Ann Roberts:  

Life Hello...It is now December 2011 and lots has happened since 2009, most notably daughter Layla got married October 23rd in Los Angeles and will be moving to Santa Monica at the end of this month, commuting back to Cambridge/Harvard to defend her PhD in March and (hopefully!!) receiving her degree in May. We have gotten our plane tickets and hotel for May already. Hope to spend a little time in New Jersey after the big event, visiting my brother and his wife in Bridgewater. Layla is now Layla Parast Bartroff; her husband, Jay, also teaches statistics and does research out in California. They have been dating since she met him while completing her Masters degree at Stanford. Many of you who were at the Reunion met Layla, and I am happy to say she is still doing her marathons (ran in NY last fall and I flew up for that...Jay ran too), baking a lot and travelling a lot. I met her in Spain this past October where she presented a paper at a statistical conference at an extension of the University of Zaragosa which was in Jaca, a town in the Pyrenees near the French border. She and Jay will both be here in Texas for Christmas, and Jay's parents, who are wonderful people, will be coming for 4 days...we are having a reception for Layla and Jay the day after Christmas since almost no one from here was able to attend the wedding in California (lots of family did attend, though, and those young people friends who travel coast to coast like we used to go into the city...) Enough for now..Merry Christmas to everyone! ann Hi again! Now it is May 2009, I sold the horse almost a year ago, saw some of you at the SHS reunion in October, went to Sanibel Island (Florida)with Layla in January, New Orleans in December and March (Tennessee Williams Literary Festival)then Cambridge/Boston in April, realized how out of shape I had become (despite exercising) and have begun a major self-improvement effort.Our family will visit the Bahai shrines in Israel next month and I need to be in decent shape for that! Am working hard to get there. Update and add to your profiles, guys! ann After spending some years in New Orleans, NYC, Paris, D.C. and Seattle, somehow I ended up in a rather small town (now growing very fast) almost on the Texas-Mexico border. For the past 13 years I have been teaching English and Literature at Texas State Technical College here in town and before that taught French for six years here....and continued to teach part-time at the University. My husband, Rudy, and I have a daughter who is 18 and a sophomore (junior)at UT-Austin getting a degree in Math (statistics) and, it seems, another in French. Rudy is from Iran and I met him in 1979 (right before the hostage crisis) in Seattle. He has family scattered all over the world and hopes to someday see family still in Iran and finally went back for a visit last summer! (lst in 24 years). He's a Bahai, not Muslim, so it was a bit scarey, but he got back ok. Layla an...Expand for more