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

[Robert Counselman]

Actually you were right the first time, Don, it is St. James Church.
Haven't really had much of a chance to get to know the people there as I
have a 9am at St James and have to leave soon after for an 11am in
Brackettville.  My initial feeling is that it's still fairly conservative
and politically mostly GOP territory. So far, at least, they seem to be
able to tolerate my East Coast liberal ramblings during my sermon.
Brackettville seems to be more of the same and a much smaller group of
people.  Hopefully both of them will get their act together and won't need
me on a long term basis!

Bob

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 11:31 AM Donald Boyd <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >>>
> >
>


-- 
Fr. Robert L Counselman,
Retired