Bonnie has some news she would like to share:

There are 6 of us Alpha Gamma Delta’s that have hung together since we all turned age 60 about 11 years ago now.  It has been a lot of fun.  They are Nancy Rhodes, Nancy Clark Daley, Bev Stockton Wickham, Bev Winkler Houghton, Gretchen Payne, Kay Gerhardt Durkin, and myself.  We have been getting together every 2 years, except this year which we decided not to do in order to do 50 years next year.  It has been great fun.

As for me, I married Ron Ruecker, FIJI, class of 66.  We got married in ’64, followed by the birth of our son Rhett in ’65, and our daughter was born in ’70.  She attended IWU as well, and graduated in ’93.  She married and has our 4 grandchildren, ranging in ages from 17-10.

Ron graduated in ’66, and then we moved to St. Louis where he attended medical school at St. Louis U.  I went to work for Medicare, and helped put him through school. He did his training in Gastroenterlogy and practiced until ’07.  We left STL in ’74 when we moved to Decatur, IL., and have lived there ever since.  We keep talking about moving and downsizing.   The grandchildren live in IN., near Purdue, and are 2 hours from us.  I would love to move closer, but like Ron says, we would move closer and then our children would move somewhere else.  So, we stay put where we have been for 40 years.  Lots of friends there, our doctors, and everything else that is important in our lives.

We just celebrated 50 years of marriage this summer with close friends and family and renewal of our vows.  It was a wonderful time.

We spend our winters in Florida so that we don’t have to endure the winters up north, for which I am very grateful.  Playing golf and soaking up the sunshine is a whole lot nicer that dealing with the winter weather.

It is good to hear from you.  We have been in close contact with IWU over the last many years as Ron is on the BOT.