Stephen Williams:  

Life: August 2021: Headed to the “60th” Reunion next month in GR. Who’s going to be there ? March 2021: My sister and Stuart pulled up stakes after living decades nearby in Los Altos and moved to Provincetown, MA, to live near her sons B&B - Brasswood. I miss her! June 2020: my oldest sister Joan passed away at 80 last month. She’d had a stroke in October so had to move into a retirement place. She hated it but she had become disabled. Eventually she had another stroke and didn’t survive. She was 80. Just Liz and I are left. I am now looking forward to the reunion in September, 2021. I expect to be there. Now that Covid is upon us I have vowed not to live in a retirement home but instead I plan to be a burden to my kids. Fortunately they are both willing but I am not ready to go. Not sure I will go on those cruises after this year. Too bad. But I have hobbies and friends. Nothing life threatening so far. January 2020: Turned 77. Still skiing. Looking forward to the 50th reunion in September. November, 2018 Still here and healthy.. Been in this house 41 years. Keeps me busy. Kids live in Monterey and El Dorado Hills, CA. I visit them often. Bought a season pass for Sierra at Tahoe ski resort to keep active. It’s only an hour and a half from my sons house. My wife’s younger sister died of cancer recently ar only 68. That means the whole family is now gone. Odd that her parents lived longer than any of the four kids: 78 and 76. Hope I can keep skiing well into my 90’s. Ever the optimist! March, 2018: I’m doing well. Getting used living alone two years after entering widowerdom almost two years ago. I enjoyed living with Suzanne all those years and would like not to live alone sometime in the future. But at 75 I would not want to be a burden to someone. I remain physically active: walk 3 times a week with Stanford colleagues for a few miles plus lunch. I am happy that I have been skiing with season ticket at Sierra at Tahoe resort. I’m sort of intermediate but no black diamonds for me. Season pass is $139! Hope to ski at 80 when Kirkwood is $10 per season!! Still volunteer teaching science to K through 5 at local schools. Also usher at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall to get exposed to a wide variety of music and dance. Hope we have a 60th reunion in 2020. I’m ready for it. I’m in a photography club and will go to Death Valley in April to photograph the wilder flower bloom. I’d love to travel again but not alone. 5 grandchildren: one college graduate, one junior, one sophomore, one HS junior, and the youngest one (Katee, 15 and 5’10”) a HS sophomore. One is and Eagle Scout! Also a nephew is an Eagle. Lots of fun and a sad note: First it is with greatest sadness that I must tell you that my second oldest sister, Julia Williams Wilson, SHS, 1958, passed away last Tuesday after a heart attack a week earlier. I flew to Berkley, MI, last Saturday and was able to talk with her on Sunday, but her systems were shutting down. She was 76. Her husband, Frank, 87, will have a difficult time without her. E and I went back packing in August. We started at her cabin at Huntington Lake in the Sierras. Then walked with horses carrying the heavy stuff, 5 miles and 1300 feet to Devils Bathtub for a few days. Beautiful and peaceful. In October we went to the Northern California redwoods and Ashland Shakespeare festival with friends. Ashland is a attractive small town. Saw Julius Caesar and other plays. Went steelhead fishing in a drift boat. July, 2017: it has been a wonderful 7 months dating Eleanor whom I me...Expand for more