Janice Hunt:  

Before the 50th class reunion we were asked to send in a story "life after St. James. Mine is as follows Life after St. James Janice Steimel Hunt June 13th 1955, the day after graduation . I slept in. I mean I really slept in.12 ,1:00 O¿clock maybe. Please¿.. Who could remember. In 1957 my 49 year old mother lost her battle with cancer. It was a very difficult time in my life. Hopefully that will be the last sad thing I write here. Some years later, after 2 brief engagements , one to Joe Mullen and one to Tom Hunt (the third ones the charm) I married Tom Hunt on September 26th 1959 Moving on------ Our first miracle occurred on October 24th 1963. We named her Kelly Lynn. She is currently an Analytical Chemist for the pharmaceutical company Phizer , in Ann Arbor. God love her, she loves to cut things up and analyze where the medication went etc. I guess someone has to do it in order for prescription drugs to help us in our old age. Our next miracle occurred on June 13th, 1965. Nineteen months after the first one ( it¿s called twins the hard way) we named her Karen Marie. She is currently a Medical Technologist in the lab at Wm. Beaumount Hospital in Troy Mi. She is always drawing Toms¿ blood and checking it for his cholesterol level. Our final miracle arrived September 4th, 1969. (three weeks early. She earned a special place in her mothers heart for that one ) We named her Kristy Ann. Currently she is a Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager for Melon Trust in Philadelphia Pa. She along with a team of other Portfolio Manager Professionals, manage the private wealth of clients, (trust babies mostly). And here we weren¿t sure she would ever be able to balance her own check book. Who knew???? Some people are not meant to be grandparents. That be us. Our girls believe they are all living with their life time partners. Those partners are all women. We have educated ourselves on the subject. It¿s a chemical thing. They are still our daughters. WE still love them from the bottom of our heart. We love their partners. They are happy. We are all Gods children. We have moved on¿¿ We have traveled extensively throughout the world. Been on most continents, excluding the two polar circles, and Australia. We have been to New Zealand, but I think that qualifies as one of the many islands. We have been in most of the states in the United States. I don¿t remember being in Idaho. Does anyone live in Idaho??? Some one must live there or how would we get those wonderful potatoes we all love. This is starting to sound like one of those horrible Christmas news letters so I will move on¿.. In 1986 or 87, my sister, Adarine, my friend Betty Ann Murphy, Zeader Chaffie, and I took stained glass classes. My sister and my friend got on with their life. I became addicted.I made stained glass for our houses, my relatives, my friends. I got to a point that everything I looked at I wondered, ¿how would that look if I made it in glass¿. I would have joined ¿stained glass anonymous¿ but there was no such thing at the time, and I didn¿t have the chutzpah to start a chapter. I dabble in stained glass every now and then still. The addiction has passed. I moved on¿. Sometime in the middle 80¿s Tom started importing Llamas and Alpacas from South America. He sold them mostly to private owners throughout the United States. The nucleus heard remained at our drive through park, (African Safari Wildlife Park) in Ohio. One day we got the brilliant idea that it would be fun to bring a couple of alpacas (smaller,fuzzier, nicer ,version of a llama) to the northern Michigan cottage where we spend our summers. Thus started my career as a farm lady. I got up every morning and fed them, gave them water, and scooped the poop. I groomed them, I washed them, I fluffed and puffed them. We walked them in parades , took them for walks in the woods, took them to nursing homes. At the end of each summer they would return to their home in Ohi...Expand for more