Thursday --
July 17, 1980
Dearest Family --We got back from New York last night and are gradually getting back into the swing of things again. We did have a nice 5 days. The party at Lynn Sanker's in-laws was a feast and the setting for the wedding celebration was beautiful. Turned out they had had the actual ceremony the morning before in the judge's chamber of the courthouse but went through another one of sorts with the parents of David marching with him into a wooded grove followed by the attendants and lastly Lynn accompanied by her parents. Each (David and Lynn) spoke their vows to each other -- David you could barely hear but Lynn really hammed it up in a dramatic voice that all could hear.
A reception was held following this and then about a seven course meal -- which reminded us much of Cris's wedding reception and dinner. They also had a band and at least we got some exercise between the many courses. We took Bruce to La Guardia airport to get a plane for Cincinnati as he had to be back by 8 AM Monday to take a phys ed course. He was only allowed one cut and had taken that on Friday when they had driven over. Bruce wasn't in the wedding but Lowell was -- they each had two attendants.
Both David and his sister graduated from Harvard and were Phi Beta Kappas. His mother teaches English but has alot of scientific background and has had articles published in the Journal of (teaching of English). His father is in the box making business and also sculpts with any number of his things around plus many others -- All the wedding and reception plans seemed to be in their hands. Mrs. Garvin sang and recited original songs and poetry that she had composed about every group at the Saturday evening party. The best man gave a toast at the wedding reception followed by a LONG toast that David's sister had composed for her toast.
They had made reservations for all the wedding guests at the Howard Johnson Motel in Paramus and it took us country people a while to get used to the CITY traffic. John's former roommate Steve Weiss's home was just a few blocks from the Garvin's home.
Tried a different hotel in NYC -- the Seymour which really had a good deal on the garage at just $5.30, about half the going rate. We splurged Monday evening in eating out at an Italian Restaurant, Roma di Grotto, which did have a lot of atmosphere, etc. etc. Tuesday morning we took a tour of the J.C. Penney Hdqs. and was especially interested in their testing lab. They didn't include toys in the regular toy group (there were about 8 of us -- one from South Africa -- but we asked about seeing the toys and they took us two back up. We had lunch at the Beansprout Restaurant, you can guess that is a health food type place, which was good. We drove to about 9 that evening to Clarion, Pa. and stayed at Holiday Inn, who had a family plan. The next noon we were in Columbus where we went to a Mexican Restaurant. MV said they never got much Mexican food in Mexico as their teacher was afraid they would all get sick. Wednesday was a HOT day here -- close to a 100ยบ and in the News-Journal the next night they had a picture of part of I-71 that had buckled from the heat.
Libby Milburn, one of the foreman at Wells was burning some trash at home last night and threw some gasoline on the fire, and unfortunately she rec'd severe burns over her body and will be hospitalized for at least a week. Her husband [Ralph?] has the Pizza place on the corner where we used to live.
Mary Va. seemed to have enjoyed her stay at Hudson Guild. There is no canteen, but Mrs. Thompson said they were having a good program over last year, but not up to the type program in the "old days" that some of you were active. Their office mgr. is from Roseburg, Or. -- Mrs. Reem said "he didn't catch on as quick as John".
[Love, Etc.]
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