID at Monterey High School. Susan
majored in Classics and Plan II at the University of Texas in Austin, then
studied at Columbia University for an MA and PhD in Greek and Latin before
teaching two years at the University of Illinois. She married in 1969 and
moved to Nashville for her new husband Ashley Wiltshire to attend
Vanderbilt Law School. She then taught at Fisk University for two years
before thirty-six years at Vanderbilt University, where she was Professor
of Classics. She’s written a number of books by now, but the first was
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN VERGIL’S AENEID.
Ashley spent his entire career as a legal aid attorney and for thirty-one
years was Director of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the
Cumberlands. After retiring at the same time, Susan and Ashley moved from
Nashville to their farm in Houston County, Tennessee, where they remodeled
the 1898 farmhouse and added wings modeled on designs of Andreas Palladio.
They raise Murray Grey cattle, an Australian beef breed that Susan’s
father had helped introduce to the US. Their two children, Matthew, an
investment banker, and Carrie, an attorney with a large firm, both
returned to Nashville several years ago after living in New York for a
time. Thanks to Matt with two and Carrie with one, Ashley and Susan have
three young grandsons.
It should be noted that none of this would have happened if it had not
been for a wonderful Lubbock intervention. When Ashley was at Union
Theological Seminary in New York and Susan in graduate school at Columbia,
Mary Louise Brewer (some of you may have had her mother for English at
Tech) came to New York City in March 1967 for a St. Stephens reunion with
her fiancé, Earl Guthrow from Richmond and one of Ashley’s oldest friends.
After that introduction, Susan and Ashley were married two years later in
Bangkok, where Ashley had been a short-term missionary.
On Sat, 9/19/09,
Nancy Martin <nanpaul208@yahoo.com> wrote:
Elvis Twice
A friend, Lynda Whitwell, and I went to see Elvis in concert when he was
in Lubbock, 1956. Our mothers, strictly for our protection, of course,
both had to go also. Mother and Ozzie laughed all during the performance
because you couldn't actually HEAR Elvis, we were all too loud. But we
certainly saw him and loved him!
Our oldest daughter, Sheree graduated in 1976 from PermianHS. Our son,
some of his friends and I took turns waiting in line nine hours or so for
Elvis tickets for a graduation surprise. Elvis was in Odessa and Sheree
and Diane got to see him.They enjoyed it as much as we did 20 years
earlier.Alas, her mother didn't go with her and I missed my last chance to
see Elvis again.
From Beverly Boase Copeland:
Did you ever meet Elvis in person? Well I did. He was invited to perform
at the opening of the 195? (not sure what year late 50's) at the Pontiac
dealership owned by Conelley Pontiacs.
He was sitting in Mr. Connelly's office...Ginger's dad....waiting to
perform...all I remember him saying..."Howdy mam"..My daddy said" he will
never make it..he wiggles too much!" after watching him perform. Also' was
at two concerts in Lubbock...he kissed my hand one time..yea That's what
happens when your daddy buys you and your friends front row seats.
What a great life in Lubbock. Buddy Holly living next to Jay Kennison..my
boyfriend, listening to him practice all the time. Mack Davis in the
church choir, Ralnah English on Lawrence Welk Show and it goes on and
on!!!
It was soooooooooo much fun growing up in Lubbock!!
