[Magdalen] Fr Counselman's mention of Del Rio TX

[Donald Boyd]

PS - I believe I am correct in recalling that the Episcopal church in 
Del Rio was/is named Calvary.  But I am not to be trusted on anything 
having to do with memory unless I have a reliable source of information 
in front of me.  db

On 7/5/2019 11:14 AM, Donald Boyd wrote:
> While I was teaching at Del Rio HS in the early 1960's (I was 26 or 27 
> years old)  i had the privilege of serving as O/CM at the church in 
> Del Rio (St James?).  My pay was Sunday lunch at the rectory, and 
> since the rector was a gifted cook I considered myself well 
> compensated.  He (the Rev. Wally Nickle) was a Canadian by birth, 
> advised by his doctors to live in a warm dry climate for his health.  
> His wife was a registered nurse, and a son was in seminary (in Canada 
> of course, where everything is done RIGHT). The son (Dison Nickle) I 
> believe came back to the Dio of West TX. An older son had died young 
> and left a six-year-old boy as a survivor who lived with his 
> grandparents most of the time. The people of the church were very much 
> "we've always done it this way" Episcopalian, and I believe Wally 
> would have liked to hang a portrait of the Queen of England in the 
> narthex if he could get away with it.  this was during the run-up to 
> the 1964 presidential election, and every pickup in town had a 
> Nixon/Lodge sticker on it.  But within a week after the assassination 
> in Dallas, every one of those stickers was covered with one that read 
> "All the way with LBJ"!  (Native son trumps party preference)  I am 
> sure I would not recognize Del Rio as it is today.  Falcon Dam had not 
> been built when I lived there, so the culture was still white ranchers 
> vs. Mexican (and Texas residents of Mexican descent, who were a 
> considerable majority but did not own land.)  I was one of the five or 
> six liberal Democrats in town (the others found me easily since one of 
> them taught in the same school as I did).
>
> On 7/4/2019 8:16 AM, Robert Counselman wrote:,
>> I'm still here in Texas supervising construction on the house once again
>> and supplying in Del Rio and Brackettville twice a month.  I guess that
>> still qualifies as retirement.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 6:55 AM James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I loved my work at CDC.  As a statistician, I got to be involved in all
>>> the interesting parts of a research project but didn’t have to deal 
>>> with
>>> the boring reiteration process of research.
>>>
>>> I retired a bit earlier than I had planned - we knew something was
>>> happening with Marcy, even though we didn’t have a diagnosis then.
>>>
>>> I don’t miss my job at all.
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>>>
>>> Jim Handsfield
>>> jhandsfield at att.net
>>>
>>>> On Jul 3, 2019, at 10:32 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> As long as we're all posting update notices I suppose I should mention
>>> that
>>>> this is my first week of retirement. Last Friday was my last day in 
>>>> the
>>>> office although they only asked for about two hours of my time before
>>>> sending me on my way. There was a dinner a couple of nights earlier 
>>>> and
>>>> some festivities in the office and a gift, etc. On the whole it's 
>>>> been a
>>>> nice farewell after almost thirty years there. I've been turning over
>>>> responsibilities for the last couple of months and I hope I did a good
>>> job
>>>> of training others. Now to find new challenges.
>>>
>