SCHOOL NEWS
| MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA SCHOOL NEWS | |
Transcribed, as written, by Beverly Gerdts on June 26, 2019Page 97
PHILLIS A. JOHNSON KORSCHOT Phillis writes that she will not be able to attend the reunion since she will be out of town for a business conference that she attends yearly at the same time the reunion is being held. However she gives us this bit of information.
Since grade school she has married and raised 2 children and kept busy! She is wondering where all those years have gone. They seem to have flown by so quickly. Her husband Paul Korschot is a native of Muscatine. After 30+ years in retail, he retired to part time carpentry work. Phillis is Human Resource Manager for Communication Data Services, INC. Wilton, Iowa. CDS is a division of Hearst Corporation. They still live in the same house they moved into in June 1959 when they married. The house belonged to Paul's grandparents.
Their son John, is Senior Service Engineer for Bandag in California. he has 2 daughters and 1 son. Phillis and Paul's daughter Adrienne is a restaurant manager and lives in Ottumwa , Iowa She says that she don't see too many kids from Old Garfield anymore, but, it's possibly that she doesn't recognize any of them. You know how it is, they have all grown older! Inside your heart you never age yourself.
One of her tales about Old Garfield was getting yelled at for making faces when all she was doing was wrinkling up her nose to edge her glasses up higher. She tried out for some song and dance but was not picked because she had no sense of rhythm and she still doesn't today, and she really didn't care at that time. My, how we change and so do the things we thought were so important. She recalls her friends, Pat Carpenter, Lila Colberg, Sandy Courtois and a little episode of a sleep over when they tried cigarette smoking in Courtois's tree house. Seems that they got pretty sick. See the ICON.
She tells us she could ramble on for hours and of course she says we have more important things to do than read letters from old ladies spinning tales of memories that weave in and out of reality and dreams. She would love to hear from any of the "kids" from Old Garfield who still remembers her. She enjoys writing letters and would welcome the correspondence. So drop her a line and reminence about old times.