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- Doris Thurston ...Then

Date: 1/7/2007 8:26:27 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: TDorisart@aol.com
To: Lucia Crocheron Greer '42X

THANK YOU for writing. I have been sick with high blood pressure and did not answer. lSorry. I am another yo-yo as Dad bought me a house in FL and I went to Chicago to work in Showbuz aftter performing from Greenland to South America and loving it. Worked a lot in New England to Maine also. then I did Miami and lived for years on the beach, performing "Portraits in Song" combining song, dance, art and comedy, sketching a portraitt o a patron while singing.

I've been stuck on my book cause I have 18 pages in the Appendix of quotes from books by doctors, elucidating material in the text, hopefully enlightening Stroke famiies about "Crying" "Aphasia" "dependency" etc. But waiting several months for permission from publishers has made me slow down. I may call them, or ignore them and call it fair use.

I do think the book will do well, however as I had a story in the American Stroke Association magazine a year ago and will have one in the 2007 Nov/Dec issue called "the Girdle". By then the book should be out. Also the Nat. Aphasia Association and the Nat. Stroke Assoc should have something in their magazine.

I still dont remember you. Were you in our class? I will try to go to your web. My paintings are on "artassociatesmartinco.com." I must put prices and media on there.

Bye for now.

Doris Thursston '41

 

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**Chia Greer '42X

Chia Greer in 1941
Chia Greer 2005

When I chew gum, I often think of the time I was in Edith Sliker's fifth grade or sixth grade in the Annex and was sent to his office for chewing gum. He handed me a full pack of Wriggley's told me to put all of it in my mouth; set a straight chair facing a big mirror, had me chew looking at myself for fifteen minutes. It didn't cure me of gum chewing, but it did cure me of chewing large pieces.

When I was about ten he recognized my insecurities and gave me a key to the School. (It worked.) I returned it to him when I left Chappaqua for Houston a few years later. Then there was the time we had a big snow storm and I walked to school (as usual). Passing the old Mill Pond I saw Dr. Gell on Douglas Road. He waved and said something about meeting him at the Bridge (the cross over). He waited for me at the intersection and told me to get on the back of his snowshoes and that's what I did and how I got to school.

Although I moved to Houston, Texcas with my family in 1940, and I was able to advance in music somewhat, I always felt a part of HG. When I left Chappaqua there were something like 310 students counting all the classes; I entered a Junior High that had a total of 2,500 students, and then the next year entered a high school which had 3,200 students. Crowds still bother me.

**Lucia Crocheron Greer '42X

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