since the last time...

Since the last time I posted I spent three wonderful days on Pine Creek in northern Pennsylvania (The Grand Canyon of the East) canoeing with the Fairlawn West Church canoe group. It was wonderful! Canoeing has been for 34 years for me an immediate and deep sense of serenity. Kate was elected president of the National Honor Society at Firestone High School (and got a 32 on her ACT). Molly was accepted into the dance part of the Visual and Performing Arts School at Firestone as a freshman in the fall. Kate will be a senior in the VPA with vocal music.

Kate's college search is about ended. We will visit Otterbein College on May 19th. She will be working on her applications over the summer so she can be elgible to do vocal auditions for the schools she is interested in by December. The list now: Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA; College of Wooster in Wooster, OH; Otterbein College in Westerville, OH; Heidelberg College http://www.heidelberg.edu in Tiffin, OH; Beloit College http://www.beloit.edu in Beloit, WI. Grinnell and Dickinson are on the page, but not as high due to not having music education programs.

Kate and Martha leave June 18 for the Summit Choral Society's Touring Choir tour in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Molly will be at soccer camp at Hiram College for the week of June 18th. And then...we will find some time to do somethings with the four of us.

I make great progress in finally fulfilling the landscape design that was made for us a year ago. Hard to believe, even starting to get unsolicited comments on the yard, bushes, trees and flower.